Couldn't you make another run without life upgrades? Sure it is unfortunate but you have probably completed many of these with worse times before this one. However how much of a difference in difficulty is it between consuming a LoTG and not?
You do not need to consume the life upgrade in order to beat the game. For the subweapons, you cannot beat the game without refilling them.
It's possible to beat the tank with the warhammer (UTs can hurt it) but the helicopter can't be beat without the use of either explosive or afsds arrows. And then there's the tower which requires arrows to destroy. So you have to allow refilling of subweapons in that case.
Of course, that could be another argument, allow only refilling of the arrows but not incendiary since you don't ever need to use incendiary except twice in the game but at that point it begins to feel like an arbitrary condition that youtube commenters would nitpick on.
Just because you pick something up doesn't mean it's mandatory to use it. The Lives of the Thousand Gods on Smaugan doesn't need to be consumed in order to unlock the door.
The goal of Low% is to beat the game with as little collecting or upgrading to Ryu's stats, weapons, and useable inventory as possible.
going to back up unwary on this one, how can you claim it to be a low% run if you don't complete it with the smallest possible health bar?
if you're going to sperg out this fucking hard because you intentionally went against the principle of a category just to abuse a slight miswording in the rules of a category; when I'm sure you yourself knew that you were going against the idea of low%, and thus breaking the rules; in essence; then to be honest, I don't want you anywhere near the boards for this game anyway.
I don't speak on behalf of the mod team (I'm not even a member), but I love this game and its speedruns; and I'm more than happy for attention-seeking drama-whores like you to stay as far away from it as possible.
