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Solomon's Key (1986)

Duration: 52:32

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A 1-credit clear of Solomon's Key, arcade game played with MAME 0.212. Final score: 2,834,354. Notes with timestamps:
2:56 Secret prison. These levels have hidden items, usually including 1 bell and 1 item you can morph into a potion. The possible hiding places are laid out in a grid 2 squares away, including the squares immediately right and left of your starting point.
5:30 Morphed a key to go to one (and only one) of the game's bonus rooms, because it has a SCROLL giving us extra max fireballs.
22:49 Used a fireball for an obstreperous green slime. Slimes and robed wizards have a high RNG, which makes them terrifying!
24:28 You can jump at the start of this level (even though you're standing on thin air!). That, plus creating blocks as you fall, sets things up for a much easier time.
28:29 I'm happy with the routing of this level - it can be TOUGH but this route is easy.
29:14 Round 30 (8-5) is the GATEKEEPER of the run. Heavy RNG from the aggressive wizards, plus time pressure from the orange slimes that keep spawning and slowly chasing. Using spells to blast the wizards is basically essential. There's some good routing here (letting the wizards drop off the right side and fall far enough that they won't catch up) but also friendly RNG that let me get by using just 1 spell.
30:59 If you mash, you can float in midair indefinitely. This is one of the points in the run where we use and abuse this the most.
35:55 We can do this the easy way...or the hard way. (We chose the easy way!)
47:43 This level features a couple of tricks: Creating a block right on the square you were standing on and jumping away, and standing almost inside the fire to hit a square on the other side.
50:18 This last level is routed very deliberately. Standing on the right edge of the first block manipulates the orange slime into walking along the ceiling. We avoid killing the troll, because that spawns more slimes. We create a block to prevent the wizard from escaping out the bottom of his room.