Mario Party 1 is Dated (Day 3373 - 2/18/19)

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The vlog starts out with Stephen filming Kepler looking at the empty chairs where Dan and Lindsey were sitting earlier. Stephen says that he needs to get a haircut, but hasn't been able to because he couldn't move his head up and down due to the vertigo. He said that he will probably get a haircut now that his vertigo is gone. Stephen mentions that Dan and Lindsey were there earlier and they recorded Mario Party videos for StephenPlays. He said that they were too focused on playing the game so he didn't film any clips. Stephen says that they have been playing through the boards in Mario Party during this past year and each time they would play a new board with different guests. He says that they really enjoyed playing through the boards. Stephen said that playing through it has given him a chance to reflect on the game and compare it the game's sequels. He said that Mario Party 1 has dated pretty badly and that the game mostly just has historical significance.

Stephen says that he thinks Mario Party 1 consisted of content that the developers wanted to test out in order to figure out how they wanted to develop the rest of the Mario Party series. He said that there were a lot of things the developers did right, like they made some fun mini-games that were also used in the sequels of Mario Party games. However, there were some things that were not great like mini-games that were too similar too each other and a payout system that did't make sense. Stephen says that there are some mini-games where when multiple people win the game nobody earns any coins, while in other mini-games when everyone wins all players get coins. He says that there are a total of 8 boards and it seems like the developers prioritized quantity over quality in these boards. Stephen said that some boards were fun to play, while other boards made the player feel discouraged playing through them. He compares some boards to a "feast" where coins and stars are abundant in the board. Then, he compares some boards to a "famine" where the board beats you down by constantly making you lose coins and stars even if you don't have any. Stephen mentions that there is even a board where Bowser steals the player's stars.

Stephen says that Mario Party 1 has never been re-released and he thinks that it is most likely because of the control stick spinning mini-games. In these mini-games, the player has to spin the control stick as fast as they can with their thumbs which caused problems. Stephen said that it caused problems because you had to spin the control stick super fast and by the time the game ends your thumb is sore. He says that it is not necessarily a bad thing that there is no remake for the game and that he is saying this having spent more time playing Mario Party 1 compared to all the other Mario Party games. He also says that Mario Party 1 is not as good as Mario Party 2 and Mario Party 3 Stephen said that he got the game on launch day and played it for several hundred hours. He said that now that he is older, he can look back on the game and say that it had various issues. Stephen states that the issues become more clear as you play through each board in the game. He then talks about how a good topic of discussion would be to talk about games where the developers made a game's sequels a lot better after the first game was released. Stephen says that he hopes that this will be the case for Super Mario Maker 2, where the developers will improve upon the original game.

Kit Kat Flavor Tried:  I ♡ FRUITS: Yuzu Kit Kat

Mal asks how Stephen feels about lemon-flavored things. Stephen replies that he generally likes lemon flavored things. He also says that one of his favorite candies is Lemon Heads. Stephen said that the I ♡ FRUITS: Yuzu Kit Kat doesn't smell like anything. Mal compares the taste of the Kit Kat to a lemon bar. Stephen says that it tastes like if a a Lemon Head and a Kit Kat had a baby. Mal said that the Kit Kat tasted better than she expected. Stephen said that he has really liked the taste of all the I ♡ FRUITS Kit Kats. He said that these fruit-flavored Kit Kats were flavors that you wouldn't really expect out of a Kit Kat and that they were the strongest tasting Kit Kats.