Editing World 3 (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

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|title=World 3
|image=[[File:PMTTYD Bowser World 3.png|250px]]
|code=WORLD 3-X (X = number of attempts)
|game=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''
|limit=180 seconds
|before=[[World 2 (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|<<]]
|after=>>
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'''World 3''' is a level in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', played during the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Bowser intermissions|Bowser intermission]] following [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Chapter 6: 3 Days of Excess|Chapter 6: 3 Days of Excess]]. Its name is denoted as World 3-X, with X being the number of attempts that [[Bowser]] has used for the level. Like other Bowser levels, Bowser has unlimited [[Extra life|lives]]. The music that plays during this level is an arrangement of the [[castle]] theme from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''

==Story==
In [[Rogueport]], Bowser laments about how he has been unable to find any [[Crystal Stars]] or [[Princess Peach]], until [[Kammy Koopa]] arrives and tells Bowser that [[Magikoopa]] scouts have found a suspicious underground chamber not on any maps. With the [[Hammer Bro]]s. battalion unable to breach the chamber, Bowser goes to the chamber to do so himself, after which he enters World 3. The chamber leads to [[Rawk Hawk]]'s training room, where Rawk Hawk refers to the chamber as his '''Secret Training Facility''', claiming that he imported the X-Nauts "to up the difficulty level".

==Layout==
This level is modeled after the castle levels from ''Super Mario Bros.'' Bowser starts in a corridor with several [[Fire Bar]]s, which can be destroyed by holding {{button|gcn|B}} to breathe fire, and two pits of [[lava]], followed by a [[yellow block]] containing [[Meat]] and three [[X-Naut]]s on a bridge made of [[Brick Block]]s. Following these obstacles is a split pathway separated by indestructible [[stone block]]s, with a long Fire Bar in the middle. Bowser can only access the bottom pathway, which contains several [[coin]]s, if he intentionally takes one or more hits to shrink to an extremely small size. The bottom pathway also features another yellow block; however, because Bowser is extremely small, it cannot be destroyed. After this, an [[X-Naut PhD]] who throws explosive potions at Bowser appears on a yellow block; it is automatically defeated if Bowser destroys the yellow block, which also contains Meat. Finally, the rightmost area of the level's castle section contains a [[Trampoline|jump pad]], which Bowser must use to ascend to a small overworld area with a staircase made of Brick Blocks, a single X-Naut, and the [[Goal Pole|flagpole]]. To the right of this jump pad is a [[Warp Pipe]] on a platform high above the floor; however, this Warp Pipe is non-functional.

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