That was my thought too. Gonna try knife only without the coin and see how painful it is. All the runs I've seen use it

For the NG categories and knife only categories are the pre order bonus items allowed? The defense coin makes a big difference doing knife runs. Technically you get it in a "new game" but need to have pre ordered I think.

XTerminator you can kinda hug the wall and slash at her "arm" in the attic phase without getting eaten. Face shots are more damage but hard to avoid getting eaten.

The current top (and only) knife only run has a few instances of loading from a save which saves time since it rewinds the in game time. Is this allowed?

Since you can defeat Jack 2 with the knife I would say that the chainsaw isn't allowed in my opinion.

Wonder what about Jack 1? Does the car count?

And apparently Margarite 1 will jump in the hole after some time so the only time a gun is needed is the final phase of Eveline.

Gonna try out knife only tonight probably.