Gaming magazine Nintendo Power has given out some new details regarding Mario Party 9 which will arrive in March this year. This is what you can expect from the latest addition to the series:

Instead of moving around the stage separately, all players ride together in a vehicle

Only the player who is taking a turn gets the rewards

Collect as many Mini Stars as possible before the end

Earn them by landing on special spaces and playing mini-games

Purple mini Zstars remove stars from your inventory

Variety of dice: high number dice, dice that only roll 0 and 1

Board details: Toad Road has a broken bridge that cannot be jumped unless all players roll a sufficiently high number
If you fall off the bridge, you enter a Mini Ztar-filled canyon
Bob-omb Factory is littered with conveyer belts that change your course
Each board has a miniboss and a final boss
In Bob-omb Factory, fight against a giant Whomp
Each player stands on a rotating platform while attempting to avoid being flattened by the stone creature

Mini-games include memory games (quickly count a horde of Goombas as they rush into their homes) to tests of your button-pressing skills (tap the proper buttons to climb a mountain) to more-physical activities (swing the Wii Remote to throw toppings on a pizza)

What do you think of this type of gameplay for the Mario Party series?