New York, USAInsane perks on this run! Congrats on the sub 6! I hope you'll keep shooting for lower.
Get through that portal faster! Don't waste time on food/money if the level's over, just get in there asap! I think this run could've been second place with tighter movement (and no estel, the WORST boss) between stages. Your quick kills are getting very good. That Estel kill was sick.
Hi, I watched this run live and wanted to give some thoughts and critique on it!
On level 1, I would've taken gold pipe. Toxic Weapon is only moderately useful and gold pipe actually does decent damage. It's not as good as gold naginata sure, but it's much faster than going weaponless.
On level 2, I would've taken Full of Yourself. You don't use heavies much in the run, a 30% damage bonus at full health is much more valuable.
Antonio as your level 4 boss is unfortunate. He just kind of sucks to deal with and I think you handled it well given the circumstances. He's very hard to fast kill without a weapon.
I find on level 5, if you're weaponless, healthy enemies like R. Signal/Gudden/Dokuja are best dealt with via grabbing them and doing the head smash. It's actually not too hard to do this when they're still at default speed and is way faster than using the cannon. That said, you use this strat quite well on level 6.
Glad you took sharpen tool over old school on 7. I think old school is TERRIBLE outside of maybe level 1-40 and level 1-50 speedruns
Level 9 is where enemies are pretty hard to kill with the cannon, so it's unfortunate you don't have a gold weapon here especially with two sharpen tools, but there's not much that could be done about it since one didn't spawn. I think electric special is better than score perk here but both perks are fine.
Level 12 I think you should've saved your star. Divas are pretty free kills and it's actually faster to use the naginata. Likewise on level 13 I think you should've saved your star since you had none left. These enemies aren't too much of a problem to kill with the naginata.
Level 14 went very well. No critique, just a great job from me.
On level 15 you stopped using your naginata which cost you a lot of time. I'm guessing you were saving durability? I don't think this is worth it and you're better off letting it break and going for another weapon. It also resulted in you nearly dying and forcing you to star. That said, retro stages have some terrible enemies and often give the biggest problems in these runs so they can absolutely ruin things.
Those star rockets killing DJ on level 16 was hype.
On level 17, I would not have starred the Big Ben/Gudden/Galsia wave. That's gold naginata food all day and you're dangerously low on stars here. Speed over Toxic Special as well. Speed is so good. But I think the biggest time loss of the whole run was leaving your gold naginata behind. Why? Was it because it was flashing red? With 3 sharpen tools it still probably would've lasted all of level 18. You defintely should have brought it with you!
On 18 I would've taken that red sword and went to town on everything. It would've lasted the rest of the run with 3 sharpen tools and it ignores superarmor. It's damage output is a tad low but it's a very good weapon for an enemy drop.
19 was another great stage. I think you should've taken the gold boomerang though. It would've torn into those 3 Maxes very quickly.
That said 15:00 flat is still a very good time and definitely not easy to get! The random I thought was good as three sharpen tools and ground level is pretty rare. The bosses outside of antonio were pretty nice too. Granted it didn't have a lot of weapons for you so it's far from perfect.
I hope you'll keep running this category and shoot for lower as I do think 1-20 is a lot more interesting than 1-10 despite the latter being a more popular category. I think you're really getting the hang of Floyd and you'll be raking in some fantastic times if you keep grinding. Thanks for reading and good luck!
Hey, nice run. Very cool to see someone else playing the category! I've been watching the vods of your attempts and I've seen some nice improvement throughout. Go for that sub-6, it feels great!
I'd personally love if there were character specific boards for Survival (it's the only thing I'm interested in running), but I understand it's not particularly popular so many of them would likely go empty.
Yeah, it was honestly the best I could ask for as far as gold pipe goes. Only way to get better is with a golden naginata I think. That or better rng. That level 16 boss stage was rough.
