Mario Party DS review at Gamespy.

"Despite the fact that the DS just celebrated its third birthday, Mario Party DS is the first time that the long-running party game franchise has appeared on Nintendo's current handheld, and it arrived with the odds stacked against it. Two previous handheld Mario Party titles (Mario Party Advance for the Game Boy Advance and Mario Party-e for the GBA's e-Reader) came and went without many kind words from the gaming community. And after 10 games in the series, complaints about a lack of originality in the franchise were growing louder and more frequent, especially after Mario Party 8 failed to take full advantage of the Wii's innovative control scheme."

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