Bonus Medal
| Bonus Medal | |
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| Appears in | Super Mario Run (version 3.0.4) (2017) |
| Effect | Collecting enough allows the player to play the Super Bonus Game Collecting enough in one set of ten courses makes Special Remix Courses and Secret Courses more likely to appear in the next set. |
| Variant of | Star Medal |
Bonus Medals[1] are flashing, rainbow-colored Star Medals found in Remix 10 mode of Super Mario Run. Three Bonus Medals are found in each normal course; Special Remix Courses and Secret Courses have five Bonus Medals. Due to the short length of the courses in this mode, certain courses group multiple Bonus Medals around the same point and/or arrange them all on the same jump arc. The placements of Bonus Medals tend to correlate with the color coins that appear in the other modes of the game. In VS Boom Boom and VS Bowser, Boom Boom, fake Bowser, or Bowser hold all three of the Bonus Medals and grant them to Mario when defeated. Unlike most collectibles in the Super Mario series, including the color coins of Super Mario Run, the player cannot see the number of Bonus Medals they currently have during a course. However, collecting all of a course's Bonus Medals prompts a jingle and cheer effect.
After completing a course, the Bonus Medals the player collected are displayed until the transition into the next course Uncollected Bonus Medals remain in outline form. They are ordered to correspond with the linear order appear in the course, much like color coins. Bonus Medals held by Lakitu are first in the this order. If the player collects all Bonus Medals in a course, they receive a "Perfect!" result, which prompts another sound effect.
Dying at any point makes the player drop all of the Bonus Medals obtained in that course. If Mario is defeated in VS Boom Boom or VS Bowser, he loses his progress in the round, including all Bonus Medals. Successfully clearing every course in a round of Remix 10 adds extra two Bonus Medals to the player's counter at the end of the round.
After each round of Remix 10, as the player moves across the courses in the area they played through, each course they got a "Perfect!" becomes rainbow colored. Achieving a "Perfect!" for every course in a round adds extra three Bonus Medals to the player's counter, added before the game transitions to the next set of courses in the area or the next area. Collecting enough Bonus Medals in a set of ten courses has a correlation with the possibility of Special Remix Courses and Secret Courses being in the next set of ten courses.
Collecting Bonus Medals fills up the gauge for accessing Super Bonus Game, a minigame which is more likely to reward rare buildings and decorations for Kingdom Builder than the normal Bonus Game. A full gauge is spent automatically to grant the player gains one play of the Super Bonus Game to use at any point. The player also receives extra Bonus Medals for reaching a certain milestone in Remix 10.
If the player finishes the last course in an round with their coin counter showing a multiple of 11 (22, 33, 44 etc.), an icon of a Bonus Medal on a cloud will appear on the map screen over the first course of the next round for 15 minutes. This icon is tied to a short bonus course containing many coins and five Bonus Medals. On rare occasions, when the player starts a round with this course, the icon will begin to sparkle; when this happens, every coin in the course is instead a Bonus Medal, allowing the player to obtain a large amount of Bonus Medals. The normal display for Bonus Medals is replaced by a counter in this variation. Collecting any number of Bonus Medals is treated as a "Perfect" result.
Super Mario Run tracks the total number of Bonus Medals the player has ever collected, which is shown in the Player Record and the menu specific to Remix 10. Both totals only update when a set of ten courses is finished. As a value in the Player Record, players who are friends can view each other's values.
In a special limited-time event, the Bonus Medals collected are multiplied by 1.2. Here are the following dates that the event was held on:
- December 15, 2017 - December 29, 2017
- March 23, 2018 - April 6, 2018
- June 8, 2018 - June 22, 2018
- August 17, 2018 - August 31, 2018
- October 12, 2018 - October 20, 2018
- December 24, 2018 - January 3, 2019
- February 1, 2019 - February 9, 2019
- March 29, 2019 - April 6, 2019
- July 19, 2019 - July 27, 2019
- September 13, 2019 - September 21, 2019
- November 8, 2019 - November 16, 2019
- December 24, 2019 - January 3, 2020
- January 31, 2020 - February 14, 2020
- March 27, 2020 - April 10, 2020
- May 22, 2020 - June 5, 2020
- July 17, 2020 - July 31, 2020
- September 11, 2020 - September 25, 2020
- November 6, 2020 - November 20, 2020
- November 1, 2024 - November 9, 2024
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ボーナスメダル[?] Bōnasu Medaru |
Bonus Medal | |
| Chinese | 獎勵獎章[?] Jiǎnglì jiǎngzhāng |
Reward Medal | |
| Dutch | Bonusmedaille[?] | Bonus Medal | |
| French | Médaille bonus[?] | Bonus Medal | |
| German | Bonus-Medaille[?] | Bonus Medal | |
| Italian | Medaglia bonus[?] | Bonus Medal | |
| Portuguese | Medalha bônus[?] | Bonus Medal | |
| Russian | Бонусная медаль[?] Bonusnaya medal' |
Bonus Medal | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Medalla bonus[?] | Bonus Medal | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Medalla de bonifacación[?] | Bonus Medal |
References[edit]
- ^ Nintendo Mobile (29 Sept. 2017). Introductory video to the new features in Super Mario Run. YouTube.
