Super Mario Party Jamboree review: party staple takes its Switch victory lap

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Super Mario Party Jamboree MSRP $60.00 Score Details Pros

• Great new boards
• More strategic board game play
• Welcome single-player modes
• Creative minigames in side modes

• Core board minigames are dull
• Inconsistent motion controls
• Some dud motion modes

Is it possible to keep a party going forever? For the third time in the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan, Nintendo is once again faced with that question. Super Mario Party Jamboree closes out the console’s unofficial multiplayer trilogy, which brought the series back to basics after a string of failed formula shake-ups. Since 2018’s Super Mario Party, Nintendo has taken the series back to familiar territory, focusing on the core board game at the heart of the series.

That’s been an understandable, and largely successful, decision. But when you attend this many parties, you need more than one trick. Nintendo seems to understand that with Super Mario Party Jamboree, likely the series’ most robust entry to date. In addition to including more boards than the last two Switch entries and the most minigames ever put into a single game, it also comes flush with bonus modes that aim to open the doors wider than ever. That’s necessary to sell a third Mario Party game on the Switch, though it pushes the series dangerously close to max capacity.

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Super Mario Party Jamboree’s core board game is still as fun as ever, and made even better thanks to some clever new maps. Its signature minigames, though, are a little more inconsistent as some of Nintendo’s best ideas are almost exclusively saved for hit-and-miss side modes. It’s a multiplayer package that spreads itself thin, but there’s enough fun content here to keep the dice rolling for another turn.

Strategic boards

While there’s a mountain of new modes this time around, the core of Mario