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

Duration: 2:06:29

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IGT - 2:00:28.08 | CR - 177/216
Barely missed sub-2, oh well. Not a great time for me but looking at other people's results and considering this was an aga seed with at least one pendant dungeon required as well as a PoD double dip, I guess it's not too bad after all.
Early Aga was obvious but there wasn't really much reason to do Aga before EP anyways. I saw the Flute on lumberjack cave and knew that DP and IP were pendants so very unlikely that MM was also a pendant, so I knew in all likelihood that progression was in PoD and yeah that was right. After getting the gloves from PoD and then finding boots, mitts, hammer, mirror, the whole world was open, it felt like.
I should have done PoD earlier for the pyramid fairy check, thankfully that didn't end up mattering. The main decision point here was which pendant dungeon(s) to dip in which order, and how far you went in each of them.
I think I generally made mostly the wrong decisions, then my brain corrected and realized what the right play would have been, but only about 30 seconds later and by that time I was already locked into my current plan. So I went to IP first before MM and DP (which to be fair, IP was fast because of somaria, and it was a green pendant, so 4 items total compared to 2 each for MM and DP). No luck there, tried DP, and dipped MM but decided not to go all the way to vitreous, which in hindsight was a stupid decision. I went and double-dipped SP instead, which lost me a bunch of time.
Execution was good otherwise. I missed the tempered sword double-spin on ganon but no big deal. I guess gold sword was in GT before moldorm, but there was no way for me to know that.

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