Speedrun Presentation on Melee Seed

Introduction

• Speedrun process for melee seed
• Goals: Obtain bombs, St. Bombers notebook
• Initial resources: nuts, rupes, adult wallet, GTG keys (GTG is Master Quest)
• Bosses are randomized with boss souls requirement

Early Game

• Start with 255 rupees, obtain an adult wallet
• Concerns: Limited item importance due to incomplete wallet
• Collecting keys and rewards from various locations
  • E.g., LG on Range Defense, dungeon entrance on moon logic
• Collect trade items and rewards from spider houses and other side quests

Important Locations and Items

• GTG (Gerudo Training Ground): master quest status, 3 keys
• Key locations and paths: Ganon's Castle, Bottom of Well (BOTW), Kakaro rewards
• Mid-game dungeon entrance discovery, rewards (e.g., Forest Temple souls, Ocean Spider House keys)
• Encounters with different bosses: Phantom Ganon, King Dodongo, Adola, Twinmold

Key Items and Strategies

• Obtained Silver Scale, Great Fairy Sword, Bombchu Bag, Progressive Ocarina
• Strategies for specific challenges (e.g., Kamaro mask to avoid guards, various ISG uses)
• Importance of wallet upgrades for key purchases (e.g., Mirror Shield, Fire Arrows)
• Contextual switching between adult and child for different task efficiencies

Dungeon Progression and Key Discovery

• TL;DR on dungeon discoveries: Water Temple (Phantom Ganon boss), Fire Temple (Maze checks)
• Use of strength, keys, and hookshot in dungeons like Spirit Temple, Forest Temple
• Plans for Stone Tower and other detailed stages

In-Depth Challenge Management

• Major challenges: One-time accessible keys, item-specific checks, sequence of logic puzzles
• Utilization of glitches and void warps to bypass certain segments
• Encounters with RNG (e.g., Chess mini-game, Deku Scrub Playground)
• Importance of strategic saving and key scumming for event resets

Critical Bottlenecks and Solutions

• Trouble with finding Song of Time, leading to locking and unlocking challenges
• Multi-step process for obtaining hidden progression (e.g., Volvagia Soul chain)
• Rewarded items due to event completions (e.g., Majora’s Mask completion resetting day)
• Final stages of the seed run: final tasks, last dungeons, obtaining Light Arrows

Conclusion

• Final analysis: Difficult RNG challenges, need for strategic glitch utilization
• Reflexes and planning throughout the run
• Impact of logical progression and critical skips on overall time

Reflection

• Potential improvements in future runs: increased early prioritization of key items
• Considerations for starting with Song of Time to avoid deadlocks

Final Remarks

• Overall runtime approximations
• Encouragement to revisit similar randomized runs with improved strategies