I've been working on this game for about two weeks now. I haven't found any indications of someone else speedrunning it, so I thought this was a good moment to see if anyone at least knows the game. At the moment, I'm playing on "difficult" difficulty and use the warp in the first mission. Status so far:
* The route for each mission is more or less mapped out and I think I have a pretty good knowledge of what the end triggers are for each mission.
* Which weapons to collect and where to use them is in place. It wouldn't surprise me if I'll make a few changes as I progress, but it's already fitting quite nicely. Smart bombs and thunderbolts save lots of time in the later missions, so it's worth to go quite a bit out of the way to get them.
* While the game mechanics give me reason to believe there could be exploits such as out of bounds, I haven't found anything so far. However, I've found some missions to be completely broken by using thunderbolts. The thunderbolt is so powerful that it deals massive damage through walls (including energy barriers), allowing for some triggers to be destroyed far earlier than they're supposed to.
* I've completed my first playthrough (on my first attempt) with the route I have. It ended on ~49 min (including load times, which should account for ~1 minute). The playthrough was so embarrassingly bad that I'm not going to upload it anywhere. I reckon ~15 min should be taken off that time. I'll upload a video when I have something representative though.
Yep, that's where I'm at. If anyone has played this game, don't hesitate to let me know. If not, I'll just post about my progress here as I go along.
* The route for each mission is more or less mapped out and I think I have a pretty good knowledge of what the end triggers are for each mission.
* Which weapons to collect and where to use them is in place. It wouldn't surprise me if I'll make a few changes as I progress, but it's already fitting quite nicely. Smart bombs and thunderbolts save lots of time in the later missions, so it's worth to go quite a bit out of the way to get them.
* While the game mechanics give me reason to believe there could be exploits such as out of bounds, I haven't found anything so far. However, I've found some missions to be completely broken by using thunderbolts. The thunderbolt is so powerful that it deals massive damage through walls (including energy barriers), allowing for some triggers to be destroyed far earlier than they're supposed to.
* I've completed my first playthrough (on my first attempt) with the route I have. It ended on ~49 min (including load times, which should account for ~1 minute). The playthrough was so embarrassingly bad that I'm not going to upload it anywhere. I reckon ~15 min should be taken off that time. I'll upload a video when I have something representative though.
Yep, that's where I'm at. If anyone has played this game, don't hesitate to let me know. If not, I'll just post about my progress here as I go along.
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