Vortex Island

Vortex Island
Mario listening to a Shy Guy talking about the tornado.
How to access	Obtain the purple Mini Paint Star from Violet Passage
Paint Stars
Colorless spots	56
Things
Level progression ← Previous Violet Passage Next → Lighthouse Island Paper Mario: Color Splash levels

“If you hang out laundry to dry in the parallel world...it won't ever dry, will it? Because it's so wet and cloudy?”

—Huey, Paper Mario: Color Splash

Vortex Island is a location from Paper Mario: Color Splash. The path leading here is unlocked after getting the purple Mini Paint Star from Violet Passage, and unlocks a path leading to Lighthouse Island. The Cork and Washing Machine Things can be found here, with the Cork plugging the Warp Pipe to the parallel world, and the Washing Machine the source of the vortex.

Layout

After crossing the Lost Sea, the captain's ship stops at a vortex with a Mini Paint Star in the center. The captain warns against going into the vortex and docks at a nearby island. Shortly after docking, Mario can re-paint a Toad, who tells him that nobody knows how to stop the vortex. The bridge leading further onto the island is broken, so Mario must enter a cave to get to the other side. Inside, a purple Toad looks at a treasure chest that is too high up to reach. After exiting the cave, Mario reaches a house with unpainted Toads out front. If Mario paints the Toad inside the house, he reveals that there is an entrance to a parallel world through a Warp Pipe in his backyard, and allows Mario to use it. Before he can enter the pipe, Mario must rip off the Toad tape and pull out the Cork Thing.

The parallel world is similar to the normal world, except inhabited by Shy Guys instead of Toads, Boos instead of Bloopers, and Dry Bones instead of Koopa Troopas. Mario can hammer down posts in the parallel world that are solid in the normal world. The water has been drained, so Mario can walk across where the river usually is. This allows him to access an area with four metal posts, and going south brings him to the area with the broken bridge. Here, Mario can create a bridge by hitting invisible blocks. Three metal posts are blocking the area with the whirlpool. Additionally, in the parallel cave, Mario can hammer another post. With all the posts removed and the bridge built, he must go back to the normal world.

If Mario revisits the treasure chest, it is full of five Line Jump cards. Back at the first area, the ship crew has crossed the bridge and is waiting at some wooden posts. Huey encourages Mario to continue looking and reach the Mini Paint Star. To the north is four wooden posts which Mario must hammer down to reveal a big rainbow blob of paint. In the parallel world, the corresponding posts have been sunk to reveal more paint. Mario can pass the posts where the captain was in the normal world, leading him to a laundry room where the Washing Machine Thing is creating a vortex. Squeezing it causes Mario to be attacked by a series of enemies: Laundry Guy (a regular Shy Guy in the European/Australian versions), a Shy Guy 5-Stack, a Koopa Troopa, and a Shady Sledge Bro.

Returning to the normal world, the vortex slowly disappears and Mario has to ask the ship's helmsman to sail to it. The Mini Paint Star opens a path to Lighthouse Island.

Enemies

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  Laundry Guy (Absent from European/Australian versions)

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  Red Shy Guy (European/Australian versions only)

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  Shy Guy 5-Stack

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  Bloopers

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  Koopa Troopas

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  Swoops

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  Dry Bones

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  Boos

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  Shady Sledge Bro

Collectibles

Additional items not included: Globs of paint/random Coins from hammering/breaking random objects.

Field/Objects

Item	Icon	Location	Location Image
Battery		Among the barrels inside the ship. Can be also picked up in Violet Passage, Lighthouse Island and Fortune Island. Required to progress.
24 Coins	24x	In the middle of the cave scene.
		In the middle of the cave scene found in the parallel world.
Compass		Within the cabin of the Violet Passage captain's ship. Can be also picked up in Violet Passage, Lighthouse Island and Fortune Island. Required to progress.
Cork		In the third scene, found inside of the pipe leading to the paralell world. Required to progress.
Heart		In the southeastern corner of the inside of the ship. Can be also picked up in Violet Passage, Lighthouse Island and Fortune Island.
5 Line Jump Battle Cards	5x	Inside of the treasure chest found in the middle of the cave scene. To reach it, Mario has to hammer the wooden pole found at the same place in the paralell world to lower the stone pole in the real world.
Washing Machine		At the west end of the first scene in the paralell world. Required to progress. Design differs based on the version.

Colorless spots

Location	Drop	Necessity	Location Image
In the first area, on a Toad.	None	Optional
In the first area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the first area, on a flower.	Coins, Ice Flower Battle Card	Optional
In the first area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the first area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the second area, on the ground.	Coins, Jump Battle Card	Optional
In the second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the second area, on the ground.	Coins, Line Jump Battle Card	Optional
In the second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the second area, on the wall.	Coins, Worn-Out Jump x5 Battle Card	Optional
In the third area, on a flower.	Coins	Optional
In the third area, on the wall.	Coins	Optional
In the third area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the third area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the third area, on a flower.	Coins, Ice Flower Battle Card	Optional
In the third area, on the ground.	Coins, Worn-Out Jump x3 Battle Card	Optional
In the third area, on a Toad.	None	Optional
In the house, on a Toad.	None	Required
In the third area, on a Toad.	None	Optional
In the third area, on a Toad.	None	Optional
In the third area, on the ground.	Coins	Required
In the parallel third area, on a flower.	Coins, Fire Flower Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel third area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel third area, on a flower.	Coins, Big Fire Flower Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel third area, on a flower.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel third area, on the ground.	Coins, Big Jump Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel third area, on the wall.	Coins, Line Jump Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel third area, on the ground.	Coins, Hurlhammer Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel third area, on a flower.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel third area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel third area, on a flower.	Coins, Fire Flower Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel second area, on the wall.	Coins, Worn-Out Hammer x5 Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel second area, on the ground.	Coins, Eekhammer x2 Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel second area, on the ground.	Coins, Hammer Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel second area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on the wall.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on a flower.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on a wooden plank.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on a starfish.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on the wall.	Coins	Optional
In the parallel first area, on the wall.	Coins, Worn-Out Jump x3 Battle Card	Optional
In the parallel first area, on a flower.	Coins, Fire Flower Battle Card	Optional
In the first area, on the wall. This spot is only accessible after the posts have been hammered in the parallel world.	Coins, Hurlhammer Battle Card	Optional
In the first area, on the ground.	Coins, POW Block Battle Card	Optional
In the first area, on the wall.	Coins	Optional
In the third area, on a flower.	Coins, Big Ice Flower Battle Card	Optional
In the third area, on the ground.	Coins	Optional
In the third area, on the wall.	Coins, Hammer Battle Card	Optional
In the third area, on a flower.	Coins	Optional

? Blocks

Item	Location	Image
Big Line Jump (colorless)	In the first scene, after the end of the wooden dock.
POW Block	In the fourth scene (first Parallel world scene), in the same place where Save Block in third scene is found.
Hurlhammer (colorless)	Same scene, in the middle part (where water is normally in the real world).
Jump x2 (colorless)	In the fifth scene (second Parallel world scene), in the middle.
Big Line Jump (colorless)	Same scene, in the east.
Hopslipper x2 (colorless), Hurlhammer (colorless)	In the sixth scene (third Parallel world scene), near the wooden dock.

Hidden Block

Item	Description	Image	Image (block/s revealed)
Jump x3 (colorless)	In the first scene, at the southern end of the wooden dock.

Record

Island in Violet - Plays on Vortex Island and Lighthouse Island

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Island in Violet (Parallel) - Plays in the parallel world on Vortex Island and Lighthouse Island

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Fight! (Parallel Mix) - Plays during battles in the parallel world

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Gallery

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  World map icon

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  The Captain concept art

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  The Captain's Ship concept art

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  The ship approaches the vortex.

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  Vortex Island is noticed.

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  The boat docks at Vortex Island.

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  Mario is welcomed to Vortex Island.

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  The treasure chest in the cave

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  Huey and Mario approach the house.

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  Mario talks to a Toad inside the house.

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  Mario pulls the Cork out of the pipe.

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  Huey and Mario in the parallel world

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  Mario in the parallel world house

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  Mario talks to a Shy Guy near the house.

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  Mario hammers the post in the parallel world cave.

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  The treasure chest full of Line Jumps

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  Mario crosses the bridge.

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  The captain observes the vortex.

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  An area with four posts.

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  Mario talks to a Shy Guy after hammering posts.

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  Mario in the laundry room (Japanese and American versions)

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  Mario in the laundry room (European and Australian versions)

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  Laundry Guy talks to Mario.

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  Mario battles a Shady Sledge Bro.

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  The vortex calms down.

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  The boat reaches the Mini Paint Star.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	バイオ列島　うずしお島[?] Baio Rettō Uzushio Tō	Pun on "violet" and「列島」(rettō, archipelago) +「うずしお島」(uzushio tō, whirling tides island)
French (NOA)	Île du Maelström[?]	Maelstrom Island
French (NOE)	Île du maelström[?]	Maelstrom Island
German	Strudelinsel[?]	Vortex Island
Italian	Isola del Vortice[?]	Vortex Island
Portuguese	Ilha do Remoinho[?]	Whirlpool Island
Russian	Остров Водоворота[?] Ostrov Vodovorota	Vortex Island
Spanish	Isla del Vórtice[?]	Vortex Island