It's a full recreation of the Terran campaign, except instead of deciding what units you produce/start with, all units in the game are sorted into. That is the initial testing runthrough of the since-finished StarCraft 2 randomizer ("To find the mod, head to the CUSTOM section of Starcraft 2, and then click the subdirectory CAMPAIGNS, and search 'Random Edition'"). Though it ultimately becomes 'find Cyan, Edgar, and Locke' if you have character gating enabled in order to encounter the Storm/Blue/Red dragons. They're not randomized and are always where they are (though you can set it so the dragons shift positions among themselves), but set it so they're not affected by scaling (and thus are always as hard as they naturally are) and you have a bit more of an interesting goal. One thing I do like to do on occasion is an 8 Dragons mode, which will lock the final battle until all eight dragons are defeated. I once suggested a 'Three Statues' mode which would lock Kefka's Tower until you find and defeat the three statue bosses, but I guess they didn't go with it. I do wish the rando had a few more settings to make runs more unique. You can also choose how bosses and enemies scale, my preferred method is by progress rather than time or level but ymmv. Hm, what settings are you using? When you say everything is open, I guess you're not using Character Gating? That locks checks behind certain characters, rather than have everything open all the time (with a few exceptions).
Not that I've ever actually done that myself. Even if the routing ends up being utter nonsense, figuring it out more quickly or more efficiently than another human adds a fun layer to the process. One thing that can make almost any randomizer better is randomizer more fun is racing it against other people. I think they get around this by duplicating certain key items so they can be found in more than one location, but in some ways that makes it seem a little less satisfying to me? Dunno, I should really give it a try and find out. The only problem is the sheer size of that game, which is far too massive to clear out every time you do a run. There's also the Hollow Knight rando, which I've been thinking of trying out for a while now. I'd love it if they integrated a hint system to make the complete shuffle option a bit more manageable - bookshelves could offer hints like "an enemy in the volcano area has the double jump shard" to point you forward without making it 100% obvious. You can shuffle key items between bosses, at which point you're just optimizing your path from boss to boss, or else you can put them anywhere, in which case it becomes a total scavenger hunt as you try to track down the one enemy whose drop you haven't gotten yet. You basically need some way to fly (invert or the high jump) and the Zangetsuto, almost everything else is secondary. Unfortunately, I didn't find that this rando had quite the legs I wanted it to, as the list of critical items is fairly short. I also spent a little time with the Bloodstained RotN randomizer, which is the first one I've seen that is officially supported by the developer. Breaking it up definitely makes things a little harder, but with the right combination of item trackers and notes you can make it work (all of my SMZ3 runs so far have been done over several play sessions). I'd love to try out the multiworld mode at some point, but I'd need to find people who would be willing to play the game in 2-hour slices, because that's all the time I can spend on a single sitting. Also, runs take me a good 5-6 hours at this point, which is still a bit longer than I would like. I haven't played it in a little while, mostly because the game is 2/3 Zelda by volume, and I just don't enjoy that game as much as Super Metroid.
I had a phase where I was super obsessed with the Super Metroid+LttP randomizer (known in the community as SMZ3), it's such a weird, fascinating thing. There are many others, and the concept has gained such traction that even games like Bloodstained have added its own built-in randomizer, which is a trend I'd like to see continue.Īnd to justify starting this thread, here's a link to my most recent Varia Randomizer run, which turned into some real shenanigans: Super Metroid + A Link to the Past Randomizer There's a bunch of em that are popular, and a number of TT folks still run em on the regular, whether streaming or not. Like a Super Metroid randomizer that might have you find the Space Jump somewhere in predefined Crateria. Randomizers (Randos), for the uninitiated, take a game you're (presumably) familiar with and mixes it all up according to some predefined criteria. Kinda surprised TT 3.0 hasn't had a dedicated Rando thread yet.
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