Topic: Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door!!!!!!!

@PikminMarioKirby Thanks! Yes, I have figured out she does face whether left or right, but sometimes it can be somewhere not directly by you, even when she sniffs to say it is, but then it will be somewhere obscure like outside the house you are in, but insists it is right next to you!
Drives me crazy sometimes as I don't want to miss the star pieces! Agh. Lol.

Apparently the sleep condition was buffed in the remake; enemies won't be woken up by any of your attacks unless you're charged up, so it's rather effective if you do manage to get them sleeping. Even bosses will remain asleep for a whole three or five turns (unless a stage hazard happens to hit them).

In case anyone wants to try that out with a particularly difficult boss.

I have officially beaten Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the first time ever.


I'll hopefully have some proper thoughts in a day or two in the 'Games You Recently Beat' thread but to put it simply: this is one of my new favourite games ever made and most likely my Game of the Year for 2024.

@Fizza Great job! This game is SO GOOD! Definitely looking like my GOTY as well (unless Brothership/Jamboree somehow take it down, which is very unlikely considering TTYD is tied as my favorite game of all time). Like pretty much everything about this game is peak, I hope we get a follow-up!

@PikminMarioKirby God I never wanted it to end honestly, just an absolutely phenomenal experience from start to finish 😭 ❤

Can't wait for M&L Brothership to come near the end of the year now as well; I don't think it'll be dethroning TTYD as my favourite Mario RPG of the year, but it should be an utterly brilliant time all the same (especially when it comes out two days after my birthday!!!)

@Fizza Brothership was my favorite thing at the Direct (may be a hot take here to put it over MP4 but I’m standing with my opinion), I am so happy to see this series return even with AlphaDream gone (also good to see some of the original developers are involved with Brothership).

Getting Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario TTYD, and Mario & Luigi Brothership in the span of a year’s time is CRAZY. Mario & Luigi doesn’t seem to be holding back on uniqueness, hopefully the restrictions are lifted for the Mario RPGs!

Oh hah. Last week I lost to the final boss (she had only 2hp remaining!!!), and it was getting late, so I saved and went to cry myself to sleep.

I got stuck in a cycle of playing Animal Crossing and not waiting to swap the cartridge for several days so I didn’t try again until today.

And right after I loaded the game Vivian just goes and says “huh, was that pipe always there?”. And indeed, the room right before the boss grew a new pipe over the week. It goes straight to the entrance of the palace.

It’s like such a nothing thing, but it truly amused me how the game just randomly decided to give me a quick way to exit the final area 😅

@ScalenePowers - Chapter 2 in the tree is the worst chapter by far I find, compared to the others. Each chapter really does try to do something a bit different, but this one is the weakest. I love the game, but I did not enjoy that part too. Gets better again after that, I promise.

@Mana_Knight
I think the tree proves the age-old maxim about games: escort missions are terrible.

Aesthetically, I liked chapter 2. But I agree....The escort stuff was a pain, especially the few times I'd randomly lose Punis and then would have to track them down so I could activate something.

@NintendoByNature I agree with you regarding the Glitz Pit; a lot of it felt repetitive with the matches, and I saw the boss twist coming a mile away. I didn't dislike that chapter per se, but it's probably tied with chapter 1 as the least interesting chapter in the game for me. At least the setting was more interesting, though I preferred Chapter 1's boss.

And I'm glad to see you beat the final boss in my vacation absence. She was tough! I was at a slightly higher level than you when I attempted her though. I did beat her my first try, but just barely, plus I really switched around my badges for that fight.

@Tyranexx yea I could've done without the useless dialogue in the glitz pit. Could've been half the length if I didn't have to constantly press A. .

I can't fully remember ch 1 but I don't recall disliking it. Nice job on the final boss! I would've loved to finish her off on the first attempt. Either way, glad I got the job done.

@NintendoByNature My sentiments exactly! XD At least Chapter 3 gave us some great characters, namely the Yoshi (more due to usefulness), Jolene, and Prince Mush.

I don't dislike Chapter 1, I just thought the area around Petalburg was very generic. At least until Mario travels to the boss's castle. On the final boss: thanks! She wasn't easy even though I kind of knew what to expect. I was almost out of items and had burned through most partners who could cause group damage by the time she fell. I almost backed out and leveled a bit more.

@rallydefault Wise wise words.

I liked this until chapter 3. Then the pace of the game and slow nature of battling began to wear me down. By chapter 6 I was fed up with the linear nature of the game world's, the backtracking, the slow dialogue boxes. Not a game I feel like I'd ever return to as it seems quite limiting in how you can approach playing it. If you could put the turn based battling and party system into origami King then I would have enjoyed it more I reckon

Happy 20th birthday to TTYD! This is one of the best games of all time, here’s to hoping we get a sequel (with similar gameplay) someday!

One of the best Mario games of all time for me. I love the RPG/Paper games just that bit more than the platformers.

How did we live without the warp pipe room though?

That warp pipe wasn't there in the original game, so you had to make a painful trip to Rogueport and back through the entire dungeon if you needed more items or leveling. Make the most of it.

I'd be fairly sure that those of us who did it in the original made certain to be fully geared up on subsequent playthroughs.

I’m not sure what level I was (I’m on vacation and didn’t bring the game with me), but it must’ve been around or over 30, I think…

(Based on screenshots on my switch) I had 15hp, 40fp (enhanced with badges), and a whole lot of bp, around 70 I think.

@Matt_Barber

Yep. I am fairly certain there was SO much content I didn't do or missed out on because of how long it took to get to places!

Anyway, just discovered a fun new trick I never knew! If you wear both the Wario emblem and Luigi Emblem you get Waluigi clothes!!!

Oh, man. The final set of Trouble Centre requests are super lengthy. So many 'oh, you just missed them! Try such and such a place' Lol. New version of 'Your Princess is in another castle'. Still, least the warp room makes it a bit easier, but going back to my point, 'what did we do with out it!!!'.