Hi all. Not an aficionado of this franchise but in Monster Land you can get a random power-up 'Winged Boots'.

Speedrunning the game, these make a HUGE difference to my times, but given their completely random nature in 'dropping' I feel somewhat compelled to maybe split runs into two separate categories (boots and no boots). I just don't feel that a completely random and arbitrary element such as this should be deemed the sole "record".

Thoughts?

This doesn't deserve a separate category. Wing boots are just 1 example of a plethora of items that help you speedrun the game and they all appear randomly and you can't do anything about it. This is just the nature of this game. Another example is power gauntlet that increases your damage 2x which helps you beat certain parts way faster. There is 1 thing that is consistent though- if you get legendary boots, next time you visit the shoe store you can buy wing boots for 30 gold. Same goes if you buy legendary shield then you can buy power gauntlet for 30 gold (and a helmet after obtaining legendary armor if that helps)