I was looking at the categories and i saw that in both chapter 3 and all chapters have potential for a new category (ShadowCrystal% and AllShadowCrystals) since ERAM is not required to get the shadow crystal in chapter 3 if youre good enough at the Knight. This could open a whole new oppurtunity for speedrunners who do not want to learn the SWORD section of chapter 3 or just dont like the ERAM fight (me) and it could open up a lot of more potential speedruns for this game. i hope my suggestion is taken into consideration.

I even did a demo run of what this would look like:

I am not very good at articulating my thoughts but please bring this into consideration

ASC is already a category lmao, individual chapter shadowcrystal% doesnt really make sense since its literally just any% with knight at the end (the reason it makes sense to have in all chapters is bc you do weird route in asc)

Would be useful, if most of the population including myself didn’t suck at the Knight without the mantle.

I just really don’t like the eram fight and I have enough practice in the night to do mantleless in 2 att or less

that doesn't change the fact that it's literally just any% with a different last split, maybe I could see it as a CE but def not main board. The only main board category that varies that little from any% is ch1 TPE and that's only a main board category for legacy reasons, if people came up with that category today it would not be main board

Yeah I talked about it with someone in the dc and it would be better as a ce

Chapter 3 Shadow Crystal now exists.

https://www.speedrun.com/deltarune_category_extensions?h=chapter-3-shadow-crystal&x=rkl6ejwk-9l7g2xpl.qj7yv2gq