AUDIO WARNING: Sorry, I didn't realize how loud the music actually was :/. I will look into how to seperate audio sources for my next run!
Okay, only 2 deaths, 3 safety shrines but garbage endgame. I went with some riskier strats: Doing both Saika and Nobunaga without the bull. So both these fights have no easy backup if you ever lose the Iai chain (which I did in both fights lol).
I really need to practice the frog fight (imo the most difficult strat in my route) and I need to practice the manual release of charged Sign of the Cross: I was releasing it TOO early so much :/.
The final snake was really trolling me though. And my cannon bullet just went straight through his head, dunno what that was O_o. Lost almost 2 minutes at the endgame to my own mistakes (releasing SotC too early) and bad final snake RNG.
But overall, a good improvement and I think almost on par with my PS4 run :). A sub 55 time should be not too difficult (2 deaths, no safety shrines and no major mistakes like this endgame would easily get that) and a really good time would be like 52 minutes I guess.
From now on, NG+ runs will require the regions to be played in order for clarity's sake. Mission order is still up to the player, except in All Dojo Missions, where you must start from the top (Basic Action Controls) and end in the bottom of the list (Dancing Tonfa).