In real time, it felt like I hit the final split late. My own retiming shows this to be a 26:59, but by all means mods verify it. (That's your job after all =P )

Two new strats - the wall clip coming out of the chia garden, and bomb dupes against the scorpion miniboss in Hueraach (how were we not already doing this?). Just as fast as an optimal melee-based fight and 1000x more consistent.

Some fights can still be cleaned up, but this feels like a pretty h*ckin' good run for what I'm capable of with this game.