I don't have any problems with the Fawful Express on the original either, if I play it on a N3DS XL. I guess the microphone detection there is just better in general.
Heres a tip Bowser's breath isnt based on how hard you blow, its by keeping a stready blow Dont just huff and puff because the ds mic(old ones) will peak and lose your breath and cut the attack off short And then if you want to min max, when the fawful express enters the Tree Golem, dont try to destory it with fists, keep using fire to burn the train while its inside and make sure the white clouds heal the golem
I think you were unfair to Partners in Time here, the game is only easy if you are good at those infinite bros attacks. And Cackletta's Soul is an absolute joke in a game that has Mush Badges
To show how insane the hp of Princess Shroob is, the total health of each form, main body parts only, is 3000+3500+3000 = 9500. The next highest health of any story boss in the rest of the series is Dark Bowser + Dark Star Core (in the remake) at 1260 + 2070 = 3330. That means that Princess Shroob has nearly 3 times as much health as any other boss in the entire series. Even Bowser X, the highest health superboss in the series, has significantly less health at 7155 (5180 in the remake).
That's right... In terms of calculating HP stats ... Bowser X has the most HP if X bosses are counted... If you don't, Elder Princess Shroob dominates the HP pool for bosses.
@@unyoshisauvageapparait9260 he is the highest. If you combine both elder princess Shroob phases, he is still above Elder Princess Shroob.... Original Bowser X. The 3ds remake for Bowser X is slightly different. It's HP count is less than Elder Princess Shroob.
You forgot that the two Bowser have their own papercraft attack, if you attempt to use one of Paper Mario's papercraft attack before you broke the armor, he'll counter back and trigger *his* attack instead
Dude I kept failing that final hit for the last part of the Giant Bowser fight so much the game eventually was like "Alright. We made the controls easier for you!" I then proceeded to easily take out Bowser lol
Very strange. I feel like Elder Princess Shroob and Cackletta's Soul should swap places on the list. I remember one of the main reasons PiT was my least favorite of the original three was how difficult it was, and the final boss was a thing of nightmares. Cackletta was only ever a challenge my first time, and now I can beat her without even healing. 🤷♂️
interestingly when considering a low-level no equipment, Stache only on level up, no heals run(called nerve mode) for partners in time(no buying bros items, but you can farm mrs thwomp. surprisingly, PiT legit gives you with everything you need w/o needing to buy a bros item.) and Bowser's inside story(Jump and Hammer/Punch/Fire Breath only. no special attacks, Challenge medal always on.) alongside +1 level per area arc(so for PiT thats +2 levels an area cuz its always 2 bosses each area. for BIS, its +1 level corresponding to whose part it is. say its Bowser's part of story for example, he gets +1 level. if its the bros turn in the story, they get +1 level.) the hardest bosses are most deff(no particular order): 1. Elder Shrooboid. this's the first brick wall, as its spin to win attack is literally impossible to avoid if it takes more than 4 hammer counters, its too fast for hammer to ever work right. its rng incarnate but winnable. this's the 1st of the true near-completely unavoidable attacks in the series. 2. Elder Princess Shroob's 2nd phase's 3-leg sweep. that can actually go too fast to be jumped over, which causes a lot of resets. add on to that PiT's unique level scaling means, and I can confirm, level 23 is the exact sweet-spot minimum level you have to be at to win in such a challenge. Trust me I tried at level 19(the absolute minimum you'd be at) and can confirm it literally becomes a TAS once you beat Elder Princess Shroob's 1st phase. the 400 hp foot combined with the low damage you deal makes it not worth fighting past 1st phase at level 19. Legit the worst part is its a whole near 9k hp final boss Gauntlet of both the Princess Shroob Sisters. Die and you haveta do the long cutscenes+both battles over again 💀 3. Junker. becomes a Mario Solo in a nerve-mode run. you do not have the damage to free weegee but this is a good thing, Junker's actually saving the run cuz he gives you 1 less button to worry about by protecting Luigi. this's deff da most unique for the challenge via a late-game forced solo boss fight. 4. Dark Fawful, the only really tricky parts are the Vacuum helmet's Drag a bro attack cuz you only have 1-2 jumps to stop it. and Dark Fawful's Star Ray when his hp's dropped to half or lower. the Star Ray becomes pretty tricky cuz you have to memorize the pink star or die, or know the exact timing to deal w/the full-screen Star Ray w/an intentional gap to punch the Pink star. 5. Dark Star while normally easy cuz the game assumes you're using equips and stuff, actually is the hardest boss in the game by far. in fact I can confirm it is completely impossible to defeat Dark Star at level 22. the lowest level the bros would be at. there's several reasons. the 1st is that Dark Star outspeeds at level 22. because of that, when its made vulnerable, it will rise up on its turn immediately after the bros go during that cycle cuz its faster than them. the 2nd, the Dark Satellmites can heal it for over 120 hp by the 2nd-3rd cycle, much more than you deal even w/Excellent+POW badge(required). 3rd, the 4 color orb attack. if its "4 of the same color" and it specifically goes "Top to Bottom" you're screwed, as its near-impossible to avoid if you don't jump correctly by the 2nd orb. I found the reason for this is cuz Dark Star bats the 3rd and 4th orbs too fast to be jumped over. you jump the 3rd, but the 4th will always catch the bro right in their "hitbox" right as they jump. I can confirm this is true. I found and tested that this's most deff cuz its "Closer" to the screen as to why its not avoidable if you screw the 2nd jump up. Dark Star's deff the most aggressive boss in the game under such rules, in fact the only way you can actually beat it with such rules is at exactly level 35. at level 35 Mario, w/no speed upgrades(via level or equips), outspeeds it, so he gets 1 extra turn in its vulnerable cycle. combined with excellent+POW badge(this is required. I can confirm this.) this's legit the only way to beat the Dark Star. I think the most interesting aspect of Mario and Luigi is legit finding how some bosses that are normally easy due to bros items/bros attacks and other broken things, become actually more monstrously difficult when you take all of that away. these 5 bosses are most deff the most difficult I've found during these challenge runs. of course PiT requires Bros items, there's no exception there as its built around that. if you were to attempt such a challenge too, these specific bosses would deff flip your opinion around like it did for me. its hard but very worth 🤔 most surprisingly. Dark Bowser+Dark Star Core's actually legit the easiest outta alla these, like actually. their moveset's much more simple and a lot easier to avoid than Dark Fawful and Dark Star. it actually speaks volumes the final boss is easier than 2 of BIS's pen-ultimate bosses. but I'll deff give the final boss a few points for being a literal estimate of over 475k hp(in 1500 hp revives w/challenge medal) in a nerve mode challenge run. this's legit the most hp sponge of all bosses in the series, even more than Dark Fawful's combined 4k hp w/Challenge medal on. I can deff confirm Dream Team version of Nerve mode is technically impossible because of the Massiffs. in fact Heavy Zest and Beef Cloud, the 2 impossible ones, are only possible w/+1 Badge Stock for both bros at level 8(Shell rank) and 4 of the Master+Strike badge effects. Edit: I deff think Dream Team's nerve mode's very possible but brutally difficult, you just haveta choose the +1 badge at level 8. Currently at Dozing Sands Torkscrew Boss and lemme tell ya its a literal 656 hp wall, and is most deff the 1st major brick wall in Dream Team. all only cuz of its underground poke w/intentional delay, that gets you more than you think it does fr 💀
@@pedroascensao2476 yeah thats what im saying. Why’s this guy acting like that attacks impossible. “Oh yeah lets make him have an attack where you can’t do anything against”
When I played Dream Team for the first time I was really underlevelled at the end. The Antasma fight lasted way longer than it should but I still beat him first try because you get healed every turn. With Dreamy Bowser I really struggled to damage him more than he could heal. I also sucked at dodging his attacks. After losing about five times in a row I begrudgingly switched to easy mode and Bowser died in three attacks. Probably the most unsatisfying final boss fight I ever had.
Dark Fawful in BIS having 1736 HP I actually feel enhances the character. From my perspective Fawful is a completely unhinged mad…actually, I still don’t know if Fawful is male or female, somehow. But that’s besides the point. Fawful is unhinged and almost completely lacks any sanity, with just enough to concoct evil plans. You can tell Fawful’s not normal at all. 1736 seems like a weird number, but by Fawful standards it’s perfectly normal. Also these bosses are often worse for me just because I avoid basically every unnecessary fight in the game, so I am very often massively underleveled by the time I make it to later bosses.
Fawful's a guy, he's just voiced by a woman. And well, he literally acknowledged that he was going bonkers in PiT, the fact that he came back for main villain credits in BIS by definition means that his insane side completely overpowered whatever was left of the self-aware one who tried to suppress his fury and stopped himself from attacking the Baby Bros.
When I returned to mario and Luigi paper jam after quitting for some reason, I made sure to go back and collect EVERY bros and trio attack. Needless to say with the amount of encounters throughout the way I was over leveled
Dreamy bowser heals up stupidly fast. Is easily the hardest boss fight in the series just because of the heal up you need obligatory both brother’s best tandem attack and lot of damage or the fight will last forever
Fun fact:when I first played BIS I almost gave up because of that GODDAMN FAWFUL TRAIN but it was so worth it when I finished the game. I just really hate fawful train
Thankfully the stupid Fawful train is immensely easier in the remake because you tap the touch screen to use Bowser's flame instead of blowing into the mic
8:20 Small correction: It's not really an entirely "new" mechanic, Paper Jam just started to make the "rage phases" visible to the player. All the predecessor's bosses also used to have stronger and longer attacks the lower their HP was.
this list doesn't make much sense in my eyes. dark bowser and fawful are easily the easiest final boss of the series, the fight is over so quickly compared to the other final bosses and their attacks are not that hard to dodge. and cacklettas soul also dies pretty wuivkly in the original, however they buffed her SO HARD in the remake that it's truly the hardest story boss from any m&l game. and i don't see how zeekeeper is not here but fawful express is, fawful express is a joke when you actually know how to use the ds micro
I'd say Dreamy Bowser is easier than these two once you realize you only need to take out *one* of his arms before you can attack him directly. He's freaking impossible if you assume he works like previous final bosses where you have to take out all the body parts before the weak point is exposed because he can f off into the background and heal, so if you waste turns attacking the non-shielding arm, he'll outheal your damage. But if you just focus on him once the right arm goes down, you'll easily do more than he can heal and he stops being a threat. DTB also just had a lot more tools at your disposal that you can exploit against him while BIS only had basic badge effects. And yes, the Zeekeeper is a lot worse than the Fawful Express, it just screws you over quicker. Wish Dreambert wouldn't yap every time you restart that battle though.
Good job bro, I didn’t even know you had less than 1K subs with your editing and voice quality! Also: Dream Team sounds cool! Might be the last good ML game before Brothership comes along. I’ll have to play it.
7:28 I think it is a reference to past Paper Mario RPG Games that have Red, Green and White Magikoopas, with yes, the White one being the Healer. With the ability to make clones of themselves another ability that they have called Magikopy in TTYD but only if one is alone in battle.
Crazy there are a lot of dream team bros bosses in here. It was my first mario & luigi game as a kid and i believe I first timed it. Or at least had very little struggle.
I actually played through the whole series a while ago. I maxed my levels & stats with beans. It took a while but was really fun to one shot every boss
Dreamy Bowser can be cheesed with that one badge that freezes enemies in place no matter the circumstances. But without using it yea it is a tough boss.
The Heart of Cackletta’s Soul alone has 1200HP (Upgraded to 1260HP in the remake) You have to destroy both her hands and her head to reveal it and after 2 full turns it shrinks and can’t be attacked till the process is repeated. Furthermore, it can heal itself and the hand and head if they have been attacked but not destroyed. It can also boost the atk and def of them. Overall a very difficult boss that takes multiple tries, whether it’s the time stopping eye lasers or that god damn arm helicopter spin attack.
There's a reason it got nerfed in the EU version, alongside the final boss only requiring 80 speed benchmark to go first instead of 120 (or having Mario first/Luigi First Gear), the badge is on absolute crack, even with a small number of shrooms
@@rpglover5955 EU version came before JP one. In the latter, Cackletta's Soul's speed was indeed buffed but the game is hardcoded to give the first turn to the brothers.
I don’t really find cakleta soul that hard after the initial attack and I pop max but to heal both dreamy bowser on the other hand without useing cheese like shields or easy mode took me 15 ATTEMPTS TO BEAT HIM and don’t even get me started on hard mode that’s just absolute hell
Elder Princess shroob head has 3000HP, not 2000HP. And is easily harder than Dark Bowser + Fawful and Giant Paper Bowser. Deals crazy damage if unprepared and attacks get really hard to dodge once she’s at like 25% remaining HP
Even though i havnt played the first two games, howser's inside story, dream team, and paper jam are good enough for this to be my favorite series. I love/hate dreamy bowser for healing, so I agree with the placing. Also Antasma is amazing.
I’ve never had trouble with Cackletta.. but maybe that’s cause i’ve replayed SS like 20 times or more, and remember that there are gears in the game that always let Mario/Luigi go first
I love the M&L rpg series growing up and got the remakes when they released, I’m glad Nintendo didn’t forget about this series, I miss alpha dream making theses games and feel bad too, the remakes came out during the last years of the 3ds life cycle, if they made the switch to the switch they would probably still be around today.
ok so i played Superstar saga for the first time just last year and Cackletta took me two attempts, and it was because of the flame attack, I was suddenly going from taking very small damage to damage that depletes 90% of your health per hit on the flame attack so I can see why you put it in number 1 lol
I would just like to say that the 3DS gyro controls were nowhere near as bad as implied (I know, because dream team is regretably my one and only mario and luigi game I ever played)
In my opinion the pokeys fight is hard especially for the 2nd boss And I also think both dream team and paper jam wiggler are hard And that dream team big bird one
SSS does not have the hardest Boss. This Boss is pretty easy to beat. Just don´t tell me he´s place 1 because of the fact that you are on 1HP at the beginning. Could you do another one of this Video, but with a Perspektiv, where M&L have the same stats for each Final + the same HP at the Beginning of each Phase...
thank god this series is finally back. Although I only played dream team I really wanted to get a new game on the switch as it’s my only Nintendo console other then the Wii ( my 3ds broke :( )
Not having to breathe into the microphone makes me glad that I chose to play the remake of Bowsers inside story instead of the original
I don't have any problems with the Fawful Express on the original either, if I play it on a N3DS XL. I guess the microphone detection there is just better in general.
If you play the original Bis on the 3DS, the mic works way better.
If anyone's having issues, trying to Blow into the mic.. just dont. Just yell into it, it works so much better xD
you could also just touch the mic if you're on ds lite
Heres a tip
Bowser's breath isnt based on how hard you blow, its by keeping a stready blow
Dont just huff and puff because the ds mic(old ones) will peak and lose your breath and cut the attack off short
And then if you want to min max, when the fawful express enters the Tree Golem, dont try to destory it with fists, keep using fire to burn the train while its inside and make sure the white clouds heal the golem
I think you were unfair to Partners in Time here, the game is only easy if you are good at those infinite bros attacks.
And Cackletta's Soul is an absolute joke in a game that has Mush Badges
So glad the series is back with an original home console game after nine years of anxious uncertainty
i mean, it wasnt uncertainty, we all gave up hope for another mario and luigi game when alphadream shut its doors
9.... years?..... damn It feels like it was WAYYY longer
@@NeonValkyrieGaming 9 years is still ages yknow
@@sundermc I know It still felt like ages just it felt like 20 ages instead of 9
@@NeonValkyrieGaming so real...
To show how insane the hp of Princess Shroob is, the total health of each form, main body parts only, is 3000+3500+3000 = 9500. The next highest health of any story boss in the rest of the series is Dark Bowser + Dark Star Core (in the remake) at 1260 + 2070 = 3330. That means that Princess Shroob has nearly 3 times as much health as any other boss in the entire series. Even Bowser X, the highest health superboss in the series, has significantly less health at 7155 (5180 in the remake).
That's right... In terms of calculating HP stats ... Bowser X has the most HP if X bosses are counted... If you don't, Elder Princess Shroob dominates the HP pool for bosses.
Bowser X remake heals at mid-point so wouldnt be him the highest HP superboss ?
@@unyoshisauvageapparait9260 he is the highest. If you combine both elder princess Shroob phases, he is still above Elder Princess Shroob.... Original Bowser X.
The 3ds remake for Bowser X is slightly different. It's HP count is less than Elder Princess Shroob.
You forgot that the two Bowser have their own papercraft attack, if you attempt to use one of Paper Mario's papercraft attack before you broke the armor, he'll counter back and trigger *his* attack instead
Dude I kept failing that final hit for the last part of the Giant Bowser fight so much the game eventually was like "Alright. We made the controls easier for you!" I then proceeded to easily take out Bowser lol
I felt so ashamed of myself that even the game felt bad for me that I couldn’t do the final attack 😭
It was hard for me even with the easy controls 😭
Very strange. I feel like Elder Princess Shroob and Cackletta's Soul should swap places on the list. I remember one of the main reasons PiT was my least favorite of the original three was how difficult it was, and the final boss was a thing of nightmares. Cackletta was only ever a challenge my first time, and now I can beat her without even healing. 🤷♂️
interestingly when considering a low-level no equipment, Stache only on level up, no heals run(called nerve mode)
for partners in time(no buying bros items, but you can farm mrs thwomp. surprisingly, PiT legit gives you with everything you need w/o needing to buy a bros item.)
and Bowser's inside story(Jump and Hammer/Punch/Fire Breath only. no special attacks, Challenge medal always on.)
alongside +1 level per area arc(so for PiT thats +2 levels an area cuz its always 2 bosses each area. for BIS, its +1 level corresponding to whose part it is. say its Bowser's part of story for example, he gets +1 level. if its the bros turn in the story, they get +1 level.)
the hardest bosses are most deff(no particular order):
1. Elder Shrooboid. this's the first brick wall, as its spin to win attack is literally impossible to avoid if it takes more than 4 hammer counters, its too fast for hammer to ever work right. its rng incarnate but winnable.
this's the 1st of the true near-completely unavoidable attacks in the series.
2. Elder Princess Shroob's 2nd phase's 3-leg sweep. that can actually go too fast to be jumped over, which causes a lot of resets. add on to that PiT's unique level scaling means, and I can confirm, level 23 is the exact sweet-spot minimum level you have to be at to win in such a challenge.
Trust me I tried at level 19(the absolute minimum you'd be at) and can confirm it literally becomes a TAS once you beat Elder Princess Shroob's 1st phase.
the 400 hp foot combined with the low damage you deal makes it not worth fighting past 1st phase at level 19.
Legit the worst part is its a whole near 9k hp final boss Gauntlet of both the Princess Shroob Sisters.
Die and you haveta do the long cutscenes+both battles over again 💀
3. Junker. becomes a Mario Solo in a nerve-mode run. you do not have the damage to free weegee but this is a good thing, Junker's actually saving the run cuz he gives you 1 less button to worry about by protecting Luigi.
this's deff da most unique for the challenge via a late-game forced solo boss fight.
4. Dark Fawful, the only really tricky parts are the Vacuum helmet's Drag a bro attack cuz you only have 1-2 jumps to stop it.
and Dark Fawful's Star Ray when his hp's dropped to half or lower. the Star Ray becomes pretty tricky cuz you have to memorize the pink star or die, or know the exact timing to deal w/the full-screen Star Ray w/an intentional gap to punch the Pink star.
5. Dark Star while normally easy cuz the game assumes you're using equips and stuff, actually is the hardest boss in the game by far. in fact I can confirm it is completely impossible to defeat Dark Star at level 22. the lowest level the bros would be at. there's several reasons.
the 1st is that Dark Star outspeeds at level 22. because of that, when its made vulnerable, it will rise up on its turn immediately after the bros go during that cycle cuz its faster than them.
the 2nd, the Dark Satellmites can heal it for over 120 hp by the 2nd-3rd cycle, much more than you deal even w/Excellent+POW badge(required).
3rd, the 4 color orb attack. if its "4 of the same color" and it specifically goes "Top to Bottom" you're screwed, as its near-impossible to avoid if you don't jump correctly by the 2nd orb.
I found the reason for this is cuz Dark Star bats the 3rd and 4th orbs too fast to be jumped over.
you jump the 3rd, but the 4th will always catch the bro right in their "hitbox" right as they jump. I can confirm this is true.
I found and tested that this's most deff cuz its "Closer" to the screen as to why its not avoidable if you screw the 2nd jump up.
Dark Star's deff the most aggressive boss in the game under such rules, in fact the only way you can actually beat it with such rules is at exactly level 35. at level 35 Mario, w/no speed upgrades(via level or equips),
outspeeds it, so he gets 1 extra turn in its vulnerable cycle.
combined with excellent+POW badge(this is required. I can confirm this.) this's legit the only way to beat the Dark Star.
I think the most interesting aspect of Mario and Luigi is legit finding how some bosses that are normally easy due to bros items/bros attacks and other broken things, become actually more monstrously difficult when you take all of that away.
these 5 bosses are most deff the most difficult I've found during these challenge runs.
of course PiT requires Bros items, there's no exception there as its built around that.
if you were to attempt such a challenge too, these specific bosses would deff flip your opinion around like it did for me.
its hard but very worth 🤔
most surprisingly. Dark Bowser+Dark Star Core's actually legit the easiest outta alla these, like actually.
their moveset's much more simple and a lot easier to avoid than Dark Fawful and Dark Star.
it actually speaks volumes the final boss is easier than 2 of BIS's pen-ultimate bosses.
but I'll deff give the final boss a few points for being a literal estimate of over 475k hp(in 1500 hp revives w/challenge medal) in a nerve mode challenge run.
this's legit the most hp sponge of all bosses in the series, even more than Dark Fawful's combined 4k hp w/Challenge medal on.
I can deff confirm Dream Team version of Nerve mode is technically impossible because of the Massiffs.
in fact Heavy Zest and Beef Cloud, the 2 impossible ones, are only possible w/+1 Badge Stock for both bros at level 8(Shell rank) and 4 of the Master+Strike badge effects.
Edit: I deff think Dream Team's nerve mode's very possible but brutally difficult, you just haveta choose the +1 badge at level 8.
Currently at Dozing Sands Torkscrew Boss and lemme tell ya its a literal 656 hp wall, and is most deff the 1st major brick wall in Dream Team.
all only cuz of its underground poke w/intentional delay, that gets you more than you think it does fr 💀
I cant even Beat Elder Princess Shroob on Lvl 36.
Can't wait for more ass to kick in brothership
Wait.. WAIT- .. YOU CAN COUNTERATTACK FROM THE DARK CAGE AGAINST DARK BOWSER BY SWINGING?!
Ye- yes? What did you think you were supposed to do?
@@susiehaltmann3342 Punching the lock? That's what I've been doing and working since I first played the game
@@pedroascensao2476 yeah thats what im saying. Why’s this guy acting like that attacks impossible. “Oh yeah lets make him have an attack where you can’t do anything against”
@@susiehaltmann3342 yeah you know that one beam in peach's castle battle exist right?
@@davidezequielvargasflores5079 thats different. Yes its impossible to avoid but there its fine because its a giant battle
Thank you for reminding me how peak the boss fights in the M&L series were.
I remember having to use Easy Mode, a lot of re-tries and badges and even then, I had a hard time defeating Dreamy Bowser.
Remember having watched this video a couple of times back in the day, so it’s great seeing it back up again
Og
Same here I remember when it good days ay I even tried getting up the og vid
When I played Dream Team for the first time I was really underlevelled at the end. The Antasma fight lasted way longer than it should but I still beat him first try because you get healed every turn.
With Dreamy Bowser I really struggled to damage him more than he could heal. I also sucked at dodging his attacks. After losing about five times in a row I begrudgingly switched to easy mode and Bowser died in three attacks. Probably the most unsatisfying final boss fight I ever had.
Dark Fawful in BIS having 1736 HP I actually feel enhances the character. From my perspective Fawful is a completely unhinged mad…actually, I still don’t know if Fawful is male or female, somehow. But that’s besides the point. Fawful is unhinged and almost completely lacks any sanity, with just enough to concoct evil plans. You can tell Fawful’s not normal at all. 1736 seems like a weird number, but by Fawful standards it’s perfectly normal.
Also these bosses are often worse for me just because I avoid basically every unnecessary fight in the game, so I am very often massively underleveled by the time I make it to later bosses.
In the manual for Superstar Saga he is called a boy
@@piplupfan5106 Thank you. Somehow I didn’t know
Fawful's a guy, he's just voiced by a woman. And well, he literally acknowledged that he was going bonkers in PiT, the fact that he came back for main villain credits in BIS by definition means that his insane side completely overpowered whatever was left of the self-aware one who tried to suppress his fury and stopped himself from attacking the Baby Bros.
When I returned to mario and Luigi paper jam after quitting for some reason, I made sure to go back and collect EVERY bros and trio attack.
Needless to say with the amount of encounters throughout the way I was over leveled
Fawful is a guy
You’re such an underrated CZcamsr, man. You deserve more subscribers!
Dreamy bowser heals up stupidly fast. Is easily the hardest boss fight in the series just because of the heal up you need obligatory both brother’s best tandem attack and lot of damage or the fight will last forever
Fun fact:when I first played BIS I almost gave up because of that GODDAMN FAWFUL TRAIN but it was so worth it when I finished the game. I just really hate fawful train
Thankfully the stupid Fawful train is immensely easier in the remake because you tap the touch screen to use Bowser's flame instead of blowing into the mic
This channel is so underrated. Please keep doing what ur doing!!
8:20 Small correction: It's not really an entirely "new" mechanic, Paper Jam just started to make the "rage phases" visible to the player.
All the predecessor's bosses also used to have stronger and longer attacks the lower their HP was.
this list doesn't make much sense in my eyes. dark bowser and fawful are easily the easiest final boss of the series, the fight is over so quickly compared to the other final bosses and their attacks are not that hard to dodge. and cacklettas soul also dies pretty wuivkly in the original, however they buffed her SO HARD in the remake that it's truly the hardest story boss from any m&l game. and i don't see how zeekeeper is not here but fawful express is, fawful express is a joke when you actually know how to use the ds micro
I'd say Dreamy Bowser is easier than these two once you realize you only need to take out *one* of his arms before you can attack him directly. He's freaking impossible if you assume he works like previous final bosses where you have to take out all the body parts before the weak point is exposed because he can f off into the background and heal, so if you waste turns attacking the non-shielding arm, he'll outheal your damage. But if you just focus on him once the right arm goes down, you'll easily do more than he can heal and he stops being a threat. DTB also just had a lot more tools at your disposal that you can exploit against him while BIS only had basic badge effects.
And yes, the Zeekeeper is a lot worse than the Fawful Express, it just screws you over quicker. Wish Dreambert wouldn't yap every time you restart that battle though.
Imo Elder Princess Shroob is n°1 by faaaaaaaaaar that boss took me longer to beat than any boss in stuff like Cuphead or Undertale LOL
Good job bro, I didn’t even know you had less than 1K subs with your editing and voice quality!
Also: Dream Team sounds cool! Might be the last good ML game before Brothership comes along. I’ll have to play it.
7:28 I think it is a reference to past Paper Mario RPG Games that have Red, Green and White Magikoopas, with yes, the White one being the Healer. With the ability to make clones of themselves another ability that they have called Magikopy in TTYD but only if one is alone in battle.
Crazy there are a lot of dream team bros bosses in here. It was my first mario & luigi game as a kid and i believe I first timed it. Or at least had very little struggle.
I wonder if anything in Brothership will be in the top ten when it comes out. Great list!
You did dirty on Partners in Time, however the video is pretty good!
Brotherhood hype!!
To be fair,Partners In Time wasn't a difficult game. It's the only game of the 5 that I never lost a battle in any way.
I don't think Dark Bowser really belongs on this list. He felt easy for a final boss.
Who’s Number 11? My money’s on the Elite Trio.
Are you planning on making a video on the ex bosses in the future?
I hope the new game is not a cakewalk
I actually played through the whole series a while ago. I maxed my levels & stats with beans. It took a while but was really fun to one shot every boss
12:16 Imagine doing the giant Battle Medley... Holy shit, that is Dream Teams Hardest challenge and I beat that... On Hard Mode.
Dreamy Bowser can be cheesed with that one badge that freezes enemies in place no matter the circumstances. But without using it yea it is a tough boss.
ok so like, not gonna lie maybe its different in normal mode but hardmode zeekeeper is wayyyyy more stupid then giant bowser ngl
I swear I’ve already seen this video but I’m not complaining, I love Mario and Green ‘Stache!
Og 😉
Really hope boat is good, could see the series comeback in full force
Only ppl that actually finished dream team bros on the 3ds knows the pain of the boss
The Heart of Cackletta’s Soul alone has 1200HP
(Upgraded to 1260HP in the remake)
You have to destroy both her hands and her head to reveal it and after 2 full turns it shrinks and can’t be attacked till the process is repeated.
Furthermore, it can heal itself and the hand and head if they have been attacked but not destroyed. It can also boost the atk and def of them.
Overall a very difficult boss that takes multiple tries, whether it’s the time stopping eye lasers or that god damn arm helicopter spin attack.
This fight isn’t exactly hard but the BFFs from bowser jrs journey is a really good final boss
The Fawful Train will forever scare me ☠️
Thought No.1 was easy but that might be because I used the mush badge line and hope lots of mushrooms.
There's a reason it got nerfed in the EU version, alongside the final boss only requiring 80 speed benchmark to go first instead of 120 (or having Mario first/Luigi First Gear), the badge is on absolute crack, even with a small number of shrooms
@@rpglover5955 EU version came before JP one. In the latter, Cackletta's Soul's speed was indeed buffed but the game is hardcoded to give the first turn to the brothers.
you deserve way more subs and views
dreamy bowser being the second hardest?! nah i somehow actually ko`d that thing with only one turn of mario and luigi
I don’t really find cakleta soul that hard after the initial attack and I pop max but to heal both dreamy bowser on the other hand without useing cheese like shields or easy mode took me 15 ATTEMPTS TO BEAT HIM and don’t even get me started on hard mode that’s just absolute hell
At first, i wondered about the easy-mode in DreamTeam, but i gotta admit this shit was helpful.
Definitely my most favorite one of the saga
Good list but I personally would say elder princess shroob is harder than dark bowser/fawful.
Elder Princess shroob head has 3000HP, not 2000HP. And is easily harder than Dark Bowser + Fawful and Giant Paper Bowser.
Deals crazy damage if unprepared and attacks get really hard to dodge once she’s at like 25% remaining HP
Even though i havnt played the first two games, howser's inside story, dream team, and paper jam are good enough for this to be my favorite series. I love/hate dreamy bowser for healing, so I agree with the placing.
Also Antasma is amazing.
I’ve never had trouble with Cackletta.. but maybe that’s cause i’ve replayed SS like 20 times or more, and remember that there are gears in the game that always let Mario/Luigi go first
I love the M&L rpg series growing up and got the remakes when they released, I’m glad Nintendo didn’t forget about this series, I miss alpha dream making theses games and feel bad too, the remakes came out during the last years of the 3ds life cycle, if they made the switch to the switch they would probably still be around today.
6:05 Antasma X is just as Brutal as Regular Antasma...
ok so i played Superstar saga for the first time just last year and Cackletta took me two attempts, and it was because of the flame attack, I was suddenly going from taking very small damage to damage that depletes 90% of your health per hit on the flame attack so I can see why you put it in number 1 lol
I would just like to say that the 3DS gyro controls were nowhere near as bad as implied (I know, because dream team is regretably my one and only mario and luigi game I ever played)
I think when I first played the game, I got stuck on blizzard Midbus for like a week straight. Nightmare I tell you
I don’t think I’ve ever found the Dark Bowser/Dark Star Core to be difficult
The carrot mini game from bowsers inside story
Um…Honestly, I think that should add those X bosses and secret bosses in the ranking, though.
10 - Shiny Robo Bowser(PJ Final)
9 - Dark Bowser + Dark Star Core(BIS Final)
8 - Bowletta + Cackletta’s Soul(SS DX ver.)
7 - Princess Shroob x3(PiT Final)
6 - Dark Star X(BIS X boss)
5 - Giant Bowser(DT Final)
4 - Dreamy Bowser(DT Final)
3 - Antasma X(DT X boss)
2 - Bowser X(BIS Secret)
1 - Bowser Jr.(DT Secret)
13:20 not to mention that he can protect himself with his right arm if you didn't defeated it
1) should i be surprised Cackletta's soul is a monster... I still haven't beaten the GBA battle.
Dark fawful was LIGHTWORK
Dude the final boss only took like 3 minutes i was so underwhelmed
Unfair to partners in time
Putting my list here before watching the video:
SS: Cacklettas Soul
PIT: Elder Shroob Princess
BIS: Bowser X
DTB: Antasma X
PJB: Kamek Duo X
I have never found fawful express hard idk why even as a kid
In my opinion the pokeys fight is hard especially for the 2nd boss
And I also think both dream team and paper jam wiggler are hard
And that dream team big bird one
fawful express was the hardest boss for me in the entire series
I’m sorry but dark bowser is so incredibly easy, it’s WAY easier than EPS
honestly i kinda wanna go back to dream team now
Nah man, Antasma X was BRUTAL
Bowser X?
Paper jam is my fave one
How was dark star not in the list?!
If you have decent timing its a pretty easy boss
Do top 10 easiest bosses
Seconded
@@phictionofgrandeur2387 ?
SSS does not have the hardest Boss.
This Boss is pretty easy to beat.
Just don´t tell me he´s place 1 because of the fact that you are on 1HP at the beginning.
Could you do another one of this Video, but with a Perspektiv, where M&L have the same stats for each Final + the same HP at the Beginning of each Phase...
Cackletta soul is overrated imo difficulty wise
Where Bowser DX
He said no optional gauntlet bosses
@@javtendogaming9109 oh, ok. Thought it would've been cool, tho
Opinion invalidated, simply over-grind and OHKO every boss in the series. >:))))
thank god this series is finally back. Although I only played dream team I really wanted to get a new game on the switch as it’s my only Nintendo console other then the Wii ( my 3ds broke :( )