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Post by rhinotaur on Jun 24, 2011 4:52:58 GMT -5
It actually said that they have "parties," but how do you know they didn't mean the kind like Peach throws in Paper Mario? Why assume they meant the Mario Party games, which feature some rather crazy things (even by 'Shroomverse standards). Well, Mario Party 3 took place inside of a magic board game, and Mario Party 5's plot was based around dreaming and the Star Spirits. Other than that, though, I guess you could say the Mario Parties are parties and competitions. |
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Post by kingkoopa on Jun 24, 2011 8:13:23 GMT -5
I say that they were referring to the Mario Parties because Luigi refers to the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf games right before it.
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Post by Vent on Jun 24, 2011 11:47:31 GMT -5
Mario Party 1 was a competition that Bowser wound up crashing. This is made obvious.
Mario Party 2 was just a stage show at Mario Land.
Mario Party 3 was another competition initiated by the Millennium Star (and his fake counterpart). Who canonically won this competition is up for debate, since its never referred to again.
Mario Party 4 is just Toad, Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Shy Guy and Boo setting up a place to throw parties. The actual plot is one of those interchangeable dealies where it's the birthday of whomever you picked. Not really notable.
Mario Party 5 is about everybody helping the Star Spirits to stop Bowser from ruining Dream Depot. At least, that's the plot given for Story Mode. The rest of the game doesn't have much of a plot.
Mario Party 6 appears to take place entirely in the Miracle Book, which may mean it's fabricated like the MP2 plot.
Mario Party 7 is about Toadsworth taking everyone on a cruise and Bowser ruining it. Simple enough.
Mario Party 8 is some random incident where MC Ballyhoo invites everybody to his carnival. Bowser shows up blahblahblah you know the drill.
So as you can see, MP2 and MP6 have plots that technically didn't happen. MP4 and 5 barely have plots. MP3 has a plot with a difficult-to-explain ending. The rest all have relatively simple plots with harmless results.
This is why I don't understand why people disregard them outright. There's nothing that intrusive here.
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Post by Le Mario Bro on Jun 24, 2011 16:53:12 GMT -5
Well if we aren't diregarding stuff, I think these two shouldn't be left out in the cold:
Mario Party Advance was technically a callback to MP3, considering that Tumble's in it. It's a game where everyone goes to play with toys that Professor E. Gadd invented, Bowser scatters them around the city, and only Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi go out to find them for some reason.
Mario Party DS is about how Bowser invites everyone over to his Castle and shrinks them down so that he can steal Mario's Sky Crystal. They go through the kingdom, gather up the rest of them, yaddayaddayadda. Greenhouse, Music room, Donkey Kong's torso, Library, and then boom. Pinball Machine.
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Post by Koopalmier on Jun 25, 2011 5:59:01 GMT -5
Things in MP3 hint the story's default character is Luigi. He's the only character who's not associated with a particular Star Stamp (meaning he can be associated with all of them), he's the only one who stays calm when the Millenium Star crashes near Peach's Castle (while the other are arguing about who's going to keep it), and the last character you confront is Waluigi.
The ending hints the game was just a Mario Party board game (you see a blue dice falling near an actual board game with "Mario Party" written on it), but Tumble's return in Mario Party Advance cancels that.
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Post by Vent on Jun 25, 2011 11:51:25 GMT -5
Oh now I remember. On a previous page I mused that when the Millennium Star made Luigi the "Superstar of the Universe" he actually created a second Luigi that resides out in space and has far greater bravery than the normal Luigi. This is of course the Luigi you play as in Super Mario Galaxy.
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Post by Koopalmier on Jun 29, 2011 10:10:45 GMT -5
Courageous Luigi clone with short legs living as a space monk in another world because the Millenium Star divided by zero by making Luigi a superstar ?
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I'll now send threats to Miyamoto and ask him to make this official.
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Post by boodestroyer on Jun 29, 2011 13:31:00 GMT -5
... I'll now send threats to Miyamoto and ask him to make this official. Not the brightest move there, champ. But seriously, not bad of an idea for that Luigi bit there, if you personally see it that way. And that's the whole fun of it. Hell, I've wondered that for a while myself, with none of the Star Stamps being associated with Luigi. Does he encompass all of the qualities or what? |
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Post by kingkoopa on Jun 30, 2011 12:37:24 GMT -5
The stamps from the story mode of Mario Party 3
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Post by Koopalmier on Jun 30, 2011 18:40:57 GMT -5
The Millenium Star is born every 1000 years at the center of the universe and declares someone to be the Superstar of the Universe. One day, it was born, then crashed to the Mushroom Kingdom while Mario and friends were lazying around Peach's Castle. They all started arguing about who'd keep the star (not knowing it's the Millenium Star), except for Luigi who just looks at the star. Then the star becomes alive, introduces itself and starts a competition: he'd give a Star Stamp representing a quality to anyone who'd deserve it, and anyone who has all the stamps is the Superstar of the Universe. How will they settle that ? By playing Mario Party, obviously !
Assuming Luigi's the default character...
Mario wants the Courage Stamp, Peach wants the Love Stamp, Yoshi wants the Kindness Stamp, Wario wants the Wit Stamp and DK wants the Strenght Stamp. However, Luigi manages to defeat them all, thus winning the stamps. Then Daisy shows up and asks for the Beauty Stamp, thus starting a Mario Party battle between her and Luigi ; Luigi wins. The last remaining stamp is the Mischief Stamp, but Waluigi steals it, and Luigi has to play a Mario Party match on Waluigi's Island to win the stamp.
So Luigi has gotten all the stamps, meaning he has all these qualities.
However, Bowser is after the stamps too, and he could have all these qualities too but just be too unlucky and stupid to get the stamps (after all, he did claim he's the nicest guy around here, meaning he should deserve the stamp normally).
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Post by cheat-master30 on Jun 30, 2011 20:38:19 GMT -5
Except you know, the star you refer to turns out not to be the real millenium star.
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Post by Vent on Jun 30, 2011 23:38:47 GMT -5
Yes, but then the REAL Millenium Star pops out of Tumble's head and declares whoever you picked (in Palmier's example, Luigi) to finally be the Superstar of the Universe.
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Post by intrusivepen on Aug 30, 2017 14:58:28 GMT -5
I believe the somewhat ridiculous party locations were mentioned. I didn't bother to read it all, so here are my probably by-now-irrelevant two cents.
MP8 and MPDS were the only ones I played, and those all had mostly reasonable stages. A train, two jungles, a boo-infested mansion, a beach, etc. I'll admit even those games have their weird ones, like Bowser's space station, Bowser's pinball machine, and an urban city complete with a real estate market. Seems sort of out of place.
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