Actually, I posted this before I went back and properly did the part I accidentally skipped -- It saves a significant amount of time, I think, because there's a lot more to this section than I thought.

Hello, I see this game doesn't have a huge community but I found something that might be of interest to people here. I'm doing my first playthrough of Ara Fell, and I found a spot where you can skip a big section of Eldrinor (From the point where you open the gold key door, all the way through to the Sunstone cutscene, meaning you skip 2 or 3 screens but also the second boss fight with Lord Nash). If you go to the right side of Eldrinor after you get the quest to get the two golden keys, and progress through that section up until you get to the fairy circle that takes you to the back section, there is a secret path through the trees that lets you skip getting the golden keys, as well as that entire part.

This has to be intentional, it's just a route through the trees that takes you straight to the door before the Sunstone cutscene. It's two steps down, two steps right, two steps down, and five steps left from where I start in this screenshot.

Submitted an (awful) any% run with the modifications to Moon's route that I worked out. didn't want to verify my own run, though :P just wanted to get something up to get the route out there for people to see

So, I know of the Promised Remedy secret dungeon where you have to hang out in front of the potato painting for a while, but I think there's also another secret dungeon? I know there's two costumes that don't show up in the hut, and one of them is from the Promised Remedy dungeon, but where is the other one? I thought I had found most of the secrets in the game... guess not, haha.

Since two costumes don't show up in the costume hut, maybe there could be a 101% route or something that includes ALL dungeons, including the secret stuff, and 100% just covers all shards, costumes, upgrades and Forbidden Key dungeon?

I believe that with the current route, low% and any% would be just about the same run. None of the items can be skipped, as dynamite, force rod, ice ring and chain are all required to solve their respective dungeons, and all dungeons have to be completed to access the final dungeon.

I suppose a valid low% would be to leave the dungeons that give items until last in the route, so you are completing as many dungeons as possible without any additional items. Reverse dungeon order would be pretty cool. A run with the super secret dungeon would be awesome too.