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. It is confirmed that the game has 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.

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. There will be some obstacles on the path, like a Whomp blocking it, like in Perilous Palace Path from Mario Party: Island Tour. Also, item shops return, this time in the form of Toad Houses.

Free Play
A mode to play minigames.

Coin Challenge
Four characters play minigames and win coins according to their place in the minigames. After 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 Minigame", where hearts are lost if the players are attacked. If all of the hearts from all 4 of the players should be completely depleted, Bowser wins.

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 3 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.

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 the 10 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
A total of 13 playable characters have been confirmed for Mario Party 10. Of these characters, 3 (Rosalina, Bowser, and Spike) are fully playable for the first time in the series (although Bowser is only playable in the Bowser Party and amiibo Party modes), and 2 (Toadette and Spike) are unlockable. Also, Donkey Kong makes his first full playable appearance in the series since Mario Party 4.

Non-playable

 * Amps
 * Banzai Bills
 * Bees
 * Bloopers
 * Bob-ombs
 * Bomps
 * Boos
 * Bowser Jr. - Runs the Bowser Jr. Space. May also occasionally appear to give Bowser extra dice blocks in Bowser Party.
 * Bullet Bills
 * Cheep Cheeps
 * Clampies
 * Charvaarghs
 * Dragoneel
 * Dry Bones
 * Fishbones
 * Flipruses
 * Foos
 * Fuzzys
 * Galoombas
 * Goombas
 * Goombrats
 * Gold Piranha Plants
 * Grrrols
 * Hammer Bros.
 * Huckit Crabs
 * Jumbo Rays
 * King Boo
 * Koopa Troopas
 * Mega Urchins
 * Nabbit - Will steal Bowser a dice block in Bowser Party when a player falls in the -1 dice block space.
 * Peepas
 * Piranha Plants
 * Podoboos
 * Shy Guys
 * Skull Boxes
 * Swoopers
 * Toads
 * Torpedo Teds
 * Urchins
 * Waddlewings
 * Whomp - Blocks the way and must be battled with dice blocks.

Bosses

 * Mega Goomba
 * Petey Piranha
 * Sledge Brother
 * King Boo
 * Mega Cheep Chomp
 * Mega Blooper
 * Mega Monty Mole
 * Kamek
 * Mega Mechakoopa
 * Bowser/Dry Bowser

amiibo boards

 * Mario Board
 * Luigi Board
 * Peach Board
 * Rosalina Board
 * Toad Board
 * Wario Board
 * Yoshi Board
 * Donkey Kong Board
 * Bowser Board

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.
 * 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 Emblem 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 three exist in the entire game (two 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 an extra dice block to roll.

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
 * Gold Dice Block
 * Negative Dice Block

Other/Mode-Exclusive Items

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

Beta Elements
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 a beta element, as only Bowser Jr. gives Bowser extra dice, and Nabbit appears to take Dice Blocks away from Bowser.

References to other games

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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. The sprite form of Donkey Kong is based on its cameo in Returns, though it now lacks the Wii Remote it held in that game.
 * New Super Mario Bros. series: 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 Bowser in Bowser Party. The airship design from this game also appears in the sky board. Bowser falling 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.
 * 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. And in the Bowser Painball minigame, a remix of the Super Mario Bros. Overworld theme plays.
 * 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.
 * Mario Party DS: The Bowser's Painball minigame resembles the board Bowser's Pinball Machine.
 * Mario Super Sluggers: The amusement park board resembles Yoshi Park, one of the fields in this game. The Wiggler roller coaster and swinging ship from this field also return on the board.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Birdo is the only playable Mario Party 9 character to not appear in this game.