Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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LegoerofEggos discovered that the same basic principle of Damage Boosting (https://okami.speedruns.wiki/Damage_Boost) applied to dialogue as well. This means that we can get an extra jump if there's dialogue we can trigger in the air. It happens to be that we can get a very short Issun dialogue by tackling into the Kamiki Boulder, effectively giving us the equivalent of a full-height KT jump, which is just enough to clear the invisible wall in front of the boulder.

This will save a few minutes in NG and NG+ 2017. Without doing the Gale Shrine Origin Warp, we'll need to return to Kamiki later to challenge Hayabusa. If the boulder is still in the way, we can get through it using the clips shown in this video: youtu.be/wyMdFWMfjmM. Furthermore, since doing this trick enables us to skip actually obtaining the Sunrise brush technique, we need to be able to skip it in the rest of the run.


As it turns out, the game is programmed in a way where almost none of the things you would think check for Sunrise actually do. Stuff like the tablet and ball in Hana Valley, or Orca in NRyo will respond to drawing a circle, even if you don't have Sunrise. We can't turn it to day time, but this is never a hard requirement. The only real check for Sunrise that stands in our way is, counterintuitively, the Rejuvenate-able bridge in Tsuta Ruins. You normally have to repair the bridge to get to the triple gate room. For whatever reason, the game checks whether you have Sunrise for this, and if you don't, doesn't let you Rejuv the bridge. As such, we need either Sunrise or a way around the bridge. In NG+ 2017, we can do Blockhead Skip to avoid the bridge completely (https://okami.speedruns.wiki/Blockhead_Skip). For NG, I found a bridge skip shown here: youtu.be/i_edKOP87-M, though it requires Double Jump. As such, we need to do Half Blue Skip (https://okami.speedruns.wiki/Agata_Bridge_Skip) in order to obtain DJ before Tsuta. In routes which don't do HBS, you can still benefit from Boulder Skip after obtaining Sunrise, because it lets you skip messing around with Kushi and Susano.



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