Aim of the Game
| Aim of the Game | |||
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| Appears in | Mario Party 8 Mario Party: The Top 100 | ||
| Type | Battle and Duel minigame (Mario Party 8) Free-for-All minigame (Mario Party: The Top 100) | ||
| Music track | Challenge! | ||
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Aim of the Game is a Battle and Duel minigame found in Mario Party 8 and a Free-for-All minigame featured in Mario Party: The Top 100. Its name is a pun on a phrase that means "what one wants to accomplish." The minigame takes place in a casino.
Introduction
A top hat is on the screen, and cards start flying out of the top. Shortly thereafter, the game begins.
Gameplay
Each player must shoot five cards from a falling deck and try to get the highest score. The cards flip repetitively, and the number on each card (and therefore the point value) is visible for only a short while. The numbers are 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, ×2 (which doubles the player's current score), and ×0 (which reduces the player's total score to zero). The "×" cards are multipliers. A timer is not visible while the minigame is in progress, but as soon as the last of the cards fall offscreen, the minigame ends; afterwards, the value of the cards gets added up or multiplied. Whoever has the most points wins the minigame. The most points a player can get is 800, obtained by hitting a 50-point card first and then ×2-multiplier cards for the other four, or by hitting two 50-point cards first and three ×2-multiplier cards after. In the Duel variant, if both players score the same number of points, the minigame ends in a tie.
In Mario Party: The Top 100, the cards descend noticeably faster.
Ending
Winning players (as well as second-place players in The Top 100) perform their respective victory poses while any losing players do their losing animations beside them. If the minigame ends in a tie in Mario Party 8, all players do their losing animations.
Controls
Mario Party 8
- Wii Remote: Use the Pointer to move the cursor.
- Buttons
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– Shoot
Mario Party: The Top 100
: Move cursor
: Shoot
In-game text
Mario Party 8
- Rules – "Shoot five falling cards to get the highest score. Some cards have face values. Others have multipliers."
- Hint – "Shoot high face-value cards, then gun for multipliers. But don't shoot the x0 cards. They'll zero out your score!"
Mario Party: The Top 100
- Description – "Hit 5 cards as they fall, and aim for the highest total score!"
- On-screen – "Hit 5 cards and aim for a high score!"
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ねらえ！てんすうカード[?] Nerae! Tensū kādo |
Aim! Point cards | |
| Dutch | Rekenregen[?] | Calculating Rain | |
| German | Multiplizielen[?] | Multiply Aim (Pun on multiplizieren (multiply) and zielen (aim)) | |
| Italian | Carte Cadenti[?] | Falling Cards | |
| Korean | 맞혀라! 점수카드[?] Mattcheora! Jeomsukadeu |
Aim! Score cards! | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Tiro a la carta (Mario Party: The Top 100)[?] | Shooting the card | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Carta blanca[?] | White Card (Pun on an expression meaning "complete freedom") |
