Hello, as someone who has been putting a lot of time into NG+ over the past few weeks, the finding of the new glitch that skips any level feels demeaning to the category. It's the equivalent to someone doing a All Minigames run and loading a save to grab a bag instantly to skip minutes and break a record.

This glitch is skipping what I believe to be a defining part of the category (whether you like 5-9 as a level or not) and allowing it to be done at all demeans the category for what it is. This really isn't even a glitch , its a loading of a save mid run to skip a level, is that something we are going to start to allow for speedruns of this game?

What's wrong with the status quo, where you can specify "Glitchless" or "Glitched" as the type?

Mechanically, the glitch works the same way as money glitching, so if money glitching is allowed (which it is), then there isn't a principled reason for the NG+ glitch to not be allowed.

Hi Florida,

The NG+ Glitch was discussed at length amongst the moderation team and we concluded that the best way forward for now was to split NG+ so it had a Glitch/Glitchless variable. There was also discussions of making it a Category Extension or outright banning it, but considering the Money Glitch exploit is allowed and the skip can only be used on one (1) level in the run and the exploit is exclusive to the Steam GOTY version, we figured this was the best way forward for now.

If you do not like the idea of running NG+ with the Glitch, you can always run Glitchless instead.

If more attention was given to NG+ as a category we may re-visit this exploit and its applications in the speedrun, but as very few players run this category in the first place it's not a priority for us right now.

Thanks for your understanding.