Fiddling around with all these other games is all well and good, but sometimes I have to remind myself that I’ve still got six zillion other games left to finish off first. So, today I finally got back to Paper Mario: TTYD.

I finished off Chapter 3, which was a fairly uneventful climb through the rest of the wrestling rankings, with the obligatory twist about who was really behind all the recent disappearances, and after beating the real enemy I got the star for that chapter.

Since I had recently picked up Yoshi in my party, I could explore a few new areas in the sewers and found some more star pieces and shines there, and finally remembered to go use the shines to upgrade party members (Yoshi and Goombella, for now). And I went and did a few more jobs from the Trouble Centre that had opened up, though in the end I think I pretty much broke even on the costs and rewards.

Next up, the Twilight Woods.