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So this star's actually HELLA sick. A few days ago I was in the mood to get some more stars on the sheet done, so I asked Xander to roll another star for me to TAS and he rolled this one. There's been a lot of work on this star already but it was really fun/satisfying to put them together and try to properly optimize the star. -5s on the LOTAD I did and like -40s or smth off the IL WR if you count the cutscenes. Thoughts on each segment
First planet: This part I'm still not very sure about. There's a lot of ways to get up and a MTJ without a 2P Jump into a backflip ended up being the fastest for me, although there's like gotta be some way to get flung directly into the Launch Star.
Enemy Manip/Skip: Super happy with how this one turned out, the idea for this segment is that you get Mario high enough to enter the weird upper gravity field, and then once you're in the sideways gravity you bounce off the lured Astrogoomba, and with gravity being this direction you can triple-bounce 2P on top of the rocket, from which you can fall all the way to the next Launch star, skipping 2 sections. Main improvements over the original skip was jumping off the first Astrogoomba in such a way that I get the single and double bounces at the same time, getting good enough spacing to triple bounce immediately off the Astrogoomba instead of waiting, and going up and around the gravity field instead of going to the left.
Final Planet(s): I saw the basic idea for this ending from PurpleSun, but their version didn't quite make it to the star from just a wall jump. So what I did is to the wall-fall-jump-thingamabob to spin bonk off of the laser platform, and being able to fall backwards actually does give you enough speed to fall directly onto the star.
Thanks to Xander/PurpleSun for giving me ideas during the TASing process and shoutouts to usernameispassword/MarioandTrafficLightFan for figuring out the skip.