Get Ready to Lose Some Friends
Mario Party has a reputation of being the Monopoly of the video gaming world. It isn’t just a similarity in gameplay – and there are similarities in the board game aspect – but the level of competition both bring out. You want to feel true, unfiltered betrayal? Play Mario Party with someone you thought you could trust.
NDcube 2021 Recruitment Brochure ? #MarioParty pic.twitter.com/CkOf1wxnae
— Nintendo Memories (@NintendoMemo) January 7, 2021
Still, the series is popular enough to have spawned a whopping seventeen games, including spin-offs, and at that point you have to discount the fact that it’s a Mario product – they could slap his face on toilet paper and some fans would call it revolutionary. Now, it looks like a new game is in development, if the above tweet is anything to go by.
The tweet shows an image of a recruitment brochure for NDcube, the developer behind Super Mario Party, as well as other games like Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. The brochure invites people interested in working on the next Mario Party game to come and work with the larger NDcube team.
It might be a while before we get any public confirmation about the new game – after all, they’re still hiring staff, and that can mean that the game is quite a while away from being in any state close to being announced. Still, the Mario Party series has thrived with relatively simple gameplay, and is undoubtedly the most popular board-game inspired video game franchise on the market right now, and given NDcube’s previous work on the franchise the fact that they’re working on the next installment shouldn’t come as a big surprise to anyone. The question remains, though, what innovations can we expect from the new installment? Most likely we’ll see some new mini-games, but the possibility exists that we could see new rulesets. Let us know what you think in the comments, on Twitter, or on Facebook.