Mario Party 9 is a Wii video game by Nintendo. It is the ninth Mario Party game in the series. It is also the second released for the Wii, coming after Mario Party 8.
Third stage. This takes place in very scary castle floating on a sea. Boos will stop people and anyone caught by ghost will lose half their Mini Stars. For example, if Mario has 10 Mini Stars, then he'll only have five.
Fourth stage. This takes place in the beach. Players travel on ocean to reach the goal. Huckit Crabs turn all of Mini Stars into Ztars if someone lands on green space.
Fifth stage. This takes place in hot, hot volcano. Touching lava will cause players to lose half their Mini Stars. The goal is to escape volcano's vent.
Sixth stage. Bowser Jr. is the mid-boss while his father, Bowser is the main boss of the stage. Jackpot will increase your character's Mini Stars. Strangely, it has no hazards.
This is the last stage. It can be unlocked by getting 500 party points in Museum. Bananas act a substitute for Mini-Stars while Z-Bananas act as a replacement for Ztars.
The game received decently by critics. Famitsu gave this game 34 (9, 8, 8, 9) out of 40. It received a 77 on Metacritic and a 78.12% on GameRankings. Most critics praised the multiplayer games, control style and graphically improvements but criticized the linearity of the boards and the luck based challenges.
As for sales, Mario Party 9 sold 152,883 copies in its first week in Japan. In America, the game sold 230,000 copies in its first month according to the NPD. Mario Party 9 sold 2.24 million as of September 31st, 2012.