Face-Lift (minigame)

Face-Lift (written as Face Lift prior to Mario Party Superstars) 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. The name is a play on "facelift." The game is based on the title screen of Super Mario 64, where the player can alter Mario's face.

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 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 game 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.

In Mini-Game Island, the player must score an accuracy of at least 90 points to clear the minigame, regardless of the CPU 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, but it is also one of the possible minigames that can be played if the Bowser Minigame event is triggered when a player lands on a Bowser Space.

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

Ending

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 will stay in the borders while the losing face(s) shrink(s) away with the word "Lose" in its/their borders. In the case that all players score zero or less than 90 in the Bowser variant, all the faces will shrink away with "Lose."

In Mario Party 2, a rainbow-colored star floats around the player(s) that had the most points. 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).

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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  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 (Yoshi)

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  Mario Party 2 (Donkey Kong)

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  Mario Party: The Top 100

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  Mario Party Superstars

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	クッパひゃくめんそう (Mario Party, The Top 100, and Superstars) Kuppa Hyakumensō みんなヒッパレ！(Mario Party 2) Minna Hippare![?]	Bowser's Funny Faces Everyone, Pull!
Dutch	Facelift[?]	Face Lift
French (NOA)	Visage de Bowser[?]	Bowser's Face
French (NOE)	Lifting de Bowser (Mario Party, The Top 100, and Superstars) Lifting (Mario Party 2)[?]	Bowser's Lifting Lifting
German	Bowsers Grimassen (Mario Party, The Top 100, and Superstars) Verrücktes Lifting (Mario Party 2)[?]	Bowser's grimaces Crazy Lifting
Italian	Ri-Faccia (Mario Party 2 and The Top 100) Facce tirate (Mario Party Superstars)[?]	Re-Face Pulled Faces
Korean	천의 얼굴 쿠파[?] Cheonui Eolgul Kupa	Bowser of Many Faces
Portuguese	Puxa-Encolhe[?]	Pull-Shrink
Russian	Лицедействие[?] Litsedeystviye	?
Spanish	Arreglo de cara[?]	Face Adjustment

Trivia

• This minigame is tied with Shy Guy Says, Bombs Away, and Stick and Spin for the most number of appearances in the Mario Party series, with four.