Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This was a very solid run. Of course the time could be lowered to a sub 2 hour time, theoretically, but I had to find a balance between consistent and fast strats. This game is incredibly punishing and because you need an S rank for every level, which is also based on how fast each level is completed, any mistake can mean that you have to redo the entire level. I often got way more points than I needed to get S rank simply because I wanted to have a leeway for mistakes, which occasionally paid off, because redoing a level can lose multiple minutes at once. It never matters if you just finish a level, only the rank matters, and my goal was to have as few deaths as possible.

A lot of the levels went really well and I barely died considering this was my first real attempt to speedrun this. The only levels that went really badly were 2-2, 3-1, 5-2, 7-2 and 8-4 to some extent. In 7-2 I actually crashed the game and had to reset, then selected the wrong file lol.

I don't really consider myself a great runner and knew this run was gonna be a wild ride for me (it actually was quite fun). Nobody ever did a run of this category before but I really expected that someone would do it eventually, but since nobody ended up doing it I decided I had to be the first one to make a move on this.

I personally think this run is also a good guide on how to get S ranks quite easily. A lot of stuff that people come up with is a lot harder and more inefficient than what I do, and so they assume certain levels are a lot harder than they really are.