Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
UPDATE 2022-07-29: I beat this time RTA, lol: youtu.be/1G0NXFis6FM
THIS IS NOT A REAL SPEEDRUN. This is a bunch of segments (21 of them, in fact) from previous speedrun attempts, stitched together using a video editor to demonstrate what a sub-55 minute run would look like.
Recently I got my Best Ending sum of best down to 54:59! Here's what that run looks like after going back through my VODs and splicing together all of my gold segments. It's not a perfect run by any means, but it does show what it would take to get this kind of time.
Watch me do real speedrun attempts live at twitch.tv/periwinkle9 :)
Here's a commentated version of this video: twitch.tv/videos/1086887833
UPDATE 2022-07-29: I beat this time RTA, lol: youtu.be/1G0NXFis6FM
THIS IS NOT A REAL SPEEDRUN. This is a bunch of segments (21 of them, in fact) from previous speedrun attempts, stitched together using a video editor to demonstrate what a sub-55 minute run would look like.
Recently I got my Best Ending sum of best down to 54:59! Here's what that run looks like after going back through my VODs and splicing together all of my gold segments. It's not a perfect run by any means, but it does show what it would take to get this kind of time.
Watch me do real speedrun attempts live at twitch.tv/periwinkle9 :)
Here's a commentated version of this video: twitch.tv/videos/1086887833
![[CS+ Switch] Almost a 3 HP Alien Medal skip :((](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mecKkCF7IKA/mqdefault.jpg "[CS+ Switch] Almost a 3 HP Alien Medal skip :((
Is it possible to avoid collecting the Alien Medal in a low% (3 HP/minimal items) run? Normally, you get the medal from not taking damage during the Ironhead fight, so to avoid collecting the medal, you would simply have to take damage somewhere...but everything in the room does at least 3 damage, so theres no way to get hit without dying.
HOWEVER...there is a bug in the Switch version of the game where if Player 2 dies, but then immediately afterwards a boss (or an entity with the run an event on death flag) is killed, then the player death event will be interrupted by the death event of that boss/entity, allowing you to continue the game (albeit with Player 2 no longer visible or controllable). So, I had the idea of using this bug to have Player 2 take damage (hopefully triggering the fail condition for the Alien Medal) while also killing the boss, which in theory should allow me to avoid collecting the medal. Does that idea work? This video shows the result....
(Side note #1: Yes, this is not a low% save file since I have Machine Gun and missiles. I got those extra weapons to make it easier for me to record this video.)
(Side note #2: This version of the game has another bug that actually lets you skip the medal...along with really the entirety of the game after the Core fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZqmhJW-AU . But just for the sake of this video, lets pretend that were disallowing that glitch (or that were playing on the Japanese Switch release, where that glitch has been patched out).)")
