Soccer Survival

Soccer Survival is a 4-player and duel minigame in Mario Party DS. It is a survival minigame where four pint-sized characters roam around on a football field, dodging Goomba's ball kicks.

Setting
The minigame is set at a football field where the characters roam around in the grass, within full view of a Goomba shooting balls at them from the goal. Since the characters are shrunk due to events of the game's story, from the player's perspective the otherwise ordinary Goomba gives the impression of being massive.

Gameplay
The aim of the game is to dodge the balls continually kicked into the characters by Goomba, and be the last one standing - getting hit by the ball will knock you out of the game. Use the control pad to move around and the A-button to jump on opponents and hinder them.

The game is otherwise pretty straightforward until the final 10 seconds, when Goomba's shoots become more unpredictable and start moving in zig-zags.

Trivia

 * The minigame uses the American term 'soccer' and does so even in the UK and Europe, where the same sport is referred to as football.