¶ Overview
This is a technique that lets you avoid waiting for the full collection animation in some cases.
¶ Types
There are three types of collection skip:
- Opening the menu
- Going through an interior/exterior door
- Fast-travelling
¶ Explanation
The game freezes time and ignores your button presses during the collection animation. However, there is a very small window (possibly a single frame) when you break an urn or flask during which you can open the menu. At this point, the item counts as collected, so saving and quitting will savewarp and preserve the item.
The other types of collection skip rely on the game advancing time while you are leaving the area. If you are off-center when going through an interior/exterior door, you are first centered, during which time your boomerang can continue flying toward its target. When timed right, much like Collection Freeze, you regain control due to the shorter animation ending. Similarly, when fast-travelling, the screen lingers as you turn to a cloud of nanites and speed away, allowing your boomerang to break an urn without interrupting the fast-travel animation. (The reason it doesn't work to throw the boomerang and then savequit, despite time resuming after the menu is closed, is that the save is from before the boomerang hits the urn, thus you can't collect it this way.)
¶ Execution
¶ Menu-based skip as Indra
Indra does not hit the urn for a couple of frames into her attack animation. Because this is very precise, you can practice without an urn. (Also you can practice in the main game mode, where you can exit to menu without saving.)
- Position Indra at the urn (or for practice, somewhere near a screen edge or wall).
- Attack.
- Pause at the exact right frame. This seems to be the right one:
If you were too early, Indra's attack will still be behind her. And if you were attacking a wall, you won't have heard the tink from hitting the wall.
If you were too late, the collection animation will play, or her swing will have passed this point.
If you got it just right on the urn, you will hear the breaking sound while the menu opens.
¶ Menu-based skip as Drone
Drone can hit on the same frame as the attack.
- Position the drone right in front of the urn, or overlapping it.
- Attack and pause at the same time.
¶ Interior/exterior door
- Position Indra so that you will reach the door before the boomerang reaches the item.
- Throw the boomerang.
- Run to the door and hit up as soon as you can.
¶ Fast-travel
- Position Indra close enough to break the item with the boomerang.
- Throw the boomerang.
- Bring up the menu before the boomerang hits, and fast-travel.
¶ Proof
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