I did a thing!

I did one casual playthrough and died early on, then went through each of the stages with save states, then did this one run. Sub 2 easily possible, just don't die! Lots of improvements in each of the stages possible as well.

If someone made maps and practiced this I could see it being a much faster run, but not idea by how much.

One thing to note about the speedrun that I wasn't entirely aware of -- the last stage can have different versions and it is the only one like this. Some end target locations are incredibly laggy and dangerous and others are free and easy, so after 2ish hours you might get bad RNG. Fun! :D