Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Hints

HP 60 20 st from 20 and the all have 20 hp

Another complete joke of a boss (like Doopliss for example?). Not on your life. Cortez is by far the hardest boss we have yet to face with the highest HP and swords that can slice you in half. Anyway I'd recommend Mario and Vivian for the majority of the battle and a good 5 SP is very helpful. Anyway Cortez has three forms the first two having two targets: a head and section of bones. Every 20 damage you give to Cortez he will change forms. The first form is really easy though. Use some minor items like Mushrooms when Cortez deals lots of damage out not major items such as Whacka Bumps or Ultra Shrooms. Try not to use too much FP just 5-10 or so. Eventually the bones around Cortez's body will weaken and that's his next form. Sounds like he'd get weaker but he didn't. In fact, he'll spend a majority of the fight prepared for a bone attack in which will do 7 damage or so to both of your characters. Not a thing I like. Do not use Sweet Treat, no matter what. Beat up on Cortez with power but try not to waste Power Bounce and instead use Fiery Jinx and Power Smash to hurt the bone pile until Cortez's body falls to pieces and he'sleft with only a skull and four weapons: swords rapiers hooks you name it. Believe it or not,this is BY FAR his toughest form. The swords all have 4 HP, but you cannot jump them. And you cannot hammer them either. And they defend Cortez. Combining the Cortez party will all do about 10-12 damage to both Mario and his partner here which is not something you want to face. Start by launching your all-out offensive! Use Art Attack, and make sure you circle around EVERYTHING. Cortez will suffer quite a bit through that, although he'll eat the souls of the crowd afterwards. Remember Hooktail doing that? And the swords will quickly get up. But we don't have time to bother with those now do we? While you're still alive switch Vivian out for Goombella and Power Bounce and Multibonk Cortez to the very last of his days! It matters! Don't bother with defense except maybe to cast Sweet Treat so that you can restore your HP and FP. Trust me on this; this battle is really tough so it's quite easy to
understand if you lose.

Hp 70

Don't worry, this is the LAST TIME we have to fight Lord Crump in a robot or not! Really. =) Anyway he's still a really annoying customer and he's all the stronger in Magnus 2.0. And yes if you have Goombella handy you can see he has 70 HP, 7 attack and 2 defense. That's pretty strong AND he'll use his damned rocket fists as separate enemies as well that's not exactly a picnic. So that makes you faced with three enemies a majority of the time. I used Mario and Vivian for a majority of this battle anyway. Okay so Crump will use those X-Punches. Use Fiery Jinx immediately to wipe those out and then have Mario do Multibounce if you failed that. Shouldn't be
too hard. If you get an opportunity and have lots to spare Art Attack would be a great ability to use although it'll do far more damage against only Crump. He'll also use Magnus to stomp you but that will only do 6-7 damage not exactly that much anymore.

Alright now be VERY careful when Magnus reachs 30 HP. Make sure Mario has at least 25 HP remaining when Magnus goes to 30 HP because then he'll get all of the audience out put them inside his system and through the entire lot of them at you! Yeah that's a VERY deadly attacks hitting many times for 3 damage apiece. Try and block the attacks as best as possible because that's really nasty. If you do survive, use an Ultra Shroom and then use Power Bounce and a strong partner like Vivian Yoshi or Bobbery for the rest of the fight. Once you get past that mark it's an easy battle.

Chapter 1. go east throo petal meadows.you'll thenn be at a city. keep going west and go into the pink house and talk to the mayor. then get some pow blocks and mushrooms.you'll need them. and get fire flowers to. more flowers than pow's though. keep the pow's and fireflowers 'till later. dodge the koopas and goombas. then go into a room with two clefts. press "a" by the first one and fight them. still, keep the pow and fires.now keep dodging fights as you go east and into the next room. fight the 2 statues. now use the pows. not fires. then go east and into the next room. talk to the thwomp statue and answer the questions. then he'll move and you go down the pipe and kill the fuzzies to the east first. then get the moon rok. then go west and kill the fuzzies to get the sun rock. then go back and you fite the golden fuzzy. kill it then go up the pipe and back to the city. go to the inn and sleep. then buy lots of mushrooms. now keep going west untill u get koops. the go west more untill you get to a strange rock formation. throw koops on the west side and hold "x" then hit the other switch with your hammer and let go of "x" at the same time. (after you put the rocks in the holes) then go into the pipe and into the castle. you go up and east then use the plane to get to the other side. go east and through the door. go through and fight red bones. then find your way through the castle. (if i told you how the guide would be way too long) its not that hard. then you get the curse and go back to the redbones room. get the badge with the curse and go to fight hooktail. PUT ON THE BADGE FIRST. it makes it way easier. trust me, i almost lost without it. then you beat him and get the star. and theres sumthin else. but i won't ruin it. then. end of chapter.

Magnus Hp30 attack power:2 DEF:1

Lord Crump as you might expect is always more bark than bite. Magnus's stomp attacks aren't exactly that dangerous and neither are the earthquake-like attacks although they'll damage both of your characters. Just about the only thing to worry about is him punching his arms out which may target you for quite a bit of damage. Take them out quick with a Multibounce and then pulverize Magnus like he can't be pulverized that's probably the best strategy. Koops and Mario is probably the best party here although a Lv. 2 Goombella is even better if you have her.If you happen to get 2 SP, use Earth Tremor. Do this right and you'll do about 5-6 damage to Magnus which is 1/6 or 1/5 of his HP depending on how you do it. ;) Otherwise, just have Koops use his attacks every turn while Mario invariably uses Power Bounce. This attack will do 7-infinite damage to Magnus as long as you do it correctly (although the chances of you doing more than 12 damage with Power Bounce are very slim, let alone infinite). Keep at it a bit with pure solid aggression, and this robot will fall.

HP 60

There is one move that is an ABSOLUTE NECESSITY in this battle and that is Mario's Special move Clock Out. Start the battle by using this spell and make sure you press the button that appears near Grubba instead of the one near Mario and your partner! Seriously. Once Grubba is paralyzed beat him like nuts with Power Bounce and Body Slam or Ground Pound depending on whether you bring Flurrie or Yoshi who are both good choices for this fight. Goombella's Multibonk is also nice. Grubba has a whooping 60 HP which is a real lot. When he does regain his movement he'll be pretty tough I can assure you. He's slow but really strong. What he'll do is cast a spell to give him two turns every time you and Yoshi/Flurrie get finished and then increase his attack power by 2 and then do lots of damage by flipflopping all over you. However you got such a head start on him that this won't be a problem. If necessary just use Sweet Treat or even Earth Tremor.

Hp 40

Nope it doesn't give a name for it, and you'll see why soon. Anyway this fight is almost as easy as the one with Lord Crump at the beginning of the game I'm serious. All he'll do is dive at you doing a little damage every hit. Just beat him around with Mario's Power Bounce and Goombella's Multibont and then he'll get an opportunity to test out his copycatting ability! And thus he turns into a dark version of Mario.

He'll be a little stronger now because he'll be jumping and hammering at you which may do a bit of damage, but he's still effortless with a puny 20 HP left.Beat him a little more and watch as he drops to the floor just like normal Mario would.

HP 40 your partnes are the same hp that you laster have them before

Doopliss and Goombella! Yup but don't bother fighting with Goombella because Doopliss will just replace her for Koops and then Flurrie and then Yoshi...and Yoshi is a force you don't want to reckon. So focus all your strength upon just Doopliss. All he'll do is jump and hammer at you, which can be blocked with A or B. Goombella's a little more dangerous, but she still won't do anything that's too fatal. While Mario's Power Bounce is just that fatal...After two turns, Vivian will jump in and join Mario because "he's the only one who's ever been nice to her". Which is quite correct actually. Anyway the fight just gets easier! Doopliss's Mario form is still a bit tougher than the original Doopliss one but this still isn't anything too bad. Use Sweet Treat and Power Bounce invariably while Vivian just uses her fire attacks. Just try not to run out of FP and you'll be fine.

Hp 50

This is a really really easy boss especially compared to old pirate Cortez.This is like those Yux enemies back in the Great Tree the tentacles will attempt to defend Smorg. Start with Vivian's Fiery Jinx ability burning those Smorg Miasmas away to their death. Smorg will try out a few fancy attacks on you but nothing too bad. Once the tentacles are gone use Power Smash and Art Attack like a madman. If Smorg gets on your wrong side simply use Sweet Treat.When he changes form get even more aggressive with Mario's Power Bounce and Goombella/Bobbery using their best skills. Not tough.

Hp 80

Maybe it was just me but I didn't find this fight nearly as hard as many claim it to be. Meh I don't know why. Anyway Gloomtail is much like Hooktail just a far stronger version. Anyway the usual attacks such as Power Bounce Power Smash and Ultra Smash will work very well in this fight while Vivian or Bobbery are very much recommended since they'll rake up the damage quickly.His attacks are easy to block aside from the poison breath one. If he throws that at you you may want to heal it with a Tasty Tonic.

Eventually though Gloomtail will start charging an ultimate yellow breath. Well yellow was the wrong color! Still it's a nasty attack. It's very very much recommended that you have Vivian use Veil or be prepared to face 15-16 damage to both of your characters. That's the strongest attack yet that's for sure. Anyway watch out for this fatal moment and this fight will work outjust fine.

70 hp (max hp 150)

This dark version of Peach isn't too bad... yet. She'll get much stronger in a
different form; this will just be a warm-up. Although she has 150 HP, give her
about 70 damage and this part of the battle will end. So... my recommended
party is Mario and Yoshi. She'll be doing some pretty strong attacks (about 8
damage or so) but still not that much of a concern. My first attack during this
fight was Supernova, which did 15-16 damage. What I did after that was use
Power Bounce and Stampede, until I got 4 SP.

Art Attack works REALLY well here, believe me. Since Peach's body isn't really that big (taller than Mario though =P) you can circle around her several times and do 15-18 damage even more than Supernova. Eventually she'll switch to her true form. UGLY but that's not the problem. You can't harm her now; focus on trying to defend yourself although don't waste your Ultra Shrooms trust me. Just continue as you are and keep yourself alive. She'll drain your HP and the audience while you can't hit her that's not nice.

SHADOW QUEEN II hp 150

Art Attack doesn't work as well as it did the previous time, because there are three enemies and she's MUCH bigger this time. So start off by using Supernova with 16 damage to her and her stupid hands. Yeah, they'll try and suck you and your partner's HP while she restores it and uses even stronger attacks. The hands shouldn't be that much of a priority though. Anyway once you have the hands out of the way attack the Shadow Queen with every inch of power, since she has the second most HP of any enemy in the game. She WILL bring those damn hands back, but they're not really too annoying. For the partner for this battle, anyway my recommendation is Koops for the first half Vivian for the second half. Koops's fourth skill is just plain invaluable while Vivian's Fiery Jinx and Veil abilities will help in the second half of the fight. While you mow through the hands try and protect yourself while putting on Power Bounce almost every turn. Eventually the Shadow Queen will replace the normal Hands with Dead Hands. Don't even look at these although it's good if you use Koops/Vivian and use your strongest attacks to take them out with the Shadow Queen. By now, she'll be weakening anyway. At that point use every single thing you have left all your Ultra Shrooms and everything (my Mario had 55 HP at this fight, by the
way). Use Veil when the Shadow Queen charges herself up, and you shouldn't have many troubles.


shadow queen 3 you can go for it good luck

5.Vivian
6-7.Bobbery
2.Koops
4.Yoshi Kid
1.Goombella
3.Flurrie
6-7.Mz. Mouse

You can either get Mz. Mouse or Bobbery first.
The numbers tell the order you get each partner.

To become Original Mario, You must go to the X-NAUT base on the moon. Go to Sublevel 2 and find a door somewhere to the right. Keep looking until you find a room with a X-scientist(a white x-naut that throws red beakers)and large tanks full of monsters. Go to the top right corner and look on the ceiling for a hole. Use the spring jump(hold down A and go around and around on the control stick)to get on a pole. Go right. Keep going until you find a air vent. Go flat(press R) to get through the air vent.You will end up behind some curtains. Press A at the ! point and wala!!! You are the the original mario from the NES!!!! Press start and go to youre partner screen. They are all pixels!!! When you leave, you will be normal again. :}

Complete the ??? problem at the Trouble center by finding the secret badge hidden in Hooktails castle Return the badge to the mosue ontop of Zess T's shop and she will join your team

Stock up on Jammin jelly's. then cook them with ultra shrooms. When you get to the demon I would suggest you have POWER STOMP on. And use art atack.

When you come up the pipe to petalmedows you see rocks then go through the pathway to the next area. go to the end of that area you'll see two striped polls hit the one that move's ten times. And you will get a HORSTAIL.

When you come out the pipe to petal medows go through the path into the second area. Go to the end of that area. There are 2 striped poles hit the one that moves when you hit it. Hit that pole 10 times and you will get a horstail.

If you missed some one time only enimmies just go to goombellas theachers house and press a at the trash can . if there is papers in there the one time only enimies tattle log will be filled!!!!!!!! but it will not do that for enimies like goombad or koopas because you can find them somewere again. also the glitz pit enimies can bo faught again.

Do as follows
1. Get Enough Piantas to by Seven power rushes
2. Go to Chet Rippo and decraise your HP to 5(IMPORTANT DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP)then put your fp to
50 and put the rest on your BP
3. Equipe 2 close calls,2 pretty luckies and 1 lucky day(Makes your chance of getting hit EXTREMLY LOW)
Also equip at least one multi bounce
4.Go down the pipenear prof.Franklys place and down the one to the right of this one. Go down the stairs and there will be bars on the walls go through the bars that has an opening in the back and use vivians veil to get across the spikes that come out and go back in. Equip that badge so that u can jump on spiky enemys.
5. buy 4 life shrooms
6.Make sure Gombella has Rally Wink and then enter the pit of one hundred trials(Gombella must be at Max for it to be a bit easier.
U will then clear the pit of 100 trials in at least 30 minutes!!!

Use flurry to blow all swords away the last time you try and beat him and after you blow them they will never come back.

In X-Naut Fortress go in to the ventilation shaft in sublevel 2 and drop through the far right vent in to the dressing room Open the curtain of the stall you fall in to and Mario and all his partners will become 8-bit (they will look as they would on an 8-bit system like the NES) until you leave the room Entering the room the normal way via the door and going in to this stall closing the curtain and opening it again will not work

To get to the crystle star