Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - Bonetail Boss Fight (Pit of 100 Trials Final Boss)

The final battle against Bonetail in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the Nintendo Switch. Bonetail is the final boss of the Pit of 100 Trials, and arguably the hardest boss in the game. It's therefore very frustrating you can only attempt her once before having to redo the pit.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Switch - Bonetail Boss Fight

[@zekromtrainer1222]

I love that Bonetail's theme a remix of Hooktail's theme instead of the same track

[@cannabishornliu6119]

Gloomtail has his own variation of this theme!

[@S113Productions]

All of the dragons have their own theme, and they definitely did the right thing by giving each of them their own soundtrack.

[@Brian-xe1gd]

Tfw nearly your entire audience slept on your dramatic finisher

[@interguy5846]

Shoutouts to the status breaths looking different instead of just being recolors of the flame breath lmao

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

I’m very impressed with how they redid the intro to this fight. Just bonetail howling and coming out of the shadows

[@samvanroon5041]

agreed it just adds something special to the whole fight

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

@samvanroon5041 I mean this entire game was nightmare fuel and happiness too, but honestly cortex and bonetail were what caught me off guard the most, I mean the Mario series is very interesting and just how many different themes it tackles is insane.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

@samvanroon5041 I forgot to mention, this goes over a lot of people’s heads but the three dragons were created through dark magic by the shadow queen, bonetail is technically already dead but it’s still alive, so that’s why this is even more scary than it should be.

[@DingityDingus]

0:15 would not wanna be in mario’s shoes right here

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

I agree it’s just unexpected

[@chrange9714]

Wow this remix is fuckin fire. Perfectly captures the fear and horror of not only fighting an undead dragon, but also of potentially losing to this monster boss and having to start the entire pit over when you've come so far. Just beat her yesterday and I was really low on everything but so close, then I hit the Shine Sprite bingo and man that was satisfying af lol.

[@JUSTSOMEGUY858]

I remember beating this right after hooktail. Took like 8 hours

[@kevink2986]

With the pit of 100 trials or just the bone tail battle?

[@JUSTSOMEGUY858]

Both

[@carlosMendoza-ct3wr]

Right after beating hooktail i spent 3 days of tries to beat bonetail, 3 hours per day

[@Cardboardbox83]

People really trying to beat this right after or before hooktail? Y’all crazy 😭 took me about 3 hours to beat him and I waited till after defeating the pirate monster Cortez

[@lightschen1644]

I’ve only ever beaten her when winning the lottery lmaooo

[@blackcatbooks64]

Bonetail is actually a girl in this version.

[@inebriatedfowl3197]

He's not that difficult of a fight though

[@invalidfile]

Pre-hooktail pit isn't too bad once you know the strategies that come with beating it

[@2ds200]

I love how Bonetail’s remix just screams “Deathly Demonic Dragon.”

[@KingSpartaX37]

My heart was pounding when I faced her and I was at PERIL for several minutes, next thing you know, the fog came in and saved me and I had enough star points for a Sweet Feast!! Not only I have beaten Bonetail but I have beaten the Pit on my FIRST TRY!! 😁

[@joshyjosh1990]

People are talking about the battle theme being fire. Just wait til you hear the theme for the super boss in the Pit once Bonetail is defeated.

[@daedricwinters2979]

I fumbled big just before Bonetail I had used up my starpower on floor 99, thinking i was about to level up (5 points away), completely forgot about keeping lifeshrooms handy, and to top it off, i had remaining BP to equip a new badge But having the badge to freely swap party members helped immensely, still works if they're knocked out too

[@sephi8349]

Banger boss theme🔥

[@mariobroultimate1808]

Since the player never tattled Bonetail, I’ll reveal this. Bonetail is now a girl in the remake. All non English versions of the original game had Bonetail as a girl, so this was likely changed for consistency. Edit: Okay guys. Thank you. Mario tattled towards the end. I skimmed through the video and never once saw Bonetail's health bar

[@jeremyrossi2716]

This is untrue as there is a Tattle at 5:50. Bonetail is indeed referred to as female.

[@allen_the_king40848]

@@jeremyrossi2716the tattle was changed in the remake. in the original game (American version), Bonetail is referred to as the older brother.

[@jeremyrossi2716]

@@allen_the_king40848 I know, what I was saying in my original comment is that Bonetail’s remake entry now makes her female unlike the original English version. Sorry if I wasn’t explicit enough before

[@Roboyoshi15]

Beldam: I can't believe they made Bonetail a girl. First my BROTHER and now the centuries old dragon in a pit? IS NOTHEING SACRED?

[@lazybones8962]

​@@Roboyoshi15 **Beldam speech bubble**

[@CookedSpringtrap]

This new Bonetail theme might jsut be one of my favourites so far.

[@corjonbett]

Bonetail is just playing possum, notice her twitching!

[@BirdieYT]

I’m currently doing this fight pre Hooktail, I keep getting her to like 30-40hp and I lose lol

[@nekogamer2508]

Did you put koops ahead of you and have the shell on mario

[@veghesther3204]

About that glitch this Remake doesn't allow that to happen its only possible to fight it Pre Hooktail in the original game BUT if you can't even DO super guarding at all you won't even reach like the 50th floor even If Mario has like 50+ HP without possibly losing the fights IN 1 hit.

[@teeby2037]

@@veghesther3204 you can do the pit pre-hooktail

[@veghesther3204]

But it requires a DIFFERENT Glitch IN the Switch remaster just to enter the first floor.

[@teeby2037]

@@veghesther3204 so… you can do the pit. pre hooktail. like i said…?

[@J.R-Himself]

I tried to reach this boss, but I failed around Level 83. And of course it was progressively tough.

[@DeltaBlazin]

I did the whole pit first try. The pit of a hundred trials is, from what i've deduced -- an endurance test. I mixed and matched diffrent badges, utilized ALLL my partners, got TWO Amazy Dayzees, it was absolutely wild. I FINISHED the main game, just jumped right into this, played all night, and got this all first try. Now, as I said, I mixed and matched several badges, but here's the ones I ALWAYS had on. HP plus badges, FP plus badges, HP partner badges, charge badge, charge partner badge, quick change, feeling fine, feeling fine P, and lucky day was really useful once I got it. Bonetail is a direct reflection of the pit itself, you have to endure against Bonetail's attacks and just keep chipping away, all it took was using spring jumps and Bobbery's basic bomb attack, some charging here and there, and using showstopper like twice, to prevail, of course you have to ABSOLUTELY keep your guard up. Items? Get like 6 Ultra Shrooms, 6 Jammin Jellies, and the rest in Life Shrooms. Make sure to get a SPECIAL Spell from Merluvlee, trust me, you'll need it. And uh, honest to god. Bonetail is nowhere near as hard as Shadow Queen, lmao. If you manage to get there with full hp and fp, you should be fine, like i did. Shadow Queen? You literally GET full health, fp, everything and she STILL had me struggling on.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

I have just 10 ultra shrooms and 10 jamin jellies and only 3 badges you just have to destroy bonetail with your best set ups

[@AndzyGM]

I just completed this battle yesterday with only the partners i got after completely chapter 4, every BP level up and only having 20 HP & FP, had to use all my items but ended up winning the end of it

[@Kaheiyattsu221]

I just 20 danger mario badged it. Easy peezy

[@POPCULTURETUBEX]

Oh crap. Im doing it with 10...lol. Oops. ​@Kaheiyattsu221

[@luzius6788]

I find Bonetail a LOT harder than Shadow Queen. I beat the whole game with Double Pain Badge and only 20 HP for Mario and beat the Shadow Queen on my first try. I got my first Game Over against Bonetail. On the 2nd try I was able to defeat her but Bonetail is in my opinion the hardest boss in the game. The Shadow Queen was nothing compared to her.

[@itsaxel8088]

Thank goodness deaths don't send you back to the beginning of the pit

[@BonazaiGirl]

That’s a massive change from the original, or, at least from what I can remember. Wasn’t there a save point in level 50?

[@123whatsYOURname]

@@BonazaiGirl When I heard about this change I was deeply disappointed. The Pit of 100 Trials is an endurance test. It should be reserved for dedicated and hardcore fans. Especially when the game is already easy. To use the checkpoint to level 50, you have to pay an npc a lot of money.

[@BonazaiGirl]

@@123whatsYOURname Eh, normally I’d agree but after a thunderstorm caused my power to go out when I had reached the 30-somethingth floor as a kid and I had to start from the beginning again, I have mixed feelings. I DO believe the challenge of the Pit of 100 Trials in both TTYD and Super Paper Mario (we don’t speak of the sheer BS that was _Flopside’s_ pit) of fighting you’re way through a 100 floors to get to the Superboss was great, but I think it’s nicely balanced by the fact that if you want to call it quits, you have to still start from the beginning.

[@Avocado_Ruler]

@@BonazaiGirl that’s good 😂

[@masterseekerv6907]

The room where Bonetail comes out of the shadows horrifies me. Facing this undead dragon will just haunt my dreams. Glad this is just a game though…

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Yeah the Mario series sure does have scary moments

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

I forgot to mention, this goes over a lot of people’s heads but the three dragons were created through dark magic by the shadow queen, bonetail is technically already dead but it’s still alive, so that’s why this is even more scary than it should be.

[@masterseekerv6907]

@@OmegaVideoGameGod I actually knew that from the GameCube version. The three dragons were the Shadow Queen’s pets. You can actually learn more of this story on the rooftops east of Rogueport.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

@masterseekerv6907 Cool I’m glad I’m not the only who thinks this :)

[@keirjarvie6998]

I’m going to be perfectly honest, I didn’t think Bonetail was that hard. I think it was because I had an idea on how hard I heard she is so I did some preparation. Having said that, here’s how I would prepare for Bonetail. 1. Wear the Money Money and Item Hog badges. That way for the former, you’d have loads of coins for when you meet Saffron to buy additional items. 2. Visit Merlee (I think that’s who you visit) for her to cast a charm on you so that you get perks during battle like increased Attack or Defence and double the amount of coins or Star Points after battle. 3. Equip the Quick Change, Feeling Lucky and if possible, the Feeling Lucky P badges. For Quick Change, you wouldn’t need to worry about wasting a turn to change your partners and it would make using Goombella to tattle the enemies so much easier. As for Feeling Lucky, it would really help for the later floors and Bonetail herself as you wouldn’t need to worry about Status Effects like Poison or Confusion. 4. I would recommend waiting until you at least get the 6th Crystal Star. That way you can use Showstopper to work your way through the early floors more quickly and conserving as much Star Energy as possible. 5. This last one is important. I would strongly recommend refraining from using healing items like Mushrooms and Syrups until you reach Bonetail herself as much as possible. I’d recommend using Sweet Treat and Sweet Feast to heal your HP and FP and some of your Partner abilities that heal your HP and FP and some Badges that also heal your HP and FP. Hopefully this helps.

[@DeltaZ]

I have beaten her tonight at 3 a.m after 20 years of childhood traumata loosing against her and loosing all the progress you have made for 3 hours I have never touched the game again😅 Like 20 years ago after I brought her down to half HP three Poison Shrooms appeared in the bingo making my spectators flee and not giving me any star energy until the end. Seriously I was very well aware of how to play bingo correctly, but the game still made the third one appear like the Shine Sprites 100% scripted sucess in the shadow Queen battle. Damn that was a tough one. Now my soul is free ❤

[@SharkCatBroadcastingCompany]

This is very strange in the old game Bonetail was a boy

[@WebboMK]

They did it for consistency between translations I believe similar to Vivian being a girl

[@JoshTrager-j9g]

He still is a boy if you ask me, same with Vivian always being a girl to me too (y'know, as in always being a BIOLOGICAL female.)

[@bilkywaygalaxy]

@@JoshTrager-j9gBeldam speech bubble. Vivian was always trans and Bonetail was a girl in every other version. You’re the one in the wrong

[@JoshTrager-j9g]

Wow, really mature. Can you actually try to respect another's opinion instead of inserting yours as fact? I'm trying to respect yours here, the least you could is try to respect mine (and others who share my opinion.) Stop sounding like an intolerant 5 year old.

[@Leafblade77]

​@@bilkywaygalaxy"Beldam speech bubble" doesn't even make sense in this context.

[@kevink2986]

Call me crazy, but I plan to grind on the pit to finish both bonetail and whacks before fighting hooktail.

[@ramsesjfg7668]

Crazy af

[@Avocado_Ruler]

Cap you lying

[@kevink2986]

@@Avocado_Ruler Yeah. I was crazy. whacka doesn't unlock until Ch5.

[@paulkolios2540]

I was so nervous to go through the pit again. I hadn't done it in 10 years and I was traumatized by the fact that I went through the last pipe without changing my badges and lost to her that last time 😂. I used to just cheese it with Power Rush and low HP. I am not so great at the action commands. This this time I tried just using Power Plus and Defense Plus and brought 4 Jelly Ultras and 4 Life Mushrooms. Bobbery ended up automatically using the Life Mushrooms while I tried using him in the front throughout the pit as a tank and he got annihilated quite a few times. I actually beat her pretty quickly because I just used rally wink on Mario, and if i was lucky i could deal between 20-30 per round. Now i heard something about you just get to try again on the same floor if you lose?

[@trillager8602]

Wouldn’t know never lost 😎

[@123whatsYOURname]

@@trillager8602 Same. Can't relate. It happened to me too though! I forgot to change my badge setup! Going through 99 battles back to back sure made me a better player. I beat Bonetail despite the handicap.

[@jasminedubois6711]

So let me get this straight: You get 999 coins for beating Bonetail, but you only get 1 star point? That's dumb.

[@aarong1092]

It's definitely strange, but the devs likely thought that most people would clear the pit at the end of the game. Since the pit and Bonetail are the greatest challenge of the original game, there's no real reason to reward star points, since there's nothing left to do other than hit level 99. The remake does change things up with a couple of new post game bosses, but level 99 doesn't help much when both of these bosses can easily wipe out a maxed out mario in a couple of turns.

[@ramsesjfg7668]

It's an iconic joke moment

[@tammytheranger7645]

Her theme goes so hard.

[@zehaxorus]

What level were you

[@julian-fh2ey]

idk if you only care what their level was but i entered the pits with level 31 it wasm't easy at 80-100 but 30 is definitely enough to get you through

[@trillager8602]

Judging by his health, FP, and assuming his bp(from damage), I’m gonna guess 40-45

[@jahwrld3087]

I did this shi level 23

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Did Bonetail just have a chest absorbed inside her bones? I used Danger Mario to win.

[@starman9458]

I currently have 75 out of 87 badges and I’m maxing my BP to 99 with all Power Plus and Defend Plus badges equipped for maximum power!

[@JesusAlbertoDíazCatalán]

excellent video

[@dylangarrett7327]

I ran out of fp a few turns into the battle and managed to beat bonetail with bobbery and life mushrooms. It was also the first time I ever faced bonetail since I don't have GameCube

[@multiversegamer6587]

This was pretty easy for me, but I guess that’s because I maximized my attack power to the max and brought way too many restorative items.

[@jahwrld3087]

Did the 100 pit challenge right after the glitz chapter and I’m ngl i am kinda mad that he gave 1 star point…😐

[@donaldthescotishtwin]

Some of the previous levels of the pit are harder than bonetail

[@amyburnett8760]

Okay here’s a tragic story. So, I beat bonetail for the first time and apparently I needed to save before changing games and all my 100 trials have been deleted! Now I’m back at the bottom just like that! Whoopty doopty doo!💔

[@GarrettLegendstone]

I did the pre-hooktail run of this in the remake and made it all the way to Bonetail, and ultimately I lost and got a game over. I couldn’t time the superguards on the dragon breaths. 🤣

[@nintendorakyamato1859]

Everyone has Mario’s hp below 50…

[@BonazaiGirl]

BP > HP if you know how to time you’re landings and use the badges right. Hence why if you pair some badges up well, it won’t matter how many hit points you have; you can take down Bonetail in as little as two turns if you can pull off “Danger Mario” well.

[@Vidikis360]

I beat Bonetail easily with 30HP

[@BillNyeTheRussianSpy]

There's no real reason to have more than 30 in this game if you know what you're doing, even without Danger Mario. I went into this fight with Double Pain on a stream dare, 30 HP, 30 FP, ready with ~6 Life Shrooms, expecting the worst... and didn't need a single one.

[@cereal6554]

Got to floor 100 right after Glitzville not knowing there was an endgame boss here 💀

[@jinx363]

Same 😂

[@Atum2]

The first time I tried to defeat this chef I wasn't prepared and had to reset my game, I lost 3 hours of my time

[@ninalove8521]

Ig it wasn't a good idea to battle her right after I got Flurrie... A terrible idea if I say so myself

[@gamestop15]

God, I'm struggling with this boss

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

My advice get feeling fine for both Mario and partners and you’ll be great

[@gamestop15]

@@OmegaVideoGameGod Alright, thx for that, I actually got both of those badges

[@Vanessaartistgirl2233]

The skeleton hooktail is actually scary

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

I forgot to mention, this goes over a lot of people’s heads but the three dragons were created through dark magic by the shadow queen, bonetail is technically already dead but it’s still alive, so that’s why this is even more scary than it should be.

[@Octobolt-z4w]

I hate to be the one to say this but this battle was a lot easier than I thought it would be

[@fatfishsheldon]

Dead hooktail?

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

@fatfishsheldon All the dragons are created through dark magic

[@frezzyparker1591]

Thank You!!

[@greatlake_editz]

I swear, when I'm in peril something just gotta kill me, cuz I got power rush and mega rush

[@Idk_man_help]

bro. i entered this fight with nothing 😀🙏

[@bagelgod946]

Worst boss to get the 2x exp bonus on

[@J.R-Himself]

"That's Bonetail. She's the older sister of Hooktail." Did they change Bontail's gender? Cause in the original, it was said Bonetail was a male...? Edit: They did. I checked.

[@NotSnak]

In every language except US bonetail was female so this was changed in the remake to be consistent

[@Yoyobb409]

The shadow queen is still harder

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Not even close at least with the shadow queen I don’t have to fight my way through 99 floors of nonsense.

[@erika_kurumi_dolce_cure_marine]

bonetail its just crimilde fossil

[@nutty_rickrolled_mikey]

Literally dark souls wtf

[@corey5613]

Is this hard?

[@nekogamer2508]

Kinda , depends on the set up , it's possible pre hook tail so before you fight her you can fight this girl to flex on hook tail and show her who's boss

[@veghesther3204]

Not really the only hard part is like TAKING 2 to 3 HOURS just to beat the FIRST 99 floors since like the 100 Floor Abyss Starting in Wild Arms 3 ALL 100 floors don't really HAVE Save points in in INCLUDING before you fight Hooktail itself on its 100th floor.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

@corey5613 Depends how you can handle the last 50 floors, for me it took roughly 2 hours just to get to bonetail, from 1-99 when you get to bonetail I will definitely say bonetail is harder than the shadow queen because her attacks are much easier to deal with bonetail is sorta easy if you can get very good timing but even if you’re very good bonetail has many status effects it can do and it’s a lot more of a toll to get too.

[@Mr.PR2000]

@@veghesther3204Bonetail is 200 hp how is that not hard?😊

[@teeby2037]

@@Mr.PR2000a good player should have mario deal like 30 damage a turn tbh

[@antho634]

It's thé remake ?

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Yes.

[@RobotInkBonetailSkullDogGoat]

AROOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@StephenHernandez-or1yh]

*INTERESTING!!!* 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@cesarmarroquin9930]

Man the soundtrack to the game to the 30fps to the $60 to the lackluster hidden "dlc" is just so 🐕 💩 and I'm not surprised

[@bradleydrake6941]

This is the most braindead comment I've seen all day. Oh btw... This isn't even dlc

[@THawkMedia]

You ate a lot of lead paint growing up, didn't you?

[@cesarmarroquin9930]

@@bradleydrake6941 Ofc, I'm just going to say whatever cause I've never played this game, keep it coming fanboy clown

[@cesarmarroquin9930]

@@THawkMedia I bent you over growing up, so I guess you can say you drained my paint dry

[@yougotitwrongiknowit700]

​@@THawkMediaYup, lots of lead paint, look at the poor boy, he think he's it.

[@LoganBlack-m7l]

“AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” “Wow! What a freak!”

[@frezzyparker1591]

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[@frezzyparker1591]

Thank You!!

[@mammothplant]

I'm good thanks