V1 or V2 shouldn't make much of a difference either way unless you're doing all levels, seeing as all V2 did was add new allies (the majority being koopaling and magikoopa transformations) and add awoken skills to not fully transformed allies, which wouldn't be useful until the star worlds. The only thing that could be useful is revamped score attack, which if you could get boomerang mario from Fixed Challenge 5 consistently (iirc you have to get SS rank or higher) would save time being able to have an actually good leader as early as World 1

gonna drop my stupid idea here

Mouthful Dee-Tour%

Simple: From a new file:

• Beat the game
• Collect Every Waddle Dee that needs a Mouthful Mode
• Beat every Mouthful Treasure road
• Collect all Blueprints tied to mouthful mode and idk maybe collect all mouthful gatchas :tf:

Yknow I had this random Idea for an extension.

It's called "Metal Gear Mario%"

The rules are simple. Get to 5-7 and beat it as fast as possible. However there are several catches to this.

1. If an enemy spots you, you must defeat it, infinitely respawning enemies do not count. Enemies don't "spot you" (Fuzzies, those Purple Jelly things, Piranha Creepers, Biddybuds, etc.) are fine. Potted Piranha Plants are fine to use but must be killed afterwards.
2. You cannot get spotted in a searchlight in 5-7, if you do, you must restart the level. (Make sure you have a cat suit lmao)
3. (This one is optional ig) You may only use Mario.