Werster | Sonic Origins Plus - Marble 1 Sonic: 38"39 (Speed Run) @Werster | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 14 minutes ago.
This is a very cycle based level, and all of the cycles are pretty tight in this one. A large number of them run universally (i.e. are running as soon as the stage starts), so any slight time loss at any stage means you lose a whole cycle, which depending on which can end up being like 4 seconds.

First relevant cycle is the platform passed at 0:11, the start has to be pretty clean to make this. The second is the pillar at 0:24, which ties into the final one - the platforms at 0:32. Note that the spike crusher just before these platforms is camera timed, not universal, i.e. it won't start moving until it's on camera. The last cycle is really tight, and in order to make it you have to take damage to get under the earlier spike crusher with i-frames, which is actually quite difficult because the optimal way to do this is with a bat, and that bat position is determined by how you move into the room previously, and can vary *a lot*.

Tldr making these cycles is very hard! But got it done, and the ending was...ok, definitely not perfect, but will take this.

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