Mario Party 10

Mario Party 10 is a game for the Wii U. It is the tenth home console installment in the Mario Party series, and features many reused gameplay elements from its predecessor. The game features a standard Party Mode (similar in gameplay to the Party Mode from Mario Party 9), and a new mode called Bowser Party, in which one player controls Bowser using the GamePad, and exclusive minigames can be played. Mini Stars return in normal party, as well as vehicles in all modes. The game is also compatible with amiibo. Mario Party 10 is the first and thus far only Mario Party game to not feature a story or plot of any kind.

Gameplay
Mario Party 10 offers three basic modes of play: Mario Party, Bowser Party, and amiibo Party each with their own unique styles of play.

Mario Party
Mario Party is the gameplay similar to Mario Party 9, where the characters have to get to the end of the path with the most Mini Stars. Characters move around in vehicles taking turns being the "captain", or rolling the dice. The Mini Stars are thus returning from Mario Party 9. A brand new feature is that Bowser is locked in the Gamepad with dice numbers. Each time the die is rolled, the corresponding lock will be unlocked (there are six locks, one for each number on the die). The player who unlocks the last lock loses half of their mini stars and Bowser will add a lot of Bowser spaces on the board. If Bowser isn't free until the "Almost There" event, he will remain stuck there and Bowser Jr. will add Bowser Jr. Spaces instead. Also, item shops return, this time in the form of Toad Houses, giving a dice block to all players. All players are required to use Wii Remotes, as the Wii U GamePad is incompatible with this game mode.

Free Play
A mode to play minigames freely, without worrying about the competition.

Coin Challenge
Four characters play minigames and win coins according to their place in the minigames. After 3, 5, or 7 minigames, the character with the most coins is announced as the winner.

Bowser Party
Bowser Party is a new mode of gameplay featuring Bowser. There will be five players instead of four. Up to four players control Mario and his friends with Wii Remotes, with the fifth player playing against them by using the GamePad to control Bowser. Mini Stars are replaced by Hearts. The goal of Bowser is to deplete all the other players' hearts, whilst the goal of the other players is to make it to the end of the course with at least one heart between them. Bowser rolls multiple dice, corresponding to the number of other players available. If Bowser catches up to the other players, he forces them to play a randomly selected "Bowser Battle" minigame, where hearts are lost if the players are hit by his attacks. If all of the hearts from all four players should be completely depleted, Bowser wins. There is some obstacles on the path, like a Whomp blocking it, like in Perilous Palace Path from Mario Party: Island Tour.

amiibo Party
Another new mode is the amiibo Party ; players can scan in any amiibo based on a playable character and play on small boards designed for that character with up to three other amiibo figurines. Computer players are represented by cardboard cutouts instead of amiibo. It is similar to the Mario Party playstyle prior to Mario Party 9.

amiibo Bonus
The player gets surprises once a day when using an amiibo including bases and bonus Mario Party Points with a Scratch Card.

Bowser Jr. minigames
The player can play the two Bowser Jr. minigames: Bowser Jr.'s Clobber Cage and Bowser Jr.'s Bonk Bash.

Minigame Tournament
A tournament by rounds where eight characters participate. Each round is a minigame, and characters who remain 1st and 2nd in the minigames make it to the next round.

Bowser Challenge
The player, as Bowser, has to play all ten Bowser minigames, trying to take the highest quantity of hearts. After ending the minigames, Bowser Jr. qualifies Bowser.

Toad's Room
Toad's Room is an extra mode, featuring a shop, a photo booth and a challenges mode.

Shop
Players can buy characters, master difficulty for the COM, vehicles for the boards, music, and models of characters and backgrounds to use them on the Photo Booth.

Challenge List
Players see the challenges completed and yet uncompleted.

Photo Booth
Players can take photos with the models of characters and backgrounds bought on the shop.

Music
Players can listen to the songs bought on the shop.

Characters
There are a total of 13 playable characters in Mario Party 10. Of these characters, 3 (Rosalina, Bowser, and Spike) are fully playable for the first time in the series (although Bowser is not playable in the Mario Party mode, instead acting as a NPC), and 2 (Toadette and Spike) are unlockable through the Shop in Toad's Room. Also, Donkey Kong makes his first full playable appearance in the series since Mario Party 4.

Bosses
Mushroom Park: Haunted Trail: Whimsical Waters: Airship Central: Chaos Castle:
 * Mega Goomba
 * Petey Piranha
 * Mega Sledge Bro
 * King Boo
 * Mega Cheep Chomp
 * Mega Blooper
 * Mega Monty Mole
 * Kamek
 * Mega Mechakoopa
 * Bowser / Dry Bowser

Other

 * Amps
 * Ball 'n' Chains
 * Banzai Bills
 * Bees
 * Big Amps
 * Big Cheep Cheeps
 * Big Fuzzies
 * Big Urchins
 * Bloopers
 * Bob-ombs
 * Bomps
 * Boos
 * Bowser Jr.
 * Brambles
 * Bullet Bills
 * Chain Chomps
 * Cheep Cheeps
 * Clampies
 * Charvaarghs
 * Dragoneel
 * Dry Bones
 * Fire Bars
 * Fish Bones
 * Flipruses
 * Foos
 * Fuzzies
 * Galoombas
 * Goombas
 * Goomba Towers
 * Goombrats
 * Gold Cheep Cheeps
 * Gold Piranha Plants
 * Greenies
 * Grrrols
 * Hammer Bros.
 * Huckit Crabs
 * Jumbo Rays
 * King Boo
 * Koopa Troopas
 * Nabbit
 * Peepas
 * Piranha Plants
 * Podoboos
 * Rocket Engines
 * Shy Guys
 * Skull Boxes
 * Skewers
 * Spiked Balls
 * Swoopers
 * Toads
 * Torpedo Teds
 * Urchins
 * Waddlewings
 * Whomp

Spaces

 * Dice Space - Gives the player a random Dice Block.
 * Green Space - Does nothing.
 * Event Space - Causes an event.
 * Lucky Space - Starts a beneficial event that helps the player.
 * Unlucky Space - Starts an event that harms the player.
 * Minigame Space - Starts a minigame.
 * Bowser Jr. Space - Spins a roulette, which acts similar when the player lands on a Bowser Space.
 * Bowser Space - Spins a roulette that causes havoc to the player. They only appear if the player frees Bowser.
 * Boss Battle Space - Start a boss battle minigame.
 * Back Space - Makes the player go backwards.
 * Dash Space - Makes the player roll again.
 * Shuffle Space - Shuffles the turn order.

Board-exclusive spaces

 * Boo Space
 * Dragoneel Space

Bowser Party only

 * +Health Space - Adds hearts to the player's health.
 * +1 dice block for Bowser - Bowser Jr. appears and gives Bowser one extra dice block.
 * -1 dice block for Bowser - Nabbit appears and steals one dice block from Bowser. These are very rare spaces, as they only appear in Whimsical Waters and Chaos Castle, and only four exist in the entire game (three in Whimsical Waters, and one in Chaos Castle).

amiibo Party

 * Blue Space - Gives the player coins.
 * Red Space - Takes coins from the player.
 * Warp Pipe Space - Warps the player to another Warp Pipe Space.
 * Bowser Space - Causes Bowser to spin a roulette and cause trouble to the player.
 * Star Space - Allows the player to buy a Star/Stars.
 * Event Space - Triggers a board-exclusive event.
 * Dice Block Space - Gives the player a special dice block.

Dice Blocks

 * 0-1 Dice Block
 * 1-2-3 Dice Block
 * 1-2-3 Slow Dice Block
 * 4-5-6 Dice Block
 * Dice Block
 * Double Dice Block
 * Negative Dice Block
 * Slow Dice Block

Other/Mode-Exclusive Items

 * Coins
 * Mega Mushroom
 * Mini Star
 * Mini Ztar
 * Star
 * Super Mushroom

Tokens
In amiibo Party, tokens can be used. The player can save them to their amiibo to use in another party. There are also tokens with a picture of the character, which changes a part of the board to the person on the token. Tokens can be used once each turn, and each one will have a different effect.

Pre-release and unused content
During the Nintendo Treehouse Event at E3 2014, it was claimed that Nabbit would appear to give Bowser extra dice blocks during Bowser Party. However, this was likely an early idea, as only Bowser Jr. gives Bowser extra dice, and Nabbit appears to take Dice Blocks away from Bowser. Also in the E3 demo of Mario Party 10, the characters used Mario Party 9 winning and losing animations.

The fireballs in Bowser's Bad Breath had a different appearance, also in Bowser's High Dive it was originally made to have to the Wii U Gamepad tilt left and right, when the game was released it used the Gamepads touch screen to move left and right. Additionally in an early gameplay of Bowser Party, the meter that showed the amount of spaces Bowser was from catching up with the Mario Team, and the bar that showed Team Mario's health both had a different appearance.

Staff
While Rosalina's former voice actress, Kerri Kane, was listed in the voice credits (misspelled as Kerry Kane), this was a mistake, as she did not provide the clips used in Mario Party 10.

References to other games

 * Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong's sprite form from this game appears on his amiibo board.
 * Super Mario Bros.: In the amusement park board, sprites of Goombas and Koopa Troopas from this game appear as merry-go-round carriages. Additionally, Mario's amiibo Party theme is a remix of the Super Mario Bros. ground theme and Peach's sprite from this game appears in her amiibo board.
 * Super Mario Bros. 3: Toad's amiibo Party theme is a remix of the Toad House music from this game. After a Bowser Party is finished, the results music is the lullaby that makes the Hammer, Boomerang, Fire, and Sledge Bros. fall asleep.
 * Wario Land series: The right half of the Wario amiibo board displays many elements from the Wario Land series, such as Wario's hard hat and the Wario Car. Also, Wario's amiibo Party theme is a remix of the Stonecarving City music from Wario Land: Shake It!.
 * Donkey Kong Country series: Various elements from the series appear on Donkey Kong's amiibo board, including a Barrel Cannon, bananas, and a Mine Cart and rails. Also, Donkey Kong's amiibo Party theme is a remix of the Jungle Hijinxs music from Donkey Kong Country. The sprite form of Donkey Kong is based on its cameo in Donkey Kong Country Returns, though it now lacks the Wii Remote it held in that game.
 * Super Mario 64: Peach's amiibo Party theme is a remix of the Peach's Castle music from this game, and Bowser's amiibo Party theme is a remix of the Bowser's Road music from this game.
 * Yoshi's Story: Yoshi's amiibo Party theme is a remix of music originating from this game.
 * Donkey Kong 64: A verse from the DK Rap, originating from the said game, is used for Donkey Kong's description on the Mario Party 10 official website (see the description above, in the "Playable characters" section).
 * WarioWare series: The left half of the Wario amiibo board features many elements from the WarioWare series, such as Wario's biker helmet and the Wario Bike.
 * Luigi's Mansion: Luigi's amiibo Party theme is a remix of this game's main theme.
 * New Super Mario Bros. games: The fortresses and castles on the boards are based on their appearance in the games from this series. Stone-heads and Nabbit return from New Super Mario Bros. U, the former in the minigame Fruit Scoot Scurry and the latter as an ally to Team Mario in Bowser Party. The airship design from this game also appears in the sky board. In the minigame Bowser's Tank Terror, Bowser falls in the lava which makes him reduced into Dry Bowser, resembles how he fell in the lava and reduced into his skeletal version in World 1-Castle of the first game of New Super Mario Bros. series.
 * Mario Party 8: Donkey Kong's artwork is taken from this game.
 * Super Mario Galaxy: Rosalina's amiibo board features several elements from this game and its sequel, including a Launch Star, Lumas, the red Starshroom, Star Bits, and several planetoids. Also the entrance portals to any boss resemble black holes from this game. Additionally, Rosalina's amiibo Party theme is a remix of the Comet Observatory theme.
 * Mario Kart 7: Daisy's artwork is taken from this game.
 * Mario Party 9: The core gameplay mechanics in this game: Mini Stars and Mini Ztars, travelling around in a car, and fighting minibosses and bosses at the middle and end of the board return.
 * Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: The Luigi amiibo board appears based on this game, having a model of the Gloomy Manor and a sign with a Greenie on it on the board.
 * Mario Party: Island Tour: After a battle minigame or a boss battle in the event of a tie the player fights for the position with a Dice Block, also in Bowser Party the player has to roll a Dice to defeat the Whomp blocking the path.
 * Super Mario 3D World: Many of the Bowser minigames are placed in World Bowser, Clear Pipes appear in a special minigame mode.

Trivia

 * Mario Party 10 is the first game in the Mario Party series to be given a 7+ age rating by PEGI as opposed to a 3+ rating, although this game was provisionally rated 3+ when announced at E3 2014.
 * Mario Party 10 is the first game in the Mario Party series since Mario Party 4 to feature Donkey Kong as a major playable character, and the first since Mario Party 5 to feature Donkey Kong as a playable character at all (with him being playable exclusively in the Super Duel Mode of Mario Party 5).
 * It is also the first game since Mario Party 4 to feature Bowser as a playable character, even though Bowser was only playable in the Beach Volley Folley minigame.
 * Mario Party 10 is the second game in the Mario Party series to use Dice Blocks in the event of a tie in minigames, the first being Mario Party: Island Tour.