Bowser Jr. Breakdown
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- Not to be confused with Bowser Jr. Showdown.
| Bowser Jr. Breakdown | |||
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| Appears in | Mario Party 9 | ||
| Type | Boss minigame | ||
| Time limit | 10 seconds per turn | ||
| Music track | Battle with Bowser Jr.! Bowser Jr.'s Mad! | ||
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Bowser Jr. Breakdown is a boss minigame featured in Mario Party 9. This and Bowser's Block Battle are the only boss minigames played on Bowser Station, and players cannot choose from three other boss minigames. The same happens on DK's Jungle Ruins.
Introduction
Bowser Jr. flies down in his Junior Clown Car to the stage. He points at the players and taunts them before linking up with a much larger version of his vehicle, with two clawed arms sticking out of it.
Gameplay
The starting player depends on the game mode being played. If battling Bowser Jr. on the Bowser Station board, the captain takes the first turn. In other modes, an onscreen arrow randomly decides who goes first. The chosen player strikes a victory pose.
Players try to defeat Bowser Jr. by rolling dice numbered one through six to fill the gauge at the top of the screen. Players can shake the Wii Remote to make the dice spin faster. Each number rolled fills that many spaces on the gauge. If a player's roll fills the gauge to a multiple of three (or to 15 or above, as the gauge stops there), the player attacks and deals that much damage to Bowser Jr. Once a player attacks, the gauge empties. If the gauge is filled to 14—marked by the Bowser Jr. emblem—he rolls a die numbered one through two and smashes the player with a hammer for the number of times indicated by the number rolled, making the player lose that many points. This does not empty the gauge, which means that a player unlucky enough to be attacked by Bowser Jr. also sets up the next player with a guaranteed 15 points.
When Bowser Jr. loses half of his health, the larger car's eyes change color from yellow to red, and Bowser Jr. adds two more Bowser Jr. spaces to the gauge. The new spaces are randomly placed, but they never cover a multiple of three or a number lower than six. If a player's roll reaches one of the Bowser Jr. spaces, Bowser Jr. rolls two dice instead of one and strikes the player with two hammers for that amount of damage. The player who delivers the final attack on Bowser Jr. earns an additional three points, and the player with the most points at the end of the minigame wins.
Ending
When Bowser Jr. is defeated, his giant Junior Clown Car short-circuits for a while and explodes, launching Bowser Jr. himself into the rings of Saturn with a twinkle. Several Mini Stars then appear in Party Mode and Solo Mode.
In-game text
- Rules – "Hit the Dice Blocks. The number that appears will light up segments of the gauge at the top of the screen. Light specific segments of the gauge to deal damage to Bowser Jr."
- Controls – "Hold the Wii Remote vertically. Press
to hit the Dice Blocks. You can make the Dice Blocks spin faster by shaking the Wii Remote."
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | クッパJr.のサイコロバトル[?] Kuppa Jr. no Saikoro Batoru |
Bowser Jr.'s Dice Battle | |
| Chinese | 庫巴Jr.的骰子戰[?] Kùbā Jr. de shǎizi zhàn |
Bowser Jr.'s Dice Battle | |
| French (NOA) | À la merci du dé[?] | In the dice's hands | |
| French (NOE) | Dé-gommez Bowser Jr[?] | Dice-stroy Bowser Jr (a pun on "dice" and "destroy") | |
| German | Bowser Jr.s Würfelwut[?] | Bowser Jr.'s Dice Fury | |
| Italian | I Dadi di Bowser Junior[?] | Bowser Junior's Dice | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Guerra de dados con Bowser Jr.[?] | Dice War with Bowser Jr. | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Guerra de dados con Bowsy[?] | Dice War with Bowser Jr. |
Trivia
- If one of the players reaches the "15" mark, that player will do their first-place animation instead of normally cheering. Also, their last attack will be a ground pound instead of a normal jump.
- Likewise, if one of the players lands on the "12" mark, they will do their second-place animation instead.
- This is the only mid-boss battle not to play "Tough Enemy" and "Now You've Done It!" but to instead have its own music, like stage boss battles.
- This is the only minigame where the player can lose four points at once.
- This is the only minigame that has in-game dialogue, as when played in Party Mode and Solo Mode, Bowser Jr. will announce the captain as the starting player.
