Best Mario Party 9 Boss Battles

My man King Boo makes it the to the top of the list. King Boo is one of my favourite characters in the mario series..., that doesn't mean his bosses are always good. However in Mario Party 9 his boss battle was excellent actually despite if I fooled you a bit there. I mean he's #1 on this list so of course I love his battle. It's the best.

As the boss battle of Boo's Horror Castle, the battle is set in a chamber in a spooky castle, and it's basically a puzzle. Lots of skill is required as you move around items on a giant panel and you must get three in a row in order to damage him. At times there will lightning bolts and moving them in a three in a row will give you ten points but at the same time make your rivals lose ten points. I love this type of gameplay, especially for a boss battle.

The soundtracks do not disappoint either. In fact they are both amazing. The first phase has a sorta spooky but calm theme, very good. The mad phase is one of the best songs in the game. It's like that one, but way more upbeat and chaotic, it's almost as if the world is ending. That's how crazy it is. And I love the theme.

One of the top boss in the game for me goes to the enormous Chain Chomp found at the end of Magma Mine. This is my personal second favourite boss battle in Mario Party 9. This is one of those bosses that require a lot of skill, and I mean a lot!

Basically you must pick a cart that leads to a cannon that you can damage Chain Chomp with but it's not that easy. Some rails lead to Chain Chomp himself and you'll lose points then instead, some rails lead to very powerful cannons, and you really have to be fast here and I love it.

The soundtracks used here are both great. The first phase is just awesome and spine-chilling, and the mad phase is even better as it just sounds so.., I don't know how to describe it, but it's spine-chilling too, and more upbeat than the regular theme. As you see this is one of my favourite bosses in the game.

In fact I think this battle was about as good as King Boo's. It was hard deciding between the two, but I think King Boo had better soundtrack overall, and it felt much more skill-requiring and original. However I love this one too.

Of course, who could forget the epic final boss of the game? Starting with Mario Party 8, the Bowser battles in Mario games started to take place more in space rather than in a castle (excluding 10, though), probably to reference Super Mario Galaxy. And while this battle may not be as epic as your average final boss in a Super Mario game, it's undoubtedly epic nevertheless.

While it's true that this battle is definitely luck-based, as you throw dice and hope for the side with your character's face to be looking up in order to damage Bowser, there are also skillful moments. You must avoid flames by Bowser cool enough to avoid previous boss battles in the game that will come to the platform where the battle takes place and start doing all sorts of crazy stuff during Bowser's mad phase. That's something I really appreciate. So, as you can see, it's very epic stuff.

However, the most epic parts are, of course, the soundtracks used. During the first phase, there's a sort of calm theme, but it's very telling that this is a serious battle, which I like. As often, though, I prefer the rage phase, which is like the true final boss theme.

Very epic stuff, although Mario Party Island Tour and Mario Party 10 actually had more epic final bosses. But that's for a whole other list. So, Bowser will stay here in the top five.

Originally I hated this boss battle. Mainly because of the use of motion controls, which is an infamous gimmick of the Nintendo Wii. I've grown to like this boss a lot recently though, and one thing for sure is that this one takes a lot of skill with the remote. You shoot him with cannonballs when he jumps out of the water now and then.

It's not that easy though. At times he will throw urchins at random players, if you get hit you lose points so you gotta shoot them to send them to the next player and it goes on until it hits someone. Very cool. During his angry phase he'll also spit ink on the screen, which may not be very memorable but it's still a decent feature for a mario party (unlike some games, looking at you Mario Kart).
The soundtracks are both pretty good but I prefer the first phase. It's got like a theme of "When a ship leaves the harbour and goes into the sea" adventure theme. The mad phase is sounds somewhat like what you'd hear in a pirate movie when the pirate ferry is starting to collapse or sink and it's a bunch of chaos. Both are very good soundtrack but I prefer the calm phase personally.

A lot of the mid-bosses in not only Mario Party 9, but it's sequel Mario Party 10 were rather boring and too simple. However some stood out. While Dry Bones may not be like the most original ever, he's the most fun mid-boss in Mario Party 9. I even think he's better than some of the regular bosses found in the game and that says a lot.

He's the third mid-boss in the game, whose fortress is found on a balcony in Boo's Horror Castle. And here's the thing, I don't think his battle is like super cool, but it's very fun. Basically there will be four platforms hovering in the air over a pit, and there will be a bunch of cards on the screen you must pick. Memorize where the cards are as they will be turned around, and pick a card with the platform Dry Bones is standing on. Pick right and you get points, pick wrong platform and no points, and pick a Dry Bones face and you lose points.

A notable thing is that all the mid-bosses in the game use the very same soundtrack for the first phase and mad phases (excluding Bowser Jr. who got his own themes). I don't like either of these tunes unfortunately although the first phase is sorta good and the raging phase is just annoying.

But because of this whole platform thing it makes the battle much more fun. Picking a platform is way more fun than just picking something that damages the most and so on. This is those types of battles done right and I really like it so he's in the top five for me.

Probably the most exciting mid-boss in the game and the only mid-boss in the game that I prefer over its regular boss counterpart. Both of these two, Whomp and Big Bob-Omb, found in Bob-Omb Factory are luck-based bosses. But luck-based =/= bad. It's the quality of the game that matters. And Whomp's battle was done right while Big Bob-Omb's battle was just annoying.

Basically you all stand on seperate platforms all holden up by a rotating platform. Behind one of the plates stand Whomp. You must vote if the rotator will rotate on time or no time. When everyone has voted, depending on how many who voted the platform to move one time, the platform will move for all those times. The player who stands on the platform right in front of Whomp will get squished and lose points. The other ones go to Whomp when he's still on the ground in order to ground pound him as much as you can. As you see that's pretty exciting in my opinion. Luck-based boss done right.

Wiggler is the first regular boss in the game found in the middle of a forest at the end of Toad Road. He will walk around there and you must ground pound on his body and avoid piranha plants that will spawn at times.

It's a kinda basic boss if you ask me as well like Cheep Cheep, I mean it is the first stage boss in the game so it's kinda understandable and it's pretty good overall I say but definitely one of the weaker bosses.

The soundtracks aren't really much better. They generally sound pretty childish compared to other tunes. The first phase is calm and pretty nice but the angry phase sounds like some little kid ragequitting or something like that. It sorta makes me cringe to be honest. Luckily there are some decent phases in that particular song I enjoy like from 00:20 to 00:33.

Overall it's a good boss in my book.

From now on the bosses are ok. And here we have the very first boss ever found in the game. Yeah yeah Wiggler is technically the first boss, but this is the first mid-boss and mid-bosses are fought before regular bosses so there. It's a tad worse than Wiggler's battle in my opinion.

It's sorta basic and has the same boring mid-boss soundtrack. It takes place on a platform high up in the sky and there will spawn a bunch of blocks. You must hit them at the right time to spawn a certain number of bullet bills. Depending on what spawns after hitting the blocks depends on what is shown there. For every 0,5 second it will switch image and make sure you don't spawn a spiny as they will just be in your way. It's a decent boss in my opinion.

From now on the bosses range from good to ok. Cheep Cheep is the mid-boss in Blooper Beach. It's a bit of a basic boss if you ask me. You are in the water and try to get shells from bubbles and throw them at him, and that's it. Yeah you avoid him when he dashes into the screen but eh.

However I still like him. Despite his genericness, he's incredibly addicting as a boss battle and it's pretty fun to get shells and just send them over to this big fish. Not much else to say here so let's get moving on.

Inside a volcano can Spike be found, and that volcano is Magma Mine. And he's the mid-boss. Anyway, this is one of the more boring mid-bosses. Like his regular boss counterpart, you must be very fast in this battle in order to get points and this one is easier too, but that also makes it a bit more boring.

The big difference here is that you use motion controls and in Chain Chomp's battle you just hold the remote sideways and you push the buttons. Motion controls don't always work and while it's true that Blooper's battle required motion controls as well, at least there was more skill put into that. This is just picking the right weapon to attack Spike with with the annoying motion controls and that's it. Combine that with the bland mid-boss music and you have this. Chain Chomp had it's own soundtrack unlike this one.

This is my least favourite boss battle in the game. Like the visitor said, it's the mid-boss of Bowser Station, found in in the upper-left corner of that borefest loop the board is and this boss battle is just annoying.

You basically just hit the dice, hope to get the right number. There's this line in the bottom of the screen and you must pass certain points, if you do, you can start damaging Bowser Jr. and get points. Keep in mind that after each roll the dice is handed over to the next player and that's the whole minigame. Yeah sure there are bad points on that line on the bottom of the screen and if you get exactly there you lose points but that barely happens and it just drags on and on. Keep in mind that it's luck-based too as you roll a dice. Man that's a terrible combination. At least luck-based bosses like Bowser and Whomp don't drag on because there's always something interesting happening. Then there are the ones like this one and Big Bob-Omb that drag on forever at times (although Big Bob-Omb is slightly less dragging which is why I find that one better).

The music I have mixed feelings for as well. The first phase is torturous, which is ironic considering it sounds like something that came from the Monster's Inc. intro which is a glorious part. The mad phase is sorta better but mostly just irritating at times, it's your basic "hurry up" theme kinda like. This is my least favourite boss battle in the game easly

Ok, so technically both him and Diddy Kong aren't necessarily "bosses". However they are classified as boss battles in-game, although they work more or less like bonus minigames in which you must get as many bananas as possible, and in my opinion Donkey Kong's minigame is the better one. Way crazier than the other ones and bananas spawn everywhere, and there's a special cannon where you can shoot up to a deluxr banana giving you more points than usual. I like it and I consider this minigame to be rather decent.

The music, and ONLY music used is a pretty darn good one. I like the sorta epic and chaotic theme of it and it does fit the minigame. Donkey Kong will come at #11 because of that

His minigame is the less chaotic and more simple version of Donkey Kong's, and kinda serves as the mid-boss in Donkey Kong's Jungle Ruins. This is visible as the music is way more calm and has more of a safari theme in the jungle which I personally like, and instead of shooting upwards to get bananas, instead the cannons are in a circle and the bananas in that circle and thus I find this one to be slightly worse than Donkey Kong's minigame, but still I think it's decent.

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