Vortex Island
| Vortex Island | |||||||
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| Vortex Island from Paper Mario: Color Splash Mario listening to a Shy Guy talking about the tornado. | |||||||
| How to access | Obtain the purple Mini Paint Star from Violet Passage | ||||||
| Paint Stars | Purple Mini Paint Star icon from the Paper Mario: Color Splash World Map | ||||||
| Colorless spots | 56 | ||||||
| Things | Cork icon from Paper Mario: Color Splash Washing Machine icon from Paper Mario: Color Splash | ||||||
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- “If you hang out laundry to dry in the parallel world...it won't ever dry, will it? Because it's so wet and cloudy?”
- —Huey , Paper Mario: Color Splash
Vortex Island is a location from Paper Mario: Color Splash . The path leading here is unlocked after getting the purple Mini Paint Star from Violet Passage, and unlocks a path leading to Lighthouse Island. The Cork and Washing Machine Things can be found here, with the Cork plugging the Warp Pipe to the parallel world, and the Washing Machine the source of the vortex.
Layout[edit ]
After crossing the Lost Sea, the captain's ship stops at a vortex with a Mini Paint Star in the center. The captain warns against going into the vortex and docks at a nearby island. Shortly after docking, Mario can re-paint a Toad, who tells him that nobody knows how to stop the vortex. The bridge leading further onto the island is broken, so Mario must enter a cave to get to the other side. Inside, a purple Toad looks at a treasure chest that is too high up to reach. After exiting the cave, Mario reaches a house with unpainted Toads out front. If Mario paints the Toad inside the house, he reveals that there is an entrance to a parallel world through a Warp Pipe in his backyard, and allows Mario to use it. Before he can enter the pipe, Mario must rip off the Toad tape and pull out the Cork Thing.
The parallel world is similar to the normal world, except inhabited by Shy Guys instead of Toads, Boos instead of Bloopers, and Dry Bones instead of Koopa Troopas. Mario can hammer down posts in the parallel world that are solid in the normal world. The water has been drained, so Mario can walk across where the river usually is. This allows him to access an area with four metal posts, and going south brings him to the area with the broken bridge. Here, Mario can create a bridge by hitting invisible blocks. Three metal posts are blocking the area with the whirlpool. Additionally, in the parallel cave, Mario can hammer another post. With all the posts removed and the bridge built, he must go back to the normal world.
If Mario revisits the treasure chest, it is full of five Line Jump cards. Back at the first area, the ship crew has crossed the bridge and is waiting at some wooden posts. Huey encourages Mario to continue looking and reach the Mini Paint Star. To the north is four wooden posts which Mario must hammer down to reveal a big rainbow blob of paint. In the parallel world, the corresponding posts have been sunk to reveal more paint. Mario can pass the posts where the captain was in the normal world, leading him to a laundry room where the Washing Machine Thing is creating a vortex. Squeezing it causes Mario to be attacked by a series of enemies: Laundry Guy (a regular Shy Guy in the European/Australian versions), a Shy Guy 5-Stack, a Koopa Troopa, and a Shady Sledge Bro.
Returning to the normal world, the vortex slowly disappears and Mario has to ask the ship's helmsman to sail to it. The Mini Paint Star opens a path to Lighthouse Island.
Enemies[edit ]
Laundry Guy (Absent from European/Australian versions)
Red Shy Guy (European/Australian versions only)
Collectibles[edit ]
Additional items not included: Globs of paint/random Coins from hammering/breaking random objects.
Field/Objects[edit ]
| Item | Icon | Location | Location Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery | Battery icon from Paper Mario: Color Splash | Among the barrels inside the ship. Can be also picked up in Violet Passage, Lighthouse Island and Fortune Island. Required to progress. | Violet Passage |
| 24 Coins | 24x Artwork of a Coin in Paper Mario: Color Splash | In the middle of the cave scene. | Mario near 24 Coins in Vortex Island of Paper Mario: Color Splash. |
| In the middle of the cave scene found in the parallel world. | Mario near 24 Coins in Vortex Island of Paper Mario: Color Splash. | ||
| Compass | Compass icon from Paper Mario: Color Splash | Within the cabin of the Violet Passage captain's ship. Can be also picked up in Violet Passage, Lighthouse Island and Fortune Island. Required to progress. | Violet Passage |
| Cork | Cork icon from Paper Mario: Color Splash | In the third scene, found inside of the pipe leading to the parallel world. Required to progress. | The Cork in Vortex Island from Paper Mario: Color Splash |
| Heart | A cardboard Heart from Paper Mario: Color Splash | In the southeastern corner of the inside of the ship. Can be also picked up in Violet Passage, Lighthouse Island and Fortune Island. | Mario near a Heart in the ship found in Violet Passage, Vortex Island, Lighthouse Island and Fortune Island of Paper Mario: Color Splash. |
| 5 Line Jump Battle Cards | 5x A Line Jump Card in Paper Mario: Color Splash. | Inside of the treasure chest found in the middle of the cave scene. To reach it, Mario has to hammer the wooden pole found at the same place in the paralell world to lower the stone pole in the real world. | Vortex Island |
| Washing Machine | Washing Machine icon from Paper Mario: Color Splash The Washing Machine icon from the European and Australian version of Paper Mario: Color Splash |
At the west end of the first scene in the paralell world. Required to progress. Design differs based on the version. | The Vortex Island laundry in Paper Mario: Color Splash. The Vortex Island laundry room in the British English version of Paper Mario: Color Splash |
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Colorless spots[edit ]
? Blocks[edit ]
Hidden block[edit ]
| Item | Description | Image | Image (block/s revealed) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Battle Card in Paper Mario: Color Splash Jump x3 (colorless) |
In the first scene, at the southern end of the wooden dock. | Location of the 25th hidden block in Paper Mario: Color Splash, not revealed. | Location of the 25th hidden block in Paper Mario: Color Splash, revealed. |
Record[edit ]
Gallery[edit ]
World map icon
The Captain concept art
The Captain's Ship concept art
The ship approaches the vortex.
Vortex Island is noticed.
The boat docks at Vortex Island.
Mario is welcomed to Vortex Island.
The treasure chest in the cave
Huey and Mario approach the house.
Mario talks to a Toad inside the house.
Mario pulls the Cork out of the pipe.
Huey and Mario in the parallel world
Mario in the parallel world house
Mario talks to a Shy Guy near the house.
Mario hammers the post in the parallel world cave.
The treasure chest full of Line Jumps
Mario crosses the bridge.
The captain observes the vortex.
An area with four posts.
Mario talks to a Shy Guy after hammering posts.
Mario in the laundry room (Japanese and American versions)
Mario in the laundry room (European and Australian versions)
Laundry Guy talks to Mario.
Mario battles a Shady Sledge Bro.
The vortex calms down.
The boat reaches the Mini Paint Star.
Names in other languages[edit ]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | バイオ列島 うずしお島 Baio Rettō Uzushio Tō |
Pun on "violet" and「列島」(rettō, archipelago) +「うずしお島」(uzushio tō, whirling tides island) | [?] | |
| French (Canadian) | Île du Maelström | Maelstrom Island | [?] | |
| French (European) | Île du maelström | Maelstrom Island | [?] | |
| German | Strudelinsel | Vortex Island | [?] | |
| Italian | Isola del Vortice | Vortex Island | [?] | |
| Portuguese | Ilha do Remoinho | Whirlpool Island | [?] | |
| Russian | Остров Водоворота Ostrov Vodovorota |
Vortex Island | [?] | |
| Spanish | Isla del Vórtice | Vortex Island | [?] |