Hello! I watched the AGDQ run of this game, and fell immediately in love with it. I bought the game while it was on sale, and have been practicing it on and off for a while now, trying to get better. I try to follow along with some of the cool stunts done in runs, but some of them I don't understand what's happening, or it's so hard that it's frustrating. (I hate 5-2 now with a passion)

Are there any tips and tricks that would be good to know? I hope to have a run of some sort to share eventually.

Hey! Glad you enjoyed the run and are trying it out for yourself!

My advice is to settle for not doing every optimization right off the bat. If it's something that ends up killing you more often than not, don't do that yet and just focus on surviving and getting familiar with the levels. You can add in improvements as you go. It's easy to get discouraged if you try to be perfect from the beginning and never get a run clocked in at all. You could try looking at obsolete runs for our older, potentially easier, routes (but also we may have done dumb things in those which would be bad to learn. idk).

For 5-2, you can always not do the skip for now and then you'll have a checkpoint at least. Though that level is hard to do without dying either way.

I personally got into doing individual level runs for practice on levels that I kept messing up, and then you end up getting some muscle memory. Doing ILs is pretty addicting in this game, imo, because you can quickly shave fractions of seconds from your best and see quick improvement. It might help you to understand and figure out the the little things that help save time in general too.

If you have specific questions, feel free to message KowalLazy or myself, preferably on Twitter or Twitch or Discord. I don't have notifications on for forum posts here, so I might not notice replies here. I forget if I have notifications on for private messages on this site...