As you climb, Bowser likes to randomly select a punishment or reward which could affect enemy levels or your sacred Mario Party Points (which are used to purchase collectables). The one mode I actually enjoyed was Bowser’s Tower, a single-player story(ish) driven game where you climb a tower and defeat bubble ghosts by playing minigames. And usually there’s some sort of “random” havoc that happens every once in a while to even the playing field for opponents who are behind. In Star-Crossed Skyway players are forced to stop advancing once they hit a certain platform, allowing everyone else to catch up. Each mode also seems to have a mechanism to prevent players from progressing too far ahead, whether it be Bonzai Bill knocking players back or a Whomp blocking the path. Toad will sometimes rearrange the turn orders based on minigame ranking to allow players who are behind to catch up.
Island Tour seems rigged in the sense that nothing is truly randomized - the games are fair to a fault. There isn’t really one “complete” Mario Party experience. One board’s goal is to collect mini-stars, another board focuses on items that affect players, etc. It’s almost as if they took each aspect of the original Mario Party and chopped it up into different modes. I had kind of hoped for a mode that resembled the original premise of Mario Party - screwing over other players to collect the most coins and stars. Estimated play times are also shown, which I found helpful but somewhat unreliable. For example, the Rocket Road game is rated at two skill, four minigame, and five luck because it’s basically a game where you roll a die to get to the end of a line, but also contains many tiles that make you switch places with opponents (i.e., lots of luck involved).
Each party mode is rated in three different categories: Skill, Luck, and Minigames. Party mode focuses on the core of the Mario Party series - characters progress on a game board with the goal of either getting to the end first or collecting the most mini-stars. Mario Party: Island Tour presents a variety of game modes: eight main party modes, three minigame modes, and StreetPass minigames.
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