Audience Mechanic Explained

The Audience plays an important role during battles in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (TTYD). They can hurt or help Mario and his party while battling foes. Read on to learn the Audience mechanic, how to attack the Audience, and more!

Audience Mechanic Explained

1. Gain Star Power by Exciting the Audience
2. Audience Number Increases with Thrilling Battles
3. Audience Size Depends on Theater
4. Audience can Throw Stuff on Stage

Gain Star Power by Exciting the Audience

Whenever the audience gets excited during battles, the party gains Star Power. Star Power is recovered by performing Stylish Moves, which are extra inputs done while executing the move. Using the Appeal tactic can also recover Star Power.

How to Charge Star Power

Allows Usage of Special Moves

Star Power allows characters to use Special Moves. These moves can deal great damage to opponents or heal and buff Mario and his party member.

All Special Moves

Audience Number Increases with More Thrilling Battles

The more thrilling the battles are, the more people will come to watch the fight. The number of audience members is displayed at the bottom-left corner of the screen during battles.

Achieve a Bingo!

A Bingo! is an event that happens during battle after successfully executing multiple Action Commands resulting in positive boosts.

The number of audience members will not exceed the theater's maximum capacity, however.

How to Trigger Bingo

Increases the Party's Star Power Refill

The more people there are in the audience, the faster the party's Star Power will refill.

Audience Size Depends on the Theater

The size of the audience or seating capacity of the theater differs for each theater. Every 10 levels, Mario will receive a new theater with greater seating capacity and a different look, allowing for faster replenishment of Star Power.

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Audience Can Throw Objects

Audience members can sometimes throw stuff onto the stage. This can either be useful items that may help the party win the battle or rocks that damage the party.

Watch Out for the X Button

When the X Button appears below the party, it means an audience member is about to throw something onstage.

Theater Stage Levels

Audience Capacity Increases with Mario's Level

Raising Mario's level will result in changes to the battle stage, including the maximum audience capacity.

How to Attack the Audience

Press the X Button Once Prompted

Quickly scan the crowd and press the X Button if there are objects that could be hazardous to the party. The active character will then go to the audience and bonk the troublemaker. Some examples of hazardous items are rocks and bones.

Ignore Button Prompt for Useful Items

If someone in the audience is about to throw a useful item, simply ignore the button prompt. This item can be of great help for Mario in the battle.

How to Excite the Audience

1. Perform Action Commands
2. Perform Stylish Moves
3. Appeal the Audience

Perform Action Commands

Successfully performing action commands by pressing the A Button with proper timing will get the audience excited and Mario and his party will get Star Power

However, if players fail to execute action commands, Mario and his party won't receive any Star Points and may not deal any damage to enemies.

All Action Commands Inputs

Perform Stylish Moves

In addition to action commands, pressing the A Button with a specific timing for each move allows Mario and his party to perform stylish moves. Successfully doing stylish moves will excite the audience even more, giving Mario and his party more Star Power.

All Stylish Move Inputs

Appeal the Audience

Using the appeal tactic allows Mario and his party to receive Star Power from the audience. However, Mario and his party won't be able to do any other actions as using appeal will consume the entire turn.

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