New Super Mario Party

New Super Mario Party is a party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. The twelfth main instalment in the Mario Party series, this game, like its previous instalment, Super Mario Party, was described as a "complete refresh" of the franchise, bringing back and revitalizing gameplay elements from older titles while also introducing new ones to go along with them. It was released worldwide on (insert date here) and sold 5.8 million copies by the end of the month. As of (insert date here), the game has sold more than 21.99 million copies worldwide, making it one of the top ten best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch.

Gameplay
Like Super Mario Party, New Super Mario Party returns to the traditional turn-based Mario Party-style of gameplay for the first time in over a decade, a format that had remained absent from home console entries ever since Mario Party 8. The game is played with one Joy-Con controller per player, with other players needing additional controllers for multiplayer. The standard game mode, "Mario Party", features up to four players taking turns independently navigating the game board in search of stars, with one located in a random location at a time. Upon the player's turn, a dice block is rolled to determine how many spaces the player moves on the board, and items collected can be used to alter how many spaces the player can move. Each space has a unique function, such as blue and red spaces giving and taking three coins respectively and good luck (Pianta) and bad luck (Red Magikoopa) spaces granting the player helpful or unhelpful consequences. If a player passes a star, they can spend ten coins to purchase it; whoever has the most stars and coins at the end of the game wins. Coins can additionally be spent on one-use items to give the player certain advantages on the board, such as adding to one's own dice roll, subtracting from another player's dice roll, or using a golden pipe to be taken directly to the star. Due to Toad, Toadette, and Kamek being playable, a Pianta couple replaces Toad and Toadette as hosts for the boards, while Kamek was replaced as a nonplayer character by a red Magikoopa.

Dark Bowser Mode
This game introduces a returning mode from Mario Party 10, Bowser Mode. However, due to Bowser being playable in all minigames and boards in New Super Mario Party, Dark Bowser, a gray-colored red-eyed version of Bowser takes his place as the antagonist in this game mode. The gameplay is almost identical to Bowser Mode in Mario Party 10, with the players and player character CPUs riding on a vehicle, unlike in the main game, to escape from Dark Bowser, who can either be a playable character chasing down other characters or a CPU chasing playable characters down, depending on what the users set Dark Bowser to. Dark Bowser also replaces Bowser in Dark Bowser minigames, which include every Bowser in the Mario Party series, with Dark Bowser in place of Bowser and having Dark Koopa Kid(s) in place of Koopa Kid(s) obeying and working for him in Bowser minigames originally from Mario Party 4 and 7.

Playable Characters
New Super Mario Party features the largest roster of playable characters in the Mario Party series to date. The roster includes Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, Wario, Waluigi, Donkey Kong, Monty Mole, Birdo, Koopa Troopa, Hammer Bro, Spike, Kamek (blue Magikoopa), Dry Bones, Blooper, Toad, Toadette, Shy Guy, Goomba, Boo, Bowser, Koopa Kid, Pom Pom, Bowser Jr., and the Mii, all of whom are returning characters, with Bowser being fully playable like the previous game and the Mii returning for the first time since Mario Party 8, having customizable outfits similarly to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. New playable characters to the series include Link, from Legend or Zelda games, who had only previously appeared as a unique playable character in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe; Shadow Queen, Bob-omb, and Piranha Plant, none of whom have previously been a playable character in Mario Party, although this is the former's debut in the series, and the latter two have appeared as NPCs throughout the series.

Boards
The boards in New Super Mario Party consists of several boards that were featured in Mario Party 9 and Mario Party 10, remade to fit the board and game styles with the previous game. However, there is one new board that is exclusive to this game. All boards in this game were given more unique and fresh new features and events to make the boards within New Super Mario Party more interesting and exciting. Below are the boards that are in the game.


 * Toad Road (Mario Party 9)
 * Bob-omb Factory (Mario Party 9)
 * Boo's Horror Castle (Mario Party 9)
 * Blooper Beach (Mario Party 9)
 * Mushroom Park (Mario Party 10)
 * Haunted Trail (Mario Party 10)
 * Whimsical Waters (Mario Party 10)
 * Airship Central (Mario Party 10)
 * Bowser's Inferno Disco (exclusive to this game)

Minigames
This game contains, not only minigames from Super Mario Party, but also adds every single minigames in the Mario Party franchise, so New Super Mario Party contains the most minigames of all Mario Party games. The minigames that were previously in Nintendo 64 Mario Party games, Nintendo GameCube Mario Party games, and Wii Mario Party games, have all been restored and given much higher quality to fit with the style of other minigames of New Super Mario Party.