A few swords showed up last night!
I got far too salty last night when playing the Super Metroid part of the randomizer, particularly when I died to Phantoon and had to get back there (with no grapple beam) by repeating some of the worst movement tech in SNES gaming. I play glitched ALttP and I'm still saying that. Normal movement in Super Metroid (particularly the randomizer) has worse controls than setting up glitches in ALttP.
Afterward, I wondered aloud to Kat -- what is it about the Super Metroid randomizer that I enjoy? What keeps me coming back? Because it isn't the part where I have to accomplish things in Super Metroid.
But: I found my varia suit on the way across the moat. Which means there's a lot more Super Metroid to do, and it's even mostly things that you do when casually playing the game.
I'm starting up again soon on https://twitch.tv/arborelia, and here's my status:
A lot of games are down to a very small number of checks. Nothing is breaking into the chain of hints I have.
Following the narrow logic last night happened to open up Face Shrine in Link's Awakening. I've also realized a few more checks I can do. I've got an hour or so, let's see if anything gets unstuck
edit: it sure did! GRAVITY SUIT