You can’t attack during this game, but you can jump. Four characters can barely all squeeze on at once, and blocking others from getting on is absolutely a strategy, but can also just happen accidentally. Once you know where you have to go and recognize where that space is, actually getting on is half the trouble. Recognizing the safe space you need to reach is only part of what raises the tension on this particular mini-game. As the game goes on, the amount of time you have to get onto the correct platform gets shorter and shorter until only one player remains. Every other platform will lower down into the water, or lava, eliminating them from the game. A toad stands on his own platform and will show everyone a flag identical to one of the colored spaces. The idea is that all four players are placed in the middle of a hexagon of different-colored platforms, mushrooms in the first game and generic metal hexagons in the sequel. Mushroom Mix-Up, which became Hexagon Heat in Mario Party 2, perfectly captures that sense of tension and chaos that we all love in Mario Party mini-games. Do you want to avoid the pack, ram anyone who comes near you, or maybe try and bait someone into hitting you near the edge and try to dodge them so they end up rolling themselves off? Any and all of these tactics can work, making this simple game of rolling around big bouncy balls one of the all-time greats. If one person teeters too close to the edge, the others will often gang up to try to confirm the kill, but whoever attacks first will be the most in danger next, leading to plenty of mind games. Just you, three opponents, and one minute to try and be the last one standing.ĭespite being a free-for-all mini-game, Bumper Balls often sees alliances formed and broken in record time. There are no gimmicks or finicky controls, either.
You can move and build up more momentum, but otherwise, this is all about strategy. The setup is simple: You are each placed on a small island standing on inflatable balls with the goal of bumping into one another to try and knock them off the stage. Case in point, Bumper Balls from Mario Party 2.
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One trend we’ll keep coming back to on this list is that a lot of the best mini-games this series has seen are also the most simple in concept. It’s everything great about a Mario Party mini-game wrapped up in a funny face. There’s no luck, random elements, or anything like that, and yet it’s also unlikely any one person’s skill will make it less fun or unfair to the others. You’ll want to make Donkey Kong’s upper lip and brow look just right, but the timer forces you to balance matching one aspect perfectly at the risk of not getting to the ears or nose. What makes this so much fun is the combination of playing with these iconic characters’ faces in funny ways with the weird level of focus and precision you will want to commit. When the time runs out, every player’s face is graded on a scale of 0 to 100, and whoever made their face closest is the winner.
In Mario Party 2, the roster of faces is expanded to include every playable character, such as Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi. The game will open with Bowser’s face becoming stretched and warped in various ways, and each player will then have a default Bowser face they need to pinch and pull on to best match the one the game presents. This showed up first in the original Mario Party as a regular mini-game, then returned in the sequel as a much less common Battle mini-game. This is a personal favorite of ours, and is basically a play on the little tech demo thing at the beginning of Mario 64 where you can tug on different parts of a giant Mario face.
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