The first set of games, for example, includes an event where the two contestants have to knock each other off a floating island using only their butts, swiftly followed by a leap from a trapeze onto a target platform, a swimming contest where you have to stop paddling at the right time to ensure you don’t get a face full of your opponents butt, a game where whoever pumps up a balloon too much and makes it burst loses, and finally a precarious pool-hopping game that requires you to reach an island without falling off any platforms. The minigames themselves take on a variety of forms ranging from simple timing-based challenges to tests of observation and skill. Consequently, unless both of you are experienced Party Girls veterans (or total novices), the two-player mode feels exceedingly unbalanced and is arguably best avoided. The reason for this is largely down to the design of the minigames themselves, which have no sort of “handicap” system in place to enforce an even playing field between an experienced player and a novice. While you might expect a game like this to truly shine in its two-player mode, I’d actually argue that Party Girls is best experienced in single-player and treated like an old arcade game, with true mastery being achieved through skillful play and one-credit clears.
The game can be played in both single-player and two-player modes, with the single-player mode requiring you to win every game against a computer opponent, and the two-player mode determining the ultimate winner by whoever won the most games in total. In order to do so, you compete against a single opponent in one of three different series of five short minigames until one of you is crowned the victor. In Party Girls, you take on the role of one of several different bikini-clad Japanese idols in an attempt to prove you are the idoliest idol that ever did idol. And consequently, I’d be rather surprised if you ever played Party Girls.Īnd this is a shame. This situation wasn’t helped by Western publisher 505 GameStreet’s rather generic-looking cover art for the game, which looks like it was knocked up by an intern messing around with WordArt on their lunch break. Mogitate Mizugi! Onna Mamire no THE Suiei Taikai ( Fresh-Picked Swimsuits! The Swim Meet Packed with Women*), on the other hand? Sign me right the hell up. Party Girls? Eh, pass, sounds like shovelware.
Party Girls is an interesting anomaly in D3 Publisher’s Simple Series in that its Japanese title is much more interesting than its somewhat generic sounding localisation, rather than the other way around.
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