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72nd: Yggdrasil Make a Good Mega Man Level 2 [[]] An Eldritch Location. Overview Creator(s): Zatsupachi Programmer(s): Zatsupachi Artist(s): Zatsupachi Composer(s): Motoi Sakuraba(Stage theme), Michiru Yamane, Yasuhiro Ichihashi(Boss themes) Statistics Scores: 25 24 5 18 4 Total: 15.2 / 50 Rank: 72nd Elements: 3 Enemies: Super Joe Wild Gunner Sear Rabbit Bombomb Bosses: Crator Cream Kichona Other Information: Skippable ACE_Spark's Least Favourite Enjl's Least Favourite Theme Music Mission to Deep Space(Valkyrie Profile version), Sorrow's Distortion(Crator), Dissonant Courage(Cream), Prediction of Insanity(Kichona) Stage Order Location: Tier 2 Previous: Airflow Hubble Next: Rush City

" My friends, any Let's Players - if you are going to skip any level in this contest - make it this one. "

― ACESpark's review of Yggdrasil

Lore

A location based Norse Cosmology that connects the nine worlds. It is also called the Tree of Life in some interpretations.

Being an Eldritch locale, there is only a vague interpretation what is up there. The three characters encountered in this level are from Zatsupachi's 'Cutezome Mythos' works. Crator, Cream and, Kichona visit this area(and made apparent that it's not their first time) to study it. Kichona's intentions were to make stable transdimensional travel in space-time to ease their travels. Once confirmed stable, she will open this project up with her superiors to make travelling to different parts the universe easier for their race. According to her research, this stability is achieved if a constant frequency matrix can be transmitted in this borderworld of sorts.

The nature of Yggdrasil, as with the myth, is that it provides a sort-of shortcut to different parts of the universe(and time), similar to a wormhole. The property noted with this location was that it was safer to travel across(despite its potentially hostile inhabitants).

The Contest Level

The level was poorly received(a score of 15.2/50) and got a least favorite from 2 judges(Enjl and ACESpark). Mainly it was because of its poorly-introduced and inconsistent "non-Euclid" screen-warping gimmick. It was also infamous for it's unforgiving difficulty, overpowered enemies and, the superbosses in the end. It is one of the larger levels in the contest running at 92(?) screens.

Strategy

BLUE

Section 0: Lasers are harmless as they are blocked by a wall. Unless you go over it, they are not the Insta-kill variety though. There is an E-tank in this screen.

Section 1: Climb up quickly, shoot the Super Joe (3 hp) with a chargeshot or three normal shots. Keep pressing on to the left.

Section 2: Jump down the hole. It will wrap you to the top. Proceed left.

Section 3: If you're quick enough you can dodge the laser. But if you're not, can loop from the left and pop-out to the right.

Section 4: Climb up quickly, slide to the left, climb up, jump to the right, climb up.

Section 5: Checkpoint.

Section 6: Climb up the middle ladder, walk left, jump down, slide to the left, fall, slide to the right, jump over the pit.

Section 7: Take one engagement at a time, kill the Sear if you can. You will come across 2 Wild Gunners. Wait for their patterns to synchronize and take out the lower one by taking the ladder up quickly. Take out the second Sear.

Section 8: You can take the pink path from here, but if you haven't defeated Crator and Cream then don't. Shoot the Super Joe, and proceed upwards.

Section 9: Quickly leap from the platforms then climb up to the ladder once you can reach it.

Section 10: Checkpoint.

Section 11: Run left, Fall, Run right, Fall, Run Left, Jump over the pit.

Section 12: Either slide under the block the Super Joe is in for a secret, or drop down and jump towards(but not into) the spike pit. Get Past the Super Joe, and climb the ladder.

Section 12(secret 1): There is a Yashichi guarded by respawning Bombombs. Otherwise, proceed top left.

Section 12(secret 2): Go up.

Section 12(secret 3): Go right.

Section 13: Jump down to the left, take out the Wild Gunner, jump onto where the Wild Gunner was, jump high towards the wall to the right, then press up. You will wrap unto the ladder below. Continue heading upwards.

Section 14: Slide into the hole to the left. Jump down(but not into the laser), Jump to the left side of the screen carefully.(There is an unfortunate glitch here that kills you as you get clipped into the floor.). As you are wrapped to the other side, go right.

Section 15: Don't stop moving. Keep moving right, and jumping from island to island. You will soon encounter 2 Rabbits, either skip or kill them(13 hp) at your own leisure. Here is a split path, go up to instantly go to the bottom of the level(green) or go down to go to pink. Otherwise, keep moving right.

Section 16: Boss corridor.

GREEN

Section 0: Drop, avoid the spikes.

Section 1: Jump on the first block, Jump on the second, then just leap to the ladder. Move left.

Section 2: Jump on the first block, Jump on the second, then jump to align yourself with the platform above. Jump on the third, jump left.

Section 3: Jump on the first block, wait, Jump on the third block, wait, Quickly leap across the next 2 blocks. Jump towards the spike wall(it seems the collision isn't working.) Or jump to align yourself with a ladder below then press up. Proceed downwards, but not on the ladder.

Section 4: Jump across the platforms, and jump through the gap in-between the spikes.

Section 5: Checkpoint.

Section 6: Jump over the Yoku column, wrap to the top, stay on the right side until the blocks will lead out to the left.

Section 7: Climb the ladder, jump over the spikes, you can take the pink path here too. Otherwise, go down.

Section 8: Just wait for the blocks to appear and slide to the left, get wrapped to the right, wait till the next set, then slide to the left, then fall.

Section 9: Use the Yokus to jump onto the middle platform.

Section 10: Follow the maze, be sure to stick to the upper path, the middle has a large column of Yokus you can try and clip yourself to the top of the maze. Proceed left.

Section 11: Just quickly jump to the left, do not stop, drop down to the pit.

Section 12: Checkpoint. Drop from left for safety and easier access to the secret. Drop from the middle to be caught by a Yoku. Drop the rightmost(with super arrow) if you want to take the top route of the Yoku section.

Section 13: Go to the left for a secret, Go right to proceed on with the last stretch.

Section 13(secret 1): Time yourself with the enemies and climb the ladder.

Section 13(secret 2): There is a Yashichi guarded by spikes and enemies. Go right to exit, loop back to Screen 11.

Section 14: The top route is mostly straight-forward, the only concern is the low ceiling from time to time, there is an E-tank here. The bottom route though follows this rule: do not take a Yoku spawning to the left. You can use the rhythm of Yoku blocks spawning to know the timing to when the next block appears. You eventually finish this section, but will have to deal with 2 Rabbits. Again deal with them at your leisure. Here is a split path, go down to get to the top of the level(Blue), up if you want to go pink. Sadly though, the author forgot to put ladder collisions on the first segment of this alt-path to pink, so it's only possible with very strictly timed super arrows. Otherwise, go right.

Section 15: Boss corridor. Be Careful of spikes.

PINK

TOP PATH

Section 0: Wrap to the left, jump down.

Section 1: Jump across the platforms, try Slash Claw-ing/Triple Blade some of the enemies. There is a ladder on the third spike for a secret.

TOP PATH (LATE, BLUE)

Section 0: Drop, stir left, slide right.

Section 1: Drop, navigate the layers of platforms quickly before the beams fill the screen.\

BOTTOM PATH

Section 0: Wrap to the right, climb up.

Section 1: Jump across the platforms, try Jewel Satellite to deflect projectiles. There is a transparent ladder in the sky if you want to take the secret.

BOTTOM PATH (LATE, GREEN, IF IT WAS FIXED)

Section 0: Time yourself into clipping inside the Yoku blocks. You will end up at the top of the Yoku column. Repeat this for 3? times. Then grab on the ladder once you're high enough(sadly this ladder doesn't have a collision so this section is impossible without some skillful super arrow-ing.)

Section 1: Navigate the vertical shaft with the Yoku snake. Where to jump is in the rule of whether if the Yoku is travelling up.

PINK SECRET

Section 0: In either entrances, it takes a couple of super arrows to get past the spikes. Once you get to the middle, do not head right unless you want to move forward with the level. Go left for an M-Tank.

Section 1: Do not go into the portal if you don't want to re-do a section. The reason why this exists is because the paths to get here are meant to be one-way. If you ended up here without defeating both Cream and Crator, then take this portal. If else, you can try and brave the vertical shaft leading to the Green path by doing the Yoku snake in reverse. There are 4 mystery cans here.