Not to be confused with Wii Party U.
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The international cover.
Wii Party is a party game developed by NDcube and Nintendo and also published by Nintendo in 2010 for the Wii. It is a game that features gameplay that often needs more than two players. Wii Party can be compared with the Mario Party series, mainly because it heavily borrows gameplay elements from those games. Wii Party is also the first game in the Wii series (Wii Sports/Wii Play/Wii Music etc.) that Shigeru Miyamoto didn't develop. The game was released in Japan on July 8, 2010, in North America on October 3, 2010, in Australia on October 7, 2010, and in Europe on October 8, 2010. A sequel named Wii Party U was then released for the Wii U in 2013.
Gameplay[]
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The Title Screen of Wii Party
Wii Party has 4 different playable game sections/modes: House Party Games, Party Games, Pair Games, & Minigame Modes.
House Party Games[]
- Animal Tracker (2 to 4 players, 5 minutes)
- Hide 'n' Hunt (2 to 4 players, 15 minutes)
- Time Bomb (2 to 4 players, 5 minutes)
- Word Bomb (2 to 4 players, 5 minutes)
- Buddy Quiz (3 or 4 players, 5 minutes)
Party Games[]
Wii Party logo
- Board Game Island (1 to 4 players, 45 minutes)
- Globe Trot (1 to 4 players, 60 minutes)
- Swap Meet (1 to 4 players, 30 to 45 minutes)
- Spin-Off (1 to 4 players, 30 minutes)
- Bingo (1 to 4 players, 15 minutes)
Wii Party's main menu.
Pair Games[]
- Friend Connection (2 players only, 5 minutes)
- Balance Boat (1 or 2 players, 5 to 15 minutes)
- Match-Up (1 or 2 players, 15 minutes)
Minigame Modes[]
- Free Play (1 to 4 players, 5 min)
- Battle Mode (1 to 4 players, 5 to 30 min)
- Solo Mode (1 player only, 15 to 60 min)
- Challenge Mode (1 to 4 players depending on the game, 5 to 30 min)
- Spot the Sneak (2 to 4 players, 15 to 30 min)
In Wii Party, there are a variety of Minigames that you usually play after every turn or every couple turns depending on what Party or Pair game you are playing. There are four types of Minigames in Wii Party, in terms of how many players can play them: 4-Player, 1 Vs 3, and 1 Vs 1 and Pair. 4-player, 1 VS 3, and 1 VS 1 usually activate on special spaces, while Pair spaces only appear in Pair Games and cannot be played in Party Games. Minigame Modes allow the player to play all four types of Minigames depending on what mode they choose, as well as Challenge Minigames that can only be played by choosing Challenge Mode. Party Phil will occasionally commentate on what you (and your friends if you are playing the game with them) must do to complete every game.
Reception[]
Wii Party received mixed or average reviews with a score of 68, according to Metacritic.[1] The highest critic score was from Play.tm which gave it an 89/100 (Citation needed) and the lowest rating coming from Metro GameCentral, which gave it a 30/100. (Citation needed). It was generally well-received by audiences, and has/had an audience score of 7.8. (Citation needed)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In the Japanese version of Wii Party, a robotic female voice will explain the minigame's controls and instructions. In the Korean version, the minigame's instructions are explained by a male voice. In the USA and Europe versions of the game, there is no voice.
- The announcer will say 3 (san), 2 (ni), 1 (ichi), before it says スタート！ (Sutāto!) ("Start" in Japanese) as well in the Japanese version and 3 (sam), 2 (i), 1 (il) before it says 시작 (sijak) ("Start" in Korean) in the Korean version. In the USA and Europe versions of the game, there is no voice.
- The location you start at in Globe Trot is based off of the region you're in. Depending on the console's region, you can either start in the USA, Europe, Japan, or South Korea.
- There is something exclusive only to the Japanese and Korean versions: a House Party game called Quick Draw. It was removed from the other versions of the game due to feeling drastically different from the rest of the modes, as well as requiring a full deck of cards.
- In some artworks of the game, some Mii characters are wearing outfits that correspond with their favorite color, as opposed to in-game, where a player Mii's outfit color will always correspond with their player color (Player 1 = Blue, Player 2 = Red, Player 3 = Green, and Player 4 = Yellow).
- In Wii Party's channel intro, Andy, Guest E, Takumi, Abby, Nick, Maria, Saburo, Rachel, Chris, and Keiko all appear.
- In the Korean version of Wii Party, the medals found in Spin-Off are replaced with stars. This is due to the fact that gambling is illegal in South Korea, and media isn't allowed to reference it in any way shape or form. In this case, the coins could've given off the impression of betting large amounts of money.
- The end screen of the minigames are later used for most of NDCube's Mario Party games released after Wii Party, from Mario Party 9 to Mario Party: The Top 100.