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IGT: 1:51:21.00 | CR: 141/216
Quite an interesting one. I feel like I made a couple of gut-instinct (or stupid) calls that put me way ahead, but lost quite a bunch of time in other places (mostly execution-based) so eh.
Like others, this was my first seed where progression was locked in the back of escape with no bomb pack available in the front, so I last-locationed the gloves. Probably should have checked there before some of the other stuff given that 2 items were back there.
I failed splash delete a bunch of times leading to not having the lamp for the entire seed, as there was no reason to go back to zora just for that. Kind of embarrassing because having cane of somaria ought to have made this a bit easier as well. This is tech I just haven't practiced in a long time so I'm gonna have to put in a few reps. I may have just been standing in the wrong place or something. I also Died in the EP dark room, not having sword makes that a bit scary.
I decided to route hype cave into PoD before realizing (sigh) that I hadn't actually done my dark world map check. After figuring it was a pendant, I decided to just do some early checks and lo and behold, found the fire rod. I decided to bail after that. So I got pretty lucky on that one due to my own stupidity.
Died to Blind stupidly as well. I keep on running into an issue where I release B too early, causing me to spin slash after the first sword poke =(
I had dipped SW so I had mitts + mirror. I decided to loop smithy chain in along the way from TT to SP. In hindsight perhaps I should have put that off. I think I always overestimate how useful it is to route in smithy chain, it's not the end of the world if you have to fit it in later and it does sort of suck up a bunch of time. I had SP and ice-rod-less TR open, and only needed two items for go mode (ice rod and book/flute), so I don't know if it was worth doing it. But then again I was still on fighter sword, so maybe...
I also did fake powder along the way, though I wasted some time doing it because I forgot exactly how to do it (do I need full magic? empty magic? wait why isn't it working, wait ok)
I really need to start skipping left side swamp, i think.
If I had my head on straight I would have went into TR but at this point my head couldn't figure out what to do and I decided to turn in the mushroom, then got the flute from ice palace. So a good call, again, but not for a good reason. Ice rod was my go-mode and then I proceeded to go-mode DP and TR.
However, hammer trinexxx scares me and I (rightfully) decided to take a safety save at laserbridge. I failed the first hammer trinexxx attempt until I remembered that the key (for me at least) is to stand to the side of the heads, not below.
Some silly mistakes in GT caused me to have to take a detour to grab the fairies in the cannonball room. Lanmo 2 was really annoying since I knew I needed to conserve magic (no lamp...) and had no silvers. I guess I should practice that fight with bow / hammer?
I bought two blues and went to do master sword silverless ganon (never found tempered, I'm guessing it was somewhere like king's tomb or something?). I haven't done master sword ganon in forever so my spins in phase 2 were pretty horrible, leading to me having to chug a blue earlier than I should have. Then in the final phase it had been so long since I had done silverless ganon that I screwed up the first few spins entirely. I also only know how to do 2 spins per torch lighting, not 3 (need to practice that specific setup/timing).
I ended up beating ganon with ZERO magic to spare, on the last spin. Soooooo, that was a rush.
Anyways, this seed gave me a ton of (mostly execution-related) things to work on. Let's go better next time!


Edit: Yeah I remembered the splash delete positioning wrong. Either that or my ancilla value was wrong. Which reminds me, I should learn somaria magic refill in case that ever comes up, it probably could have for the ganon fight...