Mario Party Advance

Mario Party Advance
Developer(s)	Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Composer(s)	Ichiro Shimakura Yoshimasa Ikeda
Series	Mario Party
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance
Release date(s)	JP January 13, 2005 NA March 28, 2005 EU June 10, 2005
Genre(s)	Party
Mode(s)	Single player Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ACB: G ESRB: E PEGI: 3+

Mario Party Advance (マリオパーティ アドバンス, Mario Pāti Adobansu^?) is a game in the Mario Party series and the first, and only, Mario Party title for the Game Boy Advance, released by Nintendo. As it is not released on a home console, and instead a handheld console (the second is Mario Party DS), gameplay is different from that of the previous Mario Party games. This is the tenth Mario game for the Game Boy Advance. Mario Party Advance is followed by Mario Party 7.

Gameplay

Players drive a car around a party board similar to the other Mario Party games. Players start with a certain amount of Mushrooms, and the game is over when there are no Mushrooms left. The multiplayer Party Mode that was present in all of the other Mario Party games is no longer available, and it has been replaced by a new mode called "Shroom City". The aim of the game is to collect all the minigames and "Gaddgets" that were scattered around Shroom City by Bowser by completing quests assigned to the player by the various inhabitants of Shroom City.

Playable characters

There are four playable characters in Mario Party Advance.

• Mario
• Luigi
• Princess Peach
• Yoshi

Gaddgets

A Gaddget is 'a wonderful toy with many functions'. They are earned by completing quests in Shroom City, beating Bowser's many Koopa Kid mini-games, and buying them with coins in Challenge Land. Some of the many Gaddgets include: Dessert Menu, where the player can make a dessert by picking three things from three categories, Tap-Tap Sumo, where one plays a popular Japanese game with Goomba characters, and Screen Clean, in which one's Game Boy Advance screen is cleaned by the game. The hardest one to get is Power Star, which players must buy with 100,000 coins.

Bonus Board

Mario Party Advance comes with a paper board that can be used in conjunction with the video game for an enhanced multiplayer experience. The game acts as a dice-roller and mini-game chooser. The mini-games that are played are 4-player Gaddgets.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	54%[1]
Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	C
Eurogamer	1 out of 10[2]
GameSpot	6.5 out of 10[3]
IGN	6 out of 10[4]

Mario Party Advance had generally mixed reviews. While the game contains a large number of minigames and unlockables, reviewers decried the game's tendency to punish players based on random chance, rebuked the game for lack of innovation in the minigames, and expressed concerns about the game's limited multiplayer modes.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ "Metacritic Mario Party Advance page". http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/gba/mariopartyadvance?q=Mario%20Party%20Advance. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Eurogamer – Mario Party Advance Review". http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_mariopartyadvance_gba. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Gamespot – Mario Party Advance Review". http://www.gamespot.com/gba/puzzle/mariopartyadvance/review.html. 
4. ^ "IGN – Mario Party Advance Review". http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/599/599175p1.html. 

External links

• Mario Party Advance Official Website
• Mario Party Advance Official Japanese website