Sweet Treat

Sweet Treat

Sweet Treat is the first Special Move Mario learns in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Mario gains this power first time he travels to The Thousand-Year Door, when he holds the Magical Map atop the pedestal. The move restores the Heart Points and Flower Points of Mario and his current partner, and cures all status ailments. The Action Command of this move requires the player to rapidly tilt the Control Stick to the left, to make Mario throw miniature Crystal Stars at icons falling down slowly from the top of the screen. The icons that fall are Mario's face with a heart, his partner's face with a heart, a flower, and a total of 3 Poison Mushrooms. Each one hit with a star restores a point to the appropriate stat, but if a Poison Mushroom is hit, Mario becomes unable to throw any stars for a few seconds. The move only uses a single SP.

Useful strategies for using this move include:

• There are always 3, and only 3, poison mushrooms in the entire move. If you notice 3 poison mushrooms have passed, feel free to tap the stick right as much as you can, since no more can come.
• Even at any time, it is much more dangerous to press the control stick when the cursor is pointing upwards. Because you cannot see where the stars will hit when they are above the screen, you may hit a poison shroom and not even know it. In essence, to get the maximum benefit from this move, the player must smack the control stick right as fast as he can when the cursor is below roughly 40 degrees of the azimuth, and slow down when it is above this elevation.

Trivia

• The game's instruction booklet refers to this move as "Tasty Treat."