Anodyne 2: Return to Dust Any% Speedrun Notes

Anodyne Any% Notes

Notes by CodeGorilla
Route based on cleverpidgeon's WR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JYcghOlzNo


General notes:
	2D Movement:
		In addition to obvious stuff (diagonals are good and fast), you move slower when you have something in your tank.  In general, try to inhale your target as close to the spot where you need to shoot it as possible.
	Dust Routing:
		This is what requires the most on-the-fly adjustments to the route. The game requires these amounts of dust to proceed the story:
			End of Chapter 1: 100 Dust
			End of Chapter 2: 200 Dust
			Access Nano Cleaner Zera: 150 Dust
		What this means from a practical point of view is that you want the following amounts at the following splits:
			Bran Maligden: at least 50 Dust (24 of which comes from crystals)
			Great Gwom: at least 50 Dust (24 of which comes from crystals)
			Geof Agricite: ~60-70 Dust (36 of which comes from a crystal) (do not grind this, just cash in whatever you get naturally and make up anything that needs to be made up later)
			Iwasaki Antimon: ~60-70 Dust (36 of which comes from a crystal), and NOTE how much you have left to 200; must be less than 90.
			Clonwei Yonstein: The number you noted at the end of Iwasaki (36 of which comes from a crystal)
			Dust Grind: 60 Dust, so that a full tank later brings you to 150
			New Theeland: 90 Dust.  If you ended up with more from the Dust Grind, then you can get less here, but this is a faster grind.
		I'll mark important points of no return below.
	Text Skip:
		The in-game Skip Dialogue setting is very good, but note that the text actually goes slower if you're holding jump or talk.  As such, don't mash through text; just let it happen naturally.
	Pause-Gliding:
		When you pause the game while Nova is airborne, the game resets your momentum, both vertical and horizontal.  This can let you fall much slower while covering a much greater horizontal distance than would normally be possible, especially with Ridescale.  Optimal performance of this strat involves a specific rhythm for pausing and unpausing based on how far horizontally you have to go and mow much vertical space you can afford to lose; each one in the game is slightly different. Mashing works, but is slower.
	Ridescale Clipping:
		When you tranform into Ridescale, your car is always facing directly away from the camera, regardless of what direction Nova was facing. To clip into a corner this way, hold the movement stick into the corner, then sweep the camera in the opposite direction, and transform as the camera passes through the wall. It takes some practice, especially clipping out of Great Gwom's home, but it is consistent.
	Nano Assassin Skip:
		When you enter a Nano Assassin boss fight room, you have a bit of space you can move freely in before you actually trigger the beginning of the boss fight.  If you can inhale an object without leaving that space and then shoot the boss, you can run over the trigger area to start the boss while the boss is in hit stun, thereby allowing you to just stroll out the back door.  This is possible on three of the five Nano Assassins: Great Gwom (using a mini-Gwom in the boss room), Misteria Waizel (the easiest one), and Bran Maligden (extremely precise, but technically doable).  It *is* possible to skip the Nano Assassin in Drifting Polle; HOWEVER, skipping that cutscene results in a softlock preventing you from clearing the dust storm and getting to Blue Vale.

Settings: (Show in recording for validation)
	Rules (you must have these):
		Debug Mode: Off
		Double Health: Off
		Invincibility: Off
		60 FPS Lock: On
	Recommended for go fast:
		Show Text Immediately: On
		Camera Speed: 150%
		Skip Dialogue: On
		Save When Overlap 2D Checkpoint: On
		Language: zh-simp

START RUN (Timing starts on confirm new save file)

Albumen Shore:
	Cutscene
	Hold 8 o'clock as cutscene ends to skip a second, longer cutscene
	Yolk A (nothing much to say, just walk to the end)
	Yolk B (in the circular room, take the top route)
	Yolk C (left fork first, though it doesn't make a huge difference)
	Jump off of Yolk C and pause-glide to center
	Split on title drop

Drifting Pollen:
	Enter the Center, talk to Palisade
	Enter 2D
	Grab box 1 before boss text, BUT DO NOT SKIP
	Split on leaving 2D

Misteria Waizel:
	Leave Center, exit towards save point
	Car to green building
	Enter 2D
	Bottom path first
	Right keyhole first
	Boss Skip
	12 dust from crystal
	Split on fade to black

Bran Maligden:
	Right from Misteria's house
	Enter Bran
	Right at first fork
	Use first key on the way to the second
	DUST ROUTE: You need 37 by the time you finish the room on the left fork with 3 red slimes and a fire spitter; there's one freebie right before the crystal.
	Boss (skip if you can)
	12 dust from crystal, need 50 by the end
	Split on fade to black

Gustine Papellum:
	Pause-glide to Center from above Bran
	Turn in dust
	Left out of elevator
	Mid-air car to get to roof quickly
	Enter 2D
	Left fork first
	Drop off key on the way to right fork
	Boss
	12 dust from crystal
	Split on fade to black

Great Gwom:
	Go left
	Ride-clip into Gwom home
	Speak to babies
	Enter 2D
	Bottom/right fork first
	DUST ROUTE: You need 38 in electric slime room after both forks
	Boss skip
	12 dust from crystal, NEED 50 BY END
	Split on fade to black

Geof Agricite:
	Ride-clip out of Gwom-home
	Pause-glide to center
	Turn in cards
	Turn in dust
	Talk to Palisade
	Leave Center, up twice
	Away from save point after cutscene
	Clip through Car Wash fence
	Climb Car Wash near window with bridge, get card
	Pause-glide from Car Wash roof, high-up as possible to skip Geof
	Enter 2D
	Clean and talk to gravestones
	Get key on first trip (left at checkpoint)
	Exit 2D
	Climb geometry to enter 2D again
	Talk to former gravestones
	Get card from chest (down at hairpin)
	Dust crystal gives 36
	Split on fade to black

Iwasaki Antimon:
	Take Jade highway
	Pause-glide to waterfall for a card
	Pause-glide back to highway
	Back to center through east
	Turn in cards
	Turn in dust at the top
	Back to east, pause-glide to pond
	Enter Iwasaki's sub-area
	Pause-glide to Iwasaki
	Enter 2D
	DUST ROUTE: not a ton of natural dust in this segment, so grind at entrance to 20-ish
	North-east-north-east for a key
	West from center checkpoint for second key
	Use key in upper area first for another card
	Leave 2D, enter 2D in mailbox
	Dust crystal gives 36
	Split on fade to black

Clonwei Yonstein:
	Back to center to turn in dust, note dust remaining
	Pause-glide over closed gate using wall geometry
	Enter 2D
	DUST ROUTE: Grind spot in chamber 1, if needed; last chance to get dust is room with two flame slimes in chamber 3.
	Dust crystal is worth 36, need to be at 200 total
	Split on fade to black

Enter Dustbound Village:
	Climb Lonwei's lab
	Pause-glide to last card chest
	Return to center, cutscene
	Turn around after cutscene, change to car after 8 steps
	Tight line to Jade Highway
	Go to OSS
	Drive to tower, hug backwards during drop to fall through bend
	Use jumps to stall staggers
	Spark fruit, spark dog
	Split on fade to black

Leave Dustbound Village:
	Hold down-right, go to far east for funeral
	Talk to Drem, Elegy
	Go to train
	Hold down-right after playground cutscene
	Gardening 1
	Go to train
	Perform rites
	Wrestling mini-game 1 (attack, block, QTE, back-and-forth)
	Gardening 2
	Go to train
	Perform rites
	Wrestling mini-game 2 (back-and-forth, QTE, back-and-forth, attack and inhale)
	Go to train
	Perform rites
	Wrestling mini-game 3 (back-and-forth, QTE, DeDeDe section, block super)
	Big cutscene
	Split on fade to black after shrine destruction

Dust Grind:
	Exit center, leave top towards save point
	Pause-glide to Lonwei
	Enter 2D
	DUST ROUTE: Grind to 60 dust in chamber 1
	Exit 2D
	Leave via gate
	Turn in dust
	Split on fade to black after turning in dust

desertNPC:
	Blue Vale East to Outer Sands North
	Talk to tree 1 and tree 2
	Enter desertNPC
	Get the last chest for a collar piece
	Get the crystal
	Check window, leave
	Pathing leaving the apartment: left up right up right up
	Check computer, bed
	Check window, leave
	Check gargoyle
	Check computer, bed
	Leave via window
	Split on fade to black

Orb Sector 4-16-5:
	Talk to tree 3
	Enter Outer Sands East
	Talk to Minorma
	Floor two, talk to Fabrahen
	Floor three, chest at the very end
	Leave again
	Split on fade to black

New Theeland:
	Talk to tree 4, 5
	Enter 2D
	Enter New Theeland
	Spark into book, skip text
	Go to raft, south-west-south-south for a collar piece
	DUST ROUTE: North, west-north on raft, west-north to slime room, and grind dust up to 90
	Back to raft, East-east to the raft, and north to get to the portal from the dock
	Leave New Theeland
	Leave Nexus
	Split on fade to black after leaving Nexus

Dustbound Village?:
	Go to Outer Sands West
	Pause-glide to boat structure, get collar base
	Drive to Outer Sands South
	Tower
	Enter 2D
	Go to Drem's house, get Palisade card
	Split on second fade to black

Nano Cleaner Zera:
	Tower again
	OSS -> BVS -> turn right on Jade Highway for BVE -> Center
	Turn in dust, should be at 150
	Talk to center, spark the yellow orb
	Enter 2D in cutscene
	Turn left at the first fork
	Up, left, down at 1st 4-way intersection
	Left, down, right at second 4-way intersection
	Vaccum nanoscale targets to stop them
	Back to main gates, right
	Finish last section, back to the boss
	Final boss!
	2-cycle per phase is the target
	Time is on fade to black/last text box closes