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If you know what you are doing it’s nothing like 20 hours. I remembered most of it and finished in maybe 5-6, not skipping anything. I’m sure I’ve seen speedrunners polish it off in about 15 minutes.

You have the right idea scribbling down notes I think. It’s the possibility of discarding an item which proves to be vital later on that gets me. That stew recipe for one – you can’t mix your stew without it even if you have the right ingredients! It’s very true to Ultima in this sense and the same thing is in most of the games. There are some real leaps of intuition required at times as well – e.g. how you get the cup of wonder. That does make it all the more rewarding when you figure them out though.

The platforming I don’t mind too much. You can use Shift-J for a standing jump which helps a ton – hopefully you’ve found that already.