Failing the Thwomp Quiz in Shhwonk Fortress - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Switch)

Here's what happens if you fail the Thwomp Quiz in Chapter 1 of Paper Mario: TTYD, you actually get to fight regular Clefts before Chapter 2, hope you have another POW block.

[@MrMatmatman]

Damn shoulda failed on purpose for the extra star points 😅

[@ronalburgos3855]

I’ve been doing that for the past 20 years for the extra start points

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@ronalburgos3855 Same, I always buy an extra POW Block back in Petalburg for _precisely_ this reason. ...Although if you Power Smash the Bald Clefts in Shhwonk Fortress 1, you can save _that_ POW Block for the "* Looks like free EXP." quiz fight...

[@RepugnantWorm]

I always do lol

[@tylermercado1445]

If you fail the quiz in the X-Naut fortress, you get to fight 4 Z-Yuxes. How fun.

[@kennycarter5682]

i failed in the x naut area and i only got 2!! instead of 4

[@metalex64]

Correction, it's 2 X-Yuxes (the red ones), not 4 Z-Yuxes (the black ones). Pretty cool though, since normally there's only one X-Yux in the entire game (in Grodus' throne room), and that's it, so at least it allows the player to fight more than one if you fail the quiz and forgot to tattle the singular one.

[@kennycarter5682]

@@metalex64 id imaigne it respawns if you leave the moon and come back later

[@metalex64]

@@kennycarter5682 If you leave the fortress fully before beating that chapter, yeah. After beating the game, the X-Nauts are all gone, with only the Z-Yuxes on the moon itself staying.

[@kennycarter5682]

@@metalex64 ya.. that is true.

[@kennycarter5682]

i always fail on purpose for extra starpoints.

[@Wilsonthe3st]

Same, one pow block for all those star points is worth it

[@t2id_not_ttyd]

He said "Know that I HAAAAAATE YOU!" in the original if you defeat all the clefts

[@averysune9780]

THAT'S what I've been working to prevent when I do the quiz!? I thought he was going to do a game over sequence in the vein of the ghost on the Excess Express?

[@WackoMcGoose]

The quiz in Chapter 7 may as well be, because the Pain Game for that one is *_a pair of X-Yuxes._* Gooood luck!

[@Christoph8]

@@WackoMcGoose (Art Attack)

[@sethstersbench]

Interesting that he calls the Clefts “cute”

[@Getlucky12]

He's not wrong

[@tylerpetersen6226]

Just look at them with those derpy eyes and tiny lil feet.

[@ZetaNeubourn]

Oh, that's all? That's... better than winning. :U Lotta free star points.