Mario Party DS review at 1up.

"Mario Party DS is more innovative than you'd think. Wait, wait -- I know what you're thinking: When was Mario Party ever original? Isn't this the Madden of party games, with a fresh coat of paint every year? It's actually even worse than that -- this is actually the 10th game in Nintendo's long-running board game-based party series in just eight years. But it's the first truly portable version, as 2005's Mario Party Advance on the Game Boy Advance didn't include the franchise's conventional four-way multiplayer."

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