Mario Party Superstars is a love letter to the best games the series has to offer. All the mini-games are hand-selected from among the best the series has had, which is also true for the maps.

The five boards include Yoshi's Tropical Island and Peach's Birthday Cake from the first Mario Party; Space Land and Horror Land from Mario Party 2; and Woody Woods from Mario Party 3.

The base game is still fantastic, but this expanded re-release introduces some frustrating limitations that make it hard to recommend.

Check out 16 minutes of Mario Party Superstars, played online with one player in California, and two others in Florida to see how the netcode handles coast-to-coast online play.

Mario Party Superstars offers up a wealth of minigames plucked from the entire series, and each time one loads up you can see which game it was originally featured in.

Mario Party Superstars is great fun, but I wish I had more of it. Don't get me wrong, there are more boards here than there were in Super Mario Party, but I hope that Nintendo keeps adding remade ...