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Walkthrough for: Super Paper Mario
Game: Super Paper Mario	Format: Nintendo Wii	Ratings Good
Posted by: jubbachainsaw
() _ __ _ _ _ /\ ' ) ) ' ) ) ) / ) . . _ _ __ /--'__. _ _ __ / / / __. __ o __ _/__/__(_/_/_)_</_/ (_ / (_/\|_/_)_</_/ (_ / ' (_(_/\|_/ (_<_(_) / / --------------------------=== TABLE OF CONTENTS ===------------------------- 01 Game Mechanics & Characters......................................(SPMAAA) 02 Walkthrough......................................................(SPMBBB) 2.0 Prologue.....................................................(SPM000) 2.1 Chapter One..................................................(SPM001) 2.2 Chapter Two..................................................(SPM002) 2.3 Chapter Three................................................(SPM003) 2.4 Chapter Four.................................................(SPM004) 2.5 Chapter Five.................................................(SPM005) 2.6 Chapter Six..................................................(SPM006) 2.7 Chapter Seven................................................(SPM007) 2.8 Chapter Eight................................................(SPM008) 2.9 Post-Game....................................................(SPM009) 03 Boss Strategies..................................................(SPMCCC) 04 Shops & Items....................................................(SPMDDD) 05 Recipes..........................................................(SPMEEE) 06 Cards............................................................(SPMFFF) 07 Optional Pixl....................................................(SPMGGG) 08 Pit of 100 Trials................................................(SPMHHH) 09 Treasure Map Hunting.............................................(SPMIII) 10 FAQ..............................................................(SPMJJJ) 11 Version History..................................................(SPMKKK) 12 Special Thanks...................................................(SPMLLL) 13 Contact Information..............................................(SPMMMM) ---------------------=== GAME MECHANICS & CHARACTERS ===-------------------- Section 01: Game Mechanics & Characters (SPMAAA) ============== ---CONTROLS--- ============== The controls for the game are quite simple, and as such I don't feel a need to expand on what the manual will tell you, but if you don't have the manual for whatever reason, I'll tell you the controls here. Control Pad (D-Pad) ------------------- Walk/Crouch Move the Cursor (Press down using Peach) Guard (Press down using Bowser) Breathe fire (Press up when next to other character) Speak to nearby character (Press up when in-game signal tells you to) Examine a door or chest (Press up during a conversation) View previous dialogue messages. A Button -------- (When using Mario) Flip dimensions (When there is a long description in a menu) Scroll text 1 Button -------- Use a Pixl (When a dialogue star appears) Read the rest of the message 2 Button -------- Jump (When using Peach in midjump) Open parasol and float Select an item (When a dialogue star appears) Read the rest of the message 1 & 2 Buttons ------------- Display quick menu + Button -------- Display menu - Button -------- Display controls Pointer ------- (When viewing and pressing A button) View Tippi's hints and explanations, examine people and things Some items and minigames also require the pointer's usage Home Button ----------- Brings you to the Wii menu screen Power Button ------------ Turn off the Wii console ============ ---COMBAT--- ============ Combat in Super Paper Mario is a simple affair, as you just use your own jumping skills and occasionally items or Pixl abilities to defeat enemies, while you accumulate damage from biotic factors, like enemies touching you, or abiotic factors, like falling into a gap. If you suffer too much damage and die, you lose the game, and have to start over from your last save point. I wouldn't worry about dying too much, as the fighting is none too difficult and the small amount of health items you'll either get from the enemies in the game or from shops more than compensates for whatever unlucky hits you'll receive from enemies. ================== ---STYLISH HITS--- ================== If you wiggle the Wiimote while defeating an enemy, you will likely get some bonus points for being stylish. Also, if you press the 2 button when you're landing on an enemy, you'll bounce higher. ======================== ---DIMENSION FLIPPING--- ======================== Do this everywhere you go. No, seriously. In more than half of the places you flip, you'll find something interesting and worth the time. However, be careful not to spend too much time in the 3D world, as you will start to take damage if your Flip Meter runs out. ================= ---LEVELING UP--- ================= The way you level up in this game is sort of like in other RPGs, but with some crucial differences. In most RPGs, you'll receive experience points for defeating an enemy, and eventually you'll level up. Here, you receive points for defeating enemies and for doing other certain actions, like grabbing an item. Once you hit a certain amount of points, you'll level up, and either your attack or number of health points will increase, unlike most RPGS where a variety of stats all increase at a level up. =========== ---TIPPI--- =========== You may be tempted to forget Tippi's ability to tell you information about things you point at using the Wiimote, but it's really a foolish move to. At any time you're stuck, you should always try dimension flipping, a bit of backtracking maybe, and using Tippi. ====================== ---Mister I & Red I--- ====================== Got probably upwards of twenty e-mails about these two. They're the 'eye' enemies that shoot lazers at you. I say a lot of times in the walkthrough that you can't kill them. That's not true, as I've learned from my readers. Like in previous Super Mario games, if you flip to 3D and run around them, they'll be defeated. Likewise, if you just use Fleep on them, they'll also be defeated. So, there you go. ==================== ---SPIKED ENEMIES--- ==================== I've received close to a dozen e-mails on this, so instead of quoting one person or another, I'll just say that this bit wouldn't be here without them. Anyway, you can jump on spike-topped enemies, like Bowser, without getting damaged if you use Carrie. I didn't really think that it needed it's own section, but I suppose it does. ================ ---CHARACTERS--- ================ Mario: Everyone's hero, Mario is on the scene once again to save all the worlds from the Void, and more specifically, Count Bleck. Along the way, he might want to find Peach and Luigi, maybe. Maybe. Princess Peach: Fair ruler of Mushroom Kingdom, she is apparently betrothed to Bowser. That's too bad. Missing at the start of the game. Bowser: Normally an enemy of Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser will help you out, but he isn't happy about it. Mmm, fire breath. Also missing. Luigi: The hapless brother of Mario, Luigi is a bit more, uh, 'cautious' than his sibling, but he's always there to help out. If anybody wants him. He's missing, too. Quite the theme we've got going here... Tippi: A mysterious Pixl that brings you to Flipside. It's hinted strongly through the game that she is more than she appears to be. Merlon: Tippi brings you to meet Merlon, and he'll tell you of your quest to save all worlds. Go to him when you need to know what to do. O'Chunks: The 'brawn' minion of Count Bleck. Likes to go hero 'chunkin. Mimi: The 'freakin' creepy' minion of Count Bleck. She's freakin' creepy. Dimentio: The 'mysterious' minion of Count Bleck. Ciao! Nastasia: Seems to be Count Bleck's assistant. It's mentioned that she owes him her life. Talks like Bill Lumberg from the movie, "Office Space". Count Bleck: He's evil, wears a monocle, switchs from talking in first to third person in gusto, and has a starry cape. Clearly not somebody to mess with, as is evidenced by the way he's the big evil guy of this whole thing. -----------------------------=== WALKTHROUGH ===---------------------------- Section 02: Walkthrough (SPMBBB) Here's the walkthrough for Super Paper Mario, and along the way I'll tell you every secret I find. If you find something that isn't mentioned here, however, e-mail me about it! I'd love to know so more people can be helped, and if it's something that I truly missed, I'll add an 'E-mail Note:' right in the section where it's needed. Let's go! ============================================================================ -------------------------------=== PROLOGUE ===----------------------------- ============================================================================ Section 2.1: Prologue (SPM000) ---FLIPSIDE--- After all of the ridiculous happenings in Peach/Bowser's Castle, you're brought to Flipside by your Pixl helper Tippi, and meet Merlon, who appears to be of the magical persuasion. He likes to keep himself busy by making sure all of the worlds don't end. Hours must be great. Anyhoo, he directs our attention to a rather depressing purple hole in the sky that spews an interesting sort of lightning. Created by Count Bleck, the guy who you just saw spirit away Peach, Bowser, Luigi, and a whole task force of Bowser's minions, by way of the Dark Prognosticus. Before long, you've got yourself the job of saving the world through collecting the eight Pure Hearts, as is foretold by the decidingly pleasant sounding Light Prognosticus. Before you wonder to yourself about just why you're going on a fetch quest for eight instead of the usual seven mystical items, the answer is revealed to you. Why, that sly Merlon already had you a Pure Heart! With your do-nothing attitude already netting you a Pure Heart, it would seem that the Great Hero Mario of Legend could accomplish his entire goal of planet saving by doing nothing at all! Alas, this is not the case, for you must switch gears soon after and place the Pure Heart in the Heart Pillar, located in Flipside. Your Pixl pal Tippi is on the job, helping to guide you there along with the in-game instructions on how to move. Start by running directly right and off the ledge, and then left after you've fallen, chatting to the Flipside denizens for some obvious observations. When you've reached the white block you'll be asked to place the Pure Heart in it's spot, triggering a bit of special effects and an opening door near Merlon. With that task accomplished, you'll be told to return to Merlon. Do so by traveling back to where you fell, and pressing up on the d-pad when you're standing in front of a red arrow. You'll be transported to the 2nd floor of Flipside. Talk to the people around you for more irrelevant bits of info, then go left. You'll stumble across a save block, which you hit by jumping and hitting it. To your right now are the town fortune teller, inn, path back to Merlon, and path to the third floor. To the left are Merlon's place, the item shop, and non-functional path to the 1st floor. You have no coins at the moment, so head up the path to Merlon, where you'll receive an item that allows you to travel back to Flipside from most locations you'll travel to in the game. You're told that you'll be meeting with a dimensional governor who will be giving you some nice new powers. Sounds great to me. Go through the red door and the quest begins! ---CASTLE BLECK INNER SANCTUM--- But first, some wacky mishaps involving the main villain and his maliciously mischievous minions. It culminates with some hero-chunkin' to be done by the classic muscle man O'Chunks, and another minion travels with him to watch. All of this is due to the Count receiving news that there is an interdimensional interloper that is most likely the foretold hero. ============================================================================ -------------------------------=== CHAPTER 1 ===---------------------------- ============================================================================ Section 2.1: Chapter 1 (SPM001) ============= CHAPTER 1-1 ============= ---LINELAND ROAD--- You're taught about Tippi's function as an information source, and told by Tippi to find the dimensional governor, Bestovius. It's also noted that the Pure Heart is not nearby. Travel right and you'll encounter a Goomba, which you can defeat most easily by merely jumping upon his head. Since he only has one health point, he'll be defeated. Collect the coins from the item blocks and continue east, and once you reach the unbreakable blocks that surround a door, jump upon the closest breakable block, and from there over the door. Continue on your way, defeating an enemy that likes to jump when you're nearby. Careful though, it'll take two jumps to defeat this one. As you reach the house, go by and save, and then enter. Entering into a seemingly empty house, Tippi will tell you to use his, her, um, it's function as a Pixl and search the house via Wiimote pointing. Once you've done so, you'll see a door. Click on it to make it enterable, and go right on in. Bestovius will first make you self-conscious about your poor mustache size, and then will delve right into dimensional flipping. But wait just a moment there! He wants ten-thousand coins for the teaching. Despite your coin-shortage, agree anyway, and he'll let you skate through on the few coins in your pocket. What a deal! He'll mutter like a madman for a moment or two there and then give you the rather shiny ability to flip between the myriad dimensions. Just hit A and you're on your way! Do it right now and you'll see two items for your trouble. Return to the flat plane and let the meter recharge, then head into the outer room, again changing dimensions to get another item, and changing back. Now, outside into the unknown! E-mail Note: Bestovious will teach you to dimensionally flip whether you pay him or not, if you just refuse to pay, he caves in and says, "I guess I'll have to teach you anyway." - Kamens711 E-mail Note (2): In chapter 1-1 near Bestevious's house (the guy that grants you the flip power) you can obtain a Squiglet card. All you need to do is jump on the save block to the right of the house, and then jump onto the house. On top of a brick block above the house is the card. - llamaman2 Change dimensions upon leaving for a couple of coins and some 8-bit help you may recognize from the past. They'll damage any enemy they hit. Nice. Now drop off the ledges and change dimensions again, revealing a trail of coins and another pipe. Enter the pipe on the right and you'll enter a cave that holds a chest with your item. Don't worry, your little pals will travel with you. But ho! Change dimension again and you'll find another coin trail that lurks behind the platform. Leave via the ground pipe. Jump over the gap, and go 3D. You'll find that those unbreakable blocks were quite unattached after all. Head inside the door, there's nothing left to find in the new dimension the rest of the way. Upon entering the new area, the leveling up system is explained. Earn points by defeating enemies, gain more health and attack power as a result. Defeat the group of foes by way of Koopa shell, which you'll get by jumping upon the first turtle-like enemy, a Koopa. Just run into it to defeat it. Go further until you reach the tall pipe, and then change dimensions, taking care to nab yourself the Goomba Card while passing by. Jump onto the middle pipe and get that block, and continue on your way, defeating the enemy that appears solely in the third dimension. Check continuously for blocks that are only in the other dimension while you continue your progress. Take note of the happy flower at the top of the item block pyramid, it'll rain coins down all over the place. Take care not to be overeager as yours truly was, I managed to jump off a ledge in the pursuit of a very large coin. Anyway, as you reach the unjumpable gap, change dimensions, you'll see a path on the left as well as an enemy at the end that you should quickly defeat. Go back to 2D and go up the steps and across the gap. You won't find anything except for an enemy in the third dimension over here. In the normal dimension, however, you will find yourself a new enemy with four health points that spits slow rocks. Once they're all defeated, enter the door. Run right and defeat the Sproing-Oing enemy, who has the annoying tendency to constantly split itself upon damaging. When past it, change dimension and hit the block behind the hill for your little buddies to come back to help you take the fight to evil. Continue forward and destroy the enemy in 3D, changing back to eliminate the normal enemies. Upon hitting the enemy block you'll receive a 'watch-out!' warning, which you should heed, you just unleashed a zombie Shroom. Use your minions to defeat it, or if you have managed to already lose them, just dodge it. Upon reaching the next impossibly tall hill, change dimension, putting a bit of distance between yourself and the hill. Eek! An army of easily defeatable enem-Hey. Just go crazy here, jumping to and fro collecting coins, points, and the occasional dropped items. Just take care to watch your Flip Meter. Once you've passed that bit of excitement, continue on, defeating one of the slinky-like enemies just to fight another when you change dimension to go between the steps. Head back afterwards and jump on the coin block, and from there to the tall hill, so you can hit the brick block there for some nice amounts of coins. Making forward progress now, go up the steps and jump over to the hill, and enter the door. Don't waste the time to change dimensions, there's nothing there to find. Bypass the immediate danger of the Piranha Plants by changing dimension and walking right by them. Hit the item block and you'll get an item that will grow you out into a gargantuan size. Use it by running straight forward, and you'll plow through everything in your path. E-mail note: At the end of chapter 1-1, you stated that you should stay 2D and get the star since there is nothing else there. However, before touching the star, if you change to 3D and follow a small path behind the wall there is a chest containing an enemy card. - Luke Jones ============= CHAPTER 1-2 ============= ---MOUNT LINELAND--- Easy enough here, more of the "defeat enemy, change dimensions and defeat that enemy," stuff we've been doing. So, do it. Be warned, though, you'll encounter winged enemies that make your own jumps a bit of a hazard. Don't miss a single enemy, they're easy points compared to the amount of danger they are. When you're done at the bottom level go 2D and jump up the mountainside's levels, defeating the red Koopa along the way. Then jump up into the red square and you'll rather ingeniously be transported to the next area. Simple enough here, change dimensions and jump on the blue block seemingly encased in desert block to trigger the appearance of a mountain that you can jump on. Go up and jump into the blue square, it'll move you over to the next doorway. Go into the third dimension for a second here and fall very gingerly down the ledge to the left, and you'll fall next to a coin block. Head up the same way as last time, but this time enter the door. Head up the stairs, let the Koopa walk off the edge, and then change dimensions. Hit the four coin blocks and jump on them, and from them to the next ledge. Up here go again into three dimensions, first to hit the hidden four coin blocks, and then to go from them to the indestructible blocks above them. Defeat the lone enemy here, and change into the third dimension. Don't worry if you fall, you can hit a brick at the bottom that creates a ladder back to the coin blocks. Anyway, look for a brick block hiding in 3D next to the highest indestructible blocks. It'll create another ladder upon being hit which takes you to a line of delectable clouds that have an even more delectable line of coins atop it. Travel along it's way and jump down. Go 3D to avoid the rolling blocks. Run quickly up the hill, there's nothing to find and time running out. At the end, enter the door. Run up the path and read the sign to learn the bridge is closed. Oh, darn. No way to stop the end of all worlds now. How terrible, whatever shall we do no-Ooh, is that a pipe? Enter it and you'll be in the background of the game screen. You can't enter the third dimension from here, so just run left and enter the building here. Go up the steps and you'll see water appearing out of nowhere. Change dimensions and you'll find a man with similar fashion sense scared out of his mind. Talk with him and stand close before changing dimensions back, therefore rescuing him from his dimensional peril. Luckily enough, he's Red, the guy that wrote the sign we read just a bit ago. He'll ask you a question about the color of manliness, answer 'Red' and you'll have a bridge to travel across. Leave the house and travel through the pipe back to the foreground of the game screen. Continue on your way and you'll soon reach a town. ---YOLD TOWN--- Run around a bit and talk to the people, one of which reveals that by changing dimensions, you can enter a pipe hidden behind the blocks next to her, and further more, down there changing dimension hides more goodies. Like coins! Follow the good lady's advice and do so. Now go into the first shop, and if you have fifty coins, and you certainly should, get yourself a Life Shroom, just in case. Go into the next building up to hear the paranoid ravings of a madman, and continue onto the next building, where you should change dimension once to find and enter a hidden pipe, and again to walk by a group of Thwomps. Enter that door too. In here, use the Wiimote's pointing abilities to reveal another door. Go in. Ooh, a treasure chest, and it's big too! That should make you feel better about being locked inside. Open it to reveal a new Pixl friend, Thoreau. His own special ability allows you to pick things up and throw them, even while jumping. Pick up the red and silver block next to you and chuck it at the blue switch on the left side of the room while jumping to open the door. Leave as you got in. Go into the fourth building now and talk to the elder, he'll protest at first, but at the sight of your new Pixl he'll acquiesce and tell someone or other to put the bridge back up, allowing you to progress. Once you've left, go back left to the blocks hiding the pipe. Jump from them to the nearby roof on the left, and from there right until you're to the elder's roof. You will find here a Boomboxer card. Jump on down when you've got it. Now run right and enter the pipe before the gap, you'll go the game screen's background again. Run right to the house, and when you go in, head up the steps, change dimensions, and grab the Red & Green card in front of the bed. With that out of the way, talk to the man in green. He'll put out the bridge and ask you again about colors. I chose 'green' because it was the first option and I already had the bridge, and I got booted out of the house for my troubles. How rude. On the other hand, it was much quicker and more fun than backtracking out, so respond how you like. Run over the bridge and hit the star block to end the chapter. ============= CHAPTER 1-3 ============= ---YOLD DESERT--- Run right, defeat enemies, change dimensions to reveal blocks, the same old thing. Be careful of rocks, though, they're enemies that we aren't able to harm directly just yet, due to their defense being two. You can however goad them into flipping themselves by ramming the rock, but it's really not worth the time. Something important to note, when you're at the ledge directly before the last sand river, change dimensions and look behind the rock that you just passed, you'll find a card behind it. Defeat the Boomboxer that's near you too, it should be easy with the card you've got of it. Jump over the river and change dimensions, then sneak up behind the enemy with the glowing tail. Change dimensions back very quickly and attack the tail in fast succession to defeat the enemy. You can't do anything about the enemy in the other dimension here, so just enter the door. Here run up and again goad the enemy into flipping itself and defeat it, jumping past the sand river next. Defeat the cloud enemy by jumping on it's top, being careful to avoid the gas it spews out as it can cause the adverse sleep status effect. With a small bit more travel and a dimension change, you'll see a rock with an arrow atop of it that tells you to follow a trail to the right that isn't visible from the normal dimension screen. Follow it and you'll come across a signpost that tells you to jump ten times beneath a red palm tree. Sounds simple enough. Time for the Grand Red Palm Tree Quest of the Ages! And away we go! Run back to the normal trail, and go left, not right, until you're at the door to the last path. Go through, and jump over some rocks and sand rivers until you've reached the red palm tree of legend. Jump the ten times required and the door of magic stars will open! Or, it's just another door. Ah, well, that quest didn't take long. Go through the door. Here you'll need to take out an enemy near the indestructible blocks, and then another in the other dimension, switching back to normalcy for a coin block and a ride using the red squares, after jumping up to them with the spring. On the other side of the sand pit, change dimensions to get all of the blocks, and change back to 2D. Jump from the spring to the top, and from the top indestructible squares to the lone square to the right. Once you've landed on it, use Thoreau the Pixl's ability to throw himself at the blue switch to activate the next red square transport. The place you land has a surprising amount of 3D enemies on it if you want to bother with it, but if you do watch out for the sand, it's not always easy to get away from. On this side defeat the enemies and use the save block, and then jump on it in the third dimension, and from it to the other indestructible blocks now in 2D until you reach the pipe. Enter it to find a row of coin blocks, and when you change dimensions you'll find an additional row hovering above the first. Hit them all and additionally, if you jump above the middle coin block in 2D, you'll hit an invisible brick coin block. Be advised, the last 3D block has a blue Shroom that'll both heal you 20 points and give you a sizable point bonus. Leave the pipe and make certain that you've saved before you enter the next door. +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: O'Chunks +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ HP: 20 AP: 1 O'Chunks isn't too bad for a first boss, his attacking consisting of grabbing you by the feet and throwing you and jumping in the air above you in an attempt to crush you. He also will lower his shoulder sometimes and try and ram you while you're trying to get close enough to grab him. Your way of winning this is usage of the Pixl Thoreau. Get close enough to throw the Pixl at him so that you've got him, and then throw him to daze him. Jump on him quickly to do damage. Repeat as much as needed and you've won. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- With that out of the way, go to your right and enter the door. Run around first in 2D to defeat all visible enemies, and then 3D, then travel by way of moving platforms to the door above you on indestructible blocks on the left of the door you came in from. Here you'll find another stone telling you to look at it in 3D, and when you do it tells you to hit both the Minus button and the 1 button on the Wiimote when you're on a distant blue platform. Let's keep this one in mind. Go back through the door and head right, onto the spring and then from platform to platform to the other door. In this area, run to the right to find a...blue platform? Why, that isn't distant at all! Nonetheless, hop on and simultaneously press both the Minus and 1 button on the Wiimote to trigger the next scene. Jump over to the right and hit the star block to end the chapter. ============= CHAPTER 1-4 ============= ---YOLD RUINS--- Start off by running down the steps and defeating the lone enemy so that you can walk through the door. Here you can defeat the shelled enemies by jumping on them and hitting them into the sand. Then run over and hit the item block for a quick ten health point heal, and if in danger of the fire, go into the third dimension. Switch back and jump from the item block to the indestructible blocks above and to the left and right of it. The left side has two enemies, the right side one, along with a ladder. The ladder leads to a Life Shroom, always a good plan. Head back up the ladder and back down to the ground floor, heading right and through the door. In this room, head into the other dimension just to make your life easier and run past all of the twirling fire until you reach the end of the room, which holds both an enemy and arrow block. Defeat the first and hit the second. Since the door you passed on the way through was locked, you need to enter 2D and jump on the arrow block you just hit to enter the door in the air. The obstacles in this room are obscenely easy to avoid rolling spiky stones that bounce off one another. Either use the third dimension or just jumping skills to bypass them and get to the ladder, which leads to a chest holding the key to the door we just passed. Leave the room and go to unlock that door, entering it after doing so. Save, and defeat the nearby enemy. Use the middle path of coin blocks and indestructable blocks to pass through the sand, though you can pass under the blocks and through the sand if you're constantly jumping, though the coins you'll get from the coin blocks really aren't worth it. Past that, either jump or change dimensions past the rolling spiky stones, and then defeat the stone spitting enemy in 2D past it. Since this door is locked on the ground level, time to look for new options. Change dimensions to reveal a coin block that you can jump on to reach the top door. Enter it. The goal in this room is to hit the blue switch. Do so much the same way you did when you got Thoreau, grab the enemy and throw it in midjump to hit the blue switch. I suppose you could also do some serious powerleveling in here, since the enemy is respawned upon defeat constantly, but that seems just incredibly boring so I didn't do it. Have...fun? Anyway, leave the room. You will now see that the mass of indestructible blocks above the sand lake in the room had hid a key. Use Thoreau's grabbing abilities to get it, and then unlock and enter the locked room. In here, it appears that there is no way to reach the hovering door. If you try and use Tippi's Wiimote search, however, you can reveal a platform below the door you can activate by clicking upon it. Enter the room. Change into 3D here, and run left until you see a crevice in the wall you can enter. Jump in and you'll find a key that had previously looked like it was trapped by indestructible rock. But you're not done yet! Head over all the way to the right and change dimensions yet again, and you'll reveal a path leading to a chest that holds the Buzzy Beetle card, not to mention two of the very same enemies in the 3D dimension. Defeat them and go back through the path, unlocking and entering the locked door. Use the spring to get to the ledge on the left, and then change into 3D to find a ladder. Climb it. Run right and hit the blue switch to trigger an avalanche of spiky balled attackers. Run back left and onto the large red switch, this'll let the floor out from under them so you now have a platform to get into the hovering red door. Once inside that door, change into the third dimension and look at the numbers on the sides of the blocks, and then hit them in 2D in whatever order said. This will create a staircase for you to climb, at the top of which there is a blue Shroom and a save point, grab the first and use the second. Enter the pipe. Go right from where you start. After what's obviously not going to end as well as it seems, due to the Count's minions mischief, a boss fight begins. +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: Fracktail +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- HP: ??? 18? AP: 1 Fracktails may have started off hilarious with his great computer dialect, but the clever wordplay and the whatnot stops here, as he flies, and can swoop down with that big mouth of his to eat you or some such. The horn on his head is his weakpoint, but you can't hit that quite yet. Dodge his first attack, and when he heads straight at you in the third dimension, dodge the head and jump aboard the body afterwards. Once on, run to the head and wait for enemies to appear. When they do, grab them with your Pixl Thoreau and hit the glowing part of the antennae with it. Do it as much as possible until you're blown off by wind, then repeat until he's dead. E-mail Note: At the end of chapter 1-4 when you are trying to defeat Fracktail, you can jump from the back of his body onto his head as you are being swept away by the wind. - Frank Weisbly +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Go through the door afterwards, and run down the steps, you'll start talking to a spirit named Merlumina who'll soon delve into her ancient love life, boring Mario to sleep. More importantly, at the end you receive a Pure Heart. So ends Chapter One! ============================================================================ -----------------------------=== CHAPTER 2 ===------------------------------ ============================================================================ Section 2.2: Chapter 2 (SPM002) ---PEACH--- You'll wake up here as Peach, after learning a bit more about the Count's plans. You're supposed to follow the Private here, so run to the right and open the door. You can jump normally and use your parasol to hover a bit. You can also use it to cover yourself by pressing down on the d-pad. Go through the door. You'll watch another quick little scene here, and then you should jump off the ledge and go left, as the door to the right is locked. Enter the door on the left. Here you'll find another two doors down the steps, but the one farthest left apparently has a good deal of bad guys behind it, so go through the middle door. Go left and watch another cutscene, along with some mysterious backstory of someone, and you'll be back as Mario. ---FLIPSIDE--- You're told to go and talk to Merlon, who you'll run into two levels down from where you started, near his house. Save with the save block next to his house, and then go in. After a bit more talking and an interruption, leave the house and follow Merlon and the lad up an elevator, and then run left. How convenient! The girl they were talking about is Peach! You'll soon be told to run down to the first floor to get some to help heal Peach, so go down one elevator, and then go down the one that wasn't functioning the last time you were there. Enter the middle building when you're on the first floor. Talk to the women inside, and she'll require a Fire Burst. You should already have one, so give it to her. If you don't, run up a floor and buy one in the shop there. Anyway, once you've given her the Fire Burst, she'll make you the Spicy Soup. Run back up to Peach and to Merlon, and try and talk to Peach. You'll be prompted to choose something, and pick the Spicy Soup. Before long, Peach has joined your party and you've got an Old Key. You're told that it'll work real close to Merlon's house. Well, once you're out of Merlon's home, switch over to Mario and change dimensions, you'll see a gate that's locked right in front of you. You'll also likely see a sign that has some statistics about your gameplay so far next to Merlon's house. Unlock the gate and go through, you'll find some nonfunctional elevators and a pipe that's blocked off by bricks that you can't destroy at the moment. To move on, go 3D again and follow the path leading right, and then go right and enter the pipe. From the pipe, run towards the screen, and fall down the gap. Open both chests and take both cards, then use the spring to go back up. Jump over the gap and flip dimensions, following the arrow to the right path that isn't visible normally. Here you'll want to flip dimensions again and head left, jumping up the block furthest left and then going 2D again so you can read the sign. The gist of what it's trying to say is use Peach to get to the Heart Pillar. There is a pair of enemies on the ground you might want to defeat first, but from the ledge with the sign jump off and use the parasol to hover from one block to the next, until you're at the Heart Pillar. Change back to Mario and place the Pure Heart in it's resting place. This'll trigger the revealing of another door, next to the first at the top of Flipside, so backtrack back to the town. When here, save, go use the building's elevator to get to the orange door, and enter it. ============= CHAPTER 2-1 ============= ---GLOAM VALLEY--- Run right, defeat the enemies and hit the coin block, then change dimensions. You'll see both another enemy and a trail of coins. Defeat one and grab the other, and then switch over to Peach. Jump on the highest platform and then use the parasol to reach the other edge, and then back to Mario. Change dimension to defeat an enemy, then change back to grab some coins. Next you need to jump over some moving platforms, and the Cheep-Cheep there can be defeated using Thoreau's throwing abilities. Once you're back on stable ground, change dimension to reveal two arrow blocks. Hit both and go back to 2D, you now have a way to get to that high platform. Run right first to defeat the enemies there, and then jump from platform to platform until you reach the pipe at the end. Enter it. Defeat the three enemies in here to reveal a chest with a key. Leave the pipe area and drop down to the locked door. Unlock it and go in. Hit the item block for more guardian pals, and then run across the screen, defeating all of the enemies. Change dimension then to defeat all of the 3D enemies, and then change to Peach. Jump on the pipe and use your hovering abilities to reach the high ledge. Now go up the red transport and jump from ledge to ledge, and if you want defeating the flying red Koopa's along the way, until you reach the pipe. Switch to Mario and enter it. You're in the background now, so jump over the gaps to the right and keep going until you can hit the blue switch. Once you have, come back to the game's forescreen and run over to the new door. Enter it. Here, just jump up to the item block visible and hit it to release the star that makes you gigantic. Grab it and use it to crush everything in your way. Hit the save block at the end and enter the door. In this part, hit the item block for a Slow Flower, which will slow down time and triple points and coins. At the end of the lake is another block with the item that makes coins fall from the sky. Defeat the enemies in the lake and then travel back across it, jumping up to the first ledge using the item block and then switching dimensions, revealing an arrow block you should hit. Do so and change back, jumping on it to a green ledge holding a good deal of coins. Jump off at the end and to the right of the pillar of indestructible blocks before the pipe, jump to reveal an invisible coin block. Enter the pipe. In here, use Tippi's Wiimote pointing ability to reveal an invisible blue block. Jump underneath it normally to hit it, and to reveal another pipe you should enter. In here is a very annoying enemy that splits itself constantly. Defeat it however you'd like, though using Thoreau to grab him is a good plan. Defeating the original defeats all of the clones. Defeating him reveals a large chest. Open it for a new Pixl pal, Boomer! He'll ask you a series of interesting questions to which your answers don't matter. He's basically the exploding bomb, so use him on the crack to reveal a small chest with a card in it. Leave both pipes after acquiring him. Go right and defeat the two visible enemies, and then defeat the two 3D enemies. Use Boomer to destroy the bricks obscuring the path to the doors in the air, and then jump up and enter the first. In here, defeat both enemies inside with Boomer, and leave. Go to the second door and enter it, doing much the same, using Boomer to defeat the enemies and leave. Enter the third door, defeat the enemy, and then go 3D. You'll see a hole in the floor, jump down, grab both trails of coins, and then jump down again. Leave and you'll find yourself outside of the second door. Go to the fourth door and enter, defeating the enemy and jumping down the hole, which might have brick blocks over it that you would need to destroy. Hit the blue switch and then drop down again, leaving once you've done so. Your efforts have revealed a yellow door on the last platform past the fourth door, so enter it. Here you want to defeat both cloud enemies, being wary of the sleeping gas they spit at you, and then change into the third dimension. Here, you'll want to jump down the hole there, and you'll fall onto a spring. There's two chests down here, both holding cards, one of which is the card for the bat-like Swoopers that are attacking you now. Grab both cards and defeat both Swoopers and then use the spring to go back up. Hit the star block at the end to finish the chapter. ============= CHAPTER 2-2 ============= ---MERLEE'S MANSION--- Start off by changing dimensions, it'll show you a path through the hedges that hide a coin block. Change back and then run to the right, past the mansion to a lone block. Jump on top of it and jump again, and you'll hit an invisible block ladder that you should climb to reach two brick blocks. On top of those blocks change to Peach, and jump from there to the left and hover across, you'll land on the roof of the mansion, which holds an item in a chest. Change to Mario, and go 3D, you'll likely fall off the roof and onto the balcony in front, on which rests another chest, this one holding a card. Open it, drop down, and enter the mansion. The enemies here won't hurt you, but they will throw you out if they catch you. Jump past them and past the crystal ball, which you can't do much about. Go 3D and you can see past the curtains to a door, which you should enter. Here you'll find Mimi, who works for Merlee. I know I'm fooled. But beyond that, on the ground floor you'll find a rather nastier version of the enemies in the first room, along with four door and another locked door. Mimi will tell you that Merlee is in the last room on the second floor. She also warns you, rather crazily, not to go into any of the other rooms. Well, that'd just be stupid! So, obviously, go into the first room on the ground level. Now, both you and I know that this is a trap. But hey, why not. Follow the Shroom until you fall down the hole, and then defeat the enemies. Now, the way to get back up is to use Boomer's delayed explosion to trigger the red switch, allowing you to enter the pipe that appears. Leave after doing so. Now, go up to the second floor via the hovering stairs and you'll find yet another obvious trap: a Shroom on a chain. This time though, if you hit it in midjump, you'll actually get the Shroom. Of course, you fall down again, but all you have to do to trigger the pipe is defeat the enemies inside. For the last room before Merlee's, you'll see a trail of coins. But wait! Go 3D and you'll find even more coins lurking behind the original trail. Collect most of them and you'll eventually fall down another trapdoor. Defeat the enemies down there and use Boomer again to trigger the red switch so that you can leave, this time jumping over where the hole in the floor was for the rest of the coins. If you want, you can jump directly on top of the coins above the trapdoor to collect them too. When you've got them all, leave and enter Merlee's room. Why, she isn't here. Go to the other end of the room and hit the green button to trigger ANOTHER trap. This time, spikes are falling down from the ceiling in an antagonizing long fall. Wait until they get close, and then change to the third dimension, which will let you jump on top of the spike's holding platform, rendering you safe. Stay near the other end of the room as you rise and you'll be able to hit an item block holding a Shroom when you're at the top. Then go all the way left, jumping from one platform to the next and then using Boomer to clear a path through the bricks. Go 3D here now directly against the indestructible blocks, and you'll see a winding path that you should follow to a chest, provided you have to destroy another set of bricks with Boomer and get around more indestructible blocks in 3D. At the end, the chest contains a House Key. Once you have it, go 3D so you can jump to the floor more easily and leave the room. Talk to Mimi when you get down to the floor, she'll tell you to keep on the look-out for her. Run right and go 3D to avoid the big pet, but he can still get you, so watch you. Unlock and enter the door, and watch as the big pet goes and attacks the maid, Mimi. Delicious. Enter the room and hit the star block to end the chapter. ============= CHAPTER 2-3 ============= ---MERLEE'S MANSION--- Run forward and break the vase atop the block however you wish. Mimi will come out and whine about it, then tell you to repay her for the one million rubee's it cost. Hey, at least you got the coin from the block! Well, run into the room on the ground floor so you can save. Now use the coin block to reach the next ledge, and if you want, switch to Peach and hover over to the other ledge. You'll find some prisoners, one of which is a Shroom addict and the other wanting to sell you info for 100 rubees. Since you don't have any, turn him down. In here is a block that contains a Shroom in it, but since it costs ten rubees each you can't get that yet either. Leave and switch back to Mario, going 3D. You'll see an arrow that directs you to a previously invisible chest. Open it for your newest Pixl helper, Slim, that lets you turn sideways in both the normal and third dimension. Cool. Now, go back to the other ledge and go 3D on this ledge, you'll see a wall of bricks that you should destroy with Boomer underneath the middle ledge. Behind the wall of bricks is a small room with a chest containing a card inside. Grab it and leave, going up to the next floor. Enter the first room. In this room, you can earn rubees by hitting a block while avoiding a moving electrical ball underneath you. It takes an incredibly long time to get much of anywhere with this though, so stop when you've got 110. Leave and go back down to the room with the Shroom you can buy. If you've got a lack of health, buy yourself a Shroom, and then buy the hint from the guy on the left side of the room. It's the code to the VIP room! Go up and unlock it, it's 5963 in case you forget, and enter the room. Inside you'll find some of the prisoners running in gerbil wheels, also powering the building. Talk to the warden there and she'll let you in one of the wheels, and simply run for about three or four minutes. Stop and she'll let you out, and if you have a good 10,000 rubees, you're good. If you don't, do a bit more running, it's much faster than the previous method. When you have the 10,000 rubees, go into the room farthest to the left and enter. Go 3D inside and you'll find somebody hiding there, pay him the rubees to learn the passcode to another VIP door, 41262816. Now leave the room and go 3D, again following the arrow towards the screen to enter another secret room above where you got Slim. Hit the block here to create a ladder you can climb to another passageway. Here you'll find another prisoner that mentions that being thin is the way around the set of lasers in the way. This is true, use Slim's ability to be on your side, and wait for the first laser to pass you, and then run to the right, and wait for the second laser to pass you, taking care to not be at all moving, and then continue to the door. Remember, the code is 41262816, and when you've entered it go through the door. Rubees! A million of them! Why, that's nice! Now, go down to Mimi's room, same one as the save point. Walk in, save, and talk to her, and tell her you're there to pay off the loan. She explodes, moving on. Hit the star block after that's over by using Slim to get through the bars in 3D, and end the chapter. ============= CHAPTER 2-4 ============= ---MERLEE'S BASEMENT--- After a message from Merlee, run down the stairs, go into 3D mode and run around the stairs to find an item block with a Shroom inside. Run back and hit the save point, and then go in the door on the left. Defeat the Boo's here, and note that you're in room one. Enter the next room, room three, and defeat that enemy, along with switching into 3D so you can hit the four arrow blocks hidden there. Enter the room on the right to be in room two, which is also the room that was next to the save point. Grab the coin and avoid hitting the block on the right, it's a zombie Shroom, which will hurt ya. Go in the upper right door to enter room four. Jump down and grab the coins from the blocks while avoiding the invincible enemy reminiscent of the Legend of Zelda series. Enter the room on the right. You're now in the room that had been led to from the upper left corner door in the room with the arrow blocks. Now go 3D and you'll see more arrow blocks in the air, with more above them. Hit the first four and then stand on top of them, and go 3D and jump quickly before you fall to trigger the last two. Jump from there to the ledge and you'll see Merlee. She'll say she'll give you the Pure Heart, but first you have to give her a large sum of rubees. Hmm. Refuse each offer, for no reason other than learning about the infamous Breadward Pixl, and you'll soon see the real Merlee appear, confirming our suspicions that this Merlee is a fake. You'll soon be on the run from Mimi's true form, and first thing to do is leave the room. Go down and run around the rooms for a bit, and then return to the room where you met the fake Merlee. She should be gone now, so enter the door that was behind her. In here, room five, defeat the attacking enemies and go to the right as far as possible. You should see a small gap in the ground you can go through using Slim. Do so and enter the door you will fall in front of, into room six. Here, defeat the enemy using Boomer, and then go 3D to jump from the coin blocks to the blocks the doors rest on. Go through the door on the right to enter room eight, where you should defeat the enemy and blow up the sign to reveal a passage with a Shroom Shake at the end of it. Go through the bottom left door afterwards. Now in room seven, defeat the Boo, and jump to the northeast corner, where you can blow up the wall to show another passageway that leads to a door. You're now in room nine. Defeat the two enemies quickly and turn 3D to reveal arrow blocks you can use to reach the top levels. Enter the room in the upper left corner. In here, there's a giant Boo. Now, don't move. If you're facing it, it won't move, and you can use Tippi's Wiimote pointing ability to look in the far low right hand corner and you'll find something that turns out to be invisible stairs that Tippi makes visible. Hustle up those stairs and go through the door. Even though you may seem an item block and a save block, you're not safe yet! Go 3D fast for another Shroom hidden from sight, and then run into the female bathroom, the male bathroom just has a joke written inside a stall, and make sure you've saved first! Open the stall door the third from the left and out will pop the real Merlee! But wait, a mystery, two Merlees'! A game show setting starts and you're to ask the Merlees' five questions. Ask whatever you like, it doesn't matter what you choose. You should be able to tell just by looking which is real, and which is fake, but if you don't want to figure it out for yourself, the real Merlee is the one with flies flying around her, since she spent so much time in the bathroom. The questions hint towards her being the real Merlee anyway, though. Choose her, and the fight begins! +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: Mimi +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ HP: ??? 36? AP: 1 Mimi, in her spider form, likes to run around the walls and throw rubee's at you that are really easy to dodge. You're more likely to be damaged by just running into her. Once you've hit her once, you've basically won. Don't give her a chance to recover, and jump over the rubee whip she uses from the ground, and you've won, just keep jumping on her head. E-mail Note: Just so you know, I just fought Mimi, and I counted how much damage it took me to take her out. Heres what I think it is: 6 damage to take off a leg * 6 legs = 36 hp - Chibi Moogle +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Afterwards, you'll get a third Pure Heart and be told that the party will likely be joined by two others pretty soon here. Interesting stuff. ============================================================================ ------------------------------=== CHAPTER 3 ===----------------------------- ============================================================================ Section 2.3: Chapter 3 (SPM003) ---CASTLE BLECK INNER SANCTUM--- More comedic mishaps from the Bleck Troupe. Important news: Dimentio, the third and most likely best of Count Bleck's minions, is dispatched to defeat the hero that's causing them all of this trouble, you. You'll also receive another insight into the state of poor Bleck's heart, or so it appears. ---LUIGI--- Finding yourself in the same state that Peach was in, you'll have a brief chat with some more rogue troops of Bowser's, this time it's Goombas. Once you can move, go left and go through the door. Go left and down the stairs again, and enter the door. Once again, left, pass through the door. And yet again, left, hey, wait, no door. Rut ro. Not only that, but Gary has been converted to Bleck's side. Not Gary! But not only that, but Gary's Goomba friend has left for you for the winning team too! Crap! Everything that ever involved Luigi is self-demeaning and possible damaging to your ability to function in the outside world. Anyhow, more text from the unknown, but now we know that it's likely Count Bleck's memory. ---FLIPSIDE--- After finding out that Luigi might actually be important shudder, it's time to find the place to put the third Pure Heart. Run down to Merlon's house, and then go 3D like you did last time, and cross the gate. Go out to the outskirts and past the walkway, then right and into the pipe. Run all of the way to the left, use Boomer to blow up the bricks covering the pipe, and then enter said pipe. Defeat the two enemies, ignore the pipe for now, and go 3D at what seems to be a wall. You'll see a thin gap there, use Slim to wiggle on through that hides the third Heart Pillar, and press up to put the Pure Heart in it's place. A yellow door leading to the next area appears. Get back on over to Merlon's place and save, and then head down to the first level. Go to the right and blow up the crack in the wall, and then pass through the hole by going 3D. Back here are some citizens and my favorite, the town card shop. You'll notice a strange sparkle and side effect inbetween the first building and the card shop, but we can't do anything about that right now. Go back to the front of the first floor and take the elevator down one more. Now, jump in the water to the right and swim down, right, and up to find Flimm, a salesmen. His prices are sometimes good, and sometimes terrible, so be a cautious buyer. Swim back and enter the building close to you and you'll be able to learn some backstory from the bartender for ten coins a pop, so it's up to you if you think it's worth it. There are two practical tips, however, one about treasure and the other about the Pit of 100 Trials, which we'll touch on later. Now, flip to 3D and run towards the screen, you'll find a golden pipe. Enter it to find the arcade. It's the average arcade area, change some coins into tokens, build up your tokens through successful mini-game playing, and then cash them in for some really good prizes, including two very expensive items that function like a level up, either increasing your health or your attack points permanently. Fun stuff. Leave when you're done. You can also access the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials now, but we'll leave that for later. If you want to take a shot at it now, scroll down to the Pit of 100 Trials section. Leave and change to 3D, and you will be able to see a chest hidden in a corner of the wall. Jump over the water and grab it, it's the 'InterNed' card, who you might recognize from the game show we just had with Merlee. Take the elevator down now. You'll find a save point and an unscalable wall of blocks. Keep this place in mind for now, and go back up to Merlon's home, and from there go to the yellow door we unlocked after saving. ============= CHAPTER 3-1 ============= ---THE BITLANDS--- After a rather interesting series of events, you'll want to run over to the talking bush and try to speak with it. You'll get some tips, how nice, but the Pixl won't be joining you for the moment. Go right and hit the blocks for some coins, using the block next to the first tall pipe to jump over it, and now you're in the middle of the two pipes. Defeat all of the enemies there, the Piranha plant you can destroy using Boomer. Continue on over the next gap and go 3D to get past the tall pipe, taking care to hit the arrow block so that it's 2D visible now, and jumping from the arrow block to the top of the pipe, where you can hit another block to create a ladder. Climb it and enter the door at the top. In here, you can go left to find some pipes, the taller of which leads to the background of the screen to a Catch Card SP, and to get to that taller pipe, jump using Peach and hover over to the taller pipe from the smaller pipe. When done with that, go back to the door, but don't enter it. E-mail Note: I found a Piranha Plant Card here!!! You climb back up the vine block that has a door in the sky with some blocks under it and using Princess Peach, jump as far as you can to land on the long colored blocks, then the last purple one will lead to some brown blocks. On the brown blocks you will find a treasure chest and in it is the Piranha Plant card. - Beronica Go right and hit the item block for the star that makes you huge and deadly, and then run right with it, you'll likely end at another door on the far right. Enter it. In here, watch a short bit that has a Koopa doing much the same that you did with said star, and then chasing you. Run left until you see an item block, hit it and grab the star so that you can defeat the enemy Koopa, and then continue right to defeat more enemies. At the end you'll see a sign and a blue block, read the sign to learn that you're supposed to fall between the red pipes, and hit the block so that you can go back through the door. When here, go left until you get to the previous door, and again go through. Here, jump down and go right, past the aforementioned red pipes and the hole and eventually to the green pipe at the end, past a good deal of enemies and a slimy enemy you'd do well to avoid, if you touch it, you're sent back to Flipside. Use an item or Boomer to defeat it, and enter the pipe at the end. Run left and enter the first pipe you see, inside you'll find an item and another enemy that splits itself constantly. Stand on top of the chest and wait for the original to get within range, and then jump and defeat it. This will trigger the way out, another pipe. Leave, and switch to Peach. Jump and hover left, and you should make another hill in the background. Do so again and you'll be at a hill with another item on top. Go back to the first pipe and enter it to return to the foreground, and then switch to Mario. Run left and when you get to the red pipes, jump past them, one last time. Go back up the ladder you made and at the top, switch to Peach. Jump off and hover over, and if you're lucky you'll land at the pipe over the hole that is between the red pipes. Easy way to do it, jump right next to the ladder and start hovering, and you should land directly on the pipe. Enter it to find yourself in a room quite similar to the warp pipe room in the early Super Mario Bros. game. If you don't want to get past it the easy way, you can leave by either the pipe you entered in, or you can go 3D and take the stairs visible to go up and over, back to the normal game. The middle pipe will lead you to the same destination as the pipe in the normal game progression will take you, that is, the pipe you'd enter if you had jumped inbetween the red pipes and gone through the cave without going above the level. The difference here though is, while the normal pipe takes you to the start of the area, where the middle warp pipe will take you to the middle of the area, which also has a save point above it. The last pipe will take you to a room with a number of coins inside, and if you go 3D, a hiding chest will be revealed too, and it holds a card. Leave through the pipe you entered. Now, if you want to go through the cave, here's the way: After falling inbetween of the red pipes, run right and defeat the Goombas, hitting the blocks for some guardian pals and coins. You can change to 3D if you want here, for easy navigation through the brick piles, and past them is a few Goomba's, and an interesting configuration of bricks. If for some reason you want to go above the level now, break the two bottom bricks in the most left hand column of the formation, leaving one to jump on and one in the original column, and from there jump to the top of the formation. Now, jump above you to destroy a number of bricks there, and once you've broken five or six, try and run and jump through the gap, and you'll likely succeed. If you don't want to do that, don't. Don't bother hitting the topmost brick on the most right hand column of the formation, it doesn't give you a star like in the original game, it gives you a hostile zombie Shroom. Move past the brick formation to find a few pipes. Defeat all three Piranhas using Boomer, and then go down the first one. Flip to 3D to find a Catch Card SP, and then switch back to collect the coins. Leave the pipe when you are done. Jump over the rather long gap here and go up the steps, awaiting an opportunity to jump from one moving platform to the ground. Here, defeat the red Koopa and hit the bricks for a Shroom, and if you want to bypass half of the next area, ride the platform up and jump over to the top of the stage, if you don't want to, just enter the visible pipe. The goal here is to sprint over to where the second pipe leads, and hit the save point when you get there. Run right some more and defeat the two Koopa-like enemies to go by, making sure to avoid their constantly back-and-forth moving shells. Eventually, you'll be stopped and yelled at. Just run up and jump onto the fortifications, defeating the enemies like normal, and continuing on. The next fort you'll have to time your jump aboard, and you are on it, bypass the Bullet Bill-emitter to defeat the Hammer Bros. Then use Boomer to destroy the cannon behind you. Up here, you can't jump onto the fort, but you may notice that red X the Pixl early in the level mentioned. Use Boomer to blow it and the fort up. +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: Bowser +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ HP: ??? 20? AP: 1 or 2 depends on attack It's not too easy to defeat Bowser here, but if you're patient, it'll work out just fine. Jumping on Bowser hurts you for one health point, so the goal here is to lay down Boomer, and lure Bowser over within the explosion range. Hit him with four explosions and he's done. He attacks by trying to jump on you, and by breathing fire, the latter of which deals two damage and will prematurely detonate Boomer if he's caught in the flames. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Afterwards, Bowser's on the team! Just one more hero and we've got them all. Anyway, run over and hit the star block to finish the chapter. ============= CHAPTER 3-2 ============= ---THE TILE POOL--- Ooh, the token underwater level! Everybody hate... uh, loves these! Swim right and grab the coins, and a bit farther right to hit an item block that holds a happy flower, which spews those floating coins you might remember. After that, go 3D to see hidden coins below the item block, and a path that is littered with coins through the wall. Go through, and if you'd like, swim back under for more coins, but be careful of the strong current trying to pull you under. Go right again and 3D to find more coins hiding behind the original row atop the L-shaped block formation. Now go right and swim through the passage, using Boomer or your 3D abilities to defeat/avoid the enemies also swimming there. Once through, swim all the way right and hit the save point, then go 3D and enter the area around the pipe, switching back to 2D so you can enter the pipe. Here, swim past the first tentacle that flails about hidden underground, and then change dimensions right above the whirlwind, and you'll see another passageway filled with coins. Go through it and then down and right, past another tentacle, another whirlwind, and yet another tentacle, this one coming from the ceiling. At the end, you'll be able to read a drawing that states: Up, down, down. Swim back to where you exited the coin passage, and this time go up and out of the water. Go 3D here so you can see and open the hidden chest containing a Gold Bar. Enter the pipe. The idea here is to run right, using Boomer or Bowser as you see fit to defeat the Goombas with spikes on their heads, and then swim down the passage, avoiding the enemies as best you can until you can get to the door at the end of the trail, enter it. Defeat all four enemies in here however you'd like, though I suggest using Boomer. For the two Cheep-Cheeps that are too high for the explosion to reach them, though, try using him atop of the yellow pillar and exploding him when they get close. After all of the enemies are defeated, a large chest appears. It holds your new Pixl friend, Thudley, who allows you to ground pound. Hit the yellow pillar to open the door, and leave. Out here, go back left and up, back to the pipe, and enter that. Backtrack until you reach the upside down pipe here, and enter that, being cautious of whirlwinds and tentacled attackers. Go 3D out here to get out of the box, and then save your game. From there, go left so that you're at the first trio of yellow pillars, and ground pound the latter two. First the second trio of yellow pillars, ground pound the middle pillar, which will reveal a door. Go in. Here, you just want to go 3D and avoid the whole mess of enemies by swimming past them, simple enough. You'll soon be stopped by some talking. Uh oh, boss fight! +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: Blooper +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- HP: ??? 18? AP: 2 Man, he's huge. Er, anyway, the thing you want to do here is avoid the attacking tentacles when they've got blue circles on their palm, but if the circles are red, then ground pound them from above. Hit it three times to defeat him. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Once that's out of the way, swim right and enter the pipe there, and then run right and hit the star block to move on to the next chapter. ============= CHAPTER 3-3 ============= ---THE DOTWOOD TREE--- This part of the stage is real simple. Climb up the tree, using platforms. Important things to note include when you can't seem to go up any higher early on, go 3D at the highest point to reveal two arrow blocks you should hit, and then you switch to Peach to first glide right, and then climb up a platform and then hover left. Switch over to Mario, now, to defeat the red Koopa here, and the go up to the next platform, where you will need to ground pound a yellow pillar to reveal the next platform. From there, climb on the new platform and then the next, going 3D here to reveal a platform of bricks that lead to another platform with an enemy crawling on it. Keep climbing up and when you're at the top, you'll see that the door is covered in tree bark. So go down a few platforms until you can see on the far right a lone block sitting there, jump from the platform to the lone block, and from the lone block to the yellow pipe, which you should enter. Go 3D here, you'll get far more coins that way, and then leave the pipe. Now, run back up to the top of the tree and switch to Bowser, using him to breathe fire and burn away the bark. Enter the door. In here, run over to the yellow platform, jump on, and then jump onto the higher ledge, and you follow that up by entering the yellow pipe. Save, defeat the enemy in 3D, and then lay Boomer next to the blue switch and run towards the yellow pipe, entering it. You should be able to see now the effect of the blue switch being hit, as there is now a pair of pink platforms for you to climb. Go up them, taking the time to defeat the enemy, and then hit the switch, so now there is a blue platform for you to leap onto so you can get on the moving yellow platform. Get on the next moving platform when possible, and then jump left, not up. You'll land next to a yellow pillar, ground pound it to make a ladder to the currently blue switch appear. Climb down and hit it again to make the pink platforms reappear, and then climb up it and jump on the moving yellow platform again. This time though, jump up. Here, jump on the pink platform and be careful to avoid the spells the Crazee Dayzee throws at you, and then jump onto the ledge. From the ledge, jump onto another yellow moving platform, and from there, on the last ledge. Go into the other dimension to reveal a yellow pipe you should enter. In here, switch your Pixl to Slim, and go sideways. Take it slow, running a bit across the spiked floor, and then stopping soon enough so that you're invisible by the time the spikes come back up. At the end, hit the pink switch and go back the same way. Now, outside, there's a blue platform for you to jump on. Do so, and avoid the attack by the Crazee Dayzee. Run up and above the blue switch, and drop Boomer in the hole on the spikes to trigger it. Now, drop Boomer again, and go as fast as you can up the pink platform and onto the ledge. Now go on the blue platform onto the two moving yellow platforms, and over to the left ledge, where you should enter the yellow pipe. Now, this seems like an impossible situation. The yellow pipe leads directly below a spike wall, which would stop you anyway even if it was a normal wall. The solution again is Slim. Go invisible by standing still on the moving platform and you'll go right through the wall. Drop down to the bottom and hit the blue switch to make a pink platform appear, cutting off your mode of escape. Hit it again to make that disappear, and then lay Boomer next to it, and get out of the area before the pink platform appears. Get past the spike wall the same way as before, using Slim, and leave the room. Wait for the yellow platform to appear to the right, and then jump from it to the ledge on the right. Jump onto the pink platform, and then go 3D and jump up and to the left. Go 2D, and hit the blue switch to create a door above you. Now go 3D and edge as far close to the screen as the size of the ledge permits, and then switch the Pixl to Thoreau. Throw him at the item block on the left and he'll release the blue Shroom inside. Follow it down and grab it, then go all the way to the first ledge and enter the pipe to get to the top, with the door and the save point. Save, and enter the door. +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: Dimentio +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ HP: ??? 40? AP: 1 Annoying boss. Dimentio likes to hover about, shooting either singular or a trio of magic bolts at you. It'll also create a double after being hit. There's a couple ways of defeating Dimentio, the easiest of which is to just spam items. Next up is jumping on Dimentio when it's close enough to the ground. That'll take a while, and most of the time you'll have to choose between a double and the real one, so it'll take even longer. Just use items, it'll save you a lot of annoyance. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- After that bit of excitement, climb up the platforms, being careful to avoid the Spinys' being thrown at you. At the top, jump upon a colored gust of wind that's as low as possible and ride it until you see a green pipe, which you should jump onto and enter. Go 3D here and run behind the pipe for a coin block, and then run back and hit the star block to end the chapter. ============= CHAPTER 3-4 ============= ---FORT FRANCIS--- *NO GAME-ENDING GLITCH* E-mail Note: The pipe in the first room of the castle leads to the basement. So you can get Carrie any time. Before or after entering the codes. - MoaDragon *NO GAME-ENDING GLITCH* With the gate locked, go 3D to reveal a hidden pipe, and enter it. Down here, there's a block and a blue switch way up in the air, use Thoreau to throw the block at the switch to trigger it and reveal a chest holding the key to Francis's castle. Leave, and then enter the castle, saving when you are inside. Hey, no enemies. Talk to the cat if you want and enter the door on the right. In here, same thing, go all the way right to the door, which you should enter. Go 3D in here so you can climb the stairs on the wall to the right, but be careful on the way up, there's a sort of cannon enemy waiting. Jump over it and enter the door on the left. In here, there is a plethora of enemies, so be quick about defeating them all, and then use Thudley's ground pound to shake the doors loose. Enter the one farthest left, and then go 3D. You'll see a number of platforms, climb them up to the top and leave through the top door. Here on the castle roof, you'll see a blue switch too high to reach. Use Thoreau's grabbing ability to throw the enemy that'll come your way before long at the blue switch, triggering it. Now run across the new bridge and enter the room. Here you'll be asked a series of questions, just answer 'true' to all of them. Now you'll be asked for a passcode. We don't have a passcode. Enter in whatever and you'll be dropped below. Now, you have to use Thoreau to grab the block behind the Chomp-Chomp, and then throw it on the red switch, which you yourself jump on also. This will bring out a green pipe that you can enter. Now in the new room, hit the arrow block and then go 3D, climbing onto the higher ledge. There's a sign here with the passcodes we need. Huzzah! Room on right: 2323. Room on the left: 2828. Continue right past the sign and hit the blue switch using Thudley. Another new Pixl ally! This one's Carrie, and she'll ask you some questions about what you think of Francis. Afterwards, she joins up. She's basically a speedy little platform for you to ride on that can go right over spike pits, so go left, past the green pipe, to the wall. Get off and go 3D, entering the hidden green pipe. Save, you don't want to lose everything you've done, and go back right. Get back to where you had to ground pound to shake loose the doors, and enter the door farthest to the left again. Again, get to where you're asked for the passcode, and give it 2828. Enter the new door. In here, you can get a quick Shroom on the left side, and on the right side, by bouncing off the maid inside and hitting the 2 button when you hit so that you bounce higher, you can land on the platform holding the chest, and the chest has a key. Backtrack to the room where you shook loose the doors, and go through the middle door now. Just ride Carrie across the spikes here and enter the door, and then give the maid both the answers to her questions and the passcode for this spot, 2323. Enter the door for the elevator, and ride up to the secret lair, where you can get a blue Shroom this time, and another key, same way as last time, using the maid as a bouncing device. Leave afterwards, and go back to the first room of Fort Francis to save. After you've got that covered, go right and enter the hall. Switch to Peach, and enter both keys in the door. Answer 'true' to all of the questions, like usual, and you're in. You'll soon be in a ridiculous sort of date sim, so just answer whatever you'd like, though I think the first answer results in the funniest dialogue. Oh, boy, fight. +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: Francis +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- HP: ??? 28? AP: 1 Francis is an interesting boss, if not very difficult. Since he can disguise himself, the best way of locating him is to go 3D so that you can follow his shadow's movements. On the other hand, you can just stay 2D and ride around on Carrie and wait for him to pop out. That way, you don't have to worry about the Flip meter. However you choose to play, the way you hurt him is jumping on his head when he's visible, and he has two main attacks. The first attack he has is to summon meowbombs, which wander around the room and explode. The second is to grab you by his tongue and try to swallow you, which you stop by wiggling the Wiimote. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Ah, well, now we've got Tippi, but where's that Pure Hear-Ooh. Why, didn't that work out conveniently for all involved? Except for Francis, but nobody likes him, so he doesn't count. The fourth Pure Heart is yours! ============================================================================ ------------------------------=== CHAPTER 4 ===----------------------------- ============================================================================ Section 2.4: Chapter 4 (SPM004) ---CASTLE BLECK INNER SANCTUM--- Well, a mysterious 'him' is to be our next opponent it seems, and apparently the Count saved his assistant, Nastasia's, life before. Then, Dimentio comes out of nowhere and comments on the conversation between the two, sounding vaguely disloyal. Then, more conversation between Blumiere and Timpani, the mysterious lovers. ---FLIPSIDE--- A short chat between Merlon and the group, with an explanation for the odd appearance of the fourth Pure Heart, and ending with being told to go put it in it's Heart Pillar. Let's get that out of the way real fast, so jump down until you're on the second floor of Flipside, and then go 3D so that you can go through the gate and to the outskirts. Now left, and you should see more pillars, like the yellow ones from Chapter 3. Go 3D, and you'll be able to tell which pillars are supposed to be risen and which need to be smacked into the ground. Just so you know, though, it's down, up, down, and up, from left to right for the pillars. After you've finished that, just run left and place the Pure Heart in it's spot, making a green door appear in the usual spot. Before you go and do anything else, go up to Flipside tower and go into the third door, and enter Chapter 3-1. ---THE BITLANDS--- Run right and talk to the bush again. Surprise! The Pixl will certainly be shocked to learn that you saved Tippi, and after hearing about it, will join the group. Barry's on the squad! He can create a barrier and counterattack around you, so he's pretty awesome. Use the return pipe after getting him. E-mail Note: All of the info about getting Barry was given to me by a person named Andrea, and rewritten here to fit the format of the FAQ. ---FLIPSIDE--- Now it's the time to stock up. I suggest two Life Shrooms, some more healing items if possible, and with that out of the way, you should probably try and experiment with some recipes. If you still have some spare coinage, you can get yourself healed at the Inn, look at what Flimm is selling underground, or check the card shop (my personal favorite.) When you're stocked up on everything, save, and go through the green door. ============= Chapter 4-1 ============= ---OUTER SPACE--- You can't breathe, that's too bad, let's get back to Flipside. ---FLIPSIDE--- Run down and talk to Merlon about the problem, and he'll tell you that he has something that would work, but that a young boy in the town has it. You can find said boy one floor up, so take the elevator up and go left to talk to the boy. Oh, great, have to take this stupid fish somewhere now, so go down to the level with Flimm and the bartender and release the fish in the water. With that bit of pointlessness out of the way, go back to the green door and enter it. ---OUTER SPACE--- Back out in space, you'll probably want to put your helmet on when prompted to, and then just flail around for a second or two until you see SOS signals from apparently nowhere. Go to the SE corner, and you'll either see the SOS signals originating, or a bunch of gold shines. Use Tippi's Wiimote ability here to reveal a starship, then go up and interact with it. You'll soon be chatting with Squirps. After a quick minigame where you only need to hold down the A button for a minute or so, you'll warp, though the game has a different name for it. Another game here, now you just space swim to the right and hit the 2 button to defeat whatever enemies you run across. You have unlimited shots, so it's not like there's any reason to stop shooting, really. Closer to the end, you'll want to start going 3D, because there's a card hidden in 3D here. The point where you can get it is when you can the save point in the third dimension. At the end of it, save, and enter the warp hole. Same thing here, except for now we have the excitement of a different enemy, and one that's also in the third dimension. There isn't anything to find when you 3D, however, it may be worth it just for the easy points of defeating the 3D enemies. At the end, enter the top warp hole. Here, defeat whatever enemies attack you soon and enter the nearest warp hole. You'll notice that you're back at where you first had to choose. Reenter the warp hole you just left, and travel all the way right, defeating normal and 3D enemies along the way. Enter the lone warp hole you see there. Another new enemy here, not too hard to defeat, but it does teleport, often frustratingly. Anyway, spaceswim right until you hit a dead end, and go 3D, you'll see a Catch Card SP hiding behind an asteroid. Now swim back to the portal, but keep going left past it. Defeat the enemies and enter the portal. In this area, there's a lot of enemies, every sort except for the ones that teleport. Most are visible, but there's a lot in 3D too. About midway through, you'll see something odd: a small asteroid that resembles a jar and a miniature warp hole that you can't enter. Go 3D and you'll see a normal warp hole hiding behind an asteroid to the right of the miniature. Enter that one and you'll come out of the small one, like you would in the background of a normal level. Go over to the jar-like asteroid and enter it through the top like you would a pipe. In here, go 3D immediately and grab both coin arrays. Hit the coin block for another, and then jump out. Continue the rest of the way right and hit the star block at the end to end the chapter. ============= Chapter 4-2 ============= ---PLANET BOBULE--- Woo, the annoyance is gone! Time to get us some Pure Heart. The first thing you'll notice is that you've got some crazy height and distance on your jumps, which you'll need. Go right, you'll see the space twerp whining about going to the bathroom, and continue, defeating an enemy that stretches it's head out to attack you with. You should jump directly up here, it'll show you a pair of indestructible blocks that you can reach due to your newfound jumping abilities. Above them are two blocks, containing a coin and a Shroom respectively. Go right here, letting yourself fall to the bottom, where there's a locked door. Jump up a level and then go 3D to reveal a coin trail on the left, follow it to fall into the next area. Defeat the 3D enemy here, and then stand close to the right wall and jump. You should hit an invisible coin block. Go 3D then, and you'll see some steps on the wall which you should climb. Left is the way to go then, jumping over one gap and then defeating one enemy, and then you're back where you were before starting on the coin trail, albeit one level higher. Jump left again and land on the indestructible blocks so you can hit the coin block, and then go back right, over the gap, Here, there's a 3D enemy to worry about, so defeat it. Jump up a level and go past the shimmering tear in space, and fall all the way down on the right. Change dimensions when you're at the bottom, you'll see a hidden item that you can grab. Jump up and hit the brick block a couple of times for coins, and then use it and indestructible blocks as a stepping stone back to the top. Go right and defeat that enemy, another of the annoying ones that stretch, and fall down another gap to defeat another stretchy enemy. Jump back up and go right, using Thudley's ground pounding abilities to destroy the brick blocks covering the door. Enter it. Save, and jump up to the right, switching your Pixl to Slim after doing so. Go 3D, and you'll see a hole too thin for you unless you use Slim's ability, and you should. Once through, immediately jump up to hit a coin block, which you should jump on to reveal another, and from there go left to hit the now visible blue switch. This makes an easier path for you to follow rather than using Slim to get past the tall hill. Now go right and jump onto the indestructible blocks, and then onto the hill with the interesting tree in the background behind it. You should now be able to see a green pipe in the bottom-right hand corner of the screen, but you can't enter it. Rather, it serves as a quick and easy way to get back up to these tall hills without having to go around. Go past the green door now and go 3D, so that you can see the narrow path ahead and the item block waiting behind it. Run and hit the item block for the little Mario pals that you love so much, and then run back left, falling down into the gap so that you can defeat the enemies and climb back up, collecting a few coins. This time, after you go over the narrow path and reach the item block, jump on top of the item block and then onto the hill above it and in front of it. Here, jump up farther until you're at the top, and then jump up to the indestructible blocks hovering above you, and from there into the pipe above that. The plan here is to go 3D, and jump from the pipe for maximum height and collect the coins before your Flip meter runs out. With that nice bit out of the way, leave. Jump right and take out the enemies at the bottom, bypassing the door for now, and going right, to the very bottom. Defeat another enemy here and go 3D, and you'll see a passageway through the tall hill. Go through and defeat the enemy, hitting the bottom two coin blocks and the coin block up and to the right, but avoiding the other higher block due to the fact that it contains a zombie Shroom. Jump from the block to the ledge on the right, and enter the door there. Here, there's a lot of blocks, and you should go right and as many as possible, and when you hit the last item block, the star that makes you a giant will come out, and you can run all the way to the right and wreak utter havoc. At the end, jump up onto the right ledge and enter the door. This is a pretty normal room. Defeat the enemies that are visible and in 3D, go 3D to get the item hidden behind the tall green pipe, and enter the interesting green door at the end. Talk to the Elder in here, and refuse him until he reaches ten coins, and then take him up on it. It's time to leave, and you need to backtrack a good two stages until you're back in the area with multiple doors. Run back until you come across the other normal door in this stage, and enter it. It should just be past the first tall hill you'll encounter. Remember, you're backtracking. In this room, run right and defeat all of the enemies by aiming your jumps to land on their leading square, their heads. If you'd like to use either the flower that speeds you up or slows you down, run past them for a second. The slow flower is in one of the visible item blocks, but jump inbetween and next to the visible lower item blocks and you'll soon find two more, a coin block and a speed flower. If you want, you can enter the green door, but inside there's nothing but a local that doesn't have anything of substance to say. Leave the green door if you went in anyway, and then leave this area too. Jump up the indestructible blocks, and head left, jumping over the long gap to get to another green door, the first one we saw. Inside, there's another local, this one telling you to go see the Elder. Well, that would've been important had we not already known and bypassed the middleman. Well, maybe since this local is yellow, it's a middlewoman. Moving on, leave, and then backtrack to the first area, the one with the annoying helper and the portable bathroom. When you're there, talk again to the person inside. This time, however, you can choose the 'Ancient Clue.' Surprise! The occupant had been a Pixl all along! Fleep's the new Pixl's name, and his ability is to reverse things. It's not something you can explain very easily, but it reveals things that were hidden. Anyway, go right and stop when you get to the stone statue and the space rift. Try 'reversing' the space rift, and you'll get a key for your efforts. Well, we've only seen one locked door, so let's go! Head left and jump over a gap, then fall into the next and get to the lowest level, so that you can enter the locked door. In here, just defeat the five enemies and hit the star block to end the chapter. ============= Chapter 4-3 ============= ---OUTER LIMITS--- The first area has a very simple premise: Go right and shoot things that aren't you. You first accomplish not shooting you by, well, going right and shooting the enemies, and then the bricks, one column of which hides an item. Keep going and you'll find a sort of maze of spinning rectangles that harm you when you touch them, so just spaceswim around them. Farther into the rectangle maze, you'll be assaulted by enemies, but it really doesn't make it any more difficult, and the midway point is marked with a blue Shroom, so that should compensate for whatever damage you receive. Past the spinning rectangle maze, you'll need to defeat more enemies and break more bricks, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Keep going until you find a red X just in the middle of space, and then reverse it using Fleep. Swim over to the Squirps-sized hole and squish him in. Enter the gate. No enemies here, spaceswim all the way to the right and save, then enter the warp hole. Swim from here to the very north-east corner, and enter that particular warp hole, defeating enemies and avoiding spinning rectangles along the way. In here, you'll find a sort of space gas station, along with a bunch of bricks that don't hold anything, except for a single brick next to the spinning sign that holds quite a few coins. Whatever chocolate you buy the little twerp in the gas station, he'll eat, but I got him the most expensive one just in case, and considering how many coins you should have if you're not a spendthrift, you can probably afford it. Leave the gas station and leave the area, back through the warp hole. Now, go directly south and enter that warp hole. Save, and then travel left, going through another spinning rectangle maze with some enemies. At the end, enter the warp hole. From here, go up and to the left, and you'll come across a Catch Card SP encased in bricks. E-mail Note: To the right of the square formation, there are two horizontal rows of breakable blocks. Somewhere in the middle, there is a ghost mushroom hidden. You can use Boomer to shatter the blocks to get it. - Lucie Now go all the way to the south-west corner and enter the warp hole there, and you'll find two rings of coins. Leave after you've got them all, and then go up and right, to the red warp hole, which you should enter. Save, and then head left, reversing the red X in space using Fleep. This'll reveal the same outer gate structure as before, but now there's two holes. Try twisting Squirps into the hole on the right, but it won't work, and he'll demand food. Talk to him again after he tells you to get him food and give him whatever candy bar you bought. He'll split, and create the gate, and then come back together again. Enter the gate, defeat the two teleporting enemies, destroy the bricks, and hit the star block to end the chapter. ============= Chapter 4-4 ============= ---THE WHOA ZONE--- Run right here and save, then enter the door. There's a number of enemies in this room, so defeat them as you see them, and also note that there are two item blocks in this room. The first holds a happy flower, which you'd do well to remember showers coins everywhere from the skies, and the other is a normal Shroom. Go right in here, and go 3D, and you'll notice another door on a platform that was previously hidden. Enter that door. In here, defeat whatever enemies come your way, along with the pig enemy. There's a slow flower in here, and using Peach jumping from the item block that had spawned that slow flower, you can hover over to the door on the left, and enter it. In here, there's an enemy that will create an annoying expanding barrier around himself, use Fleep to reverse him to daze him so that he can be defeated. After that, open the chest for a key. Leave, and go right, going 3D to reveal the door that you came through in. Now, go through the normal door this time. Here there are two pig enemies, using Fleep to dizzy them first is a great way to negate their attacks, and once you've gone through them flip to 3D on the right side of the room to reveal stairs to the second floor. Now there is another pig on the ceiling that you can't do much about at the second, and two more on your level, both of whom you should defeat for both points and large numbers of coins. Unlock and enter the door on the far left of the second floor. You're upside-down! On the ceiling! Oh my! Well, don't worry, you can still jump, still do everything, except for now, you're going to be confused and awkward while doing it. I can't stress how useful it is to have Fleep daze the pig enemies first before trying to defeat them, so I'll leave that one up to you. Head right on the ceiling and enter the other door. Now you're sideways! You'll soon notice that you're attached to whatever wall like a magnet, so don't worry about falling off or some such. There's still the occasional enemy running about, but once you reach the next door, stop, and go back up the last two ledges. This might feel really odd, but switch to Peach and try floating over to the next ledge, past the door. It's possible, but it might take a couple of tries until you're used to it. Keep going until you reach the wall and the last door. Woo, right-side-up! The best thing to do here is wait until you've defeated all of the enemies oozing around, and then switch to 3D. You'll notice that you can drop down next to the stairs, so do so. Defeat all of the yellow enemies down here, too, and then hit the black switch with the arrows. This switch moves you from the floor to the ceiling, and back again. Move to the ceiling and then run right, to the door, and enter it. You're back in the room that the hidden door early on had led you to, but now you're on the ceiling. Defeat whatever nearby enemies there are, and then go right, but be cautious of the pig enemy that's running around at the very top (bottom?) of the area. Once it's defeated, come back to the highest ledge and once again switch to Peach, so you can hover over to the right ledge. Go 3D and enter the door revealed. Run right and open the chest for another key, and despite that you can see the locked door directly beneath you, you have to backtrack for now. Nuts. Ah, well, move back until you're at the room with the black arrow switch, and use it to be standing normally. Go 3D and then right, jumping from the sitting block on the floor up to next to the stairs, and then go 2D, and leave the room. Run right, off the ledge, and enter the door there. Once again, you're on the other side of the room. Run all the way left until you've reached the other door, and enter it. You're back in the room with the locked door! Go 3D first, to reveal the presence of a pipe, which you should enter. No need to go 3D here, there's only what's visible to find. Thing is, you're upside down again! Bah! Just deal with it and collect the coins, and don't forget to go all the way to the right so that you can get the coin block too, then leave the pipe. Go right, unlock the door, and enter it. Start off in here by hitting the black arrow switch, running to the right, and then hitting it again, righting you. You probably see the white outline of a door, but that's all it is, an outline. The key here is to use Tippi's Wiimote pointing abilities and have her make the door visible for us. Now, enter it. Defeat the two enemies in here, and then hit the new kind of black switch, which changes your position by a 90 degree angle. Run left now, defeating the three enemies here, until you reach the next new black switch, again hitting it. Now you're on the ceiling, so defeat the one enemy there and go through the door. In here, save, and then leave again. Now go left and hit the new black switch again, and you're on the right wall. Defeat the two enemies here as well, and enter the door. Run right, here, and enter the door. From here, run right, hitting the left and right item blocks for blue Shrooms but avoiding the middle due to it holding a zombie Shroom, and then enter the door on the right, which brings you to the ceiling, where you should go left to get the key. Now backtrack to the last room, and then hit the new black switch in sight twice, then run left and hit that new black switch once, entering the door on the ceiling again. Flip to the floor, and save again, then unlock and enter the next door. +-+-+-+-+ BOSS: Mr. L +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- HP: 40 AP: 3 Mr. L isn't incredibly hard, but he's still not a pushover. It shouldn't take too many hits to defeat him, but he can heal himself. The important thing to note is, never get off the offensive. Whenever he's not in the air, you should be, just about to hit him. He's especially vulnerable when he's got his healing Shroom Shakes out, and not only can he be damaged, but he won't heal himself, so it's a free hit. All he really does is jump around, and occasionally do a sort of super jump that reaches the ceiling, but I wouldn't be too worried, just move in one direction, and when you start moving back, he'll be back on the ground like normal. Now in his second form, piloting Brobot, I have absolutely no idea how much HP he has, but since you're flying around in space and have access to Squirps' ray gun or whatever, the main goal is to avoid whatever he throws at you, whether it's laser bolts, eye lasers, or homing rockets, while you try and collect all of the various kinds of chocolate in space, all of which gives you different effects. If you fight efficiently and well, the fight against Brobot shouldn't take more than two minutes. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Obviously, go right and enter the door. After some explanations of just why Squirps went so far out of his way to help, you'll finally get a well-deserved Pure Heart, your fifth. Huzzah, the world is more than half saved! ============================================================================ ------------------------------=== CHAPTER 5 ===----------------------------- ============================================================================ Section 2.5: Chapter 5 (SPM005) ---CASTLE BLECK INNER SANCTUM--- With the fiery introduction of Mr. L to the ranks, the old-timers express their displeasure. Mr. L assures them of just how incredible he is and goes to modify Brobot. Awesome. After that, O'Chunks is apparently going to try and go hero-chunkin' again. The rest of the minions leave, so only Count Bleck and Nastasia are there. Nastasia comments on the Count's philosophy change, and then makes a comment about the Count's old love interest. This leaves her slightly depressed as Bleck departs. After that, there is yet more of the ever so depressing and yet interesting dialogue between the lovers Timpani and Blumiere. ---FLIPSIDE--- After a bit of oddly flirtatious dialogue, Tippi seems to faint. Merlon arrives and brings the group to his home, where he explains Tippi's origins. If you've been paying close attention to the dialogue that I've been putting in the 'Interdimensional Rift' section of the FAQ after every new Chapter begins, then you've probably got a good clue about the identity of Tippi. But beyond that, we're supposed to bring the fifth Pure Heart to it's Heart Pillar, so let's get on that, shall we? Head left and down the elevator, and then right, going 3D at the end so that you can pass through the wall, as if you're going to the card shop. Now, stop inbetween the card shop and the other building, and use Fleep on the shining place above you. Hit the blue switch that appears, and go 3D, using the new path, then enter the building. In here, there's a bunch of blocks. Just hit them all from right to left in order, and another new path is created. Go 3D and through the new gap, and then go through the door. Out here, flip into 3D so that you can cross the bridge, then back to 3D. ---FLOPSIDE--- Yep, that's right, a whole new place, Flopside. Head left, past the grandson and grandmother, and flip to 3D, and you'll see a path to the left through the wall that you should enter. Now, go back to 2D, and ride the elevator up to the second floor, and then go left. You'll run straight into Nolrem, the town's version of Merlon. With that out of the way, follow his advice and go up a floor using the elevator, then run right and simply place the Pure Heart inside the Heart Pillar. Nolrem comes and congratulates you, and then tells you to get to Flipside Tower. But before we do that, there's something far more important to do: Make the Flipside/Flopside more convenient. Go one level down, and then immediately go 3D once you leave the elevator. You'll see a hidden person, um, thing, and for a mere 300 coins it can create a pipe from Flipside to Flopside! If you don't have the coins now, keep this in mind, because this'll save you a lot of time. I recommend getting it created as fast as possible, because whenever I want you to go from Flipside to Flopside, I'll just tell you to use the pipe. Flopside is an interesting place. Everything's flipped around, looks a lot more depressing because of the black paint job, and is altogether different. You'll quickly notice that inside Flopside's item shop, the items are all not only better, but much more expensive. Merlee now gives 'charms' which benefit your game, and there's another outskirts, the gate that you go leading to which is still in from of Nolrem's house, but you can't do anything out there yet. Go to the first floor using the elevator and enter the door farthest to the left. In here, once you go 3D, you can find Cooking Disk Y on the table. In the cooking area, yeah, um, it's interesting, but the highlight is that you can now cook with two items. Inputting the Cooking Disk Y into the recipe helper on the side allows you to see some of the things you can make using two ingredients. Do what you wish here, and then leave. Go left and change into the third dimension so that you can go through the hole in the wall, and then go right for this town's card shop. You can still buy Catch Card SP's here, but instead of the mystery bags you get in Flipside's shop, in here there are cards with varying prices depending on rarity that you can buy specifically. If you've already completed the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials, you can access the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials via 'reversing' a space rift using Fleep that appears in the same area as Flipside. Again, we'll postpone it until after the game, but if you want to go through it now, go right on ahead, and if you need help, scroll down to the Pit of 100 Trials section. That's pretty much the entire list of things to do in Flopside at the moment, so use the pipe to get back to Flipside. ---FLIPSIDE--- Get up to Flipside Tower, and run over to talk with Merlon. You've got Tippi back! If you haven't saved yet, do that, make sure you're well-stocked, and then enter the newly created door to begin. ============= Chapter 5-1 ============= --DOWNTOWN OF CRAG--- Here, you'll be taken to the local chief, Marbald, before you can even do anything, and be asked to defeat some Floro Sapiens and rescue a bunch of Cragnons. Right. Apparently, you're some sort of holy sending to help them. So, you should accept their request. Soon a local King will come and attack the local Cragnons, so you need to go and help. Go outside and some of King Croacus's Floro Sapiens will attack you. Defeat them by first jumping on their heads, then their stalks, and then you'll see more of the dastardly Floro Sapiens carrying away more Cragnons. You can't enter any of the local houses, including the item shop, and though you may see a tiny building and a hall in the wall at the far right, you can't enter either yet. Save, and go through the door. Watch another cutscene and then go right, using Boomer to defeat the enemies that attack you. Pay careful attention to the enemy on the far right, it's another one of those enemies that send you back to Flipside. Enter the pipe on the far right. In here, use Boomer again to defeat the two enemies, but for these ones you need two bombs each, so keep that in mind. Once they're defeated, open the new chest for a Bowser (2) card, which shows him in his white tuxedo. Hahahaha. Leave the pipe, and if you want go 3D, there's a 3D enemy here that you can defeat, then head left, past the door we came in through. Be careful, the rocks on the ground will attack you, so watch out for that. Go left until you hit the wall, and then hit the item block for the happy flower, the one that makes coins fall from the sky. Once you're done collecting coins, jump from the item block to the hill on the left, and keep going up until you're at the top. Defeat the rock enemy here, and then jump all the way down, going 3D when you hit the bottom to reveal a chest there that you should open for a card. Go back up the hill you just jumped off of, and then switch to Peach so that you can float to the left, hitting the coin block at the end of the jump. Go to 3D where you land to find another enemy, which you should be able to defeat easily, now that you have it's card. Jump down here to find another one of these rock enemies, Moon Clefts, in 3D. Defeat it and then hit the boxes, first the one on the left, then the right, and lastly the middle to make a pipe appear. Enter it for another short scene with the Floro Sapiens, and then head right. You'll encounter five huge enemies along the way, all of which are easy to defeat if you're patient, though they do have one hundred health points each. Just keep on jumping on them, don't let up, and they'll never have a chance to attack. Your reward for defeating them is a nice one thousands points each. E-Mail Note: While using your FAQ I found that it was easier in 5-1 when you have to fight the big elephant things it's easier if you use Bowser's fire and drive them all back and attack them all at once. I thought it was helpful, maybe you will too. - Devilboy6693 With them out of the way, and probably down a couple of healing items too, go to the far right and you'll find three more blocks like the last ones. This time, though, you must hit them quite a few more times, and in another odd order. Hit the middle, right, left, left, right, middle, right, left, right, right, middle, right, right, left, middle, middle, left, left, left, right, left, left, left, middle, and middle for a new pipe to appear. Wasn't that fun? Enter the pipe, and you're now back in the background. There isn't anything to find if you go left, so try going right, and you'll soon be running behind the wall. Keep going until you find another green pipe, and enter it. Back in the forescreen, run right and up the steps to find the star block, which you need to hit to end the chapter. ============= Chapter 5-2 ============= ---GAP OF CRAG--- Run right and use Boomer to defeat all of the Pokeys, not to mention the Poison Piranhas after them. There's another Pokey in 3D around the first pipe, too, not to mention an item behind the second pipe. Once you've defeated all of the enemies, jump into the water and let yourself fall, taking care to avoid the Cheep-Cheeps, who can and will actively change dimensions in the water. Keep falling through the water and you'll enter a dry area, which holds a chest that you can open for a Water Tablet. Go 3D to find two coin blocks that you can jump off of to reenter the water, and then swim back up and jump out to the right. Enter the door. Go left when you've regain