S1E11 - VGAS Party

VGAS Party is the eleventh episode of the first season of Video Game All-Stars. The competition reaches the stage where the close friends of the final four have to see one of them leave, as they individually give their all to make sure it won't be them.

Plot
Lilac and Spyro meet up outside the cabins to chat, as they know after the upcoming challenge, they would be losing one of their closest friends, even potentially one of them. With this in mind, they get Falco and Hiroko with the aim of hanging out as a full group before the challenge. Lilac sets up a game of Just Dance for the four of them to play, giving each of them a phone. The game starts, Falco and Spyro struggle with dancing, while Hiroko and Lilac take to it quite well. The song ends, and Hiroko wins, about to choose another song, but Spyro suggests taking a break instead as the challenge would start soon. Falco agrees, while Spyro seems down about their time together in the competition ending. In an effort to make him feel better, Lilac lets the others keep the phones, so they could stay in contact.

Banjo welcomes the contestants to the challenge, saying they're going to have a party. For a moment, they think this means they get to relax for the day, but Banjo clarifies it is a Mario Party themed challenge, where they would have to score 20 points to reach a star, gaining points from doing well in minigames. He then adds that the last one to get there would be eliminated automatically, with no need for a vote. The contestants are nervous about the high stakes, as the first minigame starts, contestants would have to use miscellaneous parts to make an eliminated contestant's face. Falco would have to make Mugman, Hiroko would have to make Eggman, Lilac would have to make Gundham, and Spyro would have to make King K. Rool, which he expresses dislike for. Spyro completes the game first, taking extra steps to further ridicule K. Rool, then Lilac, Hiroko and finally Falco finish. The second minigame is guessing how many Toads are in a certain area. Falco, Hiroko and Lilac guess the correct answer, getting points on how fast they were, and Spyro gets the least points as he guessed wrong. This makes everyone tie at five points.

The next minigame would be a boat race, which the contestants struggle with, none of them having controlled a boat before. They paddle to the loser resort and back, Spyro offers to help Lilac should her boat tip, knowing she doesn't do well with water. In the end, Lilac makes it back first, with Hiroko and Falco quickly following. Spyro makes it back last, and starts to panic as this puts him in last place, but after a quick word of encouragement from Lilac, he gets it together again. Banjo announces the next minigame would be trivia, the first to get each of the three questions right would win points. The first question is to recall the elimination order, which after a few incorrect guesses from everyone, Hiroko gets it right. The second question is the most recent Banjo-Kazooie game, which Lilac guesses correctly as Nuts & Bolts, placing second. Finally, Falco and Spyro are asked who gets third place. The pair are confused, but Falco tries taking it, and Spyro just agrees, feeling defeated as he's even further behind.

Lilac tries again to help Spyro by encouraging him, but he doesn't take it so well this time around due to stress. Banjo continues the challenge, telling them the next minigame is finding a glass shard. Spyro breaks the cabin window in desperation, but Banjo specifies there are three buried underground for them to find, so they start digging. Spyro finds one first, being happy to win after being last three times in a row, then Lilac and Hiroko follow shortly, putting Falco in last for the minigame and in the challenge overall, though everyone is at least halfway to the required 20 points. The sixth minigame is cooking a steak the quickest, which makes Lilac comment on the weird variety. Falco finishes first, with Spyro following shortly behind, making their scores equal at 14. Hiroko is third and Lilac last, which also ties their scores, however at 16. Banjo comments that if one of them wins the next minigame, they would be in the final three.

The next minigame would be a game of Hot Potato, where the four would pass a bomb around in a circle, trying not to be the one holding it when it explodes. They pass it around in a circle until eventually it blows up in Hiroko's hands, giving her fourth place. The remaining three pass it around again, this time Spyro gets unlucky, placing third. Falco and Lilac throw the bomb to each other in the last round, eventually it explodes in Falco's hands, giving Lilac the win, and a place in the final three. As she's safe, she doesn't need to participate in the next minigame, which would be dodging beams of light being fired at them. Falco decides to start running, while Hiroko and Spyro try dodging. The two of them try to outlast the other, but having spent all of their energy, they are both hit at similar times, teleporting them to safety and giving Falco enough points to advance to the final three. As Banjo doesn't know who placed higher of Hiroko and Spyro, he decides the two would play one final minigame to decide the last one safe. Spyro is nervous about this, as he really doesn't want to lose, but steps up anyway, saying that it's not over.

The deciding game is Bumper Balls, simply being the one who falls first is eliminated. Falco and Lilac watch the two battle, as Spyro goes on the offensive, Hiroko tries to play safer, staying around the middle. Spyro feels inspired after hearing Falco cheer for him, so he goes for a big attack, however he overshoots, and Hiroko takes the opportunity to nudge him towards the edge. Spyro desperately tries to recover, but another hit sends him over the edge and out of the game. Hiroko expresses that she feels bad for eliminating him, then Falco and Lilac also run over to say their goodbyes to him. Spyro remarks about how he never really prepared to lose, and that he would really miss the others before he leaves.

Once the remaining three return to the campground, Lilac finds herself missing Spyro already, so she calls him, and the two chat for a while. Later on, Spyro lets Rise borrow his phone, and she talks to all of the final three, expressing that she's rooting for Lilac, and she still considers Hiroko a friend despite being voted out by her. She admits to Falco that she handled their situation in the past poorly, and the two end up on better terms. Privately, Hiroko finds herself really regretting the events of the challenge, thinking that Spyro would've deserved being there more than she did, but Falco offers a few words to help her feel better.