Hello, this is Crash41596 "The guy who discovered the turtle soup skip". I would like to join in on the tas. I do have a very optimized route for this run that I would like to share and some what execute.
Route
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Glimmer 100%
Summer Forest 1
- Get half of the gems in the first area(Due to needing swim), then continue to where Elora is. Then jump down and get the gems on the ground, go up the stairs get the one gem next to the teleporters,proceed and get the 2 baskets then get the 2 gems behind colossus.
Colossus 100%
Summer Forest 2
-Pay for swim then clear out the area next to the idol springs.
Idol Springs 100%
Summer Forest 3
-Do hunter's challenge then do a double jump through the building, bringing you back to the start of summer forest, clear out that area, then go in the water and clear it out getting the orb, then clear out the area below colossus and continue normally to hurricos collecting gems.
Hurricos 100%
Sunny Beach 100%
-Use turtle soup skip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC1S2cO22c also possible while flaming the turtle then jumping on it, then doing a double jump.
Summer Forest 4
-Collect what ever gems are before Ocean Speedway
Ocean Speedway
-I remember having a very good route for this. It's probably in my speedrun some where. I always manage to get a sub 1m
Summer Forest 5
Collect all the gems before the orb, then get the orb, then double jump on to the aquaria tower's barrier, then do the charge swim in air with the water next to the sunny beach area, then get the orb up to along with the gems, then clear out all the gems before the boss.
Aquaria Tower's 100%
Crush
-Abuse getting hit to keep Crush from moving from platform to platform, then when the platforms turn blue do not get hit and have him go to a blue pad, then abuse getting hit to keep him on the blue platforms, because the blue platforms are the fasted.
That is the route for the first hub world. The rest is pretty easy to route. Who knew the first hub of the game would be the most confusing to route.
They're the same.