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The Adventures of Rad Gravity (1990)

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The next thing I plan to do is try the New Game 1 Energy Element category. This is a category that was originally only for New Game+. It used New Game+ to immediately get the Alter Weapons and Super Mode and used an interesting Chomp Claw trick (dubbed Wily 6 Early) to get into the Dojo Wily stage room and play Wily 6 to end the game. The category was about 15 minutes. Bored found a way into the Wily room with only Alter Weapons, no Super Mode needed at some point and thus, this category was birthed. The aim is to get all 170 Noble Nickels in the entries, get the Alter Weapons, and then do Wily 6 Early.

For the route, there's no need to worry about the Zero cutscenes like we usually do in other categories. We don't get any any Energy Elements, so they don't appear. Moreover, all the stages are predetermined. We just want to go to all the stages with Noble Nickels and get them all. Thus, we just need to decide what order to do them in. And there's the problem. There's a lot of stages that are really long and Energy Saver would save a tremendous amount of time in. Like pretty much all of Tier 10, Joe Man, Spiky Situation. So my route is to go to the right at Dr. Light's Lab at the start of the game and do Tier 1, then 5, 4, 3, 2, visit Knight Man to get the Hub Fast Travel, do all of Tier 9, then go back to Knight Man and get Energy Saver, then continue right, doing Tier 6, then 7, 8, and finally 10 before going to the Dojo and doing Wily 6. I thiiink this is the best way to go about this. Not completely sure though.

Nitro Man here is really jank to control. At points, you'd be holding one direction, but Nitro Man goes in completely the opposite direction and it makes no sense. I wish I could use him more because he is fairly fast, just that controlling him is a pain in the ass. Especially since getting hit shoves you off of him. That first room with the Wall Blaster is really bad with this. The Wall Blaster can keep hitting you off of Nitro Man as you're trying to mount him and trying to figure out which way you're supposed to hold once you're on him can be a nightmare because he just sometimes refuses to go the way you want. The solution? Just don't use Nitro Man at all. The stage is completely doable without him and at a lot of spots, it's straight up faster to do so.

The Nickels are all pretty easy to get. The first one, I intentionally die after getting. I don't think there's a good way of grabbing it without dying. The intended way is to backtrack and get it with Nitro Man which is not efficient at all. The second one is pretty easy too. No enemies to fuck up to and the puzzle is very simple.

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