Thank you for your comment. I quite understand what you mean, especially just walking for the most part.
One of the most difficult things of making this movie is to get important items dropped by mobs and the boss without waiting so much. It's only about 3% chance to get and besides the rnd of this game is not very random, so items are sometimes dropped three frames in a row and often have to wait more than 100 frames to be dropped. I tried to control the rnd as much as possible not to wait so much. Come to think of it, which item is dropped by each mob is fixed. For example, guys with clubs only drop potions or money ($1, $2, $5, $10 at random).
And when you sleep in an inn to be level 4 to be able to cut down mountains, it's only about 0.5% chance because once you go to bed, the result of her growth is fixed, not changeable in the meantime, so I managed to minimize waiting time by doing something different beforehand.
The glitched wharf allows me to skip some necessary things like getting Marco the Whale and Tiara which are normally essential to beat the game and it takes long, so it's a big improvement.
This is a famous Valkyrie TAS video posted about 9 years ago on YouTube which didn't use the glitched wharf.