I'm sorry, but what exactly do you mean by making sure it compares against game time? Is this a setting in LiveSplit?
Edit: Nevermind I'm stupid. Just right click LiveSplit -> Compare against -> Game Time
I mean, you're not wrong per se. It's just that having NG, NG+ and the NG++ category is too much. It's better to just merge NG+ and NG++ into one because one of the two are just not going to be ran as often.
After all, we're speedrunning the game and let's face it, the winner of those two categories would be NG++ either way because it is the fastest. NG+ would be ran less and would eventually be removed like the Normal category was just removed for having few, if any, runs registered.
I agree, I noticed just now that the rules do indeed state New Game only.
That said, I assume both Defense Scrolls are allowed?
Yeah no need for an NG++ category.. Just suck it up and play through madhouse. You could always get a late game madhouse save I suppose.
What difficulty was he playing on?