Hello, thanks for considering my request. In response to your comment I will schedule an attempt to redo the run in its correct manner in accordance to your rules.
I want to thank you again, this is a great step to move towards the creation of this niche. I would like to add that I am not familiar with the splitter software, I did not try hard to deal with the timer issue, but now I know my way around it. thanks for the chance!
Hello, this is the mod in question https://www.nexusmods.com/metalgearrisingrevengeance/mods/8?tab=files
this is not a visual mod, this changes the game in a way that it simulates your second phase against Armstrong where you lose your weapon. it does not fully however simulate it, as you still keep blade mode and parries, but you lose most of your moves and gain new ones, as well as the fact that your damage is always relatively low. The blade mode and parries had to be kept else the game would break at some segments where you are forced in the vanilla version to use blade mode for instance to progress.
I made a run here which can be inspected.
I want to see this challenge/speedrun grow as a niche to begin with, so far I am the only runner since about 2 months ago. can we have a misc. category for it then ?