Sonic Advance 2 - Sky Canyon 1 (Amy) in 0:49:60
Channel: Kirby Mastah
Date: 10/11/2022

Time attack of Sky Canyon Act 1 in Sonic Advance 2, with Amy, in 0:49:60

Small improvement over my previous WR at the time. A rare case where Amy is the slowest character despite her fast tricks because no air dashing and she lacks abilities to take the top route over the birds, and to skip the last loop - Cream, Tails, AndKnuckles can do that.

0:15 - Jump a bit high to bait the birds into flying over Amy. There's still a common chance for a bird to bop her though - it's basically random and nothing you can do about it besides roll (which is bad because no air control when jumping out of ball mode).

0:17 - There's also a spike cycle afterwards that I wait at the start on, to make sure it's lowered.

0:24 - Upon landing, random chance of losing all speed lol good game. If it happened, you wouldn't be watching this run.

0:39 - In the hidden wall, I jump into the fan so I accelerate upward a bit more quickly, saving a bit of time.

0:47 - While being flown up by the fan, you want to hold left for most of the ascent - this will position your character on the right side at the end (holding right will do the opposite and lose time). See the input display!

0:49 - Amy lacks a tool to skip this last segment, so she has to just jump on the ending boostpad manually instead of flying/gliding to skip it. That jump is more annoying than it looks, because there's a giant invisible rectangular path swapper you have to avoid - if you hit it then land on the boost pad, you'll get flung back into the upper-left segment of the level. I avoid this by jumping late and high, but I then have to blindly pull back near the end to make sure I don't overshoot (look at my input display).

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