Mystery
A Mystery is an item found in Paper Mario, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario.
History[edit]
Paper Mario series[edit]
Paper Mario[edit]
The first appearance of the Mystery in Paper Mario goes under the name Mystery? When used in battle, a roulette will appear, containing the following items, that will be used right after the roulette stops on an item:
Mushroom
Super Shroom
Fire Flower
Stone Cap
Dizzy Dial
Thunder Rage
Pebble - Hurts Mario for 1 HP
Mysteries? can also be used for cooking, yielding a Mistake half the time, and a randomly selected one of twenty-three recipes otherwise.
Throughout the game, Mysteries? can be found in the following locations:
- In a hidden block in the north of the Shy Guy Playground in the blue area of Shy Guy's Toy Box.
- In a hidden block on the beach of Lavalava Island.
- On a platform in the third lava/moving platform area in Bowser's Castle.
- On sale for 1 coin each at Boo's Shop.
- On sale for 5 coins each at the Storehouse.
- Dropped by enemies such as Groove Guys and Duplighosts.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a Mystery is sold for three coins at Pungent's Great Tree Shop and the Sales Stall. One Mystery can also be found in a bush in near the bridge in Petal Meadows. Items marked with a only appear in the GameCube version.
When used in battle, a Mystery has the effect of one of the following items:
Dried Shroom
Mushroom[a]
Ultra Shroom[a]
Honey Syrup[a]
Jammin' Jelly[a]
Volt Shroom
Slow Shroom
Gradual Syrup
Repel Cape
Stop Watch
Fire Flower
Shooting Star
Thunder Rage
- Footnotes
If it is cooked by itself or with any other item, it makes a Mistake half the time, and otherwise a random one of twenty items, mostly cooking recipes.
Super Paper Mario[edit]
Mysteries appear under their name Mystery Boxes in Super Paper Mario. When cooked, the outcome can be random, or more commonly, a Mistake. However, the set recipe is a Miracle Dinner. The Mystery Box can be bought in Flipside Arcade for five Flipside Tokens, at the Downtown of Crag for three coins, or carried by a Lakitu. Similar to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a roulette will cycle through a random selection of various items, and the item chosen is subsequently used.
A Mystery Box can contain one of the following items:
|
HP-restoring items Status-altering items |
Enemy-targetting items |
Unused appearances[edit]
Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit]
The Mystery was originally set to reappear in Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the Nintendo 3DS, as seen in early artwork, but is absent from the final game.
Recipes[edit]
Paper Mario[edit]
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
Super Paper Mario[edit]
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | なにがおこるかな[1] Nani ga Okoru Ka Na |
I Wonder What Will Happen | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 神秘?[?] Shénmì? |
Mystery? | Paper Mario |
| 会发生什么事呢[?] Huì fāshēng shénme shì ne |
I Wonder What Will Happen | The Thousand-Year Door remake | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 會發生什麼事呢[?] Huì fāshēng shénme shì ne |
I Wonder What Will Happen | |
| Dutch | Verrassing[?] | Surprise | |
| French | Mystère?[?] | Mystery? | |
| German | Mysterium?[?] | Mystery? | |
| Überraschungsbox[?] | Surprise Box | Super Paper Mario | |
| Italian | Chissà cos'è[?] | Who knows what it is | |
| Korean | 미스터리박스[?] Miseuteori Bakseu |
Mystery Box | |
| Spanish | Sorpresa[?] | Surprise |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English". (June 17, 2013). The Mushroom Kingdom. Retrieved February 4, 2015.