I got back to Paper Mario: TTYD today and finished off Chapters 5 and 6 in one shot. The most notable bit of this stretch was a segment where you solve a few mysteries on a train ride, right out of the old detective novels. Well, with less murder, this is a Mario game after all… It did turn into the usual bit of exploration and combat at the end, but at least it didn’t make me backtrack a half-dozen times like other chapters have.

I must be pretty close to the end now, as there’s only one more star to collect. For that, I apparently need to convince a village of Russian-like bob-ombs to shoot me out of their cannon…