June 27th, 2026

I finished that super metroid map rando seed from the other day, and I started up a new one pretty soon after that, and oh boy. I had "forced" item progression on, which means you have to do a trick of some variety or just something difficult to get from one progression item to the next, and I rolled a really obnoxious seed. I had to do stuff like fighting Kraid with one missile pack or damage boosting through some spikes (not too bad), then go through the 4th escape room backwards (annoying because I kept messing up the wall jumps), to just fucking. Midair spring ball jump in order to get gravity suit in the east sand pit, which is an extremely obnoxious jump to do, as you're jumping out of quicksand. The worst part is that I got baited into mochtroid clip again, because I got ice beam and I just assumed that it wanted me to go through that room and not go all the way across the map to crab shaft (which I had tried to get through before ice beam, but stopped after I checked to see if it was even in logic, which it wasn't). That was honestly just the quit moment for me, the seed was really frustrating up until then, sometimes for dumb reasons but mostly because the logic was just obnoxious. I still might give a new seed a go tomorrow or something, idk. The more I do it the easier it'll be and all that.