- 86% review score
- ”This is a big comeback which has breathed new life into a flatlining series”

New info

- No 50 turn games
- No coins
- Bowser spaces appear more frequently near the end of the stages.
- 78 minigames
- Story Mode will have you playing the boards with “Bowser’s minions”.
- Step Up (Mario Party DS) returns
- Garden Battle (mode) – winner plants plants to place in their garden with the ultimate goal to completely filling yours first.
- Perspective Mode lets you play minigames in third person viewpoint.
- Unlockable vehicles and boards
- Time Trail Mode
- No Classic Mode
- No Online

More mini-games revealed

- Launch Break (Rocket Launching)
- Pizza me, Mario (Pizza Making)
- Speeding Bullets (Bullet Bill Racing)
- Growing Up (Press buttons to grow your beanstalk)
- Mecha Choice (Escape from Mecha-Koopas)
- Polar Extremes (Platforming)
- Skyjinks (Platforming)