Darn Guy Adventures, completed on Normal Mode in 19:01.350. This is a 44.8-second improvement over my previous record (a 19:45.117). This was played on version 1.7.1.

RUN BREAKDOWN

This run has taken substantially longer to come into fruition. The record is getting more and more optimised with every run. My previous run lost 12 seconds to Rotwood and 15 seconds to Slime Dancer, but had an incredible lategame I couldn't match for the longest time.

The Batshroom fight was standard; screech missed Tinta and poison was inconsequential. The Rotwood fight was kinda risky, I chose to only heal Kishan, which left Tinta very vulnerable. (Thankfully the Rotwood mostly targeted Kishan, so the run could continue).

On top of the 15 "free" seconds saved to the Slime Dancer, I secured a 602 crit and otherwise high-damaging attacks, which let me save two cycles (30 seconds) over my record. Leaving caverns I save like -0.5 seconds from better movement.

WORM KING: typical opening, pierce hits. Worm King uses earthquake leaving Norton and Tinta low, so Kishan uses Diet Copium to heal Norton. A second earthquake misses Tinta, and leaves the three quite low. Here I opt to risk damage as none of the four are blinded. Worm King fortunately uses sandstorm, which only kills Kishan and blinds Tinta/Norton; I choose to cure Norton and heal her enough to survive an earthquake, which promptly occurs an kills Tinta. Despite Norton having low HP, I use Fire/Ddark. Worm King's final sandstorm misses Norton, allowing me to fire+attack to kill.

Because I kept Hopium, the final battle was much easier. I lost two turns to Cookie's worship and just miscalculating damage numbers. Still, Kishan hit a crit and I maintained good damage overall, losing only 30 seconds to my near-perfect PB.

"darn"