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Yo cutlies, it's videogameguy44(if that wasn't to obvious) bringing you a review on the Mario Party Games.

Mario Party is basically about Mario and friends playing on Game board type stages to kick Bowsers a**. In the game you must collect coins to buy stars and by the end of the game you must have the most stars to win. You must be thinking right now (Oh this game is eassssssy) but reality is, IT IS NOT, SO GET THE IDEA OUT OF YOUR HEAD BEFORE YOU READ THE REST! Now to collect those coins I was talking about earlier you must land on blue spaces on the Board game like stage. You can also collect coins by landing on ? spaces. Now the main way to collect coins is the Minigames. If you go all the way back to the N64 you will find a certain range of Minigames. Then as the new Mario Party's were developed the Minigames began to expand in size, number, and in fun. But after the Minigames is the Stars. You have to navigate yourself around the board and collect stars. But once a star is picked out of it's place in the board it moves to another space. Sometimes it can be a huge pain in the a**, but sometimes it works because it could always just move 10 spaces ahead of you. But to decide how many spaces you roll is the Diceblock. It ranges from 1-10. In somegames you can buy items to improve your spaces, stealing coins from other players, and stealing stars.

If I had to rate this game I would give it a 9/10 just because I could think of a lot of characters that could be in the game plus I had trouble with a few minor glitches like when you buy a star it would say you had none until the end when it said you had 999.

(sorry people theres no gallery, I'll edit it later when my computer lets me.)

That's the fun of Samurai Showdown though. Slicing an opponent in half is always a nice touch.

Yoshi's Island is doing really well, I'm thinking of ending the vote soon. I think I'll end the vote tomorrow.

Hey, I'm not exactly a newbie to the cult, but I haven't posted much, and I was wondering if i could get some advice.

I've already downloaded LoZ:OoT for my virtual console, as I never owned an N64, and I've always wanted to beat it. However, I was just wondering if there are any other VC games that I should bother downloading.

since you never owned an N64 there are a few key games to give a try Super Maio 64 brought our favorite red hat wearing plumber to full 3D platforming, theres also Starfox 64 which was very well done and let you map out your own path to the final level, also if you feel like it try yoshi's island and kirby 64 only if you like either character alot, i cant think of any other 64 games out for VC right now sweatdrop

Wait, wait, lemme go look at my collection...

GoldenEye007 (Might not work well without a controller)
Perfect Dark (Might not work well without a controller)
Mischief Makers (It's different...)
Gauntlet Legends
Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2 (If you like them)

I also have Mortal Kombat Trilogy, but I don't much care for it.

Don't forget Paper Mario (HOW I wish I got that one...)

I remember the day when I beat that game... But anyway I would just like yo point something out. Oh and please visit this Thread

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Hey everyone I'm back with another review.

Last time I reviewed Neo-Geo Battle Coliseum and today I'm going to review the game that goes hand in hand with it, KOF XI:







KOF XI (King of Fighters 11) takes place where KOF 2003 left off. The main protagonist in this story is Ash Crimson, whereas in the 98-01 games the protagonist was K' and in 94-97 was Kyo Kusanagi. Ash is awkwardly both an anti-hero and an anti-villain. He's willing to do both good and evil to achieve his goal, and no one really knows what his goal is. In KOF 2003 he stole the powers of Chizuru Kagura one of the 3 branches in control of restraining Orochi, the serpent god of evil. The other 2 branches are Iori Yagami and Kyo Kusanagi. Ash is out to steal all of their powers, and with Chizuru down, he now sets his eyes on Iori Yagami. Meanwhile, Magaki (final boss) and Shion (sub boss) intend on re-awakening Orochi.

KOF XI has very smooth gameplay, just like NGBC, however instead of 2 on 2 you have the option of doing 3 on 3 or 1 on 1. 3 on 3 is broken up into 2 types, Arcade and Team. Arcade enables a character switch system, while Team has a turn based system. The teams of 3 you get to pick a leader, and the leader gets to do his ultimate or leader special, while the other two can only do their super specials, choose your leader wisely because some leader specials are far superior to others. There is also the ability to now do 2 types of cancel, Super and Dream cancel. Super cancels are when you perform a super in the middle of an ordinary special, and Dream cancel is when you perform a leader special in the middle of a super special. Learning these is a great way to increase your combo number and produce more damage to your opponent. To switch characters in Arcade mode, you press both punch buttons (square and triangle) to choose your second character and your two kick buttons (x and circle) for your third character.

There are a total of 47 characters. You start off with 11 teams of 3 (33 starting characters) and unlock 14 more characters.

Character list:

Teams

Hero Team

* Ash Crimson
* Oswald
* Shen Woo

Fatal Fury Team

* Terry Bogard (Garou: Mark of the Wolves outfit)
* Kim Kaphwan
* Duck King

Rival Team

* Elisabeth Blanctorche
* Duo Lon
* Benimaru Nikaido

Ikari Team

* Ralf Jones
* Clark Steel
* Whip

Agent Team

* Vanessa
* Blue Mary
* Ramon

K' Team

* K'
* Maxima
* Kula Diamond

Anti-Kyokugen Ryu Team

* Malin
* Kasumi Todoh
* Eiji Kisaragi

Kyo & Iori Team

* Kyo Kusanagi
* Iori Yagami
* Shingo Yabuki

Art of Fighting Team

* Ryo Sakazaki
* Yuri Sakazaki
* King

Garou MOW Team

* Bonne Jenet
* Gato
* Tizoc

Psycho Soldier Team

* Athena Asamiya
* Sie Kensou
* Momoko


Bosses

Mid-Boss Fighters

* Gai Tendo: The Main Hero from Buriki-One.
* Sho Hayate: The Main Hero from Savage Reign/Kizuna Encounter.
* Jyazu: The Final Boss from Kizuna Encounter.
* Silber: The Final Boss from Buriki-One.
* Adelheid Bernstein: The Bad Ending Boss from KOF 2003 and most probably Rugal Bernstein's son.

Sub-Boss

* Shion: An assistant of Magaki skilled in the use of martial arts and weapons, particularly a long spear and Flying Dart.

Main Boss

* Magaki: The final Boss of the game and a Herald of Orochi.

PlayStation 2 exclusive characters

* Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury)
* Robert Garcia (Art of Fighting)
* Geese Howard (Fatal Fury)
* Tung Fu Rue (Fatal Fury)
* Mr. Big (Art of Fighting)
* Hotaru Futaba (Garou: Mark of the Wolves)
* EX Kyo Kusanagi (KOF: NESTS Saga)


Personally, I usually use a team of Clark, Duck, and Geese (Leader) as my team, although I'm pretty decent with just about everyone.

If you love the King of Fighters series, and if you like fighting games, by all means the second you finish reading this review go and get this game, and much like NGBC it's only 15 bucks. I give this game a 10/10. Definitely among one of my favorites in the KOF saga.

Here is some gameplay footage:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6L4KvczcLdc