After getting a 50 minute run in the JP version of Exile, I decided to see how quickly I could make it through the USA release. Turns out this is one of the tamest Working Designs games out there, with the additional grinding only requiring about 12 more minutes of play time. Not bad at all.
As before, no edits or splits used, just a straight shot to the end. Boss strats are perhaps a bit weak at parts because I don't use savestates to practice, only normal runs through the game.
This is my second speedrun ever, after recently doing the Japanese release of Exile on PC Engine CD. Originally I was just checking these games to make sure they played bug-free on MiSTer FPGA as I go through the entire library to validate software performance there, but ended up enjoying this one enough to try for these runs. Lots of minutiae in this game that you can use for better efficiency, and I plan on doing a write up in the forums to help prospective runners get started on this one.
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