Dear Readers,
Today I'll talk about the new area, Doop Doop Dunes. Spinies and Nabbit are found here.
On entering Doop Doop Dunes, we can see Bowser's Castle in the distance. A cutscene plays here from within the castle. The Paper minions are meeting with the normal minions. Some of them get along, some don't. A Hammer Bro wonders how a hammer made of paper could hurt and a Paper Hammer Bro offers to show him!
The two Bowsers hold an assembly and get their combined armies to cheer and rally to defeat Mario. They argue over who gets to address them and keep pushing each other out of the way.
Meanwhile, Bowser Jr. and Paper Bowser Jr. are the best of friends. They decide they don't want anyone to go back to the Paper World because it would be boring, so they begin plotting to find the book. Hope they don't interrogate the Toad Scholar from the village!
Back to us in Doop Doop Dunes. The music here has nice sitar-like plunking and a decent beat. I start comparing it to the Dozing Sands music from Dream Team Bros though. This is quite unfair, since that theme has two amazing variations, one of which has this awesome, belly-dancing beat. I feel this is going to haunt Paper Jam Bros as a sequel. :(
This area is mainly made up of Spinies. We can use our hammers on them. Again, it's kind of tough getting the challenge to dodge several of them in a row since they die out quickly enough! We also spot Nabbit and give chase. He drops the Drill Shell, which is another Bros. Attack.
With the Drill Shell, Luigi puts it on his head. Mario makes him dive head first onto an enemy and then you must press the B button rapidly to drill and try to get an "Excellent" hit. I'm not that crazy about pressing buttons rapidly, but it's a nice enough move.
When we go onto the next screen, sneaky Nabbit spooks us by appearing right behind us in line! Then, Magikoopa and Paper Magikoopa appear. They make big paper walls and scenery fall from the sky. Now we know who made the ones from earlier...
At some stage, I find the Shell Gloves with Paper Mario's crevice excavation and he also ranks up. I give him an extra gear slot.
At one point, we try to hammer a button, but then Nabbit pops out from behind the rock and steals all three of our hammers! We have to chase him around some kind of makeshift desert racetrack with hazardous edges and catch him three times. At some stage he drops another Bros. Attack, the Rocket Blast. I'll continue on later.
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