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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)

Duration: 1:40:19

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IGT: 1:35:24.10 | CR: 153/216
I did pretty well. You could definitely have done better if you checked Magic Bat earlier.
I went up to dark DM immediately after turning in the mushroom and getting the titan's mitts. There are 6 items up there (plus a TR medallion check, not that it mattered since it was a pendant) and I feel like it's definitely better to take care of that sooner rather than later. I checked Mire Shed immediately after as well, and even tried to make a galaxy brain silly play of checking the first few items in pendant Mire with no fire source (lol?)
Most else was fairly straightforward (though annoying), trying to look for the hammer and boots. The one interesting decision was whether to do Magic Bat after TT or hold off. I decided to do smithy + purple chest after dig game, leaving behind hammer pegs and magic bat since I had no hammer. Yes, I could have done Magic Bat at this time, but I wanted to still be in the dark world in order to check stumpy, hype cave, etc, so I would have to go back to the Kakariko Warp again which would waste some time, and still end up isolating hammer pegs.
I get punished if magic bat specifically is hammer or boots, but if the hammer is somewhere else, then that's better for me in terms of efficiency as I get to do both of those checks in one go. Maybe this is something I need to think about, as with this logic I can't really ever think of a situation in which I would want to check Magic Bat without hammer.
Hype cave had nothing, so I dipped into SW (also nothing...), then headed around north DW and swam over to PoD to find the hammer (yay). At this point SP was the obvious next play. I decided to skip left side swamp, which worked out just fine. Magic Bat + hammer pegs was still in my mind but it made the most sense to check pyramid fairy first, which led to bombos, which meant clearing IP came first. I did Magic Bat + hammer pegs next and thus ended up staying out of DP entirely.
I'm OK with the route I took. Also happy that the lamp that I grabbed didn't end up being important, as I didn't want to go back into DP or MM haha.
Silverless ganon was extremely helpful in this seed, as others have mentioned. Herapot was also helpful. I needed to be very mindful of my arrow count in GT as I only had 15 going in and needed to kill Ice Armos, but it ended up working out fine thanks to being cognizant of this.

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