Fun fact about shell soccer: There's an additional layer of strategy in that you can hit multiple goombas at once if you get close enough to them and aim at a specific angle.

Holy crap, that minigame mode rant was absolutely golden.

To be fair to Tug'o'War, just the fact that we have normal rubber capped joysticks instead of the N64's ridged, hard plastic sticks already vastly diminishes the potential for hand trauma. It's still boring though

8:50 A better way to name them is a stacker. Both the competitive Puyo and Tetris communities refer to them as such. The main focus of the game is to stack efficiently to get Tetris' and T-Spins for Tetris, and chains and power clears for Puyo. Downstacking and Upstacking are both terms used for clearing downwards and upwards respectively in both games. The same goes for Puzzle Fighter. Games where you add blocks or objects onto a board, or stacking, fit this category. Games like Dr. Mario and Puyo Puyo go into the matching genre, which overlaps with games like Candy Crush and Bejeweled. Zumba is an example of an action matching stacker. Calling them Tetris games does a disservice to the games involved, like calling all platformers Mario-likes or all FPS games Doom clones. Tetris Game examples are Tritris, where you clear lines of right triangles, and pentris, Tetris but with 5 blocked pieces instead of 4. Source: I'm a top 3% Tetris player and suck at all the other games I mentioned.

I feel like the mushroom mix up should also get some points due to making the game accessible to colour blind people. A lot of the remixed games do that well, making it more accessible for all players.

Correction in Hide and Sneak- The characters run randomly even in the original so you can't actually use that to gauge where a player goes.

I am so glad I am not the only one who got frustrated with superstar’s dungeon duos. The original is perfect but the jumping in the new game ruined it for me. I could deal with everything else but my brother and I kept missing the jumps.

Oh my Lakitu, THANK YOU. Someone else who understands Slot Car Derby, that is in my top 10 favorites of all time and I thought it was really simple. But every time I explain how I’m getting faster than my friends it’s always “Ohhhhhh that makes sense” I don’t know why it’s so difficult to get.

As a counter argument for booksquirm, I think the change makes it goofier and that's a good thing. This whistling sound as of a bomb is falling out of the sky, only to be followed by a tiny fwip as the page lands is exactly the kind of silliness I'd expect

4:31 - Hide-and-Sneak It has always been random where your character move to before they hide.

4:06 As pointed out by Skawo when he played through Mario Party Superstars, the Switch joystick has less travel than the N64 one, so realistically the optimal rotating method _here_ is with your index finger.

The fact that winner or dinner has the best minigame ending in the game should at least bump it up to 95th place. I don't mind the game too much honestly, it has a lot more going on than most coin minigames.

I probably wouldnt mind SOME of the 3v1's being "unfair" on one side if there was a mechanic that skewed their odds of appearing towards helping the losers. For example, if the 1 was losing the board, they are more likely to get a game that favours the 1, and if the 1 is winning the board, they get a minigame that is stacked against them. Basically, acting as a minor comeback mechanic that actually still requires some skill.

In terms of "LOOK AWAY", I disagree. The original version of the game allowed players to rotate the character head really fast, which would make it difficult to try and track them. In the remake of this, your character head moves much much slower.

4:06 Actually, they changed it from 'Spin the stick as fast as you can' to 'Try and rotate the stick in rhythm to the other players on your team'

“You better make that game suspenseful as all hell” Then proceeds to complain about how long the bomb takes to explode.

"Block puzzle game." It's one extra syllable, but infinitely more accurate.

I feel like Cut From The Team was WAYYY more stressful than Bowser's big blast because it didn't reset how many options you have.

Thank goodness somebody mentioned the lack of modes. I thought I was the only one who cared about wanting more stuff to do. Also, I'm pretty sure that this is the only game without some kind of single player mode. I mean there's 10, _but we don't talk about that one._

The final challenge in MP1's Mini Game Island is pretty much the game's way of forcing you to learn how to properly play Slot Car Derby.

8:57 ive often refered to these types of games as "puzzle block" games

Silohawk: this game doesn't work, but I hate these other games so much more even when they work

Mario Party seems to be improving step by step. If things keep going the route of Superstars, I'm sure we'll get a game even better than the originals

For the "bugged" hits on Chip Shot Challenge, it most likely comes from the fact that they hide the trajectory the cpu's do after some time. No idea why.

I'm surprised how some games I hated scored pretty high and others scored really low. It's fascinating to see how opinions can differ that much. Also, I never played Shell Soccer but it looks amazing! WHY DOES THIS MINIGAME NOT APPEAR IN THE MAIN MODE?

The final countdown is underrated perfect pacing (no waiting, no instant death, intenser lategame), best mobility minigame in the game, no rng, Great mix between focusing on the tiles and enemy players, short wait after death, me and my siblings played it 30+ times on repeat, no one was frustrated and everybody won quite a bit. (second most was haunted mansion with 10 ish becouse of rage rematches)

Although not all the minigames slap as hard as the others, Superstars is some of the most fun I've had with a Mario Party in a good while. Excited to see your ranking's!

That fucking clock duel mini game where you have to jump over the clock's hands is the worst because it's rigged in favor of the person farther from the middle.

I just found out that TETRIS is now its own game genre

Can't believe that specific game won. And from the most unexpected Mario Party, too. In fact, I sank more hours into that specific Mario Party than any of the others when I was a kid (DS aside) Although I much prefer Goomba Bowling

Happy Birthday Silok! Hope ur having a nice day off

I was so happy to see Shell Soccer at #1. Before Superstars I only owned MP 9 and I played the hell out of that mini game.

Happy Birthday Silok. I know a lot of people have been wishing you this, but I just want to mention that since I found your channel with your Top 10 Kirby Abilities, I’ve been addicted to the humor you’ve put out. You have a distinct charm you put into your videos and I couldn’t ask for much more. Here’s hoping to another year of content.

42:30 Luckily they actually did make a good change, they offset your starting angle so you weren't facing directly towards the player opposite you.

8:50 I would call such a game an "action puzzler": essentially, a puzzle game in which there is some time constraint by something happening without input so thinking fast is a requirement, contrasting a "calm puzzler" where you can (often) take as long as you need to think. And portal 2 would be a platformer-puzzler, which are often calm puzzlers. Question is if a calm puzzler with a timer mechanic would become an action puzzler, which I personally disagree with.

9:09 We call those falling block puzzle games

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SILOK!! Also I want to erase Rockin' Raceway and Cast Aways from existance.

I liked how you actually decided to see if the minigame got nerfed in comparison of the original version, making some of this points more fair that it should be Also I would substract 5 places in each minigame that deleted the clouds and mountains with eyes in change of some generic landscape

If you want to be driven you insane again, you should try ranking all of the Mario and Sonic Olympic Events. As someone who loves that series way more than it deserves and actively participates in online leaderboards for them, there is a lot of crappy luck based games hiding in skill based clothing. Smaller video would be just the London Party missions, but considering the Mario wiki doesn't even have a section for that mode (seriously not even a section on the full article of Mario and Sonic London, even though that was the big thing of that game) I don't think anyone cares about it. Those missions sucked too.

The issue with Roll Call isn't that it just counting. The issue with it is that you can see your opponents' count. That means you actually don't have to count, but copy your opponents score. And if everyone has the same score, everyone wins, removing the point of even trying. That's why Goomba Spotting is so much better of a counting minigame because you can't see anyone's score or even count backwards. And since the counting is reactionary, you not only have to be sure you count right, but also be sure to press the button a correct amount of times.

Given your critique of Cake Factory's music, I'm surprised that as much as you nitpicked Mushroom Mixup, you never mentioned its music. The original's was so full of life, but the remake was just like "lol fast drums". It might be more "cool", but come on, the original sounds way more like a battle at the sea.

Happy birthday silok hawk!! Recently been catching up on recent videos and I've loved every minute of them,especially the mario kart track rankings. Keep up the good work.

3:49 Groundskeeper Willie: "That should do it"

shell shocked is a reference to the PTSD-esque condition suffered by a lot of WWI/WWII soldiers, shell shock. sucks that they changed it but it's completely understandable.

For the mini game snow whirled, if you have a GameCube controller, it is easier to win since you can mash every button on the controller with ease. (Tip: Mash in a similar way you would do if you were playing in smash bros)

Characters without shoes will instead nail ice skates to their bare feet in the ice scating mini game

Great job on the video man, really appreciate the work.

The best thing about Shell Soccer is that you can hit multiple Goombas at once if you're close to the goal zone. It's risky but sooooo satisfying

Finally someone understands how fun shell soccer is

and here I was thinking "there's no way Booksquirm is not number one". Pleasantly surprised, even introduced me to a mini game I wasn't aware was even in the game

Everyone I play with hates Puzzle Party, but I love it. I feel so justified!

I remembered really enjoying Shell Soccer on MP9, I actually found out that if you angle your kicks right you could actually take out multiple goombas in a single goal

With Flash Forward you also should be facing the camera. Luigi was facing the camera (even though his face was down his body was still facing the camera)

if both players hug the right wall of mass meteor, they both win. the MP6 version uses port priority i believe

Hey, I like the name Tread Carefully! I might be a little biased though. If both players cross the line at the same time in Mass Meteor, they tie rather than randomly picking someone. And I can't believe you didn't mention that in Shell Soccer, you can hit multiple goombas with a single kick, which makes for some incredible high-scoring plays!

"do YOU have a better name for Tetris games??" yeah, falling block games, i thought that was the norm?

Your rant at 50:57 was pure genius. I am glad I am not the only one that ignores the lack of content in this game. I know people really praise this game for how the classic style of Mario Party has returned faithfully, but Nintendo's attempt at making like this game has a decent amount of content outside of the Party Mode by having varied minigame modes baffles me. A tournament minigame mode has been a staple throughout most of the games and just doing different minigame modes with slightly different objectives seems very tacky and is misleading to anyone who believes there's plenty of ways to play your favorite minigames in Mt. Minigames when really it is not. Between you and me, I feel like even Super Mario Party had more mode variation when it came to how you played minigames. While I do like Mario Party Superstars a lot, this game is not perfect like everyone says it is. I put over 140 hours in the game and that was mostly because the achievements were my main drive to play the game after I had my fill of playing the boards and Mt. Minigames since the lack of modes don't offer much for me. Now that I have completed pretty much all of the achievements, I am less motivated to come back to the game, even when I have friends that are available to join me. What would fix my complaints is definitely some extra content. Perhaps some more boards and more varied minigame modes.

Ok I love these ranking videos and this video just gained my sub, Can't wait for more!

18:07 funnily enough when me and a my buddies played super star, one of them was using a game cube controller and when we got to this game he dominated all us cause he was godlike at that strat you did. Mario Party brings the weird out of us

10:55 I'm pretty sure this is because it's how close you are to the center, as well as how much you're facing the center. From the videos I've watched (I don't own the game) that seems to be the rule.

I’m absolutely loving the new avatar sprites!

Games nowadays don't get playtested enough before they release & it shows every single time.

I like how I suck at all the minigames where Silok claims I'd have an unfair advantage.

Always thought Mario's Puzzle Party was like a minigame-sized Columns.

I love Goomba Spotting and Slot Car Derby and so glad you understand why they are so good!

49:40 thanks for telling how the game works. I couldn't figure this out by myself because the game was too hard for me to understand.

HOW did they miss the opportunity to name Monty's Revenge "Mole-a-whack"

Those aren't "Tetris" games, they are single screen puzzle games and Portal is an FPS puzzle game...

Can’t believe he didn’t even mention the removal of the penguin buttholes in “bobsled race” 😞

Mario Party 9 actually had some pretty great minigames, but other then that, well…you know….

Pretty sure the thing with other people’s aim bar thing disappearing in Chip-Shot Challenge is so you can’t cheat and base your shot off someone else’s

Hope you sleep well or that you have slept well. Btw great job with this video as always, this was a real fun one. 👍 Thanks for making me laugh, feels like I barley do that anymore.

I feel like Mario party 8 had plenty of good minigames to choose from. A lot of them could have motion controls easily swapped out for stick controls like in Paint Misbehavin’. Each Mario party game should have has at LEAST 5-6 minigames representing it. The fact that 8, regarded by many as the last good one, got only 2 is a travesty.

14:17 This one is really fun but its indeed too short. They should make it like 3 points. So when the 3 team catches him they get a point, when he scores he gets point. Whoever gets 3 points first wins. That way would make it longer and overall more fun because it wouldnt be over in just 5 seconds.

Been watching since your worst kirby abilities countdown. Happy birthday man, so happy to see you grow and watch all the shit uve been doing.

What's crazy is that I found it way more easier to do the balloon part in dungeon duos in superstars and this is my favorite minigame too. There was really no rhythm on the old version to my discrepancy and I play this all the time

I’m really hoping that Nintendo makes a Mario Party game that isn’t a remake of something else but is instead original with new maps and mini games (and feature older ones as well. Also maybe show some love to Mario Party DS)

Thanks for spending a month to make this video!!!! Great stuff

As someone who plays with 3 other competent human beings and NEVER CPU's, I would have a vastly different ranking. But I wont insult you or say your wrong because of the different mindset and its your opinion and all. At least we both agree that Pirahna Pursuit sucks and Slot Car Derby is godlike. Continue making bomb ass content my good man.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one passionate about sound design (in video games)! This was a banger of a vid. I ate dinner while watching - time well spent.

Loved every hour ty

Actually with Chip Shot Challenge you don't see where the bots hit their ball so you can't copy or learn from them

1V3 Minigames are inherently unfair because it usually boils down to the one player having the advantage or the three players having the advantage.

So, Match 3 games? That mostly fits the 'tetris' games more, as they do not use tetrimo, which are spefically shapes made of four pieces. Match-3 Games such as Bejeweled and Candy Crush are much more similar to the puzzle games here.

Alright, let's talk about that split second story at 1:47

Great video!!

To be fair, the new switch controller designs are a lot softer than the wavy sharp plastic the n64 had, so I could rotate my palm on a switch controller at top speed for hours and see only slight redness

4:00 well if they didn’t put that there, they could be open to another lawsuit (if someone got hurt) which could also include negligence for not including a warning the second time.

3:50 "To avoid winning, do not rotate the control stick with the palm of your hand."

18:55 such a good critique man, good shit

Happy birthday chief, keep up the good content. Also make a update vid on that Dono, showed my friends it and they clowned on me 😂

Great video! One problem I have with Superstars is the fact that the graphic design seems to be all over the place. Like, some of them (Like 23:36 ) look like a better looking, remade MP9 or a more vibrant SMP. Yet, some of them (Like 6:25 ) look UHD, 4K, and MODERN! Well, what I mean by that is they're trying to be almost realistic. Which, in this case, almost makes them look... Worse. It's all dull. I prefer something like 0:49 back in the Wii Era when it was sort of realistic but was clean and wasn't distracting. Though that might just be my nostalgia. That kind of Wii-Era wilderness just looks good to me. Maybe it's just the fact that I was in denial that I needed glasses when I was around 10-12 and saw everything somewhat blurry. (And also, they didn't have the technology to make the water look like oil)

I'm glad you appreciate Goomba Spotting and Role Call.

Thank you for using the best Mario Party music, MP8

I usually call Tetris-like games Block Fall games. Though I’ve also seen Stackers used before too. I agree, though, they are NOT “puzzle” games

42:58 well they probably did that to avoid war references.

Another issue with Dizzy Dancing. It's possible to get softlocked because of how everyone needs to move to the center so if someone is bouncing on your head when the timer hits 0 the ai that takes over when the game ends has their pathfinding break and they'll never jump onto the record making it so the game softlocks. Happened day 1 to me.

Good list, I really enjoyed it. I agree about shell soccer. I was surprised by how much fun it was.

Finally watched this after putting it off for so long because I thought the thumbnail was petty clickbait and there would be NO way most of the minigames were made that much worse in the new version, but... yeah, you're actually justified for making the thumbnail like that. I really appreciate the effort and research you put into this, comparing the new versions to the classic games in multiple ways, from the gameplay nuances to even the tiniest things like sound design and audio mixing. Loved that minigame menu rant too about them trying to mask the lack of content in Superstars, lol. This is definitely a watch I did not regret, banger video my man

Happy birthday Silok, hope you had a great birthday!