Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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The Top Dog category has a few extra requirements for completing sunken ship. We have to fight Jiro, Saburo, and Ichiro for the Bestiary, collect both Stray Beads, and collect the Monkey Statue for the Treasure Tome. Although the enemies can be fought in North Ryo, their bestiary entries are explicitly only unlocked if they're fought in the Sunken Ship, for some reason.


The idea of this route is to abuse the fact that we can raise and lower the water by clipping the camera under the floor. The route goes like this:


1. Immediately after breaking the first cursed door with Rao's slip during the tutorial, go to the left and pan the camera down. Make sure to use inner camera.
2. Brush, then push the camera all the way down with the brush. Release all buttons, unbrush, brush, and push the camera down again to clip it under the floor.
3. Without unbrushing, pan the camera back up and Sunrise. If you did it in the correct direction, it should play the water-rising cutscene.
4. Drown.
5. Break the cursed door you spawn in front of, then immediately double back and fight Ichiro (the shark).
6. Go to the room through the cursed door you just broke. Dig up the clover for praise (I forgot to do this in the video) and Crescent.
7. Run back again and fight Jiro and Saburo (the crabs).
8. Go to the room which is normally visited 2nd, then clear the wall using a mega auto-jump. You can also use some slippery collision on the right, but that's slower. **I also forgot to open the chests in this room. One of them has a travel guide, which is required for Top Dog. Another has a Bull Horn (3k yen).**
9. Power Slash the cannon, draw a CB in it, and jump down to grab the key.
10. Go to the right pathway and kill all the imp ghosts for demon fangs.

11. Go down the hall and grab Stray Bead #57.

12. Go further, jump to the alcove on the right to avoid the seaweed monster hand. Tackle the chest and grab the pearl, since that doesn't waste any time.
13. Go and roll the spiky barrels over the seaweed monster's face for praise.
14. Jump into the left corner, then jump off the slippery collision to get up to the ledge with the Monkey Statue.
15. Jump down and go all the way back to the Lockjaw.
16. Grab the Lacquerware Set, Lucky Mallet, and Stray Bead #58.
17. Leave. Don't get eaten by the Water Dragon.


I didn't execute everything terribly well in this video, but it's good enough to demonstrate the idea. There might be some optimizations you could do, but I think the overall route stands.


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