Any%
Route difficulty, options, benchmark, time save from last route:
(Base) Sheep Route: ~1:53 (Expert) Mouse Route: ~1:25 (-28s) (Expert/Optimal) Mouse Route + Legend Cycle: ~1:13 (-12s)
It is recommended not to attempt a faster route until your time is close to the benchmark time for the current strats you are using. If you are using faster strats and your time is still slower than the benchmark for a route with worse strats, it is recommended that you simplify your route.
Note: -This level is entirely cycle-based because you must use the elevator to get to the teleporter. The elevator cycle starts when the level starts. Each elevator cycle is ~12 seconds. -While hitting the switches, using a tail attack helps...somehow. Watch DarkAcChess and be amazed⁴ -Consider Cutscene Skip² (unused strat)
- Hit the switches for both the electric fence objective and the big machine objective. Start with one of the levers, then hit alternating floor switches and levers. However, you should not hit the last lever before hitting the last floor switch because it activates a cutscene and the switches deactivate. If you can't do the switches and levers fast enough (causing the floor switches to deactivate), a safe strat is to do all of one set, then all of the other set. After hitting the last level, hold Z to lock the camera behind you. This will give you control back faster after the cutscene ends. Continue holding Z at least until you fall toward the sheep.
- Head toward the sheep. The easy way is to fall into the water and take the elevator up. The hard way is to go around. If you choose to go around, you must take a running start when going up the hill with the platforms on it. Going around is a bit faster, but since the level is cycle based it might not matter. If you find yourself just barely missing a cycle using the elevator strats, try going around to save a couple seconds and make that cycle.
----------------(Beginner) Sheep route: 3)Kill a sheep and swap into it. If you are set up right, do a Sheep Push¹ before swapping into the sheep. 4)Head to the teleporter. Small amounts of time can be saved by reducing lag. Rotate the camera to face the wall while heading toward the water pit. Also, small amounts of time can be saved by jumping off the elevator as soon as possible while still being able to float to the exit.
Sheep route video:
----------------(Expert) Mouse route: 3)Kill a sheep, swap into it, swap back into the mouse. 4)Head through the canyon and toward the lagoon. Fall into the lagoon and move toward the elevator(see Legend Cycle³). 5)Perform the Leap(s) of Mouse to the teleporter (No guide currently avaiable.)
Mouse Route (No Legend Cycle):
Techniques
¹Sheep Pushing: Using the mouses tail attack allows it to push larger animals (sheep) while moving at mouse-speed. I guess this should be called "mouse pushing" since you can push everything, not just sheep, but you only ever push sheep and rams so whatever.
²Cutscene Skip: Control over your character can be recovered by switching between animals or from Evo into an animal as a cutscene starts. A cutscene skip can be performed on this level when hitting the last lever. While it is not recommended for any% runs, it can theoretically be used to get a Legend Cycle elevator cycle and save 12 seconds, unless you're DarkAcChess, then you don't need to cutscene skip to get the Legend Cycle. The cutscene skip is frame perfect.
³Legend Cycle: With absolutely perfect movement and potential utilzation of the Cutscene Skip, you can just barley make a perfect elevator cycle that arrives as you get to it, saving 12 seconds. This is only possible using the mouse route and is incredibly difficult. see DarkAcChess' PB below.
⁴AC's PB. See 1:50 for tail attack on switches, 2:32 for Legend Cycle:
