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Mario Party 2 (1999)

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This is the next board in Mario Party 2, this board is Mystery Land, which is kind of like Wario's Battle Canyon from the first Mario Party. Mystery Land is divided into four areas, and it takes place in ancient ruins, and the players are archiologists who are searching for answers to the mysterious artifacts. I play as Peach for this board, and I went with Mario, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong for the CPUs.
Mystery Land, as I have explained, is divided into four areas, and the Happening Spaces warp you to a different area, if you happen to get stuck on the northeast area, your only hope is to land on a Happening Space, the southwest part has an Item Shop, and you can buy a Skeleton Key to access another area. To travel between areas, you can summon a Bob-omb UFO to travel to the other side, but there are rare chances the UFO can malfunction and take you to an area otherwise unaccessible, where it is a small area with ruins resembling King Bob-omb from Super Mario 64.
There is Shy Guy's Curse House, where you can place a curse on the other player for 5 coins, and when a player is cursed, they can only move up to three spaces, and this would then be carried over to the Cursed Mushroom, or Poison Mushroom, in some Mario Party games starting from Mario Party 3.
The Item Minigame for this board is Mallet-Go-Round, where you use a hammer to knock down some blocks, items are placed on two blocks, and Baby Bowser is on one block, and the Duel Minigame is Psychic Safari, where players must power up their relics, which is a Mushroom Statue, by pressing A and B alternatively, and then knock another player's relic away to win.
Here are the minigames in this video, some of them can appear two or more times:
Destruction Duet
Balloon Burst
Hot Rope Jump
Filet Relay
Skateboard Scamper
Platform Peril
Mecha-Marathon
Hexagon Heat
Tile Driver
Rakin' 'em In
Slot Car Derby
Tipsy Tourney
Lights Out
Look Away
Abandon Ship
Lava Tile Isle
Bowser's Big Blast
Bumper Balls
Shock, Drop or Roll
Grab Bag
Archer-ival
Bowl Over
Shell Shocked

I don't know if they made some of the minigames harder, because I don't remember Mecha-Marathon being this difficult. I am able to do good on that minigame in Mario Party Superstars, but for some reason, I can never win on that minigame on the Nintendo Switch Online version. I have played Mario Party 2 on the Wii Virtual Console, and I didn't have any difficult with Mecha-Marathon on there, I don't dislike Mecha-Marathon, as it is one of my favourite minigames from this game, but I wouldn't even put it up there if I can't even win once on the Nintendo Switch Online version. For other minigames, we get the infamous Bowser's Big Blast, this is a luck based minigame where you press the switch, and if Bowser's eyes count down, you lose as you get blown up. This minigame was carried over to Mario Party 4, and it was brought back in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars.

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