Rampant spirals evoke the utterly endless cycle of release for the Mario Party franchise.

After the success of Wii Party, you thought the Mario Party franchise was dead, right? Wrong! To be fair, so did we.

Yes, fresh off the success of Mario Party 8 a few years ago comes Mario Party 9! Announced at E³ 2011 (and by "announced," we mean "getting a logo shown at the very last minute, thereby devastating a good DKU showing/hearing of announcements"), all we know is that it has Mario and friends, and apparently there's a party of some sort. Hell, we don't even know whether Donkey Kong is in it yet, but we might as well prepare for the inevitable.

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