After all these years, SUB 2 IS FINALLY HERE!!!

Big thanks to @drepfawx for finding Double Jump Early, Barrier Skip, original Alchemist Gate Skip and like half of all the skips in this game general.

Big thanks to @Samabam for taking interest in this game when no one else cared about it, making all the initial routes, making the initial routes after Barrier Skip got found, and for finding all the setups that genuinely made this run so much easier.

Big thanks to @GMP for all the tools he provided that made it much easier to find new strats and to practise, and for all the skips that he found.

Big thanks to @toca for - whether intentionally or not - genuinely pushing the game forward by giving us the motivation to push for sub 2, and I look forward to seeing your runs :)

Big thanks to everyone else involved in this game, to everyone who made a segmented run, found glitches, found strats, contributed to the routing, pushed the game forward by running it, and in general contributed any ideas. When more people play a game, that motivates even more people to play the game, and find new things. Without any one of these people who contributed something, this may not have happened.

We pushed this game beyond what anyone could have expected. The reason sub 2 hours was proposed as a joke goal originally, was precisely because of how absurd it was. And it was absurd. This is absurd. We collected just under 500 light seeds, did the Temple sequence, acquired all 4 plates with really long cutscenes, walked to each of the bosses and killed them, and did the entire incredibly long endgame sequence - all in under 2 hours. This is a great achievement, and it's amazing to see how far we can get with enough willpower.

As for the run, it was not great. There is plenty of room for improvement, and at present it looks like 1:56:xx will be a decent goal for this category, so I look forward to continuing with this category and to seeing how far we can push it.