Itadaki Street DS (2007)

Developer: Armor Project, Square Enix Product Development Division 9
Publisher: Square Enix
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genres: Strategy, Tactical
Main story: about 15 hours
Completionist: about 40 hours

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A Monopoly-style property trading board game with Mario characters and party game elements, perfect for competitive casual sessions.

board game feelstrategicpartycasualmariocompetitivemonopoly-style

About

Itadaki Street DS is a Monopoly-like game that has some Mario Party-esque elements added to it due to the appearance of several Mario characters (minigames, for example). Players move around the board, buying shops and collecting money from others who land on their shop spaces. Depending on circumstances, some players can forcibly take over another player's shop spaces, or make them inactive for a turn. Players can also hold shares of a block of spaces so that they get paid when someone lands on any space in that block, even if it is not their own.

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