Obscure Mechanics in Super Paper Mario

[@spiritbaki108]

Slim obscure mechanic: In the Mimi chase sequence in 2-4, using Slim before Mimi enters the room causes her to not know you are in the room, so she looks around a little and, because she thinks you are in another room, just teleports out to look for you.

[@spiritbaki108]

Another Dottie obscure mechanic: You know the mushrooms pulled by a rope in chapter 2-2? Those are normally unobtainable, but with Dottie you can go through the rope hole and finally get back at Mimi by getting the mushroom. (Also Merlee why is your mansion still trapped when you end chapter 2? Lazy much?)

[@spiritbaki108]

Another Barry obscure mechanic: In the PAL version (the one I play), Barry got a nerf. Barry usually can reflect projectiles, like those of Ruff Puff and Cherbils (which are the same in this version), but the proyectiles of some enemies like Boomboxers and Magiblots actually crash with the barrier and dont get reflected as easily, and have to be approached while moving in that direction with some momentum to actually get reflected

[@JeremyJohnson-q6i]

I always get that 2-2 mushroom out of spite 😂

[@R_Aqua]

Funnily enough I knew that as a 10 year old because I tried everything to escape the terrifying invincible spider monster and saw that Slim made me invincible as long as I stood still.

[@TheCoolChocolate_Official]

I actually found this one on my own when I was younger

[@tinyclover3849]

I like the idea that Mimi never expected you to break out of debt. 11 hours of raw hamstering is just a couple days of work.

[@Nothere.mp4]

@@tinyclover3849 *raw hamptering

[@nicjoy4407]

Yeah her whole curse can be broken by just walking for 12 hours. The average dutch person would break out in like 3-4 days.

[@JoshOfFire]

Obscure mechanic: there's actually a vault full of rubies in chapter 2-3! Who knew?

[@idkidk4334]

Just like using the wheel will make your game speed up and videos and images appear on your screen

[@TunaBear64]

2-6? What? You mean 6-2? And I guess that's true, all those rubees must come from somewhere

[@rainpooper7088]

Not me 🐹

[@endernightblade1958]

hampter.

[@blakecook9266]

@@TunaBear64 can’t you read? It clearly says chapter -4

[@Kyrø1-v2y]

Its me, the guy who taped his wii remote down as a child, coming back in the morning to that pitiful amount of rubles before I realized there was a hidden pixel and felt so stupid finding it after devoting six further hours to hamptering.

[@Accrovideogames]

You actually thought Nintendo would be both stupid and cruel enough to force players to roll that wheel for many hours in person? That's kind of funny, actually.

[@Kyrø1-v2y]

@Accrovideogames I was like 7

[@Toastility]

I also thought that's what you were supposed to do so I just walked around my house holding the wiimote for like 30 mins before I got bored

[@tntri1488]

i left it for 1 hour

[@Surge_N_Destroy]

I actually went through the whole ruppie grind too when ai was little and reach the 1 million goal. I didn't know any better and was wondering why the game was so grindy. My sister and I took shifts to grind in the hamster wheel.

[@acephoenixgamer]

Two things: it's probably not that obscure, but you didn't mention that Carrie is what allows Bowser to use fire in midair. Also, the only way to cure a status effect in the game other than Piccolo is by using the Slimy Extract, which is obtained by cooking a slimy shroom, which is obtained by purchasing the midrange package at the flopside inn and flipping into 3-D in the morning. Why they did this is beyond me. Bonus: one of the most cost efficient healing items in the game is Ink Pasta, which requires ink from a blooper and a fresh pasta bunch. It heals 25 HP

[@hoodedman6579]

Unless the status effect is poison, of course, as seemingly every single HP healing item (outside of the ones that heal over time) mentions. It seemed really weird to me when I first played and it still seems weird to me to be honest, I don't recall poison even coming up that much.

[@RyouShi98]

@@hoodedman6579 Strangely enough Poison was an odd status effect in the first Paper Mario. The item meant to cure it, the Tasty Tonic, is less effective than healing with a standard Mushroom because the effect of poison is just so weak. The only other thing it cures is Shrink, which is a powerful debuff but so rare it's not worth keeping cure for, and Eldstar cures both anyways

[@mulch895]

So the reason the beatboxers are stunned by the bombs is due their extremely good hearing so of course an explosion would disrupt them. This can be discovered by the tippi skill

[@piplupfan5106]

Here’s another obscure fact: if you somehow manage to skip getting a Pixl, the game has failsafe dialogue that will play before the End of Chapter dialogue.

[@huldanoren951]

Although strangely enough, this isn't the case for Thudley, Fleep or Cudge (who are impossible to skip anyway since you cannot progress without their abilities)

[@ventriloquistmagician4735]

@huldanoren951 then it's not strange

[@Rodocter2023]

​@huldanoren951You can skip getting cudge with the gold bar glitch.

[@fiddlechrome]

6:26 i interpret it as them having incredible enhanced hearing, and sound overload from a loud bomb causing them to be stunned

[@flipperjr.3822]

>CS:GO flashbang ear-ringing sfx

[@ayo.2022]

Yeah, it's like grabbing a megaphone and screaming into a hearing aid lmao

[@plutoneon5932]

There is an extremely rare giant chest underneath one of the horizontal elevators in the Overthere, but instead of housing a new Pixl, if you try to open it BEFORE battling Bonechill, a cowardly Nimbi will pop out and give you an Ultra Shroom Shake. If you try to open it After defeating Bonechill, the Nimbi will congratulate you, but refuse to come out, making the chest its new home. I don't know anyone else who's discovered this.

[@Crigence]

I think I *may* have encountered this in my playthrough, not thinking too much of it other than "cool," but that may just be a false memory that I got reading it

[@idkidk4334]

Another obscure mechanic is if you got to chaper 2-3 and try to get 1M rubys with the wheel, the game speed goes up and a bunch of videos and images appear on your screen

[@Jimmy-the-greqt]

real

[@moosesues8887]

and mario turns into a hamster but that’s a one in a gerbillion chance of happening

[@idkidk4334]

​@@moosesues8887 Gerbillion

[@teko4752]

5 years ago during a stream. I learned after 13 years playing since the launch that Bowser wasn't able to climb ladders and a message would appear.

[@magicalgh0st]

“Can’t climb this!”

[@ZaxorVonSkyler]

Takes me back!

[@eiryhun]

there's an obscure Thoreau easter egg i discovered as a kid after killing an enemy, you have a few seconds before it explodes and gives you points. if you use Thoreau to pick up the enemy when its dying, it will play a special dizzy animation as ur holding it. i believe this works on every non-boss/invincible enemy, and to my knowledge the animations aren't used elsewhere (i never used status effect items much, so maybe the animations are also used for when an enemy is dizzy, but who cares man its a neat easter egg regardless) EDIT: i checked the mario wiki, and apparently this also happens if you pick up the same enemy after throwing them, before they can recover

[@potatopepperoni]

I loved doing that

[@biggarffan37]

"fleep on their shit" has been permanently added to my vocabulary

[@YannickJur]

YET ANOTHER obscure mechanic for Brobot L-Type: If you place a bomb during his suction attack, he will actually suck it up and it will explode on the inside dealing damage! This boss is so well designed. You can counter literally all of his attacks using a different ability, yet you'll never see any of this on a normal playtrough.

[@marioman1242]

Holy crap I remember doing exactly that as a kid! You've just unlocked some ancient memories for me.

[@MarioSonic46]

I wouldn't say "never"... I thought that was how you had to damage him when I was younger.

[@YannickJur]

@ But I bet you didn't know all of the ways. I knew of throwing the rockets back at him before, but I didn't even know you can use Fleep until now. xD

[@MarioSonic46]

@ I wouldn't gamble that if I were you lol. In addidtion to my multiple playthroughs, I've seen others play this as well and learned new things from there.

[@onisiph151]

Wait, I always thought this was the intended solution

[@anaceattorneyfangreatgame9770]

Obscure Mechanics List: Did you know that using Fleep instantly sends you into 2d from 3D? No need for an animation. Very good for when you need to kill an amazy dayzee. The sammerguys are programmed only for the current line they're standing on, so if bowser's fire is slightly below or above them, they'll continue walking and jumping into it as if there's no hazard, while they run away if bowser is on the same level as them. Using fleep twists the entire area selected, not just one thing. So there's a neat thing in the Brobot L fight where if you use fleep right as the missile spawns the game crashes! Or more specifically, fleeping both Brobot AND the Missile at the same time. This also works with the fist but it's a much tighter timing. (Tested on Official Hardware, crashed all three times.) In space, Carrey works completely different, instead moving you in a 2d space. In 2D you can move freely, but in 3D you can only go forwards, backwards, left and right. You are unable to change height Bowser cannot climb ladders. Beetles, and spinies and clefts are immune to fire, but lose their immunities and defense when being flipped over by boomer. You can use Ghost shrooms as a replacement for Poison Shrooms in any recipe. Using the Return pipe at count bleck's instead brings you to flopside tower, everywhere else brings you to Flipside Tower. Funny Mistakes: Using slim in 3D makes you turn 2d. So instead of slim making you seem invisible you actually disappear from existence. And finally: Exploits and weird trivia! Luigi can singlehandedly maneuver every single none 3D required section in the game BESIDES the long pit at count bleck's and the over there gap, which requires peach. The "Retired Adventurer" in Flipside is telling the truth! The grandmother, merluvlee and the map seller tell this fact, with the grandmother referring to him as the adventurer, Merluvlee telling of Piccolo being in the abandoned house of an adventurer, and the map seller finding the maps of an adventurer in that same house! He is also the only person in flipside and flopside to not have a counterpart (besides the casino goers), as he owned the houses for both flip and flopside. For some reason, you can infinitely combo the Big Sammerguys with Barry because they take longer to recover from his stun. The Mega Blooper is the only enemy unable to be inspected by Tippie, or Tiptron. Holding down during the countdown while using bowser in the sammerguy fights will always make it so the enemy gets hit before they're able to attack you, but if they're a jumping/laser guy or a big sammerguy, then they instead will hit you first. So this tactic works on around... 80 of the 100 sammerguys. On the same note, for Jumping guys, they always jump the same distance. So if you jump slightly backwards and hold down, they'll jump into the fire anyways and can't hit you. After getting Slim, you can return to the Mushroom Traps in Merlee's Mansion, you can go through the small gaps and actually get the mushroom, along with finding the pulley system in it's own room. Among all of Bower's troops that work for the count it is said that every single one resisted the count, except ONE goomba, who turned on Luigi voluntarily. Sky Juice can made by any apple from the Overthere, EXCEPT the Black one which creates a mistake. This is because it tastes absolutely horrible. Selling a cooked version of any item sells for more than the buy price for that item, EXCEPT Ultra Shrooms which only sells for 180 coins, a 120 coin loss. Shooting stars sell for 225 coins after being cooked into meteor meals, while a regular shooting star only sells for 46 I believe. It also becomes an automatic success, so always cook your shooting stars.

[@LunaHowBoutPoona]

@@anaceattorneyfangreatgame9770 one note, you actually can tattle the Giga Blooper! If you go back to 3-2 with Tippi or Tiptron, you can tattle on the tentacles that attack you in the room with the spiral currents

[@ZaxorVonSkyler]

I thought only Dottie can get you in the mushroom trap room?

[@anaceattorneyfangreatgame9770]

@@ZaxorVonSkyler One of them uses a slit, unless I remembered wrong. Most of these were just the ones I remember off the top of my memory.

[@dunktastic7942]

Did you know that using peach’s parasol for a very long time during the final boss fight, will cause dimentio to shake his skirt and summon a bunch of Luigi pal pill enemies which will run at you. They’re extremely fragile and will die on contact with the parasol but it’s a very neat mechanic

[@BaronB.BlazikenBaronOfBarons]

It’s worth noting that Fleep can reverse any projectile, not just the Brobot fists (they don’t gain tracking like the fists, but they do go in the opposite direction). I think it’s kinda less known because Barry can do the same thing more effectively.

[@crystalcrusader711]

If Thudley’s speedrun application gets to be included, then Slim’s should also be mentioned Using Slim plus a gold bar, you can go out of bounds in practically every room from my understanding. This allows for countless speed run tricks, with the most famous skip being able to skip the Florosapian’s scanner room, making the Thudley jumps to access the O. Chunk’s fight completely unnecessary. :3 Edit: It wasn’t mentioned in the video at all, so I figure I should throw this out there. If you’re looking to grind money in this game for catch cards or Tippi tron, buy mystery boxes. That sounds weird, but hear me out. Mystery boxes are sold at the Cragnon shop for 3 coins each. You only need 30 coins to fill your inventory. Take them to the Flipside kitchen. Mystery Boxes usually result in a mistake when cooked, but have a special chance to cook into a verity of recipes. These recipes sell for around 10-90 coins EACH. I am not kidding. It doesn’t matter if you roll 7/10 mistakes, because so long as you get at least 3 10 coin recipes, you will make money. Go back to the Cragnon shop, sell all your recipes, and buy 10 more mystery boxes. I figured this out because I was 100%ing the game. When you buy stuff from shops, you get a store point, and you need 300 store points in order to get the Whacka card from the point rewards. I started at 150 points or so, and went until I got 300. So how much money did I make? Well, considering I hit the max cap of 999 coins 3 times during the process, I’d say I made out like a bandit. Took a while, but it was much faster than running the Pits over and over. BTW, don’t sell your stuff at the shops in Flip or Flopside. Things there are more expensive than other world shops, and sell for much less. Do all your purchases at Cragnon’s shop, it’s much cheaper.

[@jonathanrussell6525]

I wonder if the recipes you can get all correspond to items the mystery box can roll? It would be cool if the game rolls an item for the mystery box when you cook it and then cooks based on that item.

[@crystalcrusader711]

@ The items in the mystery box sadly don’t correlate all that well with the recipe item pool. That’s mainly because the recipe item pool is made almost entirely of just healing foods, and the mystery box item pool is primarily attack items. Would’ve been cool if it worked that way.

[@korok132]

I can't believe my man Brogle made an entire video specifically to hate on the ninjas, and literally nothing else.

[@takanos1793]

Scandalous, right ?!

[@sonicrunn3r895]

I think it's very funny with Shadoo that it proves they KNEW how broken Bowser was in this game and weren’t really able to do much about it 😭

[@DefinitivNichtSascha]

16:45 One of my favourite Sammer Guys only exists in the German translation. He replaces Crow Who Eats at the 13th gate and is named R0xx0r. As his name suggests, he's cut from the same cloth as the 1337 HAMM3R BROZ in Partners in Time. Before engaging him, he says something akin to the following: _"ROFL! Now you'll get PWNED, you n00b! I am R0xx0r, Clan-Leader of gate 13!11eleven1! When I'm done with you, you're logging off! ROFL!"_ He has the following line upon being defeated: _"You must've HAXX0RED!111"_ and _"The n00b PWNZORED me... :-( AFK"_ And Tippi has this tattle for him _"R0xx0r, the 1337est of the Sammer Guys... He's a dreadful opponent, both on and offline."_ Definitely a bold move by the German translators, as this guy is present in no other language version of the game. They must've had a field day with this one.

[@aBlackMage]

@@DefinitivNichtSascha That's awesome. I played in German as a kid, but only started tattling everything when replaying in English. Are there any other highlights you can think of? Love me some goofy localisations.

[@gamingstation0608]

14:03 And the thing about this is that one of the grandmas you meet in Chapter 7-2 does tell you about it! She suggests you use an object that does music if you have any.

[@mettatonex7221]

I love reading the Wiki page on the various Sammer Guys, especially Tippi's various tattles, which provides a fun little quirk of each character pertaining to their life outside the ring, like how Zesty Recipe makes gooey brownies for the Sammer Guy break room on a daily basis.

[@FriskDrinksBrisk]

@@mettatonex7221 well, well... fancy seeing you here! How's everyone back in Hometown? Heard Toriel adopted another human...

[@mettatonex7221]

@@FriskDrinksBrisk Look man, I don't do roleplaying anymore. This is just what I changed my profile into back in 2016 and haven't bothered to change it back.

[@FriskDrinksBrisk]

@@mettatonex7221 fair enough.

[@Kiteminu]

0:54 "Mysteriously disappears" as he gets vaporized

[@davidvarna]

24:08 Breaking Bingle

[@enderdavid_hdde348]

0:34 weirdest mechanics in the best paper mario game*

[@KumatorasLittleCutie-Pie]

@enderdavid_hdde348 Amen to that!

[@mlggamer6943]

I'm so glad to see somebody talking about this game. People think I'm crazy when I say this is my favorite game of all time so it just makes me so happy seeing videos about it

[@YaBoiGabe31]

One of my favorite most obscure Super Paper Mario facts is that Francis has a “Hi-Technical” cameo in one of the Invincible comics 😅

[@SaveTheSeaSponges]

Correction: ninjoes can turn into a bomb and avoid damage any time damage is dealt not just a killing blow

[@SaveTheSeaSponges]

Items can go through this mechanic though

[@sharkman-ww3hy]

The Space Food Community has taken note of this treachery.

[@LittleCrap]

Okay I wanna add some funny things towards to things in this video: First of all here an obscure mechanic for Slim: Slim is actually one of the most powerful Pixls in the game. How so? Well there is a speedrunning Glitch called "Goldbar Clips". For this glitch you throw a goldbar near a wall in 3D, jump while having Slim activated in the direction of the wall and into the Goldbar, open the quick menu by pressing 1+2 at the same time and then switch to a different pixl while holding in the direction of the wall then. This glitch allows you to clip out of bounds literally everywhere in the entire game and is in this regard even more powerful then Thudley since most Thudley jumps got replaced by Goldbar Clips in speedruns (also Goldbar Clips are super easy so go ahead and try them out yourself (: ) Second is related to the ending of the video: The game actually has another failsafe for every Pixl besides Thudley and Cudge. This failsafe makes it that you will get your Pixl regardless if you have opened the chest or not. The funny thing is that in speedruns the only Pixl that don't have a glitch to skip them are Thudley and Cudge (yes you could farm the 1million rubies in the wheel and then do an easy glitch to skip Slim, but you will get them back still) which is obviously perfect since we wouldn't get them back from the game if we could. The game even has special textboxes for this failsave after completing the chapter where you were supposed to get the Pixls. (: There are obviously a lot more obscure mechanics I could mention about this game (Bonus one: In Flopside there is an Artist NPC, if you interact with him while playing Peach he will change her hair) but those are the things I mainly wanted to mention here. (:

[@huldanoren951]

The failsafe isn't present for Fleep either, which makes sense since, just like Thudley and Cudge, it's impossible to progress without him

[@Henry-so3qp]

Another Fracktail quirk: you can actually jump onto their back early if you jump onto during their attack where they come from the background to the foreground

[@popstarchamp]

Apparently Super Dimentio has the ability to employ a Pal Pill effect and summon tiny 8-bit Luigi's to attack you. Not sure how obscure that is but I've definitely never seen him use that attack before

[@EnderianHunter]

Non Obscure Mechanic (that I’ve never seen you perform): After jumping on an enemy you can shake your Wii remote to trick in mid air. This trick gives you more experience the more times you perform it before touching the ground, but you are only able to perform one trick per enemy bounce, meaning you have to keep bouncing on enemies to trick more. Maybe Obscure Mechanic: Based on how you shake your Wii remote to trick, you will perform a different trick. They are all functionally identical (maybe they can vary on time taken to perform the trick, I don’t know sorry).

[@SPZ-gv2on]

@@EnderianHunter They do have slightly different properties funnily enough. Iirc some TAS runs like minimum A presses use specific ones.

[@EnderianHunter]

@ Thank you for this info! Now I have to wonder why they did that.

[@phineas81707]

Obscure NPC interaction: On Flopside B1F (the same floor as Dyllis), there exists an artist named Bleu. After a certain point in the story, if you talk to him with Peach, he will take offense to her aesthetics and style her hair into her SMS ponytail. You can then play with Peach in her ponytail until you leave the room by elevator. Bleu will also restyle her hair as many times as you wish. You can't do *much* with the ponytail, but you can cook with Dyllis, at least.

[@PhoxphorusKitKat]

One obscure mechanic: Status Effects you'd get from Curseyas have battle interactions in the Underchomp fight. If you cook something called a "Dangerous Delight" (or any of the other cooking stuff that grants status ailments on use. Dangerous Delight is used because it gives every ailment) and eat it during the battle, you'll see the game accounted for you getting status ailments during the boss. Low Jump and Disable Ability do exactly what it sounds like and restrict certain actions. But Reverse will actually reverse your controls for the menu and Slow will lower the text speed.

[@ThatOneTheOwlHouseFan]

Here's a super obscure mechanic about the Megabite family. If you pause the game with + near one of those, it will flip to the opposite direction every pause, meaning you can manipulate it's direction.

[@chaathon2]

This is how I learn I somehow got a gifted membership lmfao

[@INFaeternae]

Likely due to the "Fish incident" in a recent stream, happened to me aswell!! Welcome to the community!

[@alpho789]

@@INFaeternaethe what

[@jaybobistired]

@@chaathon2 Same lmaoo

[@mulch895]

​@@INFaeternaewait what happened?

[@rainpooper7088]

@INFaeternae 🐟 ?

[@julianspatter]

A trick with Barry that I actually discovered on my most recent replay is that if you jump to attack an enemy and time activating Barry at the right moment you can hit the enemy with Barry and then stomp them before Barry's knockback pushes them too far away. It's rather tight timing so it's not very practical in most circumstances, but if you're in a situation where you want to have Barry out anyways (or just like wearing him around cause he fits your prefered play style) it can give you a chance to double dip on damage without needing to swap Pixls around.

[@Sayora77]

Obscure Mechanic(?): If you get Dashell before beating Francis they do not show up in the list of pixels during the dating simulator.

[@PatJamma]

23:00 It's me. I was that kid. I did exactly that because i couldn't figure out that level. When I woke up to basically nothing, I told my brother about it. He didn't play the game, but he was very active on GameFAQs and helped me by asking on there.

[@CastleSR]

this video is speedrunner approved. Just something small to mention for the Amazee Dayzee Card grinding you can use regular catch cards as long as your level is high enough

[@mettatonex7221]

Oh yeah, as a kid I dived head first into filling out all my recipes from the kitchen, so there aren't any items I didn't know about. I don't know why, but getting all that cooking done was just a lot of fun for me.

[@RAHRYE]

6:39 What do you mean? Slim is obviously the best Pixl, he unlocked Hampter mode the other day.

[@Aurakid]

I just learned this yesterday from an older video of fighting every boss in 3D, but did you know you can get certain bosses (and most enemies) stuck in the opposite plane (2D/3D) by using Thoreau to grab them and flipping into 2D/3D? It's funny, I never thought about doing that and the only time I've technically done it is when the game makes you do it for the Red Bridge guy. The game was trying to tell us it was possible haha.

[@firemayro]

"fleeping on their shit" brand new phrase

[@devonm042690]

For the longest time, I thought that because the vault in 2-3 exists, and because of Mimi's dialogue when you pay off the loan, there had to be something coded into the level that would prevent you from collecting 1000000 rubees through either of the labor rooms. My thought was that after you earned a certain amount of rubees, the game wouldn't let you work for anymore unless you gave Mimi what you'd collected up to that point, and then after you did that she'd spout some kind of interest nonsense that would put your debt right back to 1000000.

[@dmann2116]

I discovered the Emergency Ration trick on my own as a kid. I struggled with the Pit of 100 Trials and was somewhat low on health. I had a few Ultra Shrooms but didn't want to use them in case of an even worse situation later down the line, so I settled for using Emergency Ration to get a little bit of health back....I was surprised by how much it healed for me, because I specifically remembered it healing for 10 outside the Pit

[@mariosonicfan2010]

here's something really small: all of the playable characters besides mario have some kind of function tied to pressing the down button (peach's umbrella, bowser's fire, luigi's ultra jump), while mario just crouches, which does nothing. however, mario's crouch does actually have one small thing it can do: if you do it on a steep enough slope, you'll do a buttslide like in other 2D mario games! ...except, as far as i know(/remember), there aren't any slopes steep enough to actually do this, _except_ for inside the hampter wheel.

[@arrow3079]

Barry is especially useful against Barribads since they have that shield they project around them. You can use Barry to send back their projectiles and I always think it's a fun way to defeat them.

I don't know why but just having something actually named "Dark Luigi" is very funny to me

[@icecreamcat_6144]

Apparently if you get slim in 2-3 and go into the hampter wheel room you won’t need the key code

[@Christoph8]

Bowser can’t climb ladders

[@cometcartoons8528]

Yeah Fleep is a lot more useful than people give him credit for. Not only can he solve pulze and find secrets but he can also stun enemies stop projectiles and even one shot the Mr. I’s so you don’t have to circle around them.

[@Yoshi_69420]

HIS NEXT ARC IS GONNA BE STICKER STAR WE MUST STOP HIM BEFORE HE MAKES THAT MISTAKE

[@ddnava96]

Iirc, manually grinding the rubies does cause something funny. Iirc if you go to the vault after paying the debt it will be already open and empty

[@gravity119]

This is such a great and well-researched video! SPM is such an incredible game, I’m glad to see it getting love

[@641mamaluigi]

2:09 Shadoo: you can’t defeat me bowser, your flame hinders you! 2:40 Chuggaconroy: I’m going to end this man’s whole career! 12:11 fun fact about Barry: If you use Barry to reflect a Floro-sapien head it’ll keep spinning at you, if you guard it with peach it will keep spinning at you until you release her guard. 15:46 I’m glad our mutual hatred for the ninjas is understood, this is why Dottie is great for pit runs because not only do these guys refuses to die, they spam shurikens like mad. 20:38 also kinda they didn’t do this in TTYD on switch, eating space food (at all) just makes you allergic, I mean Mario visits the freaking moon, at least let it heal more there

[@hotmud9703]

Boomer stuns the Boomboxer enemy family probably because their ears are sensitive? Unsure.

[@OddToSee812]

Obscure boss attack: Super Dimentio can summon little 8 bit Luigi’s to attack you. The only way I’ve had it activate is if I just sit there using Peach’s Parasol to block his other attacks.

[@hedwyn8803]

I remember using the fracktail trick all the time during replays as a kid, definitely think it's intended!

[@nicolasrededeo805]

So this isn't really obscure, but you can use Barry right before you land on an enemy to deal extra damage, so that is something :)

[@hikariwuff]

All enemies’ death sounds are a sped-up version of the enemies’ death sounds from Paper Mario 64. You can actually hear this in-game if you pick up a slow flower, then kill an enemy.

[@kangelenjoyer]

putting the single most well known obscure mechanic on the thumbnail so terminally online nerds will show up and be like "HA, bet i already know this crap!"

[@Kwyjor]

So there's this spot in 5-4 where you can supposedly earn infinite XP using Bowser's fire on this pipe that continually spawns enemies - except it was supposedly fixed in the PAL version. I say supposedly, because there seems to be very little documentation about this anywhere? Also, I could have sworn I saw in-game text somewhere about the bonus HP from the Space Food and Emergency Rations.

[@gomango99]

Love the Super Paper Mario videos, thought the game was phonomenal as a kid and now I het hyperfixated on it every 6 months lol

[@ayo.2022]

Funnily enough, the Thoreau/Boomer strat at 6:05 is actually how I hit the switch that unlocked the Flipside Pit lol. Can't remember where I first learnt it but I thought it would be funny to try and make the shot from a couple blocks away

[@metronette8650]

Theres one thing about Barry that wasn’t mentioned, Barry can deflect projectiles, some can damage the enemies back, this isn’t the most useful thing but it is still worth mentioning.

[@jumpupsupbarhorn]

> Says Slim has no interesting mechanics > Immediately brings up Thudley and the Overthere jump Slim has the insane Gold Bar skip so he really needs a similar mention!!

[@isabellevaughn-mcgee7825]

“Fleeping on their shit” really sent me this afternoon

[@diegogonzalez8506]

Super Paper Mario is what really should be getiting a Paper Mario sequel and I'm tired of pretending it shouldn't.

[@rrb279]

This might be an obscure fact about the Ninjohn enemy - they strongly resemble the Garo enemies from Majoras Mask, who also explode when they are defeated.

[@Paikerchu13]

That's because both are based on Ninjas, whom in a lot of Japanese stories have a lot of stereotypical abilities, one of which being avoiding a deadly blow by disappearing into a puff of smoke while leaving a bomb behind.

[@grfrjiglstan]

Not a mechanic, but still obscure: Brobot’s theme is a remix of the Bowser theme from Hotel Mario. I’m serious.

[@DigiBeck-hy8zp]

I AM HERE FOR THIS SO CALLED ARC, ive never seen your channel but just subbed. World needs more spm content

[@dattromboneguy]

"Fleeping on their shit spins them around. Then they DIE" 😂

[@wingedangel6030]

Mario: Why won't you die!? Ninjoe: Bombs, Son! It responds to lethal damage, you can't kill me Mario!

[@JeremyJohnson-q6i]

Thudley Jump and Stealing Mr. L's Shroom Shakes are my personal favorites

[@The_Empyrean]

As a person who was here for his first stream, he’s gained so much more popularity since he started streaming, keep going champ!

[@Cd62004]

You should try a minimum XP run where you avoid as much experience as you possibly can

[@eggfordays3897]

13:00 actually, you can kind of slide at the back of the wheel which makes the wheel go slower and get less power. I did it as a kid.

[@KUwUpa]

I could have sworn that if you backwards slide on the hampter wheel you could get rubies just a bit faster. Like, it takes a bit of trial and error but if I remember correctly you gotta run right, change directions, jump left, then slide while facing left to preserve momentum. I remember the light for earning rubies going faster as a kid on my console.

[@GoatandWatch]

23:44 actually, you can skip slim with a fairly easy speedrun trick, jumping on mimi’s glass board desk then jumping left towards the cell wall in 3D, not directly to the left but a little slightly right of the left wall and into the top of the cell, you can see it in the Chapter 2 Speedrun guide on the Super Paper Mario Community KZbin channel!

[@Master-Fawful958]

17:02 It never crossed my mind to try that method! I just stomped all the Pigarithms in Chapter 4-4, since they dropped up to 11 coins per kill. And one of the rooms has a Slow Flower that tripped the money and the level itself also had two Happy Flowers. But I‘ll definitely be changing my money making strategy after watching this. Also if you’re using Dashel while building up speed with any character except Bowser, then you can leap across big pits. All that aside, I loved💕 the video.

[@icelingbolt]

The fruity shroom is called that because when mario is gay it heals double smh

[@Thaumius]

Trivia: In the base game, the maximum amount of HP you can have is 999 and the max attack you can have is 99 and 198 for bowser. Once you are level 99, the only way to get more powerful is to buy Power plus or HP plus from the flipside arcade for 2500 tokens Using the amazee dayzee trick (Kimimaru's method), you can use these to farm flipside tokens to buy hp plus (+5 hp) and power plus (+1 attack). Ive done it before and it takes A HUNDRED AND FIFTY HOURS to get perfect stats.

[@AriZonia]

Something really funny is that I had known about a good handful of these mechanics from playing the game myself ages ago! Namely the Negative Infinite EXP, stealing the Shroom Shakes, Curing Statuses/The Underchomp with Piccolo, and Throwing Boomer. Heck, I even knew about the Emergency Ration trick! It's kind of funny that these are all apparently "obscure" when it's like "oh yeah, that's just a thing I used when I played". Then again, I had learned something about that the hamster wheel that is just silly. I found out you can do an infinite slide trick even when sitting on the very bottom of the wheel. Like, your momentum keeps going and the wheel is still moving, but you're in a perpetual sliding state. It's not easy to pull off and is ultimately useless, but hey.

[@thehypist2587]

Nice work on this video! I used to grind with Amazy Dayzees, so satisfying having so much money thanks to those cards. Super Paper Mario is one of my favorite games on the Wii, hope it gets re-released like TTYD did on Switch!

[@BenTheBlenderGuy]

22:58 I was that kid to an extent. I taped the D-pad of the Wii Remote so Mario always went forward, then would switch the HDMI to actual television and watch an episode of Spongebob, then went back. It took me a while to catch on, but I eventually realized I was only making 18000 Rubees every time, so I would check like every 5-8 minutes afterward. I got bored of it around the 100,000 mark and just did the vault instead.

[@TinySpiny]

If I was making stuff instead of being a dumb kid back in 2007 I would’ve made a fake Nintendo thing that said you could unlock Mimi as a secret character if you did the 1 million Rupee grind manually. She switches sides because she’s genuinely impressed with your work ethic.

[@JobyRJorby]

Mint vid Bongle!

[@daerek4030]

I’m pretty sure the emergency ration and space food lists their special attribute in their description. Just open it up in the item inventory, hover over the item, and hit down on the d-pad and it’ll show a second page of the description

[@tmangb]

"fleeping on their shit spins them around, and then they die." laughed my ass off at this

[@lpsp442]

Ahhhhhhh, the *Sammer Guy page* on the Super Paper Mario Wiki.... a rare and choice treasure of the internet.

[@FilthyTea]

11:26 Good, that’s the unintentionally funniest thing in a Nintendo game

[@jaredbarker9515]

I like how you make a game that is way too easy for experienced platform gamers into an actual challenge, and thus make the most of it's mechanics. Dottie and Peach are still broken though. I wonder how hard it would be to beat the pits of 100 trials at level 1 without either of them, or if it's even possible to do it without capture cards.

[@varietychan]

This is late but did you know in TTYD you can press A to make Flurrie do her body slam early, or press A to make Lakilester throw his spiny faster in Paper Mario 64? I notice a lot people don't do this, and instead choose to wait a little

[@Callumbuddy]

One of my favorite boss quirks is that Francis can actually take damage from the Meowbomb explosions. This means that Francis can actually be defeated by one of these explosions, and if he is, the player gains no Points for beating him (since it counts as an enemy defeating him).

[@i_eat_sand._.yayaya]

1:45 whoever found this (if it wasn’t you) well done i don’t think anyone would randomly notice that

[@feenickstv4209]

Oh my god I never realized this but the underchomp fight is a reference to Mother 1/Earthbound Beginnings battle system

[@Maker0824]

What I like to do with Slim is that it allows you to observe a boss and plan how to beat them without any risk of them hurting you