I've been working on a Mortol run that grabs every extra life pickup in the game. The Gold & Cherry runs freely skip any pickups that they don't need, so I thought it would be fitting to have a 100%-esque category that routes them all in (especially since each pickup requires a little extra effort / puzzle-solving to grab).
Category details:
- All unique extra life bonus items in the game (3up, 5up, and 10up) must be collected.
- There is no requirement to score extra lives from enemy kills, or to finish with a specific quota of lives (in other words, this is not a LifeMaxing category)
Obviously this means that most stages have some more extra tasks to route in (I think this is most pronounced in 1-B, 2-A, and 4-A). But it also shifts the meta slightly, since there's no pressure to conserve lives-- you can throw extra soldiers at a problem if it'll get the segment done faster, whereas a Cherry run might try to spend lives more carefully to avoid routing in extra pickups.
For reference & validation, here is a map of all pickups:
And I've uploaded my latest PB to Youtube to demo the category:
Thoughts and feedback welcome!
Even more level leaderboards have been added for the following games:
- Party House
- Lords of Diskonia
- Combatants
Enjoy!