Mario Party 5

Template:Infobox Mario Party 5 is the fifth installment in the Mario Party series and the second for the Nintendo GameCube. The most notable change in this game is that the shopping system was replaced with the new Capsule system.

In the game's Story Mode, a playable character has to face Bowser and the Koopa Kids (known as Mini Bowser in PAL regions) throughout every stage. Eventually, the character will face Bowser one-on-one.

The game is notable for featuring places and characters that appeared in or resembled places and characters from Paper Mario. The most prominent of these is the Star Spirits.

Story

The game's title screen.

From the Mario Party 5 Instruction booklet:

In the night sky, past the moon and beyond the stars, there's a dream world known as Dream Depot, where everyone's dreams come together. This is the real land of dreams... In this land, there are Star Guards who protect the dreams of everyone.

One dreamy night, the Star Guards thought of something.
"Many dreams arrive here at Dream Depot every day," they said, "so... why don't we offer those with the power of dreaming a chance to visit?"
Eventually, they decided to invite Mario and his closest friends because, when it comes to dreamers, nobody dreams bigger than they do!

The Star Guards prepared for their guests' arrival by creating many fun-filled games for them to play. And that is how this adventure for Mario and his friends both old and new began!

In Story Mode, Bowser and Koopa Kid are planning to ruin everyone's dreams, and players must stop Bowser from taking over said dreams. If players clear the five boards, they must face the Koopa Kids in Bowser Nightmare, and if they beat that board, they fight Bowser in Frightmare.

Playable Characters

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The ten playable characters alongside Eldstar.

Returning Playable Characters

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The Mario Party 5 website spoofed the United States presidential campaigns.

New Features

This installment to the Mario Party series comes with new mini-games, characters, and maps. Toad, Boo, and Koopa Kid are now playable characters, as is Donkey Kong in Super Duel Mode once the player unlocks him. In Party Mode, he is on Donkey Kong spaces and either gives the players coins or stars, or starts a Donkey Kong mini-game which involve collecting bananas for a predetermined amount of coins.

The game is also significant for being the second in the series to introduce 3D game boards. Previous titles, all except for Mario Party 4, utilized pre-rendered backgrounds, which are static and limited in their presentation. As a result, all subsequent Mario Party titles, with the exception of Mario Party Advance on the Game Boy Advance, have employed 3D backgrounds allowing for much more dynamic fields of play.

Mario Party 5 has a few new features. First off, in Story Mode, all the Koopa Kids move at the same time, quickening game play. The point of single player mode is to deplete all of the Koopa Kids' coins by beating them in mini-games.

It also features two whole new modes: Bonus Mode, and Super Duel Mode. In Bonus Mode, players could choose one of three bonus games: Beach Volleyball, Ice Hockey, and Card Party.

Super Duel Mode

The stats for an assembled vehicle.

In Super Duel Mode, one buys vehicle parts using points received by playing mini-games and builds a battle vehicle to use in different tournaments or against friends. To unlock all the different parts, one must play all the tournaments and beat certain opponents. There are a total of 44 different parts that can be used to customize a vehicle. The last two, Bob-omb Wall and Bowser Punch, are unlocked after all other parts are purchased. There are five symbols that indicate different aspects of the vehicle's ability:

• Red Heart: Health
• Green Steering Wheel: Handling
• White Boxing Glove: Power
• Blue Vehicle Icon: Top Speed
• Yellow Vehicle Icon: Acceleration

After the player has made the vehicle, there are various options to improve the vehicle:

Icon	What the Icon Means	Effect
Wrench	Make improvements	Trade the parts of the vehicle
Eye	Have a Look	See the details of the vehicle
Trash Can	Delete	Throw away the selected vehicle

Vehicle Parts

The following is a list of all the parts the player can use:

Body Types

Name	Picture	Description	Cost (coins)
Mushroom Body		A standard body with standard abilities.	0
Star Body		A speedy body that's light and inexpensive.	5
Heart Body		A cute, heart-shaped body that's very durable.	5
Choo-Choo Body		An engine built for speed that's quite strong and durable.	5
Egg Body		A body made of shells from Yoshi's eggs with increased defensive and offensive abilities.	7
Spiny Body		A slow, spine-covered body that increases offensive abilities.	7
Lakitu Cloud Body		A fast body made of clouds with poor defensive abilities.	10
Boo Body		A fast body with low defensive abilities that's visible only to radar.	10
DK Body		A slow body made of barrels that increases defensive and offensive abilities.	15
E. Gadd Body		A hi-tech body that's very high-balanced, designed by the professor.	15
Skolar Body		A body with mostly average abilities that takes less damage from bombs and vehicle attacks.	20

Tires

Name	Picture	Description	Cost (coins)
Mushroom Tires		Normal tires that are great for learning.	0
Star Tires		Fast tires with poor control.	5
Wiggler Tires		Very slow tires with good control.	5
Goomba Tires		Quick tires with very quick acceleration.	5
Spiny Tires		Slower tires with great traction and decent acceleration.	7
Choo-Choo Tires		Superfast tires with super poor control.	7
Super Wiggler Tires		Very slow tires with great traction.	10
Lakitu Cloud		A cloud that hovers. It's very efficient on all terrain.	10
DK Tires		Tires made of barrels. They handle differently with each battle.	15
E. Gadd Jet		A hi-tech jet with perfect speed and handling designed by the professor.	15
Skolar Tires		Tires handmade by Skolar that are simple and balanced, even on slick surfaces.	20

Engines

Name	Picture	Description	Cost (coins)
Mushroom Engine		A normal engine that's great for learning.	0
Star Engine		A speedy engine with poor control.	5
Wiggler Engine		An engine that's not very fast but is easy to control.	5
Goomba Engine		An engine that's a little speedy and has decent acceleration.	5
Ztar Engine		A slow engine that's easy to control and has excellent acceleration.	7
Choo-Choo Engine		A superfast engine with super poor control.	7
Super Wiggler Engine		An easy-to-handle engine that's slow.	10
Goomba-Trio Engine		An engine with great acceleration, some extra power, and really poor control.	10
DK Engine		An odd, banana-shaped engine that performs differently with each battle.	15
E. Gadd Engine		A hi-tech engine with great speed and control, designed by the professor.	15
Skolar Engine		An engine with well-balanced speed and control, handmade by Skolar.	20

Weapons

Name	Picture	Description	Cost (coins)
Mushroom Gun		A normal gun that's good to learn with.	0
Seed Machine Gun		A lightweight watermelon-shaped gun with weak rapid-fire abilities.	5
Bob-omb Cannon		A time-delayed, Bob-omb-firing cannon that's powerful and heavy.	5
Bullet Bill Gun		A gun with average firepower that shoots opponent-seeking Bullet Bills.	7
Pokey Tower Gun		A gun with two diagonally-moving bullets and average firepower.	7
Piranha Plant		A powerful and far-reaching gun with bullets fired from a Piranha Plant.	7
Bowser Breath		An effective Bowser-shaped flamethrower with a short range	10
Mr. I Laser		A lightweight laser with average firepower that's fired from his eye.	10
DK Gun		A banana-shaped gun that's very heavy and the most powerful of all.	15
E. Gadd Cannon		A well-balanced cannon, designed by the professor, with opponent-seeking missiles.	15
Skolar Gun		A good overall weapon, handmade by Skolar. Press the button to shoot and release it to detonate.	20
Bowser Punch		A very effective prototype that fires short-ranged Bowser punches!	30
Bob-omb Wall		A specialty weapon that drops a wall of bombs and increases speed.	30

Super Duel Battles

The player can choose the battle from the garage menu, but only Battle Competition on easy and normal are available at the start. In order to unlock the rest, the player must complete each game as it opens on the normal or hard level. If the player loses any game, the tournament ends and the player receives no trophies.

In all competitions, there are obstacles, such as stationary Spiny Shells or Bob-ombs that detonate within a certain amount of time or upon contact. The size of an obstacle mirrors the damage it can do. Warp Pipes simply block vehicles. Mushrooms occasionally appear along the course and grant the vehicle better speed and control for a certain amount of time when collided with, as well as Poison Mushrooms, which hinder speed and control.

Terrain can vary when battling a CPU or a human player in a arena called Random Ruckus. Dirt and grass are present and do no special effects. Metal and ice make the vehicles harder to control. Lava damages and pushes away the vehicle. However, if a vehicle is equipped with Lakitu Cloud or E. Gadd Jet tires, the vehicle is not get affected by any sort of terrain.

Battle Competition

The goal of this 90 second game is to eliminate the opponent. If nobody wins, the battle ends. The player must fire the weapon with B at the other player and keep moving to avoid opposing attacks and obstacles.

Flag Competition

In this game, the object is to collect three flags before the opposing player does. This is also a 90 second game; the game ends if nobody collects three flags. Although hitting the opposing player slows him or her down, attacking the opposing member is not the goal of the game.

Robo-Rabbit Competition

This time the goal is to wipe out three Robo-Rabbits before the opposing player does within the time limit of one minute and thirty seconds. Again, the player can shoot and slow down the opposing member. The Robo-Rabbits are very fast and can tunnel underground.

Story Mode

In Story Mode, the player will go on five boards facing the three Koopa Kids. The boards are much smaller boards then in Party Mode. When a player passes/lands on a Koopa Kid, they will duel them; losing costs them 5 coins while winning costs the Koopa Kid 15 coins. When the Koopa Kid passes/lands on the player, they will duel them; losing costs them 5 coins while winning costs the player 10 coins.

There is a VS Space; if there are three Koopa Kids, then this will cause a 1 vs. 3 game. Two will cause a 2 vs. 2 game (with Toad as the player's partner). One causes a duel.

When a player loses all their Coins, they are eliminated from the board. The main objective is to eliminate all three of the Koopa Kid's before they eliminate the player. After all five boards, the player faces Bowser in Frightmare.

Boards

• Toy Dream
• Rainbow Dream
• Pirate Dream
• Undersea Dream
• Future Dream
• Sweet Dream
• Bowser Nightmare (unlockable)

Capsules

The items in Mario Party 5 are called capsules. They are procured by passing by Capsule Dispensers. For players to utilise a capsule, it may be thrown at a space on the board. The space has to be ten spaces in front of the space the player currently is standing on. Another way for players to use their capsules is by directly using them on themselves. If players chose to do so, they must pay a fee. The fee depends on the capsule the player wants to use. Below is a list of all twenty-eight capsules found in Mario Party 5, and a description describing their effects.

Item		Description	Fee
File:Bubble Capsule.JPG	Bubble Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will be forced to move ten spaces forward. During this, the player will lose all of their capsules.	Ten Coins.
File:Cursed Mushroom Capsule.JPG	Cursed Mushroom Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will only be able to roll numbers one to three on the Dice Block.	Five Coins.
File:Klepto Capsule.JPG	Klepto Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will be taken to another player's space. The space is chosen at random.	Ten Coins.
File:Mushroom Capsule.JPG	Mushroom Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will be able to roll two Dice Blocks. The sum of the two digits rolled will be added up, resulting in the amount of steps that player may move. If the digits match (e.g., two threes), the player will receive ten Coins.	Five Coins.
File:Super Mushroom Capsule.JPG	Super Mushroom Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will be able to toll three Dice Blocks. The sum of the three digits rolled will be added up, which results in the amount of steps that the player may move. Should the digits match (e.g., three nines), then the player will obtain twenty Coins.	Ten Coins.
File:Warp Pipe Capsule.JPG	Warp Pipe Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will warp with another player. The player to be warped will be chosen randomly.	Ten Coins.
File:Wiggler Capsule.JPG	Wiggler Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will be taken directly to the Star Space; however, the player still has to pay the normal price of twenty Coins to purchase the Power Star.	Twenty Coins.
File:Bob-omb Capsule.JPG	Bob-omb Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will lose twenty Coins. For this capsule's effect to be initiated, the space it is tossed onto must be passed or landed on three times.	Ten Coins.
File:Bullet Bill Capsule.JPG	Bullet Bill Capsule	When a player is effected by this capsule, the effected player will be able to steal thirty Coins from any opponent the player passes on their next roll.	Five Coins.
File:Coin Block Capsule.JPG	Coin Block Capsule	When a player initiates this capsule, the player will receive ten Coins from a Coin Block.	Five Coins.
File:Goomba Capsule.JPG	Goomba Capsule	When a player initiates this capsule, the player will switch Coins with another player. The other player is chosen at random.	Five Coins.
File:Hammer Bro. Capsule.JPG	Hammer Bro. Capsule	When a player initiates this capsule, the player will lose ten Coins.	Five Coins.
File:Koopa Bank Capsule.JPG	Koopa Bank Capsule	When a player throws this capsule at a space, that space will become a Bank Space. If the player uses it on themselves, they will acquire all previously deposited Coins in the bank.	Ten Coins.
File:Paratroopa Capsule.JPG	Paratroopa Capsule	Whenever a player initiates this capsule, the player will have to roll a Dice Block. The opponents will then lose the same amount of Coins as the number which the Dice Block shows.	Ten Coins.
	Piranha Plant Capsule	Whenever a player initiates this capsule, the player will lose half of their Coins (this also includes any eventual remainder).	Five Coins.
File:Spiny Capsule.JPG	Spiny Capsule	When a player initiates this capsule, the player gets to steal ten Coins from another player. The other player is chosen at random.	Five Coins.
File:Kamek Capsule.JPG	Kamek Capsule	When a player initiates this capsule, all players' capsules are shuffled around by Kamek.	Ten Coins.
	Lakitu Capsule	When a player initiates this capsule, the player gets to chose an opponent. The chosen opponent will then have one of their capsules stolen, and the stolen capsule will be given to the player who initiated the capsule.	Ten Coins.
File:Magikoopa Capsule.JPG	Magikoopa Capsule	Whenever a player initiates this capsule, the player will swap their capsules with another player's capsules. The other player is chosen at random.	Ten Coins.
File:Mr. Blizzard Capsule.JPG	Mr. Blizzard Capsule	Whenever a player initiates this capsule, the player will lose all of their capsules.	Ten Coins.
File:Ukiki Capsule.JPG	Ukiki Capsule	Whenever a player initiates this capsule, the player will chose another player at random. The chosen player will then lose all of their capsules. The lost capsules will then be thrown at random spaces on the board.	Ten Coins.
File:Bone Capsule.JPG	Bone Capsule	When a player is attacked by a Chain-Chomp, this capsule will activate automatically. When it is active, it will protect the player possessing it from Chain-Chomp. This capsule cannot be used on a player; it will only be discarded.	N/A
File:Chain Chomp Capsule.JPG	Chain Chomp Capsule	Whenever a player initiates the effects of this capsule, the effected player will be able to steal Power Stars or Coins from a selected player for a fee. The fee depends on the service.	Fifteen Coins.
File:Chance Capsule.JPG	Chance Capsule	When tossed on a space, a Chance Time Space will appear. If used on a player, Chance Time will occur.	Twenty Coins.
File:Duel Capsule.JPG	Duel Capsule	When tossed on a space, a Duel Space will appear. If used on a player, a duel will occur.	Ten Coins.
File:Miracle Capsule.JPG	Miracle Capsule	Unlike all other capsules, this capsule can neither be used directly on a player, nor be tossed on a space (although it can be discarded if a player wants to). When a player carries three Miracle Capsules, the three capsules will be activated automatically. When it is activated, all Power Stars that the player in first has goes to the player in last.	N/A
File:Tweester Capsule.JPG	Tweester Capsule	Whenever a player initiates this capsule, the Star Space will be moved to another location.	Fifteen Coins.
	Bowser Capsule	Whenever a player procures this capsule, Bowser will appear. He will then throw it at a random space. That space will then become a Bowser Space.	N/A

Music

The music in Mario Party 5 was composed by Aya Tanaka. It is somewhat significantly different from the other Mario Party games — including its sequels — in that the music sounds sophisticated and (despite being synthesized as in all Mario Party games) has the illusion of being played by a professional symphony orchestra. This may be caused by the use of sounds that sound like true instruments, especially the harpsichord. This apparently didn't catch on, however, as Aya Tanaka has not composed any other Mario Party game, and Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7 returned to the style of Mario Party 4.

Minigames

Main article: List of minigames in Mario Party 5

Puns

4-player minigames

• Mazed & Confused is a pun on "Dazed and Confused", a song by Led Zeppelin as well as an expression.
• Fish Upon a Star comes from the saying "Wish Upon a Star".
• Flower Shower is a pun on Flower Power, a slogan for hippies.
• Hotel Goomba is based off of Hotel Mario.
• Night Light Fright is a pun on Bright Light Fright, a song by Aerosmith.
• Coney Island is named after an amusement park of the same name.
• Will Flower is a pun on Self Control, also called Willpower.
• Dodge Bomb is based off of dodge ball, a recreational activity.
• Fish Sticks is a classic sea-food.

1 vs. 3 Minigames

• Flatiator is a pun on Gladiators, a name used for people that are fierce warriors.
• Mathletes is a pun on a term "athlete".
• Quilt for Speed is a pun on a term "built for speed".
• Tube It or Lose It is a pun on a phrase, "Move it or lose it!"
• Beam Team is a pun on the phrase "Dream team".
• Heat Stroke is a typical summer injury where a person passes out due to heat.

2 vs. 2 Minigames

• Submarathon is a combination of "submarine" and "marathon".
• Mario Can-Can / the can-can is a dance.

Duel Minigames

• Merry Poppings is a pun on Mary Poppins, a fictional character.
• Piece Out is a pun on the phrase "Peace out".
• Bound of Music is a pun on The Sound of Music, a 1965 film.
• Get a Rope is a pun on the phrase "Get a grip".
• Shock Absorbers is a pun on the car part of the same name.

Battle Minigames

• Tug-o-Dorrie is a pun on Tug of War, a recreational activity.
• Astro-Logical is a pun on Astrology, the idea that the relative position of the planets at one's birth influences personality traits.
• Twist 'n' Out is a pun on the Beatles song "Twist and Shout."

Bowser Minigames

• Rain of Fire is a pun on either the phrase "reign of fire", or Ring of Fire, a song by Johnny Cash.

DK Minigames

• Mass A-Peel is a pun on a term "mass appeal."
• Da Vine Climb is a pun on "Devine climb."
• Banana Punch is a pun on "banana bunch."

Bowser Minigames

• Cage-in Cookin' is a pun on the term "Cajun cooking."

Story Minigame

• Frightmare is a combination of "fright" and "nightmare".

Staff

Main article: Mario Party 5/Staff

Trivia

• The capsule depicting a Toady is incorrectly labeled as "Magikoopa Capsule". Later Mario Party games correctly labeled it as "Toady Orb".

External Links

• Official Mario Party 5 Japanese website