Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door/Prologue: A Rogue's Welcome

Well, this is the start of Mario's adventure. Hopefully, nothing has happened to Peach while he was traveling to Rogueport.

Welcome to Rogueport
Rogueport:

Enemies: None

The Main town of the game. You'll be coming here a lot, especially since a thousand-year old door lies underground.

Watch the intro (along with Parakarry's only appearance in the game). Don't worry about Luigi, you'll see him later. Anyway, after looking at the title (again), Mario will arrive at Rogueport. After the boat departs, save your game. Just follow the path and another cut scene will start. You probably know by now you should help her. So, go over to her and a battle will start.

Mini-Boss

 * Lord Crump
 * HP: 5
 * ATK: 1
 * DEF: 0
 * Difficulty:*
 * Attacks:
 * Crump-a-bomb

Not much strategy here, just attack him. You can practice your action commands here (press A before Mario lands on him for jump, and hold the Control stick left until the circle at the end lights up for hammer.) Also, you can defend against his attacks. Press A around the time he hits you to defend against it, or B at the EXACT Time he hits you to counter-attack. Also if you press A while Mario is still in the air after bouncing off his head, you'll do a stylish move. This isn't important right now, but looks good. Also, Press A right when Mario hits Crump with the hammer for a stylish move. If you do it right and press A again when he lands on the ground he'll do another stylish move.

After the battle, Crump will send literally hundreds of foot soldiers to attack you. After the scene, just walk up the stairs and through the archway, they won't notice you. Watch the scene (if you look in the background, you'll see some Piantas in tuxedos beating down two Craws. Afterward, you can go to the inn to recover any lost HP and also save outside. Next, go to the next screen on the right, watch the scene and follow the bandit to the previous screen and go through the archway in the back (the one with the graffiti on the back wall). Go into the house on the left and talk to the bandit to get you coins back. Go behind the bed on the left wall to get a Star piece (go to the Star Pieces section to know where all of the star pieces are). Back in the main part of Rougueport, go behind the fence that leads to the screen on the right and look behind the crates for another star piece. Now, go to the left side of the screen for a short scene. Zess T. will never find the lenses so move in any direction and she'll block the entrance to Western Rogueport. Back at the bulletin board...

''Pickpocketing on the rise! Watch your wallet! And hey, pickpocketers try not to get caught!''

No need to worry about that. Anyway, go into the item shop (the place with the fire flower sign) and talk to the toad by the door. He'll order the contact lenses for you, so you'll have to wait. In the meantime, you can buy some items if you want (but leave room for two items for now). Every item you purchase gives you a shop point. You'll get a free item after getting 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 250, and 300 points. Go to Eastern Rogueport (the screen to the right of the main part) and walk up to the brick wall you see near the entrance. The view will change and you can go to the back of the houses. You can talk to the people here if you want. Go to the crate to the north of Darkly (the guy with the yellow eyes), jump on top of it, and go right to find a star piece.

Ignore the Craw named Gus guarding the gate, unless you feel like getting involved in a difficult battle at the start of the game, though there's nothing on the other side worth looking for anyway. Go into the house near the Craw and watch the scene. After that, go outside and follow Professor Frankly to the warp pipe. At this point, he will give a tutorial about action commands, which may be skipped if you already know how they work (if unsure, select Nope to start the tutorial). You'll get a tutorial on battling if you do. Either way, go down the pipe (press down on the control stick when on top of a pipe) when you regain control.

Into Rogueport Sewers
Rogueport Sewers:

Enemies:
 * Goomba - 2 HP, 1 ATK, 0 DEF
 * Paragoomba - 2 HP, 1 ATK, 0 DEF
 * Spiky Goomba - 2 HP, 2 ATK, 0 DEF
 * Spinia - 3 HP, 1 ATK, 0 DEF
 * Spania - 3 HP, 1 ATK, 0 DEF

Somewhere in the sewers lies the thousand-year door and whatever lies behind it. It won't be easy opening it, though.

When you enter head right, watch the scene and you'll end up in a fight with a goomba, paragoomba, and a spiky goomba. They're not that hard, you just have to remember to hit the spiky goomba with your hammer. After the battle, go up the stairs and ride the platform to the pipe, go down it and fight your way to the other end of the screen. Get the items along the way, break the two yellow blocks, and go down the warp pipe. Defeat the two Spinias and hit the switch at the right of the screen (There's a star piece hidden behind the giant block). Go up the stairs and into the door. Talk to the black box for a funny scene. Go back out and go down the ledge nearest to the wall, grab the key and use it on the black box. After getting cursed with the ability to turn into a paper airplane, go back outside, and go on the airplane panel. Press Y to turn into a paper airplane and go to the door on the other side. After a look at the thousand-year door, go on top of the pedestal and watch the scene. You'll return to Rogueport after the cutscene (where you obtain a special power).

Rogueport:

''"A glowing, mysterious light under the city"?!? Smells like treasure, people!''

Go through the two tutorials if you wish and go back down the pipe after stocking up on items.

Off To Petal Meadows
Rogueport Sewers:

You can go to through the door on your left to trade your star pieces with Dazzle. There's also a star piece behind the nearby pedestal. After that, go back to the previous screen and go right. Jump down and fight the Spiky Goomba. Go back up and use the airplane panel to go to the door on the other side. Hammer the tentacle to start a battle.

Mini-Boss
Goombella's Tattle: ''That's a Blooper... and a really super-humongous one, too! EWWWW! It's all slimy!!! I just can't STAND slimy, nasty, icky things. G-R-O-S-S, gross! It attacks with tentacles and ink. Once you damage both it's tentacles it'll fall down... And then it's attack time! By the Way, the tentacles each have 3 HP. Now relax and house on that slimy, nasty Blooper.''
 * Blooper


 * HP: 12 (Tentacle's HP: 3)
 * ATK: 1
 * DEF: 0
 * Difficulty:*
 * Attacks:
 * Tentacle Slam
 * Ink Blast

First, attack the tentacles. Afterwards, he'll fall like it said in Goombella's tattle. Just keep attacking him and guarding against his attacks until he's dead. However, he will return to the top after a few turns, requiring you to attack the tentacles again.

After taking care of him, jump across the platforms to the pipe. Be careful, not to fall into the water, or you'll take some damage (although your partner may fall in without penalty.) Enter the pipe to go to Chapter 1.