Was watching a bd1p video and had an idea. How about a category for reaching the Beast ending from a fresh file? It might be long, but then again, speedruns even longer than 24 hours exist ( e.g. Gran Turismo 4 and some Animal Crossing games, I think)

I don't even have this game, I've just been lurking around since 2018. Thoughts on making this a category extension, perhaps?

First of all I don't think a category should be made until a run exists at the very least, and then if there's enough interest go from there.

As for getting to the beast from a fresh file, you'd be looking at (as far as I can remember) a mom kill, 10 heart kills, 3 Hush kills, and one Mother kill before you even unlock the ascent. You also wouldn't have any characters unlocked by default, a lot of items would be locked, including stuff like knife, Dr. fetus, tech.5 and death's touch, and Isaac wouldn't start with the D6. That's about 15 half runs you'd have to complete first, with a severely gimped file compared with a fully unlocked one. It wouldn't even be unbearably long (I'd estimate maybe 2.5-3 hours...?), it'd just be annoying I feel, just a load of busywork before you can actually get your beast kill. I don't imagine it's a category that would be super popular.

Might try it myself later just to see what it's actually like but I don't imagine it'd become a category many people actually want to grind.

Thanks for your input! (also sorry about not realizing how friggin' tedious this would be, i had forgor lol)