SGDQ 2020 Submissions

Kirby Super Star Ultra 100%: This remake of the titular SNES title adds 4 new game modes, along with changing up some physics slightly and nerfing and buffing a few powers. Of note Meta Knightmare Ultra lets you play as Meta Knight and is extremely execution based with very tight point routing. 100% beats all game modes, gets all powers in MWW, all chests in GCO, and hits 2 switches in DynaBlade. Beat RotK beats 7 game modes, completing every mode with a story and ending with Revenge of the King. It's Any% for this game.

Crash Bandicoot: The HUGE Adventure Any%: While this is an original game, it plays most like a mix between Crash 2 and 3, with movement most similar to 2 and levels most similar to 3. It's super fast and neat just like the original trilogy as well, utilizing the combination of sliding and spinning to keep a constant move through each level along with slide jumping to gain more height. Mask routing is also super important for damage boosting through slow-moving objects and obstacles you need to get through

Kirby Triple Deluxe Dededetour: Dededetour goes through the Story Mode of Triple Deluxe with King Dedede instead, eliminating sections that only Kirby could go through like the Hypernova sections. It also adds warps everywhere, which put you farther ahead in the level, sometimes skipping minibosses too! These are usually in places where Sun Stones would be in the normal game, so you see a lot more puzzles and extra content in this run compared to when playing as Kirby. Dedede likes to spin the hammer

Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Any%: Phantom Hourglass is completely touch-screen based aside from shortcuts on the face buttons. The run is host to a lot of nice movement and optimizations with this, as well as some neat skips, such as clipping the Hammer through walls to access Goron Temple early or sequence breaking dungeons by displacing the camera and hitting a switch offscreen. The Japanese version is missing some cutscenes and allows some required events to happen faster

Wario Land 4 Normal and Hard Any% Zipless: Wario Land 4's run relies a lot on keeping and preserving Wario's momentum, allowing you to breeze super quickly through rooms without losing speed. Wario has a ton of movement options, so knowing when to use each is essential for a clean run. Zipless categories ban zipping through walls, focusing more on moving through levels super quick rather than getting frame perfect tricks to progress. Hard mode moves around and adds more enemies and puts chests and Keyzer in harder to reach locations