If I can chime in, as the current record holder (I beat my time again by 6 minutes in Any%, main reason why I'm checking this website at 3A besides trying to find this place's Twitter for a tweet :p).
I 100% agree with Duncane. As the game currently stands, even at "Any%", the game takes at least 4 hours to run, which is quite a long time needless to say. Considering that's 1/6th of the day, it takes a lot of hard work and dedication in order to even finish the game in one sitting for a speedrun, let alone in 4 hours. From my experience, Chapter 9 usually comes right after the 1 hour mark, which is much more obtainable. 1/4 of the time, with Medusa going down about 20 minutes later. So 1 1/2 hours, 90 minutes. About the length of an animated movie. I'm not saying it'll make the speedrunning community flock to this game like Pit would to a Hot Spring, but I am saying that, at the very least, it'll be more welcoming.
As a side note, I would also suggest adding a Boss Battle speedrunning category, for Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties. They take even less time than Medusa% would and imo should be included.
Now, if you excuse me, got a 4h20m vid to upload lolol
Lemme have a think about how to implement it, because I don't think a fusion should be a full category. Maybe a sub category
That's exactly what I was thinking, just gotta figure out what I did the first time now lmao
