Had another gaming day with my mates on Saturday.
First up was Mario Party 2. A random dice roll decided we were going to play Space Land.
The game was going along pretty well, going into the last five turns, my friend was winning 2-1-1-1 in stars. I was looking good for the mini-game and coin bonus stars. Then my other friend who was also in contention for coin bonus decided to duel me for 80+ coins meaning the winner would almost certainly get the coin bonus, which I duly won. This is great, I now have 1 star, almost 200 coins with less than 5 turns to go with 1 bonus star in the bank and very likely to win another. And I was very close to Boo, where I planned to steal a star. And then, disaster. My friend who had two stars bought a third, landed on an item space and accidentally got the Bowser Bomb. What this item does is bring Bowser onto the board from the last star space and he steals all coins from any players he passes on his dice roll. Instead of targeting my friend who was right next to him, he decided to go a different way to come and get me and I very quickly went from 200 coins to zero. So whilst I’ve got two of the bonuses, I’ve got no coins meaning I can’t win in a tie, and I have to rely on my friend with 3 stars not getting a fourth or getting the Happening bonus.
Thankfully, as I said, I was close to Boo. I picked myself up, won the next minigame, used Boo to steal coins from my 3-star friend, eventually overhauled his coin lead and he wasn’t able to get another star or the Happening bonus.