Metacritic Score: 66 In fairness, the Mario Party series has always been hit and miss with critics, and after 10 core games plus 3 spin-offs in under 20 years, it's not too surprising that the series is feeling the strain of creative redundancy. Though certainly not without its enjoyable moments with friends, the game's too rooted in luck-based games to be truly fun, and simply there's just not much of interest here for the first Mario Party game on the Wii U. It doesn't take advantage of the console's tech, and use of the gamepad is for the most part pretty uninspired. Not a terrible game, but fairly underwhelming even for the standards of recent, merely satisfactory Mario Party titles.