The Tile Pool

Level
The Tile Pool
Level code	3-2
Game	Super Paper Mario
Boss	Big Blooper
Music track	The Tile Pool
Music sample
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The Tile Pool is a large body of water found in The Bitlands in Super Paper Mario. It is the setting of Chapter 3-2 of the game. Its name is a pun on the words "tile" (due to the pixelated theme of the world) and "tide pool", a small accumulation of water found on beaches after a tide comes in.

Chapter 3-2: Bloops Ahoy

Storyline text

With Bowser in the party, the three heroes made a most unlikely trio.

Peach attempted to explain the quest to Bowser, but it made him grunt in confusion.

As Mario walked ahead, he spotted something that made him briefly stop and stare...

"What is it, Mario?" asked Peach, as she turned to see the blue expanse ahead.

The great, glittering waves of the Tile Pool stretched as far as she could see.

Fort Francis was somewhere across the water...

A cavern with a clue on the wall in the Tile Pool.

Mario, Princess Peach and Bowser reach the Tile Pool on their quest to save Tippi from Francis. The vast majority of the level takes place underwater. The first section of the level contained many Hard Blocks and Cheep Cheeps, with a Mushroom in a ? Block. Further on there is a Blooper, a pile of Hard Blocks and a ? Block containing a Happy Flower. Immediately after is a large rock sticking down into the water over a whirlpool that can suck the player down, doing damage. The next section has more Hard Blocks and a Blooper, followed by a tight hall filled with Cheep Cheeps and Bloopers.

After the hall is a group of six posts in the ground and a pipe surrounded by blocks, which can be reached via flip. There is also a Save Block here. Down the pipe is a short stretch with a whirlpool that throws the player back to where they came from and a hole through which a giant Blooper's tentacle may attack. The path then forks, either going up to a pipe or further on to the right. Near the pipe which would eventually lead to a Pixl, a Gold Bar can be found within a chest in 3-D.

To the right is another stretch with whirlpools and more giant tentacles, leading to a drawing of the six posts earlier in the area, showing them at different levels in the order: up, down, down, up, down, up.

Through the pipe is a dry hallway and some Spiked Goombas, followed by another stretch of water and a door. After the heroes enter the door, it seals itself. The room it leads to contains one post and several Cheep Cheeps and Bloopers. After the enemies are disposed of, a large chest appears, containing Thudley, who joins the party and gives them the ability to Ground Pound. The room can be exited by pounding the post down.

Back at the area with the four posts, the heroes use Thudley to pound the posts in the order indicated on the drawing found earlier, revealing a door between the posts. Through the door is a large, mostly empty expanse of water, with a multitude of pits and Bittacudas. After continuing through this area for a bit, the heroes encounter Big Blooper, which traps and attacks them. They defeat it by attacking its red tentacle and pass through another Warp Pipe on back to dry land, where the Star Block is located.

Mario and Luigi return to this area later in the game while chasing Dimentio in Chapter 8-3.

Enemies

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  Big Blooper (boss)

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  Bittacuda

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  Blooper

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  Cheep Cheep

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  Spiked Goomba

Items

Item	Image	Location
Gold Bar		In a small 3D-accessible area hidden east of the pipe leading to Thudley’s chest, which is located two areas away.
Super Card		Big Blooper (Map 20), use Fleep on the second animated kelp in the second area’s background.
Power Plus		(Map 21), use Fleep on the drawing in a cavern east end of the second area.

Menu description

• "These waters are home to dangerous aquatic species. And one Pixl species, too, the girthful Thudley!"

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ドットドット海[?] Dotto Dotto Kai	Dot Dot Sea
French	Le Grand Bloups[?]	The Big Blooper
German	Kachelmeer[?]	Tile Sea
Italian	Lo Stagno Quadrettato[?]	The Squared Pond
Korean	도트도트해[?] Doteu Doteu Hae	Dot Dot Sea
Spanish (NOE)	Gran Mosaico	Great Mosaic

Bloops Ahoy

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	きょうふのダイオーゲッソー[?] Kyōfu no Daiō Gessō	The Dreaded Big Blooper
French	Bloups droit devant![?]	Blooper straight ahead!
German	Blooper Ahoi[?]	Blooper Ahoy
Italian	Calamako a dritta[?]	Blooper Ahoy
Korean	공포의 거대징오[?] Gongpo-ui geodaejing-o	Giant Squid of Terror
Spanish (NOE)	Bloopers a la vista	Bloopers Ahoy