Haven't gotten a chance to play in the past few days so I'm getting used to the stage again. I managed to complete a run that brought me to the top 15, but... if you don't know, readers... I want a top 10 run unless I don't think I can do better. This means getting below 1:36:23 and I am currently at 1:36:88.
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Which means if I do this right, I should get no lower than 7th or 8th. I really want something that'll put me at 4th, but... there are a few problems.
This majority of the stage before the last 2D section is very hard on your meter. To speed run, every 3D section requires Sonic to run over water. The first 3D part at the beginning of the section is moderately difficult, but everything is fine if you simply collect all the rings over the water. Sometimes I have more problems timing the jump into the cannon which seemingly works better from the water opposed to from the land around it. (I assume that when Sonic is running on water, he is somewhat higher.)
The first 2D section is weird. I do not try to get off a homing attack dash on the platform because if I kill the 2 enemies starting from that pillar, I cannot get Sonic high enough to land on the right wall jump pad or on the platform to the left. Instead, I let him fall and the result to getting him high enough after defeating the second enemy seems to mostly be based on how high Sonic's jump was on the first enemy. It's weird, but the success rate seems around 70%.
The second 3D section is ALL about meter management. By the time you get to the 2nd cannon, you need at least 90% meter to run over the body of water to the orange platform. Most of this will successfully depend on whether you collected enough boost energy and you'll want to collect as many line of rings you come across before the first cannon. The first line on the beach and the second on the water are mandatory. There are two lines of rings on the next part of the beach, but there are also two enemies together, so destroying those gathering the last line of rings before the first cannon really helps out tremendously. Before getting on this beach area, it's a good idea to hop from the water on to the beach because sometimes Sonic flies up as if he hit a slope, and that will not help at all. After getting into the cannon and hitting the last spring, my challenge here is whether the air boost will work or not. It seems random. If it does, getting the most speed out of the rails is a bit tricky as hopping on it won't give you immediate access to boosting for some reason (so I guess you have to do it right as you land on it.) Last but not least is the water section. In a previous entry, I stated that it wasn't too hard once you get it down, but that was then. Today, it's a challenge. If I accidentally cause the camera to get caught behind a part of the level, I'm pretty much playing a guessing game at this point. Other than that, I've yet to really cement it.
The rest of the stage seems pretty much like a cake walk, but that's yet to be determined because I made mistakes the last time I went through it and that only happened from lack of experience there. Meter is no issue. The only challenge seems to be based on whether my wall jumps will get Sonic high enough for an air boost on the top platform.
Time will tell if I get this done tonight. If not, I'll try again tomorrow.
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