How Early Can You Beat Prince Mush in Thousand Year Door? 

11:30 casually taking Luigi out of the crowd here was hilarious

As someone who tested this very thing, allow me to clear things up. To receive optional Emails like Jolene's and Mush's, you need to complete roughly 20 battles after you fulfill their requirements. This means that once you finish Jolene's trouble, you need to complete 20 battles before you receive Jolene's email, and then 20 more battles after that to get Mush's. And no, you can't just do 40 battles in a row, you NEED to get Jolene's email first before the counter for Mush's even begins. This distinction only matters because there are some locations in the game that completely block you from receiving emails at all, including dungeons, the sewers, and the Pit of 100 Trials, meaning that once you've finished enough battles, you need to make sure you enter an area where emails are not blocked so that you'll receive them properly. Yes this is complicated, but knowing all of this, I can confirm that Mush can indeed be fought before you've even brought the Gold Star to the Thousand-Year Door. (Though I'd recommend doing so first anyways, not only because you'll get warped up to Frankly's house afterward and can swing by the Trouble Center right away, but it'll also open the shortcut pipe to make completing Jolene's trouble much faster.)

3:18 the fact that he's surprised it's a "what" she wanted taken care of rather than a "who" is one of my favorite dark jokes in the game

12:14 “You like doing 23-27 damage per hit? Me too!”

11:32 causally murders brother.

The earliest you can fight Mush is technically pre chapter 4, but the email system works so weirdly in this game I had to look up how to make it progress from people saying you had to wait longer to some saying you have to do battles to make it appear faster (so battles in the glitz pit for your comeback could help). What I did was start chapter 4, go up to the door leading to doopliss' room but not fight him so that way I didn't lock myself in chapter 4 and then head back to rougeport where after waiting a little more i finally got prince mush's email. This was in my Pre-Hooktail pit file so i managed to clear him out easily afterwards lol.

I'm glad I managed to find Prince mush on my own. Id assumed he was just content I missed when I was a kid. Super cool they added him in. But my God I was not ready for him.

Someone betting the moneyline on the goombas to upset the Great Gonzales and won so much money.

"Beat him before phase 2" is what I ended up doing as well, but just used a ton of charges on Mario instead because I didn't think to do it on Yoshi. Still worked, still got him to just above half. He's hard if you go in without a plan, but honestly trivial with some thought into it.

I actually did this on my casual playthrough and didn’t realize you were supposed to fight him post game

It's awesome how many wacky strategies can work in this game with the whole badge system, I am PRAYING that Nintendo learns from this remake's success and brings back the old Paper Mario format for the next game

I remember getting that email from Prince Mush for the first time, and immediately dropping everything to go fight him (I believe it was when I was running through the Glitz Pit a second time, which I did right after beating Chapter 3) expecting a purposefully anticlimactic fight because I was thinking "He's just a Toad, what's he even gonna do?". Needless to say I was absolutely mortified when he showed me what he was capable of and knocked me out in just a few turns. I wouldn't actually beat him until Chapter 5 I believe, and now that I'm grossly overleveled and stacked with Badges he's actually pretty easy.

People say that just upgrading BP makes the game harder, but this instance makes me think that an FP only run would be the hardest.

3:10 i absolutely love the background music in this section. Literally the best track in the game imo. Its the chapter 7 normal battle theme for anyone who doesnt know

Ok so you did pre hooktail, prologue pit, and pre hooktail in the remake, now for the ultimate challenge, we need you to do the pre hooktail then wakabump pit of 100. And after writing all of this I am just now realizing that is not possible😂

More like “how early can you click on a Bringle upload?”

I’m playing Octopath 2 as I’m watching this and I went into a boss fight as the song came on and I damn near had a stroke😭

Hey Bringle! It's 1:05 for me in AUS but I love your videos :) Just wanted to say that you mentioned possibly doing a full video essay of TTYD as a game, and that would be an amazing video in my opinion that I would love someone as educated about the game and funny as you are. Thanks for reading if you did!

I mean, you waited a little over a month, I wouldn't say the Prince Mush fight is a spoilable event... COUGH COUGH BEARDBEAR

Just superguard. That's the entire reasoning.

11:30 Most I got out of this video was finally seeing what Audience Luigi looks like running away.

I can definitely confirm it's at least a third into chapter 4. You'll need a little bit of luck and piercing blow but as long as you get him into the right stance he became pretty consistent.

2:36 My head Cannon is that Grubba cleard Mario's Glitz pit records before the boss battle or while the security told Mr. Gonzales he was prohibited from leaving backstage Grubba had a tablet he used before the boss battle

Becoming a huge fan of your videos man, super stoked for new mod chapters!!

Prince Mush is the only boss or enemy in general in the game I lost to. Multiple times in fact, damn he’s tough. It was satisfying to beat him.

Always love a new Bringle video at 5:30 in the morning!

I used Showstopper on him... and it worked. I felt so bad XD

these challenge videos are even better than guides in some cases. Makes me quite confident in what I can do. I sort of want to see a Ms Mowz challenge run

3:25 hey now, that is 3 sleepy sheep and some vhamge, which can quickly turn into 9,999 coins and 9,999 piantas if you aquire them post chapter 6 when you have access to the Excess Express store (which has a roided up version of the sleepy sheep resale trick involving gold bars, for those curious).

I still think the most incredible part about Mush's fight that, barring rushing him from his first phase to 0 HP, he's REALLY cheese-proof, because: He's immune to all forms of elemental damage(Fire, Explosion, Thunder, etc). So you can't just spam attack items on him, nor can you cheese his dodging mechanic by doing damage outside of your turns, like using Bobbery's Bomb Squad or fire damage. Hell, during his second phase, while he has his clones up, Mush becomes 1 of 3 enemies that can nullify Specials damage(the other 2 being the Iron Clefts & Shadow Queen near the end of her 1st phase).

Heck yeah. New Bringle banger

Dope video! :)

WOOO new bringle video!!

Hell yeah was looking forward to this challenge

To the surprise of absolutely nobody,I love Bringle's videos

If I had to guess why Mario's records are missing, it's because Grubba intended to disappear him, and the records would leave a paper trail. Not that it's relevant to anything else in the video. EDIT: Also, my sister did pre-Key Mush - with Mowz. Because defense piercing.

The mechanic is apparently 20 battles to get each email to trigger - 40 battles total. I did that and was able to fight Mush before even talking to Darkly, let alone starting Ch 4. As for my strategy, I used Peril Yoshi + Power Lift. Even with the badges available at the end of Ch 3, Yoshi wrecks him. You can actually beat him in 2 turns with the right build if you superguard his first attack.

Before even watching the video, I can say it's possible before finishing Chapter 4. (Because that's what I did on my 1st playthrough... 😅) I didn't even leave Twilight Town the 1st time before going back for him.

THE BRINGLE HAS RETURNNNED

What a great video :D hopefully there's a glitch discovered that lets you do it sooner!

Yay more Bringle

Hey I usually don't comment but just wanted to say I discovered your channel a few weeks ago and I love your content

Another wonderful video from our Bringle A thought occurred can we get bosses vs other bosses?

You could theoretically beat Prince Mush since the start of the game if he was available then, but you would need to Superguard every attack to lower his defense to 0 and attack him 48 times.

Been meaning to ask this. I genuinely love your music choices from other RPGs for your videos, like Chrono Trigger and the Octopath series. Are there any plans to expand your challenge videos into other RPGs outside of Paper Mario? Even if you stay with PM, I’m looking forward to whatever you put out in the future; this channel has become one of my favorites I’ve found in the last few months.

I did Prince Mush Right Before Chapter 4. First Try, but the coolest part is I managed to Bring him down to one Hp then I managed to have Goombella take him out with a Superguard. It was hype.

Watching you play fullfile my need of playing the game

Just started the video, but using strategies I learned from watching you, I beat the Prince in 3 turns (it was during Chapter 7, but who's counting lol)

Post-chapter 4 is when his fight became available for me, too. I did actually manage to defeat him with Mega Rush P Yoshi, because I'm bad at Power Bounce/Multibonk now. The hardest part was trying to pop off about it to my friends without spoiling it, because I was the first one in our group to learn about him.

I beat him after chapter 4. Could have probably done it after character 3, but I couldn't be bothered redoing the glitz pit straight away, and I assumed I'd have to do that before Mush

Well I just power bounced once and he fell over. What’s that you say? I’m covered head to toe in power rush badges? You’re hallucinating it was pure skill

I think the emails, at least Prince Mush's, are dependent on how many battles you've done since completing the trouble. I haven't started chapter 4 yet, but I got his email immediately after a 50 floor run of the Pit of 100 Trials

Me going to bed *A new Bringle vid pop up* "Never mind this is important"

The thing is is that the character's letters won't trigger Unless you are specifically In rouge port mainly in the area with the nuse hanging in it just do some stuff for about 30 minutes for each letter notification and it should work just fine, and as proof look at the where bringle was Every time the letter notifications were delivered... yea it's pretty obvious that you need to be in rouge port for the notification to appear.

Took me 5-7 tries to beat mush pre chapter 5, since that was when I got the email. My strategy was to use piercing hammer on the proper stance and use supers like art attack or earth tremor on the bouncing stance since special attacks pierce defense. Partners were for support and farming appeals since I am not confident in doing peril strats When I landed a super gaurd my partner would attack, mainly yoshi for more hits as I can't get past the multibonk timing yet, and jump as mario since it would do more damage. I had 1 power plus, 1 defense plus, piercing blow, 2 hp plusses, 2 pretty luckies, lucky start and quick change. My inventory was random stuff i had, a boo sheet, power punch, roasted mushrooms, honey mushroom, 1 life shroom, a couples cake, a fire flower, a couple normal mushrooms, and 3 items that didn't serve much value: a tasty tonic, a voltshroom and an ice storm.

I did the Prince Mush fight after beatin' the whole game Is just a time thing, so inbetween you are just like doin' the missions or finish the 100 Pit and you'll get the email eventually

During my play through I beat him first try right after chapter 4. Truly did not expect to do so after seeing the stats. I just got the superguards down before he got to half health so he didn’t get to land any of his crazy moves

I beat Prince Mush at like...Ch. 6 right after unlocking the tier 3 Partners. Goombella's Rally Wink saved me more than a few times. Also could not have done it without using Power Lift. Like...I could not.

Lol I really did just finish 100% in this game except star pieces. Perfect timing

I got a challenge idea, what's the minimum number of turns you need to lose/kill a full-sized audience? Can you reasonably do it in one encounter?

11:31 NO LUIGIIIII

Video 3 where I request a "Disabled Mario" Challenge. Post Chapter 1, Pre Chapter 2 Pit of 100 trials. You must wear Jumpman, Hammerman and Double Pain

"So how early are we going to be able to beat him" I mean yeah, plotwise you kinda need to beat three chapters to even unlock him. But what the game failed to consider is that this also means that it is giving someone like Bringle ,,,four? entire chapters of preparation (and then access to the overworld) to rearrange the champion's teeth towards the back of his head by way of excessive footage? and uh ...hammerage. Like yeah you're a force to be reckoned with but brother, you are up against fucking Bringle. This man is in a self-inflicted Groundhog Day loop with the sole purpose of figuring out your moves so that he can eventually destroy you and nothing you have will be good enough because Bringle will know at least 27 counters against every one of them. I cant imagine the amount of war crimes you have to have committed against him specifically for him to enter this vengeful deity state but I reckon that now is a prime time to start shitting your pants. Because when he exits this loop? He's gonna anniilate you point blank.

awesome :D

Would be cool to see a level 1 Prince mush challange!

What's the lowest level at which you can arrive at the Prince Mush battle? Level 8 is pretty low but I wonder how low it could go

Idk if you’ve done it before but I’d love to see a tier list of enemy difficulty in the remake. If that’s too much then just one of all bosses

I’ve not seen anything about this but if you go into the mayors house after losing your identity to Doopliss, you can see all your partners there.

Definitely hardest boss. Shadow queen is super hard if you’re not leveled up or don’t have the right badges and strat, but bonetail and whacka don’t really come close imho

I also beat prince mush pre chapter 5 by just abusing the hell out of Shell Shield i used a high Mario power/high partner def/fp econ badge setup and just used koops to shield mario and tank damage while Mario charged up enough to kill him with one power bounce that's also how i beat bonetail and whacka all at 10hp, shell shield is busted lmao

lol im literally working on a video similar to this myself, its good to know a couple things for sure though

how tf did I beat prince mush like it was a piece of cake but the shadow queen had me getting 2 game overs and struggles

I haven’t got to fighting Whacka yet, so I’m not sure if he’s tougher than Bonetail or not. But you should definitely do a how early can you beat whacka if he’s anywhere near as hard

By what i know you get the jolene email after doing her trouble and then waiting in rouge port for 30 minutes and than after that the mush email will come after another hour

I just beat the game for the first time the other day and I don’t think I ever hit a single super guard lol. Didn’t know they existed

Prince Mush is stronger than the Shadow Queen? Modders, get on that! I want to see them fight!

I beat him pre chapter 5 and used a charge setup but for mario. The partner just appealed for topping up star power.

Speaking of the Mario wiki, I just updated it because of this video, lmao

So i personally did it right after the chapter. I completed it and went back to max out my rank again after putting the star. And then after like 2 side quests it came out. Charge and power lift to max made it do able

11:41 They got him. Nintendo got him. They forced him to say Mushroom.

Saw their was an update fixing random minor issues.. wonder if they patched the item dupe glitch 🤔

grumba really put the world at risk seeing how princh mush could have saved it

12:16 lol I'm not anti-superguarding, I just can't do it. I can't even get regular guards consistently. I dunno what it is, my brain just can't find the timing for it, never has. So I'm glad this is possible without superguards.

I beat him right after Chapter 4, I am a Superguard god. Watching the video, you actually had the same stats as me! Okay it was close though lol. I needed to hit the very last superguard one or I would lose.

Honestly I stacked yoshi with all the attack buffs like the star powet and charge, then parried one attack and mush went down before his second phase

I think this that there is an additional time requirement besides the completion of chapter 4. This is because, during my first playthrough of switch remake (which I am taking SUPER slow because I have played this game a lot prior), I didn't get the mail notification until the end of chapter 5, despite spending time and effort on all the trouble center quests

I hope you flex your Pianta Parlor skills in every video now.

Next is a vid on Whacka I guess. Interestingly enough, Whacka is the only boss that you're forced to wait til post game to fight. Devs clearly intended on that being the toughest fight but some beg to differ. Given Whacka can heal (and by almost all his HP) and can potentially deal more damage than anyone else, I'd say he could be the hardest fight.

solid watch

I would find it quite interesting if you tried beating terraria doing certain things intended for later action to be beat as early as they become available in that game’s progression.

Definitely working my way to fight Mush but as someone who is inconsistent with super guards, this fight finna be rough

The charge badge Is amazing,i beat prince mush with 3 badges equipped : + 4 charge for turn,10 turn of charge + Power bounce is easy k.o.

I kind of wish Jolene's mission wouldn't be listed until at least chapter 4. Not to prolong the game or anything just so the text makes a bit of sense.

you can actually get prince mush's fight invitation without capping off chapter 3 if you do a couple troubles! i think you simply need to trigger a "progress flag" to get an email, so finishing a trouble and returning to rogueport after counts? thats just a theory based on my experience though.

😮 I didn't know that you could fight him in this remake. I don't know if this was in the original game since I did the dirty trunks for Jolene but never fought him 😮😅😊

I never did the Jolene quest and still got the prince mush email. I think the trigger is ending chapter 4 because that's when I also got it 😊

He said badge points not badge power ! 😭 He's turning to the dark side

Isn’t he invincible in his second phase (less than 50% HP)? Or is his defense just really high? I thought he couldn’t take damage unless you superguard his attacks.

11:30 WHY ARE YOU BULLYING YOUR OWN BROTHER?!

I did it after I beat world 3 took quite a few tries even whacka didn't take that long. I should also mention I beat pit of 100 trials before I fought mush. I used charge and power bounce strategy to beat him I also had power plus equipped along with a few other badges