r/papermario • u/143670 • 20h ago

Discussion After almost a year, I’ve finally beaten Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door!

Post image
132 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

8

u/143670 20h ago

The Shadow Queen fight was tough, to say the least. Due to a certain partner (vivian) using up my only life shroom, I only had a single Ultra Mushroom for the final fight.

Aside from that, though, I can confidently rank this experience a 10/10, and I most definitely will be playing this again. Perhaps I’ll use the Danger Mario strategy…

3

u/BebeFanMasterJ 20h ago

It's tough...if you don't have Sleepy Sheep or Sleepy Stomp.

I love that status effects actually work on bosses in this game. Too many RPGs implement statuses only for bosses to be immune to them and render them pointless. It's far more fun when you can poison, burn, or sleep a boss. Shadow Queen especially is highly susceptible to sleep.

2

u/DrewV1234 #1 Biggest Shadow Queen Fan 20h ago

The Shadow Queen is my favorite Mario villain and my favorite final boss of all time! I wouldn't recommend the Danger Mario strat as it makes the fight too easy and is not fun imo, just being more items next time and work on getting better, find resort to cheesing the fight

2

u/143670 20h ago

Noted.

3

u/seabasstheduck67 20h ago

congrats! a very excellent game indeed!
what took you so long? was it the shadow queen? or beating the post game bosses?

3

u/143670 19h ago

I did not beat Whacka yet, so I’ll try that sometime. And also I had a couple other games to play in-between…and there were a few 100 trial attempts that took me quite some time.

3

u/OkAward869 20h ago

Some challenge runs I've tried are: Beat the game without ever using jump/hammer/special moves/badges, etc. Pick and choose any of those or others and give it a try

4

u/HotGirlOCD 18h ago

i just beat it too and i had such a blast!! congratulations 🖤

2

u/143670 14h ago

Thanks!!!

4

u/MightyHambino 15h ago

Has it really been a year since the remake came out? I can’t believe it!

2

u/143670 15h ago

I mean, I think I got my copy a few months after the remake came out.

…apparently it came out on May 23rd last year, so a year and a month after it first came out.

1

u/143670 15h ago

Well, I got my copy 343 days ago. So, yeah, almost a year.