Can You Beat Super Mario RPG With ONLY MALLOW? 

He’s not a frog, not yet a woman.

If you don't want to do the star, glitch. Farm the skullbones near the shop in the sunken ship. You can easily get to lvl 30 in a couple hours killing this large group of respawning enemies. The exp plus accessory you can buy with frog coins can ease this process. Or speed shoes if you're tired of mallow not going first.

I think in the remake instead of bosses having infinite FP, give them an FP-boosting item or two that they use when out of FP (which increase max and fully refill FP). Which would discourage stalling not only by making it more tedious, but by also rewarding the player with any items left unused at the end of the battle.

Mallow: "He's Pretty Weak to thunder right? I guess a few shockers will take care of it." Geno stirring a stew in the back: "But you already used up those with the other dudes, shouldn't you save FP for healing?" Mallow: "Oh I'm doing that. What I'm saying is he'll get some shockers with what MY FISTS'LL do to him "

1:07 While Mallow does not need Poison resistance yet, buying and equipping the Antidote Pin will give him +2 on both Defense stats. Every little bit helps at this early stage. 5:23 In a Single Character Challenge (SCC), Sleep and Petrify ("Stone" or "Mushroom" status) are very bad since you only have one character under your control. For this reason, the Wake Up Pin take priority over the Fearless Pin in the Bundt battle (11:00). 14:09 According to Amazing_Ampharos, the monsters on Star Hill are abnormally strong and not built in the regular progression of character leveling up. Furthermore, unlike Mario, Geno, and Bowser, Mallow has no need for Max Mushrooms from Sacket, so avoid all fights, just retrieve the Fourth Star Piece, and leave. 14:41 It is possible to use the Invincibility Star to clear out all of the monsters in both rooms if you plan your path correctly. 15:38 Unlike in previous dungeons, Mallow dominates the Sunken Ship. Almost every monster has poor Magic Defense and is weak to electricity. 15:43 The Tentacles' means of causing Fear despite the Fearless Pin stinks; just fight it out or stall until Fear wears off. 16:25 Hidon is awfully tough at Level 11 on your first visit to the Sunken Ship. If you want to defeat it without a return trip, use an Energizer and the Rock Candy from Booster Pass twice (get a freebie). If you are willing to return and fight with less cheesy tactics, return at Level 12 with the Ribbit Stick, Safety Ring, and a Yoshi-Ade. Eliminate all but one Goombette and stay very close to full health while pecking away at Hidon. 18:58 Use a Yoshi Cookie on Ant Warrior/Shogun to get a guaranteed Royal Syrup. Not only do you remove a powerful foe, but you obtain the best FP restoring item. Otherwise, use Shocker to destroy them quickly. 21:26 With a Bracer and naturally great Magic Defense, Mallow can withstand Valentina's magical assault well, and since he is not using any Special Attacks on Valentina (who resists Ice and has high enough HP and Magic Defense to make Shocker too costly), he has more then enough FP to keep himself healthy. 23:22 Kaiser/Czar Dragon's Speed is 20, Mallow's is naturally 18, and the Helios' is 0. Keeping Mallow's speed between 20 and 0 will allow him to cast Snowy before the Helios have a turn. In addition to its various great benefits, the Safety Ring (16:34) also increases its wearer's Speed by 5. Thus, by equipping either the Safety Badge (requires winning the Hidon battle above) or the Fearless Pin instead, Mallow avoids out-speeding Czar Dragon and taking all four hits from the Helios. 24:36 At Level 17, the Axem Rangers are rather intimidating. Without either level grinding or cheesing the Troopa Pin + two Rock Candies tactic, Mallow's best accessory comes down to either the Rare Scarf or the Safety Ring. The former provides better overall defense, while the latter enables you to target the most damaging Axem Black first. In addition to using Petal Blast once a teammate is defeated, Axem Pink also counters Special Attacks with Sleep, so hit her with the Sticky Gloves if she is your first target. Avoid using Special Attacks on Axem Black (who counters Special Attacks with the very powerful Spritz Bomb) before weakening him first, using Shocker as a kill shot. 26:14 If Kamek/Magikoopa summons King Bomb and it detonates with Big Bang, Kamek returns as a valid target but does not take a turn anymore! Therefore, you could theoretically fight him and not have to use any items. Otherwise, Shocker works against the other two summons, including Jinx Clone. (The real Jinx is impervious to electricity.) 27:10 All parts of Exor are immune to electricity. Any part of Exor (eyes, Neosquid) that is not defeated (and allowed to restore both HP and FP) will eventually run out of FP and cease to be a threat. For this reason, Star Rain can actually backfire on you in a SCC. Therefore, leave Right Eye (Exor's right, your left) alone to limit its use of Dark Star and instead smash Left Eye to expose Exor, then smash Exor. 29:10 Since Mallow has too weak a physical attack to use the Jinx Belt (which is rather hard for him to obtain even at Level 20 with endgame equipment), sticking to the Safety Ring is your only option to block Tank Head's Magnum. Ignore the Shypers to allow them to exhaust their limited FP and just bash Smithy. If you wish to challenge Culex, then bring plenty of Yoshi-Ade and Royal Syrup (use Yoshi Cookies on Stumpet or Forkies) and use Star Rain on the whole group. Shocker also exploits Earth Crystal's weakness to electricity.

Man, that Dodo fight is gonna be a piece of work in the Bowser solo.

Great job on this. Was fun. Mallow had more game overs than Mario but for a good number of those I wonder if one could even count them against him?

Punchinello is a Bomb. He's got a fuse on his head, and he fights with bob-ombs, like how Mack fights with knife pogostick shyguys.

18:25: Love the musical nod to South Cape from Illusion of Gaia here.

Oh jeez, I always thought Punchinello was a pig of sorts. The thing on his gut was the snout and his eyes were just above that. Leaving the top part to be a metal hat

4:21 I think its just a general monster design. It has 4 eyes, a giant maw for a stomach, and 4 horns

Let's gooo, the video's out😮🎉

16:08 I'm assuming that since you're taken out of battle, it no longer registers equips or anything, and puts you in fear before loading equips when you're put back.

4:58 as someone who has not gotton the chance to play this game yet JUMP is the LAST thing I would expect to be an ELEMENT

i first watched this video when i came down with an absolutely terrible flu. at that moment i was tired, had a fever and was cold at the same time, and could barely process words or even focus. yet i still somehow knew i liked the video 10/10 would have an out-of-body experience with this video again

I love these edits you do and commentary is hilarious haha. Love ya Tantacles, never change

For everyone annoyed by the Molè pronunciation...consider after the sunken ship-he takes it back to town to make CaliMolè

Fun fact. Improperly leveled up bowser can beat the Axem rangers alone. and cause the breaker beam to run out of FP. Honestly I think it has only 3 shots.

I remember checking in during a few streams, was good convo, and was exited to see the full vid! keep up the good content!

`0:25 If I bring up another, not insignificant fact, the Super Suit requires the use of Super or Ultra Jump, which Mallow does NOT possess.

Mallow is my favorite character in the game. Thank you for doing it for the homie

Love your videos! Always super fun and entertaining.

I think Belome looks like some kind of weird bear. I wonder if anyone's drawn a scary version of it.

18:29 10/10 mug, I also had to go back because I was positive I misread it the first time

Mallow should have used a bus on the cake

17:14 "He's weak against thunder so I use that to take him down quickly" He says as all he does is mash Attack

Great video. Excellent content. Keep up the good work.

For Geno, you start at the Bowyer fight. Geno won’t be able to withstand 2 lightning attacks without a defense boosting item. So use 1 of those right at the start. That way he can use healing items once the item button is unlocked again. Have Mario and Mallow get KOed before facing Bowyer so they start with 1HP. Bowser is as early as Booster Tower. Again, defense boosting items will help. And for Peach, it’s after Marrymore.

Nice work as always, and fancy new icon!

Try not to get dizzy from Sonic Cymbals (impossible edition) 💖

16:05 Obviously the pin falls off when he gets lifted into the air

Highly suggest anyone who likes these videos to swing by the live streams. They are always a blast!

I think the Star glitch is just that, but I don't mind it at all in this case. Grinding would not make interesting content, and I feel that you preserve the spirit of the run.

Belome is based on the yokai Bakeneko a demonic cat sometimes represented with 4 eyes and can eat things and take on their form.

14:50 , absolutely a glitch, an oversight from the devs. Personally don't love it, but it'd be cool if you only used it when stuck versus a difficult boss.

The "mole"ville jokes though. XD This Mexican approves.

Mallow gets feared in that squid fight cuz he's afraid of heights.

Yessssss. Glad you got the invincibility game over “glitch” to work! I actually discovered that because FF6 works the same way and I was curious if it worked in other SNES Square RPGs.

Mallow is best boy.

How is Punchinello a bird? I would have figured he could have been like... a caestus?

Great video! I enjoyed it a lot ^^

Can't wait for the remake. Are you gonna redo all of these challenges on the remake?

I don't really think it's a glitch where the items are reset after dying, just an oversight by the developers, so I don't really think it was a bad thing to exploit an oversight.

Booster Hill tip: You can go back to Booster Hill as soon as you arrive in Marrymore. Toad will try to talk you out of it. He'll say there's almost nothing but barrels. But almost nothing is something. And that something is the flowers you missed. You can keep doing it and Toad will let you know when the flowers are all gone.

Whatever you say about the cake will not change my mind on how amazing the cake really is... Anyways, great video now I'm hungry!

Starting to think you regret buying that boat.

No, mallow doesn’t look like a tadpole. He looks like Linda Evangelista, he’s a model. He can walk around in a diaper and we would all love it.

NOT a glitch its built to function under normal parameters plus i say use what you can to win

have you missed the action coomand for mallows thunder the whole time it strikes twice when you get it

This was a fun watch. It would have been cool to see a Culex attempt at the end though.

The Cake almost took the cake

Heckies yeah!

Great job with this run 😁 14:38 If we want to be strict then yeah, it counts as a glitch. Personally, I don't mind it because you only used that to save time at grinding XP.

Nice i just started waching you and your great

Mallow the best mario rpg character

I know I am late to the party, but the star leveling is not a glitch. It is explicitly called out in the instruction booklet on Page 13 that it works that way.

I think it was an oversight on the developer's ends and probably missed the over looked "fearless Pin" glitch during the squid batttle!

Challenge sugestion: The legend of dragoon, no itens and first addition only. I'm currently doing it and it's quite a fun challenge

DONT BUY A BUS - words to live by

I personally don’t object to the starman exp grinding. After all, the only thing it changes is that you don’t need to spend as much time on an easy but time consuming task. The challenge is just as possible, but you don’t have to go through as much tedium

14:11 hot damn in all my time of playing smrpg i had no idea this existed 😊

I don't think it's a glitch, and even if it is, frankly you could have easily ground out those levels the normal way. This method just saves you some time on an already long run.

"MoLAYville" Really, dude?..😐🤣

3:12 Oh gosh, the "e" in "Belome" isn't silent? I've been saying it wrong all this time?! 6:50 Oh gosh, the "e" in "Mole" isn't silent? I've been saying it wrong all this time?! 8:49 What's "moleville"? I know only of "Moléville".

Mallow is just way too based Btw, he didnt say it but here are more moments in the live where psycopath was used During the boss battle against the giant piranha plant, that was before tantacles setted the donation thing so it was a free psycopath During smithy first attempt Against a random enemy during the grinding for the second attempt of the smithy fight, because someone donated it right as the first fight ended (iirc)

Huh I wasn't aware that bombs weren't weapons hmmm interesting

1:24 hold up, how the heck does mario have 25HP at lvl1 I thought it was 20

He still sucks even WITH the Lazy shell armor equipped.

I wish I could be free of Diabetes.

The cake is definitely the real final boss

Um...why did you call Punchinello a bird? Or did I mishear that? He's a bomb. In fact, his original name was James Bomb. Hence, the names Nello, Punchinello line.

I think Belome is supposed to be a cat, part of me suspects he was inspired by Garfield hence why he eats everything

Eh, using the star(s) to get your XP up is acceptable. We know you can grind in regular battles to get the XP you need, but using the star(s) + game overs saves you and your audience a lot of time.

Have you tried randomizer i don't know RU-vid policy on outside links or id link it here. It creates a lot of replay value. I would love to give a overview on all the options you can tweak but it would be a wall of text.

As a mexican, I endorse Mole town and your joke of it. Excelente señor!

epic mallow gameplay

Wait, buses are bad too? Oh no...

Fuck yeah now this is a video i can get behind!!

So... no Culex? Just kidding. Good work.

I never played this game lmao. The only parts I know about are the first bowser fight and culex.

How about a run where when you get a new character you can only attach k with them.. so start with mario... when you get mallow only use mallow... when get geno only use geno etc.

Solo Haschel run when? :)

26:14 out of context

Next is beating it with Geno

21:12 so what does that mean the cathy is chatty?

Now normally i dont mind exploits but...no star cheat. Also the squid thing is that i think it ignores items.

10:56 ooooo 11 nice

Nah I wouldn't say reloading the star is cheating, its just a fast way to grind you could do it the long way or the quicker way, maybe if you magic swap... yeah that prob be consider cheating but good job on the video love them!

Can you beat Mario rpg with only ..... No Why Cake. Stupid cake....

I don't know what Belome is, but, based on the Japanese and the official Japanese guide, it seems that the E is silent.

I always thought punchinello was a bomb

i love mallow

which is better ice cream cake or regular cake?

No infinate FP. I hate stuff like that in RPG.

Can you do these on the remake too please

I CAST THUNDER SPELL!!!

What’s the music at 8:57?

Ofcourse the star exploit isnt a glitch

Culex is too much huh?

wel-co-meh