And it also needs to give out mega mushrooms and starmen neutrally instead of to the loser... although it is fun to steal a mega mushroom by jumping in between them and it.
I think the game gives them out neutrally, actually. I remember my friends saying things like "Unfair, like if you were losing!" or like "Huh I only had one star more". At least the difference doesn't need to be large.
Hate to be The Grinch here but man. Low standards. If I'm going to be playing a multiplayer game, give me Smash or something. Mini games like this last a few minutes before my opponent and I are totally bored and move on to something else. Of course it can be better than nothing if you're someplace you can't play a better game, but once in a while there's nothing wrong with just talking instead of gaming... even if you just end up talking about gaming.
What can I say, my heart's a dead tomato splotch with moldy purple spots.
Even if this is is just a mini-game, I never get bored of it.
Come on it is a game where Mario and Luigi fight to death! (Well they fight to get stars but they usually kill each other in the process) How can't that be funny or awesome?