Super Mario Party would like you to be nicer to your friends

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Oct 5, 2018 There’s no game that gets my friends and I more riled up than Mario Party. A decade’s worth of games across many Nintendo consoles has never left us with a shortage of board game-fueled vendettas. There’s something even more infuriating about losing when the person who beats you does it as a dinosaur wearing shoes. The new Super Mario Party on the Nintendo Switch may not fix the friend feuds, but it at least makes the journey a little nicer. Like previous Mario Party games, Super Mario Party is essentially a digital board game. Players compete with a single Joy-Con controller, and the game allows you to pair a second Switch for more mini-games. In addition to the board game competition popularized by older games, Super Mario Party also features several other modes, including rhythm games, a “team edition” of board game play, a river course in which you work with other players, and unlimited access to unlocked mini-games. It’s the series’ first ...