Mario Party 9: First win and a little review

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Nothing satisfies me more than a win in a Mario Party game. Except maybe a win with Yoshi in a Mario Party game which is brand new and differs from the previous parts a lot. ;)
It was a close one, but in the end, after some exciting fights, I did it - once again. :D

The winning screen. (German)

So after that first match, I can say that Mario Party 9 is one of the best of its series, if not THE best. My previous favorites were Mario Party 8 and DS, but this one has some really exciting new features, like:

• Mini boss fights and boss fights.
• Going backwards on the five (+2 unlockable) available boards.
• Tons of new, awesome minigames.
• Mini stars instead of stars and coins.
• Bowser is able to manipulate almost everything if you land on a Bowser field - for example, you have to get last in a mini game to get mini stars (which is a lot of fun).
• Every player is now moving together with all other ones instead of moving on their own, and there's a so called Captain who has special fields on the board, can collect mini stars scattered all around the board, can get bonuses in mini games, and much more.
• There are special dices to collect. Like dices going from 4 to 6, 0 to 1, or even 1 to 10. (The standard dices go from 1 to 6 now instead of 1 to 10 in previous Mario Party games.)
• You don't play mini games after one turn for each player anymore; you only play one if you land on a boss, mini boss or mini game field, or if you get a mini game from a blue field.
• All boards have a central dead end. If you reach it, there will be a boss fight, and then the game will end. No turn limit anymore.
• Et cetera.

I knew from the beginning it would be awesome, and I'm not disappointed at all. Nintendo did a great job. :D

And a side note concerning my Minecraft project (see the first post from February for some information about it): As 1.2 came out now, the project has now officially started. I currently got 18 of 104 layers finished, so it's still a long way to go. ;)