It finally happened NEW WR! Still a good chunk a time to save, but I'm walking away from this one for now.

Mission 1: Awesome Mission 2: Weird Bump in 2-1, otherwise solid Mission 3: Lost a ~3 sec of time in 3-2 on second sword dude. Missed red ninja despawn in 3-3. Decent Mandara. About 8 secs worse than gold.
Mission 4: Solid Mission 5: Small mistakes throughout the stages, but good enough to bring it home.

Special Thanks to GrandCoune for the tutorial and the challenge.

-Played on MAME-