I can't say it's my favorite, but I'm leaning towards calling it the best in the series. If they had found a way to make all game modes work online, and the online were to work well, I'd call it the greatest in the series hands down. If allies doesn't become a permanent feature of the series, I will be very pissed. They can tinker with it, give us more options on how they work, etc, but it had better always be there.

Had a great time playing 4 player rafting mode, was sort of meh about the game until that point but that helped win me over. The co-op aspect of it is enjoyable. I feel like they dialed back a lot of the bells and whistles of the prior entries but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I remember that I paid $95 for a 2D Jump & Run called Road Runner for SNES back in 1995. Good game. I don't regret it. Some people have a different point of view in value of a game.

You don't think the Star Pipe is OP? Basically a guaranteed Star if you have enough coins for it, which is pretty much all the time, and since there's a measly 4 or 5 different items it's far from rare. Also best minigame line-up? I suppose you enjoy using motion controls even when they're forced and not doing anything a non-motion control scheme couldn't, but to each their own! I do think the game is a step in the right direction, but I can't use pretty good to describe it.

I hope they have a lot of DLC. 4 more boards, more characters, more rulesets.

The star pipe basically means you have to pay double for the star.  It also adds some strategy in deciding whether to go for a star if someone else is closer, or to go in the shops in hopes they'll have it.  It's definitely a bit too powerful, but not enough to majorly detract from the game. 

As for motion controls, I do enjoy them a lot.  There's really nothing you can do with any one control scheme that you couldn't do with another, so I'm not sure what point you're making there.  I mean, they've actually made Bayonetta playable with only touch controls and Rayman Raving Rabbids playable on a 360 controller.  Is a game forcing button controls on me if they don't have a motion control setting?

There's never any strict need for a developer to use one particular controller style.  It's just a matter of which playstyle developer think work best for a particular game.  In this game, they felt motion controls work better for a lot of games, which they do.  

Don't understand the motion control complaint, especially if its just towards the mingames. Their aren't that many, they shake things up and add variety. ND Cube does motion control minigames right, be glad that its not Mario Party 8 trash tier motion controls where 90% of the minigames controlled like garbo or made to be motion controlled for literally no reason.

Also, yeah, this is best minigame set imo. All of them are well thought out and balanced for the most part (except Drop Quiz, it was an interesting idea though). Overall, excluding the extra modes theirs like 2-3 duds imo, which is pretty good for a Mario Party.

20 coins used to be the price of stars anyway, and again the abundance of coins makes paying double a non-issue, not to mention when you get them for free. You may not feel it detracts and that's fine, but I think it oversimplifies the game.

It's more that it's not using the best control option for the game. I also complain when shooters don't use gyro aiming, that's the only area where motion controls are objectively better than standard.

lol no, a game should not get a free pass just because it's silly.