Mario Party 7
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North American box art
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| Developer(s) | Hudson Soft |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Shuichiro Nishiya |
| Producer(s) | Hiroshi Sato |
| Composer(s) | Hironobu Yahata Shinya Outouge |
| Series | Mario Party |
| Platform(s) | GameCube |
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| Genre(s) | Party |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 64/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | D+ |
| EGM | 6/10 |
| Eurogamer | 3/10 |
| Famitsu | 30/40 |
| Game Informer | 5/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| GameSpot | 6.5/10 |
| GameSpy | |
| IGN | 7/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 7.5/10 |
Mario Party 7 (Japanese: マリオパーティ7 Hepburn: Mario Pāti Sebun?) is the seventh in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms and is the fourth and final title in the Mario Party series for Nintendo GameCube. Mario Party 7 features popular Nintendo characters. It was released on the Nintendo GameCube in North America on November 7, 2005, in Japan on November 10, 2005, in Europe on February 10, 2006, and in Australia on June 8, 2006. It features 88 new minigames. This game's host is Toadsworth, Princess Peach's longtime steward. It also makes use of the microphone peripheral introduced with Mario Party 6, which can be used in 10 minigames. This game also includes six entirely new worlds, with one unlockable. Mario Party 7 is followed by Mario Party 8.
The goal of Mario Party 7 is to gather stars, but each board requires one to do that in a different way. For the first time ever since the series' initial release in 1999, eight players may participate in either Party Cruise or Deluxe Cruise (the 8 player equivalent of the Mini-Game Cruise). Players are split into teams of two and are required to share a controller, with the first player using the L button and the Control Stick in mini-games, while the second player uses the R button and the C-stick.
While a mode for a solo player itself isn't new to the Mario Party series, this game's take is very much different from any of the past six games. One player competes against another (either computer controlled or human played), trying to complete the set objective on the board map before the other can. Tasks range from collecting a set number of stars to having a set number of coins on a space. Up to ten slots of different characters with different phrases may be saved. Once a player has completed all six boards, they are added to the rankings section, where it shows the players who took the least turns to complete them.
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