Emulated using BizHawk 2.8

Sorry about the terrible mic quality.

DragonHeart: Fire and Steel is the pinnacle of speedrunning.

Back to getting the max HP in Viking Village because of how much time it saves in the boss fights lategame. Loses ~30s in Viking Village, but you save 2s on Dragon Priest, 10s on Elharchaeon, 3s on Gwenhwyvarn, 7+ (RNG-dependent, but 7 seems average) on Entrace DragonSlayers, 13s on Battlement Dragonslayers. You also probably save time here and there in other fights if RNG doesn't go perfectly or you mess up, making the lategame more consistent overall. It also gives you more HP, making things a bit safer (especially if you get sandwiched by skeletons somewhere).

Tons of additional jump routing and more visual cues for jumps also helps everything go a lot more smoothly.

Right now my sum of bests is 30:54, but with only a few finished attempts that is very soft (though it also includes ~30s of fake golds due to the new max HP routing)

Sub 30 seems within reach with the current strats, but I'm not sure yet how much I want to grind.