I kind of like the puzzles with an obvious minimum primary, since if I can achieve that I can feel okay about my solution, even if I need to phone it in with the secondary/tertiary metric.

anyways, I'll be back to optimize this and come up with a sum solve once I get my catalyst cycles actually working.

I think the min cycles for that other puzzle is actually 20, but I'm aiming for 23, since the strategy for 20 is kind of cursed, and I really don't want to lose all the progress I've been building for 23 c

edit: nevermind, I guess min parts doesn't really count as obvious if I missed it the first time, but it's certainly less difficult than sum of cycles

edit edit: I guess that doesn't actually work, since the animismus glyph has a bad shape for access, so I'll just make sure to check the strategy later to see if it's better for cycles