18-minute False run
Credit to @vIsitor for the Stentor timing suggestion, doing so saved close to a minute alone. This is probably the last one I'm doing in this style for now. I'm guessing ~16 minutes is the fastest possible time without hacking or using the menu patch feature.
@453 said in Cythera Speedruns:
I've installed the menu patch now and I feel like it speeds up travel significantly. However, it may also make it harder to control your character, so I'm curious whether this feature would be helpful for a speedrun.
Yeah, I just tried it out, and it's dizzying. I also wonder what the fastest possible time on the slower setting is.
I tried to do a "speedrun" using Ignae as my character (invincible, can fly), but it still took me about an hour! I forgot to check exactly how long. Speed is so stressful for me, I want to do everything "right" and I end up having to backtrack. I also neglected to get any followers, which forced me to fight my way out from enemies surrounding me on a few occasions. I obviously was a pretty weak character, so that was time consuming even though I was in no danger. Got slowed down by harpies both times I visited Jhiaxus...
I keep a checklist open to avoid having to backtrack. It seems like @Wizard made a similar set of notes. This is the one I used for the 18-minute run:
storyteller
Omen's Test: shortcut
LKH
get items: equip, death strike + direct nexus
+ cloak from dresser + pouch
death strike on magic chest
ask hector to join
hadrian train defense (2)
grab white purple black potions
get hector
Odemia
get ariadne mission
Vineyard
ask sad guy about name
get kelp, shovel, grapes
dig book, put in pouch
Catamarca
put book in pouch
cure plague (get hector to kill polyps)
make sure mustache man follows up
ask propontis about comana
Kosha
ask itanos about stentor
ask itanos about idom
sleep until dawn + 1 more hour
Cademia
ask stentor about job and pelagon
sleep 1 hour
ask halos about prop
Kosha: ask pelagon about dead
go to sewers, straight past bridge, ask dryas about awful
leave sewers via ladder, bomb door, talk to stentor
back to sewers and out via pipe
turn dryas in
Pnyx
train casting (6) and mana (2) for now
ask lindus about crystal
ask pala about charax and wine and teach
heal + antidote potions
turn in books (6 - three times)
save + reload when done!
learn spells
mystic arrow: main library, right, middle
directed nexus: scroll
paka (s): remote manip (right)
tiri (e): fetch (second from top)
max out mana
meet timon, ask to join
use merged crolna on pedestal
Ayrit: west portal
Maayti
remote manip entrance
mage's friend potion + timon heal
fetch door
stick to inside path
get crolna shard
directed nexus out
sleep to recharge mana
Kosha
fetch secret door
sleep to recharge mana
enter grotto: "no" until force? "yes"
Cove: avoid crabs
arrow'd hydra, get book
directed nexus out
sleep until dawn, directed nexus
fetch table
bomb alaric's door
get alaric help
get mushroom from sabinate (just talk thru door)
west portal
give charax stuff
use distiller on crolna
directed nexus out
cure alaric