thoughts of comparing alien segments

comparing igt-dependent segments (aliens + blast mask)

- in sva's route you can always choose to uninvert earlier meaning you can play optimally and still arrive frame-perfectly on time for blast mask

- in new route, you can always choose to sodt earlier meaning you can play optimally and still arrive frame-perfectly on time for blast mask

This should mean that events leading up to blast mask can be compared just as if they were not dependent on igt in both routes.

Aliens are a different story.

How to compare?

- do optimal playthrough of sva's route leading up to aliens (ignoring strats used to allow more igt to pass!), see how much leftover igt is left when you arrive to aliens. Leftover igt is time lost to the route (you want to arrive to aliens as late as possible while still doing optimal gameplay).

then, compare corresponding segments to how they are optimally done in the new route and see how much time those segments save/lose (i.e. start cycle 2 all the way to red potion in new route should be compared to start cycle 2 all the way to magic beans in old route, then ECT stuff and mountain village stuff should also be compared appropriately though a lot of it will be the same [not all of it though, new route has goron mask for movement in ECT which saves time, soars out of deku 1, etc.])

then, do an optimal playthrough of events after blast mask and before aliens in new route and see how early you are to aliens.

(a probably TAS-only optimization that could be made to this section of new route would be to do gibdo mask before mirror shield to use up more igt, we should probably disregard this for this comparison)



What exactly is there to time after we know how early each route (optimally AND disregarding slower strats that make more igt pass) is to aliens?

Compare (incomplete, still not sure of everything):

- time lost to being "optimally" early to aliens in both routes

- start cycle 2 up to magic bean (sva) VS start cycle 2 up to red potion (new)

* deku 1 + ECT segment is tricky to compare because new route gets stray fairy on night 1 and then goes to deku 1 and soars away from there

* observatory + canyon gossips + scrub HP + swamp gossips segments in both routes can be part of the comparison with the deku 1 + ECT stuff (maybe also need to include when midnight meeting + h&d 2 are done in new route and such)

- in mountain village segment could compare getting mountain scrub HP early (sva) VS later (new)

- in woodfall can compare torch mega (new) to 1 bomb + 3 chus + equip hover (sva)

- compare that new route soars out of milk bar after circus leader's mask, sva's route does not

- need to compare going to mirror shield after gfs (sva) VS going to mirror shield from ikana owl

maybe other stuff?