Hey guys, I picked this game up on psn recently and decided it would be pretty fun to speedrun; however, I don't seem to see any rules set up for the categories listed for this game, so I was hoping someone here could clarify some things for me.

Obviously, Any% rules seem fairly self explanatory, but what options settings (vitality and difficulty) are normally used? I would assume to use the default, but I'm still new to the game so I don't know what all the difficulty adjusts in-game.

Does All Stages include Stage 0, or would that be a separate category?

Also the video posted in the guide section has been pretty helpful so far, but it is only listed as part 1 and I can't seem to find the rest of the guide. Does anyone know if part 2 exists?

Thanks for any info you might have.

Hey Chuckles,

For any of the categories the default health and difficulty is used.

All Stages does not include Stage 0 since it is a special stage you unlock. It's just 1-5.

I will look through Frankies vod's, but I don't think Frankie backed up a lot of his older stuff so it might be deleted. If anything watch my/frankies run as you start out then Gouki's for the harder boss kills.

Hope that helps, keep at it this is a fun Strider game to run!

(Also no one has really decided on what constitutes 100% so ignore that category. I'm debating on just getting rid of it.)

Thanks for answering SubStylee. Your answers were basically what I assumed, but it's good to hear some confirmation from the community.

Also, yeah I was confused about 100% as well, but I will definitely try out any% and all stages as soon as I get some more practice in. It's a shame I didn't find this game sooner as it seems like a great run.

It's a pretty good run especially all stages. Any% is also fun and the more competitive run, but I really like stages 2 and 3. It's a good time to get in besides you 2 other people have picked up the game so maybe ppl can find some new tricks or bounce ideas off each other.

With this new discord app that I just found I am looking into making a channel for ppl to hang out and ask stuff, setup races and the like.

Oh wow, I took break from speedrunning for a couple months and just noticed this message now. Yeah it's a pretty fun run and it's good to see more people are picking this game up. I would be happy to get some races going sometime soon.