I BEAT 2000 EXPERT LEVELS in Super Mario Maker 2

Summary

PangaeaPanga pushes through his 2,000th Expert-level stage in Super Mario Maker 2, and the run is exactly the kind of chaotic, funny, and slightly painful marathon you’d expect. Across a mix of castles, troll setups, hidden blocks, tight platforming, and a surprising number of soft-lock risks, he keeps reacting in real time to each level’s weird design choices. Some stages are clearly thoughtful, others are pure nonsense, and a few are just barely held together by reset doors and good vibes. He spots clever decoration, comments on questionable mandatory coins, and repeatedly laughs through levels that force him to guess, backtrack, or brute-force their secrets. By the end, he hits the milestone, reflects on the grind, checks his leaderboard progress, and jokes about the huge distance still left to his goal, all while celebrating the absurdity of the game’s Expert pool.

Highlights

• A castle stage starts with hidden coin confusion, lava weirdness, and a lot of “wait, where do I go?” energy 🏰
• A boss/coin level mixes thoughtful layouts with some sneaky soft-lock potential and mandatory boss routing 🐢
• A 3D World stage turns into an awkward box-and-pipe excavation puzzle with plenty of improvisation 🧱
• The 2,000th level lands with a coin-heavy finale, and Panga celebrates surviving the Expert grind 🎉
• He wraps by checking ranks, talking about the remaining distance to his long-term goal, and joking about the game’s ridiculous level pool 🏁

Key Takeaways

• 2,000 Expert clears is a huge milestone, and the run is full of classic Panga-style commentary 😂
• Some levels are genuinely clever with good aesthetics, while others lean hard into hidden-block chaos and troll design 🤯
• Soft-lock risks, reset doors, and mandatory coin hunts make the run feel like a constant detective story 🔍
• Panga keeps finding ways to salvage messy sections with patience, cheese, or brute-force platforming 🧠
• The leaderboard check at the end shows how much grind is still ahead, even after 2,000 clears 📈

Overview

This video is basically a victory lap through the chaos of Super Mario Maker 2 Expert mode. PangaeaPanga burns through a stack of levels that range from decently designed to outright cursed, while narrating every weird coin placement, hidden block, and boss interaction like a live commentary track.

A big part of the fun comes from how often the levels try to trick him. He repeatedly runs into mandatory collectibles, off-screen info, deceptive pipes, and sections that look like soft locks until he figures out the intended solution. Even when the stage design is messy, he keeps the pacing lively with jokes and quick reactions.

By the end, the 2,000th clear becomes less about one perfect level and more about the sheer journey of the grind. He checks the leaderboard, reflects on how far he’s come, and reminds viewers just how much ridiculous Mario Maker content is still left to conquer.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 05:00: Opening Castle Chaos and Early Level Skips The player begins the final castle level, joking through the opening while noticing a fire flower and discussing respawns, hidden coins, and how the level is structured. They discover they missed a coin and have to backtrack carefully, using a P-switch and trying to return without dying.
• 05:00 - 10:00: Castle Puzzles, Hidden Triggers, and Ludwig Encounters The segment opens with commentary on a castle puzzle section, noting tricky platforming, a bomb excavation challenge, and the possibility of a reset door or soft lock if the player enters a pipe at the wrong time. The speaker observes that this kind of soft lock seems more like a player-side risk than a major design oversight.
• 10:00 - 15:00: Comment-Reading Through Piranha and Precision Levels The player reacts to a highly commented level, joking about the sheer number of comments while pushing through a piranha-focused challenge. They inspect a secret passage, interact with notes and obstacles, and deal with some awkward platforming/launcher placement before moving on.
• 15:00 - 20:00: Invisible Mechanics, Hidden Blocks, and On/Off Puzzle Design The player encounters a tough, somewhat unoptimized section where hidden blocks and unclear obstacles make progress difficult. They infer that the level is intentionally designed to hide parts of the screen, forcing them to guess the pipe location and use ground-pounding and comments to reveal hidden blocks and keys.
• 20:00 - 25:00: Pick-a-Path Levels, Softlocks, and DLC Side Routes The speaker critiques a creative but awkward level design, noting hidden paths, puzzling sections, and the possibility of harsher softlocks or off-screen deaths. They comment on reset doors, checkpoint placement, and a thumbnail-worthy room, but overall judge the level as weird and somewhat poor despite a few interesting ideas.
• 25:00 - 30:00: Coin Hunts, Koopa/Yoshi Shenanigans, and Mid-Run Progress The group jokes around with tricky platforming setups, trying to recover from deaths and awkward movement while searching for a path upward. They briefly notice a pipe and a small side area, but most of the focus is on experimenting with routes, avoiding falls, and figuring out how the level is laid out.
• 30:00 - 35:00: Late-Run Optimization, Coin Collection, and the Final Push The player spends the opening minutes experimenting with power-ups and navigation, realizing a POW can interact with munchers in unexpected ways and using jump-spamming to get through a section more safely. They comment on the level’s troll-like design, suspect hidden routes, and praise the stage as potentially good despite the chaos.
• 35:00 - 37:30: Completing 2000 Expert Levels and Post-Run Reflections The creator celebrates finally completing 2,000 levels, calling it a major milestone and joking about sacrificing a difficult level along the way. They note the current progress as 112 hours and 135th place on the leaderboard, then reflect on how far they still have to go toward their overall goal, estimating around 3,400 hours remaining.

I BEAT 2000 EXPERT LEVELS in Super Mario Maker 2 Transcription

• Segment 1: 00:00 - 02:30 well one final Castle oh there's another coin clear con hello uh you are not glasses so you must be Larry [Music] make funny if James Thorn actually works maybe he does is Jamestown actually wear glasses well there's one no he doesn't Dang if only he's a lefty though on the Lefty heck wait this fire flower still exists because it doesn't spawn these spawn unless it's three screens of a way I think that's what someone said all right okay apparently these swamps respawn even though they fell in lava [Music] too oh those tactical ducks [Music] um anything here no [Music] foreign [Music] I was looking for you Larry now can you I guess you could stay there all right rip Joe he was this great part of the show James Harden does wear glasses oh sick that's not sick let me wake up okay I missed one somewhere we must go find it and at least go all the way back right at least you can go back that's that's cool oh wait this is a p-switch okay I need to eat it to the p-switch [Music] oh look at this God gamer no I gotta find where the coin is where is it kind of missing some easy display here did I hey don't do this to me why
• Segment 2: 00:00 - 02:30 why you hide one of them how do we set the room so the piece which spawns now I gotta play the game can I make it back
• Segment 3: 02:30 - 05:00 without dying I'm gonna take this slow okay oh no the p-switch no I have to go and do this again [Music] [Applause] okay decent all except for that part one screen climb [Music] I'm gonna get all the coins okay well this is kind of bad is it [Music] I'm hoping the lava goes back down or [Music] that's not to say if I can do all this before it gets to the top of the goal it's kind of insane whoops hey you broke my my books I got two of them uh not bad sure two dash Ludwig's Castle Another Castle where my top of the flagpoles it put some work in the Aesthetics and stuff don't hide mandatory coins though that'd be great [Music] the steel c we'll take DLC it's not mandatory oh look at that watchable as the balls collide except more DLC oh how did that hit me well good DLC though I like how they marked the piranhas the pipes this all seems to be pretty well thought out actually oh I missed more DLC I can go back I would have been mean I would have put the pipe above the ground that way you know Amos is DLC
• Segment 4: 05:00 - 07:30 really should have done that let's put the pipe one Higher that's funny DLC though you see it once you go into the pipe and you're like oh anyways check I'll take that [Music] kind of have to work for this one [Music] tackle D boost that means here is complicated totally right how did I get an up input there what I like this sport though [Music] I hate this part though bomb excavation only one time they know what they're doing actually right I'm trilingual I think it's a reset door I will not jump I like the indication I need to jump to scroll the screen up you always gotta check I don't want that coin oh you know what time it is it's time to nut is it one of these that always goes up I actually didn't pay attention was there was your key or the bottom I hope not I think if you fall I don't know is there a reset door I mean you just died I don't know oh perfect and then if you don't beat him by now you can pinch the foot up top I remember when I played a low like this where we had to wait oh this is a potential this is a potential soft lock I guess technically it is a slight oversight but it's not like the biggest I like the little the soft lock you gotta point out at least it's one of those soft locks where it's like you kind of need to go potentially out of your way to get soft locked rather than you accidentally get soft locked by you know like a little Timmy Kaiser block or something those are the ones that are just like all right bro you gotta fix
• Segment 5: 05:00 - 07:30 that this one's like more like a on you I'll point out anyways so yeah
• Segment 6: 07:30 - 10:00 well you can't even go back because you if you go back Ludwig's at the bottom and he doesn't spawn so anyway you saw flock is if you enter the pipe before defeating Ludwig so but there's a little chance to that happening but it's always to be safe than sorry I think outside the books [Music] Mark what is what I love this I know exactly what you do I thought the timer was 10 seconds so I panicked but you get the pal dropping here you get the mushroom scene over here and then you win the level okay well they can spawn since you're in tracks I'm pretty sure you have to spawn it first I think the way it works is you spawn it and then it never despawns not it globally spawns so you'll Bop you know Bob you know Bob and you go Bob taking notes and then you go Bop Bingo Bop anyone that's kind of short yeah sure I can see it people go in the pipe though because sometimes you get those boss crystals where you don't even need to beat the boss you kind of skip them especially with Bowsers you just put a Bowser there and you're like oh you actually need to defeat you I can see it happening but I guess it's a low chance one screen World 4-4 oh these are icy okay this is gonna be slightly annoying [Music] oh ice is tough to deal with [Music] [Applause] good thing icicles are bad boxes [Music] hey Tada you're doing a little skip it taught it [Music] [Applause] so I didn't push left oh I didn't expect wow that looks like a
• Segment 7: 07:30 - 10:00 frame perfect twirl I'm just gonna I'm gonna ride back up I don't trust running over that Gap or jumping in an icicle that's kind of tough oh top though look a little [Music] level five final Another Castle
• Segment 8: 10:00 - 12:30 the bros man they can't be stopped do you have to be defeated no [Music] yep expert alrighty good little right there level five final piranha Slayer defeat all 80 piranha plants sounds like we're gonna be a lonker there it is oh my goodness what are all these comments I really do like Halo once I just I want to read all these I can't eat these comments are going way too fast but this one drawing one's pretty POG look at it come back Mr drawing this first apparently felt insecure anyways it's probably like a really popular level there's so many Commons so is this three minutes [Music] okay let's just say I said all right it do me all it would be a Mauler though I don't know could be wait we have creativity not yet here's a secret passageway someone says [Music] foreign wait let me get these guys [Music] I can't get that last one can you oh yeah [Music] I give up let's go over here longest this works too [Music] let's get the secret passageway [Music] we got some notes going on oh my God that was in a crown trapped [Music] e sharp D heck foreign notes [Music] uh let's do this are you joshing me why couldn't you put a third launcher
• Segment 9: 10:00 - 12:30 what is this he put three Vines and two launchers I'm on it I'm over it foreign [Music]
• Segment 10: 12:30 - 15:00 thank you oh nice the cannon boat didn't spawn wait that happened to me too the camo didn't spawn earlier while now it did anyways [Music] ruined the 69 briefly only found 65 not good enough decolon it's okay you can go back at least you can go back great little kind of a Chalker though on our power steering 20 seconds more comments remember don't throw unless it says throw right there said the throw and I threw balcony cost me everything no one didn't strong meh no 10 that's not second ten coin I learned about Toge not really I just remember it being in levels oh shoot oh no the other one was gonna stop right there I didn't check the clear con I'll five I'll stand here actually this one's kind of annoying to get let's see this I can't remember if you have to duck when you're small I think you do not risk unducking wait I might have screwed up I'm good oh that's the entire level I do that okay so these guys oh these guys are we just chill down here this is a little tougher though um
• Segment 11: 15:00 - 17:30 uh oh almost through not a bad idea for a LOL though Let's uh let's go down here I wondered the roll record shrats would be [Music] I predict the record was 13 seconds 40 wow actually wow [Music] it's pretty tough or unoptimized probably unoptimized you agree 30 second speed run this is gonna be tough more generic probably just generic oh very generic but maybe I like her no not this trick [Music] not this trick no not this jump oh not generic anymore don't have blocks only two uh yeah ho ho ho no shot I pronounced that correctly okay I don't think this is a troll based on this I think they're using it intentionally to set up a non-scrolling screen so um well I can't show you what this looks like is I have to jump and guess where the pipe is I think maybe there's a trollo I'm Gonna Go Far right here [Music] oh did I guess correctly [Music] okay what are all these comments oh you thought I was dead key ground pound here why why what is that Japanese [Music] this is a little more acceptable if there's like no hole just fall off and die I'm just holding right am I dead no I think they just making Grandpa everywhere unless there's some and ground pounding here was my key is this common Josh ruining me what the heck
• Segment 12: 15:00 - 17:30 there's another comment on the left oh wait I understand it I think it says there's a there's a hidden block right here what
• Segment 13: 17:30 - 20:00 oh okay so you ground pound that and then I think I can get this key now [Music] okay [Music] okay I see what they're doing they're just making this a you can't see what you're doing level but that also means you don't know what you need to do like what is this you're supposed to find a p-switch now although the hidden mushroom is kind of scuffed oh it's like kind of not bad actually there's an on off here you know what let me let me go commentless let's see [Music] we have an on off you like how tall this little head is just peeking out across however I think this little kind of gets ruined by the fact that you just pretty much ground pound everywhere until something happens on off now what oh I understand actually big brain play on off reset room [Music] I thought I'd do something wait how is Todd its head bouncing up an O when she runs her heads up a little what anyways what are we doing I think we're just trying to find a hidden t-switch block do something you know okay well there's no hidden block one block blower fine let's say you again and maybe something will happen what [Music] okay now I don't know what we do here we're looking for a pipe pipe any pipers [Music] wait what what this is a scope am I falling down what all right can I go right now [Music] pipers
• Segment 14: 17:30 - 20:00 any pipers okay
• Segment 15: 20:00 - 22:30 I'm pretty sure they were trying to be creative I think the idea is uh the the worst although playing it wasn't also the best I think that seems like a little that potential I'm actually kind of curious so like want to look at this in the editor add some puzzling Parts although half of it turned into just you know find a hidden whatever I think it would have been worse if you could have died ah like off screen like if there's a pit I just wanted to see how the on off work all I had to do was hit it twice then I not hit it twice I guess I never did that room so this is how he fell down just Cloud blocks now if you go too fast you don't this room was kind of interesting because you could like see uh you can see half the thought it said and then you go down one lower it's like oh I think if you go down one more then you can't see anything and there's a pipe this term is why they put a reset door I don't understand that one oh if the p-switch runs out I don't know yeah but there's like a random pit here that'd be bad this is how you do this one huh oh you ground pound and then I guess you get the Q that way what is this oh this is the thumbnail shot okay I see what they're trying to do though this room definitely was the worst the weirdest this room was pretty someone created and this one was just an R what's moment man there's a thumbnail shot not bad though could be better we'll give them that anyway is this little better be good for no reason right level 1996 better be the best I'll ever played Donner I know what that is okay well I missed the hole oh I I got in the hole and expected I
• Segment 16: 20:00 - 22:30 wanted the Bonk so I'd stop but I kept going you know what we're just going all right we're Going the Distance and I'm guessing some of these as a key in it sure or are you sure it means Thunder does it [Music] what on Earth is this is like Timothy coming out to play [Music] well that would be bad if I lost my fire flower not too many more checkpoint [Music]
• Segment 17: 22:30 - 25:00 oh I've streamed I don't know okay it's probably not worth it to be big wait I actually need the springboard no I don't I just jump up here I lost my springboard [Music] another checkpoint I don't know if this is supposed to be pick a path where you can see that these two are wrong but we'll go up here I guess what [Music] oh I can't get the top anymore that was quality level okay the record Final Answer 1996 kinda sucked grip pinzas it's the Sun and it's angry and it's the claws I'm gonna be clawed the Sun oh I don't think I can get the top there's no shot I can get the top okay all right sure 3D wow the 30 world uh I didn't read the rest of that we're doing 3D World [Music] did I say 3D up top of those [Music] [Music] creative the more importantly this is cheese I know how to do that [Music] I got a beer nothing in the walls blocked off all right we'll play Steve [Music] look at this I think I have to keep these power up oh yeah I do oh look at this excavation coming up hot I think I might have messed up no I think we're good [Music] um can I pick this up I guess I can do that too [Music]
• Segment 18: 22:30 - 25:00 it's not gonna work is it [Music] roll gang okay don't do that ever again oh this is turning into today please moment
• Segment 19: 25:00 - 27:30 can we actually need Tana to not have an arm I think it should work how [Music] I'm dead actually I can save this bro I'm dead heck it's two minutes of good fun I will do this I need like one box to be super far [Music] like is that even gonna work no I didn't want a hammer [Music] [Music] oh wow that was way more difficult than it should have been got to go up everyone up did we go up and just pick a path we got a nickel time down there let's let's over here we see maybe we can see what's up top [Music] it's a door I'm pretty sure that that upwards place takes me to the pipe I don't know why there was a pipe up top we have uh you know what is this a little place to eat moment over here can that was really the worst thing that could have happened I just we don't talk about that I didn't expect to fall off my head I just want to play them all it's it's that's why I don't think that's gonna work there's no shot that works [Music] I thought I could roll like your boy I thought I could roll like you know like like do something like this and like stop the roll like right before the wall actually might be able to how far it could be like she was five blocks worth oh maybe not [Music] oh look at that should we go up here
• Segment 20: 27:30 - 30:00 might be a daredevil and go I'll go up here after I I make a pathway here all right we're going up what could go wrong I get soft locked oh wait oh wait it's even oh there's so many pads do I go left here another pipe I'm feeling lefties [Music] okay maybe worth okay we get some DLC anything else up top no it's just DLC oh rip 69. oh we have to go here now oh so that was all entirely DLC what about this store [Music] okay this all is actually [Music] is it more DLC it do be more DLC okay I don't think this all is bad the the Box part is kind of tough but other than that and with the excavation okay let's not die this time please we're gonna be up we're gonna jump from up here okay and we're just gonna go nice and slow okay [Music] Amy's gonna give us a boomer next or a fire flower oh yeah it's not good but at least it's not like total garbage [Music] no there's a checkpoint mutant that's a soft lock don't go up there pipa now let's say that soft lock is a little oh shoot [Music] that soft lock sucks though because to get back to that point it is like three minutes that one's like maybe potentially not out of your way because you gotta get that red coin overall weird level there is son yeah look at that
• Segment 21: 30:00 - 32:30 I can read oh it's a 50. 50 30 30. [Music] are you Google [Music] okay I have high hopes Maybe I hope what does this mean Ah that's what that means [Music] let's also go back foreign team watch this now I have a pal what will I do with this newfound Power Hour get it I don't know [Music] oh I tried 69. well it was worth had this power look at my lamp that I am holding my my candle I don't know what else to call the source of light that I'm holding because without it would actually kind of suck they do have the fire though for elimination [Music] this actually might be a good level oh shoot yo what the heck all right what it went through the munchers you can't kill munchers on a track with a pow [Music] what is up here why did Mickey want to go back [Music] doesn't look like there's anything I was looking up top didn't even pay attention this looks suss [Music] nice I was hoping for actually a power all right we're just gonna spam jump I think yeah it's way better [Music] not bad Morgan no this is it level 2000 coming at you hot What's it gonna be hot Garbo good level of troll level Long Level let's zinc
• Segment 22: 30:00 - 32:30 length level mall or let's find out it is something I will not pronounce but you can grab at least 260 coins [Music]
• Segment 23: 32:30 - 35:00 feels like a lower they're gonna have like 10 50 coins at the end of the level if I were to guess that's my that's my guess all right [Music] surely you're not pick a door wait we can get some knowledge here and my knowledge I mean I'm just gonna cheese it no I got coin blocked it appears all 2000 sucks but we'll play it out because it's a little 2000 unless you count skips and we're in level 2 100 and something all right let me actually hit you with some knowledge already they definitely just pick a path we'll figure out which one's the correct door [Music] this door is the correct door however there's no Coin Block over this one I'll let it slide for now I'm just kidding there's coin blocks they were in this level [Music] shoot shoot no I my up buttoned I got a bond okay well besides the ticket path it's garbage because of all these coin blocks man it's the only one that I didn't have one okay so where's that fire far I hit [Music] right here I didn't want to hit that I wanted to jump over this uh um [Music] I probably should trust this pipe never mind sure yoshman [Music] [Applause] this definitely is a lull with like a million coins in the last two seconds of a level I like this one better [Music] okay well here's the goal is 150. anymore 50s
• Segment 24: 32:30 - 35:00 [Music] oh green yoshman our time has come to an end it's time to be friends with radio shmen but green ocean is a chilling on the goal okay or near the goal thank you
• Segment 25: 35:00 - 37:30 tail is closed the coins were somewhat near the end but what's more important is we have successfully done two thousand levels goodbye you're the sacrifice we've done it I've achieved my goal even though I skipped a lot what a moment terrible level though next page sorry the green yoshman lived the red yoshman lives in our hearts there it is cold Waring 326 2000 done 112 hours 135th and we are more than 135th of the way there to our goal which I don't know if I'll actually reach only 3 400 hours left that's not that bad actually I have more hours on the other games so theoretically you can do it we've gone two thousand though we'll keep going quick we can take a brief look at the leaderboard as a quick reminder of how far my goal actually is so over 326 some seppuku up number one and then the 69 420 both 420 69 and 69420 would put me in fourth and these guys have been playing since game release I I have a two-year catch-up on this so on the bright side if I do like 10 more levels I think I move a fair amount of ranks just kidding I move about like four ranks was 20 23. yo when we get to the year 2023 it will be 320th place that's pretty hype anyways yes another season has been completed thank you guys so much for watching hope you enjoyed the vast amount of garbage that is in this game I'm looking forward to seeing the compilation of the stats because I'm a big stats guy with like all the different levels I got the stats are pretty in-depth some person like that keeps track of the sassy like the list of their everything about the level including the level name the country and clear rates and all that stuff it's pretty pretty cool so we'll see how uh two thousand to
• Segment 26: 35:00 - 37:30 three thousand will be surprisingly I don't think I ever got back to 69 lives did I like the last hundred levels or something it's a memorable memorable moment still not actually I don't even remember what the most memorable part about this run was the somaliers were the most memorable part honestly I think that's so much for watching