Super Mario Party Jamboree Removes The Worst Mario Party Feature

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has greatly improved on the franchise formula that Nintendo fans have gotten used to, for good or bad, over the past 26 years. The latest entry in the series has streamlined gameplay, introduced great quality of life updates, and completely eliminated poorly balanced features from previous games. One of the worst features of previous games forced players into an unbalanced character meta.

The premiere feature to be removed in is the character-specific dice that was present in 2018’s. That function, alongside the previous ally system, made the chaotic gameplay tradition of tip into frustrating waters. Thankfully, the newest game introduced a much more balanced system for players to compete for game bonuses rather than the system where a game depended almost entirely on which character was chosen at the start of a match.

games had a rather limiting system where each character had their own unique dice, in addition to a regular d6. For example, Donkey Kong’s dice sides in were +5 Coins, 0, 0, 0, 10, and 10, while Shy Guy had 0, 4, 4, 4, 4, and 4. The more traditional choices for characters had accompanying basic dice, as Mario’s dice sides had 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, and 6, and Luigi had 1, 1, 1, 5, 6, and 7. Any players that want to play a riskier game may choose a character, like Bowser, that hasalmost an equal chance at losing coins or moving forward on the board.

This mechanic sounds fun on the surface level, with zany characters using dice with potentially ridiculous outcomes, but becomes frustrating when players realize that playing as their favorite character may lock them into a die set with wildly unbalanced outcomes. For more competitive players, the most important part of becomes the character select screen rather than any of the minigames. Any player that wants to play as Yoshi is forced to play with a middling dice set that peaks at 7 on one side.

This unique dice mechanic was slightly balanced by the ally system, but even then, it was possible to pull an ally