Not long ago I was shown that a friend had beaten my time a couple of years before. This run is to fix the mistake on the leaderboards.
Short runs can be challenging. Short runs where you can't afford to die definitely are. This run took a lot of work to try to get under the 20:40 that had been accomplished by someone else. I had multiple runs within a second of my pb into boss 1, but basically none significantly ahead. I just couldn't manage it.
However in this run I had one of the greatest final stage playthroughs you could imagine, putting me just barely ahead.
If it wasn't for my friend beating my time, and not wanting his run public, I wouldn't have tried to optimise this run to this level. I definitely won't be trying to optimise it more.