Unpopular opinions about the Mario series

ThatGuy62 said:
the gimmick where Bowser's trapped in the gamepad and he steals half the ministars of whoever's unlucky enough to free him
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It's something I dislike about Mario Party 10. If he is released, Bowser puts Bowser Space in the boards, but if he remains there, Bowser Jr. puts Bowser Jr. Space on the board. For me, it is a boring thing. What's even the point of doing the Bowser trapped in the Gamepad gimmick if bad spaces are still added to the boards?

Mario Party 10 is just bad in every way and it's for me, along with Mario Party 8, one of the worst Mario Party.

As for my unpopular opinion, Mario Party 9 is underrated. It's a good Mario Party.
 
All Mario parties are bad.
 
Mòrag said:
ThatGuy62 said:
the gimmick where Bowser's trapped in the gamepad and he steals half the ministars of whoever's unlucky enough to free him
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It's something I dislike about Mario Party 10. If he is released, Bowser puts Bowser Space in the boards, but if he remains there, Bowser Jr. puts Bowser Jr. Space on the board. For me, it is a boring thing. What's even the point of doing the Bowser trapped in the Gamepad gimmick if bad spaces are still added to the boards?
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The point was that, as I mentioned, Bowser Jr. spaces are Bowser spaces-lite. Thus, by releasing Bowser, the players risk ending up with worse punishments (theoretically). This is emphasized by the Bowser Jr. spaces getting replaced by Bowser spaces when it happens.
Kinda weird it's always the same spaces though whereas the very fact that spaces get replaced would imply the possibility of different spaces getting replaced or a way to avoid the event.
 
As someone who has no issue with the idea of Bowser not only being Dream Team's final boss but him getting the better of Antasma (and actually found Antasma's surprise at the betrayal and possible sincerity in sharing the world with Bowser neat), the game needed more scenes of Antasma being honestly threatening and interacting with Bowser (like say, Bowser laughing it up when Antasma's terrorizing some tourists) to make Bowser's betrayal have more impact. And really improve Antasma as a character overall.
 
Is it bad that I thought that Mario Party 9 was pretty good? It's obviously better than Mario Party 10, and it could arguably be better than Mario Party 8.
 
MnSG said:
Is it bad that I thought that Mario Party 9 was pretty good? It's obviously better than Mario Party 10, and it could arguably be better than Mario Party 8.
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I only dislike MP9 because it changed the direction of the Mario Party games in a negative way. MP10 did nothing but continue that trend, but it wasn’t as influential as MP9. MP10, in my opinion, only slightly beats MP9 on my list.

But I will forever prefer the original Mario Party style to the new one, hence why 8 is my favorite (I’ve only played 8, 9, 10, IT, SR, and 100).
 
If you like 8 so much, I think you should try at least 6.
 
I got mine for pretty cheap from a local used game store, I think it was like fifteen bucks or so but that was a couple of years ago. Not sure why they're so ridiculously overpriced on Amazon for.
 
Another Mario and Luigi one I have is that Bowser's Inside Story is certainly the worse of the first three games. This was the one where they went overboard on gimmicks and minigames. More or less every time Bowser needs to do something, you're forced to play an minigame for nothing other than padding, and most of them were overly repeated, sometimes less than ten minutes away from each other. And then there were the giant battles, which while interesting on paper, in practice came off as glorified cutscenes that dragged on for far too long. The game's plot has random elements brought up and previous elements just kind of dropped. Finally, it introduced Starlow (more unpleasant than Stuffwell).
 
Starlow is garbage. I did welcome her at first, looking like some floating Kirby. But she quickly wore her welcome and her constant berating Luigi seriously wears on me. I know Luigi's sometimes a clumsy anxious wreck, but things like "What did you do, cry on the Shroobs?" are pretty damn harsh.

I wish I can get some quotes from her in case I overblow how she treats Luigi.