Piranha's Pursuit

Piranha's Pursuit
Mario Party Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Appears in	Mario Party Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Type	1-vs-3 minigame
Music track	Dodging Danger (Mario Party and Mario Party Superstars) What Should We Do?! (Mario Party: The Top 100)
Music sample Mario Party: Mario Party: The Top 100: Mario Party Superstars:

Piranha's Pursuit is a 1-vs-3 minigame found in Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars.

Introduction

In the first Mario Party, the minigame starts out with the Piranha Plant in the ground at small size getting showered by the rain and coming out of the ground. When the camera zooms out and shows everyone, the minigame starts.

In Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, instead of sprouting out of the ground, a tiny Petey Piranha flies in from offscreen, and he attempts to groan angrily.

Gameplay

The team players are on a smiling cloud and have to ground-pound it to feed the Piranha Plant (Petey Piranha in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars) with rain, while the solo player is on a skateboard and has to skate away from the Piranha Plant and avoid obstacles along the way. The more rain the Piranha Plant is fed, the bigger it gets and the farther it can jump. If the Piranha Plant catches the solo player, the team players win. If the solo player manages to run away from the Piranha Plant until it crashes into a gate, the solo player wins.

In Mario Party Superstars, the cloud no longer has a face.

Trio Challenge

In Mario Party Superstars, this minigame is available in Stage 2 and Stage 5 of the Trio Challenge in Mt. Minigames.

In Stage 2, human players play as a team against a Normal CPU solo opponent, and the rank requirements are:

• A: Win within 38 seconds
• B: Win within 43 seconds
• C: Win within 48 seconds
• D: Win after 48 seconds elapse

In Stage 5, a single human player plays against Normal CPU opponents, and the rank requirements are:

• A: Finish with no mistakes
• B: Finish with just one mistake
• C: Finish with two mistakes
• D: Finish with three or more mistakes

Ending

The ending to Piranha's Pursuit if the team wins in Mario Party

• If the team wins, the Piranha Plant catches the solo player, thrashes them, hurls them at the ground, and growls at them while the announcer says, "Miss!" and the solo player does a losing pose. 15 of the solo player's coins go to the winning team (each team member gaining five coins).
  • On Mini-Game Island, however, the coins do not show if the player fails, and the announcer says, "Finish!" regardless.
  • If this minigame is played in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, Petey Piranha simply knocks the solo player off the screen. As there is no "Miss!" or equivalent voice clip in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, the announcer says, "Finish!" instead, and the team of three wins coins in Minigame Match or the game boards.

The ending to Piranha's Pursuit if the solo player wins in Mario Party

• If the solo player wins, the Piranha Plant or Petey jumps after the solo player, only to slam into the goal gate face-first and faint. In Mario Party, each player of the team of three forfeits five coins to the solo player (with the solo player gaining 15), and the solo player does their victory pose.
  • The coins within the minigame do not appear in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, but when this minigame is played in Minigame Match or other game boards, the solo player still wins coins while all other players lose nothing.

Controls

Mario Party

Solo (1 player)

• – Jump
• – Run

Group (3 players)

• – Move
• – Jump
• + – Hip Drop

Mario Party: The Top 100

Solo (1 player)

• Mash : Skate
• : Jump

Group (3 players)

• : Jump
• in the air: Ground Pound

Mario Party Superstars

Solo Side (1 player)

• Mash to skate
• – Jump

Team Side (3 players)

• – Jump
• → – Ground Pound

In-game text

Mario Party

• Game Rules – "Press repeatedly to escape the Piranha Plant. Players on the cloud Hip Drop to feed the Piranha Plant with rain."
• Game Rules (Mini-Game Island) – "Press repeatedly to escape the Piranha Plant's pursuit. Clear the game by reaching the goal."
• Advice – "As it rains on the Piranha Plant, it gets bigger and can jump farther."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "The chase is on as 3 players give Petey Piranha the water he needs to stalk the fourth!"
• On-screen (Solo) – "Run from Petey Piranha!"
• On-screen (Team) – "Ground Pound to make it rain on Petey Piranha so he grows!"

Mario Party Superstars

• Solo side: "Mash the button to escape!"
• Team side: "Ground-pound to feed Petey Piranha with rain."

Gallery

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  Wario losing the minigame in Mario Party

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ジュラシックパックン[?] Jurashikku Pakkun	Jurassic Piranha, a pun on Jurassic Park
Chinese (simplified)	侏罗纪吞食花[?] zhūluójì tūnshíhuā	Jurassic Piranha
Chinese (traditional)	侏羅紀吞食花[?] zhūluójì tūnshíhuā	Jurassic Piranha
Dutch	Plantenjacht[?]	Plant Hunt
French	Piranha poursuite	Piranha pursuit
German	Piranha-Verfolgung[?]	Piranha Pursuit
Italian	Piranha's Pursuit	-	Mario Party
	Fuga disperata[?]	Desperate escape	Mario Party: The Top 100 and Superstars
Korean	쥐라기 뻐끔[?] Jwiragi Bbeoggeum	Jurassic Piranha
Portuguese	Petey-Pega[?]	Pun on "Petey Piranha" and pique-pega ("tag")
Russian	Побег от пираньи[?] Pobeg ot piran'i	Escape from piranha. Побег additionally translates to "sprout" or "shoot"
Spanish	Piraña en persecución[?]	Piranha chase