14th January 2003, 6:19 AM
http://pocket.ign.com/articles/382/382467p1.html
I always thought a game like Mario Party should be made portable. Now it has, but in a different way than I expected. It uses the awesome new technology of....um...reading dots on a series of cards...
Anyway, I might just end up getting an e-Reader now (I was avoiding it because it just felt like a cheap, well actually expensive, gimick, in fact it still does, but that's the only way to play this game so...). There is one advantage to using this deck of 60 or so cards over using a cartridge, and that's expandability. I wonder how well using a card game as the medium for the mini-game will work over the board game medium. In fact, I certainly wonder exactly how the card game portion of it will play out. It's certainly an original thing, unlike the last 3 Mario Party games, so that's refreshing. Who knows? The e-Reader could indeed be less gimicky than first thought. It's certainly not a ROB anyway.
I always thought a game like Mario Party should be made portable. Now it has, but in a different way than I expected. It uses the awesome new technology of....um...reading dots on a series of cards...
Anyway, I might just end up getting an e-Reader now (I was avoiding it because it just felt like a cheap, well actually expensive, gimick, in fact it still does, but that's the only way to play this game so...). There is one advantage to using this deck of 60 or so cards over using a cartridge, and that's expandability. I wonder how well using a card game as the medium for the mini-game will work over the board game medium. In fact, I certainly wonder exactly how the card game portion of it will play out. It's certainly an original thing, unlike the last 3 Mario Party games, so that's refreshing. Who knows? The e-Reader could indeed be less gimicky than first thought. It's certainly not a ROB anyway.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)