There are no entries in the Promise Category. Is this because the fastest way to get the Promise ending would be to do a Memory run with a bunch of saving/dying/loading tacked on? (Therefore making it boring?)

I'm an amateur runner, and I've managed a Promise Ending run without saving, loading, or dying in a little under an hour and a half as a proof of concept.

The interesting part is that in addition to needing to cheat death 8+ times, spend 5+ (possibly 10+) minutes in critical, and take 1900+ damage, you still need to kill a minimum of 90 enemies. Now stuns, weapons, and ammo, and enemy placement become (more) relevant.

So talented runners doing serious routing of above might be cool. Or am I totally off somewhere? (If it's the content of the ending, I p. much cry every time, but it seems like a "good" ending compared to Memory or Leave.)

TL;DR - Please give me a good reason to or not to make some poor moderator watch my deathless, 90-minute Promise Run.

We haven't found any great ways to get promise so far though we have looked in to it a bit. We have a discussion thread focused on Promise ending routing on the Discord if that interests you. If you would like to submit that is perfectly fine.

Oh sweet, I hadn't checked the Discord for a bit. I'll catch up on the thread and chip in any info I have that might be useful.