Access Luncheon and buy the Chef outfit and hat. Timing starts on file select and ends on purchasing the latter of the two shop items.
This category would already be one of the most skill-dependent and intense categories while being shorter than Any%. 1.0.0 exclusive as of now.
After seeing how the introduction of Nipple% has changed the routes and time estimates for both 100% and All Missions, Chef% might increase the incentive to experiment even more with Bruncheon and Bruncheon-related sequence breaks, especially faster and/or more consistent ways to reach it
i agree with that, it would be better in my opinion to end on a moon grab
I think it's better than nipple% in that there isn't the coins to deal with and it requires a skilled jump, but worse in that it requires a specific version of the game.
The Chef outfit is mainly just symbolic for having it made all the way to Mount Volbono. Beating the locked room would just overshoot that purpose and unnecessarily drag out the ending.
The main point in Chef% is not that you collect the Chef outfit and do something with it, but that you reach Mount Volbono in Bruncheon - and that is a very skillful challenge to speedrun. Nipple% is about optimizing coin routes, Chef% is about mastering insane tricks
A thing I like is that, should the major sequence break be found there, the transition to new any% would be smoother, some runners would be comfortable with tricks, the route would be almost entirely sorted, etc.
The difference is:
Nipple%: Unique Cap, Unique Cascade, Unique Sand
Chef%: Any% Cap, True Any% Cascade, Any% Sand, Any% Lake or Wooded, Unique Wooded or Lake, Unique Luncheon
What is even the similarity in your eyes?
'a category for almost every costume'. Most costumes are visiting the right kingdom with the right amount of coins (Nipple% is worth doing because memes, cheapo costumes are just getting to the right spot while collecting coins, and expensive ones are coin grinding), or do any% until you reach the right kingdom, then you grab some purple coins. The thing with chef% is you do 2 kingdoms different (luncheon and wooded/lake, whichever leads up to it). It's the most unique run of any costume that would use purple coins.
Bruncheon is only possible in the first place on the 1.0.0 version. So there is no dispute about the version Chef% will be run in
Bruncheon is early Luncheon. It is accessed by clipping into the Luncheon painting in Lake or Wooded kingdom, and neither the Odyssey nor the first two story moons are there
Somebody please run this. A video of the route: And of the hardest jump: https://t.co/tU66CIRkTF
I agree that is dumb and contradicting the mods previous stance on categories but don't say that you aren't mad and use all caps. Just say that you're mad because you have reason to be.
I agree that this is dumb, it took over 2 weeks for Festival% to be added after five runs were done and this category just gets added for whatever reason. Stupid.
You seem to forget that a large portion of the SMO Speedrunning Discord community is head over heels for Bruncheon, so Chef% is something many like. This is why is has received such support.
I don't say I am against this category, I quite like the idea, maybe I'll run it myself. But for me it just seems stupid.
