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    Mario Party 9

    • The use of those dice blocks is no less strategy than a candy.
    • Now the only item you get is a dice block
    • There are 6 different dice blocks
    • I would bet that for around 90% of the mini-games, you just hit the buttons or a dice block
    • (oh, and along the way, you'll receive special dice blocks such as a dice block with only 1~3 or 3~6
    • There are no items except for different dice blocks you can use (so basically no strategy at all for this game)
    • There is no place to buy dice blocks, instead you land on spaces to get everything (dice blocks and mini-games mainly)It's also harder to mess with your opponents
    • In this game, it's dice blocks
    • Every player in the game is in ONE vehicle that you all take around the board, and you don't get candy anymore, they are replaced with awful dice blocks that you don't even find a good time to use
    • The special dice blocks (0-1, 4-6, 1-10) could have been a great twist except that they cannot be bought, earned or traded
    • The only items you can get are dice blocks, which can either roll slow or have only certain numbers on them, etc
    • Now we get 1 or 2 dice blocks that suck.and why dont we get to play mini games after everyone takes a
    • So, the players take turns moving the vehicle by hitting the dice block
    • You press A to hit the dice block instead of using an upward motion in the previous game.
    • The special dice blocks (0-1, 4-6, 1-10) could have been a great twist except that they cannot be bought, earned or traded
    • It's true that there isn't a magic lamp that automatically gives you a star, nor an item that teleports you to another player, etc....but between the dice block choices, captain games, Boss games, reverse minigames, and many of the
    • However, I'm looking forward to playing with a group of friends instead of a luck based story mode that makes you feel your not doing anything besides hitting a dice block and crossing your fingers.
    • All the orbs/candies from the previous games are gone, instead there are just different kinds of dice blocks, 0-1, 1-6, 4-6, 1-10 etc and you pick which one to use based on where the car is and if you want to be in command when you get to an upcoming space
    • No way to run them over and take things, really it's just if you land on the space that lets you do something like take a dice block or you have to give 10 stars to last place
    • Instead, this is all replaced with mini stars and dice blocks