Uploaded June 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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I've been practicing stuff in this game for a few weeks now and I felt comfortable with enough stuff to actually try a run. So here's that run. I did have to reset once because I game over'd in Bianco 3, but I did pretty well there this run.

This is run obviously very bad. I lost a lot of time in a lot of places because I was stubborn and really wanted to do the quick strats.

My initial goal was simply sub 2:30. I achieved that, so I'm happy. Personal favorite things about this run:
Smooth Bianco 3 Secret
Pretty fast Gelato Skip
Second try Pianta 3 skip
Honey Skip (Once I actually was able to set it up. I lost time to it in the end but I'm glad I actually got it)
The best Mecha Bowser fight I've ever done personally
INITIALLY got EYG pretty fast (game over'd in the secret though :( )
First try Ricco 4 secret
First try Niko 2 Blooper Skip
Niko 4 Cutscene Skip
Managing to not die when falling in Niko 6

I'll probably do another run at some point. Got lots and lots of room for improvement. I actually felt pretty good about this cause so much of that room for improvement is so tangible. I know where pretty much all of my lost time is. It feels good to actually know *where* I missed timed and where I can make some up whenever I do another run.

Also sorry for forgetting to split a bunch.

On that same topic, I actually hit time *early* at the end. I missed the spot you have to ground pound. I estimated afterwards that it probably took *about* 5 more seconds to charge up and ground pound again, and added that to my splits. It's probably not exactly accurate, but that's what I figured at the end and that's what I'm sticking with. *But* that's also why I stuck a ~ there in the title. I'm not entirely sure. I also messed up adding the extra 5 seconds to the thing so I display the wrong time at the end cause I'm dumb.

This was a lot of fun, albeit pretty frustrating at points. As I mentioned before I'll try another at some point though. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/jarheadhme