Anodyne 2: Return to Dust Any% Good Ending Switch Route Notes

Anodyne Any% (Good Ending) Notes

Notes by CodeGorilla
Switch Exclusive Route

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:
		The Switch route doesn't actually need to pay attention to dust, except for the two explicit dust grinding segments in Clonwei and New Theeland just after Dustbound Village.
	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.
	Pausegliding:
		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.
	Pausefloating and Savefloating:
		Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch version of the game, if you pause or interact with a 3D save egg while you have upwards momentum (e.g. right after jumping), you will float into the air, making it possible to gain infinite height.  Pause-floating is more versatile, as it can be performed anywhere, but it has the downside of not being able to see where you are until you unpause, at which point you start to drop. That means you need to internalize the timing of how long you need to remain paused to get the height you need. Save floating can only be performed at a save egg, and requires text skip to be off, but it lets you see where you are which gives you a lot more control.
	Cutscene Triggers:
		High in the air outside of CCC, there is a green platform with a set of four translucent green cubes.  These are cutscene triggers, and each has a different purpose.  They are arranged in a pattern like this:
		......A......B........
		......................
		......C...............
		......................
		......................
		.............D........
		A triggers the dust drop-off cutscene; if you trigger this while the prism is full or your tank is empty, you will softlock.
		B triggers the storm clearing cutscene; this will give you the upgraded vacuum as well.
		C triggers the prism repair cutscene, regardless of whether or not you have the cards.
		D has a talk prompt, and talking to it triggers the prism dive cutscene.  This accomplishes nothing, unfortunately.
		See this image for reference: https://imgur.com/a/5HjMSn6
	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 (PC only)
	Recommended for go fast:
		Show Text Immediately: On
		Camera Speed: 150%
		Skip Dialogue: On
		Save When Overlap 2D Checkpoint: On
		Language: Simplfied Chinese

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)
	Use a short pausefloat to get over the ledge
	Yolk B (in the circular room, take the top route)
	Use a pausefloat to take a straight-line path over the mountain to Yolk C
	Yolk C (left fork first, though it doesn't make a huge difference)
	Do a short pausefloat to get to the top
	Split on title drop

Clear the Storm:
	Enter the Center, trigger the Drifting Pollen cutscene
	Instead of entering 2D, use a diagonal pausefloat to escape through the hole in the ceiling
	Turn off text skip during that pausefloat
	Double back to the elevator, leave center
	Mash through the prism tutorial text
	Savefloat; in the air, point the camera a bit to the right of Gwom's maze
	Break out and transform into a car once in the 2nd or 3rd layer of storm clouds
	Pauseglide towards the outside, aiming for the debug platform
	While pausegliding, turn text skip back on
	Drive through the cutscene
	Split at tend of cutscene

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

Bran Maligden:
	Right from Misteria's house
	Pausefloat inside the ribcage to get to Bran
	Enter Bran
	Right at first fork
	Use first key on the way to the second
	Boss (skip if you can)
	Split on fade to black

Gustine Papellum:
	Pause-float from next to Bran at an angle for 23-24ish seconds
	Turn off text skip during that pausefloat
	pause-glide to cutscene cubes
	Hit C into A, LET THE CAMERA PAN OUT FINISH BEFORE ADVANCING TEXT
	Left out of elevator
	Pause-float to Gustine, turning text skip back on
	Enter 2D
	Left fork first
	Drop off key on the way to right fork
	Right-side has a quick kill: enter at top of transition, hold vacuum, and hold up-right
	Boss
	Split on fade to black

Great Gwom:
	Go left
	Ride-clip into Gwom home
	Speak to babies
	Enter 2D
	Bottom/right fork first
	Boss skip
	Split on fade to black

Geof Agricite:
	Ride-clip out of Gwom-home
	Pause-glide to center
	Go up elevator, turn in dust
	Talk to Palisade
	Away from save point after cutscene
	Pause-float over 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)
	Split on fade to black

Iwasaki Antimon:
	Take Jade highway
	Pause-float, then pause-glide to waterfall for a card
	Pause-glide back to highway
	Hard right after screen transition, pause-glide to pond
	Enter Iwasaki's sub-area
	Pause-glide to Iwasaki
	Enter 2D
	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
	Split on fade to black

Clonwei Yonstein:
	Leave pond to the right
	Drive to just under the ledge card, then pause-float up to it
	pause-float and pause-glide over the mountain to Lonwei
	Enter 2D
	Just practice doing this area fast; no tricks, just git gud
	Split on fade to black

Enter Dustbound Village:
	Pause-float over the gate (faster than opening it)
	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
	At the outside, pause-float up to the top
	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
	Grind to 60 dust in chamber 1
	Exit 2D
	Leave via pause-floating over 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
	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, pause-float at the top
	Enter 2D (pet the dog twice)
	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