[Rando] [Feature Request] Options for "Open" Mountain and Great Bay (and maybe Ikana) Regions

[vgperson]

Under the game's original structure, the Bow and Epona's Song are major bottlenecks to accessing entire regions (glitchlessly, at least), simply because of the ice blocking the mountains, and the Epona fences blocking Great Bay and in Road to Ikana. As such, I think it would make sense for the randomizer to add the option of removing these obstacles, allowing the world to open up more evenly. While this can currently be approximated by starting yourself with those items, starting with the Bow in particular does have a significant impact on progression everywhere, not just access to the northern region.

Of course, Ikana is a more complicated case. Even if some Epona walls were removed, most of Ikana is still locked behind the Hookshot and Garo/Gibdo Mask, then the Ice Arrows. While there could be different tiers of openness, there aren't especially obvious or clean approaches to removing those latter locks (though "always spawn the Hookshot tree" would skip the mask requirement, at least). So I'd understand not bothering with that one and just saying that's the way Ikana is.