Bowser's Hit-or-Missile Mania

Bowser's Hit-or-Missile Mania
Appears in	Mario Party: Star Rush
Type	Boss Battle minigame
Music track	BGM MGN712 OP BGM MGN712 A BGM MGN712 B

Bowser's Hit-or-Missile Mania is a Boss Battle minigame in Mario Party: Star Rush. It is one of the three Bowser-themed Boss Battle minigames in that game. The minigame name is a play on the phrase "hit or miss".

Overview

Players need to repeatedly press to fill up a meter that launches missiles at Bowser. The meter goes in three tiers: one missile, two missiles, and three missiles. When a tier is reached, the player launches the number of missiles indicated, and can continue pressing to go to the next tier, until the player has launched three missiles, which resets to zero after all six missiles are launched. For every tier, the player has to press more. Players receive one point for every missile hitting Bowser. In the meantime, Bowser launches missiles at players, where players need to press to deploy the shield to protect themselves from the missiles; while the shield is up, players cannot press . If the missiles strike the player, the player gets stunned and loses one point. The missile meter also slowly resets to the tier of the missiles previously launched if it got filled up in the meantime, so when the players recover, they have to fill the meter up again.

When Bowser has half of his HP depleted, he gets angry and turns his shell machine into a mech. Here, he tosses much faster black Spiked Balls at the player, as well as lobbing the red Spiked Balls out of sight, where the only indication that it is coming is the alarm sound effect. If the player deals the final blow to Bowser, the player earns a bonus three points.

In the ending, just like all other Bowser-themed Boss minigames, Bowser's mech malfunctions, falls apart into space and explodes, launching Bowser far away, leaving behind a twinkle in space. In Toad Scramble, Bowser drops two Stars. If Bowser is not defeated before five minutes pass, the minigame ends in a tie.

Controls

• Mash : Charge missile
• : Move shield

In-game text

• On-screen – "Beat Bowser!"
• On-screen (Before game starts) – "Mash to launch missiles!"

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	クッパのスペースミサイルバトル Kuppa no Supēsu Misairu Batoru	Bowser's Space Missile Battle		[?]
Dutch	Bowsers Ruimteaanval	Bowser's Space Attack		[?]
French (Canadian)	Missiles en morceaux de Bowser	Bowser's Broken Missiles		[?]
French (European)	Arsenal spatial de Bowser	Bowser's Space Arsenal		[?]
German	Bowsers Raumgeballer	Bowser's Space Blast		[?]
Italian	Spara o para	Shoot or save		[?]
Korean	스페이스 미사이르! 쿠파와 배틀 Seupeiseu Misaireu! Kupa-wa Baeteul	Space Missiles! Battle with Bowser		[?]
Portuguese	Festival de Mísseis do Bowser	Bowser's Missile Festival		[?]
Russian	Космические войны Боузера Kosmicheskiye voyny Bouzera	Bowser's Space Wars		[?]
Spanish	Cruce de misiles con Bowser	Missile Firing with Bowser		[?]