Mario Party 7

Mario Party 7 is the seventh installment in the Mario Party series, and the fourth and final Mario Party title made for the GameCube. Like the previous Mario Party installments, the game is laid out as an interactive board game, where players use Dice Blocks to advance in the board, while also playing various minigames. In this game, Mario and the gang, using the MSS Sea Star, go vacationing to locations based on landmarks on Earth. However, Bowser is not invited on the cruise and decides to cause trouble for Mario and his friends.
Up to four players can enjoy the most of the game's modes; however, a special mode that this game introduces to the Mario Party series allows up to eight players to participate in a party. Players are required to share their controllers, and thus, controls are simplified in such modes. The microphone, first introduced in this game's predecessor, Mario Party 6, can also be used in certain modes. Mario Party 7 requires 6 blocks on the Memory Card to save the game, and up to three game files can be saved.
==Plot==
One day, everyone's favorite hero, Mario was taking his morning constitutional. Later in the day, Toadsworth appears. He's offering Mario and the gang a vacation aboard a luxury ocean liner. Saving the world is long, hard work, so they are delighted to accept the offer.
Mario rushes off to tell his friends the great news and pack his bags. They cannot wait to set sail cause they're kings and queens of the world.
Toadsworth also has two great surprises: Birdo and Dry Bones.
That makes Bowser mad; They are going on vacation and not taking him! Filled with unquenchable rage, the Koopa King swears revenge.
When playing Solo Cruise, once the player has beaten the first five boards' conditions, Bowser will invite you to go to the last board, Bowser's Enchanted Inferno.
When you complete Bowser's Enchanted Inferno, Bowser gets blown off to a deserted island. As he spots your character on the SS Sea Star, he curses you.
==Gameplay==
Like most Mario Party games, Mario Party 7 revolves around Mario and his friends collecting Coins and Stars to win on boards. Mario Party 7 also uses a GameCube Mic, and on some spaces and in some mini-games, you're able to use the GameCube Mic to control the characters.
==Characters==
===Playable Characters===
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===Non-playable Characters===
* Donkey Kong
* Bowser
* Toadsworth
* Koopa Kid (Red and Green Koopa Kids are playable via hacking)
===Team Names===
* Dolphin
* Seagull
* Tuna
* Mollusk
===Default Partners===
Before Birdo and Dry Bones are unlocked, Yoshi and Boo are considered default partners. But they share different orbs.
*Mario and Luigi
*Peach and Daisy
*Wario and Waluigi
*Toad and Toadette
*Yoshi and Birdo
*Boo and Dry Bones
*Yoshi and Boo (before Birdo and Dry Bones are unlocked)
*Birdo and Dry Bones (when not unlocked yet) 
==Boards==
*Grand Canal
*Pagoda Peak
*Pyramid Park
*Neon Heights
*Windmillville
*Bowser's Enchanted Inferno
==Music==
Some of the songs in this game are remixes of songs in Mario Party 6. For example:
Music from Mario Party 7...	is a Mario Party 6 remix or rendition of...
Main Menu 	
Castaway Bay
Mic Space theme 	Speak Up theme
King of the River 	Endurance Alley
King of the River (Loser) 	Endurance Alley (Loser)
Take Me Ohm theme 	Surge and Destroy theme
Track & Yield theme 	Ray of Fright theme
Minigame Winner 	Minigame Winner
Minigame Instruction 	Minigame Instruction
==Trivia==
*Like its sequel and Super Paper Mario, Mario Party 7 contains text that is considered inappropriate in the United Kingdom. When the Star moves in Grand Canal, Toadsworth calls it a "bugger". Despite this, the game was not recalled, and it did not receive a PEGI 12+ rating, as with other games that contain this word.
*This is Koopa Kid's last appearance in a Mario Party game.
**The next installment (Mario Party 8) does not have Koopa Kid or Bowser Jr. Starting with Mario Party DS, Koopa Kid is succeeded by Bowser Jr.. However, Bowser Jr. became a playable character in later installments (if counting just the home console games, Super Mario Party and Super Mario Party Jamboree). 
*This is the last Mario Party game where the Star and Coin totals were counted before the final results.
*This is also the last Mario Party game to feature Donkey Kong's sound effects from the first six Mario Party games.
*This is also the last Mario Party game to be in Nintendo GameCube
*This is the first Nintendo game to make use of eight playable characters at once. The others are Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
**However, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U allows up to eight controllers to be used, while Mario Party 7 can only use up to four controllers.
* This game has the most unique minigames of all the Mario Party games (not counting Mario Party: The Top 100 or Mario Party Superstars, which are compilations of 100 and 105 returning minigames respectively).
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