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shams said:
ddobson said:
I was interested in Mario Party 8, but the reviews have been dismal;

Huh?

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/935598.asp

Seen nothing but positive reviews and scores so far? Please point me towards bad reviews if you come across any. I think the game looks great... 

 


I stand corrected -- looks like at least some of the reviews are quite positive.  My negative impressions over the past week came from a 7.5/10 in Nintendo Power and the latest IGN Wii-k in Review podcast.  What I'm hearing is that the Wii-mote implementation isn't as fun as Rayman or Wario Ware, that the 16:9 widescreen is 4:3 in a frame, and that it takes some time to get another game going after an event failure (have to go back through instructions screens, etc.) which could be frustrating for the little ones.  (Not that I have any...)

Looks like I need to reconsider on this -- I haven't played Mario Party 1-7 at all, and my wife and I enjoyed Rayman but haven't tackled any of the minigames in Sega's Wii efforts.  Perhaps "dismal" was too strong a word - I should have reserved that for "Escape from Bug Island," which is generating as much pre-release buzz as a dead bee.