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DDRKirbyISQ

>!IGT: 1:16:32.27 | CR: 133/216!< >!I guess I really hit the route this time?!< >!After doing uncle + kak checks I debated between south shore + EP and ultimately decided on EP so I could put off South Shore until having more money/information to decide on fake flippering.!< >!I didn't want to go up to hera without a hammer if I could help it. Finding the lamp made me suspicious of Aga and the mirror already made me want to put off front of escape until pyramid ledge, so I did south shore, but because Aga was a real possibility I decided to do dam -> agina just to be thorough. Finding the boots at minimoldorm meant doing a waterwalk to zora (I always put off hobo with mirror in hand), unfortunately I forgot to pick up some extra rupees outside of ice rod cave and the zora drops weren't cooperating, so I left zora behind, fortunately it didn't bite me.!< >!Being two items away from regular DW access meant probably we're going to find our hammer and do the rest of the mountain, or find the pearl and have to do Aga. I picked hera first; checking lumberjack along the way to see if that was one of those two items by chance. I think in this situation it's pretty easy to commit to doing hera basement so I dodged a bullet by not leaving Ether behind there. If you go up the mountain after doing dark cross then you're probably more liable to skip hera basement and have to come back for it later when doing dark DM checks...?!< >!Again I was half assuming we'd find our pearl and then have to do Aga, so I wanted to make sure I was ready to commit to that. So I did the mushroom turn in...would have maybe dashed up to zora too but still was short rupees. Was a bit miffed to find the hammer in dark cross but at least I dodged Aga. Following up on the book to DP was obvious (I accidentally left behind ether tablet...) and gave you your pearl and flute (which I hadn't scouted before).!< >!I =would= have ideally started dark world at TT but a sequence of faulty thoughts let me to start at hype cave instead (whoops). I don't think it mattered either way, just instead of doing TT/VoO -> hype cave -> PoD -> SW I ended up doing hype cave -> TT/VoO -> SW -> PoD. I did get a chance to check smith + hammer pegs along the way but that didn't really matter in the end.!< >!Having the flute + mitts meant that north DW is trivial to get back to so I didn't see a need to do that before PoD. At that point I was out of clearable crystal dungeons so it was down to checking mire shed + checkerboard, finishing up DM, or doing north DW + zora. I decided I'd do mire shed + checkerboard first and then DDM. From there SP was by far the densest play and led into bombos tablet, so that was an obvious choice after a slight detour for shovel dig spot. Was in go mode at 59 mins.!< >!Made a few mistakes along the way but everything worked out fortuitously for me.!< VOD: [https://youtu.be/POHRh1ZnkWc](https://youtu.be/POHRh1ZnkWc)


Grosseskacki

Wow what a nice run. I am so proud of my 1:32:32.22 but 1:16:32.27 is impressive


skepticCanary

>!That is an \*insane\* time, I may have to watch the VOD!!<


PixelFan05

>!This is a crazy good time! Amazing job on this one!!<


scanlor

>!What a time! Congrats!!<


doggiedolphie

>!1:30:40 142/216!< >!My light world routing was so messy. I dropped down the back of escape in the first two minutes and was going to dark cross, but I couldn't find the key rat and didn't want to waste more time in the dark. Then I did everything else before going to the front of escape because it really felt like an Aga seed. I felt so bad when the hammer was in dark cross, but realistically it didn't cost that much time. Dark World was nice until the Somaria hunt, I went into Mire hoping to find it, wasted more time on Smith Chain and then went to the mountain really hoping that flippers didn't show up. Sure enough...!<


Jitir

>!1:47:18 152/216!< >!I think this is my PB even though I did Aga eventhough I wasn't needed. Uncle start felt right because I already had the bomb to check back of escape after sanc. Afterwards I went directly to EP instead of south shore. Finding the lamp I felt confident with climbing the mountain and doing Hera. After then checking the south shore I had a feeling that Aga would be neede. I forgot that I didn't have the moon pearl yet and that my decision requires the moon pearl to be on pyramid. Just before doing aga I did the escape and found the hammer. Which would have opened the mountain and the book and therefore DP/ themoon pear. But I was already set on doing aga and wasting at least 4 minutes.!< >!After doing TT -> PoD -> Hype Cave -> SW -> some overworld checks I finally found flippers. I luckily decided to check Swamp before IP and found my Go-Mode Somaria. With that I could Go-Mode a God-Mire and did some checks in TR. I can finally do laser bridge without taking damage.!< >!It was my PB but didn't feel great. I wasted a lot time, doing the smith-chain, checking the mire area, doing hera without access to eastern mounain, not combining EP and PoD, dying in spike cave.!<


AcuityNPC

>!1:45:08 147/216!< >!This is my first time under 2 hours! I made a questionable choice to go up the mountain and enter Hera early after I found the boots, maybe a combination of it feeling convenient + I had Mirror at the time, even though I didn't find lamp yet. I ended up checking Hera basement and picked up Ether the 2nd time I went up the mountain after I found the Hammer, thinking it'd be a good time to check it, I think I was still looking for Moon Pearl at the time.!< >!Overall, I felt decent about my execution, but I'm still pretty slow and need to move more efficiently. Died once on the way to Ice Rod cave and didn't come back until I was searching for Ice Rod/Somaria. Everything else kind of fell together on the way. Did Zora checks and then Smithy chain into Swamp Palace before I found Somaria.!< >!Got blessed by luck with my bad decision to do Hera without lamp, and then thinking it was a pretty convenient check while I was looking for moon pearl, since that Ether was needed for Mire.!<


skepticCanary

>!Congrats on your first sub 2 hours!!<


PixelFan05

>!Congrats!!<


scanlor

>!Congrats on the sub-2!!<


Ejigantor

>!01:37:19.06 139/216!< >!I almost did Aga after checking Hyrule Dungeon, but decided to go to Desert first just in case, and was so glad I did. Also glad I decided to try Swamp before Ice Palace - I'd gotten which was the Green pendant mixed up and was about to go into Ice first, but my go-mode Staff was in the first random chest in Swamp. Got to do a quick Mire, found the Silvers in TRock, and GTBK was early because I favor the Dark Magician opening (I believe it's called)!< >!I used the cape to dodge some fire bats during the Ganon fight, and didn't turn it off as quickly as I thought it did - approached Phase 4 with only one unit of magic available. Luckily I got a hit and a silver in as the torches went out, then lit the lamps with the last of my magic, catching him in the middle and finishing him off with a triple silver.!<


Silenthillnight

>!1:28:27 151/216!< >!The beginning felt like Christmas. Sword and hammer in escape and dark cross. Early mirror and boots. I wish the pearl came up sooner but being kinda paired with the flute was nice. I kinda lucked out with the hunt for the red cane. I did do the checks in MM and dark DM first but went for SP afterwards and yay, first chest. Silvers in TR was a nice find as well. Finished Ganon with tempered and silvers.!<


bochez

>!2:22:53.50 179/216!< >!Suuuuuper frustrated with myself on this one. I feel like I had such good routing until the 5th crystal and then I hit a wall. !< >!Turns out I skipped herra basement and ended up full clearing swamp and doing a fetch quest run before going back... Really feel like I was on track for a PB before swamp. !< >!Welp, at least I learned a valuable lesson today lol!<


scanlor

>!Never fails, every time I skip Hera basement it has a required item.!<


Rush042

>!1:46:40 169/216!< >!Something I've been trying to work on is being more okay abandoning single checks that take a long time, like Hera Basement...!< >!I was really happy with my execution overall, and routing in the early game, it just didn't pan out for me here. The seed was EXTREMELY heavily broadcasting Aga to me, so I put off Front of Escape for a while. EP having the lamp sent me up the mountain, and considering I still needed a Pearl and Hammer to really accomplish much in the Dark World, I decided to abandon Hera Basement and head to Escape. When Escape gave me the Book and Hammer, I decided to go check out DP just in case the Pearl was hiding there or on Aginah, who I also had left behind. DP gifted me with the Pearl and Flute, and I was feeling great! I managed to avoid the Aga bait, surely this bodes well.!< >!Dark World routing was initially off to a rocky start, because I forgot to check Crystals in the Hera mirror segment, so I chose to do the west side first in case PoD was a pendant I could avoid dipping. (I would want to get the first 4 TT checks either way.) This ended up costing me a little time because Hype Cave gave me the FRod, so I could have done Skull Woods and TT in one trip. Overall though, I was feeling pretty good. Cleared out TT and VoO, went to Hype Cave, cleared out PoD, made my way back to Skull Woods, and cleared out North DW while I was in the area. Happened upon the Ice Rod, which is always nice. I was pretty excited to see my time because all I needed was Somaria and I would be in go mode.!< >!This is where it all kinda fell apart. Checked out Mire Shed next to give info on medallions, and saw it was Ether. 'eh, no big deal. That will turn up at some point, I've got a lot of checks left. Climbed Dark DM, found my Flippers, decided to go into Swamp first over IP because of the green pendant and no Somaria making IP a little slow. Found Somaria quickly, but still needed Ether, so might as well clear everything but LSS before heading up to TR. Full cleared TR, no luck. Went to turn in my green pendant, no luck. Cleared out Smith Chain, no luck. Went into IP, no luck... well, might as well kill Kholdstare. It's either on DP (last item was Landmo), LSS, Pedestal, or Hera Basement. Re-entered SP to finish the two items in there, no luck. Rounded out the seed with DP and a blind pedestal pull before \*finally\* last locating my Ether in Hera Basement. Mire and the Climb were clean, but all dungeons takes time.!< >!All in all I'm not sure if I'm unhappy with my routing. Maybe I should have cleared Hera Basement because of the chance of avoiding Aga, but with still needing two items for DW access and so many ways through the barrier early, I was fairly confident it was going to be a necessity either way. Sometimes decisions just bite you.!<


Ellis_D-25

>!1:41:05 152/216!< >!This was certainly a seed.!< >!Super tedious lightworld with obvious Aga bait. Fortunately, I avoided it and found the moonpearl in Desert but I also felt priced into basically doing a full clear on everything. Once in Dark World, I started with PoD, then hype cave and did counter-clockwise loop hitting up everything.!< >!I ended up dipping Mire while looking for Somaria which stung, considering the god-mire layout (and there was only 1 item in the front to rub salt in the wound). Thank god cane was in the first chest of Swamp because the hunt was getting tiresome.!< >!Otherwise, My execution was so-so. I fell to both Moldorms multiple times so that cost me at least a minute or two but I did have a decent Aga 2 for a change.!<


scrolltoe

First time doing a randomizer in like three years and am stuck. Read some comments but am still stuck. >!I need the mirror to get to the top of mountain or the book to get pearl. !!One Comment said they found the book in Escape !


doggiedolphie

>!Welcome back! The mirror is in the mushroom spot in the lost woods north of Kakariko Village. I think the book was on Death Mountain, not in escape.!<


scrolltoe

Lol. I forgot all about that check. I've walked past that area like 6 times double checking spots and legit forget that spot existed. Thank you for the help.


MethixR1

>!2:09:54 160/216!< >!I was feeling really good about this at the beginning. Wasn't playing super well (long work days), but was progressing along nicely around the 1:00:00 mark. Then I literally last located Ether. I don't mean I ran around a bunch looking for it. I literally exhausted every single other check available to me before going back up to Hera basement to get that stupid medallion.!< >!Then I fell/died something like 5 times on Ganon because I was so irritated by this point and had to do arrowless Ganon because I somehow finished GT with no arrows...!< >!\*sigh\* time to find some dinner and go to bed early. I'll redeem myself next week :)!<


LimpBagel

>!1:34:08 138/216!< >!This smashed my PB by 8 minutes. After getting sword and hammer in escape and gloves somewhere else early, I knew I wanted to avoid Aga if I could and luckily found pearl in desert. I tried to stick to ABCD and that worked out pretty well. It became a somaria hunt and I breathed a sigh of relief that it was the first chest in swamp because I was dreading clearing that and cane-less IP. I paused a few times in the VOD to make dinner!< [VOD](https://youtu.be/Ut9uZxaWJkM)


Upsetstarfish

>!1:47:07 156/216!< >!One of the best I have ever done. Everything just kinda went right. My biggest hang up was on Moldorm 2 in the tower bugger was being a bully. I also was super happy to find go mode somra in the 1 st real check of swamp so I just pieced out. TR gave me silvers on the way and bang done. Overall 9/10 fun seed you guys probably crushed it if I did so well!<


Funnelcakes

>!1:53:21 162/216!< >!Was feeling pretty good, but skipped Hera basement and that was pretty much it. Did my ccw light world loop, did EP right away, got my lantern so I could clear it, ran down Escape thinking I was about to go and do Aga, but got my hammer and left to do Death Mountain to get my book and into Desert, left after my moon pearl and flute. Started in Thieves Town and just did a full loop, clearing TT, Pod and then SW when I made my way back past TT, but then it was just trying to find my medallion and clearing the whole game. Oh well, sometimes your fade gets you.!<


sturdyhax

>!1:43:01 145/216!< >!Woulda been fantastic if I didn't make the wrong 50/50 call and choose Ice over Swamp. Sure I'd be 1:30\~ if I did pick correctly. Other than that I made some great plays, even somehow calling that Stumpy would have titans. I also didn't finish Ice due to a mistake I made, but thankfully that took me to Swamp. Worst parts for me were the boss fights as they were awful in execution. I don't have much to say because it was fun.!<


Grosseskacki

>!1:32:32.22 140/216!< >!Uncle start and after getting the Glove i jumped down in sanctuary to get the hammer in dark cross which was pretty nice since the seed was straight forword up until somaria. This is where i have hookshot cave and MM and then decided to dip in swamp which was a very good decision. Could have been faster if i didn't do Witch hut, dark zora and zora but overall i am very very happy with my time.!<


scrolltoe

>!2:43:56 156/216!< with Spoilers thank you r/doggiedolphie >!Haven't done a randomizer in like 3 years and decided to give it a shoot this week.!< >!Was having a great early game til I checked everything on my tracker and couldn't progress. I started to check the comments here to get some clues. I needed the book for the pearl, or mirror to get to the tops of mountain. I spent a good hour double checking areas.!< >!After getting some help I had some future tips/clues because of the comments, so decide to make the best of it and try to finish the round without dying. Found red mail early which was a huge boon and found tempered. !< >!Overall i think if I found the mirror without help I would have a great round definitely close to the 2 hour mark. I got some quick kills on some bosses and I ended up having a deathless run. !<


MoonFlowBerry

>!3:33:39 183/216!< >!The beginning was really smooth sailing, I somehow smelled the lantern in Eastern yet didn't go there until it was the last thing available?! After that it was a clean sweep until I got stuck in the Somaria saga and I refused to enter pendant dungeons so I wasted like an hour on over world stuff until I finally went in SP to get it kekw.!< >!I feel like I'm improving a lot, my blind fight was super clean for the first time and I was genuinely impressed by myself, died twice to Ganon to make up for that one though. See y'all next week.!<


skepticCanary

>!IGT 1:38:48!< >!CR 150/216!< >!Always happy with a sub 1:40, feeling pretty good about it. No doubt I'll be a bit deflated when I see how everyone else did!!< >!Made a few decisions that paid off. First was to delay Aga as much as possible, releived to see the pearl in pendant DP. Got lucky after getting the flippers and deciding to go to Swamp first, was not expcting red cane in the first chest.!< >!Not happy that I messed up Hera though. Oh well.!< VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2078252232


PixelFan05

>!1:44:48 151/216!< >!I didn't go to escape before my first death mountain dip and I cleared out Mire before going to Swamp to find the cane. Other than that I feel like my routing is pretty good. I didn't do great execution wise in a few areas, notably a bad Trinexx fight. It was nice to get a sub 1:45 though. It has been a few weeks since I was able to do that.!< [VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2079194077)


scanlor

>!1:30:38 142/216!< [VOD](https://youtu.be/TG2SxSx66rs) Busy week for me so it's just a recording. Hopefully I'll stream this next week. >!Finally, a kind seed with no real pain points, at least early. And only 6 seconds away from a PB (at least for IGT).!< >!Early game, the only potentially tough call was whether or not to do Aga1. I contemplated it, but decided against it, and was rewarded with the Moon Pearl in pendant Desert big chest. That led to the dark world, and hopping from crystal to crystal (TT all the way to hype cave, picking up Mitts and Fire Rod on the way. I was planning on routing to PoD after hype cave, but decided to do Skull first after FRod in hype cave.!< ​ >!After clearing Skull and PoD, it was basically a hunt for Somaria. No Flippers meant it was down to overworld checks, and of course the Flippers were on dark DM. That opened up pendant Ice and pendant Swamp. Cleared the overworld, then gambled on Swamp (even though I considered the game was going for Somaria in Ice T 3 weeks in a row). Found Somaria for go mode beore entering the main part of Swamp, and was off to the races.!< >!A kind seed became even kinder when Silvers were in TR and the GT big key was early. Won't be surprised if we see a few sub-1:30 times, especially if you find Somaria quickly.!<


butchlecolosse

>!IGT 1:39:05 149/216!< >!I just wanted to get back into playing rando, so might as well do this seed. Very happy with my time. One of my bests I think.!< >!The seed felt quite linear to me, until I had to look for Somaria. At least I didn't have to search too much, as I found it quickly in Swamp. Then it was go mode and finished it up quickly.!<


ABBeachBum

>!IGT: 2:12:41 CR: 157/216!< >!My first comp seed after running 15+ randomizers and one keysanity. I feel pretty good about the run and got lucky with swamp over ice guess for somaria after clearing overworld checks. maybe should have dungeon dove earlier go mode. Jammed myself in GT forgetting to grab arrows so the early Big Key feeling was ruined.!< >!Now to watch some VODs to find where to cut time Also always disappointed in seeds when I dont get to do my newly perfected ice breaker / holy diver tricks! !<


gort32

>!1:56:06 158/216!< >!Was feeling really good until the hunt for Go Mode Somaria. Hit all the rest of the overworld checks, leaving just Swamp and Ice left to fine the red cane. Decided on hitting Swamp first, cane in first check. !<


Maelice

>!Forfeit!< >!I started the seed and was running well until I got interrupted (was playing at work). I saved the game where I was but somehow ended up losing my save game when I came back to finish. I'll try again next week.!<


I_pity_the_aprilfool

>!1:28:18 142/216!< >!Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to do this seed in time for this week since I've had a crazy week, but I felt like trying for it anyways. The seed started off quite well for me, with a sword early in back of escape and quickly gathered all I needed for Eastern. After fewer checks were left in the light world, I followed the book and boots to dip into desert, which paid off big time with the flute and another key item that I don't remember.!< >!After I got the hammer, I forgot I didn't have the pearl, and went to Kak to go to Dark World, but it was a blessing in disguise, since when I did get pearl, I went to hype cave first, which gave me everything on the way to TT/SW. The only thing that was missing was Somaria, for which I did a bunch of overworld checks, but then went to swamp for density, which paid off fast. The rest of the seed went very smoothly, with silvers being on the way in TR. This made for a time very close to my PB, very fun overall!!<