Yes, I threw myself straight at PRKD (technically PKRD since I'm collecting Varia before going to Norfair for the extra safety) for my first run. Yes, I died a few times. Yes, this run is pretty bad lol. However, I wanted to see if I could do it after playing this game a lot, and turns out I could. Didn't do much practice of the run-specific strats other than a test run of the route before starting runs, I just know some of the general tech.

Emulator used: Bizhawk 2.11, BSNESv115+ core