Bowser's Warped Orbit: Difference between revisions

This board is similar to [[Snowflake Lake]] from ''[[Mario Party 6]]'' and [[Pyramid Park]] from ''[[Mario Party 7]]''. However, instead of [[Chain Chomp]]s to steal Stars, players must use special [[Candy (Mario Party 8)|Candy]] to steal from their opponents: [[Bowser Candy]] and [[Bullet Candy]], both of which are found only on this board. The Bullet Candy lets the player roll three Dice Blocks and steal one Star, while the Bowser Candy lets the player roll two Dice Blocks and steal two Stars.

Landing on a [[DK Space]] causes [[Donkey Kong]] to appear on a [[Steel Keg|steel keg]] satellite, and give the player a free Star (a piece of Candy in Star Battle Arena). Landing on the [[Bowser Space]] causes Bowser to come down from his observation tower to steal a Star from the player (although if the player has no Stars, Bowser will give them ten [[Coin]]s instead). Everyone is gifted a total of twenty Stars (five for each player in Battle Royale; 10 for both teams on Tag Battle), not including handicaps. However, when a player lands on the DK Space, additional Stars can be received, or in the case of a Bowser Space, additional Stars can be taken away.

One of the [[? Space]]s on the board causes Bowser to come down and chase the player all around the board in a complete loop. Anyone that is in their path will also get chased down (this essentially just moves all the players involved to the same space). The ? Space next to [[Kamek]] makes him use his magic to shuffle everyone's Candies around, just like he did back in ''[[Mario Party 5]]''. The ? Spaces (arrow spaces in Duel Battle mode) next to the warp tube (underneath the observation tower) causes players to travel through the tube and reach to the other side of the board, always collecting twenty Coins along the way (but nothing in [[Mario Party 8#Star Battle Arena|Star Battle Arena]] because the tube is part of the board's path, not a shortcut). All the other ? Spaces make Bowser reverse the direction of the flow of the board.

In [[Mario Party 8#Star Battle Arena|Star Battle Arena]], the winning conditions are to steal Stars from their opponent via the Bowser and Bullet Candies until their opponent has zero Stars. Players start with three Stars each. During the Star Battle Arena, if the player defeats [[Blooper]] or [[Hammer Bro]], they will get to [[Superstar Showdown|fight Bowser]] in a void-like arena. Also, the player will unlock Hammer Bro or Blooper, depending on who they fought. The opponent is random unless the player is using one of those two characters, in which case the other one will forcibly be the opponent. The player must complete Star Battle Arena with the first unlockable character in order to unlock the second one.