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ClintEastBacon TOUCH ME! Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#1: Dec 7th 2020 at 11:14:41 AM

Hi... I, uh, don't know where to put this, so sorry if I violated the rules, but I think there was an edit on the Super Paper Mario page that could use some due process.

  • Anti-Climax Boss:
    • Bonechill, the Chapter 7 boss. He's the leader of the Skellobit invasion, implied to be the Mario equivalent of Satan, and personally attacked Grambi... but he's a serious pushover. Sure, you can only hurt his head, and only Luigi can reach his head without having to use Thoreau (unless you do some fancy exploits involving Thudley and mercy invincibility). However, it's possible to use Luigi's Super Jump (which does double damage when used as an attack) and go through Bonechill's head, and the ceiling is both high enough that you can Goomba Stomp Bonechill's head afterwards multiple times, and low enough that the stomps happen in very quick succession since very few enemies have invincibility frames. Now recall that Bonechill has 80 HP. If you kill most of the enemies you can (and got the Power Plus in Flopside), you should have around 8-10 attack. End result: Bonechill goes down in a few seconds, singlehandedly taking the title of the easiest boss in the game. It's especially hilarious since the previous two games' chapter 7 bosses, the Ice King and Magnus Von Grapple 2.0, were very difficult bosses, making Bonechill seem even more anticlimactic by comparison.
    • If you have Luigi when you battle Wracktail, he's easier than Fracktail, since you can just super jump to attack his antenna rather than having to throw nearby Wrackles at it, and can use Luigi’s super jump or Peach’s parasol to stay on his back whenever he does a loop instead of falling down and having to repeat the ground phase.
    • Shadoo can be this if you're at a high enough level when you get to him. And considering what comes before him, that's not all that unlikely. Shadoo's fighting methods are easily countered by spamming Bowser's Fire Breath.
    • Count Bleck is this, once the Chaos Heart barrier goes down. His regular attacks, which are already Painfully Slow Projectiles, do a mere 3 damage, at a point in the game where you can easily have in excess of 60 hp, and his strongest move only deals 8 damage and is likewise well-telegraphed. In contrast, he only has 150 hit points and Mario can easily do in excess of 10 damage to him per jump, without any power-ups, or switch to a damage-boosting Pixl (like Thudley or Cudge) to double that amount with minimal effort. It's arguably harder for him to beat you (20 hits) than it is for you to beat him (15 hits at most).
    • Super Dimentio himself can be this, if the player elects to face him as Bowser with Thudley as the active Pixl. He has 200 hp, which is normally a lot, but is easily worn down due to the following details: 1) Endgame Mario typically deals around 12-14 damage per hit. 2) Bowser has an attack equal to double the rest of the party (bringing it up to 24-28). 3) Thudley doubles attack power over again (48-56). 4) Jumping on the boss's head allows for another stomp immediately afterwards, and the boss's hitbox is big enough that these stomps can be chained easily. All that put together makes it entirely possible to kill Super Dimentio essentially as soon as he stops being invincible.

This part was deleted from the page by a user without consulting anyone else, on the grounds that these bosses were only easy when attacked in a specific way, and therefore not Anti Climax Bosses. What do you think? Should we restore it, or keep it the way it is?

LaundryPizza03 Maintenance? from Texas Since: Aug, 2020
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#2: Dec 7th 2020 at 11:23:45 AM

I was going to do a broader Mario cleanup...

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ClintEastBacon TOUCH ME! Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#3: Dec 7th 2020 at 8:36:44 PM

I can move it there if you want, then.

LaundryPizza03 Maintenance? from Texas Since: Aug, 2020
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#4: Dec 10th 2020 at 6:13:56 PM

Yes, please. The one issue that stands out for me is that a large chunk of ThatOneLevel.Super Mario Bros is really complainy and uses First-Person Writing. Examples need checking as well. I would call it "Super Mario Cleanup" in line with the major games in the franchise.

Edited by LaundryPizza03 on Dec 10th 2020 at 8:14:35 AM

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LaundryPizza03 Maintenance? from Texas Since: Aug, 2020
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#5: Dec 16th 2020 at 1:17:33 PM

New cleanup: here. I note that your specific issue is already gone, unless there are other issues on that page.

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