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Mario Party DS (マリオパーティDS Mario Pāti Dī Esu) is a party video game for the Nintendo DS. It is the eleventh title in the Mario Party series (twelfth in Japan), and was released in Japan on November 8, 2007; in North America on November 19, 2007; in Europe on November 23, 2007; and in Australia on December 6, 2007.
[edit] PlotThe game begins with a very peaceful evening in the Mushroom Kingdom where Mario sees flying crystals in the sky. The next day, he shows the crystal to his friends. Kamek drops notes from Bowser to the crew that contains both an apology for doing bad deeds and an invitation to his castle for a feast. Mario gathers up Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, Peach, Daisy, Wario, and Waluigi to go to Bowser's castle. Once they get there, as one may suspect, they notice that it was a trick. Bowser and Koopa Kid trapped them in a cage and uses their powers to capture and shrink all eight. The miniature eight wake up outside and go on a quest to find the Sky Crystals to restore themselves to normal and defeat Bowser. The chosen avatar must collect more stars than the other players by reaching them in a board game-like environment. At the end of 10 turns, the player must have more stars than all other players. If two players are tied, then whoever has more coins wins. The group first visits a Wiggler's garden, where they must save the inhabitants from a giant piranha plant. The group decides (as in each succeeding level) who the savior should be, by collecting stars. Once the main player has enough stars, the player battles the piranha plant by throwing exploding seeds into its mouth. The group receives a sky crystal to show Wiggler's appreciation. Afterwards, they move to Toadette's music room, equipped with many musical instruments. Toadette states that she is being bothered by a giant hammer brother which destroyed many of her instruments. After the main character wins this, the player must copy the Hammer Bro's drum pattern on timpani drums to send magical musical notes to defeat the hammer bro. Toadette gives the group a sky crystal for their help. Next, the group travels to jungle, this time inhabited by a normal size Donkey Kong who has been trapped in stone. The group defeats Dry Bones to free Donkey Kong. Diddy Kong, who had been panicking, leaves the group another sky crystal before following Donkey Kong who runs off with a thought bubble above his head showing a piece of meat with a bone through it. The group then moves to Kamek's library, where a Koopa Troopa tells the group of how his grandfather was trapped in a book by Kamek. The player flies through a hallway of flying books and enchanted bookcases to Kamek, where the player must shoot him with an ink pen. When the grandfather Koopa is restored, he hands the characters a sky crystal. Then, the group enters Bowser's pinball machine. After reaching Bowser, he threatens to shrink them even smaller, but Donkey Kong appears and smashes his shrinking staff. All characters are returned to their normal sizes, and the player fights Bowser, who uses a gadget called the Megamorph Belt to turn into a spinning top made out of blocks, then a giant cube, then a blocked snake. He is defeated, and he drops a sky crystal. They all combine to create a Nintendo DS. Then the group asks Bowser to play it with them, to which he agrees. The final shot of the FMV sequence is the group, Bowser, and Baby Bowser grinning. The credits then roll. [edit] Gameplay As with most Mario Party games, an emphasis is placed on the game's multiplayer aspect. A new element to the series is the use of the Download Play functionality of the Nintendo DS to allow four people to play wirelessly using only one game card. Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Princess Daisy, Toad, Wario, and Waluigi are playable characters .[5] The game is played by using a "dice block" numbered 1-10 and moving the player accordingly. There are many things such as "mole shops", "?", "blue" and "red" spaces that can help or hinder game progress.The boards are Wiggler's Garden, Toadette's Music Room, DK's Stone Statue, Kamek's Library, and Bowser's Pinball Machine. [edit] Mini-gamesThere are a variety of mini-games included in the game. For example, "Soccer Survival" involves trying to dodge soccer balls being kicked by a Goomba. "Camera Shy" involves characters taking photos of other characters and "Short Fuse" involves blowing on a fuse of a bomb in hopes to be the last player to survive. "Shuffleboard Showdown" is a game in which one player shoots poker chips while three other players dodge the projectiles. Others include "Globe Gunners", a game in which the players run around on a globe, shooting projectiles at each other, and boss minigames, in which the player battles villains from the Mario series, such as Bowser and Dry Bones. There are a total of 74 mini-games to play in Mario Party DS. A few use the buttons, a few use the stylus, and 4 use the microphone. There are 4 minigames in which the player win coins in the minigame instead of winnings. In Story Mode, the player plays a mini-game after every character has made their turn on the board. In "Puzzle Mode", the player plays puzzle games from the Mario Party series: "Mario's Puzzle Party" from Mario Party 3, "Bob-omb Breakers" from Mario Party 4, "Piece Out" from Mario Party 5, "Block Star" from Mario Party 6, and "Stick and Spin" from Mario Party 7. There is also "Triangle Twisters", a new game in which the player twist triangles. In Frenzy mode, the player has to connect four or more triangles of the same color to destroy them; in Focus mode, the player must twist the triangles to form 50 shapes. [edit] Reception
Mario Party DS received mostly positive reviews upon its release. The game had strong sales the first week of its release in Japan, selling 234,708 copies in its first week.[9] As of July 9, 2008, the game has sold 1,730,191 copies in Japan, according to Famitsu.[10][11] It is the 18th best-selling game of Japan in 2008.[12] As of March 31, 2009, Nintendo has sold 5.85 million copies of the game worldwide.[13] [edit] References
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