Crater Crawl

Crater Crawl is a 4-player and duel minigame that features in Mario Party DS. It is a survival minigame where the characters scale up inside an erupting volcano in haste to get out.

Setting
The characters are literally inside an active volcano that is spluttering out lava eruptions every few seconds, and must escape it. In the end of the minigame when the winner(s) climb out, the volcano is shown to be set in a desert.

Gameplay
This is a survival minigame, whose aim is to endure the time limit or be the last one standing. The players move around the circumference of the volcano wall, avoiding eruptions that sprout from the base every few seconds. Use the control pad to move around, and keep hitting the A button to climb higher up the wall.

The magma bubbles as a warning signal for a second, indicating that an eruption will sprout from this section of the magma. The game rises in difficulty as the time limit ticks down, with more frequent lava eruptions springing up more quickly.