I just took a gander at the 1:45 link's awakening run and was very impressed. I did a with-boomerang run of 1:58 last year and it was a blast. In both of the runs, there is a little shortcut that is missed that I just thought I would mention, even if it doesn't really matter. On level 5, the runner goes 3 rooms out of the way to kill a single gel. You can skip doing this by lifting the topmost pot on the other side of the wall in that room, standing where the pot was, luring the gel out of hiding, and slashing it through the wall.
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