Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Switch) - 20 - Jabbye

Kinda odd they made the smaller Jabbie hive guard the key to the Punies, and the larger one guard... well, nothing, really, as far as the X-Nauts would be able to tell.
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Outro music: Meatball

[@superpenguinzzz]

Mario: leads 101 Punies Olimar: finally, a worthy opponent

[@massalzheimers4021]

These owls are getting more and more cursed. I have nothing else to say or add.

[@librus8680]

... Y'know, maybe that's why they put the Puni Elder in her own cell. The X-Nauts knew she probably was the best source on the Crystal Star, but couldn't really get a solid answer out of her (on account of her selective hearing & even more selective memory... and her probably yammering on for hours about nonsense every time she felt antagonized), so the whole time they've been raiding the tree, they've just been trying and failing to "interrogate" their only lead. And with how the Tree requires a horde of Punis to manipulate some of the ruins lying around, they couldn't really progress deep enough. Heck, maybe that's why they built that other cell to round the rest up, once they saw that they needed a full 100. Guess Puniper might have actually been doing some good, stubbornly eluding capture despite his... bulk. You also mention Pikmin: I do wonder how much of the inspiration here was from the original Pikmin? It does feel like a "Hey, the Gamecube can render all of these (tiny) things at once!" thing, and the Punies themselves have a similar design with those glowing antennae of theirs. Works good for any "RTS" like unit, a built-in light to showcase their status and location. With how they even glow red now when in combat, and go out when defeated/distressed, it feels like that's the case even more so. ... And the music, too, even has a Pikminesque energy to it. Not 1:1, of course, but still. How did I not consider this before...?! ... Having the silhouette of some sort of large fish/creature swimming about in the background *would* be fun. Even a mega-Nibbles or something! Just rare enough to evoke a double-take, and maybe a rumor or two among friends/people online. I've seen a few games do little tricks like that, and they've always been pretty popular to behold.

[@num488]

If we go back to Mario 128, no doubt the intention was to have the Gamecube show off essentially 100s of models on screen. Wouldn't be surprised if the Paper Mario devs at the time saw this, and thought "We can do this too!" with the X-Nauts back in Rogueport, Chapter 2, the fans in Chapter 3, the shipwreck toads in 5, etc etc etc.

[@awsmrs]

One more thing to note about that blue key skip, if you decide to free the Punies first and then open the chest and watch the cutscene, Petuni and Pundowner will still be there, but the rest of the Punies won't be AND the cell door will be open, so it'll just look pretty silly. Also the cutscene for freeing the Punies from the cell will have Punio missing, so the dried mushroom gets eaten by literally nothing. Also the chest can still be opened after the chapter is cleared, yes the cutscene will still play again, yes Punio will teleport to your side, no he won't continue following you (his AI gets disabled).

[@KopsiDayzee22]

2:37 Good point. There's no "waiting for the hero of prophecy" excuse in this game.

[@MarioBrosFan]

I had just complimented the Puni AI for knowing to walk around the platform after you dropped onto the ground below for the Blue Key chest, but alas, two Punies got stuck on hive debris as you were closing the episode. Damn it. Also, last video you commented on most Punies looking identical, and it reminded me of Goombella's tattles for the Punies scattered inside the Great Tree after beating Chapter 2. Even a know-it-all like her can't tell them apart!

[@arekrekas213]

she should get on Olimar's never - not only could ge tell each individual pikmin apart from one another, but he also gave names to ALL of those same pikmin

[@uncreativeusername-sl9qf]

7:07 I think the tree went “Oh “ at this revelation, and accidentally started putting the O’s in sap, making it soap Yeah this is a stretch, you have permission to punch me very hard, given you know where I live and can travel to me. 14:27 given late game comments about putting deadly fish in weird pools of water (chapter 6 specifically), it’s actually weird there ISN’T any fish in here. Here and one other instance in the game that I will point out when we get there

[@EvenFox]

“Standing is hard when you’re a balloon”

[@skyhawk9710]

Why would the Jabbies want to team up the X-Nauts in the first place? It's not like they were really benefiting from them. Also, it's weird to me that the Jabbies are never brought up again after beating the chapter. No "Hey, we're getting along now" moment or anything.

[@ShycoWar]

8:11 - That one Puni be like "You make me spin right round, baby, right round~♪"

[@AverageEldritchEntity]

Oop- saw those punies go at the very end. It's like leading cats. Tiny, grey anglerfish-cats. That live in trees. This metaphor is confused.

[@FNAFman1983]

I swear the Puni AI is so stupid like I swear I have all of the Punies going into a pipe but when I come out I’m missing some so I go back through the pipe into the room before and what do I see?! THE MISSING PUNIES LITERALLY *OUTSIDE THE PIPE* What the bloody ‘ell, game?!

[@Danominator]

I never realized how many jokes in this game equate to "haha Old talks for too long"

[@TT-rl7pu]

2:46 I mean, for someone who lives in Boggly Woods, a rock being a color besides gray would be particularly unusual.

[@OlmiOP]

Bingos only check that you get your action command with some word on screen. Power Bounce, Multibounce and Multibonk only need 1 success of the action command to Bingo. The only exception to this is Star Power moves, which don't give you a bingo slot This means that every move in the game that isn't a Star Power (or Charge lol) can get a bingo slot, EXCEPT Bomb Squad, since that one doesn't give you even a "nice" You can also delay your bingo by intentionally missing (best done with Vivian since she still gets full damage, just no burn)

[@takpro08]

Paper Pikmin time!

[@ivanthegreativan_rodriguez4958]

HOLY SHI- THIS IS ACTUALLY PAPER PIKMIN-! I JUST REALIZED-! 😂

[@purs3it]

13:50 that's honestly such a weird silly developer oversight to make considering they probably could easily fix that by simply just teleporting the key off the map after the cutscene.

[@tylermercado1445]

There’s an interesting glitch you can do in the remake. You know how that Jabbie runs off with the blue key? The key is actually still in the loading zone as long as you don’t leave the room. You can use Koops to snatch it early, then save the rest of the punies, then come back to easily wipe out the 10 Jabbie squad. Keep in mind that if you perform this, you NEED to fight through the 10 Jabbie room BEFORE you bring the punies to the fake pedestal, otherwise you WILL get softlocked.

[@Skawo]

13:42

[@tylermercado1445]

@@Skawo I noticed. Just remember that to anyone who does this, make sure you clear the 10 Jabbie room BEFORE you place the orb in the fake pedestal, or else you’ll be softlocked.

[@Shantae1188]

2:59 Hey plausible deniability if that’s the case

[@Brown95P]

...Are you sure the Jabbies are supposed to be mosquitos? Those hives of theirs are looking *_A LOT_* like wasp ones instead.

[@Skawo]

Well, they LOOK a lot more like mosquitos than wasps :v

[@Zanetune]

Did not know you were supposed to use Flurrie to disable Jabbis during the fights. I just left it to the Puni to fight.

[@johnnymind4151]

1:15 This line wasn't in the original, I'd say they could've not added it because... 1:35 In Punio's case the "o" at the end is most certainly just a Japanese masculine name ending while in Goombario's case it's that for sure maybe along with being named after Mario (in the English version undoubtedly, but I don't remember if it's explicitely mentioned in the Japanese one so it could be an addition made by the former). 4:19 It has always been "Punies" as far as I can remember. 7:22 Didn't notice that while playing the remake myself, interesting! 8:00 Should be the former (and maybe also the hitboxes of the bubbles?) since I've seen others not being able to get them all on the other side in one go so I'd exclude the latter theory. 11:50 ... as others mentioned before they also added this cutscene which would've been more than enough on its own - show, don't tell. 13:43 Quite appreciate this camera movement added by the remake, it's a nice touch.

[@cronos00092]

Thankful that the Great tree theme stays instead of the Puni's

[@roland228]

Do you know about the hidden shop in the Great Tree of Boggly Woods as well as that Jabble is hiding in it?

[@maxhahm5333]

I dunno, I mean, the Punies seem pretty reliable- 15:42 oh.

[@mariomuncher44]

Nintendo seems to have removed the Puni sound, which was kinda annoying in the original ngl

[@flamingsword2548]

Skawo I have a question does the backtrack timer include load times?

[@Skawo]

There hasn't yet been an instance where load times would really matter, but I guess it shouldn't.

[@johnmendez9525]

We play Pikmin

[@gustavoalejandromorletavil426]

Are you interested in making a Pikmin WT/PT anyday?

[@Loner098]

15:32 What? You literally just said, "and they'll never come back," you random Puni. Jeez, talk about emotional whiplash.

[@mobian-storyteller1109]

Chapter 2 is my least favorite of this game but at least the battle theme is probably my favorite.