Grondious | The Messenger | New Game - 8-Bit | World Record Speedrun in 29:04 (No OoB) @Grondious | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This is the results of my recent major push into this wonderful game. After SortOfAlpha and HalflingHelper pushed the standards of the game and category even further it really inspired me to really focus in on the details even more than I had in the past to try to really push rooms harder even if it meant consistency was even harder to obtain.

There also had been a bunch of new strategies that we were aware of from in the past or were new that I wanted to work to implement despite their higher difficulty and risk. I really am proud of pulling off nearly all these strats such as the catacombs cycle reset, dick boost, (SortOfAlpha named it this lol, the belly boost is the family friendly name) Narga bird in Crags amongst others.

This run was really solid overall outside of a few mistakes and while the RNG wasn't perfect it was far above average, so really a lot lined up to make this first 0x so low in that range.

The game for sure will hit sub 29 which is pretty exciting, and whether I am the one to do it in the future or another Messenger decides to grab it, it's gonna be an awesome thing to see.

Until then I am really happy with this run and am done with the game for now. I hope you all enjoy the results of my efforts!