Mario Party: Island Tour

Mario Party: Island Tour is a Mario Party game for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the twelfth installment (seventeenth in Japan) in the Mario Party series and the third installment for a handheld console that was made by Nintendo. This is the second Mario Party game to be developed by Nd Cube. Just as in Mario Party DS, it is possible for up to four people to join in wireless mode using only one single game card.
It was released in North America & Brazil on November 22, 2013, in China & Hong Kong on January 10, 2014, in Europe on January 17, 2014, in Australia on January 18, 2014, and in Japan & Korea on March 20, 2014.
== Development ==
This game was announced at Nintendo Direct and is confirmed to be released on November 22, 2013, in North America, which is also the same release date for the Wii U game Super Mario 3D World, which is a sequel to 2011's Super Mario 3D Land. It has been confirmed that the release date for Mario Party: Island Tour in Europe, had been moved to 2014.
==Story==
During story mode, Bowser sets up a tower full of challenges for Mario and friends. Inside, they face off against bubbly clones of themselves in many different minigames. Eventually they climb to the top and battle Bowser.
==Gameplay==
It is shown in a trailer that Mario Party: Island Tour will go back to the turn-based system. This will mean the four players will compete separately, instead of being in one vehicle together, like in Mario Party 9. Players will also use cards instead of regular items. Like with Mario Party DS, Mario Party: Island Tour makes use of the Stylus for when playing certain mini-games, although a few Mario Party: Island Tour minigames make use of the Nintendo 3DS's gyro controls. Players must roll a dice block labelled 1-6, also like Mario Party 9.
==Characters==
*Mario
*Luigi
*Wario
*Waluigi
*Peach
*Daisy
*Yoshi
*Toad
*Boo
*Bowser Jr. (newcomer) (unlockable)
==Default Partners==
Before Bowser Jr is unlocked, Boo is the only character who doesn't have a default partner.
*Mario and Luigi
*Peach and Daisy
*Wario and Waluigi
*Yoshi and Toad
*Boo and Bowser Jr.
===Other===
These characters are non-playable, and appear in minigames and as board features.
*Amp
*Banzai Bill
*Birdo
*Blooper
*Blue Toad
*Bomb
*Bone Goomba
*Bone Piranha Plants
*Bony Beetle
*Bubble Clones
*Bullet Bill
*Buzzy Beetle
*Chain Chomp
*Cheep Cheep
*Cheep Chomps
*Cows
*Dry Bones
*Fishing Lakitu
*Flomps
*Flowers
*Flutter
*Fly Guys
*Goomba
*Hammer Bro
*Jumbo Rays
*Kamek
*Koopa
*Lakitu
*Lumas
*Mattermouths
*Meteor
*Monty Mole
*Para-Biddybud
*Paragoomba
*Paratroopa
*Peepas
*Penguins
*Piranha Plants
*Podoboos
*Pokeys
*Prickly Plants
*Rosalina
*Scaredy Rats
*Shy Guy
*Spinies
*Stone Spikes
*Super Dry Bones
*Swoopers
*Thorny
*Thwomps
*Toads
*Toadies
*Tox Boxes
*Whittles
*Wiggler
==Mini-games==
==Bosses==
#Goomba Tower
#Chain Chomp
#Mr. Blizzard
#King Bob-omb
#Dry Bowser
#Bowser
==Boards==
*Perilous Palace Path
*Rocket Road
*Shy Guy's Shuffle City
*Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain
*Star-Crossed Skyway
*Kamek's Carpet Ride
*Bowser's Peculiar Peak
==Spaces==
*Dash Space - If the player lands here, they will leap forward (2, 3, 4, or 5) spaces.
*Back Space - When the player lands here, they go back the number of spaces on it.
*Item Space - Landing on this space earns the player an item.
*Green Space - A normal space. Nothing special happens when the player lands here.
*Piranha Plant Space - If the player lands on this space, a Piranha Plant will throw them back a random amount of spaces (1-6).
*Lucky Space - If the player lands here, something good will happen.
*Duel Space - These trigger a minigame battle for items/Mini Stars.
*Bowser Space - A random act of fiendishness will happen if the player lands here.
*Unlucky Space - Something bad will happen if the player lands here.
*Dead-End Space - The player will be forced to stop in this space for an event.
*Goal Space - The final space on the board.
*Safe Space (only on Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain) - A space where the player cannot get hit by a Banzai Bill.
*Danger Space (only on Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain) - A space where the player might get hit by a Banzai Bill.
*Switch Space - If the player lands here, Banzai Bill will launch from a new location.
*Banzai Bill Space - This space launches Banzai Bill.
*Card Space
*Booster Space (appears only on Rocket Road) - Gives the player one Booster.
*Warp Space - Swaps your space with a random player's space.
*Kamek Spaces (appears only on Kamek's Carpet Ride) - Causes a random event to happen, usually affecting most, if not all players, and not just the player who landed on it.
*Just-Right Space - (appears only on Kamek's Carpet Ride) - Either sends the players to the second half of the board, granting the player who landed on it a Power Precision (2) card, or finishes the game, with the player landing on it winning.
==Dice Blocks==
*Gold dice block - Adds 1 to 6 spaces to the player's roll. Awarded to 1st place after a minigame.
*Silver dice block - Adds 1 to 3 spaces to the player's roll. Awarded to 2nd place after a minigame.
*Bronze dice block - Adds 1 or 2 spaces to the player's roll. Awarded to 3rd place after a minigame.
*Custom dice block - Allows the player to roll any number.
*Bowser dice block - Same effects as a normal Dice Block. The player can remain where they are as long as they get the roll doubled with another Bowser Dice Block.
*1-6 Bowser dice block - Adds 1 to 6 spaces to the player's roll. The player can remain where they are as long as they get the roll doubled with another Bowser Dice Block. Awarded to 4th place after a minigame.
*1-3 Bowser dice block - Adds 1 to 3 spaces to the player's roll. The player can remain where they are as long as they get the roll doubled with another Bowser Dice Block. Awarded to 3rd place after a minigame.
*1-2 Bowser dice block - Adds 1 or 2 spaces to the player's roll. The player can remain where they are as long as they get the roll doubled with another Bowser Dice Block. Awarded to 2nd place after a minigame.
===Cards===
*Random card - Randomly decides how many spaces the player will move.
*Precision card - Move the player the number of spaces written on the card.
*Power Precision card - Moves the user forwards by the number written, while the others move backward by the same amount.
*Bowser card (Appears only on Shy Guy's Shuffle City) - The player who holds this card after 3 turns will receive a Bowser Penalty, along with being a losing factor in 
==Board-specific items==
====Perilous Palace Path====
*Setback Shell - Sends an opponent back 2 spaces.
*Backwards Bill - Sends an opponent back 5 spaces.
*Blooper Chopper - Cuts an opponent's roll in half.
*Lightning Score Striker - Subtracts 3 from an opponent's roll.
*Lakitu Leech - Steals 1 item from an opponent.
*Dash Mushroom - Adds 3 to your roll.
*Golden Dash Mushroom - Adds 5 to your roll.
*Super Star - Doubles the player's roll.
*Crazy Kamek - Switches the user's place with an opponent.
*Chaos Kamek - Switches everyone's places.
====Star-Crossed Skyway====
*Mini Stars
*Mini Ztars
====Rocket Road====
*Boosters - Multiplies the Dice Block roll.
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*This is the first Mario Party game for the Nintendo 3DS. The second is Mario Party: Star Rush and the third is Mario Party: The Top 100.
*This is the first --and currently only-- Mario Party game (in the Mario Party series):
**to not have a category of 1 vs 3 minigames.
**to be the same character roster as a previous installment (that being, Mario Party 5).
***However, Koopa Kid (from the previous seven installments from Mario Party 1 through 7) is succeeded by Bowser Jr.. 
**to use Dice Blocks to break ties in minigames.
*For a time, the Nintendo 3DS eShop mistakenly stated Mario Party: Island Tour to be a title on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with the game also lacking the price.
*This is the first Mario Party game (in the series) that features Bowser Jr. as a playable character.
**Bowser Jr. also replaces Koopa Kid from the previous Mario Party games.
***He is playable in two later home console games (that being, Super Mario Party and Super Mario Party Jamboree). 
*This marks Rosalina's debut in a Mario Party game, but she wouldn't become a playable character until Mario Party 10.
*This is the second Mario Party game where Donkey Kong does not appear, the first being Mario Party Advance.
*Most of the character artwork was reused from other Mario Party games.
**Only Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Peach, Yoshi, Boo, and Bowser Jr. have official artwork for this game.
*In North America, Mario Party: Island Tour was released on the same day as Super Mario 3D World.
**Coincidentally, Super Mario 3D World is a sequel to Super Mario 3D Land, a Nintendo 3DS game.
*This is the first time that Boo has been playable in the Mario Party series since in Mario Party 8, he didn't appear and was only in Mario Party 9 as an enemy.
*If the player chooses Bowser's Tower as Bowser Jr., there will be extra dialogue at the beginning when Toad joins him, after each boss battle, preparing to fight Bowser, and when Bowser knocks the player away telling them to try again.
*This is the second Mario Party game of the series where it isn't either named after the number of the game in the series or after the system it was released on the first being Mario Party.
**However, Mario Party: Island Tour is also known as Mario Party 3DS.
*Several characters have their voice clips reused from Mario Party 9.
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