Skelittle: A Giant Party!

Genre: Party Game / Minigame Collection

Players: 1-4 Competitive / Team Competitive (Local)

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Review:

Skelittle: A Giant Party!, released on Nintendo Switch in 2019, is a Party Game featuring 15 minigames with a theme that has your characters being tiny and facing similarly pint-sized challenges. If this sounds familiar, it’s the same basic premise as Mario Party DS. However, suffice it to say that this game is no Mario Party DS.

The presentation here is nowhere near as good as your average Mario Party game, with relatively low-poly characters and backgrounds, and a visual style that is overall not especially appealing. It’s a shame that this game invites direct comparison to a Mario Party game, because it comes up very short in this regard. What’s more, this game’s energetic music fits the gameplay well enough, but it’s just not particularly catchy or memorable.

The minigames here are fine, but they’re not very inspired. They fit a Party Game well enough, but there’s nothing here that truly seems like it’s above and beyond for a Party Game. And that’s really unfortunate, because with only 15 games, one would hope for a “quality over quantity” sorta’ thing, but in this game you don’t really get either.

As if that wasn’t enough to condemn this game to mediocrity, there’s not much in the way of extra features (outside of a customizable home screen), there’s no online play, and the game is absolutely riddled with long load times.

While there’s nothing outright terrible about Skelittle, it’s a pretty poor example of a Party Game on a platform that isn’t hurting for games of this kind. It may only be a $10 game, but trust me when I say you’re better off spending more and getting a better game. This one will not hold your interest for long.

tl;dr – Skelittle is a Party Game with a theme that has your characters pint-sized and taking part in similarly-sized challenges. While the minigames here are passable, there are too few of them, they’re too uninspired, the presentation is underwhelming, the features are lacking, and there’s just no real point to getting this game when you have so many better options on the Nintendo Switch.

Grade: C-

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