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Mario Party 10 is a 2015 party game, based on the Mario Party franchise. It was developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on March 12, 2015, in North America and Europe on March 20, 2015 and in Australia on March 21, 2015 exclusively on Wii U, making it the first and only Mario Party game to be released on the Wii U. The game received mixed reviews from critics and mixed-to-negative reviews from audiences and fans, and is not only often considered as a huge downgrade from the Mario Party games developed by Hudson Soft, and to a lesser extent, Mario Party 9, but it was also considered as the worst Mario Party game of all time before Mario Party: The Top 100 eventually dethroned it.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The main criticism is that the game has a huge lack of content. There are literally 3 modes (2 if you don't unlock the amiibo Party Mode)! Even Mario Party 8 has more modes than this game, and it was released on Wii 8 years prior to this game. While other Mario Party games prior to this entry had this number of modes, they worked because they have a lot of depth, while this game has very little depth.
 * 2) A bunch of problems from Mario Party 9 returned here such as the not-well executed car mechanic,
 * 3) The menu's sound effects are recycled from Mario Party 9 rather than making their own sound effects, which is a sign of laziness.
 * 4) Mario Party Mode is very luck-based, meaning that if you're unlucky, you will lose constantly.
 * 5) Much like what Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 would do 3 years later, this game has no Story Mode. This is baffling, considering that despite being a party game franchise, Story Mode is one of Mario Party's main aspects.
 * 6) While 10 playable characters aren't that low (12 if you count the unlockable characters), it's a sort of downgrade from Mario Party 9, which has built-in 12 playable characters.
 * 7) The game, at least for Team Mario, is nearly impossible to beat. This is because Bowser, the player that uses the Gamepad, has 4 dice blocks, and can roll them together, even if a player gets eliminated.
 * 8) The amiibo Party mode is regarded as the worst mode in the entire game for several reasons:
 * 9) This mode plays Mario Party in a traditional way, but with none of the charm and fun that the game has.
 * 10) The board is really dull. All you have are just statues of the characters you choose and
 * 11) This mode wants you to scan the amiibo in order to roll the dice, which is incredibly clunky, mainly because you have to do it constantly. This problem would later suffer in another game released in November of the same year.
 * 12) This game overall ended the mainline Mario Party games on a terrible note before Super Mario Party eventually saved it.

Good Qualities

 * 1) To be honest, a lot of game cons can be attributed to the ideas being awesome on paper, but failing in execution, such as Bowser Party mode.
 * 2) * Additionally, Bowser Party mode was the first time in the series that support up to 5 players, and while it is an interesting mode, but it could be done better if it was more balanced.
 * 3) The designs are great at least for a Wii U game from the box art and the game logo to in-game models and artwork (outside the main menu); while some models are taken from the prequel, the new ones will be reused in Super Mario Party and mh:awesomegames:Mario Party Superstars.
 * 4) Despite some characters were removed (which was already mentioned in BQ #X) the character roaster got updated, which pleased many fans of the series. Rosalina and Spike make their Mario Party debut as a playable characters, Donkey Kong and Bowser make their return since mh:awesomegames:Mario Party 5 and 4, respectively, while Toadette makes her return since mh:awesomegames:Mario Party 8.
 * 5) MP10 was the first home console Mario Party game to introduce the Dutch, Russian and Portuguese languages localization, which is the second time to see the game in series localized in more languages (the first was Island Tour, which came on a handheld).
 * 6) The minigame selection is really good, as every previous Mario Party game.
 * 7) Despite having only one board on amiibo Party, which is small, board's decorations associated with character appears when amiibo with the character is scanned (such as vacuum cleaner and a dark forest with Luigi, eggs and Yoshi structures appear when Yoshi's amiibo is scanned, or town that resembles an amusement park plus mushroom houses are with Toad).

Reception
The game received mixed reviews from the critics and mixed-to-negative from fans with the most criticism towards the Bowser Party and Mario Party modes with the first called unfair with an advantage to Bowser and the latter following the scheme from the game's prequel by having a vehicle mode with mini-stars being collected as opposed to the original formula for the installments released during the Hudson Soft period.

Despite the subpar reception, the game became the 10th most sold Wii U game with 2.26 million copies sold as of March 31, 2021.

Trivia

 * On the Western cover for the game, the Wii U GamePad that Bowser is holding is black, matching the color for the Wii U Deluxe Set. On the Japanese cover, however, the GamePad is white, matching the color used for the Wii U Basic Set.
 * This was the first Mario Party game to be given a 7+ age rating by PEGI as opposed to a 3+ rating, although this game was provisionally rated 3+ when announced at E3 2014.