Thanks for the response!

It does seem very tedious to play the game through 3 times in the 100% run, and the medal collection issue you mentioned is also a potential problem. Would it be possible to get a subcategory for "all chests" where simply all of the chests, including the ones on Battle Mountain in the Steam version, have to be opened? It would make only a single playthrough necessary while maintaining a lot of the completionist elements that players could enjoy. Additionally, the progress on this can be easily tracked since there is a tool in-game that tells you how many chests you have opened. This also makes it so that medal collecting is no longer an issue.

Hey, I'm new to speedrunning but I love playing this game and so a friend and I decided that we wanted to try running this game.

When we were looking at the rules provided, we noticed that it says that collecting all medals is a requirement for the 100% category. This should probably be changed in some way or another because 3 of the medals in the game are beating it once, twice, and 3 times on newgame+ and newgame++, which would unnecessarily extend the run length since almost all of the other medals can be obtained on the first playthrough.

That being said, there are a couple other medals as well that would add a ton of extra length to the run, such as the damage ones. I was thinking that we should change the ruleset for the 100% run to either exclude certain medals or just exclude the whole "collect all medals" part altogether.