| Hexagon Heat | |||
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| Appears in | Mario Party 2 Mario Party: The Top 100 | ||
| Type | 4-Player minigame | ||
| Music track | Going for the Coins | ||
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Hexagon Heat is a 4-Player minigame found in Mario Party 2 and Mario Party: The Top 100. The premise and ruleset of this minigame are similar to those of Mushroom Mix-Up from the first Mario Party, with lava in place of water.
Introduction
The players stand on the white hexagon in the center of a pit of lava. The other six hexagon platforms then show up and join around it, and the minigame begins.
Gameplay
When Toad raises a colored flag, all the players must go to the hexagons with the same color; all the other hexagons slowly sink into the lava. Players can also jump on their opponents to slow them down, or ground-pound them to squish them flat and stop them altogether, at the risk of being eliminated themselves. As the minigame progresses, the hexagons fall and rise faster. The last player standing wins. Unlike in Mushroom Mix-Up, the hexagons lack the Mushroom Platforms' polka-dot patterns from that minigame.
The hexagons' order is always as follows, from top left to bottom right: yellow, red, cyan, white (where the players start), green, blue, pink.
In Mario Party: The Top 100, the order of the colors of the hexagons (referred to as panels in this game) has been changed, and in addition, there are shapes imprinted on them, to assist color-blind players. This is the panels' order in this game, from top left to bottom right: blue vertical rectangle, green triangle, pink square, white circle (where the players start), cyan diamond, yellow upside-down triangle, red horizontal rectangle. Additionally, players no longer recoil from ground-pounding other players.
The music speeds up as the minigame progresses, a trait that does not carry over to the Mario Party: The Top 100 version.
Controls
Mario Party 2
– Move
– Jump- →
– Hip Drop
Mario Party: The Top 100
: Move
: Jump- in the air: Ground Pound
In-game text
Mario Party 2
- Game Rules – "Run to the hexagon that matches the color of the flag I1 raise. Last one standing wins!"
- Game Rules (Mini-Game Coaster) – "Run to the same color hexagon as the Toad's flag. Be the last person standing to clear this Mini-Game."
- Advice – "The more time it takes to determine a winner, the faster the hexagons move. Stay on your toes!"
1 - Toad is speaking in this text.
Mario Party: The Top 100
- Description – "Move to the same colored panel as shown on Toad's sign! Last one left wins!"
- On-screen – "Step on the same color panel as shown on the sign!"
Gallery
The ending to Hexagon Heat in Mario Party 2
See also
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | いろいろダッシュ[?] Iroiro Dasshu |
Colorful Dash | |
| Dutch | Zinkende zeshoeken[?] | Sinking hexagons | |
| French | Hexagone infernal[?] | Infernal hexagon | |
| German | Hexagon-Chaos[?] | - | |
| Italian | Calura di Esagoni (Mario Party 2)[?] | Hexagons Heat | |
| Calura di esagoni (Mario Party: The Top 100)[?] | Hexagons heat | ||
| Spanish (NOA) | Magmaligno (Mario Party: The Top 100)[?] | Portmanteau of "magma" and maligno ("malignant") | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Calor Hexagonal[?] | Hexagonal Heat |