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* GameBreaker: Equip the Lazy Shell on Toadstool after she's learned Come Back and you're virtually unstoppable.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Toadstool herself'' a GameBreaker. Give her the Lazy Shell Armor, the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
*** You can give her the Quartz Charm you receive for beating Culex to significantly raise her stats, as well as making her immune to pretty much every status condition in the book for true Game Breaking ability.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Toadstool herself'' a GameBreaker. Give her the Lazy Shell Armor, the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
*** You can give her the Quartz Charm you receive for beating Culex to significantly raise her stats, as well as making her immune to pretty much every status condition in the book for true Game Breaking ability.
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* GameBreaker: Equip the Lazy Shell on Toadstool after GameBreaker:
** Toadstool. To explain, she'slearned Come Back the only party member with both resurrect and you're group heal spells, and is a decent physical fighter. Once she has both spells, your party is virtually unstoppable.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Toadstool herself'' a GameBreaker. Giveunkillable. If you don't mind losing attack power, give her the Lazy Shell Armor, Armor and the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
***Ring to make her nigh-impossible to kill. As long as you keep your FP up, nothing will ever stop you.
*** You can give her the Quartz Charm you receive for beating Culex to significantly raise her stats, as well as making her immune to pretty much every status condition in the book for true Game Breaking ability.
** Toadstool. To explain, she's
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Toadstool herself'' a GameBreaker. Give
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*** You can give her the Quartz Charm you receive for beating Culex to significantly raise her stats, as well as making her immune to pretty much every status condition in the book for true Game Breaking ability.
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* ThatOneBoss: Bundt; a living cake that can debuff and possibly wipe out your whole party with one magic attack, and regenerates itself.
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* ThatOneBoss: ThatOneBoss:
** Bundt; a living cake that can debuff and possibly wipe out your whole party with one magic attack, and regenerates itself.
** Bundt; a living cake that can debuff and possibly wipe out your whole party with one magic attack, and regenerates itself.
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** Barrel Volcano has Those Three Bosses - Czar Dragon, Zombone, and the Axem Rangers - back to back - though you can at least save after the first two if you know what's coming.
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** Barrel Volcano has Those Three Bosses - Czar (Czar Dragon, Zombone, and the Axem Rangers - Rangers) back to back - though you can at least save after the first two if you know what's coming.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: translated by the [[TropeNamer man himself]]
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* {{Woolseyism}}: translated by the [[TropeNamer man himself]]himself]].
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says in does. I\'ll do personal testing later, but if you can prove that it doesn\'t, reword the sentences rather than adding another bullet point.
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** Boshi, to a lesser extent, due to the amount of fan art and custom sprites.
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*** Actually, the Drain spell doesn't actually have an hp-stealing effect either.
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*** Let's not forget the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLm78UpqSg Forest Maze's]] music.
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** The boss tunes are particularly catchy.
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** The translations for a few of the enemy spell names are also weird, in particular the "drain" series. Drain's original name was fireball, though renaming it drain can be forgiven since the spell ''does'' have an hp-stealing effect. Mega drain and drain beam, however, do not have an hp-stealing component, and their original names were ''light saber'' and ''geyser'' respectively.
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** The entire sub-story involving Booster and his attempt to marry Toadstool.
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** Well, ''frickin' duh!'' This IS [[KingdomHearts Yoko]] [[LegendOfMana gosh-dang]] [[MarioAndLuigi Shimomura's]] work, people!
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** Well, ''frickin' duh!'' This IS [[KingdomHearts Yoko]] [[LegendOfMana gosh-dang]] [[MarioAndLuigi [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Shimomura's]] work, people!
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** Also, Yoshi's Island is known in this game as Yo'ster Isle (it is known as Yoster Island in Japan for this game and SuperMarioWorld).
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** Also, Yoshi's Island is known in this game as Yo'ster Isle (it is known as Yoster Island in Japan for this game and SuperMarioWorld).VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld).
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The character\'s name in the game is Toadstool. It\'s in big capital letters and everything.
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* GameBreaker: Equip the Lazy Shell on Peach after she's learned Come Back and you're virtually unstoppable.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Peach herself'' a GameBreaker. Give her the Lazy Shell Armor, the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Peach herself'' a GameBreaker. Give her the Lazy Shell Armor, the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
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* GameBreaker: Equip the Lazy Shell on Peach Toadstool after she's learned Come Back and you're virtually unstoppable.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call''Peach ''Toadstool herself'' a GameBreaker. Give her the Lazy Shell Armor, the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
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*** Geno's magic attacks are the most powerful in the game. For a while, Bowser is more useful to the team than him, but by the end of the game the best team to use is by far Mario/Peach/Geno.
* HoYay: In Marrymore, when you interrupt Booster's attempt to marry Peach, it's possible to end up with Bowser kissing Booster, either of them kissing Mario, or both of them kissing Mario.
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*** Geno's magic attacks are the most powerful in the game. For a while, Bowser is more useful to the team than him, but by the end of the game the best team to use is by far Mario/Peach/Geno.
Mario/Toadstool/Geno.
* HoYay: In Marrymore, when you interrupt Booster's attempt to marryPeach, Toadstool, it's possible to end up with Bowser kissing Booster, either of them kissing Mario, or both of them kissing Mario.
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* CompleteMonster: Smithy all the way.
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** Geno, plain and simple. His Geno Whirl attack timed hit does [[OverNineThousand 9999 damage]] each time for a small amount of flower points. No, seriously it does ''that'' much damage when timed correctly, [[strike:making even the final boss a joke.]]
*** [[ContractualBossImmunity It doesn't work on bosses.]]
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*** [[ContractualBossImmunity It doesn't work on bosses.]]
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** Geno, plain and simple. His Geno Whirl attack timed hit does [[OverNineThousand 9999 damage]] damage each time for a small amount of flower points. No, seriously it does ''that'' much damage when timed correctly, [[strike:making even the final boss a joke.]]
*** [[ContractualBossImmunity It doesn't work onbosses.]]
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDWbxu8PP5g&fmt=18]] Goodbye Geno *sniff*
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*** Geno's magic attacks are the most powerful in the game. For a while, Bowser is more useful to the team than him, but by the end of the game the best team to use is by far Mario/Peach/Geno.
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** Barrel Volcano has Those Three Bosses - Czar Dragon, Zombone, and the Axem Rangers - back to back.back - though you can at least save after the first two if you know what's coming.
* ThatOneSidequest: Speak to a particular Chow in Monstro Town, and it will tell you how many [[ActionCommands Super Jumps]] you've managed to make in a single use of the technique. What some players never realize is that you can go back and receive an extremely handsome reward if your record hits 30 Super Jumps, and a much, much better one at 100. This requires perfect timing, rock-solid concentration, and lots and lots and lots of practice.
* ThatOneSidequest: Speak to a particular Chow in Monstro Town, and it will tell you how many [[ActionCommands Super Jumps]] you've managed to make in a single use of the technique. What some players never realize is that you can go back and receive an extremely handsome reward if your record hits 30 Super Jumps, and a much, much better one at 100. This requires perfect timing, rock-solid concentration, and lots and lots and lots of practice.
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*** Of course, that fight with Belome is also the easiest-to-abuse SaveScumming scenario in the game. If you aren't already overleveled, it is recommended to deliberately lose to Belome several times so that you can return to a particular save point. Said save point is right before a Super Star - which basically grants free experience when you knock down enemies. Belome is a painful boss, but his sheer toughness makes the "deliberately lose for exp" trick very easy.
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*** The strategy to beating Birdo is to put your party members on Defend, which will cause her single-egg shots to bounce back near her and turn into Eggberts. Destroying the Eggberts causes them to explode and deal heavy damage to Birdo.
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*** Actually you can go back and save after defeating Zombone, so it is not that bad. Only problem is the trek back.
** Any boss (like Yardovich/Culex/etc) that spams Magic Attacks *will* run out of [[CallaHitPointaSmeerp FP]] eventually. When they do, they become a joke boss, especially Culex, as he ''has no physical attacks''. He and his crystals can do nothing but sit there and say "_____ is out of FP!" It helps that it only takes a few rounds of defending/healing to make the boss waste all of his FP...
** Any boss (like Yardovich/Culex/etc) that spams Magic Attacks *will* run out of [[CallaHitPointaSmeerp FP]] eventually. When they do, they become a joke boss, especially Culex, as he ''has no physical attacks''. He and his crystals can do nothing but sit there and say "_____ is out of FP!" It helps that it only takes a few rounds of defending/healing to make the boss waste all of his FP...
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* FridgeBrilliance: Smithy is ruler of another world, uses a hammer as his weapon, can shapeshift, and with the four members of the gang besides Exor (counting the Axem Rangers as on entry) he leads a FiveManBand that seek the Star Pieces...could Smithy have been intentionally designed as an EvilCounterpart to Mario?
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Mario can transform into his 8-bit version in Booster Tower.
** More a BigLippedAlligatorMoment for Mario himself than the player, shaking his head as if to snap himself out of it.
** The entire sequence with [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Boomer]] in the return trip to Bowser's Keep. Boomer is some kind of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot samurai]], who challenges your party to a duel in Bowser's throne room as though you were his sworn rival... despite the fact that he'd never even appeared in the game up to that point or even been hinted at. You battle him atop the chandeliers in an homage to the first boss fight in the game, and when you defeat him, he commits suicide by cutting the rope of his chandelier while lamenting his defeat in completely overwrought tones. Following this, the Shyguy holding up your chandelier lugs you up to the top of the Keep while jaunty music plays and your party members dance a jig. The whole sequence comes completely out of nowhere and is never explained or mentioned again.
** A minor one: after hitting a switch in Booster's Tower, a new area opens up in Booster Pass. Here you can fight an apprentice Snifit who wants to join Booster's entourage. After you crush his dreams by beating him in a fight, he's never seen again.
*** Unless you somehow get defeated by him. Then you can see him in Booster's Tower as the 4th Snifit.
*** [[OverlyLongGag If you work at it, you can intentionally lose to even more apprentices in that place after you lose to the first one. You can lose to a total of five of them, and see them all waiting in Booster's Tower. Except the last one, who's discovered Booster only wants seven Snifits.]]
* CompleteMonster: Smithy all the way.
* CriticalResearchFailure /BlindIdiotTranslation: It seems that the translators had little knowledge of Mario games, that they gave different names to familiar enemies. These include Sky Troopa (Koopa Paratroopa), Goombette (Microgoomba), Goby (Cheep Cheep), Shy Away (Beezo), Chompweed (Nipper Plant), The Big Boo (a ''small'' Boo). Also, Wigglers are supposed to have at least ''eight'' legs, not ''six''.
** Also, Yoshi's Island is known in this game as Yo'ster Isle (it is known as Yoster Island in Japan for this game and SuperMarioWorld).
** This even extends to some of the weapons. The [=NokNok=] Shell should have been the Koopa Shell (Koopa Troopas are called Nokonoko in the Japanese).
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Hurly Gloves.
** Mario's "Exor face".
** After [[JackAndTheBeanstalk growing a huge vine that leads to an island in the clouds with some nice treasure]], the gardener goes into a tirade about how marvellous this occurrence is. His monologue involves magazines, the lottery, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext geese]].
** Mario needing to be restrained by Mallow...from giving a small child a well-deserved beating.
** Mario getting dizzy from jumping onto the head of and riding the hyperactive child in the Mushroom Kingdom who is constantly running around in circles.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Some of the wishes on Star Mountain are this. Special note goes to [[spoiler: Luigi]]'s wish. [[spoiler:I wanna be a great plumber like my brother Mario.]]
** Bowser's PetTheDog moments in Monstro Town where he meets deserters from his army and wishes them well in their new lives after they apologize for fleeing. Who knew Bowser was a BenevolentBoss?
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Many players have at least one favorite piece.
** Well, ''frickin' duh!'' This IS [[KingdomHearts Yoko]] [[LegendOfMana gosh-dang]] [[MarioAndLuigi Shimomura's]] work, people!
* EndingFatigue: In Bowser's Castle, you have to go through 4 long hallways, which consist of either difficult jumping puzzles, a TON of enemies, or normal puzzles. Without saving in between. And of course, it's only the [[DiscOneFinalDungeon next-to-last dungeon]]. Even Bowser is willing to call it quits afterward.
** Nimbus land is also noticeable for having EndingFatigue, as it's crammed full of enemies, difficult jumping puzzles, and gives you no real reward for completing besides plot advancement.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Geno.
* GameBreaker: Equip the Lazy Shell on Peach after she's learned Come Back and you're virtually unstoppable.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Peach herself'' a GameBreaker. Give her the Lazy Shell Armor, the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
*** You can give her the Quartz Charm you receive for beating Culex to significantly raise her stats, as well as making her immune to pretty much every status condition in the book for true Game Breaking ability.
** Geno, plain and simple. His Geno Whirl attack timed hit does [[OverNineThousand 9999 damage]] each time for a small amount of flower points. No, seriously it does ''that'' much damage when timed correctly, [[strike:making even the final boss a joke.]]
*** [[ContractualBossImmunity It doesn't work on bosses.]]
**** It does on [[spoiler: Exor.]]
* MemeticBadass: The Axem Rangers. Period.
** Geno.
* {{Narm}}: "THE Big Boo", as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVoXsD5MWjI&fmt=18 this LP]] demonstrates.
* NightmareFuel: The scene of the final battle is rather hellish looking, and this game is marketed at kids.
* {{Squick}}: Would eating rotten mushrooms in the middle of a fight induce vomiting or [[HyperactiveMetabolism healing]], do you think? And how gross do you think the inside of Belome's mouth is, especially after having recently eaten your teammates?
* ThatOneBoss: Bundt; a living cake that can debuff and possibly wipe out your whole party with one magic attack, and regenerates itself.
** Yaridovich can also prove to be quite the challenge with [[ThatOneAttack Water Blast]] and his ability to clone himself.
** The second time you fight him, Belome can create clones of your party members, and puts your entire party to sleep.
*** Of course, that fight with Belome is also the easiest-to-abuse SaveScumming scenario in the game. If you aren't already overleveled, it is recommended to deliberately lose to Belome several times so that you can return to a particular save point. Said save point is right before a Super Star - which basically grants free experience when you knock down enemies. Belome is a painful boss, but his sheer toughness makes the "deliberately lose for exp" trick very easy.
** Bowyer, so much. He has the ability to temporarily shut off your actions, and will keep shutting off your attack ability until you run out of magic points, and continue attacking until your health is extremely low. Only through extreme patience could you defeat him easily.
** The second battle against Croco. After depleting some of his HP, ''he takes all your items away''. Hope you didn't waste all your FP!
** At lower levels, Birdo can be quite frustrating as well, since an unguarded egg will basically KO any party member under level 13, and almost every direct attack will do single digit damage to her...
*** The strategy to beating Birdo is to put your party members on Defend, which will cause her single-egg shots to bounce back near her and turn into Eggberts. Destroying the Eggberts causes them to explode and deal heavy damage to Birdo.
** Queen Valentina and Dodo also count. They're formidable together, but things get even worse when Dodo takes your middle character to fight one-on-one, and if your lone character loses, the game is over. Considering the fact that Dodo has an attack called Multistrike which pecks you multiple times for huge damage, and that he can take you down with two or three of these attacks, while he has decent health and defense, this becomes a big problem really quickly.
** Barrel Volcano has Those Three Bosses - Czar Dragon, Zombone, and the Axem Rangers - back to back.
*** Actually you can go back and save after defeating Zombone, so it is not that bad. Only problem is the trek back.
** Any boss (like Yardovich/Culex/etc) that spams Magic Attacks *will* run out of [[CallaHitPointaSmeerp FP]] eventually. When they do, they become a joke boss, especially Culex, as he ''has no physical attacks''. He and his crystals can do nothing but sit there and say "_____ is out of FP!" It helps that it only takes a few rounds of defending/healing to make the boss waste all of his FP...
* VillainDecay: Bowser shows his softer side when dealing with some of his former minions.
** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Isn't that just]] [[PragmaticVillainy smart?]] There's not much point to keeping a goomba in the army if he wants to stay with the wife and run a mushroom shop, he won't fight very well and he'll wreck everyone else's morale, too. And treating your underlings with at least ''some'' measure of respect is the mark of a good leader.
** Bowser's troops genuinely respect and adore him. You don't get that kind of love from being a constant beast to your men.
* {{Woolseyism}}: translated by the [[TropeNamer man himself]]
** More a BigLippedAlligatorMoment for Mario himself than the player, shaking his head as if to snap himself out of it.
** The entire sequence with [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Boomer]] in the return trip to Bowser's Keep. Boomer is some kind of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot samurai]], who challenges your party to a duel in Bowser's throne room as though you were his sworn rival... despite the fact that he'd never even appeared in the game up to that point or even been hinted at. You battle him atop the chandeliers in an homage to the first boss fight in the game, and when you defeat him, he commits suicide by cutting the rope of his chandelier while lamenting his defeat in completely overwrought tones. Following this, the Shyguy holding up your chandelier lugs you up to the top of the Keep while jaunty music plays and your party members dance a jig. The whole sequence comes completely out of nowhere and is never explained or mentioned again.
** A minor one: after hitting a switch in Booster's Tower, a new area opens up in Booster Pass. Here you can fight an apprentice Snifit who wants to join Booster's entourage. After you crush his dreams by beating him in a fight, he's never seen again.
*** Unless you somehow get defeated by him. Then you can see him in Booster's Tower as the 4th Snifit.
*** [[OverlyLongGag If you work at it, you can intentionally lose to even more apprentices in that place after you lose to the first one. You can lose to a total of five of them, and see them all waiting in Booster's Tower. Except the last one, who's discovered Booster only wants seven Snifits.]]
* CompleteMonster: Smithy all the way.
* CriticalResearchFailure /BlindIdiotTranslation: It seems that the translators had little knowledge of Mario games, that they gave different names to familiar enemies. These include Sky Troopa (Koopa Paratroopa), Goombette (Microgoomba), Goby (Cheep Cheep), Shy Away (Beezo), Chompweed (Nipper Plant), The Big Boo (a ''small'' Boo). Also, Wigglers are supposed to have at least ''eight'' legs, not ''six''.
** Also, Yoshi's Island is known in this game as Yo'ster Isle (it is known as Yoster Island in Japan for this game and SuperMarioWorld).
** This even extends to some of the weapons. The [=NokNok=] Shell should have been the Koopa Shell (Koopa Troopas are called Nokonoko in the Japanese).
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Hurly Gloves.
** Mario's "Exor face".
** After [[JackAndTheBeanstalk growing a huge vine that leads to an island in the clouds with some nice treasure]], the gardener goes into a tirade about how marvellous this occurrence is. His monologue involves magazines, the lottery, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext geese]].
** Mario needing to be restrained by Mallow...from giving a small child a well-deserved beating.
** Mario getting dizzy from jumping onto the head of and riding the hyperactive child in the Mushroom Kingdom who is constantly running around in circles.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Some of the wishes on Star Mountain are this. Special note goes to [[spoiler: Luigi]]'s wish. [[spoiler:I wanna be a great plumber like my brother Mario.]]
** Bowser's PetTheDog moments in Monstro Town where he meets deserters from his army and wishes them well in their new lives after they apologize for fleeing. Who knew Bowser was a BenevolentBoss?
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Many players have at least one favorite piece.
** Well, ''frickin' duh!'' This IS [[KingdomHearts Yoko]] [[LegendOfMana gosh-dang]] [[MarioAndLuigi Shimomura's]] work, people!
* EndingFatigue: In Bowser's Castle, you have to go through 4 long hallways, which consist of either difficult jumping puzzles, a TON of enemies, or normal puzzles. Without saving in between. And of course, it's only the [[DiscOneFinalDungeon next-to-last dungeon]]. Even Bowser is willing to call it quits afterward.
** Nimbus land is also noticeable for having EndingFatigue, as it's crammed full of enemies, difficult jumping puzzles, and gives you no real reward for completing besides plot advancement.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Geno.
* GameBreaker: Equip the Lazy Shell on Peach after she's learned Come Back and you're virtually unstoppable.
** Also, Group Hug. Heck, just call ''Peach herself'' a GameBreaker. Give her the Lazy Shell Armor, the Safety Ring, and some flowers and she can solo the rest of the game herself. Seriously, she is ''that'' stinking powerful. But then, she ''is'' a princess. If only she were this powerful in the earlier Mario games, then she'd be kicking Bowser's butt herself.
*** You can give her the Quartz Charm you receive for beating Culex to significantly raise her stats, as well as making her immune to pretty much every status condition in the book for true Game Breaking ability.
** Geno, plain and simple. His Geno Whirl attack timed hit does [[OverNineThousand 9999 damage]] each time for a small amount of flower points. No, seriously it does ''that'' much damage when timed correctly, [[strike:making even the final boss a joke.]]
*** [[ContractualBossImmunity It doesn't work on bosses.]]
**** It does on [[spoiler: Exor.]]
* MemeticBadass: The Axem Rangers. Period.
** Geno.
* {{Narm}}: "THE Big Boo", as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVoXsD5MWjI&fmt=18 this LP]] demonstrates.
* NightmareFuel: The scene of the final battle is rather hellish looking, and this game is marketed at kids.
* {{Squick}}: Would eating rotten mushrooms in the middle of a fight induce vomiting or [[HyperactiveMetabolism healing]], do you think? And how gross do you think the inside of Belome's mouth is, especially after having recently eaten your teammates?
* ThatOneBoss: Bundt; a living cake that can debuff and possibly wipe out your whole party with one magic attack, and regenerates itself.
** Yaridovich can also prove to be quite the challenge with [[ThatOneAttack Water Blast]] and his ability to clone himself.
** The second time you fight him, Belome can create clones of your party members, and puts your entire party to sleep.
*** Of course, that fight with Belome is also the easiest-to-abuse SaveScumming scenario in the game. If you aren't already overleveled, it is recommended to deliberately lose to Belome several times so that you can return to a particular save point. Said save point is right before a Super Star - which basically grants free experience when you knock down enemies. Belome is a painful boss, but his sheer toughness makes the "deliberately lose for exp" trick very easy.
** Bowyer, so much. He has the ability to temporarily shut off your actions, and will keep shutting off your attack ability until you run out of magic points, and continue attacking until your health is extremely low. Only through extreme patience could you defeat him easily.
** The second battle against Croco. After depleting some of his HP, ''he takes all your items away''. Hope you didn't waste all your FP!
** At lower levels, Birdo can be quite frustrating as well, since an unguarded egg will basically KO any party member under level 13, and almost every direct attack will do single digit damage to her...
*** The strategy to beating Birdo is to put your party members on Defend, which will cause her single-egg shots to bounce back near her and turn into Eggberts. Destroying the Eggberts causes them to explode and deal heavy damage to Birdo.
** Queen Valentina and Dodo also count. They're formidable together, but things get even worse when Dodo takes your middle character to fight one-on-one, and if your lone character loses, the game is over. Considering the fact that Dodo has an attack called Multistrike which pecks you multiple times for huge damage, and that he can take you down with two or three of these attacks, while he has decent health and defense, this becomes a big problem really quickly.
** Barrel Volcano has Those Three Bosses - Czar Dragon, Zombone, and the Axem Rangers - back to back.
*** Actually you can go back and save after defeating Zombone, so it is not that bad. Only problem is the trek back.
** Any boss (like Yardovich/Culex/etc) that spams Magic Attacks *will* run out of [[CallaHitPointaSmeerp FP]] eventually. When they do, they become a joke boss, especially Culex, as he ''has no physical attacks''. He and his crystals can do nothing but sit there and say "_____ is out of FP!" It helps that it only takes a few rounds of defending/healing to make the boss waste all of his FP...
* VillainDecay: Bowser shows his softer side when dealing with some of his former minions.
** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Isn't that just]] [[PragmaticVillainy smart?]] There's not much point to keeping a goomba in the army if he wants to stay with the wife and run a mushroom shop, he won't fight very well and he'll wreck everyone else's morale, too. And treating your underlings with at least ''some'' measure of respect is the mark of a good leader.
** Bowser's troops genuinely respect and adore him. You don't get that kind of love from being a constant beast to your men.
* {{Woolseyism}}: translated by the [[TropeNamer man himself]]
