Worst Mario Party Superstars Minigames

The worst minigame in all of Mario Party Superstars, is none other than Cast Aways. Dear goodness, what made and Cube think people wanted to see this mingame of all to return. I've always hated Cast Aways, and I still do it in this game. To start off, it's a coin minigame (no shocker), where your objective is to catch as many coins/bags/chests as possible, by throwing this hand into the sea, and then reeling it in. Seems like a fine concept on paper, except aiming is literally the hardest thing ever. Unless you've practised five hours straight, there's no idea of knowing when to throw the line, and if you miss, you have to waste time reeling it in. What's even more difficult however, is aiming at which lane to throw it at. You see, there are three lanes of items floating by, but for some reason, I can only get items at the far end of the lane, even if I just hold back the control stick slightly. What do I know the instructions only show a control stick for "adjusting distance". Maybe I'm just bad at this minigame, but if it takes me five hours to just grasp how I'm supposed to play a minigame, it's not good in my book. In fact, it's one of the worst minigames in the entire Mario Party series, let alone the worst one, in Mario Party Superstars.

This one's fine, but I don't get how it works. Bowser just randomly blows up a player if you pushed the wrong button or something, I don't know...

It should be noted that Mario Party 1's minigames are kind of awful. Being the first game, the developers didn't really have an idea of what worked well and what didn't. As a result, we got a lot of unbalanced 1 vs. 3 minigames, even more so than Goal and Spotlight Swim. Piranha's Pursuit is the most blatant example of how not to make these kinds of minigames. In fact, it could have taken the first place on this list. In some instances, I would consider it the worst Mario Party minigame of all time. However, it's not the minigame I personally hate the most, so it barely missed out on the first spot.

Piranha's Pursuit is an example of a 1 vs. 3 minigame that is rigged towards the solo player, who has to escape from a Petey Piranha raised by the other three players. The issue is that even if the team works together well, they will still lose if the solo player is just mildly competent. Seriously, Petey is so slow, and the obstacles for the solo player come so early that you are well-prepared to jump. Actually, even if you miss one or two times, you will still probably win because of how slow Petey runs. Piranha's Pursuit is fundamentally bad. I'm surprised it isn't #1 on my list, but that's because it's occupied by an even more broken and bad minigame...

This absolutely deserves first place forever, hiding your head in the barrel takes so damn long and I literally have to do that before Chain Chomp bursts its snot bubble.

Well I mean this is a certified classic. Sneak 'n' Snore, is widely regarded as one of the worst minigames ever created, so the fact that it got brought back to Mario Party Superstars, boggles my mind. Take Red Light, Green Light from Squid Game, except remove the part with strategy. Sneak 'n' Snore is awful not because of the concept, but because of how broken it is. You need to hit a button and then get the f out as quicky as possible, but the twist is that this chain chomp will randomly wake up and fling away everyone who hasn't hid in their barrel yet. It's a decent concept..., the problem is that you can never hide quickly enough. The delay between when you press the hide button, to when you actually hide in-game, takes a full three seconds. This was a massive problemApparently you're supposed to tread slowly, but how is this not "slowly", how am I supposed to know this is apparently fast without reading a reddit post? Either way, even with the information, I just find myself dread whenever I play this minigame. More often than not, it ends in a draw because it's unpredictable when the Chain Chomp wakes up, and the other times it's just a boring waiting game. I'm sure this would've been fine, if there was any way of guessing when the Chain Chomp would've woken up, so you could at least kind of time your stops. If it was more like Red Light Green Light in Squid Game, where you could guess when to stop, it would've been more fun, honestly. And also did I mention that the CPU's are flat out running and can hide in the barrel without even braking? As it stands now, it's one of the most unfun minigames of all time.

I personally don't understand how this one works. You're supposed to mash, but if you mash too fast in a short period of time you spin out. Personally the timing is something that's eluded me.

Whoever thought this was a good idea to add should be murdered

We're now delving into the minigames that are just so unfun on a completely different level I wouldn't have minded if they hadn't existed at all. Goal, with its seven O's and all caps letters, is much less exciting than it wants you to believe. 1 vs. 3 minigames are almost always awful. Half of them are just plain unbalanced for one team, while the other half is just basic boring stuff. And Goal is one of the absolutely worst minigames of all time. The solo player has to catch incoming footballs coming in from the three from entering the goal. The issue is that there's no way of telling where the balls are headed to. Sure, you can kind of guess by looking at the direction the players are heading, but it becomes way too hectic when you've got three people to look out after. For the three, it's an easy win. The reason this minigame is even worse than the ones before is that at least they're not completely unfair. Sure, Sneak 'n' Snore is unplayable, but at least there's some kind of strategy, even if it's unfun. This minigame is just randomness at an extreme. And it's not even the worst minigame on this list.

Trap Ease Artist is the definition of a minigame that tries to be skillful, but in the end just comes out as obnoxious luck. The concept is fine, and heck, it had potential. You have a bunch of these goombas walking around on the ground, and you have to drop a cage when there's as many goombas as possible under it. Seems cool enough. You'd think you'd have to use your sharp eye to see when you should drop it. However, the execution is far more repulsive, because it's just luck. Sometimes a lot of goombas decide to walk under you, sometimes they're not. You can't influence where the goombas will go, it's just RNG. RNG isn't necessarily a bad thing, I mean some luck-based minigames are actually fine. However, Trap Ease Artist obviously doesn't want to be luck-based. It wants you to take it seriously. Maybe if there was something to lure the goombas to your spot, it could've been better, but as it stands now, there's really nothing to do other than hope for the best. As a result, Trap Ease Artist is #8 on my list.

Mario's Puzzle Party isn't necessarily a minigame I hate. It has a decent enough concept, basically being Tetris but with a Mario twist. Normally, I wouldn't have included bonus minigames on a list like this. However, this one can actually be played in the normal Mario Party mode, and it sure was the wrong one to pick. The concept of this minigame isn't bad, but it's not my kind of thing. It's just Tetris with a Mario twist, nothing unusual. However, it wouldn't have made the list if it wasn't as broken as it is. You can just spam down blocks without any second thought, and the game will just automatically play itself. Yes, it's that broken. It was broken in Mario Party 3, it was broken in Mario Party DS, and it's equally broken in Superstars. It removes any fun this minigame might have originally had because the real way to play it isn't rewarding. You get more points if you just spam down all the blocks. When there's a way to break the entire game, it's obviously going to be put on the list. Whenever you play it online, people just cheat their way to victory. And that's not even excluding the fact that the minigame itself is just Tetris. Why is Tetris a minigame in Mario Party? I could have ranked it higher; however, the upcoming minigames are even more ridiculous.

Button mashing minigames are fundamentally prone to being disastrous. These are the kinds of minigames where you need to mash one or more buttons as fast as you can, and I've never been a fan of these. You just end up being exhausted for nothing by the time you complete them, and Mario Party Superstars has two of them. Cheep Cheep Chase and Pokey Pummel. Out of the two, I vastly prefer Pokey Pummel, because while I think Cheep Cheep Chase is more aestethically interesting, Pokey Pummel has something that minigame doesn't have, a world record you can beat. Cheep Cheep Chase is less about getting the best score, and more about just trying to reach the end while ducking from spikeballs and avoid getting eaten by this huge Cheep Cheep. It's just button mashing and the occasional ducking, it's no fun. Some people may enjoy it, that's fine, I just don't like having to mash a button for 30 seconds losing my breath, while also having to dodge spikeballs with the pickiest hitboxes in all of Mario Party. In the end, Cheep Cheep Chase is just another boring button masher without any real fun.

We'll start off this list with a coin minigame, River Raiders. The coin minigames in Mario Party are where instead of like aiming for a certain objective, in coin minigames, the aim is to get as many coins as possible, and the amount you collect, is the amount you win. As a result, these minigames don't really have a winner or loser (unless you got nothing), and they tend to feel rather lacklustre. Sure it's cool to get a few extra coins, but the minigames themselves feel rather bland due to the only thing you can do is, get as many coins as you can. And Mario Party Superstars has a whopping ten of these, and none of them are really that good aside from 2. River Raiders, is one of the bad ones, and it opens up our top ten worst list. This is a 1 vs. 3 minigame where the three are holding onto a rope latched to the solo-player's boat, and you have to get..., obviously, as many coins as you can. The issue with this minigame, being 1 vs. 3, is the unbalanced nature. The solo player has all the advantages, being in front of the team and being able to move wherever he wants to. Sure the he moves kind of slow, but it's nothing when you compare it to the fact that the team do not have free movement over the area. The solo player can just nab whatever he feels like because he's far ahead of the team, while the team just gets whatever the solo player may have missed. It's really unbalanced. If it was more like Money Belts, where the solo player couldn't just nab everything, it might not have been on the list, but it is, because it's unbalanced.

Is it possible to even dodge the meteors?