Hey, glad to see you here! It was nice not having to make a "tutorials don't count" exception to the rules this time.

Yeah, going back to paper mario after ttyd is super refreshing (in some ways!)

@@NovemberJoy are you planning on doing this challenge with the thousand year door? If so, you should hurry up, or else Phantom A will beat you to the punch again.

He's got other stuff he's doing right now, but you're right that I should do that before I wait too long. I'm mostly prepared for it, I just have to do it... And finish up a couple of other things I'm doing as well. Hopefully you won't be waiting too long!

Waterwraith I forgot he was even going to do that challenge tbh. Regardless, I wasn't going to do a run like that anyway.

My friend and I were laughing hysterically as he kept missing attack after attack, don't worry. I still say it was karma for how many times he insulted me and my technique. Thanks for the comment, hope you enjoyed!

I thought it was a nice play on words, so I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment!

That was what I would've done, but I went for a more visual joke for that section instead.

That sounds insane...Glad you did manage it in the end, at least! I guess that's a good showcase of how important strategy can be. Thanks for sharing!

Oh, yeah, I totally forgot about that glitch! I guess I could have done that. It would have taken quite a while, but it would have taken even that small instance of out-of-battle action commands out of the picture! Sad that no such exploit exists for General White in TTYD, though. Thanks for the comment!

I can see how you might do that. I personally never learned the rhythm mechanic in Mother 3 beyond just pressing buttons myself. Action commands play a bigger role in this game, but both are still possible while ignoring major mechanics!

I'm glad I have people eagerly awaiting these! I still have a huge one in the works - here's hoping it turns out just as good as I'm hoping it does. I'll get more videos out faster - technical issues halted this one in its tracks for a bit.

It is fun, and generally not that hard! If you like what you see, it's worth checking out.

@@NovemberJoy no it's hard I can't even perform the jump action command correctly and then the bombs keep killing me and giving me a game over on the Koppa Bros Fortress that's why I like Super Paper Mario a lot cuz there's no Action commands I know a lot of you guys didn't like it but I'm really good at 2D Platformers

@@NatetheNintendofan That would be frustrating if you struggled with the jump command. You can do it though, I have faith!

At the very least super paper Mario has a really good story to at least try to make up for it.

Glad you enjoyed! It was a part of my childhood, although it wasn't my favorite game. I still have more ideas for the future, which includes a TTYD video and maybe another Undertale video...? Whatever the case, hopefully you'll continue to enjoy, and maybe I can learn a thing or two from you!

It's already in the works - it'll be an enormous one, so it might take a little time, but I hope it'll be up to your taste once it does come out! Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed!

I just realized an additional difficulty is coming from extending the time you'd take to grind. But more importantly as a consequence of the challenge, i'm of the belief you'd probably not be able to beat Amayzee Dayzees to grind more consistently either due to need to do tremendous damage in a short amount of time.So you lose that height Mario can reach as well.

I was hoping for Stryder7x's return as well, but he's clearly going through his own problems. Hopefully you enjoyed your first experience with the channel! I actually didn't have to grind levels - you gain enough Star Points from fighting that I was generally well-leveled for most areas. I did have to grind money and certain items for cooking, though, and that did take a while! Anyway, thanks for the comment, and hopefully you'll stay tuned for more videos in the future!

@@NovemberJoy last i checked it sounded like it was all quiet due to the potential legalize of the matter. Something knowing the court system we may not get anything on for maybe years. I'm hoping for the best...

You're welcome! I'm hoping I'll have gotten better by the time I get to TTYD.

Yeah, I'm not the first person to have done this run, but I hope I put my own spin on it and made things interesting!

It does have a lot of potential for challenges. I might try those myself, but they probably wouldn't make the best video because others have already gotten to them well before I could. Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, and hope you'll continue your own challenge-running streak!

I see you have a Pikachu pfp. Do you like other gen 1 Pokemon, like Omanyte? Recently they seem a little underappreciated.

@@CyanicCore I’m a pretty big fan of Pokémon as a whole, I just found this image a while back and I just stuck with it. Also I see that black and white protagonist pfp

@@NovemberJoy I’m looking forward to your future projects; your videos are very underrated!

@@lordhelix1705 Edited, but yeah. Any reason you chose "Lord Helix", though?

Glad you enjoyed the challenge, and I hope so!

Would love to see them get some more recognition for their work

Huh, I think I've seen someone else experimenting with this in the past...It would've made Parakarry a very strong partner indeed, and would've given Lakilester something to do at the least. The softlocks are disappointing to hear about, though. Thanks for the comment, it was interesting to hear how the game reacts to impossible situations!

Glad you enjoyed! I'll keep up the content, hopefully learning how to work and produce videos a little faster in the future.

My personal favorite was Sweet Shrooms, since Cake Mix is pretty easy to get a hold of and it provides more than enough healing for 95% of the game. Don't worry, I didn't hit Whacka. Thanks for the comment!

Glad to see you here! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

@@NovemberJoy good work my man

Dry, dry humor. My favorite!

The dry dry comments are very helpfully dry

This is within my plans, and TTYD would most likely make for a much meatier video - especially with the extra restrictions I thought of. Hopefully, you'll stick around for when I get to it!

Yeah, it's a game worth going back to. I'll be checking out the sequel as well at a later date!

​@@NovemberJoyyou waiting for the remake?

Honestly, this is still far more popularity than I ever would have expected, so I'm happy to have an audience willing to watch a slightly-less-popular game! I know my audio does need more work, and I'd like to do more tests to figure out what I can do to record it better and get greater results from post-processing. Wait, someone actually did watch that entire Persona 3 LP I did a while ago?! You deserve serious kudos - as you said, that's a 160-part long LP, and one that had a number of issues! Honestly...I was considering The Answer at some point, but I'd most likely do it as a live stream project if I did it now. I could separate them, but that revolves around me doing more LPs in the future, and I feel like I might focus on challenges and live streaming more. I'm glad to hear this feedback, and hopefully this strategy I've outlined makes sense!

I'm glad someone out there appreciated that joke! Thanks for the comment!

I dunno what's funnier - the delivery just not arriving, or Mario receiving it and immediately throwing it away thinking it's worthless. I'll leave that one up to you guys!

@@NovemberJoy both are fun outcomes. it's either Mario saying "I don't need that crap" and tosses it or Twink being distracted by literally every pebble on the way to mario only arriving after he defeated the final boss

Or maybe he kept on trying to deliver it to Luigi.

I'm glad to hear that! I hope they did help you, whatever it is you're going through.

I wouldn't have expected it either, but anything's possible with enough charging.

This video actually has the least amount of glitches and weird strategies out of all the challenges I've done so far. Hopefully you were still entertained by what you saw, though!

Hey, didn't expect to see you here! Hopefully you'll enjoy it, it was in the works for a while!

Ooh, I bet that was rough...it's funny how some of these challenges are just based on playing the game like we did when we were four, isn't it?

Thanks! I still need to get around to doing something with the second Paper Mario game...or the second Mario and Luigi game, for that matter.

I'm glad you enjoyed my voice! I feel like this isn't my best showing, so hopefully other videos will prove even better. Thanks for the subscription, I'll try to get more challenges like this out sooner rather than later!

@@NovemberJoy no rush, I love challenge vids so I can wait ages and not really care.

I couldn't resist referencing the soap cake, especially since I was laughing hysterically at putting 6 containers of soap into the cake live on stream. Thanks for the comment!

I wish you luck on the Pit of 100 Trials! Glad you enjoyed the video - it won't be the next one, but TTYD is on my to-do list!

@@NovemberJoy thanks man and also I will be waiting :)

Thanks for the comment, glad to see you here!

I'm aware, but thought it was funnier not to call him by his actual name!

@@NovemberJoy ah, ok.

I think I've seen that somewhere before. It's funny that Kooper becomes the most useless partner under these circumstances. Thanks for the comment!

Thanks for the comment!

Well, maybe you know a little more about it now? Good to see you again, rbxq - I'm still trying to keep you and your name fresh in my mind, just in case!

@@NovemberJoy its not a big deal man you can relax

Personally, I kinda like abusing Mega Rush. It takes a lot more skill and strategy to survive with exactly 1 HP remaining, and the power boost is exhilarating, especially with multi-hit moves like Power Bounce. Thanks for the question!

@@NovemberJoy Definitely more of a risk but the reward is greater! Good choice!

I have faith in you, don't worry! If you really can't pull off any action commands, though, then you can use this as a guide!

Paper Mario 64 has aged really well, partially because of its unique graphical style and relying heavily on 2D assets. Let's hope the TTYD remake is a sign of better things to come together, alright?

I did pick it up, but I actually opted for P-Up D-Down instead - the extra damage actually helps more than you would expect compared to the extra defense. Might have made things more interesting if I'd went for P-Down D-Up instead. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yeah, we've both gone on our own strange journeys, huh? Thanks! It has been a while, and I've been doing relatively well - just living my life, and finding a new type of video I enjoyed making. Hope you've been doing well too!

@@NovemberJoy I'm really happy to hear that and yeah, same here!

Well, it seems like it worked. How'd the animation look, by the way? I was curious how others would feel about it. After checking, you definitely did have more restrictions on your challenge - seems like it went okay in the end since there's a finale, though. The older Paper Mario games really do have a surprising amount of depth, and I'm glad this run made me explore some of that depth, even if it still wasn't all that difficult. I'm still a little disappointed in the one fight I did just nuke with Shooting Stars - I'm certain I could have done that Anti-Guy Unit fight without them if I'd tried it. Thanks for the long comment, hopefully you'll enjoy whatever else I end up putting out!

​@@NovemberJoy ​ @NovemberJoy I don't know about everyone else, but that animation looks good to me! It looks perfect for the in-game style, yet the new purpose and action makes sense. I did finish that challenge, but it went a lot worse than it looks at first glance. To start, I likely shouldn't have made it a series. Sure, it was fun and all, but the main reason I chose to do so was a lack of experience on summarizing like this. Likely as a side effect of pushing it so hard, Video Editor started exporting with glitches, which didn't get noticed until much later. The aforementioned finale itself had to be uploaded twice due to forgetting to restore speed (the glitches caused are easy to spot at about 4x) until noticing it in the released video. On top of that, I may have messed up the item challenge by being awarded a second mushroom in Chapter 2, possibly overshot an hp count, could have limited magic circles, and worst of all - lost footage for an entire episode without time to restore it (likely my greatest regret out of everything there). Even the view count is a little misleading. Finally getting any views towards the end of this was a great feeling, but on any with 10 or less, nearly half of that was reopening the video to change things or copy the series description to the next video. In the end I'm happy to have tried to make *a* series, but there's still.. all that. However, it's been a while, and after watching your video I looked up the same "No Action Commands" moniker for Origami King, and surprisingly found it may not have been done yet. There's at least 3 that are mandatory towards the end, and a couple sections that might become so as well, but maybe that could be my not-too-distant-future. If I do make it (as one video of course), you're getting credited! Bombing the Anti-Guy is understandable, but I'm sure if you try any more PM64 challenges, you'll quickly have a few ways to do it without the stars. There's so many options, a couple could even become obvious with time. Who knows until trying? I've watched what you make since what, when your first UT video spiked 8 months ago? Provided the game's familiar (and I'm not trying to forget it to play it again semi-blind), I'll be there! Just keep doing what you like, and staying in touch with the community. P.S. Sorry for the overabundance of parentheses - there's a lot to do today, and I wanted to respond to everything without taking TOO much time :)

Huh. Must've been a very strange experience, then. I've heard a few partner abilities even break entirely if you don't have the Lucky Star...

There will be a TTYD run in the future, don't worry. I have other projects I'm closer to finishing, but TTYD is certainly on my to-do list, especially now that I've thought of some good restrictions.

...Hm, that's an idea. I'll have to remember that one!

Thank you! I have no idea how long I'll keep being criminally underrated, but I'm sure I'll find a spot sooner or later. Glad you enjoyed the video!

@@NovemberJoy i mean, your most recent videos seem to blow up every time so i hope it wont be too long

Don't worry, I won't let it discourage me. That's my favorite part of these kinds of challenges too - watching the tier lists get all shuffled around by playing the game incorrectly! Thanks for the comment, I should be able to get a video finished soon...

I had to look it up - it's in the Koopa Bros. fortress itself, actually! Didn't have to go too far out of my way.

I feel like it wouldn't be that hard, but it might make for an interesting challenge depending on what you're allowed to do. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yep, and one that took way too long to come out! I'll see what I can do to get the next one out faster.

This is on my list - not the next challenge on my to-do list, but I'll try to get to it sooner rather than later! I have some good ideas to make it spicier than this video was, too, so hopefully you'll enjoy!

@@NovemberJoy i love your content and would love to see what you challenges you would do for undertale and Papermario!

...You mean 5:46 ? He is well-known for winning by doing absolutely nothing, so I thought if I was doing as little as possible he'd believe I was Luigi. No offense was meant towards the man clad in grassy green! Hope you enjoyed the video, by the way!

@@NovemberJoy Yeah meant that- and ok but you're walking on thin ice! And yeah I enjoyed it. :D

Running away is allowed, I'm just not allowed to mash A when it tells me to do so. It makes it harder to run away, but not impossible!

Very simple indeed. Thanks for the comment!

There is a limit, there are a few comments sitting around that I haven't replied to. I do try to reply to as many comments as I can, though! Occasionally, they don't show up, but I reply to everything that shows up in the creator studio tab. Speaking of which, thanks for this comment, and hopefully you enjoyed the video!

@@NovemberJoy hi

@@tibby4503 ¡Hola!

I'm allowed to, but running away has an action command of mashing A to improve your chance, which I was not allowed to do. I'm allowed to select it, but I have to just watch and see if it lets me run away or not. Hopefully this explains it!

@@NovemberJoy it did, thanks :D

I believe it's possible, and it causes weird glitches to happen: namely, some attacks will softlock or just fail to work entirely. A few attacks will still work with action commands without the Lucky Star, though! In the end, I wanted to try this the glitchless way. Thanks for the suggestion!

It's certainly a whole thing, yeah. Kooper becomes a meme because his only notable in-battle function is to softlock the game and Parakarry is the best partner in the game because Shell Shot is not considered an action command(Works normally) and is thus by far the partner-attack with the highest base-damage in the game. A true S-tier champ.

I'm more surprised that attacks you can't have before getting the Lucky Star actually change. I would've thought getting the Lucky Star just switches on action commands for your early abilities, but maybe they were thinking of putting the Lucky Star later in the game? I'm glad they didn't!

...the idea I had is not too far from that, except you can't superguard without action commands. It's definitely a "later" thing, though. Hopefully, you'll stick around and enjoy everything else I end up putting out!

There's one exception where you HAVE to use action commands. The armored harriers fight.

I took the Luigi fossil. Very rare, can't wait to get it revived!

Oh, hey, it's been a hot minute since I last saw you! Glad you enjoyed the video. I was thinking of putting together a Persona video or two in the future - I have less experience with SMT, but it might happen, who knows? Thanks for the suggestion, even if it was sarcastic!

My dry, dry humor matches the dry, dry environment.

This whole run was just Mario using 0% of his power - and yet it was still relatively smooth because Mario's just that strong. We should all pay respects to his impressive power.

That's actually an interesting question, though it depends on your definition of "killed"! I'm not very practiced with glitches, but there are plenty of glitches you could use to skip fights. It'd be all about finding the least violent route to acquiring all the partners you need for the final chapter alongside the Ultra Boots and Ultra Hammer...you know, I might have to put this one on the list. Thanks for the suggestion!

@@NovemberJoy No problem, also I am not counting bosses, just standard enemies (though if the boss has enemies in their fight, they should avoid being killed). I know that without glitches there is that one part in Chapter 6 that requires you to kill an entire group of an exclusive Monty Mole variant in order to get one of the mandatory items, but I think it is possible to skip that section entirely.

Well, the cool part of the game was kinda glossed over, since there weren't any major challenges in Chapter 7, but I'm glad you enjoyed!

A lot of people really don't like Sticker Star...I'm almost curious to check it out for a short while, but I get the feeling it wouldn't be my cup of tea either from what I've heard. They might've made the action commands easier in that game, but I don't know for sure. Either way, thanks for the comment!

It does, which means running away was unreliable against many encounters. I didn't count it for Superstar Saga, though, since I relied heavily on running away to avoid getting too overleveled. Once I get to the sequel, it'll be more important than ever to avoid getting into battles in the first place. Thanks for the comment, hopefully this answers your question!

That is basically what this challenge is, now that I think about it...turned out a bit easier than expected, all things considered! Thanks for the comment.

Thank you. Hopefully, the algorithm will accept this tasty treat.

Unless you use glitches to skip getting the Lucky Star in the first place, there's no way to turn off the prompt. Thankfully, though, I can just ignore the prompts whenever they show up in battle. Thanks for the comment!

@@NovemberJoy thanks for the reply I’ll sub... I need a new copy anyways my little brother got me Paper Mario as a bday present but didn’t know it was a repro the Cart doesn’t save

Thank you, hopefully you enjoyed the video!

That's a lot of close calls. Must've been your lucky day, huh?

@@NovemberJoy I pretty sure the miss odds for the master 3 is boosted cause that Never Happened to me anywhere else in the game either that or we were really Lucky

I think we were just really lucky. Good thought, though.

Oh, uh...hey, Walter. Hope the business is going well, and thanks for the comment!

You're right! When you're doing something this foolish, fights truly are all or nothing!

I know I need a little more polish on some of these, but I really can't think of too many jokes for the Peach intermissions besides the Metal Gear ones. Glad you enjoyed the strategies, although you get so strong later on that "hit it until it dies" becomes a valid strategy anyway. I hope I can improve for you, and that you'll continue to enjoy!

I did not, this was actually an emulator. I guess it must have been pretty good emulation if you asked this question, though.

The algorithm thanks you for feeding it!

I've heard it's a good one. Glad to hear you're having fun with it! Maybe I'll have to give it a look one of these days...

It was possible, and I appreciated the extra challenge introduced by intentionally doing everything as wrong as possible. I can see how it might not be your personal cup of tea, though. Thanks for the comment!

@@NovemberJoy no i just mean strictly from a gameplay standpoint! i love these kinds of challenges and you did a great job on the video

wondering if it's possible with bug fables too, but my point is that it'd be hard to sit through just menuing and then watching your party whiff over and over again. documenting the process adds a whole other dimension to what you're doing