Skyward Sword

TLoZSR

2013-02-03 10:19:17 pm

Quote from Paraxade:

Congrats, that sounds like a crazy time. Tongue

Was that all just optimization or were there any new tricks found since my run?

Hey parax! Thanks Smiley

The route is mostly still the same, however, obviously there's the faster early thunderhead. However, we get 2 bottles in JP now, partly to save revitalizing potion for cistern, which costs 5 seconds, but well worth it imo. The other reason is to buy an air potion to do tadtones on, I have a tadtones route that's about 1:15 faster than the route zfg made. However, buying the potion takes about 30 seconds, and you need the potion lady's bottle to actually buy her potions. Oh yeah, and another time saver is opening gate in BiT, which iirc saves about a minute. so probably like 2 minutes of route optimizations, the rest was just very good gameplay.

My harp portion was nearly perfect, I got 1:43:26 there, that includes getting the potion lady's bottle. After harp my run starts failing a bit, I lost about 40 seconds in cistern (them archers too stronk) and lost a lot in sand sea as well (skipper's retreat is like the hardest part of the run, I swear.) Sandship I pick it back up again, nearly perfect there, fire sanctuary was ok, missed one cycle on the lava hands. Imp 2 - the end of tadtones was absolutely perfect. Bokoblin base almost ended my run, but I clutched it and only lost 40 seconds instead. Skykeep first puzzles were rough, maybe 20-25 seconds there. The rooms in skykeep were perfect though. Got horde skip, got near perfect ghirham 3 fight, and perfect demise.

Holy shit, that was longer than I wanted to type, but hopefully that gives you a good idea of what happened. My best splits give me a 5:27, but it's just too ridiculous to get that time. The 5:34 is already better than I wanted.

[quote="Paraxade"]Congrats, that sounds like a crazy time. :P Was that all just optimization or were there any new tricks found since my run?[/quote]

Hey parax! Thanks :) The route is mostly still the same, however, obviously there's the faster early thunderhead. However, we get 2 bottles in JP now, partly to save revitalizing potion for cistern, which costs 5 seconds, but well worth it imo. The other reason is to buy an air potion to do tadtones on, I have a tadtones route that's about 1:15 faster than the route zfg made. However, buying the potion takes about 30 seconds, and you need the potion lady's bottle to actually buy her potions. Oh yeah, and another time saver is opening gate in BiT, which iirc saves about a minute. so probably like 2 minutes of route optimizations, the rest was just very good gameplay.

My harp portion was nearly perfect, I got 1:43:26 there, that includes getting the potion lady's bottle. After harp my run starts failing a bit, I lost about 40 seconds in cistern (them archers too stronk) and lost a lot in sand sea as well (skipper's retreat is like the hardest part of the run, I swear.) Sandship I pick it back up again, nearly perfect there, fire sanctuary was ok, missed one cycle on the lava hands. Imp 2 - the end of tadtones was absolutely perfect. Bokoblin base almost ended my run, but I clutched it and only lost 40 seconds instead. Skykeep first puzzles were rough, maybe 20-25 seconds there. The rooms in skykeep were perfect though. Got horde skip, got near perfect ghirham 3 fight, and perfect demise.

Holy shit, that was longer than I wanted to type, but hopefully that gives you a good idea of what happened. My best splits give me a 5:27, but it's just too ridiculous to get that time. The 5:34 is already better than I wanted.