Fish Upon a Star

Fish Upon a Star is a 4-player mini-game found in Mario Party 5.

The minigame starts with the four players standing on a circular, floating platform. Suddenly, five giant cheep cheeps arc through the air and punch holes in the edges of the platform, forming a star shape.

The goal of the game is to avoid falling off the platform by dodging the opponents' punches and kicks, the falling Cheep Cheeps and moving from crumbling pieces of lands, as those fall shortly after they start shaking. The last standing player wins.

The player can punch his or her opponents to push them outside of the star-shaped platform and jump on the opponents to make them move slower, or jump on them while they are jumping over a hole to make them fall. But more than the opponents, the main thing the player has to watch out for are the falling Cheep Cheeps, from which the "Fish" in this mini-game's name comes from. These Cheep Cheeps randomly fall from the sky anywhere on the ground, usually on the edges. When colliding against the ground, the Cheep Cheep destroy it, making the land smaller and smaller as time passes. There are two kind of Cheep Cheeps; blue ones, which are small and take out just but a single "block" of land, and red ones, which destroy several blocks of lands at once with their gargantuan size. If a Cheep Cheep gets to hit the player, he or she will be temporarily dizzied and unable to move.

The third factor that can eliminate a player from this mini-game is the crumbling ground. If the ground begins shaking below the player, he or she must move out of there as quick as possible, as this shaking indicates the ground will fall down.

This mini-game sets in the sky. The player fight on a star-shaped piece of land, which is divided in several, connected blocks. These "blocks" are not visible on grass, though. A little below the ground is a Klepto flying in circles, but really serves no purpose to the mini-game. In the same fashion, there's a Shy Guy riding some kind of balloon-like pink machine. A lot lower, the player can see another star-shaped floating island similar to the one he or she is fighting on, except this one has more grass.

When the player wins, rainbows will appear between the clouds as the character does his or her trademark winning dance.