Does the CPU CHEAT in Mario Party Superstars?

We recently played a round of Mario Party that made us ponder the question...can the CPU cheat? We explore the idea in this video!
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Video by: Tris Valbuena
Thumbnail by: Tom Arnold
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#MarioParty #MarioPartySuperstars

[jordanboxman]

Just had this happen yesterday when I was playing a quick game with my sister. DK used a Custom Dice to move right into a red space at the very last round. I questioned why he did this, until the end game came about. A bonus star was given for the people who were "unlucky" and landed on red spaces. After that he managed to get more stars than me and land himself in 2nd place.
Weird if you ask me.

[MarioKartGamerDude]

Actually, this happened to me yesterday, Daisy was a CPU opponent and she used a custom dice block and got a 2 even though the Star was 5 spaces away

She landed on a blue space that had an hidden block which contained a star!

[unskilledgamer]

CPUs having "luck" always feels a little strange. Especially if they get rewarded for stupid actions. This does not only apply to Mario Party, but to almost every digital game that involves a bit of luck. (As a Gremlins Inc player this can sometimes be pain)
But maybe it's because it feels not deserved. If a friend or even a random person online has luck, it's fine because at least they are happy about it, but computers don't have emotions they don't feel happy when they have luck and they don't feel sad or angry if they have bad luck. So why should we be happy about their luck?

[splatt]

How come computers are absolute geniuses when they're against you, but when you escort one in hyrule warriors, they won't advance if an enemy is 40 feet in front of them

[BubbaJoey]

Donkey Kong's tie gives him the ability to see things that are invisible. Common knowledge, really.

[GSSSirius]

The AI in Sonic Shuffle were not only cheating, they were cheating BIG time. They *always* knew the perfect card to steal from the player in whichever situation they were needing it. Since the cpu also always acted immediately on their turns, the way they just casually stole from the player looked so annoying.

[KujaNiv]

Yeah they clearly cheat in the sleeping chomp minigame: they walk full speed and are able with ease to stop & hide with some margin, whereas it's impossible for human players!

[magmarxiogaming]

The ai have always been consistently weird in Mario party, but superstars definitely has them built different, also of course it was hard dk

[GamingForever]

CPU knew something on one of our games before. It had a custom dice block and chooses to land on a Bowser space! It had the chance to land anywhere else but there. So...at the end of your game when it was time to give out bonus stars, one of the bonus stars was the Bowser space star!!!! Damn thing knew!! LOL

[blazingamer]

I feel like there should be a difficulty between masters and hard. Hard cpus are too easy to beat and predictable. Masters actually give me a challenge in minigames which i love, but damn they really do be borderline cheating on the board. Had a masters CPU get 5 hidden blocks in one game, they were all coins and I still won, but 5 hidden blocks? damn.

[albertodiaz]

I normally play with CPUs (sad, I know) and sometimes they also use Custom Dices to land in a blue space that has nothing going on, but only one of them got a hidden block. My theory is that the don´tt know where a hidden block is, and using the Custom Dice gives them hope to land one. Still, really weird...

[cybersketcher]

I played against 3 CPU players on easy mode, won every minigame. And I still lost terribly.

[theminiyosshi]

Who designed the board for the intro, because I want to play on it. Maybe in any future mods?

[jajathenewking]

CPUs are the only opponents I actually get mad at when losing so I try my darn hardest to win them.
Cheating is a valid option if it's against CPUs after all it's only fair since they know what to do.

[soccerdude]

I've seen this before. CPUs in the is game are both absolutely dumb and smart at the same time.

[jumpmadmadness]

The game is a party for us.
For the CPU, it’s not a party. *It’s WAR*

[itsfrankie]

Master difficulty CPUs aren't even smart. One time a Yoshi on master difficulty was 4 spaces from the star, and had a Custom Dice Block and a Golden Pipe in his inventory. What did he use? The Golden Pipe, of course!

[bastianschuck]

This Custom Dice Block thing happens often, and i have no idea why. It has nothing to do with the hidden block, DK was just lucky there.
I had three games where a CPU did exactly that, 2 of them targeting red spaces while the last one landed on a blue one. No hidden block, no Red Bonus Star (I play with the old ones, minigame coin and happening), and just no reason to waste your Custom Dice when you could have gotten the star

So yeah, i don't know, the CPU's just dumb sometimes.

[Quamsi]

Mario party generates all the hidden blocks at the beginning of the game, so if there's a space you know that no one has landed on, you can kind of guess if there will be a hidden block there. While it sounds weird to say, you do occasionally see "high level" mario party players do the same thing that donkey kong did with the choice block, albeit usually closer to the end of the game when you have a better idea of what spaces haven't been landed on. Although there are risks to this, theres also a few reasons to do it even if you could just go directly to the star. The obvious example being you dont have enough coins; stopping short means even if you dont get a hidden block, you get one more minigame before you get there. It could also enable you to buy 2 stars on the next turn if you get enough coins from the hidden block.

[Birizn]

I wouldn't call cheating, but the devs really pumped the CPU game awareness vs. human players: Using custom dice blocks to force all-or-nothing duels with humans, holding chomp whistles until the human player (not the first place) has mathematical possibility of reaching the star (considering power items held and all), forcing a day/night switch only when the human player has the advantage of reaching a Boo, prioritizing plunder chest uses on humans instead of leaders, teaming up against the human in free-for-all minigames like Honeycomb Havoc, etc. Had all of that happening during my playthroughs against Master CPUs