A Tale In Murals: This Art is the Pits

Have you ever wished to see the murals from Super Paper Mario's two Pits of 100 Trials Respectively unobstructed? Those Game-and-Watchy doors and floors block the view like some sort of Blooper ink at all times, preventing you from seeing the beautiful paintings beneath. From beginning to end, the walls catalogue the hiding places of the Pure Hearts - sadly seen too late in the game to be a mysterious foreshadowing, but at least being a nice retrospection into your adventures. Just click the images to view them at full size.

Here are Flopside and Flipside alongside the first Pure Heart. It's intriguing how the player never sees Flipside from a distance during normal gameplay, which makes this the only place one can see the cities' overall shape.

Fracktail, guardian of the second pure heart. Nothing special, you'd think, until you realize the blue side is actually his front and he has his neck bent a harsh 90 and head turned a painful 180 degrees for this image.

Merlee and her mansion are featured in the third mural. One has to wonder, are the characters depicted here really old, or are the murals recent?

The fourth Pure Heart is in Fort Francis... wait, no, it isn't! It was inside Tippi all along! Is the castle a special location Tippi had to reach in order to release it or are the murals just that good at guessing where the hero would get the heart?

Squirpina XIV, the queen of Squirpia, with her Squirpy subjects. What happened to the other aliens besides Squirps, her son? Outer Space holds many mysteries...

King Croacus and his Floro Sapien minions dominate this piece. Again, inconsistencies with the timeline, as this is obviously the latest king, however he's not thousands of years old as we can presume other keepers to be ...or is it? The colors are way off from any of the kings, so this might be a deeper riddle than it appears.

Sammer's Kingdom is all topsy-turvy in this painting. Strange how none of the fighting elements appear here, even though the chapter is as much fighting as Mario Kart is driving. Maybe the mural is making a statement about pacifism? Or maybe this just looked prettier.

For the final mural before fighting Shadoo, Jaydes and Grambi present the last Pure Heart. Ironic how Jaydes' outfit is made out of spikes pointing up, and Grambi's design consists of elements pointing down. A way to show duality in a very subtle manner.

And as a bonus, here's the floor of the dungeons, visible if you flip into 3D. It's tileable and makes for a great desktop background, among other things. That's all folks!