Ahh see you've put me in quite a pickle. its an OoT run with new features of awesomeness, but it lacks optimization from the beginning. This tears me in two with how to vote for this run. Feel free to dispute ANY of this if theres a reason for what you do, or something I suggest is impossible. I'm just trying to say my opinion and what I think can/should and can't be improved.
Thoughts while watching the run are as follows:
Throughout run the voice of JXQ flowed throughout my mind. This could be considered a pro or a con, let that be up to you.
Unoptimized dialogs. throughout cutscenes you leave AB A B turbo going. I see all your secrets!
Less backwalking noticed. slightly more entertaining, but definately not faster.
Damage falling down in the deku tree. Why?
No roll while hitting the first deku scrub. (DK64_MASTER)
Unoptimized boss stabbing.
NO, BAD BOY, didn't skip the owl using a deku stick! Big time loss there.
After the first super slide, you break it by moving forward, then backflipping. I'm under the impression a mere backflip would have worked fine.
Constant beeping of doom ("You're gunna die. You're gunna die. You're gunna die.") followed by HEY! HEY! LISTEN! (but that is out of control of the runner)
Could the backwalk to spirit temple with the rotating green things not have been lined up so the sidestepping would not be required?
After child shikah event, you walk paces forward again, before moving backwards.
You kill the two skullutas on the wall before walking up, when as shown in the previous movie, they can be avoided.
After this you hit the switch to bring down the bombchu chest, but you're not standing right next to where it drops. Doing this instead may save time (or may not).
Probably not known to you at the time, but recorded reset is in the latest mupen. Not very important though.
This is where comparisons start getting hard for me so I just have to use my keen eye.
The dodongo's cavern boulder explosion actually looked kind of optimized, so props for that. The rest afterwards I'm not so sure about.
You do an odd slingshot thing when doing the bombchu staircase thing. not sure what thats about.
Now, I'm presuming here that the bomb bag is acquired because we'll need it before the old run got its bomb bag using bombchus. (ahh I see, its to do with not getting the silver gauntlets now)
You get the bombs in the box, presumably because you didn't get the silver gauntlets, which means no goron bracelet. Leaving this in incase I'm wrong.
--Goron's Ruby Acquired. *insert metroid music here*--
You don't get magic. I wonder why (looking back its because you obviously don't need it). You get the chicken bottle. I can guess why. not sure why you go all the way to break the chicken box, then walk back to collect the other one, then walk BACK. perhaps this needs more planning.
Umm? you drop a bomb and do the jump store trick, then waste it doing a super slide? Thats incorrectly performed at best.
Aaand then you go back to the spirit temple. Oh, theives hideout. Aaaah I see. You play optimized for this bit (I think).
LOL at whats in the chest. unexpected.
Lake Hylia. I wonder why you didn't get the bottle from here. Or maybe you're about to.
That fish catching looked slightly unoptimized. Maybe its just me seeing mistakes from nowhere for this particular one.
This is all beginning to feel like some sort of detective story. Like you're finding incredibly random items from some sort of murder case.
Waiting for the elevator could have been more exciting.
and Waiting for the elevator AGAIN when it goes down. Thats very bad timing. major penalties there. Maybe you should do some sort of boomerang tricks while waiting at least. Hehe, boomerwang.
Electric boss of dooooom. only.. you're not attacking it like the last run. Doesn't look like a time saver at all. Haha on the scary panting when the fishy girl appears though. Creepy.
--- Zora's Sapphire Acquired ---
Oh thats baad. you talk to him first before trying bomb staircases? I kinda hope I'm overseeing a reason for that.
I would like to mention at this point in time if anyone has a way of stopping that dying sound with some sort of mupen patch, I will pay you a small amount of money to impliment it. Maybe.
Nice, theres zelda, the girl you met in the castle only you didn't! the plot thickens. Obviously she hates you as she tried to chuck a shiny blue ocarina into your skull.
You've learnt "Classical Gas! I mean, Song of Time!" I wonder what would happen if you were to go visit the castle at this point. Oh well.
I bet you could have backflipped over the spiritual stone altar.
"Thats no moon... its a Ganon!"
Hes travelled 7 years into the future but he still has half a heart. This angers me. Also, when adult link sidejumps, anyone else noticed the "ha! skank skank skank hut" noises he makes?
And so begins what appears to be the looong bottle adventure, despite the fact you got out the mushroom twice, the first time failing (DK64_MASTER). Still, time to watch it all unfold.
Now thats what I call a nice way of getting epona. That impressed me. Meanwhile, BEEPBEEP! BEEPBEEP! BEEPBEEP!
Graveyard. Backflip the fences!
when on the mountain wall, you might have been able to start climbing slightly to the left, so you didn't have to move left when climbing.
FINALLY HEARTS OH GLORIOUS HEARTS! NO MORE ANNOYING SOUND FOR ME!
I was originally expecting you to have light arrows on B, but I guess you just have to get the bow.. shame but okay.
Finally (I think) some of the fight scenes in the castle tower (ascending and descending) don't seem like they were at their fastest. This kind of disappoints me. Also, you do forwards rolls on the final bridge exiting the castle when you could have backwalked. Zelda actually waited for you at one point. Also, the deku nuts weren't thrown at optimal times (a couple seemed delayed).
All in all I'm disappointed. I'm entertained by the new run strategy using reverse bottle adventure, but how unoptimized this run is ruins it for me. I'm very uneasy about the concept of this being unaccepted because of its lack of optimization.
How do I vote? I don't know. Its in that murky spot between "No" and "Meh".
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Compared to the image below:
Uncanny. Really.