Paper Mario: the thousand-year-old Door

Paper Mario: the thousand-year-old Door (known with the Japan under the name of Paper Mario RPG ; ペーパーマリオ RPG) is a video game left on GameCube in 2004. It gives following Paper Mario, left on Nintendo 64. The originality of these two plays is that the characters are carried out in 2D, whereas the decoration is in 3D.

History

Mario receives a letter of Peach, which is with Port-Lacanaïe, requiring of him to seek treasures with a chart. Arrived on the spot, Peach was done removed! Mario meets Goomélie, a Goomba archeologist, like Goomstein, which will reveal to him the secrecy of the Thousand-year-old Door and the Gems Stars. These last will have to be paid by Mario, in order to open the Thousand-year-old Door, and to save the world. The Italian man with a moustache will have to thus collect 7 Gems Stars, each one conferring a particular capacity to him, with the assistance of a chart, that the Peach princess sent to him.

The Thousand-year-old Door

The Thousand-year-old Door is located in the basements of Port-Lacanaïe. The door is in front of a magic pedestal. And when Mario with the chart, the pedestal scintillates and indicates the position of the next gem star and so on until it finds the seven to open the door. Behind this following, of many enemies all as extremely the ones reside as the others. There are several enigmas to solve to arrive until the bottom of the Palate of Darkness, where it there with the site of the tomb of the Queen of Darkness! In this palate malefic resides also a dragon, Toxicroc, the brother of Carbocroc and the little brother of Occicroc.

Orders

One moves Mario using the multidirectional pad at the time of the phases of adventure, and with has and B, to jump and give a blow of hammer. At the time of the phases of engagements, it can use various attacks, which are conferred to him either from the beginning, or by badges, or by objects that it finds. One can be also made help by a test having a certain number of attacks which differs according to its level. The system of combat is rather elaborate: the attacks are made with the turn by turn and must be carried out in the most precise manner and rapid that possible, in order to more strongly weaken the enemy. Several objects can be used, such as mushrooms (with being able regenerating) or of the flowers of fire (attacking your enemies).

Playable characters

Mario

Mario is the main character and the first character whom one controls during the play. Progressively, Mario will obtain various capacities which will help it to reach certain stages of the play. It has a hammer to strike the enemies, to shake trees etc… In combat it uses its hammer, a jump, objects or capacities stars which increase play progressively.

Partners of Mario

You can see them in details here: Characters of Paper Mario: the Thousand-year-old Door

Peach

It is playable at the end of each chapter. Contrary to Mario it cannot jump nor to fight. Its missions are rather Intellectuelles. It is necessary to create potions, to teach to dance with a computer, and to send mails to Mario.

Bowser

It spits of fire and enters its usual angers. It is playable in some phases of action/platform which are not without pointing out Super Mario Bros . During these phases of the play, it is never quite malicious. Moreover than anything is not taken with the serious one. It is caught a bomb in the head in vain or to fall into water because of a breakdown of its Koopa-Coptère, it always makes laugh.

Other Characters

There are many of other not-playable characters in Paper Mario: the Thousand-year-old Door, of which here the list (nonexhaustive).

Grandpa Champi

It is its third appearance, this time in the form of paper. It always worries for the Peach Princess, who always seeks the adventure (and troubles). There remains all along the play in its room of the inn of Port-Lacanaïe.

Pianteone

Pianteone is the father of the Pianteone family and also the chief of the Maffia of Port-lacanaïe. It has two guards, a right-hand man, Pyton and a named girl Monica. Pianteone competes with Limaçon and its gang because each one wants to have the city. In chapter 6, it leaves its place to Pyton, and because it is old.

Orboom family

The Orboom family moves city downtown. You can see it in Yunnanville or in Crésus Express, the train which brings you to Picaly Hills.

White general

The Blanc general is Bob-omb which was formerly responsible for the giant gun of Perduvostok.

Luigi

Luigi tells you a chapter of its adventures with each time you finish one of your chapters. They are so palpitating that a Mister wrote a book of it. The version of Luigi differs that from the book, one notices that Luigi tries to show a better image of itself. It is often accompanied by supposedly " partenaires" , which actually seeks only to be refunded debts of Luigi or other dêgats caused by this last.

Marie T

This talented cooker always prepares you flat goods small. You meet it at the beginning of the play whereas Mario walks on her Contact lenses and breaks them. After him to have repurchased others of them, it agrees to prepare you dishes with only one ingredient. If you find to him the book of kitchen of Nico Finetoque, it will be able to then carry you out dishes with two ingredients. Note that its name is inspired by that of Mayté, otherwise Marie-Therese.

Goomstein

It is a professor of archeology, he remains during all the play in its office where he makes research on the treasure

Badges

They are used to give additional capacities. To put them it is necessary to put PB (points badges) which one can obtain while changing level. Some are attacks (Strong Blow) others are gadgets (Trouv' Cœur) and some one which do not have great interest (Emblem L, Emblème W, FX attack has, FX Attaque B, FX Attaque C, FX Attaque D, FX Attaque E, FX Attaque F)

Points Hearts, Points Flowers and Points Badges

The Points Hearts (PC), as its name indicates it are " the énergie" of Mario. There is a maximum (10 at the beginning) and one cannot exceed this maximum. When the points are to zero, Mario dies and the part is finished. The partners of Mario have also Points Hearts (often less low). The Points Flowers (PF) are used to make function special attacks, often badges for Mario but each partners has at least two attack requiring of the Points Flowers. The Fleurs points have, like those of Hearts, a maximum. Each special attack has a cost of Point Fleur (Example: 3) which reduces the number of Fleur Point when they are used, but are often great utility. The partners do not have any, it is Mario who spends for them. The Points Badges (PB) are used to make function a badge. Each badge at a cost (Example, Défense More costs 5). He are not spent but activates himself, example, if there are 6 Points Badge one can activate a badge which costs 4 and one which costs 2. There exist also badges not costing anything whole (As Emblem L) because they are useless.

Additional searches

In the East of Port-Lacanaïe, an Agency of Mutual aid is open. It enables you to help people, who in exchange of a rendered service, will give you parts, councils or objects. You can also go to seek piece of Star or Suns.

Change of level

When Mario gains a combat, it gains points star. When it has 100 of them it can choose to increase by 5 its PC of 5, its PF or of 3 its PB.

Anecdotes

the play refers several times to the first episode Paper Mario :

At the beginning of the play, the decorations of the house of Mario and Luigi is almost similar that of Paper Mario , Parakarry, a partner of Mario in the first, comes to deliver a letter to the beginning, as in the first, then Luigi takes it and reads it in Mario, as in the first.
Goomélie says that professor Goomstein has taught with archeologist Kolorado, which is a character in Paper Mario which makes forwardings with the Desert Are, in the Lavelave Volcano, and in the Palate of the Ices.
has Carafleur, small Toad says that he plays play on Nintendo 64 naming Paper Mario . He says that Bouh is most beautiful of Boos. Bouh is a partner of Mario in the first play.
In the castle of Carbocroc, Koopek finds a letter close to Koopa Skelet with shoe blue, it thinks that it is his/her father but while reading the letter it realizes that it is the father of Kolorado.
a mouse decides to seek oil in Dry the Sec desert, which is not other than a desert in Paper Mario.
After having finished the play, Bouh, a partner of Mario in Paper Mario is in front of the temple of Picaly Hills.
On the image of e-mail of Boletus Wood, one sees clearly Troopa Junior, a character of Paper Mario by the window.

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