Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 32 minutes ago
A bittersweet farewell. You have to walk before you can run, and now that I'm in a position to actually do a run of this challenge, the time for walking has come to a close.
As a learning exercise, this series was a complete success. I learned what I was doing wrong in my initial approach to Max Catalog, and also learned what I needed to figure out in order to do the category justice. If I hadn't earnestly felt the duty to continue making episodes of this fairly irrelevant and dubiously-optimized Let's Play, I might have given up on DWM2 entirely. Instead, I have drafted a plan for something I once thought impossible: an efficient route for overcoming AND properly harnessing Magic Key World RNG.
Listen to me ramble for one more hour, I ask of you, and rejoice that the next time you'll have the opportunity to hear me ramble about this game, it'll be for several *consecutive* hours! The commentated route playthrough I mention towards the end of the episode is in currently in development, with the first two hours or so of footage finished. I hope to provide a more systematic and thoughtful overview of the Max Catalog experience on that commentary track. Wish me luck!
Something that I forgot to explain towards the end of this episode was the "33 + 7" idea - my "shopping list" of monsters to find in MKWs includes seven optional monsters that are available in the Traveler World, which is a story world key. Said key is only available after you've defeated Kameha a second time. You unlock this rematch by collecting 150 monsters and fully clearing the Elf World (earning a star next to the key name, as I did in this video). Obviously getting 150 monsters isn't going to be much of an issue seeing as we're getting all 310 eventually - however, getting access to the Traveler ingredients from MKWs rather than Traveler itself means that we don't need to bother at all with the Elf storyline, the Kameha rematch, or any of the story in Traveler. If we can't get all seven of those monsters, then if we can at least get Skullgon and Skulpent, that saves us from unlocking the tower in Traveler, which ain't nothing. Bottom line though, the extra 7 only save a little bit of time. The big 33 is where the real meat of the time save is at.
Monsters collected, in order of acquisition: (52/310)
Slime, CactiBall, CrestPent, Spooky, CurseLamp, Beavern, MadGopher, AntBear, Dracky, ArmyAnt, HoodSquid, DarkEye, EvilWand, DarkCrab, Wyvern, WindBeast, TreeBoy, Orc, Florajay, MadPecker, Grizzly, Puppetor, WildApe, Roboster, RogueNite, Trumpeter, MadSpirit, Andreal, DeadNoble, MetalDrak, BossTroll, ChopClown, LavaMan, Petiteel, Mommonja, Octoreach, SeaHorse, FishRider, OctoKid, Pumpoise, Octogon, Octoraid, GoldGolem, Niterich, KingLeo, KingSquid, MadCondor, Babble, Slabbit, KiteHawk, WhipBird, GreatDrak.
Here Lies Bepis
Rest In Peace
February 17, 2021 - October 7, 2024
A bittersweet farewell. You have to walk before you can run, and now that I'm in a position to actually do a run of this challenge, the time for walking has come to a close.
As a learning exercise, this series was a complete success. I learned what I was doing wrong in my initial approach to Max Catalog, and also learned what I needed to figure out in order to do the category justice. If I hadn't earnestly felt the duty to continue making episodes of this fairly irrelevant and dubiously-optimized Let's Play, I might have given up on DWM2 entirely. Instead, I have drafted a plan for something I once thought impossible: an efficient route for overcoming AND properly harnessing Magic Key World RNG.
Listen to me ramble for one more hour, I ask of you, and rejoice that the next time you'll have the opportunity to hear me ramble about this game, it'll be for several *consecutive* hours! The commentated route playthrough I mention towards the end of the episode is in currently in development, with the first two hours or so of footage finished. I hope to provide a more systematic and thoughtful overview of the Max Catalog experience on that commentary track. Wish me luck!
Something that I forgot to explain towards the end of this episode was the "33 + 7" idea - my "shopping list" of monsters to find in MKWs includes seven optional monsters that are available in the Traveler World, which is a story world key. Said key is only available after you've defeated Kameha a second time. You unlock this rematch by collecting 150 monsters and fully clearing the Elf World (earning a star next to the key name, as I did in this video). Obviously getting 150 monsters isn't going to be much of an issue seeing as we're getting all 310 eventually - however, getting access to the Traveler ingredients from MKWs rather than Traveler itself means that we don't need to bother at all with the Elf storyline, the Kameha rematch, or any of the story in Traveler. If we can't get all seven of those monsters, then if we can at least get Skullgon and Skulpent, that saves us from unlocking the tower in Traveler, which ain't nothing. Bottom line though, the extra 7 only save a little bit of time. The big 33 is where the real meat of the time save is at.
Monsters collected, in order of acquisition: (52/310)
Slime, CactiBall, CrestPent, Spooky, CurseLamp, Beavern, MadGopher, AntBear, Dracky, ArmyAnt, HoodSquid, DarkEye, EvilWand, DarkCrab, Wyvern, WindBeast, TreeBoy, Orc, Florajay, MadPecker, Grizzly, Puppetor, WildApe, Roboster, RogueNite, Trumpeter, MadSpirit, Andreal, DeadNoble, MetalDrak, BossTroll, ChopClown, LavaMan, Petiteel, Mommonja, Octoreach, SeaHorse, FishRider, OctoKid, Pumpoise, Octogon, Octoraid, GoldGolem, Niterich, KingLeo, KingSquid, MadCondor, Babble, Slabbit, KiteHawk, WhipBird, GreatDrak.
Here Lies Bepis
Rest In Peace
February 17, 2021 - October 7, 2024
