Mario Party 7

Mario Party 7
Developer	Hudson Soft
Publisher	Nintendo
System	Nintendo Gamecube
Release Date	US November 7, 2005 JP November 10, 2005 EU February 19, 2006 AU June 8, 2006
Genre	Party
Gallery	GH Gallery
Rating	ESRB: E

Mario Party 7 is the seventh installment of the Mario Party series as well as fourth and final Mario Party game made for the Nintendo GameCube.

Story

Toadsworth has decided to give Mario and his friends a relief from their adventures by treating them to a luxury cruise around the world. However, Bowser is enraged at not being invited and wreaks havoc at their destinations.

Gameplay

This installment features similar gameplay to the previous installments. Two of the main modes are Party Cruise and the eight-player Deluxe Cruise (where two players can each share a controller). In the Solo Cruise, the player competes with another opponent in one of the boards, and the board can only be completed when certain criteria are reached, usually by obtaining the star at a particular place or collecting a certain amount of coins at a certain spot.

The orbs from the previous game are once more utilized, and Koopa Kid is omitted from the playable character selection (being relegated to a character with his own space) in place of the unlockable Birdo and Dry Bones. There are also five microphone minigames.

Legacy

Twelve minigames from this game would later be included in Mario Party: The Top 100.

Sequels

• The next game to be released was Mario Party 8 for the Nintendo Wii.