June 2025 Mini Archipelago (In progress)

[Explorer of Time]

And Link to the Past is now done. Nothing much else there for Metroid Prime and Zelda 1.

Final Thoughts: This Archipelago moved too fast for me to really have a regular experience in LttP; by the time I had finished up my Starcraft, LttP already had so many of its items that it wasn't interesting. I had virtually my entire arsenal and it felt like a repeat of last time, except it actually had items for other people in the world thanks to starting with Small Keys. I'd like to bring LttP to another Archipelago, but hopefully a slower-paced one.

Starcraft, as well, ended up being easy thanks to early Carriers and all my Spear of Adun ults. AP SC2 is the most interesting when I haven't received a lot of items yet, so the fast pace of this Archipelago worked against it here.

A Short Hike is... A Short Hike. I learned that I could get a check out-of-logic without the Fishing Journal, which'll be helpful for later Archipelagos, but it's not really that different from last time.

 

[Vendily]

A Short Hike is... A Short Hike. I learned that I could get a check out-of-logic without the Fishing Journal, which'll be helpful for later Archipelagos, but it's not really that different from last time.

The fishing journal isn't actually progression at all (it's useful, since otherwise you have to manually keep track of your caught fish)

If you want an interesting experience with it, maybe try it with Hard Feather logic, possibly without buckets (buckets are also progression, but not required, they just reduce the minimum number of feathers needed to reach a location, and hard logic doesn't care about that.). You only need a handful of feathers to reach the very peak of the mountain (there's a winding route on the side of the mountain left of the Tough Bird Salesman, you can glide and climb the last bit with like 2 or 3 feathers to get the upper mountian checks, which you'd likely get early on from other players).
Do keep the easier races setting on though. Even if it's totally possible to do the races with fewer feathers than required, it is a pain without being able to run (you need to master diving to glide fast and use it in every corner you can to do it without shoes, so just save yourself some of the trouble).

It's a nice game for Archipelago, even if it ends up BK'd for decent stretches of it (especially the end game).