Super Mario Party Jamboree TV review – bigger isn’t always better
It’s no secret that I love Mario Party. The original Super Mario Party Jamboree was one of my 2024 games of the year and the pinnacle of the Mario Party experience on the Switch, so of course, I was excited when Nintendo announced Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV. More features can only be a good thing, right?
In this review, I’ll focus on the additional Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive features found in Jamboree TV, because although this new edition supposedly provides visual enhancements to the base game, I didn’t notice much difference. It already looks amazing on the original Switch and OLED, so aside from a slight graphical upgrade, everything in my Super Mario Party Jamboree review still applies to the new version.
On the surface, Jamboree TV massively expands the Super Mario Party Jamboree experience, adding mouse minigames, camera and microphone minigames, plus new rulesets and game modes, but in reality, the majority of these additions feel like gimmicky filler content. This expansion adds 20 mouse minigames to the already massive roster, yet none of them seem particularly worth it, purely because of how awkward the Switch 2’s mouse controls feel in a multiplayer setting.
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It’s no secret that I love Mario Party. The original Super Mario Party Jamboree was one of my 2024 games of the year and the pinnacle of the Mario Party experience on the Switch, so of course, I was excited when Nintendo announced Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV.…