Videogame Review, Mario Party 5 for the Nintendo Gamecube (w/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gamecube Controller)

Videogame Review, Mario Party 5 for the Nintendo Gamecube (w/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gamecube Controller)

I’m kind of using a Switch controller for this Mario Party game because it’s a more recent Gamecube controller designed for Smash Bros. on the Switch console.  The colors we see in Mario Party 5 are intended better for media like Pool Paradise or the Austin Powers series, so, of course I’m finding plenty to be less assiduous on.  Different shades between those mini-games add up to a presentation that’s jaded with difficulty when given a chaotic flavor and the game can be totaled up to modest skill when its program feels like it; on laughs which can be expressed on this Mario Party sequel I can agree somewhat with the intelligence behind Game Informer magazine on all this.  Calling the ball of chain (or dog) over to the finish line can be a frustrating experience since either he can’t see you across a patch in the garden or, since you have to get near to bring him anywhere near the finish, he runs over you.  When I’m playing games in the clouds I feel blinded by light.  Also, there’s lack of balance on the button-pressing matches and I was just getting started early; further on, my button presses felt uncomfortable due to the controller’s fragile state for a technological device.  Do I really have to chance it and possibly break the controller to pass the next level?  Man!  I’m wrestling more with my Gamecube controller for this game than I was wrestling with my Atari 5200 controller for Pitfall.  Depth/camera issues are apparent the longer you get into the party game which is like Sorry! if it’s given extensions on courses, weapons, and general design.  At times the camera will zoom in on the winner and I’m wondering what the failing party is doing.  Everything has a light touch.  Waluigi was traveling in a vortex somewhere off and on and I didn’t know where he was; it’s like an emulator sort of thing when the program counts on it while issuing an excuse for partying, even if there’s destruction and tornados, too.  After my opponents fell into the vortex and presumably died I felt really sad inside for being the surviving winner: everything was bright, everything sparkled, and I was the only one left.  Reviewers pretty much panned this Mario Party game for being too similar to past Mario Party games.  Well, I’d like to completely agree with them, but the depression and anxiety I get out of this board-game series haven’t been so persistent; that means I’m not always happy, and I’m not always pleased.  Mapping problems get on the negative side when I’m trying to see who has coins for my big ball of chain to rob and the map camera fails to display golden coin/golden star statistics.  Monopoly (the old board game) has similar problems as well.  Jerkiness and glitches can be observed from plenty of games and I’m finding out more and more about errors implanted to video.  I’m fine with the Nintendo Gamecube controller; however, someone who has played with the same video game controller for a long time will have to adjust to the Gamecube controller due to its severe innovation.  I play any controller; I don’t care that much.  While much is going for this Mario Party sequel I’m discovering enough elements, values, and details to its mini-games (including the prejudiced story mode) which suggest to me another one of those mixed bags.  I worked in fast-food restaurants and know how this works- an order is taken, an order is rushed, and then there’s problems about missing stuff.  Videogame companies can be like fast-food restaurants.  The public doesn’t help: they’ll complain about missing stuff, they’ll complain about poor stuff, they’ll complain about good stuff.