Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler

Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler The title screen of Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler Details Type(s) Extra Mode Levels 5 Players 1-4 Appears in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe Comparable to Heroes in Another Dimension

Theme music "Judgment of the Malus Pumila" Clip of the main theme associated with Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler

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Alone in a strange dimension and without his powers, Magolor must platform through challenging stages and defeat enemies. You and up to 3 friends can take control of different-colored Magolors for 4-player interdimensional action. Complete the main story to unlock this new adventure!

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— Description of Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler from the North American website for Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler is an Extra Mode that appears in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, which is unlocked after the Story Mode is complete. In it, the player plays as Magolor, who has been stranded deep within Another Dimension and has lost most of his magical powers, gaining a ragged monochrome look in the process. Throughout this adventure, Magolor can defeat enemies to gain Magic Points, which he can then use to upgrade his magical abilities. He can also find Fruit Fragments to unlock new skills and attacks. Along the way, Magolor travels through more than 20 stages and fights a series of powerful elemental bosses, most of which are different variants of bosses from the Main Mode, with the goal being to eventually open a portal to leave this dreary set of dimensions. Like with the Main Mode, Magolor Epilogue can be played with up to four players, though everyone plays as differently-colored Magolors.

Plot

Part of the opening scene, where Magolor is reduced to a colorless tattered version of his robes

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After being defeated by Kirby... Magolor woke to find he'd lost his magical abilities and much of his strength. The tale of his triumphant return now begins.

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— Notice prompt from the opening stage

As a result of his defeat at the hands of Kirby and friends, Magolor has been banished to the deepest depths of Another Dimension and stripped of most of his powers. Unbeknownst to him, the Master Crown's remnants have also followed him. When Magolor wakes up, he finds himself significantly weakened. After he scouts the new area for a bit and defeats an ambush of enemies, Magolor is able to recover a Fruit Fragment, which restores a bit of his magic.

The fragment teleports Magolor to an ominous place called the Ethereal Altar, where it lights one of five torches, thus setting Magolor's goal in action: to reclaim all of the Fruit Fragments and recover the full power of his magic. Magolor explores four distinct dimensions, where he finds more Fruit Fragments by defeating elemental bosses. After all five torches at the Ethereal Altar are lit, the fragments merge to form a familiar-looking red fruit — but before Magolor can retrieve it, the remnants of the Master Crown coalesce into Crowned Doomer, which consumes the fruit. Magolor destroys this Doomer, but with the Ethereal Altar in ruins, the Master Crown once again emerges and possesses the red fruit to form a demonic tree. After Magolor weakens the crown, he pulls out a sword from the rubble and transforms it into his own Ultra Sword, atoning for his misdeeds and seemingly destroying the crown for good.

With a small sapling left from the tree's defeat, Magolor comes across a dimensional rift that allows him to escape this dimension. The rift sends him and the sapling to a parallel universe, which also changes Magolor's outfit to a new one consisting of green and white. When Magolor comes across a castle town, he plants the sapling in the town square, allowing it to begin growing into a fruit-bearing tree. Finally, he sets up shop, happily starting a new life in this alternate world for a time. It is implied through some of Magolor's extra dialogue in Extra Mode that later, after the events of the Team Kirby Clash games, Magolor would use the capital he earned from the shop to return to Popstar and build Merry Magoland.

Overview

When starting out in Magolor Epilogue, Magolor is very weak, able to only hover a short distance off the ground and fire a short range magic pulse to defend himself with. By the end, he will be wielding seriously powerful magic again.

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The shattered crown was scattered across dimensions, as were Magolor's powers. Now he seeks to reclaim them! Is this a journey of penance or revenge? And what surprises await at the end?!

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— Special Page for Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler

Magolor's goal throughout this mode is to recover his lost power and eventually find his way home. As such, all of the stages in Magolor Epilogue take place in disparate dimensions, similar to the stages in Heroes in Another Dimension from Kirby Star Allies.

There are 19 main stages across the four dimensions comprising the Magolor Epilogue, along with 12 Ordeal Door stages, each one testing one of Magolor's Magical Skills, plus two bonus ones, which must be unlocked. Most of the main stages keep score in the form of Magic Points, which are earned by defeating enemies or finding them in various places in stages. Additional Magic Points may be earned by scoring "combos" on enemies, with each additional hit adding one count to the combo. At the end of each stage, the game will present the total number of Magic Points earned. If applicable, the game awards a medal based on the result, similar to the scoring system for stages in Kirby's Epic Yarn and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse. Once Magolor gains enough Magic Points, he can spend them from the "Magolor's Magical Skills" menu to upgrade his abilities. If he wants to learn new skills and attacks, he needs to find the Fruit Fragments scattered around the realms, which are collected from bosses in a similar way to the ship parts of the Lor Starcutter in the Main Mode. Collecting the Fruit Fragments from all four dimensions unlocks the final stage, accessible from the Ethereal Altar.

In terms of enemies, Magolor fights the standard enemies from the Main Mode, with the notable addition of the Darpas, Dippas, Dupas, and Deppas from Another Dimension, and other enemies bearing their Halcandran designs. There are, however, a number of distinct bosses based on bosses from the main story, as well as a new final boss:

• Electricky Dooter - a version of Mr. Dooter dressed as a wizard who uses lightning attacks.
• Fiery Puffer - a version of Fatty Puffer with horns who uses fiery attacks.
• Hydriath - a version of Goriath with a fishtail and hair made of water who uses watery attacks.
• Rampaging Doomers - a group of four Sphere Doomers with horns made out of Energy Sphere gears.
• Crowned Doomer - a version of Grand Doomer powered up by the shards of the Master Crown and a red fruit.
• Master Crown - a manifestation of the Master Crown itself, taking the form of a large, gnarled tree by consuming the red fruit.

Areas and stages

The main hub of Magolor Epilogue is subdivided into five "areas", four of which are named dimensions and the last of which is the Ethereal Altar. These areas are analogous to levels in the Main Mode, though here a singular hub connects the entry points to stages from all levels. As Magolor clears each stage, he can progressively unlock more and more of the hub by dispelling obscuring clouds and gaining new skills that allow him to traverse certain barriers. Upgrading certain skills like Levitation is necessary to access certain stages, as well as obtain some hidden Magic Points in the hub itself. Each dimension has up to four numbered stages, a boss stage, and at least three extra stages. The stages are as follows:

Dimensions and stages in Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler
Dimension/Area	Main stages	Ordeal Doors and bonus stages	Boss(es)	Notes
N/A	Opening Stage			Magolor learns Magic Bomb after completing this first stage. This stage cannot be replayed after first completing it.
Aerogree Dimension	1-1 1-2 1-3 1-BOSS	Magic Sphere Levitation Health	Electricky Dooter	Magolor learns Magolor Surge and Magolor Cannon after completing this dimension.
Pyred Dimension	2-1 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-BOSS	Magolor Surge Magic Bomb Upward Magic Sphere Secret Stage	Fiery Puffer	Magolor learns Dimensional Vanish and Deadly Needles after completing this dimension.
Poseiblu Dimension	3-1 3-2 3-3 3-4 3-BOSS	Deadly Needles Magic Barrier Dimensional Vanish	Hydriath	Magolor learns Black Hole after completing this dimension.
Locandra Dimension	4-1 4-2 4-3 4-4 4-BOSS	Magolor Cannon Black Hole Trickery Extra Stage	Rampaging Doomers	Magolor is able to increase all his skills to their true max after completing this dimension.
Ethereal Altar	Last Stage		Crowned Doomer Master Crown	The game is complete after finishing this stage.

• In the Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese versions, the first letters of every area's unique name (with "Ethereal Altar" at the end) spell out "APPLE", referencing the Fruit Fragments becoming a Gem Apple sprout. Some liberties do need to be taken in the case of the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese versions in constructing this initialism:
  • The Japanese and Korean names for Aerogree Dimension technically have romanizations starting in E but start with transliterations of the English word "air" and therefore would be understood as "starting" with A.
  • The Chinese name of Poseiblu Dimension technically starts with B when romanized using pinyin, but nonetheless refers to Poseidon and would be understood as "starting" with P.
  • Due to the fact that "L" and "R" sounds do not occur in the same way in Japanese or Korean as in English, the Japanese and Korean equivalents to "Locandra" have romanizations starting with R but could easily be understood as "starting" with L.
• In the German version, the first letters of the areas spell out "APFEL", which translates to "apple" in German.
• In the Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese versions, the first letters of the areas spell out "FRUTA", which translates to "fruit" in both Spanish and Portuguese.
• In the French versions, the first letters of the areas spell out "POMME", which translates to "apple" in French.
• In the Italian version, the first letters of the areas spell out "FRUTTA", which translates to "fruit" in Italian. Both letters in "Dimensione Terra-Aere" (Ethereal Altar) are used to make this initialism work.
• In the Dutch version, the first letters of the areas spell out "APPEL", which translates to "apple" in Dutch.

Trivia

• In a Miiverse post about Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe, series director Shinya Kumazaki appears to have hinted at the premise of this mode. When talking about Magolor's role in the game, he said, "Magolor’s whereabouts are uncertain after Kirby’s Return to Dream Land, but he seems pretty lively here. After roaming around the dimension beyond space and time, he might’ve found an exit."
  • Likewise, Kumazaki had previously stated in the July 2017 issue of Nintendo DREAM that Magolor from Team Kirby Clash Deluxe is the same person as Magolor from the main series, which is explicitly confirmed in the ending of this mode.
• The Japanese subtitle for Magolor Epilogue, 異空イクウをかける旅人タビビト (ikū wo kakeru tabibito, "The Traveler Across Another Dimension"), is the same as the Japanese name of Distant Traveler, the final stage of Dedede's Drum Dash, though the katakana and hiragana are flipped (異空いくうヲカケル旅人たびびと). Likewise, the Korean subtitle for the epilogue is also identical to the Distant Traveler stage name from Dedede's Drum Dash. Consequently, the song "Distant Traveler" had its name retranslated to "Interdimensional Traveler".
• Interestingly, the opening cutscene shows Magolor Soul when flashing back to Magolor's defeat rather than his Story Mode form, even though Magolor Epilogue can be played before clearing Extra Mode.
• This mode does not contain any water. Its absence is most notable in the Extra Stage, which modifies areas that originally had water in the main game to remove it.

Gallery

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  Artwork of Interdimensional Magolor

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  Artwork of a Fruit Fragment

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  Japanese logo

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  Part of the opening scene, where Magolor is falling into the depths of Another Dimension

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  Part of the opening scene, where Magolor falls through a portal to another realm

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  Magolor wakes up and examines his condition

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  The Ethereal Altar

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  Magolor finds a Fruit Fragment

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  Magolor fighting Fiery Puffer

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  Magolor recovers another Fruit Fragment

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  Magolor is using his Deadly Needles attack

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  Magolor is using his Double Deadly Needles attack

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  Magolor is firing a laser at three Galbos

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  Magolor traversing the level hub for Aerogree Dimension

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  Magolor using his meager remaining magic power to fight off an enemy

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  Magolor getting a Magic Point combo

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  A stage clear screen

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  Gameplay featuring four Magolors

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  Magolor's Magical Skills menu

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  A splash card explaining a new skill that Magolor learned from a Fruit Fragment

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  Magolor using Magolor Surge to bypass a flaming bar hazard

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  Magolor up against the Rampaging Doomers

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  Magolor looking around in the remains of the Ethereal Altar after defeating the Master Crown

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  Hub map

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	マホロアエピローグ 異空イクウをかける旅人タビビト mahoroa epirōgu ikū wokakeru tabibito	Magolor Epilogue: The Traveler Across Another Dimension
Traditional Chinese	魔法洛亞後記 穿越異空間的旅人 Mófǎ luò yà hòujì chuānyuè yì kōngjiān de lǚrén	Magolor Epilogue: The Traveler Across Different Dimensions
Simplified Chinese	魔法洛亚后记 穿越异空间的旅人 Mófǎ luò yà hòujì chuānyuè yì kōngjiān de lǚrén
Dutch	Magolor-epiloog: Reiziger tussen dimensies	Magolor Epilogue: Traveler Between Dimensions
French	Épilogue de Magolor : Le voyageur interdimensionnel	Magolor's Epilogue: The interdimensional traveler
German	Magolor-Epilog: Reisender der Dimensionen	Magolor Epilogue: Traveler of Dimensions
Italian	Magolor - Epilogo: Il viaggiatore interdimensionale	Magolor - Epilogue: The interdimensional traveler
Korean	마버로아 에필로그 이공을 건너는 여행자 Mabeoloa Epillogeu Igong-eul Geonneoneun Yeohaengja	Magolor Epilogue: The Dimension-crossing Traveler
Portuguese	Epílogo do Magolor: O viajante interdimensional	Magolor's Epilogue: The interdimensional traveler
Spanish	Epílogo de Maglor: El viajero interdimensional	Magolor's Epilogue: The interdimensional traveler