Played Mario Party 8 a few days a go...

Ugh... that Series is going downhill

Cons:

They seem to run out of Ideas for Items (I guess they can't reuse them), so instead of having the items be capsules or orbs or anything, they're candy.

Instead of the 2/3 dice items being mushroom/super mushroom, They are Twice candy/Thrice candy (It rhymes with dice, woohoo). No mushrooms FTL.

Fewer minigames. Need I say more?

Desperate for gimmicks. Blooper (the squid) and hammer brothers as playable characters?

Highly Dumbed down. No Bowser/DK minigame, a lot of free stars, simple boards.

Pros:

I actually have good luck in this game, unlike any of the last mario parties.

Some of the items have cool effects. The thrice candy looks like the intro scene for sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts.

Maybe they'll actually try to make number 10 good when it comes out.