While the translation is relatively charming, I doubt most players will want to waste their time reading this. When you begin Fortune Street’s tutorial board, you may notice that the pace is sluggish and that characters frequently stop to spout inane banter. Collect four card suit symbols spread around the far corners of each board, and you can pass the starting point for some bonus bucks. If other players land on it in the future, they’ll need to pay you money.

Land on an empty property and you can choose to buy it with whatever cash you have in hand. Though you play on over a dozen different boards, the core gameplay is always the same: Four characters vie for economic control by rolling a die and making their way around the board. Fortune Street, on the other hand, takes its cues from Monopoly, populating a cerebral world of property ownership and stock buying with characters from the Mario and Dragon Quest series.

The latter makes a mockery of board game design, filling each iteration with random, make-or-break nonsense that removes any sense of strategy. You can find Fortune Street in stores today, wherever video games are sold.The Fortune Street series has been running in Japan since 1991 under the name Itadaki Street, but if I didn’t know any better I could swear it’s a direct answer to our constant criticisms of Nintendo’s always disappointing Mario Party/Wii Party games. Along with Xenoblade Chronicles, Nintendo have been on a nice localization trend and hopefully this title will be successful as future releases like Fortune Street are definitely a welcome sight to see considering the slim amount of games we have seen on the Wii in the past year. In the west, this marks our first Fortune Street release but over in Japan, this specific title was the 9th in the Itadaki Street series. “Fortune Street lets everyone have fun while buying, selling and trading property to grow their bank accounts.” “During the holidays people like to get together with friends and family members to play games,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. Miis are also in the mix in Fortune Street and can even be customized with Ninja, Mario, and Dragon Quest attires as they go for gold in the 15 different game board settings from both franchises. This new first-party Wii release throws together some of the top players from both franchises (over 20) into one experience where the object of the game is to simply maximize your wealth. Want to navigate a virtual board game to control property and stock purchases? No? Well, what if there was famous characters from the Mario franchise as well as the illustrious Dragon Quest series? That is exactly what Fortune Street is, Monopoly with Mario and Slimes.

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