Sunday, 17 January 2016

14 Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros - Desert Toad Village, Paper Trampoline

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about wandering around the Toad Village in the desert and about the Paper Trampoline we have to get through rescuing Toads in Lakitu's missions.

We wander around the Toad Village in the desert, talking to people. The Toad in the south west house tells us the Paper World book is very special and that Luigi had better take care of it. Outside, a Toad tells us about Trio Hammer being able to flip those cardboard slabs on the ground. A Yoshi is at the southeast entrance. He tells us that this way goes to the coast. The water's so warm he wishes he was coming with us. The Toad in the southeast house tells us about pre-emptive strikes before going into battle. In the northern part of the village, a Toad complains about the heat. Another says he's seen everything with the Paper Toads. One of the scholar Toads is here too and he gives us a quiz.

He asks and we answer:
- 13 coins minus 8 coins? 5 coins
- Who uses the Drill Shell? Luigi
- Which of the following has spikes on its body(I think, trying to remember)? Pokey
- Which of the following has wings? Paratroopa
- What is the maximum number of kicks you can do with a 3D Red Shell? 7

He gives us 3 defence beans as a prize.

In the northwestern house, there are two Toads. One asks us if we've ever really looked at the sun. He hasn't either as it'll break his eyeballs for sure. The other says Bowser's Castle is to the east beyond the desert and asks if we're sure we want to go there as it's pretty active there lately.

In the item shop, there's a green Toad that tells us we should be equipping the gear we've been collecting. There's another Toad who deals in those buying and selling of those Amiibo cards. The vendors all have different personalities. The gear shop Toad is loud and outgoing, the item shop Toad is normal and the Toad at the green counter is shy and awkward and isn't open yet.

There's a paper warp pipe in the village here and it brings us to the Toad Village in Sunbeam Plains. Here, there's a clumsy delivery Toad who keeps dropping his mushrooms. We can do a mission here where we must chase after him and collect all 60 mushrooms he drops along the way. On the first screen, we have 40 seconds to collect them, 30 on the next screen and 20 on the screen after.

We head back to the desert Toad Village and visit the Lakitu Info Centre there. There are two missions we need to do to find more Paper Toads.

The first is The Stone Prison. It's a fun puzzle where we move left and right in tiled positions in the desert. We must break stone blocks to allow the Paper Toads to drop to the ground without them getting squished by said blocks.

The second is Quicksand Rescue. Again we move left and right in tiled positions. We must catch the Toads sliding down the sandy slope while dealing with the obstacles coming down. Some are bombs, some are blocks that may need to have the Trio Hammer used on them. There are coins to collect for a nice bit of extra challenge. This is really fun too!

I'm really liking these little missions. They remind me of one of AlphaDream's earlier games, Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue. That was an amazing game that you should play if you like this one!

There are also harder versions of some of the other Toad catching missions that we've done lately, so we do them all as well.

When we do the essential missions, a Paper Trampoline gets delivered to us promptly. Toadette has them all working pretty hard!

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