#so i am winding down my paper mario kick. i am transitioning back to rapture.

[blindrapture]

paper mario postgame

first I was like "oh hey, they added a boss fight with prince mush! finally! fuck yeah!"

and then I was like "well, now that I'm here, about to fight him, I suddenly feel nervous. I've beaten the game, and I'm really quite overlevelled for anything even the postgame has for me. but this is prince mush. this is new. this is either going to be Really Easy For Me, or........"

and then I was like "oh. he has a fucking cool theme song... with relentless guitars... and heroic melodies..."

and then I got my first death. in the damn postgame. I made it through cortez in one try, I made it through magnus von grapple 2.0 with no problems, I made it through grodus, bowser, and kammy in one go!!! and the shadow queen was just a spectacle for me. but the paper mario remake had a boss for me. for the 29-year-old who grew up with the game and wanted a challenge.

it was a glorious death, frankly. it was a curbstomp.

prince mush did 50 damage in one turn. and that's just an attack he can do. (50 is, uh, a big number for paper mario.... you have to be very far in the game to even get that much health to begin with.)

it was a boss battle. that required the superguard. if you don't superguard his Big Move, he just keeps doing it, and you can't attack him.

holy fucking shit.

they call him prince mush because the hardest part is mopping you up after.

....but yeah, I beat him on my second try once I knew what I was in for. :3 still made me sweat, though! I almost didn't!

good bonus boss!!! really good!!!

this is a really good fucking remake!!!