Ultima Shadow's and Trumpet Thief's SMRPG challange!

[Ultima Shadow]

Very well... here's my progress so far:

After the intro thingy with Bowsers keep and all that stuff, I went to beat the Hammer Brothers. And even though it has been a while since I played SMRPG last time, my timing is still in perfect shape. I beat them on my first try, taking a total of 12 dammage. I took the first one out with 2 Jumps, and then I Jumped a 3th time on the second Hammer Brother. After that, I just did normal attacks until he went down. I managed to block every singel attack they threw at me... and most of their attacks, I even managed to block completely, taking no dammage at all. The Hammer Brothers were the first (and maybe the last) pushover so far. Yay! The hammer! The weapon I'll be using for the rest of the game!

Now, I entered Mushroom Kindom. Time to get the equipment that I'll keep for the rest of the game... the shirt and the pants!

I also spent the rest of my coins on a few Mushrooms, Pick Me Up's and 1 Honey Syrup.


So... next up was Croco. But FIRST, there's something VERY important to do... and that saved my day later on. You MUST get the Kerokerocola which is inside a hidden Treasure Box in Bandit's Way. I'll explain why later.
And I don't know if it was just pure luck but... Croco spammed Normal Attacks and only used 4 Bombs in the entire battle. So I even managed to beat Croco on my first try. A Bomb= 1 Kill, as long as it doesn't hit a defending Mallow (Mario got less defense, so I don't know if he could have survived a bomb even when defending). However... the best thing to do with Mallow in this battle is using items and defend anyways so... yeah, 1 of the bombs actually hit Mallow while he was defending. And another one missed. So out of the 4 Bombs used, only 2 KOed any of my characters. And I had about 4 Pick Me Up's in this battle. However... saying that Croco was easy would be a lie. It was a lot harder to block his normal attacks completely. Most of the time, I only defended for -50% dammage. I only managed to take 0 dammage about 2 or 3 times. So the Mushrooms come in handy. Mario would take 9-10 dammage if he defended, so I usually had to spend a mushroom whenever he got attacked. Mallow only took 4 dammage, though, so he was a perfect meat shield. After spamming Jumps (I had 2 Honey Syrups and I had taken the all the hidden flower tabs up to this point) and doing a few normal attacks with the Hammer, Croco finally went down.


So... now, I got 10 coins from the Croco battle. Yeah... and almost all my items has been used up. In this condition, there's no way I could have taken on Mack. However... one of the few items I have left are... yeah, that's right! The Kerokerocola which I can sell for 200 coins! So... I sell my Kerokerocola, buy 10 Pick Me Up's, 10 Mushroom's and 5 Honey Syrup's. And I still have a few coins left for later on.

Note: Mario is still on Level 1 and mallow on level 2.

I fought Mack, and even HE gets beaten on my first try. I somehow managed to block every singel physical attack from those small jump-dudes and they only used Drain once. However... that one time they used drain, it did 15 dammage to poor Mario. And I really wouldn't say that Mack was the easiest battle so far. In fact, I think he was atleast just as tough as Croco. When Mack used Flame Wall, it did 15 dammage to Mario and 10 dammage to Mallow. And they both only got 20 as max HP. "Flame" did 19 dammage to Mario, so it left him with only 1 HP left... and it did 12 dammage to Mallow. Whenever Mack was alone, Mallow healed Mario with Mushrooms after every Flame Wall while Mario would use Jump. Whenever Mack's next move was another Flame Wall, I would revived Mallow with Mario and then heal Mario with Mallow. If it was Flame and and hit Mario, I just Jumped with Mario and healed Mario with Mallow. And finally, if Flame would hit and KO Mallow, I would Revive Mallow and then defend with Mallow. When the small dudes are up, just use 2 Thunderbolts.

After this battle, I leveled up for the very first time. Mario went to level 2 and Mallow to level 3. I picked "Special Attack + Special Defense" with both.


Edit: And yeah, I agree with you there, TT. That's almost the toughest part so far. xD And when you just fail to run away from the battles after accidently encountering an enemy. Ouch! >_<