EverythingABC | [OUTDATED] Super Paper Mario: Pixls, Tablets, and Crag (5-2) - 27x "2" Presses @everythingabc3511 | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
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Water? Earth? Fire? It matters not. Your attempts at saving "2" Presses are paper thin.

Video Notes:
Chapter 5-2 features a little bit of everything, and, as such, features a lot of "2 presses". First of all, this is the second part of the game where I have to deal with water. Surprisingly, by spawning a megabite, I can grab the water tablet without needing to swim at all by repeatedly bouncing off of the spawned megabite.

From there, however, things don't go so swimmingly (pun intended). For the fire tablet, I need to switch to Bowser and back, which adds several menuing "2 presses". The stone tablet can be collected as normal without any additional "2 presses". The majority of the "2 presses" come from the final part of the chapter, which is climbing the main tower to get Cudge. Currently, there isn't a way to scale this tower without jumping a bunch of times. However, I do save 1x "2 press" by doing Thudley Jumps to the top.

You might have noticed that this segment is done on the Japanese version of the game. This isn't because of some Japanese exclusive glitch, but rather how Cudge's prompt works. For some reason, the English version requires you to input a phrase that's 8 characters long. The Japanese version, on the other hand, allows a phrase of four characters in length, which saves 4x "2 presses". This means that the Japanese vesrion is the optimal version for the 2 Button Challenge, but I will continue to play on the English version for the sake of familiarity.

2 Presses:
1 - To jump to the door to the fire tablet room
2 - To open the characters menu
3 - To switch to Bowser
4 - To open the characters menu
5 - To switch to Mario
6 - To jump back to the main level of the fire tablet room
7 - To ascend the hard block tower
8 - To ascend the hard block tower
9 - To ascend the hard block tower
10 - To ascend the hard block tower
11 - To ascend the hard block tower
12 - To ascend the hard block tower
13 - To ascend the hard block tower
14 - To ascend the hard block tower and hit the ladder block
15 - To jump to the very top of the level
16 - To insert the water tablet
17 - To insert the stone tablet
18 - To insert the fire tablet
19 - To answer Cudge's prompt
20 - To input the first character of the phrase
21 - To input the second character of the phrase
22 - To input the third character of the phrase
23 - To input the fourth character of the phrase
24 - To confirm the phrase
25 - To open the pixls menu
26 - To switch to Thudley
27 - To save the game

Challenge Notes:
This is the Super Paper Mario: 2 Button Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to beat Super Paper Mario while pressing the "2 button" as few times as possible. "Beating" Super Paper Mario requires Mario and the other characters to reach the end credits. Any method is allowed.

What does the "2 button" do?
The "2 button" does all of the following:
-Jump
-Swim
-Answer a multiple-choice prompt
-Open the quick menu
-Select any item in a menu
-Enter passwords

Things that look like they need the "2 button" but can be accomplished with other buttons:
-Progress through dialogue ("1 Button")
-Selecting objects with Tippi ("A Button")
-Ground pounding with Thudley ("1 Button")
-Exiting free fall as Luigi ("1 Button")

Each video is only a segment of the larger run and does not consider individual level high scores. This means that the "2 press" count for the segment may not be the lowest "2 press" count possible if considered in isolation. However, the "2 press" count showcased in the video is the lowest "2 press" count with the full game in mind. This also means that each video should link seamlessly to the next video chronologically (more or less). Because we are looking at the full game, we also count any save prompts that appear after the chapter is over.

If you have any further questions, post them in the comment section and I'll try to get back to you.

2 Button Challenge Spreadsheet:
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