Dino Party Review – Chaotic But Fun | Gameobserver Recommends

Playing a party game with your friend is sure to spruce up any boring weekend. The friendly competition between each other and competing to show our skills is fun, but Dino Party adds elements that let you sabotage other players as well. This makes the multiplayer rounds even more hilarious, combining elements from party and smash-likes for a chaotic gameplay experience. 

As a fashionista, I will first talk about the attention to detail in the Dino customization. You can change the skins of your Dinos, and even try color combinations to coordinate looks. Unlocking more requires coins, which gives an incentive to play the game a lot more.

Dino Party has a separate section for a tutorial, which you can play or skip. You won’t be forced to see it, but it’s thorough in teaching you the basic gameplay mechanics. After testing out your combos with the dummies, you will be ready to perform them in an actual game. The combat isn’t too deep, and it’s best that way; if it were complicated, players would likely focus on that more than playing the actual party minigames.

There is a simple attack button, which you can charge to hit your friends harder. You can also ground slam and shield yourself. But the purpose of these attacks isn’t merely sabotaging your friends, as some minigames utilize them as well. You will be popping bubbles using ground slams, the charge attacks are helpful during football when you need to hit the ball hard for a goal, the simple attack is used in a whack-a-mole-like minigame that tests your reflexes, and if your friends try to push you from the platform, you can attempt to stop yourself in midair and make a comeback.

Up to four players can join the lobby, which is a good number, but it may leave some members out in larger groups. This limit should have been increased to eight or just left uncapped. In party games like this one, which has a strong focus on chaos, the more players join, the more fun it can become.

You can then set the number of minigames you want to play, which is a good feature because you can decide how long you want each session to be. A party can be started with as low as a single minigame if you are running out of time. However, if you want longer sessions on a weekend late night, you can set it to 20 minigames. You can also play minigames by yourself if you’re introverted, and they are fun enough to enjoy on your own. 

If you’ve played similar party games before, you would be familiar with most of the minigames in Dino Party. Yet the gameplay experience feels fresh due to additional elements. The stages are well-designed, and these change for the same minigames as well if they are repeated. Some stage layouts are more challenging, especially if you have special events on. Some players may do well in one location, but not in the other, so everyone gets a fair chance of competing.

You can set whether you want special events triggered in your rounds for extra chaos. These make the games more challenging as you try to dodge these obstacles while completing tasks. It isn’t limited to only effects; sometimes it affects the players themselves. For example, with Incognito triggered, you will get confused about which dino you are actually controlling. Strong winds make coin and star hunting games harder, especially if the stage layout has narrow land. You are also very prone to falling, which makes getting a higher score much harder.

Dino Party features 12 minigames that test a variety of player skills. A lot of these games make use of the sabotage feature. You can steal coins and chickens from other players, or you can prevent them from taking a star to a goal. Sometimes, all you need to do is survive on a platform for as long as you can, but your friends are definitely going to make that difficult for you. Dino Party incorporates the element of friendly dirty-play really well. After the games are over, you can check where you stand based on your total score, which you accumulated from playing all mini-games. You will level up and hatch an egg, which contains a random accessory.

If you want to play a co-op game that would involve a lot of banter with friends, then you should give Dino Party a try. It’s fun to play dirty sometimes, and Dino Pary lets you sabotage your friends as you all struggle to complete tasks through a good variety of minigames

Rabiya reviewed Dino Party on PC with a provided review code. This review is based on the version of the game that was available at the time of writing, and our score will not be changed.