Mario Party Celebration

Mario Party Celebration is an upcoming entry in the Mario Party series. This game returns the series to its original concept, but still adds in new elements to prevent it from being too similar to earlier titles, although several concepts from Mario Party 6 are reused.

Plot
As Mario and friends are relaxing outside Peach's Castle, Brighton and Twila suddenly appear, and tell the lot that they are going to launch stars out of the Star Bank and make the scenery beautiful.

As the lot head off collecting stars, Wario and Waluigi overhear this, and are jealous that they were not invited. They are eventually encountered by Bowser, who agrees to help the two get revenge.

Wario, Waluigi and Bowser crash the party and get into a fight with Mario. To stop the fight, Brighton calls everybody for a party game and says whichever team wins will get to launch the stars out of the Star Bank. Twila does not like the sound of the idea, but before she can say anything, everybody heads off to collect stars.

Gameplay
Mario Party Celebration takes several ideas from Mario Party 6, but changes things up so they don't feel the same. The main gimmick this time around is the categorising in the choice of characters; half of the characters are heroes, with the other half being villains.

Characters
There are 16 playable characters in Mario Party Celebration, 8 heroes and 8 villains. Depending on which characters the players play as, different events will occur. Burt, Paratroopa and Thwomp make their first playable appearance in the series.

Heroes

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * Peach
 * Yoshi
 * Daisy
 * Toad
 * Toadette
 * Paratroopa (unlockable)

Villians

 * Wario
 * Waluigi
 * Boo
 * Mini Bowser
 * Dry Bones
 * Hammer Bro
 * Burt
 * Thwomp (unlockable)

Party Mode
There are a total of seven boards in the game, though only six of them are available from the start. Three of the boards are hosted by Brighton, another three are hosted by Twila and the unlockable board is hosted by both of them.

Unlockables

 * Playing on all of the Daytime boards unlocks Paratroopa.
 * Playing on all of the Nighttime boards unlocks Theomp.
 * Ztario's Dark Galaxy is unlocked after playing on the other six boards.

Bubbles
Bubbles are the item system for the heroes.

Crates
Crates are the item system for the villains.

Free Play Museum
The players can play any minigames they like.

Overview
Bowser and Donkey Kong are playable in this mode, bringing the roster to 18 characters.

Trivia

 * Thwomp uses his blue blocky design in this game.