Before every minigame, it shows you the controls of the game and provides a test area so you can play the game as a demo before launching the game properly. The controls have been made incredibly simple and only really use the control stick or d-pad depending on preference and maybe 2 buttons at most.
15 of the minigame are free for all games, 5 are 2v2 team minigames, and 5 are 3v1 almost boss-style games. I haven’t played a really terrible minigame here – there is usually at least one – but they have done well to make all 25 enjoyable. In all, there are 25 minigames to unlock and play and they range from super fun at best to slightly tricky at worst. My kids loved the different designs of the monsters although they did both take a liking to the penguin monster. You can tell it has borrowed heavily from the mini-game style of Mario Party but the engaging cute graphical style and upbeat background music suit it nicely without being annoying. The graphics looks pretty good for a party game like this.
These prizes aren’t too exciting though they are usually either a decoration for the village lobby or a different colour skin for a monster. The other two options are to change your player area if you feel like being a different monster and a prize machine area where after you play so many games, you earn tokens which can be used in the prize machine to win a mystery prize. There is a free play option to just randomly play any minigame you have unlocked by playing them once in the tournament mode. You have the solo gauntlet to see how many minigames you can win in a row against the computer. You can play a tournament which is the standard thing to do, where you play either 10, 15, or 20 mini-games to see who is the best. Player one leads the other monsters in choosing what they are going to do but there are only a few options. So you and up to 3 of your friends can choose from 7 different cute monsters to play with, and you are sent into a small village that acts as a lobby. But My Singing Monsters Playground has taken 7 of the monsters found from that game and brought them into a multiplayer minigame playground. It’s quite novel and the monsters sing constantly so I can see why kids would love it. I didn’t know this at first, but My Singing Monsters is a popular mobile game as a time-killing feed and breed type of game. Let’s not get carried away – it’s not going to stand toe to toe with the likes of Mario Party – but what it has done is make a decent alternative that most kids can pick up and play. However, to be fair, I would say that ¾ of these mini games are actually well designed and a great deal of fun.Developed and Published by Big Blue Bubble, My Singing Monsters Playground has entered the party game arena with some impressive results. I do feel that this is probably the minimum you could get away with in a game like this. There are 25 mini games in My Singing Monsters Playground. You can play tournament and free play as a solo player too if you want. The other game mode is free play and this just lets you pick a game and play it. I know that they would have been accused of ripping off Mario Party, but I think it would have made it feel a more rewarding and complete experience.
I do think that it is really missing some kind of game board. This is only available in local co-ops, there is no online which I feel is a missed opportunity. The player with the most diamonds at the end wins. You earn diamonds and if you come in first place you get three, second place two, and third place one, last place gets none. Here you can play with up to three other players and you get to take turns picking a game. Plus, the whole game is nice and bright with a kind of Pixar/DreamWorks thing going on with the art. It is bright, the monster characters are cute and fun. I am completely ignorant of this franchise so I can only take it as it comes in this game, but I liked it. While it may be lacking in the cinematic department, the game does have a ton of personality. As it is, the games are just kind of thrown together. If you lose, it is game over, it is a fun mode, but I wish there was a bit of story or something to make it a bit more cinematic.