...Why would you do it that many times? :xd: Yeah, those are two areas I had a lot of trouble with too. The rest I could figure out. That's interesting about the OoT and OoT3D Hookshot difference though. I don't have OoT3D yet, so I didn't know about that.
When I did my minimalist run, I insisted on actually completing the dungeons, so aside from the stuff I'd need the Scarecrow's Song for, I 100%ed the dungeons. I feel like that's only fair. You skip upgrades and items but you still do the entire dungeon. That's how I look at it anyway. So I did all the dungeons.
Those are some interesting challenges. I thought about doing the dungeons without the tunics, but I didn't think it would be possible. Then again I was on a minimalist run already, so I had three hearts. Is it possible with that few hearts, or...?
I've basically just gotten into the habit of doing minimalist runs for OOT because I went through a phase in which I tried speedrunning the game. Skipping the well is a huge timesaver. Also another reason is because I kept realizing in the middle of minimalist runs that I could skip even more than I was doing so that would give me a goal for the next one (in other words motivation to do it again). Also once you skip the lens a couple of times you get used to it.
Everyone has different rules and that's one of the great things about OOT- you have so many options. Once I did a 100% run in which I did the bottom of the well last in the game (meaning right before Ganon's Castle); really defeats the purpose of getting the lens at all if you've passed most of the areas it's useful for but OOT lets you do all sorts of interesting things. Since it was fun for me I went ahead and did it.
As for the tunics, that's a great question and you're right. I believe it's impossible do a real "minimalist" run (excluding glitches) and skip the goron tunic because of how much time you need in the hot areas of the Fire Temple. You either need to get extra hearts or carry multiple fairies. You get 8 seconds per full heart container so even the simple areas of the Fire Temple seem impossible. I believe you would actually need four fairies with 3 hearts to make it possible to beat Volvagia quickly enough. Getting more heart containers is another option but that pushes this challenge further away from a minimalist run as well. I haven't even mentioned that to fully skip getting the goron tunic you need both the scarecrow's song and the longshot (but skips the bolero of fire also). I found lots of information of the subject of minimalist runs of OOT on a website called speedrunwiki.com (here http://speedrunwiki.com/Minimal_runs_of_OoT). Most of the information relates to using glitches to bypass things but there is other info that pertains to everyone (I for one don't use glitches because I can't figure most of them out anyway). One other thing I found interesting was that the fire arrows were skippable.
I just realized I haven't mentioned the Zora Tunic yet. That definitely is skippable while simultaneously doing a 3 heart run (you don't even need a single fairy). There's only one room in the Water Temple that's really tough (the one in the center chamber underwater), but I successfully did it with 3 hearts and no tunic a week ago. I was carrying a fairy because I failed the first couple of times I tried it, but I made it with 2 seconds to spare. Additionally you only need to enter that room for a small key, but actually you can skip any small key in the Water Temple because you can bypass the locked door to the center chamber by going through the door on the second floor. So actually you could complete the Water Temple without even coming close to needing the Zora Tunic.
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