Super Mario Party review — It’s finally fun again

Mario Party is due a renaissance. It hasn’t felt all that much different since it debuted on the Nintendo 64 way back in 1998. You now have motion controls and online multiplayer, and in the tabletop world, hundreds of new games have popped up that encourage folks to play together without relying on random die rolls or card pulls.

Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch taps into this better than any previous game in this long-lived series, and it’s no surprise that it’s also the most enjoyable party game Nintendo has ever made, one that makes the best use of the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con motion controls and the console’s cooperative play spirit.