Skyjinks

Skyjinks
Free-for-All version Perspective Mode version
Appears in	Mario Party 9
Type	Free-for-all mini-game
Music	Jump-Jump-Jumping

Skyjinks is a Free-for-All minigame in Mario Party 9. The name is a portmanteau of "sky" and "hijinx". This minigame is similar to both Platform Peril from Mario Party and Mario Party 2 and Sick and Twisted from Mario Party 8.

Introduction

The introduction.

The players are seen jumping on platforms. Landing on wooden boards, the characters stop and the minigame begins.

Gameplay

The competitors must travel in an auto-scrolling obstacle course placed in the sky, trying not to take damage by falling off the course. If the player falls off the course, they are placed inside a bubble and brought back up to a random point, only as long as they have hearts left. Every platform stepped on at the back of the screen falls off, along with any player caught on it at the time. The first area contains spinning platforms which are circular disks, and then plus- and T-shaped blocks. Up ahead are rotating blocks. The final stretch has many bouncy clouds and rotating platforms, and the goal is a small, grassy platform with the numbers one through four inscribed upon it. The first player to reach the goal wins.

In Perspective Mode, the camera's angle changes to view the player from behind, and the screen does not automatically scroll. Additionally, instead of having three hearts, the player has no extra tries when he or she falls off. If that happens, the minigame automatically ends. The player has to beat their opponents, too.

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  Part 1

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  Part 2

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  Part 3

In-game text

• Rules (Normal) – "Make your way across floating platforms toward the goal. If you fall, you'll lose a heart. If you have any hearts remaining, you'll return to the platforms."
• Rules (Perspective Mode) – "Make your way across floating platforms toward the goal. If you fall, you lose."
• Controls – "Hold the Wii Remote sideways. Press to move and to jump."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	進め!スカイロード Susume! Sukairōdo	Advanced! Sky Road
Spanish (NOA)	Aventura en las Alturas	Adventure in the Heights
Spanish (NOE)	Carrera de altura	Race of height
French	Rebonds coton	Can be translated as either "Cotton bounces" or "Tricky bounces"
German	Himmelswettlauf	Sky Race
Italian	Saltanuvole	Cloud Jumper
Chinese	空中大道競走 Kōngzhōng dàdào jìngzǒu	Sky Road Walk-Race