Mushrooms

These guys look just like the others, except they were blue robes and a yellow hat (and are replicas of the Final Fantasy 1 black mage). They jump around the place, and the only way to defeat them is to keep them in the air with air combo attacks or to cast an Aero spell on yourself and keep yourself under them at all times, bouncing them back up into the air.

How to Defeat it and get Treasure:

If it is Mystery Goo, extra items, and experience points you're after, this is the mushroom you want to fight.

Like the White Mushroom, they are however, pretty easy once you know the trick, and that trick is to bounce them up in the air over and over and over again of which there are a few ways.

UpperCut Trick:

- When you come upon a Rare Truffle spawn, you must first lock on to one of the Truffles with lock on, abosultely needed.

- Watch as the Truffle jumps, when it lands, run up to it and smack it once and only once. You notice that when you hit it, it bounces into the air, despite the fact it was on the ground before.

- Anyway, you have just smacked the truffle in the air. What you want to do now is wait a split second then jump after the truffle and attack it in the air before it comes back and hits the ground.

- You need to jump and then tap the attack button once. This will have you attack with an uppercut attack, and not the aerial spin attack, if you have that ability equipped. If you attacked with an aerial spin, it`s because you didn`t jump before hitting the attack button.


Flying Neverland Trick:

Since you can fly here, you can simply fly up and keep smacking Truffles with impunity. Some limitations apply, in that you have a little less control of which way a Truffle will bounce up, and you have to watch out for running into background scenery.


Aero Trick:

This is perhaps the easiest one, cast your version of Aero and run up and touch the Truffle. Into the air it goes. Stand under it, bounce it, recast Aero as needed before it runs out to extend bounce sessions as needed and reap easy rewards.


Ragnarok Trick:

Use in conjunction with the Uppercut Trick, select Raganarok and let it rip on a Truffle. Make sure you pull off the entire combo. Good finisher, lots of hits.

You get treasure based on how many times you hit and bounce a Truffle:

  10 times - 1 Mystery Goo + 1 Elixir
  50 times - 1 Mystery Goo + 1 Elixir + Shiitake Scroll
100 times - 1 Mystery Goo + 1 Last Elixir + Matsutake Scroll

The scrolls items, like the other special items are again, not much worth, the game explanation simply noting that these scrolls show your ability in being a master of bouncing the Truffle 50 or 100 times.
- An interesting extra, the scrolls (Shiitake/Matsutake) are names after actual types of Japanese mushrooms.


Finally, juggling Rare Truffles nets huge amounts of experience. Where N equals the number of times you bounced a mushroom, you gain N(N+1)/2 experience for each juggling sessions. What that means is, for a 100 hit juggle, you will gain 5050 experience! Easily the fastest way to level up in the game should you get ahold of enough Rare Truffles. Combine this with fighting Rare Truffles in the Collesieum (as well as hitting pause right before a battle ends to redo a Rare Truffle battle) and you can make max level in less than an hour or two.

Mushroom Locations:

End of the World - Room Before Last Rest Save Point - Again, the save reload or respawn trick here. Easiest place to fight the Truffles outside of the Collieseum with the Uppercut trick.

Neverland - Deck of Ship - This is the area you fight Captain Hook, tho of course you will not see Truffle`s here the first time you get there. The ship structure makes straight up truffle fighting really not easy, but there is always the option of flying for a real air combo as per the above trick. Spawn rates are seemingly good.

Halloween Town - Area Right Before Boogie`s House - This is the area with the short bridge and the water passage which leads back to the fountain in Guillotine Sqaure. Spawn rates seem very small, but its possible to find Rare Truffles here. Geography can make fighting here easy or hard. Easy because you can trap Truffles in the corners of the sewer area where the spawn. Hard because the camera can go crazy in those areas. Note, if you hit a Truffle onto a slope, and it slides down and you hit it before it hits the water it DOES NOT count as the Truffle touching land and disappearing.

Hercules Cup - #6 Tier - I highly recommend beating the time attack for this cup so you can freely select to battle Truffles here. Of course no dropped items, but practicing here is mad exp and is good for training for the Uppercut Trick.

Hades Cup - #46 Tier - You can fight this one fairly easily without having to do time attacks to get the selectable battle option. But really, if you have the Hades Cup open, the Hercules time attack should be doable.

Monstro - Throat - They appear here, in the area before the Monstro main fight.


Truffle Tips:

This is the Truffle that once you got your jump then attack rythym down (assuming using the Uppercut Trick), you will have the Mystery Goo's rolling in. I was fighting them once and checked how many I had, and my count was at 22! Enough to make enough Attack Point items to max out Sora`s attack level at 100;p During a typical fight don`t expect to get much more than 4-6 Mystery Goo's however, as getting the 100 combo limit takes some time, and you only have enough time to combo two Truffles up to 100 before the others dissappear (this is assuming no mistakes on your part, and not accidently hitting other Truffles as you combo the Truffle you have locked onto..a fairly common occurence. But as with White Mushrooms, centering one mushroom at a time is important for success). Still, it`s much faster than beating up other mushroom Heartlesses.

Third, a note on combo`ing the Truffles. You can bounce them fairly high, but you don`t really want them flying too high, which is what happens when you hit them offscreen (the uppercut attack, especialy with the longer keyblades has an insane vertical attack range from somewhere at Sora`s knees to 2 body lengths above him and can easily hit off screen Truffles). Now, The auto-tracking for attacks (not the camera strangely enough) in game is superb and will often track things way over your head in battle, but its still possible to lose Truffles you bounce too high. So when you combo a Truffle, make sure he is on screen when you hit him. Don`t worry, you will hit a Truffle if you let him drop in altitude before you swing, as Sora`s uppecut hits a larger area than you may think (as written above). Less of a problem if you are flying in Neverland, and less if you are using the Aero trick. Something that will likely happen if you use Ragnarok though.

Last, you may want to pre-kit your character ability-wise for fighting Rare Truffles if you expect an encounter. Namely, un-euipping the Glide party ability helps (Fast Glide is ok, but the normal Glide is bound to the jump button tho). Also, un-equipping the Aerial-Sweep ability from Sora`s list can help as you will want to be hitting with an upper-cut, not an aerial spin anyway. This assuming Uppercut again, for all the other tricks no kitting is really nessecary.