The spaces players land on can either be beneficial or harmful: for example, Plus Spaces award players three Coins, Minus Spaces deduct three Coins, and ? Spaces cause an event to happen, which is dependent on the board being played. Players can earn Coins to purchase these Stars by either landing on spaces or winning mini-games. Stars appear in random, set locations, which get shuffled every time a player acquires a Star. The object of the game is to collect as many Stars as possible. Then players are given ten Coins to start. Players who roll the highest numbers get to start their turn sooner. The game begins by deciding the order of play with Dice Blocks. Players move around the board by rolling a Dice Block numbered one through ten. The gameplay in Mario Party 5 is the same as in other installments. After winning the 5 boards, the player delves in Bowser Nightmare where if the player wins against the Koopa Kids, the final fight with Bowser begins in Frightmare. In Story Mode, Bowser and Koopa Kid are planning to ruin everyone's dreams, and players must stop Bowser from taking over said dreams. And that is how the story of Mario and his friends both old and new began! So the Star Guards prepared for their guests' arrival by creating many fun-filled games for them to play. In the end, they decided to invite Mario and his closest friends because, when it comes to dreamers, nobody dreams bigger than they do! why don't we offer those with the power of dreaming a chance to visit? Many dreams arrive here at Dream Depot every day," they said, "so. One dreamy night, the Star Guards thought of something. In this land, there are Star Guards who protect the dreams of all. In the night sky, past the moon and beyond the stars, there's a dream world known as Dream Depot, where everyone's dreams come together. Mario Party 5 became part of the Nintendo Player's Choice label on October 22, 2004, and won the Console's Children award at the 2004 Interactive Achievement Awards.įrom the Mario Party 5 instruction booklet:
In the game's Story Mode, geared towards single players, a playable character has to face Bowser and the Koopa Kids (known as Mini Bowser in the PAL version), who invade the Dream Depot, and need to challenge them in every stage.
The game features a dream-theme, where the game takes place in the Dream Depot and each of the boards' names have "Dream" suffixes. Mario Party 5 features the Star Spirits (known as Star Guards in this game) from Paper Mario as the main hosts of the game, where one of them guides the player through each of the game's various modes. As a result, all the subsequent Mario Party titles, with the exception of Mario Party Advance on the Game Boy Advance, have employed 3D backgrounds allowing for much more dynamic fields of play. Previous titles, all except for Mario Party 4, use pre-rendered backgrounds, which are static and limited in their presentation.
The game is also significant for being the second in the series to introduce 3D game boards. Mario Party 5 also introduces new modes such as Super Duel Mode, where players can battle each other on battle machines and Bonus Mode, where players can play special mini-games, similar to Mario Party 4's Extra Mode. The most notable change in this game is that the item system that was first introduced in Mario Party 2 was replaced with the new capsule system, where players can not only use them for their own advantage but set up traps for other players to fall into Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7 would later return the capsule system (now called Orbs) and add new mechanics to the capsules. Players then can participate in various mini-games at the end of every turn in the board, each with their own set of rules and settings. As in the other Mario Party installments, players interact with one another in virtual boards, playing as various Mario characters. It was first released in Novemin North American territories, approximately one year after Mario Party 4 was released. The game includes three new characters, which are Toad, Boo, and Koopa Kid, as well as most of the characters from the previous installations, except for Donkey Kong (who does appear in Super Duel Mode). As the name implies, this is the fifth Mario Party video game in the popular series, and the second to be released on the GameCube. Mario Party 5 (also called MP5) is a video game for the Nintendo GameCube that was released in late 2003.