- "Beyond space! Beyond time! And beyond decency! We're in the blackest hole of all. Bowser's Warped Orbit! It's seriously sick and twisted! We're in Bowser territory now. And you'll play by HIS rules. So you'll start with 5 Stars... Then earn more the Bowser way: Stealing! Steamrolling! Savagery! You'll need two kinds of Candy... Bowser Candy and Bullet Candy! Chow down on these to steal Stars from each player you pass! Bowser Candy lets you smack 2 Dice Blocks, and you'll steal 2 Stars from each victim! Bullet Candy lets you blast farther! You'll get 3 Dice Blocks, but steal only 1 Star per victim. Study where foes are before chowing! Which will steal you more Stars? A short rampage? Or a long snipe? (In the first sentence, the Tag Battle version changes. The Tag Battle version goes, "There are no stars in Bowser's Warped Orbit. So each team starts with 10 stars".)"
Bowser's Warped Orbit Bowser's Warped Orbit (クッパのスペースコロシアム Kuppa no Supēsu Koroshiamu?) is Bowser's board in Mario Party 8. This board can unlocked if the player completes the Star Battle Arena.
Description[]
The Bowser's Warped Orbit logo.
Unlike boards themed around Bowser in previous Mario Party games, this board does not have a lava theme. Instead, this board is a space station located in outer space. Additionally, Magikoopa and Toadies appear in shops and board events, rather than underlings like Goombas and Koopa Kids which appeared on Bowser's boards in previous games. The objective here is to steal Stars, given that the board has none to collect. Each player starts out with five (ten Stars for each team on Tag Battle mode), but the handicap setting can add more starting Stars.
This board plays similarly to Snowflake Lake from Mario Party 6 and Pyramid Park from Mario Party 7, but instead of Chain Chomps to steal Stars, the player must use special Candy to steal Stars from their opponents: Bullet Candy and Bowser Candy. These candies are specific to only this board. The Bullet Candy lets the player roll three Dice Blocks but steal one Star, while the Bowser Candy lets the player steal two Stars but roll two Dice Blocks.
Star Battle Arena layout.
If the player lands on a DK Space causes Donkey Kong to appear on a Steel Barrel satellite, and give the player a free Star (a piece of Candy in Star Battle Arena). This adds the Star to the circulation. Landing on the Bowser Space causes Bowser to come down from his observation tower to steal a Star from the player (although if the player has no Stars, Bowser will give them ten Coins instead). This usually removes the Star DK added to the circulation (reducing the stars back its original number). So in the case of a DK Space, new stars can be added or in the case of a Bowser Space new stars can be taken away. (DK Spaces are the only way where new stars can be added.)
Landing on the Lucky Space takes the player to Shy Guy's Space Buffet, which has a path of Blue Spaces, each with three coins, and the player also gets three free pieces of Candy, which can either be Bullet and/or Bowser Candy (both unique to only this board).
One of the Green Spaces on the board causes Bowser to come down and chase the player all around the board in a complete loop. Anyone that is in their path will also get chased down (this essentially just moves all the players involved to the same space). The Green Space next to Magikoopa makes him use his magic to shuffle everyone's Candies around, like he did back in Mario Party 5. The Green Spaces --arrow spaces in Star Battle Arena-- next to the Warp Tube[1] (underneath the observation tower) it causes players to travel through the tube and reach to the other side of the board. And they collect 20 coins along the way. This is useful for traveling to candy shops to buy more Bullet and Bowser Candy by landing on this Green Space, going into the Warp Pipe, and collecting 20 coins along the way. (In Star Battle Arena, the tube --in this version-- contains nothing. Because it --the tube-- is part of the board's path. It is not a shortcut.) All the other Green Spaces make Bowser reverse the direction of the flow of the board.
Another feature of the board is the three directional buttons (two in Duel Battle), which players encounter when the path splits into two. When a player steps on one, it makes the player go in a random direction: left or right; this resembles the gimmick of Backtrack, a duel board in Mario Party 3.
In Mario Party 9, there is a similar board to Bowser's Warped Orbit called Bowser Station, as both boards are owned by Bowser and are in space.
Shy Guy's Space Buffet[]
Yoshi at Shy Guy's Space Buffet
Shy Guy's Space Buffet is the Lucky Space area of Bowser's Warped Orbit. Captain Shy Guy flies the player here upon them landing on the Lucky Space. This area is quite small, mostly consisting of a few Blue Spaces, each with three coins. Unlike on all other boards with a Lucky Space, the lucky area, it does not result in a free Star. Instead, players get to collect three free pieces of Candy by passing ? Candies, all of which are either Bullet Candy or Bowser Candy. When the player makes it to the end, Captain Shy Guy takes them back to the Lucky Space.
Spaces[]
Battle Royale / Tag Battle[]
| Type | Number |
|---|---|
 Blue Spaces |
32 |
 Red Spaces |
8 |
 Green Spaces |
10 |
 Lucky Spaces |
1 |
  DK or Bowser Spaces |
2 |
| Total | 53 |
Duel Battle / Star Battle Arena[]
| Type | Number |
|---|---|
Blue Spaces |
14 |
Red Spaces |
4 |
Green Spaces |
4 |
 Vs. Spaces |
1 |
 Challenge Spaces |
1 |
DK or Bowser Spaces |
2 |
| Total | 26 |
Candies[]
In Mario Party 8[]
Bowser's Warped Orbit is the only unlockable board in Mario Party 8. In order to to have it playable in Party Tent mode, the player must unlock Bowser's Warped Orbit by completing it in the Star Battle Arena once, and thereby the mode itself.
Bowser's Warped Orbit has a role toward the end of Star Battle Arena. When MC Ballyhoo is about to give the player's character the Star Rod as a reward for winning the five previous boards, Bowser shows up and steals it, then promptly leaves with it into Bowser's Warped Orbit. The player hops on a platform and follows Bowser there. MC Ballyhoo is upset about what had just occurred, and Big Top flies MC Ballyhoo up to Bowser's Warped Orbit, where the duo retain their usual role of hosting the board.
In Star Battle Area, winning conditions are to steal Stars from their opponent via the Bowser and Bullet Candies until their opponent has zero Stars. Players start with three Stars each. During the first playthrough, the player's opponent is Blooper, but during the second playthrough, their opponent is Hammer Bro instead. In subsequent playthroughs, the opponent is random unless the player does Star Battle Arena with the first unlockable character. If they do Star Battle Arena with the first unlockable character, the second one is forcibly the opponent. After defeating their opponent, the player's character can fight Bowser in a void-like arena, where the boss minigame Superstar Showdown takes place. The player gets the first unlockable character and they are playable in the game. That is, for doing Star Battle Arena with any of the starter characters. So now, they have the first unlockable character. But in order to unlock the second one, they must complete Star Battle Arena with the first.
Unique to this stage, for the DK/Bowser Spaces, Donkey Kong gives away candy while Bowser steals a star from circulation (resulting with less stars in play). The player or the opponent (if they reduce the other's stars to zero) can get a total of six stars. But if Bowser steals the one star, this results in less stars (five instead of six).
Flavor text[]
- Description: "Hunt...and be hunted! Go on the Star attack in Bowser's twisted realm!"
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Mario Party 8 PRIMA Official Game Guide, page 50.
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