Oh, sorry. I guess I was thinking that because I read somewhere that Koopa Kid was just his Japanese name. But now that I think about it, in Mario Party 4 there is more than one "Koopa Kid" shown at the same time when you get a Boswer minigame.
MP7 is not my favorite, but I don't hate it. I just think they might have went a tad overboard on the Bowser stuff in that one, to the point that it actually gets annoying.
I don't get what you mean by "they feel nothing alike", since they all still have so many similarities. But I like having more options and trying different things. All the games should not be exactly the same every time, since that would be pointless.
Anyway, I have played the Mario Parties...
I don't get what people are saying when they say that MP8 felt rushed to them. It seems to me like it has more minigames, more options, and was a little better thought-out than some of the previous releases. Other than the lack of mic-games, I have no real problem with it myself.
LOL. That would be a stretch.
Let's not go there.
I like playing on teams sometimes, for something different, and I like it better when they have the team names based on who the characters are. My favorite team name is Waluigi + Boo = Total Creeps.
I agree it's kind of silly to have the babies in every spinoff with their grown counterparts, but some people like playing them, so I don't really care if they're there or not. They just make for more fodder for pummeling IMO.
The orbs/candy/capsules, or whatever, don't make much of a difference to me, since they do practically the same things. But I like the wiggler/flutter orbs better than the magic lamps personally, if you're talking about the thing that took you to that big Buddha guy, to transport you to the...