Eh he… I’m sorry Mario Party 8 fans. Before you most certainly downvote this page faster than EA’s Battlefront II response in 2017, do read below.

Mario Party 8 is probably the single most divisive game in the franchise. You either despise it or defend every ounce of its content like the Gospels. Personally, I see it as an alright middle-of-the-road game to play mostly for just the boards and item gameplay. Yeah, the boards I will defend as being great overall (even Bowser’s Warped Orbit wasn’t truly awful when I recently played it)! 

But the minigames? *Sigh*… I’m not gonna beat around the bush here. The Minigame package of MP8 is very bellow-average in my opinion. I’m sorry.

Critical as I am of Youtuber’s PeanutButterGamer and Mark’s Rec Room’s talking this game, the one good point they both make is what makes my thesis for this tier list: it’s mostly not just because the minigames *do* use motion controls, but rather *how* they tried executing them. A lot of the minigames felt shallow because they don’t really do much with the new technology other than pointing at things or shaking like your mamma gave ya till you get wrist cramps. I do praise minigames in the Top Tier like **Boo-ting Gallery** and **Ion the Prize** for taking advantage of the motion controls to create an engagingly fun experience not possible in earlier entry’s of the series. And there are others I also really enjoyed that don’t even use motion controls, like most people’s favorite for this game  **Mosh-Pit Playeoom**.

Besides the mediocre ones which have a the shallowness that defines this game’s set, the bad minigames still have other flaws condemning them into bottom tier. And yes, the worst ones do have the motion controls themselves being detrimental. Everybody memes on **Flip the Chimp** for its unresponsiveness; I’ve ragged on **Spector Inspector** in the past for being a slow janky luck-based Duel Minigame. 

However, when including Extra Zone, they all pale in comparison to the crappiness that is **Star Carnival Bowling.** Not only are the controls surprisingly poor and unintuitive (you hold and release A… instead of B?…. why???) but because of that major issue, there is no reason to not just play Wii Sports’ Bowling, other than *maybe* playing as Mario characters. It fails at porting what was already a perfectly good game mode for a tech demo into a nearly unplayable mess not worth anybody’s time. Maybe I’m being harsh but neither me or my fiends enjoyed this Extra minigame that much when playing it.

Phew… ok was a bit negative there.\^\^’ Doesn’t mean there aren’t any good minigames ranking to raise some spirits, so lets all pop a candy get to it, shall we?

Rules for this Tier List:

\- All regular minigames will be judged with only human players in mind.

\- the list will include the 8 Extra Zone Minigames with all possible players being human controlled 

\- The duplicate Duel Minigames will not be ranked separately, but instead with the original Minigames they are based off of; either version can benefit the Minigame in ranking. The original ones will be ranked as their own entry on the tier list.

\- This is of course just my opinion. If you have a word to say about the tier please do comment respectfully\^\^

My Mario Party 8 Minigame Tier List