Finished Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door today, and right on schedule (I said on the 2nd day it would take me about 10 more days) after a mostly pointless detour down the 100 level dungeon.
First I figured that I should clear the 100 level trail dungeon before finishing the game (just in case it was one of those games that doesn't let you continue after the end) but around floor 80 I got 3 poison mushrooms and couldn't recover. After 2 more attempts I finally made it down to the 100th floor, only to find a giant bone dragon boss with 200 HP waiting for me, and I was nearly out of items...
So after dying painfully I chose to forget the pit and just finish the game.
The last level was a huge area filled with platforming puzzles, if it wasn't for Goombella's help I would never figure out some, and even 2 mid-boss fights with a purple dragon and the Shadow Sirens+Doopliss. At the end level Mario First has to face off against the leader of the X-nauts, then Bowser finally catches up with Mario and they fight, and then the shadow demon posses Peach and Mario has to fight her. During the fight through Mario can barely hit the shadow demon and after a while there is a cut-scene where the 7 star crystals go to the places the came from. All the people that Mario had met during the game cheer him on through the crystals and the positive energy allows him to finally beat the shadow demon.
All in all it was a much better ending than Mario Sunshine, or even Fable II, and it turns out that Mario can return to Rogueport to finish any side quests he ma have missed. So maybe I'll finish that 100 floor dungeon some day, but not an time soon.
Tomorow it's on to Dragon Age: Origins.
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