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

Duration: 1:52:27

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IGT: 1:44:31.39 | CR: 166/216
Linear seed for the most part, so execution probably matters a bunch here. Unfortunately, mine was not quite up to snuff :o) I need some more practice cleaning up some of my rooms and boss kills. I took a death to trinexx last phase (need to get more consistent at nailing the quick kill), missed the torch glitch in the ganon fight, and in general just took a bunch of damage where it wasn't really necessary. The saving grace was that halfmagic + cape + powder sort of made up for the lack of mail upgrades.
I last-locationed Aga1 like a lot of other people did, but I think that's perfectly defensible in this case, the seed didn't feel like an obvious moon-pearl-on-pyramid seed, as the bow/lamp pointed you toward EP, and the flute made it easy to check other spots as well. My main regret this seed was skipping the Hera big chest, then deciding to go do that before Aga1 (it had nothing), which was extra painful without mirror. Before skipping hera basement early-game next time, I need to consider the ramifications of how bad it will be if my progression is in there.
I sort of suspected from the early somaria/hammer/etc that TR would be important and I was sorta right, it had both flippers and mirror for go-mode. I decided to full-clear MM before heading up to dark DM, which was great as that let me grab the icerod and then do hookshot cave/superbunny and TR in one go. Unfortunately my brain farted and I took the wrong warp on DM and sat there scratching my head at the TR entrance with no way to open it except S+Q and walk there again. Sigh...

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