Sunday, November 11, 2012

Paper Mario: Sticker Star -- 1-2 Bouquet Gardens

This level has Koopas in it, making for an interesting battle dynamic. If you land a first strike jump attack, they'll go into their shell and you can kick it into the enemies behind it. There is an item block surrounded by two brick blocks. Leave the brick blocks intact, go up the hill and walk across the blocks to reach an item block with a Fire Flower sticker. There are two paths to the right.

The lower path leads to an area with Goombas and Koopas, as well as some Bowser tape holding down some stairs. There are Iron Jump stickers in the area. The path to the upper left leads to where the 3D Fan is. Stay out of its gusts to avoid being blown away. If you are blown to the other side, go to the back and go left to a hidden area with coins and a Shiny Fire Flower sticker. Approach the Fan carefully and quickly hit (A) when prompted to turn it off. Now that there are no gales, we find a Toad crying, kneeling what was formerly a bed of flowers. You'll need three flower stickers to help him.

I don't have three flower stickers, so I go to the next area, where Goombas are spinning a Toad around. It seems the Toad has something they want. We can either pay them 20 coins, or try beating them in battle. I'm going to battle them. They stack, merge, and morph into a 2-Fold Goomba. They attack by inching along the ground, then flapping like pages of a book. They only have 10 HP, so they're easy to beat. The Toad says he found something rare and I think I see it behind the shrubs. It's a Cat-o-Luck. As thanks for saving him, we get to keep it.

The next area has Bowser tape concealing coins and stickers. We walk further and a Goomba stops us, saying that Goombas are not to be taken lightly. Four more appear and they stack and roll into a wheel. The battle starts. Kersti mentions that dealing with lots of enemies might be easier if we could use multiple stickers at a time. This introduces the Battle Spinner, where we stop the scrolling pictures and try to match them, like a slot machine. I fail at it the first time, so Kersti lines up three coins for me. I can now use three stickers in a row (and get coins). The number of stickers you can use decreases by one each turn. After the battle, the Goombas leave. On the hill are an Ice Flower and a Fire Flower sticker.

The area to the right has an item block with three Slaphammers. The side of the hill has the faint outline of a door on it.The Secret Door leads to a room with Flashy Fire Flower, Flashy POW Block, and Flashy Ice Flower stickers. Now that we have enough flower stickers, we return to the crying Toad. We paperize and stick two Shiny Fire Flowers and an Ice Flower sticker. The rest of the flower bed bursts into bloom and makes two of each kind of sticker we planted, so I get four Shiny Fire Flowers. The Toad is overjoyed, so he gives us an HP-Up Heart, so our HP is now 25. Back to the area with the door on the hill. At the top of the hill is a comet piece. We collect the coins and the path opens up.

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