Face-Lift (minigame)

Face-Lift
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, spelled Face Lift prior to Mario Party Superstars or Face-lift in the Play Nintendo video "Mario Party Superstars Laugh Till You Pop," is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars, as well as a Battle minigame in Mario Party 2 and a Bowser minigame in Mario Party Superstars.

Overview

The Mario Party 2 version, featuring Mario's face

The minigame is named after "facelift" and is based specifically on the title screen of Super Mario 64. Furthermore, in the Mario Party version only, the background texture parodies the Super Mario 64 title screen and reads Super Bowser 64. In Mario Party, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars, each player tries to distort Bowser's facial features in split-screen gameplay. In Mario Party 2, the face can be either Mario's face or of any of the other five player characters, being Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, or Donkey Kong, and their facial features change after a star flies above them. On Mini-Game Island in Mario Party, the minigame requires at least 90 points to clear.

Mario Party and Mario Party Superstars feature a variety from landing on a Bowser Space, where players who do not score 90 points or more lose coins, though if everyone does, only the player who lands on the Bowser Space loses Coins. In Mario Party Superstars, the minimum requirement is lowered to 80 points, and no one loses coins if everyone meets the criteria.

In all versions except Mario Party Superstars, if a player does not perform any action, they earn a score of zero. The minigame ends in a draw if everyone scores zero.

In Mario Party, if either a tie occurs or multiple players score more than 90 in the Bowser variant, the Bowser faces associated with the losers shrink away as "LOSE" displays on their side. If every player scores either zero or fewer than 90 in the Bowser variant, every player loses. In Mario Party 2, a rainbow-colored star moves around the face on any winning player's side. In the Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars versions, the Bowser face linked to any winning player sparkles.

Face-Lift can be bought from the Mini-Game House in Mario Party for 400 coins or from Woody in Mario Party 2 for 900 coins.

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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  A perfect score in Mario Party

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  Mario Party 2 (Luigi)

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  Mario Party 2 (Peach)

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  Mario Party 2 (Yoshi)

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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

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  Face Lift in Mario Party: The Top 100

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  Face Lift in Mario Party Superstars

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  The Super Bowser 64 logo that parodies the Super Mario 64 logo from the title screen.

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