The NEW Hardest Boss in Thousand Year Door 

When Prince mush jumps, he dodges grounded attacks, and when he goes side to side, he dodges aerial attacks. When he goes super Saiyan, you have to superguard to tire him out before you can hurt him. But after you superguard him, his defense drops to 0.

I think in terms of lore, Prince Mush, Jolene, and The Master are all descendants of the Toad hero that sealed away the Shadow Queen.

31:00 "It’s insane that this guy canonically lost to Grubbba." Goombella did say "Also, I’ve heard he’s not a fan of cake. What’s the story there, hm? Some cake-based trauma in his past?" Prince Mush should have gone cakeless

I am quite happy this fight exists. Also, I take that cake comment as a subtle hint as to how he was beaten originally. Remember how Rawk Hawk tried giving us the poisoned cake? He probably did that to Prince Mush to beat him, and Grubba ended up capitalizing on that.

Fun fact: You don't actually need to do the Glitz Pit re-climb in order to fight the new boss. All you have to do is queue up an Exhibition Match after you've gotten the email. I ended up getting it as I was playing the rest of the game, I'm not sure what triggered it.

Fun fact: in french Prince Mush is called *Dark Toadster*

These new super bosses feel like they came straight out of a mod. I love it.

My theory is that prince mush fell for the rawk hawk cake trick and was poisoned. But being the standout fighter he was he went to the ring anyway but the poison made his head a little foggy and he went to the ring earlier than scheduled and accidentally ran into grubba. Normally grubba would be a cakewalk but thanks to the poison grubba was able to beat mush. This is why mush doesnt like cake. After losing to grubba he was obviously unable to show up to his match against #1 contender rawk hawk and lost by default. Making rawk hawk the second champion of the glitz pit.

I brought like 4 different cakes thinking it would be his weakness 😅

I lost the first time against him. What a lot of people have missed is you can superguard at any point in the match to take away his defence, not just phase 2. I HOPE this means the next paper mario game will have fun bosses like this

Fun fact, you can ONLY battle wings of night during chapter 3 by dropping rank or doing an exhibition match, it's 3 swoopers and they gave me about 30 xp I was pretty overleveled so at chapter 3 I'm sure It would be an excellent grinding spot for early game

Fairly certain that the tattle Dialogue about the cake means that Grubba did *not* play fair and had seriously poisoned Mush before the fight. And in Mario games, story based poison/illness is treated as being incredibly bad. Sure for mario it's "Take 1HP of damage every second", But for Prince Mush it would've likely been "Reduce Attack to 1, Defense to 0, take 5hp every turn & 1HP for every action" (So his multi-hit combo moves would chip off a lot of HP). Grubba may also have been draining Mush's dwindling strength during the fight via the cheat machine, so even if the poison wasn't as severe as above, Mush probably would've been dealing with a stacking debuff every turn, as for why Grubba didn't become as powerful as Mush, well, Mush was likely poisoned and didn't have that much strength to steal at the time.

grubba risked the whole world by killing mush. as you can see he would had killed the shadow queen easy

"Let's save the game in case he mugs me or something. You never know, he could be salty." 🤣

Im pleasantly surprised Nintendo but a boss like this in the game. Something that’s a challenge for even some of the best players in game is a really cool easter egg for long term fans of the game.

knowing you purposefully leave the yellow blocks un-smashed has definitely gotten me to pay attention to them now 😭

Jolene has time to do Grubba's job as well as her old job because previously she was *also* investigating Grubba's shady behavior, so that time has been freed up to handle Grubba's job

Bro sincerely popped up out of nowhere and became my favorite paper mario ttyd youtuber.

The fight actually has some really cool mechanics that are tough to figure out When he's hopping up and down, he can be hit by any moves from above (Mario's jump, Goombella's bonks, Yoshi's ground pound, etc.), but he dodges all frontal attacks (Koops' attacks, Bobbery's attacks, Mario's hammer, etc.). When he's in his dodgy state where he slides back and forth, the roles are flipped (he can't be hit from above, but can be hit by frontal attacks). And not just in the final phase, but superguards are his weakness the whole fight; when he's superguarded, he's weak to all attacks and has 0 defense for the following turn

No wonder why Grubba sucked up Mush’s power

Prince Mush made a mistake challenging Mario,A fat Italian plumber who literally eats mushrooms all the time

Just so you know, you can interact with the door after you reserve a match the get the bodyguard to come in early

It’s crazy how I had no idea who this guy was before this remake. TTYD is one of my fav games ever, and this content is AMAZING. You’re quickly becoming one of my favorite creators. ❤

“He’s known for being a clean fighter, so he’ll come straight at you without relying on dirty tricks.” Right after he powers up and does an attack that does 100 damage.

Prince mush was such a cool fight and man im so happy they made a fight with him reality i rememeber seeing a oooold gamefaqs of someone claiming they fought him back in 08 and me and my bro fell for it lol

He canonically lost to Grubba because he fell for the fake cake hoax. that's the cake based trauma in the tattle log.

SSJ Mush tank everything up to the literal *POWER OF THE SHADOW QUEEN* (Crystal Stars), is crazy. No wonder they had to poison him, he's a beast. He is now a valid candidate for the Prowler Meme

The slowly growing desperation in his voice when he got to the second phase the first time was pretty entertaining. Just slowly realizing that Mush is unlike anything a base Paper Mario enemy could throw at him

When Mush slides, he's vulnerable to grounded attacks.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who lost on my first attempt to fight Mush lol. I was using danger Mario strats and this guy just totally wrecked me the first time he entered the invincible stance. Going into the fight blind really makes it tricky to figure out what to do, which honestly was way more fun.

Prince Mush is the coolest Paper Mario character. Hope we see more of him in a future installment.

Fun fact: Prince Mush is actually insanely easy, his superguard phase only triggers at about half, so all you need to do is knock him down close to half, charge Mario's attack a lot and power bounce.

I felt cool when I beated him pre chapter 6, he has such a cool battle theme I'll fight him again in post game this time without peril strats

I wished that they changed up the rematches in the gitzpit to make everyone you fight so much harder. It could be a fun challenge for veteran players right after beating chapter 3! Like, in the story, they tease how certain characters enter and leave the glitzpit sorta routinely, but we never interreact with this! It didn't make sense why they introduced this if they never paid it off. The remake was their opportunity to make your return much more interesting, but they just kept it the same and I think that is a shame! Like, whatever happened to Sir Swoop?

If you are wondering in phase one the stance changes mean you can only hit him with jumps for one or hammers for the other and in phase 2 you need to superguard him to hit him

He definitely kicked my ass the first time. I was doing pretty well, got him down to 25. And then he did his triple attack and I was done. I was very VERY bitter.

Ah yes. 69 star points, 96 health, 9 attack, and 6 defense.

Love these Mario videos! Well done!

14:44 I like to think the bouncers are more intimidated by stronger fighters and I’m glad you pointed that out 😂

I like that Prince mush punishes you for only relying on one type of attack

Your videos are always so chill, keep up the great content!

So fun fact about the adonis twins, the super hammer works on them, Notably, you get it after their fight, as a way to speed it up/do it without yoshi.

Another fun fact. With the set-up I ran for the Prince Mush fight, it was actually easier for me than the Whacka fight was. I used Ms. Mowz the whole fight for Prince Mush just because of his ungodly defense, in tandem with Piercing Blow and Hammerman. It worked surprisingly well with superguards.

Ive been following your vids since a month or so before the remake released, been loving them so far! Im glad Im not the only one that got shit on by the prince in the first bout, because his saiyan barrage is absolutely savage

a funny thing i learned in this fight is that Koops shell shield is powerfull. When prince mush goes all up and does the many attacks after one another the shell takes them all and only breaks after he is done so mario doesnt take any damadge from the attack :3

So to explain the Mush fight a bit more: - The side to side motion means he only takes damage from Hammer attacks. - The up and down motion means he only takes damage from Jump attacks. - When he gets fired up, he no longer takes damage, period. - Superguarding successfully will leave Prince Mush weakened and tired, and any and all attacks will then work for your next turn. - Superguarding his fakes will not do damage to Prince Mush, nor leave him weakened and tired.

3:18 Missed opportunity to put a spin on all the battles, giving the Glitz rematch a new flavor. For example, with the Goomba Bros, make them a GOOMBA STACK!!

When he sways back and forth, he dodges aerial attacks like jump attacks. When he's jumping, he dodges grounded attacks like certain hammer attacks. When he goes super saiyan, you have to superguard to tire him out. Once you do, his defense drops to 0! He is an AMAZING boss and even made you struggle, XD!

"How did this guy lose to Grubba?" Prince Mush seems like an inherently cool, straightforward, down to Earth guy. I am 100% sure that Grubba just tricked him with the machine; sucked his power dry before he had a chance to throw a single punch.

You have no idea how much i screamed when you first superguarded him and DIDNT attack him

Also, this is pretty neat that you combined a 100% let's play with a challenge video.

For some reason when you said "A squadron of Yoshis" I felt the need to "Uhm ackshully" so here we are: While you may have been correct in a historical sense, by modern terms that would be a Platoon of Yoshis. :) That goes kinda hard tho, the "Yoshi Platoon". Anyways, love the content as always, I think I've watched literally almost every one of your videos!

I can imagine Jolene calmly walking out the door and SPRINTING FAST AS ALL FUCK as soon as the door is closed, just so she can answer the next call in 3 seconds. She must be the fastest character in this game.

Yeah Goombella's tattle tells you to rely on superguards if you don't think you can win. When you get to the point where he's concentrated, you literally can't win unless you superguard. That's the hint.

watching you play all these months had gotten me excited for ttyd remake and i played and beat it and now watching you is good content. you should do 64 game play like this

My take about the cake comment is Grubba gave him the poison cake like what we got during the story and that’s how grubba was able to defeat prince mush . That’s my game theory

This fight was so much fun, I beat it with Piercing blow + Ms mowz one time, and the other time I was doing no hammer, no jump challenge so I pretty much did it with only Ms Mowz, I love fighting this boss

I beat it last night, had no idea it was a secret boss... was hard AF... I don't really use Power Lift much but I should more often. I had to Superguard to win, I also used Show Stopper which does 15 Damage.

Watching this made me realise that I actually got lucky with this fight and somehow managed to figure out the Superguard trick right when it matterws. I did not realise he did that much damage with his attacks and that he was invincible LMAO.

I unlocked this fight in chapter 4 and literally gave up after like a dozen attempts because I was bad a super guarding and Mario had 10 hp, so he'd die in one hit. Had to come back after getting the up arrow in chapter 5 to get rally wink to beat him. Would love to see you do early prince mush in future challenge runs.

What I very like about this secret boss is that you dont even need to reach post game to do it. You can fight him as early as you can do the Jolene boxer trunks side quest. I fought him right after chapter 4. (you really need to land those superguards when you fight him at that point XD)

i just beat him yesterday and i had so much fun fighting him! i actually had to strategize for it instead of just killing him with ease but not a strategy.

Prince Mush is one of only two opponents I lost to. The other being… Gus, at the beginning of the game (I’d never played TTYD before, so I didn’t know how Superguarding worked yet). The simple fact that Superguarding is required to defeat Prince Mush, combined with his fast attacks makes him easily the hardest opponent in the entire game.

For the KP Koopas the first time,You could have used multibounce, finished off the flying one, and left them turned over while you appealed and they couldn't "take a turn"

For the Tiny Spinies fight, could you have used Flurry to Gale them away to not damage to fulfill both her condition and your condition? Does that work in the Glitz Pit? -side note, very much love your content! This was a fun challenge to watch

Did you know? You can skip waiting for the guard guy to show up. Just press A after speaking to Jolene at the door and he walks in right away.

The remake was my first time playing the game, and with determination and careful strategy, I actually managed to beat Prince Mush right after Keelhaul Key. I noticed that his jumping stance means he dodges hammer and side attacks, and sliding means he dodges jump attacks, and then there’s defense mode that you need to super guard. Ms Mowz was a godsend fighting him, because I could buff her with Power Lift, preserve the buffs while he was in hop stance, and then slam Mush with Ms Mowz’ attack and piercing blow hammer attacks while in his sliding stance. I managed to get through his first phase every time, all that was left was practicing my super guard timing until I beat him.

Love the content. Oddball question, but how do you get your hair the way it is? Like any special products to get your perfectly quaffed hair? I also have an off-middle hair part just because it grows that way, but I can never get it as stylish as yours.

Wish they had exhibition matches for all the chapter bosses and other 1 time encounters

To get the Mush fight, complete Jolene’s request at the Trouble Center and reclaim the Championship the second time. You can unlock the Mush fight as early as the end of Chapter 5. Mush will email you.

I don’t know if it’s the zap tap or the return postage, but whenever mush does the combo attack, one of them stops him from hitting you multiple times, so you only get hit once. It makes those otherwise useless badges have a use.

I wound up spamming Flurrie’s Dodgy Fog and his multi-hit move can miss in his final phase which gave me better timing to super block his moves

This is something I've always wanted to see as a kid

7:44 "I don't know why I'm doing this restriction to myself" I mean... arbitrary Thousand Year Door restrictions *is* kind of your whole thing with this channel, at this point.

ooooof if you had just had goombella multibonk that first turn you successfully superguarded him you would have beat him first try lol his defense after getting superguarded drops to 0. Respect for playing it safe since you didn't know though, it made for more entertaining content. I didn't realize his duplicates could attack too!

i enjoy "two-ton bag of five-ton hammers" a bit too much

I like how he could have won the first try but then threw

I was doing a danger Mario run when I first attempted this fight and let me tell you that was the scariest thing I've ever done in this game lmfao

I didn't want to do the Glitz Pit in the Post Game, because there wouldn't be any challenge, so I did it before Chapter 4, that way there would be at least some challenge. And then after Chapter 4 I got the email from Mush, I didn't even knew he was a secret boss. So naive little me fought him before Chapter 5... He destroyed me without mercy

Are you going to do more ttyd blindfolded? That was really fun to watch.

Fun fact prince mush’s name in German is dark toadster

I didnt get spoiled, i got destroyed... I thought ooh i just got the mail at end the chapter 3 when i took the gym shorts trouble.. and then got destroyed.. Honestly little dude might be more tough then shadow peach..

the wack part bout Prince Mush is that he completely beats the Paper mario 64's "The Master 3" Damage-wise, cuz he'll just keep on using his strongest attacks. I absolutely love how Mush gets a massive Power/Mega rush boost at low hp and the clones will all attack at once if any are still on the field. and him becoming completely invincible to everything in the last half of his hp is very cool, a true superboss. the fact he uses the Quintuple kick just like the Master 4 in Paper mario 64 Dark Star Edition/Master Quest mod's beautiful The most valid logical reason why Mush beats the Master in terms of challenge is cuz, mush goes all out in ttyd, alongside ttyd having a bigger Mario hp total(200 max). paper mario 64 Master 3's AI very strangely, completely Prevents him from using his Triple Combo if, and only if, Mario's hp is at or less than 18hp(total damage of Triple Combo) in that game. This is a strangely pretty obscure fact bout the Master 3, its not even listed in the Paper Mario wiki or anywhere else for some reason. The Master says he's going all out in PM64, but in reality he's actually holding back on purpose (most deff for balancing reasons is why Triple Combo only happens at high hp and never low hp.) I really love Prince Mush's fight in da ttyd remake, its a 20 year dream come true and his battle theme+fight itself is perfection 🤲🤲

If it makes you feel better, I lost horrendously the first time against this boss AND closed my switch after I forgot to save, losing over an hour of in-game level grinding progress. I came back today though and beat this boss after grinding my levels back and it felt so righteously good. It's crazy the devs really did just say git gud at superguards for this boss lol

This is awesome! Glad to see the devs caring about the veteran players with some difficulty here.

it's not 100% dodge chance it is that in sideing form you can only attack hammer useing hammer attacks in jumping form you can only attack useing jump attacks

Bringle I know you’re big into TTYD, but have you thought of doing anything with Paper Mario for the N64? The modding community is pretty huge and there are some pretty crazy rom hacks.

Rule one in the first two paper mario games never underestimate toad bosses

You can challenge him after Chapter 3 once you complete Joenne's trouble and wait 30 mins. Definitely something to look forward to for challenge runs

12:50 wouldn't a successful showstopper work for fulfilling the condition and beating them within a single turn?

After you set up a match if you open the door the security guy comes faster.

I got carried this fight by rally wink goombella, because thx to that I could easily power lift and then hit mush with either a hammer or jump attack depending on the stance, piercing blow was very useful when he was in the stance that made him immune to jumps.

A lot say Mush is harder, but I'd honestly say Whacka is... assuming you don't destroy their HP with danger strats and such. While Mush is more consistent on damage dealt and you have to pay attention to what he does, Whacka could just bum rush you with more attacks per turn (up to 14) and if it's Red bumps, better superguard or you'll regret it. For reference, Prince mush at most would take out up to around 140 of your HP in a single turn.... but Whacka with 14 red bumps would take out close to 400 HP. And given you have to redo the pit of 100 trials every time you want to refight Whacka, he was clearly intended to be harder.

The Rawk Hawk rematch is different. He has a *whopping* 10 extra health. Groundbreaking, I know.

Theres a badge the same as power smash:power stomp it deal about 8 or so damage for your boots like a power bounce but only one but deals alot

i will probably need weeks to beat prince mush because i am not good at super guards. that dude got some insane and speedy attack animations

My way of beating him was just using Charge and Charge P until I get to 6+ for both and then trying to get him into his weakened phase and then just lay into him.

Prince Mush lost to Grubba because Grubba gave him a poisoned cake like he did to Mario, that's what Goombella's line about having some "Cake based trauma in the past" is about

I’m terrible at superguards, so I’m terrified to try fighting Mush. Hell, I can’t even manage a dang Power Bounce chain 😓 I think I’m gonna have to try Power Rush strats against him, it’s probably the only chance I have. Max out my BP and make myself a set of chainmail out of those badges 😅

Was so satisfying seeing him finally struggle against a boss despite being so powerful lmao