A while ago, I was working on a route with the goal of obtaining the most items possible. Normally, this would be trivial: four. However, there are a number of "weightless" items that do not actively contribute to the 4-item cap. Last time I tried, I was able to reach a maximum of nine items: four normal items (which happened to be the sword, shield, bomb, and obviously, the hookclaw), the map, the compass, Mr. Hugs, Protoventure (the card game item you collect during ending 101), and the Princess. I've also considered trying to go for the Dark Stone or Burger, but since you'd need to collect both before the Princess, and both have their own routing problems (the time restraint of the Burger vs the "no light" requirement of the Dark Stone) I never tried them. I feel like this has merit as a potential speedrun category. It could be either an extension of 150%, or you could start from a postgame save file. Thoughts?
doesn't protoventure instantly kick you out of the game?
so things you can do is: get map compass and hugs (no weight) [3] get sword and hook [5] climb the tower get the chicken (no weight) [6] get back to town with the cannon and collect 2 other regular items [8] then get princess [9] and then protoventure [10]
you can actually not get to the protoventure with 3 or more items, also collect hook after the tower chicken of course ^^ so max with free walk around is 8 and with princess or fishing rod (no weight too but a forced ending) its 9.
Protoventure doesn't instantly kick you out. The item, Protoventure, is collected in a room before the one where you watch the final cutscene. From there, you can just turn around and leave.
oh you are talking about orbtale ... not protoventure (which is placed behind the desert) ... yes orbtale should work ...
