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Route options and benchmark times: base (no cutscene skip): ~1:27 cutscene skip: ~1:29 (cutscene skip route is intended only for combining with borassic park cutscene skip route) getting on elevator during cutscene skip: ~1:25

It is recommended not to attempt a faster route until your time is close to the benchmark time for the current strats you are using. If you are using faster strats and your time is still slower than the benchmark for a route with worse strats, it is recommended that you simplify your route.

Basically, just beat the level, but do it fast. The correct sequence is described below with notes on each step.

1. Head to the second area. You can jump straight up to the door from the box, no need to use a camel to push it. Lag should be minimized by pointing the camera at walls during the first area. Lag isn't too significant in the second area. Note that zooming the camera in at the start of this level causes lag.

2. Hit the pump switch and use the pump to get up to the elevator switch. Perform the pump jump to do this optimally.

3. Hit the elevator switch and ride the elevator to get up to the elevator. You can shoot this switch to activate it (only switch in the game that you can shoot to activate. Weird right?). Shooting the switch feels safer (from a platforming perspective) and probably a few frames faster, but either touching or shooting the switch will work.

4. Walk along the pipe to hit all four valves. Don't jump off of the valves because if you do you get a weird knock-back effect that is probably slower than if you don't get it. If you just walk off the valves with the camera zoomed in (and the camera is positioned behind you), your camera will rotate a bit and throw off your angle, so make sure your camera is zoomed out.

5. Head back to the elevator and onto the teleporter. The straightest line is to cross under the pipe between the first and second valves. Ideally, you will do a cutscene skip here. The cutscene skip does not only give you a chance to improve your movement, but it does activate a new animal cutscene. It is important to activate this NAC here because if you don't, you will activate it during the Borassic Park cutscene skip and will be unable to extend it. If you aren't going to do the Borassic Park cutscene skip, then you don't need to cutscene skip here. Unfortunately, you will still get this NAC in Whirlwind Tour if you skip it here, so you cannot skip it altogether and save time. Movement during this cutscene skip is hard because you have to time a jump onto the elevator and time another one off of the elevator. If you want to learn it, ask somebody about it. Maybe somebody will explain it in writing eventually, but not now. The difference between optimal cutscene movement and completely failing the movement is only 5 seconds, so no big deal.

Techniques

Pump jump: Turn the pump on by jumping on top of the switch. Immediately jump toward the pump platform. The cutscene will start while you are in the air right beside the pump platform, or sometimes while you are on it. When the cutscene ends, the pump platform should be just below you and you can hold forward to fall onto it if you aren't already on it.

Cutscene skipping: Swapping between animals or from Evo into an animal when a cutscene starts allows you to retain control of your character during the cutscene. In this level you only use if you are going to do a cutscene skip in Borassic Park to activate a new animal cutscene so you don't get it during the Borassic Park cutscene. Unless you're crackerbean, then you do it to save a bunch of time.