Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis: Difference between revisions

[[Mario's Toy Company]] returns and is mentioned at the beginning of the game. It starts with a commercial talking about the Super Mini Mario World Theme Park which is an amusement park about the Mini Marios, Mini Peachs, Mini Toads, and Mini Donkey Kongs. It then shows a crowd of Toads watching Pauline and Mario cut the ribbon to open it. Donkey Kong is in the crowd, and falls in love with Pauline. He comes with a Mini Donkey Kong to give to her, but Mario hands out a Mini Mario. She chooses the Mini Mario, so Donkey Kong is heart-broken and breaks down a salespost of Mini Marios, even crushing one with his feet. He then heads toward the elevator and grabs Pauline on his way as well pushing Mario down on the floor. As Donkey Kong heads toward the elevator, Mario gets up and tries to get to the elevator, but it's too late- Donkey Kong brought her up to the roof of the building. Mario doesn't know what to do until 2 freed yet survived Mini Marios come to offer help.

In each level of a floor, there is a [[Mini-Mario Card]] – a card with a letter on one side and a Mini-Mario's head on another. With nine levels, the cards spell MINIMARIO on each floor (i.e. 7-3 would have a '''N''' card). Finding all cards in a floor unlocks a single Mini-Game: [[Shy Guy Smash]]. Rules: the player uses the stylus to break (touch) 25 Mini-Shy Guys within 30 seconds, coming out of pipes. Unfortunately, not only do the pipes become more complicated as the floors increase, Mini-Bob-ombs are thrown into the mix – tapping them loses 5 points. The player is challenged to beat his or her high score after getting over 25, for replay value.

Each floor is concluded by a boss battle with the giant ape. Players must launch Mini-Marios from a cannon up and hit Donkey Kong either directly or indirectly, depending on conditions. The number of Minis available depends on how many Minis the player got to the Goal in the nine levels. In odd-numbered floors, the cannon will shoot directly up, trying to hit DK from below. In even-numbered levels, DK is protected by a spiked platform from the bottom, and the cannon is adapted to hit off of walls to reach above him instead, as illustrated to the right. Minis are broken by sharp points, DK's projectiles such as bananas, barrels, mines, even fireballs, or in the later battles, Swoopers (Spooky Attic) and Vine Crocodiles (Jungle Hijinks). DK has 6 hit points in all battles.