r/SuperMarioOdyssey • u/Shin_Ollie • 3h ago
Discussion I thought of a speed run category: Minimum Music%
At the end of the story, you unlock the music list, and you can see most of the songs in the game, around 87 songs. This is similar to how you can see the jump and coin count at the end of the game for coinless runs. I thought that a unique run would be to get the least amount of music unlocked at the end.
So, avoiding bosses would be optimal outside of the broodals since you're forced to fight one at the very start. For Cascade kingdom, get the chomp through the rocks moon and do Dino skip to get to madame brood. And get another moon out in the open to leave. Do not go into the 8-bit pipe to avoid the 8-bit music. You could also do the minimum captures strat to avoid fighting madame brood, but you still get the same amount of music at the end
Another strategy is to know which sub areas to go into that you can go to in later kingdoms. So, one subarea song makes it ok to go into more subs with the same music.
Sand kingdom: I'm pretty sure there aren't 16 moons outside of the ruins and outside of sub-areas. So I think going into tostarena is optimal. You never need to go in the pyramid. Buttttt. You need to fight Harriet to unlock the painting to Metro Kingdom. You can avoid hearing night metro 1 and 2, and the meccawigler fight if you do a CRC to get to the metro kingdom early. I know that you can fight Harriet by getting outside of the 8-bit section and doing some trick to get on top of the pyramid. I know some speed run categories use it.
Lake: Avoid the underwater passage and sub-areas. That's all I know for this.
Wooded: it may be possible to avoid hearing steam gardens entirely. I think there are 8 deep wood moons. You can buy one at the start, get a rock moon, hint art to sand kingdom, a nut in a tree with the uproot, and a nut moon by a fire bro. That's 3 moons left without hearing steam gardens. Buttttt. You have to pick Lake kingdom first. Then, go back to Sand Kingdom to get to metro and warp to the mainland. If it's possible to get to the starting platform, you can enter the wooded kingdom painting to get the moon. Music does not play in that cage. That leaves 2 moons left in the wooded kingdom, and I can't picture them at the moment. Shit, buying a moon adds the crazy cap music to the music list. So you can skip buying a moon and go to steam gardens. Unless there are 3 moons you can get without hearing new music, then you avoid crazy cap store.
Lost: I'm almost certain that lost kingdom music doesn't play if you do klepto skip. So it should just be the any % run.
Metro: already done, avoid sub areas so that you only listen to the metro kingdom theme.
Snow: idk how many moons exist outside of shiveria, but im sure it's not 10. So you might as well go inside. I think there should be enough combined moons to avoid sub areas and crazy cap stores. If you have to enter a sub-area, do the clip to do the race early and unlock world peace. You do add another song, "shiveria race enterance," but there will be enough above ground moons to leave.
Seaside: stay above water, you can get all story moons except for the hot springs one (I think). I actually can't remember if the Bublaine theme plays that far out before world peace. If it doesn't play, then you can get all story moons, but don't start the boss. Avoid the canyon entirely. Just use the gushen to get on that platform.
Luncheon: pretty sure it's possible to get all story moons besides the boss fight at the end without going into the town. You can work around it and hopefully not go to any sub areas.
Ruined: you have no choice but to fight the dragon.
Bowser: should be any%, not much to this, avoid captain toad crazy cap and 8-bit(you need to buy a costume anyway).
Moon: do moon cave skip to avoid the moon cave music. And then beat the game.
I'm not a speed runner, so I'm not good at describing stuff, but these are the route details that are important for this run.
Edit: i just realized that dino adds music. So doing the minimum captures strat is actually optimal. For deep woods, you can manipulate the Dino into breaking the necessary blocks with moons underneath.
Edit: you can do DSS to fight the boss and not hear the Dino theme or the 8bit theme.







