Talk:List of Star Pieces in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Incorporate Merluvlee's comments and regroup the Star Pieces by chapter region[edit]
Firstly, I think it'd be easier to make sense of if Merluvlee's comments were actually incorporated into the table alongside each Star Piece that it actually refers to. That way, people getting a certain hint from Merluvlee can reference the image of the corresponding Star Piece - it also makes Merluvlee's comments easier to digest rather than just listing them all out at the end on a wall of text. Secondly, due to the Switch remake's Art Gallery grouping the Star Piece unlocks not actually by chapter but by region, the current listing isn't intuitive. For example, to unlock the Chapter 1 artworks, you need to collect all the Star Pieces from Petal Meadows, Petalburg, Path to Shhwonk Fortress, and Hooktail Castle, not the Star Pieces that are available to someone in Chapter 1. So the current separation into "by Chapter" could be misleading to someone playing the Switch remake, thinking that this page's "Chapter 1 star pieces" corresponds with the Art Gallery's "Chapter 1 star pieces". I think it would be better to classify all the Star Pieces by chapter according to the Art Gallery first (Rogueport, Chapter 1, etc.), then split within each by region (Chapter 1 would include Petal Meadows, Petalburg, etc.). Then, there would be an "Availability" box for each Star piece, indicating if you need to have Super Boots, Boat Mode, etc. and the given chapter when those are unlocked. This way, the page is accessible as a guide to both players playing through the story, and players who have beat the story. You can follow along which region's Star Pieces you can get according to the Availability based on your current chapter, or you can follow along by region if you've beat the game. MarioComix (talk) 23:33, August 16, 2024 (EDT)
