Listen! Nintendo has been doing a smashing job recently, in going back to some of its long-running franchises, stuff like Metroid and Pikmin, to bring us new entries that lean into the core ...

Earlier this year, I revisited Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the first time in two decades. I remembered loving it as a kid, but it had been long enough that I couldn’t exactly tell ...

At times - any time you think too much about it - Brothership's narrative can feel like the joke adventure that Paper Mario once sent Luigi on to explain his absence from the game. Mario would be ...

as well as a faithful followup to the classic Mario Party games from the Nintendo 64 and GameCube eras. In fact, it so successfully iterates and improves upon that tried-and-true formula that it ...

While Mario & Luigi: Brothership doesn’t reinvent the wheel, it’s a solid RPG with fun mechanics and lovable characters. New additions like Luigi Logic and Plugs make for satisfying combat ...

Super Mario Party Jamboree closes out the console ... If you haven’t clicked with that loop since its creation on the Nintendo 64, you still won’t be won over by the at times glacially ...

The developer behind Nintendo's upcoming Mario & Luigi: Brothership has seemingly been revealed - and the identity of the studio behind the upcoming Switch role-playing game is something of a ...

Super Mario Party Jamboree doesn’t break new ground but takes the best of the series’ past and present to make a big celebratory package, best experienced at get-togethers where the real magic ...

What makes a Mario Party worth attending? Sure, it’s great to get some friends together for an evening filled with mini-games, backstabbing, and luck-based turnarounds, but it’s been a while ...

Super Mario Party's were lackluster, and Mario Party Superstars featured five solid ones but they were all from the Nintendo 64 era. Jamboree's offerings are a satisfying mix of five new maps and ...

Mario Party tends to elicit a range of emotions. Some who have been raised on its particular brand of Star-grabbing, minigame-fueled chaos love the randomness and friction — the feeling that, at ...