Game objectives

• Emulator used: Bizhawk 2.7
• Primary goal: speed (no time-entertainment trade-offs)
• Takes damage and uses deaths to save time

Game mechanics and route discussion

Comments

• Skipping Thing and two money bags reduced the time spent in the right Landing by 1142f. The two money bags were compensated by picking up two extra in the blue bone room (cost 594f). Not having Thing is 22 frames slower in the kitchen/freezer/furnace and 171 frames slower on the roof. Overall, a time save of 355f. Note that this comparison is made based on using Thing once in the freezer and twice on the roof, which is different from what the previous TAS did (but the fastest option when having Thing that I've found).
• A new death abuse while collecting a money bag in the gallery (after giving the right music manuscript to Lurch). This made the room 122f faster than jumping to the top and collecting the money bag at the end. However, as a result, a 1-up had to be picked up in the freezer (8-12f, depending on the cycle of $45A) and going after a more out-of-the-way money bag while waiting for Lurch to play the left music manuscript (79f). Overall, a time save of not more than 33f, but visually noticeable.
• Death abusing in the kitchen after the furnace saves 106f compared to walking through the room. It's also generally better from a health management perspective, allowing more damage to be taken elsewhere, saving even more time.
• The swim mechanics were puzzling at first, to say the least. But I feel that I now have a good understanding of them, which made more optimal movement in the pond possible. The new movie is 368f faster.
• Skipping a death abuse in the green bone room. While it's 28f faster to leave the room by dying at the top (while collecting the bone), like the previous TAS did, the next death in the garden outside the crypt will be much slower because of the full lifebar and the invincibility period from the death in the green bone room still being active. Overall 117f saved.
• 64f saved by a more direct route in the tree.