Hi, I recently got this game and though doing IL's would be fun, but I'm kind of confused by how you have them set up, since there are very few vods or screenshots on any of the submissions and the rules don't specify. I can't tell whether they are completed on Legend Mode or Free Mode. If Free Mode, why is there not any variable for characters? Just curious about this. Actually even Adventure mode why wouldn't there be a variable for the character?
IL times are just trying to complete the levels as fast as possible using whatever you want. You can do them on Legend Mode, or Free Mode. Any character at all. There's no reason to put variables because there's screenshots typically showing you who they used.
You can have a great IL in Legend Mode and in Free Mode, so there's no reason to limit it. I think in one of them, Book Lana is actually a little better to use, but more risky than MS Link becasue if you mess up the strats then she's slower in the end.
Basically the IL board doesn't have that stuff because there isn't any rules limiting you. Pick who you want, how you want.
Adventure Mode Misc catagory doesn't have variable for characters because the game forces you to use 4 different characters, and that you can use whoever you want for other stages. For my run I'll use Horse Link on some stages that others use Master Sword.
I'm not sure what having a variable for characters would add. We already have a few unnecessary ones as-is, and we're not using just one character for a while run in any category to my knowledge. So it wouldnt be accurate to have that on the leaderboards. Maybe in ILs I could kinda see it being a option, but with screenshots it'd be redundant.
ILs are just use whatever you want, and do a stage as fast as possible. So there's no rules on limits. Though now that you bring it up, I wonder if Apothecary would be something to think about for them?
Generally for most games IL's variables are just an easy way to see who has the fasted time with which characters. Because you could potentially not have the best time with link, but then have the fastest time anyone has completed the IL as Agitha. While I was playing through more though since I asked this this I realized it's a little redundant since you play on easy and basically one hit everything so the time wont be different by enough for it to matter. I'm used to Ninety Nine Nights where the IL's are slightly different per character. So that was just my bad lol.
Well, one good thing is that you reminded me of exploits that were found recently by a NG+ runner, so we should add rules anyway for that-- and we'll add the things you asked about in the OP just to have it be more clear for newer runners.
Totally understandable coming from one community to another. I'll go ahead and do that now.
EDIT: I did it, if there's anything else that's unclear or should be added, let me know!
