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Initial release date
  
22 November 2013

Genre
  
Party game

Publisher
  
Nintendo

5.5/10
IGN

Director(s)
  
Yukio Umematsu

Series
  
Mario Party

Developer
  
Nd Cube

Platform
  
Nintendo 3DS

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Producer(s)
  
Miyuki Hirose Atsushi Ikeda

Composer(s)
  
Rei Kondoh Sara Sakurai Satoshi Okubo

Mode(s)
  
Single player Multiplayer

Similar
  
Mario Party games, Nintendo games, Party games

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Mario Party: Island Tour (Japanese: マリオパーティ アイランドツアー, Hepburn: Mario Pātī Airando Tsuā) is a party video game for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the thirteenth game in the Mario Party series and the third game for a handheld console. The game was announced by Satoru Iwata in a Nintendo Direct presentation on April 17, 2013. It features 7 boards, each with their own special features, and 81 new minigames. The game was released on November 22, 2013 in North America, on January 17, 2014 in Europe, on January 18, 2014 in Australia, and on March 20, 2014 in Japan and Korea.

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Gameplay

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The gameplay is similar to previous installments in the Mario Party series. By rolling the virtual dice, the player advances on the game board and triggers a minigame. The minigames can be played any time, even when not on a game board; the game also features AR (augmented reality) and StreetPass. Each board has its own rules, such as racing to the finish and using items to enhance the amount of spaces advanced as well as hinder opponents and collecting the most Mini Stars to win.

Reception

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Island Tour received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights, for a total of 32 out of 40.

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Game Revolution praised the 7 new boards and boss minigames; however, the repetitive gameplay, character voices and board music were criticized. GamesRadar said, "Island Tour isn't the Mario Party you remember, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. That said, there are definitely some missing pieces that keep it from being a memorable entry in the franchise." GameSpot commended the game's usage of four-player local download play, great minigame designs, and also Island Tour's single-player mode, but criticized "a few bad games in the bunch", and the lack of online play. IGN said, "Mario Party: Island Tour’s rich multiplayer options are sullied by boring minigames and unfortunate motion control." Nintendo World Report listed Island Tour's pros as being the game boards, "extensive" single-player mode, and the fact that it utilizes almost all the Nintendo 3DS features, and the cons as the fact that the difficulty of Bowser's Tower is not changeable, the instruction screens, which they described as "repetitive", and also that there is no online multiplayer. Pocket Gamer said, "Island Tour will provide you and a bunch of mates with a great evening of laughs, but most of the time you'll be laughing AT it rather than with it."

References

Mario Party: Island Tour Wikipedia