Twilight Town
- Not to be confused with Twilight City or DS Twilight House.
| Twilight Town | |
|---|---|
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| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
| Greater location | Rogueport's surrounding areas |
| Ruler | Mayor Dour |
| Inhabitants | Twilighters, Crows |
- “My traveling friends... Welcome to Twilight Town. Well, I'd LIKE to welcome you... But "welcoming" people is generally a good thing, and it's nothing but bad here.”
- —Mayor Dour, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Twilight Town is a creepy, perpetually twilit town in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and is mainly inhabited by Twilighters, one of which, Dour, serves as the mayor. Crows inhabit Twilight Town as well, and players can listen to their conversations when Mario uses Vivian's field Veil ability. To enter Twilight Town through the pipe in Rogueport Underground, Mario is required to have his name to be written on his clothes, otherwise the pipe will reject him.
While Mario and his friends are searching for the fourth Crystal Star, the Twilighters are turned into pigs by a distant bell in Creepy Steeple. After heading there through Twilight Trail, Mario finds a Duplighost named Doopliss who had been responsible for the chaos caused in Twilight Town. Despite putting up a good fight, and reverting all of the Twilighters to normal in the process, Doopliss managed to steal Mario's identity in an attempt to cause more havoc.
At around this time, Vivian had been looking for the Superbombomb after her sister Beldam framed her for "dropping" it. In his cursed state, Mario helped her find it, and as thanks Vivian decided to help him retrieve his identity. After listening in to a conversation of a parrot who Doopliss had locked up, the duo was able to correctly guess Doopliss's name, then battle him again back at Creepy Steeple, allowing Mario to win back his identity. The Twilighters, shocked over the fact that Doopliss had disguised himself as Mario, praised Mario for restoring peace to Twilight Town.
Later on, Lord Crump is seen looking for the Superbombomb when he gets stopped by Bowser and Kammy Koopa. After a brief confrontation between the X-Nauts and the Koopa Troop, Bowser inadvertently ignites the Superbombomb, sending both groups flying.
Inhabitants[edit]
The town is inhabited almost entirely by Twilighters, though there are also several Crows. Many of the Twilighters are turned into pigs during the chapter.
- Main story
- Mayor Dour
- Battle Master
- Eve and her three sons
- Twilight Shop manager
- Twilight Shop manager's wife
- Twilighter gatekeeper
- Twilighter innkeeper
- Gloomer
- Chapter 4 only
Items[edit]
Some items are on sale in the Twilight Shop which is located in the east area.
| Item | Location |
|---|---|
 Boo's Sheet
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In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop. |
 Defend Plus
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In the second scene, in a chest box in the storage room of the shop. |
 Fire Flower 
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In the first scene, in the lowest leftmost bush. |
 Inn Coupon
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In the second scene, behind the notice board in the right of the shop. |
 Jammin' Jelly
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In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop. |
 Life Mushroom
|
In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop. |
 Meteor Meal
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In the second scene, given by Eve for doing her trouble. |
 Peachy Peach
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In the first scene, appearing in the left desk every time Mario sleeps at the inn. |
 Routing Slip
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In the first scene, received from Mayor Dour while doing his trouble. |
 Shooting Star
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In the second scene, given by Eve if Mario does a favor for her in Chapter 4. |
 Star Piece (×3)
|
In the first scene, behind the leftmost house. |
| In the first scene, in the southernmost bush in the southeast area. | |
| In the second scene, behind the fence near the southeast tree. | |
 Superbombomb
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In the first scene, in the leftmost bush after Vivian dropped it. |
Profiles[edit]
- Tattles
- "This is Twilight Town. It's twilight here, which I guess makes sense, huh? That big moon gives me the heebie-jeebies. I guess the sky here is always the same... No morning, noon, or night... Wouldn't perpetual dusk get a little like, boring?"
- "This is Twilight Town. The people here are just as shadowy as the sky... I wonder if I'd get that way if I lived here long enough? ...Gross. Still, I guess being all gothed-out is better than being a pig..."
- Map description
- "A town stuck in a perpetual state of dim twilight. Even the townspeople have dim, gray complexions, not to mention dim expressions." (GCN)
- "A town stuck in a perpetual state of dim twilight. Even the gloomy townspeople have dim expressions." (Switch)
Gallery[edit]
Mario and Goombella encountering one of the residents that had been turned into a pig.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ウスグラ Usugura Mura |
Dim Town | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 阴暗村[?] Yīn'àn Cūn |
Dim Town | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 陰暗村[?] Yīn'àn Cūn |
Dim Town | |
| Dutch | Duisterdorp[?] | Duister meaning dim or shady, dorp meaning village. | |
| French | Penocta[?] | Comes from pénombre ("shade"); nocta refers to the night | |
| German | Düsterdorf[?] | Gloomy Village; possibly a pun on Düsseldorf, one of Germany's largest cities | |
| Italian | Casalcrepuscolo[?] | Twilight Casale | |
| Korean | 어둑어둑 마을[?] Eoduk-eoduk Ma'eul |
Dusk Village | |
| Spanish | Villa Sombría[?] | Grim Town |
Trivia[edit]
- Goombella breaks the fourth wall when she tattles on the gatekeeper; she says that there is "a gatekeeper" in every town and if there was not, the game would be much easier to beat.
- During the Bowser segment, an unseen item called the Twilight Blade can be found in the bushes, although Bowser then says "Just Joking". A similar occurrence also happens when checking one of the statues in Bowser's Castle.
