I had the chance to play this game a few months ago after having it recommended to me. It was a blast and I enjoyed my time with it from beginning to end. After catching a few runs of the game, I logged it into the back of my mind to look into possibly running this game myself at some point or another. Well, this past week, I've had a ton of free time, and instead of dipping my toes in with a run, I spent a bit under 50 hours going through and making detailed guides for both the New Game and New Game Plus categories.
With the help of current notes and runs, as well as doing my own (slower) runs in the process, I've written these in a detailed fashion in the hopes of helping newcomers (as well as myself) to get into the game and give them some idea of how to run the game from beginning to end as quickly as possible. I have no issue with these being uploaded to the guides section if Punchy would like to do so.
New Game Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ilEFQa2o5JmhWT6TTJc7cZmh3WblamLLgb5ZuRT6xGE/
New Game Plus Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DeDwxcVjkGD7OkgHhwPKAMjNmQYQotlZ5as6Lk_fEjY/
On top of the guides, I also went through the absolute fun of dealing with the game's save system to compile saves for both new game and new game plus to help make learning sections of the game or optimization attempts both easier and faster since the game lacks a chapter select system.
In the zipped folder are folders for both new game and new game plus, and in each of those, I have folders for saves that start at the very beginning of every chapter, as well as folders for each individual chapter with saves that start after the end of each of the intermissions in the chapters.
The new game plus saves are based off of the current new game plus save from Punchy in the resources section. I just made my own saves based on this save as I went through making my guide for the new game plus run. I've also created a new save for the start of a new game plus run so that it should no longer show the message about turbo mode being available to help save a few seconds and a couple of unnecessary button presses!
The file can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16WtgFYwl8dp8XoGgieACoN9GnywizSzZ
I also don't mind this file being uploaded in the resources section.
As much work as this all was, I had a blast getting to learn running the game and I hope these resources help others get into the game as well as help for any future run optimizations! I hope to have my own run submitted within the next week or so!
"I have no issue with these being uploaded to the guides section if Punchy would like to do so."
You don't need to be a mod to post in guides or ressources, normally. But thanks for your contribution ! ;)
