I'm new to this. Any input is appreciated.

There be TAS': If you look at the tools section or my first submitted run, you'll notice that there is an overlay that doesn't only track time, but progress as well.

In hindsight I'm not too proud of that, but then again the runs I've done without that before weren't nearly as fun (spending an additional hour figuring out what to do next - granted I didn't know a few unlock details either).

I expect that I will eventually not need it and be faster just ploughing through rather than checking the list. But I figured this isn't only more interesting to watch, but also makes verification easier. Not to mention I cannot make sure you aren't running such tracking outside of the recorded video, so I'll stick to allowing and actually preferring it on the video.

If you are interested getting into this quickly, I've got a solutions and an unlock guide up on steam.

There is plenty more investigating to be done for the route. Some things can unlock together, others don't (these things might see updates though, if reported). Maybe there are ways to manipulate the randomisation. I've already found a few puzzle solutions that are shorter than the game asks of you for a perfect rating. However some actions do take more time than others, possibly making longer solutions effectively faster. But before that it's probably more important to figure out dungeon layouts and where to go.

I'm also considering 100% dungeon only runs (starting out with a finished story and no unlocks), because the two story acts take quite a lot of time, don't do any achievement progress and aren't too interesting due to being entirely linear. But I'm not sure about that yet.

Drop a comment if you have any interest in this.