I just felt like doing a run of this category so I could fill up the empty slot on the leaderboards. I obviously don't really know that much about the game, nor do I know any skips whatsoever. I just use the little knowledge I had from doing some IL's and whatnot, then threw myself at this difficult run.
Notable Mistakes R-00: I literally died several times right at the start. I forgot you didn't start with all upgrades and stuff, so I had quite the trouble at first. Even the first boss managed to kill me but I eventually got through it. I also split too early since I thought it ended there, but I was mistaken. I edited my splits to reflect the proper timing.
Armstrong: I thought you could just die right at the Fist Fight phase, similar to what I did in my Normal IL before this run. But it turns out that doesn't work. I then tried to get him to 90% after lots of struggle, and upon dying it still didn't trigger the cutscene. Frustrated I decided to just google and then I read that you can just outlast him for 3-4 min and it will trigger the cutscene, so I did just that. This fight, and to an extent the final fight, is the lowpoint of this run and where the biggest chunk of timeloss happened.
Modnote: Due to new rules, run has been retimed to remove 1m15s
# | Name | Split | Finished at |
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1 | R-00 Gold | 15m 11s 230ms | 15m 11s 230ms |
2 | R-01 Gold | 12m 56s 167ms | 28m 07s 397ms |
3 | R-02 Gold | 10m 04s 195ms | 38m 11s 592ms |
4 | R-03 Gold | 20m 22s 619ms | 58m 34s 211ms |
5 | R-04 Gold | 22m 35s 629ms | 1h 21m 09s 840ms |
6 | R-05 Gold | 3m 28s 673ms | 1h 24m 38s 513ms |
7 | R-06 Gold | 2m 58s 497ms | 1h 27m 37s 010ms |
8 | R-07 Gold | 26m 45s 072ms | 1h 54m 22s 082ms |