Thoreau

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 by Nick Maunders

Thoreau is one of the many Pixl’s that joins your party in Super Paper Mario. He is the second Pixl you have join you and the first Pixl that can affect enemies. (Tippi can’t affect enemies she can only tell you about them).

Anyway Thoreau’s special ability is to enable you (Mario, Luigi, Peach or Bowser) to throw him at objects. To do this simply equip him and press ‘1’ on the wii remote to throw him. This can come in useful in different situations and can even be so important that without him you could not carry on with the mission.

Thoreau funnily enough looks like a hand. (Funny because you use a hand to throw stuff) His body is the palm and the five circles above being the fingers.

So how can throwing Thoreau help you? Well when there are ‘!’ switches around the area you need to jump or hit them in some way. Sometimes you can’t reach them yourself which is where Thoreau comes in handy. Simply jump and throw him to activate the switch. That’s not all though as he also has many other uses.

One of the best offensive and defensive uses would be picking up enemies. By throwing him at enemies he will then bring the enemy to you, which in turn makes you pick the enemy up and hold him above your shoulders. You can then (by pressing ‘1’ again) throw the enemy at either the floor or another enemy even! If you throw the enemy on the floor you will render it dizzy for a moment which gives you a chance to kill it by jumping on its head. While if you throw the enemy at another enemy then there is a high chance you will kill both enemies.

Also you can use him for one-off unique situations such as receiving a key to open a locked door when you can reach it etc. Thoreau’s card can be found in the pit of 100 trials (Flipside), on the 20^th floor. It is number 229 and classed as rare.

I think that Thoreau is very handy as a Pixl and would give a rating of 7.9

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