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Hexoskeleton is a boss minigame in Mario Party DS. The name is a portmanteau of "hex", a type of magic, and "exoskeleton", the armor-like external skeleton of insects, crustacea, and other animals.
Here, the player fights Dry Bones, the boss of the board DK's Stone Statue.
Gameplay[]
The player has to defeat Dry Bones by Ground Pounding the magic switches on the edges of the octagonal-shaped platform. On the top screen, the fire symbols indicate the switches to hit and in what order. The player has five lives and Dry Bones has three. When the correct switch is pressed, Dry Bones loses one piece of health. Dry Bones attacks the player by throwing bones, jumping around, and dropping lychees. The player can punch the lychees that, if they hit Dry Bones, stun him for a while.
When he has one heart left, Dry Bones throws more bones, and create ground-pounds that emit shockwaves to harm the player. He then intercepts the player with regular Ground Pounds, but a big Ground Pound will also drop a durian. If the player lures Dry Bones into ground-pounding the durian, he'll be stunned for longer than usual than being hit with a lychee. When Dry Bones recovers, he'll resume ground-pounding the arena.
After the player defeats Dry Bones, they will complete DK's Stone Statue and receive the third Sky Crystal from Diddy Kong, who takes off after Donkey Kong when he remembers the feast.