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Twisted_Eye wrote:
"Roping over to the Abyss" is probably faster than what I did, though it would probably take some research for exact amounts. Like, is it faster to:
A) Do my route as is,
B) Do my route but Ankh out of Pride after collecting the third oil, Rope over to the Abyss,
C) skip all the oils and Ankh out of Pride, Rope over to the Abyss, and collect the three hidden oils at Johann's,
D) skip all the oils and Ankh out of Pride, Rope over to the Abyss, and do that Abyss puzzle as originally intended?
Oh, I'm not even aware of the Johann secret. But, you could definitely do it faster than intended with just 2 oils, since you can hit the 2 bottom webs with bow and amulet in 1 pass. Plus skipping extra boots & key, surely you'd come out ahead, if all you were concerned about was total time.
But honestly, while I think it's interesting that the rope trick exists, I don't think that much of it. Obviously I'd do it every time in an RTA because the game is hard enough as it is. But for a TAS, I don't know that it's worth cutting out 2 minutes of quality late-game action, unless there was something else to gain from it. Just my opinion though. Not a big deal to me either way.
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Fantastic! Some nice improvements over the realtime run (the extra oil usage is very clever) and obviously quite a bit faster overall due to not having to waste as much time on health/magic management -- the typical TAS expectations. Also, I appreciate seeing the back half of Pride completed, instead of just roping over to the Abyss. I'll want to do a proper route review, but there's a lot of intriguing stuff here to consider for realtime.
I'm a bit curious about an all dungeon items run (or whatever you'd call it) if you've even considered it. There are a few routes for items I've never bothered looking at, due to not being significantly useful for any%, but it would be a cool way to see more of the game.