Face-Lift (minigame)

Face-Lift
Mario Party Mario Party 2 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Appears in	Mario Party Mario Party 2 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Type	4-Player minigame (Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars) Battle minigame (Mario Party 2) Bowser minigame (Mario Party Superstars)
Time limit	30 seconds
Music track	Can It be Done? (Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars) Keepin' on the Path (Mario Party 2)
Music sample Mario Party: Mario Party 2: Mario Party: The Top 100: Mario Party Superstars:

“Hey, Bowser, why the long face? Stretch, pull, and tug to match the example. Talk about an epic face-off!”

—Play Nintendo

Face-Lift is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars; a Battle minigame in Mario Party 2; and a Bowser minigame in Mario Party Superstars. Prior to Superstars, it was formatted as Face Lift, and in Play Nintendo's video "Mario Party Superstars Laugh Till You Pop," it is formatted as Face-lift. The name is a play on "facelift." The minigame is based on the title screen of Super Mario 64, where the player can alter Mario's face. Additionally, the iteration in Mario Party includes a background with a parody title Super Bowser 64.

Introduction

In Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars, Bowser's face appears on the screen and is altered. It shrinks to fit in the center, revealing the four splits for each player. Each character's name (in Mario Party) or icon (in The Top 100 and Superstars) appears on each split screen to indicate their quarter. In the latter two games, Bowser can be heard laughing before his face is altered. In the former, the names disappear, but in the remakes, the icons stay.

In Mario Party 2, a star flies around one of the characters' heads, then their face is altered. The same action above occurs.

Gameplay

The objective of the minigame is to change the character's facial elements (nose, mouth, ears, etc.) to distorted positions as accurately as possible. The player who has the most accurate distorted positions wins.

On Mini-Game Island, the player must score an accuracy of at least 90 points to clear the minigame, regardless of the computer players' scores.

In Mario Party, this minigame also has a Bowser variation, triggered by landing on a Bowser Space. In this variation, players who do not score 90 points or more lose coins. If everyone gets 90 points or more, the player who landed on the Bowser Space loses coins.

The minigame reappears in Mario Party 2 as a Battle minigame. The faces that appear in Mario Party 2 are those of the six playable characters (Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong). As this is a Battle minigame, this does not appear in the Mini-Game Coaster. Only Bowser's face is used in Mario Party, The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars.

In Mario Party Superstars, this minigame is a 4-Player minigame. However, in Party mode, it is one of the possible minigames that can be played if the Bowser Minigame event is triggered when a player lands on a Bowser Space, and the players who do not score 80 points or more lose coins, but unlike in Mario Party, if everyone scores 80 points or more, nobody loses coins. It never appears as an end-of-turn minigame. The playable characters now vocalize whenever a part of Bowser's face is grabbed.

In all games except Mario Party Superstars, if a player does not alter their face in any way from the start of the minigame, that player gets a score of zero. Additionally, the minigame ends in a draw if everyone scores zero.

Ending

The ending to Face Lift in Mario Party (with a perfect score)

In Mario Party, the camera zooms in on the winning border with coins around it except in the Bowser variant. In case of a tie or in case of multiple players scoring more than 90 in the Bowser variant, the winning faces stay in the borders while the losing face(s) shrink(s) away with the word "LOSE" in its/their border(s). In the case that all players score zero or less than 90 in the Bowser variant, all the faces shrink away with "LOSE."

In Mario Party 2, a rainbow-colored star floats around the player(s) that had the most points with the character looking at it. If a draw occurs, nothing will happen on the screen, though the Draw music will play.

In Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, the winner's/winners' face(s) sparkle(s), while in the latter, the winner also exclaims.

Controls

Mario Party / Mario Party 2

• – Move hand
• – Grab
• – Reset face

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Touch to grab and move the facial features
• : Reset

Mario Party Superstars

• – Move
• Hold to Grab/Move Face
• – Reset

In-game text

Mario Party

• Game Rules – "Pull and tug Bowser's face to try to match the example. Press to grab the face, then hold and move to pull it."
• Game Rules (Mini-Game Island) – "Make Bowser's face look just like the example. Get 90 or more points to clear the game."
• Game Rules (Bowser) – "If you don't get more than 90 points, Bowser will steal your Coins! Careful, careful!"
• Advice – "Watch the example closely. That's the shortcut to success."

Mario Party 2

• Game Rules – "Fix that nose! Raise those cheeks! Tug and pull your face to match the example. The closest person wins!"
• Advice – "Watch the hand to see what you can grab. When it quits blinking, you can press the Button to grab."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Look at the guide closely and stretch the face to match!"
• On-screen – "Stretch the face to look like the guide!"

Mario Party Superstars

• "Pull and tug Bowser's face to try to match the example."

Gallery

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  Background in Mario Party

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  Mario Party 2 (Mario)

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  Mario Party 2 (Luigi)

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  Mario Party 2 (Peach)

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  Mario Party 2 (Wario)

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  Mario Party 2 (Donkey Kong)

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  The ending to Face Lift in Mario Party 2

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	クッパひゃくめんそう[?] Kuppa Hyakumensō	Bowser's Funny Faces	Mario Party, The Top 100, and Superstars
	みんなヒッパレ！[?] Minna Hippare!	Everyone, Pull!	Mario Party 2
Chinese (simplified)	酷霸王变脸秀[?] Kùbàwáng Biànliǎn Xiù	Bowser's Face Changing Show
Chinese (traditional)	庫巴變臉秀[?] Kùbā Biànliǎn Xiù	Bowser's Face Changing Show
Dutch	Facelift[?]	Face Lift
French (NOA)	Visage de Bowser[?]	Bowser's Face
French (NOE)	Lifting de Bowser[?]	Bowser's Lifting	Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars
	Lifting[?]	-	Mario Party 2
German	Bowsers Grimassen[?]	Bowser's grimaces	Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars
	Verrücktes Lifting[?]	Crazy Lifting	Mario Party 2
Italian	Face Lift	-	Mario Party
	Ri-faccia[?]	Word play on rifaccia (he/she remakes) and faccia ("face")	Mario Party 2 and Mario Party: The Top 100
	Facce tirate[?]	Stretched/Pulled faces	Mario Party Superstars
Korean	천의 얼굴 쿠파[?] Cheonui Eolgul Kupa	Bowser of Many Faces
Portuguese	Puxa-Encolhe[?]	Pull-Shrink
Russian	Лицедейство[?] Litsedeystvo	Mummery
Spanish	Arreglo de cara[?]	Face Adjustment