Mario Party 3

Mario Party 3 is the third installment of the popular Mario Party series. The game is centered around the Millennium Star, who replaces Toad as the host. Mario Party 3 has 70 all new mini-games, and players can now hold up to three items. It also offers a special twist to the game unique in the Mario Party series: duel boards, where to players fight each other using partners.

Objective
In Battle Royale Mode, players have to get as many Stars as possible. Stars cost 20 coins.

In Duel Mode, players have to defeat their opponent with their partners. Each player starts with 5 heart pieces.

In Story Mode, a single player must battle his or her way to earn the rank of Super Star. To do so, they must fill their stamp card with Star Stamps. The stamps are: wit, kindness, strength, love, courage, beauty, and mischief. The pattern is Battle Royale, Duel, Battle Royale, Duel and the pattern continues until the player next objective is to earn the Beauty Star Stamp. This is where the story line is "twisted up".

To make things simple the order is: (Star Stamp - Battle Royale Board - Duel Board - Opponent)


 * Wit - Chilly Waters - Gate Guy - Wario/Luigi
 * Kindness - Deep Bloober Sea - Arrowhead - Yoshi/Luigi
 * Strength - Spiny Desert - Pipesqueak - Donkey Kong/Luigi
 * Love - Woody Woods - Blowhard - Peach/Luigi
 * Courage - Creepy Cavern - Mr. Mover - Mario/Luigi
 * Beauty - No Battle Royale Board - Backtrack - Daisy
 * Mischief - Waluigi's Island - No Duel Board - Waluigi and two other random characters

Playable Characters
The game brings back all six original characters from Mario Party one and two. In addition, this game features two new characters, Princess Daisy and Waluigi. However, they can only be playable in Party Mode.

Battle Royale Boards
In Story Mode, the player's character faces three random characters on these boards to earn Star Stamps.
 * Chilly Waters
 * Deep Bloober Sea
 * Spiny Desert
 * Woody Woods
 * Creepy Cavern
 * Waluigi's Island (Unlocked after beating Story Mode)

Battle Royale Spaces

 * Blue Space
 * Red Space
 * Item Space
 * ? Space
 * Star Space
 * Bowser Space
 * Battle Space
 * Bank Space
 * Chance Time Space
 * Game Guy Space

Duel Boards
After a Battle Royale map the player's character is about to recieve a Star Stamp, when another character amerges from the castle (with the exception of Waluigi, who challenges the character to his Battle Royale board, Waluigi's Island) and says he/she deserves it. To settle this dispute, both characters are sent to a Duel Board. The winner recieves the Star Stamp. (Note that Luigi's board can be anyone except Backtrack)


 * Gate Guy
 * Arrowhead
 * Pipesqueak
 * Blowhard
 * Mr. Mover
 * Backtrack (Unlocked after beating Story Mode)

Duel Spaces

 * Basic Space
 * Power-up Space
 * Reverse Space
 * Mini-Game Space
 * ? Space
 * Game Guy Space

Items
Items appear only on Battle Royale boards. They can be bought at an item shop. Either Toad or Koopa Kid runs the shop, both selling different items. Some items can only be got through an Item Space.

Items that can be bought only from Toad:
 * Mushroom
 * Warp Block
 * Cellular Shopper
 * Dueling Glove
 * Golden Mushroom
 * Boo Repellent
 * Magic Lamp

Items that can be bought only from Koopa Kid:
 * Reverse Mushroom
 * Poison Mushroom
 * Bowser Phone
 * Plunder Chest
 * Lucky Lamp
 * Boo Bell
 * Bowser Suit

Items that can be bought from either one:
 * Skeleton Key
 * Item Bag

Items not sold in shops:
 * Wacky Watch
 * Barter Box
 * Koopa Card
 * Lucky Charm

Modes
As in all Mario Party games, there are always other modes to play:


 * Mini-game Mode: Players can play all the mini-games that they have collected here, even secret mini-games.
 * Story: A single player can go through the storyline. It is set what boards have to be completed in what order. There are Battle Royale and Duel boards. After each Battle Royale board, the player had to fight a certain character on a duel board for a Star Stamp. If the player was to duel with the character he has selected for his own, he would battle Luigi instead.

Trivia

 * This is the second game to ever feature Waluigi, and the third to ever feature Daisy.
 * It is also the first Mario Party game to have new playable characters.