Super Mario Party Jamboree review: A fun Mario hit packed with 110 mini games

This is a mammoth new Super Mario Party game and is perfect family fun fodder for the upcoming festive season.

We’re used to Mario Party games featuring a glut of mini-games to play as you battle it out on a virtual board game to be crowned winner.

But Jamboree really ramps up the content way above any previous entry in the series.

Here you’ll get a massive 110 mini games to duke it out with friends and family as well as a myriad of other options that give Jamboree plenty to keep coming back for.

In the main-game, there are seven seven new and returning boards.

They include Rainbow Galleria where you can collect stamps to go on a spending spree as well as try to win the game and also Goomba Lagoon, which has shifting tides and a volcano that changes up the board spaces in-game.

There’s also Roll ‘em Raceway, a two-lane high octane board, Eastern Land featuring a train that can get you round the game quicker with the right ticket.

They’re all highly colourful Mario-style play sets and really bring board games to life with their interactivity.

You can pick from around 20-odd Nintendo characters to play as, including good old Mario, Bowser, Donkey Kong and also newcomers like Ninja.

Then it’s onto dice rolling, classic board game fun, with regular mini-game battles when you land on the right spots.

The mini-games are diverse and great fun.

Some you’ll have come across before, like trying to avoid a series of obstacles in a foot race against the other players, or trying to high score in an archery shootout.

But there are also things like riding stamps, dodging through huge pieces of wooden lumber and motion controlled Joy-Con shaking running events.

The games are all over in a minute or so, but are great bursts of fun when you’re up against friends or family members, desperate to be crowned no1.

You can also tweak the game rules to your wont, flipping between pro rules and more relaxed party rules, reducing the computer-controlled characters’ skill levels.

Characters will also appear on boards from time to time as Jamboree Buddies. Once a player reaches them, a showdown mini-game will begin. The player who got to the Jamboree Buddy first will have a slight advantage, but whoever wins the mini-game gets them as an ally.

They’ll help you with all sorts of nifty abilities like copying items of opponents you pass or adding to your dice roll.

Outside of the core game, you can take part in Bowser Kaboom Squad, a lovely addition where eight players team up online to try to take down a giant Bowser.

This is all about scrambling to find bombs and blasting ‘em at the big bad Imposter.

Mini-games between rounds aim to add helpful items into the mix.

And there’s also Koopathlon, which is a race across the party board in a series-first 20-player online competition to see who can rack up the highest scores across a series of mini-games.

Super Mario Party JamboreeIf you need a break from the chaos, you can head to Party Plaza to help Kamek decorate, trade your Party Points for new things like stickers and compare your rankings to players around the world.

It’s all light hearted fun aimed at connecting people both in local co-op and online.

It looks great and is packed full of Nintendo character.

And there’s a lot of bang here for your buck.

VERDICT 4/5