I really appreciate this video. It should have been recommended to thousands of people, but that doesn't always happens. But good videos like these tend to blow up some day or another. You deserve it.
I want you to know it *was* near impossible fighting Cackletta's soul back in 2003 on an og gba. I'm so nostalgic towards this one and the first Paper Mario. Great video!
I do think the HooHoo Mountain residents looking like the FF cactus characters is intentional considering Alpha Dream was founded by former Square Soft developers. Obviously didn't have the rights to the FF characters so they just paid homage or whatever you wanna consider it. Even the name Alpha Dream is a parody of Final Fantasy.
Oh my god once I got my hands on the switch version (I have the fuctioning just didnt had the ds/gameboy anymore broke long ago) this game brings back so many crazy memories
The funny bit about the S.S. Chuckola scene is, in the original Japanese localization, Chuckola Cola was an alcoholic beverage, which was changed to soda for Western audiences because of ESRB standards... but Bloat is clearly still drunk after having consumed a bunch of it.