lordnathaniel said: I am strongly confused by this yet I am excited for you!?
Basically I just found a way to skip like three boss fights (Ellmac is normally defeated to eventually access the feather and doublejumping; Bahamut is normally defeated to open an important door for fighting Viy for opening an important door to an area that, once solved, unlocks several places at once and basically is like a 'halfway point' chokepoint in terms of game progression).
If I can manage to do this place without the ability to just warp in (which is gonna be tricky), I will open up gates to ALL of those areas that normally I would unlock via a chain of bosses.
...and I'll be able to go back and fight bosses like Amphisbaena and Bahamut fully upgraded. (this is a damn good thing because I'm going for the "only use main weapons on bosses" achievement and I'm going to need to be as powerful as possible to pull it off)