The much-anticipated remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is here, and much like the Gamecube original, the game is bursting with puzzles, secrets, and some quirky mechanics that new players may find slightly perplexing. Don’t worry though, we’re here to cut The Thousand-Year Door’s more confusing aspects down to size.
The Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door doesn’t off up a ton of all-new content, but it does add a pair of tough post-game bosses for you to challenge yourself against. So, here’s how to face off against these bosses and a few tips on how to beat them.
Note: This guide contains Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door post-game SPOILERS.
Have the spoiler-phobic left the room? Okay, without further ado…
Prince Mush
That’s right, the original champion of the Glitz Pit before being replaced by Rawk Hawk can now be taken on for the ultimate title of champion.
How to Fight Prince Mush
While Prince Mush may send you a message challenging you earlier in the game, you have to finish up the main story and roll credits in order to fight him. He’ll be hanging out in the hallway near the save block and locker rooms in the Glitz Pit. Talk to him and accept his challenge. Then go to one of the GBA-shaped terminals to fight him as an exhibition match.
Strategy Tips
Despite his unintimidating appearance, Prince Mush is definitely a tough customer, rocking 96 HP, 6 Attack, and 6 Defense. The Prince has a couple stances -- one where he’s kind of hopping up and down, and one where’s shimmying back and forth – you can only damage when he’s doing the former, as he’ll always dodge when he’s in the latter stance. So, when he’s moving back and forth, use your time to heal and use attack-boosting items like Power Lift or the Charge ability. If you pull off a successful Superguard, he will be essentially stunned for a turn, giving you more opportunity to attack.
Once you knock off about half of Prince Mush’s HP, he’ll repeatedly go Super Saiyan and boost his attack power. Prince Mush will gain a new combo during this phase, where he flies at you from all directions doing heavy damage with each hit. This combo sucks, but if you can pull off a Superguard during one of the strikes, he will be stunned again. He also has a move where he splits into three – hit the “real” Mush to return him to normal. This second phase is tough, but if you stock up on lots of Life Shrooms and hit a few Superguards, you’ll come out on top.
Whacka
And the other secret boss is… Whacka. He’s tougher than he looks!
How to fight Whacka
Whacka is down at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials, which is located to the west of the underground room containing the Thousand-Year Door. Slip through the gate on the east side of the Thousand-Year Door room, bounce up to the paper airplane platform, then glide to the platform on the east side of the room to access the door to the Pit of 100 Trials.
In order to fight Whacka, you’ll need to play through the entirety of the Pit of 100 Trials and defeat Bonetail. Once you’ve done that… do it all again! You can pay 300 coins to skip to floor 50, but otherwise, you’re going to have to repeat the pit. Once you reach floor 100, Bonetail will be replaced by Whacka. Talk to him to fight him.
Strategy Tips
Whacka is pretty straightforward, but he’s tough, rocking 108 HP, 10 Attack, and 1 Defense. Every time you attack Whacka, he’ll drop a “Whacka Bump” – basically, a little bun – which he can eat to regain HP or throw at you as an attack. These Bumps come in yellow and red variants, with red being more powerful. Basically, use attacks that don’t inflict a lot of individual hits so Whacka won’t generate too many Bumps. Other than that, just work on Superguarding Whacka’s attacks and load up on Life Shrooms. This fight will be long due to Whacka’s high HP and healing ability, but stick to it, and you’ll come out on top.
And there you go – that’s how you take out two of the toughest customers in the game!
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is available now on Nintendo Switch. You can check out all of Wccftech’s Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door guides here.
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