Shadow Queen (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

The Shadow Queen is the main antagonist and boss of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, she is a powerful demon that was defeated by the three legendary heroes one-thousand years ago. She is the main boss of Chapter 8: The Thousand-Year Door, is the fifth and final boss of that level and is overall the seventeenth and final boss of the game.

Since her debut, the Shadow Queen has been critically acclaimed by gamers alike, and has highly been regarded as one of the best bosses in the entire Paper Mario series, as well as one of the greatest bosses in all of Video Games.

Why She Rocks

 * 1) The Shadow Queen is an engaging and memorable antagonist, with a personality that is even far greater then Sir Grodus even.
 * 2) The Shadow Queen has many awesome designs, one such example is her 3D form during the final phases.
 * 3) The intro to the battle is super intense and sets up the final battle in something that you normally don't see in a Mario game, and it works.
 * 4) The first phase of the battle is very well-made serious, as for the first time ever in a Mario game (that's not Super Smash Bros. Melee.), Mario is actually fighting Peach.
 * 5) The second phase of the first phase starts off hopeless as your attacks doesn't do anything to the Shadow Queen's true form, making this part super intense.
 * 6) The cutscene in which all of the Crystal Star gather around the characters with the characters changing at Mario and crew to never give up, as well as Peach given her powers to Mario to fight the Shadow Queen is one of the (if not one of the) most serious awesome moments in the entire Mario series.
 * 7) Fantastic boss themes for both forms.
 * 8) The Shadow Queen has a wide variety of flashy attacks such as conquering lighting strikes and launching off dark waves.
 * 9) The Shadow Queen attacks are also very creative, one such example is how she can use her hands to not only do damage, but can also absorb your HP for her HP.
 * 10) The Shadow Queen can increases her Stats at will to do even more damage to you or have beefier defense, making you strategize on how you should approach her.
 * 11) The Shadow Queen can also cause States infection on you, such as Dizziness, Poison and Allergic.
 * 12) The Shadow Queen has a lot of HP, she has 60 HP in the first phase, and 150 HP in the second phase, making it for a grand total of 210 HP, making this a very long and satisfying battle.
 * 13) Overall very challenging but fun battle.
 * 14) Beautiful ending after the battle.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) If you lose to the Shadow Queen at any point, even in the second phase, you have to watch the cutscene again and it is unskippable.

Tips

 * 1) Vivian is super useful for this battle as her Fiery Jinx can cause damage to both of her hands, as well as do extra damage to the Mini Hands.
 * 2) Do not worry about buffing up your defenses, as all of the Shadow Queen's attacks can pierce defenses, so focus on strength.