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Dream Hurdles and Dream Spacewalk adapt pieces of Super Mario Galaxy, and so on. Dream Long Jump transforms a one-leap event into a multi-jump bouncing competition where four characters hop across Yoshi's Story clouds.
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In Dream Discus, for example, characters ride on the giant discs they throw and their tosses turn into a two-minute race to collect Sonic series rings. These "what if" scenarios are a bit more connected to actual Olympic sports competitions that the unrelated London Party mini-games, but they're still not too grounded in reality. The second category of mini-games is the Dream Events, making a return from the first two Mario & Sonic Olympics games. Still, they're generally fun activities like matching spinning icons with a partner, chasing down and tackling a Shy Guy or collecting coins strewn throughout the city streets. They often have nothing to do with the Olympics at all, and sometimes nothing to do with Mario, Sonic or London. The first are unique to London Party mode, and they're mini-games made almost directly in the tradition of Nintendo's Mario Party series. There are three categories of events that you'll encounter. But that said, not all of those wildly different elements are winners individually - and the game can be frustrating when you come across a stinker. London Party does a great job of pulling together all of the wildly different elements that make up this game, and overall it's a mode that could comfortably take up a spot in regular multiplayer rotation for you and your friends. The ultimate goal is to fill up a tourist's sticker book before your three opponents can do the same, and stickers are awarded for earning victories in events - events that take place every time Big Ben chimes to say it's time.
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A cartoony, accurately mapped version of London becomes the equivalent to Mario Party's virtual boards, and you direct your Mario or Sonic character to run around the city collecting items and running into other Mario or Sonic characters. Similar to Nintendo's Mario Party series, London Party is a four-character competition mode that serves to bring all of the game's many different events together into one fun free-for-all. The developers' focus on elevating London ends up elevating the entire package, especially in the new "London Party" mode. Famous landmarks like Big Ben and the London Eye offer real-world iconography that feels like it's truly starring side-by-side with the game-world characters. The location of London is prominently presented with a celebration of the city that Beijing and Vancouver never got in the older games. The one stand-out new element in this third Olympic outing is the setting itself. It's all feeling a little too familiar here.
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We've come full circle and returned to the Summer games again, meaning almost all of the sporting events featured in this release are the same ones we first saw in Mario and Sonic's first meeting. Even more unfortunately, the Olympics side of this equation is waning too. This gives Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games a bit less momentum to build on than four years ago, when these characters had not yet met. The novelty factor of seeing Mario and Sonic in the same game has certainly worn off by this point. Now Nintendo and Sega's heaviest hitters are once again going head-to-head on Wii - and this cross-over's feeling a little weary. Brawl, then hit the slopes for 2009's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. After that they fought it out on the battlefields of 2008's Super Smash Bros. They first met up and competed against one another in 2007's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. The cross-over rivalry that no one ever thought would happen is happening for a fourth time.