Super Mario Party Jamboree new Pro Rules are for those of you that hate shenanigans

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You pretty much know what you’re going to get with a Mario Party game these days, now that the series’ most experimental phase is seemingly behind it. There’s the board games, the minigames and then a healthy helping of arbitrary shenanigans that makes Mario Kart’s blue shells look tame by comparison. Super Mario Party Jamboree adds a bunch of new ways to mix up the main Mario Party game mode, but also comes with an antidote that cuts out a lot of the randomisation. Enter the Pro Rules.

Pro Rules is the version of Mario Party you need to play if you’re tired of having victory snatched away from you at the last moment, whether it’s someone paying a Boo to steal a star off you, the new Buddy system giving another player a massive advantage by doubling up all their opportunities for a few rounds, or a bad spin when landing on a Bowser space ripping a star off you. And that’s before we think about the end game bonus stars, which can hand out stars for purely luck-based things like landing on event spaces, or finding invisible boxes.

As I write things down, I’m reminded just how many of these randomised elements are found in these games!

Pro Rules strip out a bunch of this randomisation, making Mario Party much more of a competitive sport with clarity from the first turn to the last.

It starts with the core set up, with Pro Rules setting a game to a fixed 12 turns run, and announcing which one of three bonus stars will be in effect – furthest travelled, least travelled and most even spaces.

The boards themselves have also been modified and what special spaces offer now set in stone, so there’s no chance time spaces, lucky spaces only give you coins or a double dice, and Bowser spaces will always remove 1 star. Even the potential locations of stars are indicated, making them much more predictable and allowing a bit more forward thinking and planning from players.

Players also get to pick one of a small selection of items to start the game with, and as you pass a shop, you’ll