It's not perfect, but it's got the best mix of previous games and is an instant family game pick-up for the holidays.

The series mostly kept up a basic standard of quality, although to diminishing returns, throughout the 2000s GameCube era, but by 2007’s Mario Party 8 for the Wii, the novelty had worn off. What followed was a decade of meandering culminating in 2018’s Super Mario Party for the Switch,