Bear Bones All-Stars! (video game)

Bear Bones All-Stars!, released in Japan as Malachi and Friends: Block Party (マラキと仲間たち：ブロックパーティー) is a party game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Activision. ''Bear Bones All-Stars! ''was first shown at E3 1999 and was released for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, and Microsoft Windows in North America on May 17, 2000, in Europe on May 31, 2000, and in Japan on June 3, 2000. It is the first installment of the Bear Bones All-Stars series. The game features characters from Malachi Universal, Sarah, The Kidriends, The Animal Farm, Aiden & Koop, Jan and Jason, Winx Club, Toon Friends, Beverly Hills Tina, Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, Sypha, Wonderful Darlene, My Hero Academia, Haruhi Suzumiya, Fairy Tail, Sunny the Flower, Attack on Titan, The Kutabatas, Geo the Creature and Jake the Robot, with Liam from Live Tour as the host.

Gameplay
Players play through six boards and six different party modes. Each stage has different events although the last stage is almost opposite from the original stage when the player first starts. Every game has a different Boss depending on 5 different events (or party modes) on which level. At the end of each turn after the last player moves, a minigame starts. Like the first 8 Mario Party games, there are 4 types of mini-games: Free-for-all, 1 vs. 3, 2 vs. 2, and Josie's Minigame (similar to Battle Minigame).

Plot
Lignen opens up a theme park, LignenLand, and invites a selection of characters to attend the grand opening.

Characters
(* indicates that the character is playable in the Game Boy Color version)

Malachi Universal

 * Malachi*
 * Purple
 * Takashi

Sarah

 * Sarah*
 * Nate

The Kutabatas

 * Mitsuru*
 * Toko

The Animal Farm

 * Scott
 * Hilda

Toon Friends

 * Jarek
 * Riley

My Hero Academia

 * Izuku
 * Ochako

Wonderful Darlene

 * Darlene

Beverly Hills Tina

 * Tina

Fairy Tail

 * Natsu
 * Lucy

Jan and Jason

 * Jan
 * Jason

Aiden & Koop

 * Aiden
 * Koop

Winx Club

 * Bloom*
 * Stella

Azumanga Daioh

 * Chiyo

Lucky Star

 * Konata

Haruhi Suzumiya

 * Kyon

Geo the Creature

 * Geo

Jake the Robot

 * Jake

Sypha

 * Sypha*

Attack on Titan

 * Eren

Boards

 * Tyrusville
 * Rollerbound
 * Star City
 * Magnolia Town
 * Alfea College
 * Basopolis
 * Chiyo's Summer House

Development
Coming soon!

Reception
Bear Bones All-Stars! received mixed reviews in the news. Matt Casamassina of IGN gave the N64 and Dreamcast versions a 4.9/10 and the PlayStation and PC versions a 4.5/10. While the sound was praised, the gameplay and graphics were criticized for being major clones of Mario Party.

Review aggregator Metacritic gave the N64 version a 62 out of 100, indicating "mixed or average reviews", while the PS1 version received a 50 out of 100, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews", the Dreamcast version received a 61 out of 100, indicating "mixed or average reviews", and the PC version received a 43 out of 100, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Ryan Davis of GameSpot gave both versions of the game a 5.2/10, disliking the lack of variety in the minigames and the bizarre board designs. Official UK PlayStation Magazine scored the game with a 5/10.

In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40 for all versions.