YMMV / Mario Party: The Top 100

• It's Easy, So It Sucks!: The Top 100 is criticized for being very heavily stacked in the player’s favor. The AI is weaker than usual, with Medium being on par with 1-8’s memetically bad Easy (and is, in fact, the lowest difficulty option), with Hard not being much better. Even if by some miracle you do lose, second and third still count as a win. Unless you deliberately try, you’re practically guaranteed to “win” every minigame you play. Superstars would fix this by making the AI significantly harder than usual and an actual challenge in most minigames.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: One of the reasons for this game's mixed reviews happens to be a result of how short the game is: Minigame Island only lasts a couple of hours at most, Minigame Match only has one small board, and the other modes lack replayability without friends.
• Sequel Difficulty Drop: "The Final Battle" from Mario Party 4. Upon being transferred to this game, several changes were made: the platforming sections no longer have a time limit, falling into the lava only costs one heart rather than killing the player instantly, and the camera actually follows the player during the final battle against Bowser and is no longer subject to Camera Screw. To make up for this, the player now starts off with seven hearts as opposed to the original's ten.
• So Okay, It's Average: While fans appreciate the idea of compilation of mini-games throughout the Mario Party series, it's dragged down by having only one board game map, a focus more on the mini-game gauntlet, and some questionable mini-game picks.
• Special Effects Failure: Look carefully at Bowser's fingers. His nails and thumb are modeled properly, but his other fingers are merged together giving his hands a more mitten-like appearance. This is especially odd since Island Tour on the same system had his fingers individually rendered.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Minigames that had a variation and which came back in this game now only have one version. The background music from a few minigames has been changed, too.

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