Minimum Captures Darker Side

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Darker Side Minimum Captures is a subcategory of Minimum Captures that involves completing the Darker Side category while capturing as few objects or enemies as possible. This entails reaching the Darker Side kingdom without purchasing more than one Power Moon from any shop, which is forbidden by the rules of the Darker Side category.

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The format of a Darker Side Minimum Captures run is to complete Any% Minimum Captures and collect as many moons as possible without capturing any additional objects. In single-player runs, it is possible to obtain over 500 moons and thus reach Darker Side without any additional captures.

However, two-player Any% Minimum Captures runs utilize Morning Metro to reach the Metro Kingdom early in a state where there are not as many moons available. Because of this, there is generally no way to obtain 500 moons without additional captures, meaning one extra object must be captured to reach that total. The easiest way to do this is to simply exclude Morning Metro from the run, and fight Mechawiggler as normal, but the extra capture can theoretically be anything the player chooses.

There is one exception to this: if one begins a two-player run on version 1.0.0 and allows the use of Assist Mode, it is possible to collect 497 moons, and updating the game to version 1.0.1 or later will then cause the Multi Moon from Madame Broode to be automatically awarded to the player, resulting in a total of 500 moons. However, there are some moons in the Snow Kingdom that can be only accessed before achieving World Peace (which requires a capture) on version 1.0.0, so performing the entire run on any one version is not possible.

Note that it is not actually necessary in any case to capture an additional object to reach Darker Side, since after beating the game, the player can purchase extra Power Moons from each Crazy Cap shop and acquire as many as needed. However, since this is against the rules of the Darker Side category, a valid Darker Side Minimum Captures run must collect 500 unique Power Moons prior to traveling to Darker Side. Otherwise, the run would be considered a Darker Side Dupes run rather than a Darker Side run.

2P, version 1.0.0-1.1.0 2P, version 1.2.0-1.3.0 1P, version 1.0.0-1.1.0 1P, version 1.2.0-1.3.0
Capture Count 4-5 (see above) 6 13 16
Madame Broode Skip
Morning Metro
Bowser's Kingdom wire skips
Pokio Skip
Nut jumping
500 moons without extra captures See above
Darker Side dungeon skip Frog Airswim or Cappy return cancel[1] Cappy return cancel[1] Frog Airswim
Yoshi Skip
Glydon Upflight

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