You are but an invisible ghost!

The 5hp trick is when you go to a specific person in the underground who can switch your stats around to your liking. You have her take off all your hp until you only have 5hp left. This means that you will always be in danger.. which is a bit dangerous. Ha! Anyway, by doing the unlockable casino games you can earn points, and those can be used to buy a crapload of badges that make your str go +2 (I think) when you're in danger. Basically, you attach a whole lot of them to Mario and Mario's strength is permanently raised by like 70. You'll one hit KO anything, and if you use the super bounce (the one taht hits many times based on if you hit the action command) you can do ...a crapload of damage on enemies. This effectively kills all of the difficulty and while fun for a few minutes, it gets old really fast. I found the game extremely boring after I did this.

To get Mario a second turn, all you have to do is use Gombella's special called "Rally Wink".. I believe that's what it's called. It wastes her turn but it gives mario a second turn. Basically, if you don't want to use any allies, you use that move to make Mario move instead.

Another great idea would be to attach the badge that lets your ally use TWO items in one turn. It helps a great deal!

It took me two tries -- but the Shadow Queen is no more.

I had 70 HP, 40 FP, 27 BP. I had one ultra shroom, two life shrooms (both of which my parnters used), and two jammin jellies.

At the end, I got hit, Gombella used the second life shroom, and I had 1 HP left.
Luckily, the Shadow Queen was down to 11. A headbonk by Goombella dropped her to 7. Then I used a strong hammer (I cannot remember the name) -- and it took 8 HP out of the queen.

Mike from Morgantown

I had to read the second post in this thread to figure out what game you were talking about.

I'll go back to playing SMT:DS2:RkVSKA or maybe TCSCPT.

That blows.