
After defeating Bowser in Bowser's Sky Scuffle, the player's character then defeats the Mario bubble clones guarding the bubble machine and then destroys the bubble machine with a ground pound. The player's selected character and a green Toad advance up the tower and defeat the bubble clones as well as various bosses. He also puts evil magic in the bubbles made by the bubble machine to make bubble clones of the gang to guard the tower.

He begins locking all the fun from the Party Islands in bubbles. While Mario and the gang are partying and playing games, Bowser shows up, feeling jealous about why Mario and his friends are invited and he wasn't, so he builds Bowser's Tower, saying that anyone can join him at his evil party. The gang then cheers about it but then the letter suddenly traps the gang in bubbles to carry them though the sky to the Party Islands.


Rather than traveling around a board to obtain the most quantity of a particular item, either separately or together on a vehicle, players need to race their opponents to the finish in a linear, one-way board, with certain objectives in the race differing depending on the board played on. Mario Party: Island Tour has gameplay objectives unique to it compared to other entries in the Mario Party series. It is the twelfth main installment (nineteenth overall) in the Mario Party series, the third installment for a handheld console, and the first Mario Party to be developed for the Nintendo 3DS. Mario Party: Island Tour is a game for the Nintendo 3DS, released first in the Americas in November 22, 2013, and the second Mario Party game to be developed by NDcube.
