After a break of like 2 years and 8 months I picked up my controller again and went back to speedrunning this game mode once again. ;) I got this time a few days back (last weekend) and waited for a few days until luis_sera would clear up my exact finishing time on his own spreadsheets with more explicit leaderboards. Luckily it was still not way too demanding for me to beat my previous long standing PB and with only a bit of practice I managed to improve my previous PB by nearly 2.5 seconds albeit with a handful of silly gaffes.

As far as I can tell it's technically possible to land around at least 5:16~18 with perfect manupilation and optimization of best route/knacks to finish the game mode as fast as possible, there might be some technical differences which would keep me from honing the time to a great extent, as opposed to some other versions of the game on different consoles I saw much more advantageous over mine, but at this point it's still basically my own speedrunning skills and amount of practice executed that matter in my view.

Gonna repost further runs on either PS3 version or PS4 version soon(or perchance might try to play some mercs just as I was doing actively before).

P.S : As you can see on my profile I recently changed my username. I'm not using my previous name (dxm8975) anymore but you can still call me this way, if it's more preferrable personally or you already know/recognise me much better or for quite a long period of time as this gamer name. :)

The run was done on 10/21/2023.