Mostly a for fun run. I decided to learn some of the tricks and skips I didn't know about before, though there's a lot that I didn't try using this run. The biggest thing is probably drop in warps, since I couldn't get them to happen consistently, so I just didn't do them for this run, except for a hand full of places where it was easy.

No splits because I didn't have a hard set route in mind.

My goal was under 5 hours, and this is about a 45 minute improvement from the last time I tried this years ago, so I'm happy with this result.

I watched chimkin's current world record, which is where I learned most of the tricks. The route in that run is different than what I did here, mostly I wanted to get invincibility as soon as possible since that made the run more fun for me. I do wonder if some of the routing decisions I made here could be an improvement on the current optimized route, though I'd have to dig deeper to see if it would be an improvement.

I probably won't do more runs any time soon, as I mostly wanted to do just one run for fun, though this route could probably easily get under 4 hours and 30 minutes if I didn't have to redo so many of the tricks.

Recorded at 30 fps in 720p because I didn't want the file size to be 9999999 gigs.

No in game music to avoid copyright claims, but they still happened anyway since you can't mute the music in the cutscenes.

Played on the Steam version of the game.

[Mod Note: Retimed to 4:44:34]