sorry for the very late action on this! unfortunately, since your youtube channel + video appears to be gone, i cannot approve this run. my apologies. if you re-submit with a video i can see about approving that!

sorry for the very late approval! i wasn't sure what to do with this run due to the bug, but nothing appears out of place. it's of course unnecessary to even take any action here, seeing as you've since gotten a faster time, but i figure it's best to approve this and not leave it pending forever.

sorry for the very late approval!

Sub 2 hours so soon! Very nicely done :)

Well done run! <3

Very good run! It's fun to see this category done without trigger skips.

This is a good question, I didn't consider that when I wrote the category.

I'm going to say Painless is not allowed for the category, to keep the category's difficulty relatively normal.

I'll also say Pain Mode is optional. Not that I recommend it, but optional if you wanna flex.

Also, perfectly fine if the English isn't necessarily all there! Glad to see your interest in running Painful. I remember you had some runs of Joyful up.

I think Buckets won't be of much issue. sametonbo proved in his run of all characters that realistically, it's about a ~5 minute timeloss to get Buckets. But RNG has to be willing, and willing it might not be. And planning the saves around it and figuring out how many party members you're willing to lose before Brad's Nightmare is the real test of endurance here. It's a big game of balance that if messed up, may mess up one or the other.

Was conceiving some insane category that I'd like to call "Painful%" for lack of a better name. Think of it as just completing the most difficult challenge run possible, while completing all objectives.

Complete the game on Pain Mode in Definitive Edition with the following goals done:

• obtaining all party members
• completing all caves (fighting the rando army in the 4th cave in area 1 and completing the joy lab are the main things here)
• completing all islands (obtaining Dandy Boy/Snubby/Silk Poncho from resort island, beating Jonathan on dismal island, and obtaining both Ollie and Fly from garbage island)
• completing all optional fights (Former Friend, Crush Mahone, Morty, Tree Man, Punkert, Beady / Satan, Laser Agar, Doctor, Blue, Peter / Flaming Man, the Road Scholars, The Pretty Boys, The Blue Rockets, and Rex Thunderstorm, thus requiring you to lose 2 party members at random to kidnappings, along with giving up Terry to Columbo)
• completing all dojos
• completing Brad's Nightmare in its entirety
• while having never used Joy
• choosing to lose both arms, and to top it all off;
• buying the Student Creed from Bob Friday in Karate Island for 1,000 mags

I think the hardest part of this is not using Joy, personally. I honestly don't know how possible Manifestation of Marty is to beat without Joy, or if it's possible at all. I don't remember enough about the fight to remember how much of an impact it makes on it. But nonetheless, do you think this is too insane or difficult? I think this may just be the hardest category possible for Lisa while also still being very interesting.

I'll probably attempt a run of this sometime this week, I'm currently binging the Half-Life series, so I'll give this an attempt soon enough. I'm sure it'll be enough to make me wanna pull a Tom Brightside Miller to myself, and I have no idea how long it'll take me. But I think it'll be fun.

Went ahead and added a category for it, alongside a good brush-up of the board as a whole.

I'm all for it. Couldn't hurt to update the board for post-definitive release too so I'll knock that out as well. Thanks!

glad to see you speedrunning again!! nice time :)

Congratulations on 4th!! Looking forward to seeing you take the world record! :)

nicely done! getting better and better at the route.

Hasn't been posted in, but we've already figured out the cause as of a few days ago. Here's a video I made demonstrating why this glitch occurs:

I've given you super mod. I am interested in this board although I am not active enough on this website to fully maintain it, minus verifying runs. Sorry for a late reply as well, I had no notification of a forum post.

Was looking for supermod for https://www.speedrun.com/lisa_the_painful_rpg. Main mod (Jeepitou) has been inactive for a while and has been unresponsive to requests to update the leaderboard. I wouldn't mind it so much if it weren't for no response given to my request for it via the forums https://www.speedrun.com/lisa_the_painful_rpg/thread/ucwy3 (this thread has been up for over a year) along with Jeepitou not being on our speedrunning Discord. Seeing as he is the only super mod, this seems to make things a bit of a hindrance.

Could add Survival records for the Level Leaderboards. I think it'd add a little more variety.

I personally think there should be more cutscenes to skip. The 3 alone are just fine. The sailing scenes IMO should be skippable, along with some other minor scenes.

I wouldn't see the point in creating a separate mod if we just made a new category. :P Just my thoughts.

I think we can use getting drunk to our advantage. If there's a way to trigger any random fights before bulldozer (one that's close) and get Birdie drunk, I imagine we could force a "Birdie has sobered up" message to appear.