Polar Extreme

Polar Extreme
Appears in	Mario Party 9
Type	Free-for-All minigame
Music	Don't Freeze

Polar Extreme is a Free-for-All minigame in Mario Party 9. Its name is a pun on the children's book The Polar Express. The name may also be based on the terminology "polar extreme," which represents radical viewpoints.

Introduction

The camera focuses on the ship at the end. Then, it switches to the players.

Gameplay

As the screen auto-scrolls to the right, the competitors must reach the ship first or survive longest by jumping on breakable ice chunks that shift under their weight. If the player falls into the water, they are temporarily frozen before returning to the ice chunk, but they can leap out of the water by pressing rapidly. The player can fall into the water only three times in a row. The player loses if they fall behind the scrolling screen. Penguins can be found on some chunks of ice as obstacles, stunning any player that touches them. Players can jump on the penguins to flatten them for about a second. Occasionally, jumping on a bigger chunk of ice results in it shattering into smaller pieces.

In-game text

• Rules – "Make your way across the drifting ice chunks. Be the first to board the ship at the end to win!"
• Controls – "Hold the Wii Remote sideways. Press to move and to jump. If you fall into the water, rapidly press to climb back onto the ice."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ツルツル流氷レース Tsurutsuru ryūhyō rēsu	Slippery Ice Drift Race
Spanish	La Huida Polar	Polar Flight
French	Ruée Glacée	Frozen Rush
German	Schollen-Parcours	Floes Course
Italian	Ghiacciatona	Ice-athon
Chinese	極地滑滑冰 Jídì huá huá bīng	Polar Ice-Skating