I know this is just one guy's opinion, but some person in GameFAQs just said this game lacks "charm" compared to the older games and I beg over my Wario-married body to differ. This game reeks with charm. The idle dice block animations, the faces characters make when they advance or regress places, the constant high-fiving, the Paratroopa that takes your photo in that River side mode, the character voices (which are reused from earlier games but they're better than the Mario Kart 8 drivel), how my character faces my friend's partner character when my partner is working with a dice block, the winning and losing animations (Luigi pouts and twiddles his fingers when he loses for instance), the idle animations in the plaza (characters stretch, and Luigi even sneezes) the little partner quips, Toad and Toadette's dialogue, how your character evilly laughs at the person you used a Poison Mushroom on, the pancake minigame... no, this game oozes with charm. I'm not sure what that poster is smoking aside from nostalgia roses, but the better graphics by default allows more expressive characters (facial expressions, body movement). I know Mario Party 2 had the amazing Look Away minigame but that's one minigame.