Count Bleck

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 by Nick Maunders

IF YOU ARE PLAYING SUPER PAPER MARIO AND HAVE NOT GOT TO THE LAST MISSION PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS. SOME TEXT MAY CONTAIN A TINY SPOILER.

I bet I can guarantee that most of you reading this review are thinking “Who the hell is count bleck?” well I wouldn’t be surprised. Count Bleck has actually appeared in only one game, so you are probably in the 95% of the population who has never heard his name before.

His debut game (and his only game as a matter of fact) is none other than Super Paper Mario, that’s right any Super Paper Mario fans who have just had a light bulb go off in their head and suddenly remembered who he is “shame on you”. He is the mean person you have to fight at the end of the game. Oops did I just give something away?

Anyway he is main villain in this game and often has a habit of talking in third person especially about himself.

For you people who play Super Paper Mario, Count Bleck has 150 HP (Wow!) and a rather large attack of 8. However although at the beginning of the fight it is impossible to touch him towards the end it is and lucky for you he has a defensive point of 0.

As you know (or you don’t) in Super Paper Mario you collect everyone’s cards. Well Count Bleck‘s is Rare and is number 188. The card description says “This top-hatted villain is bent on ending the world! Fun fact: he was once known as Lord Blumiere.”

That’s right he was once known as Lord Blumiere. Have you ever wondered why Tippi always keeps saying the word ‘Blumiere’ all the time? It is because (AND THIS IS A SPOILER) he was once going to marry her.

She used to be called ‘Timpani’ and was a human. She was going to marry Lord Blumiere but his father didn’t approve and abdicated Timpani and sent her away. Merlon (from Flipside) found Timpani and transformed her into the Pixl Tippi (which he had to do to save her life)

Blumiere was so angry with his father he stole from him the Dark Prognosticus, which he used to gain dark powers. He then built his fortress and ever since has been trying to destroy the world. He used the chaos heart to open up a void, which happens to keep growing larger in the game, which will destroy every living thing.

Count Bleck is evil and I would give him a rating of 9.2 for evilness!

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