//edit: Aw, just noticed there's a TAS that utilizes the strat. My bad. I guess I'm happy to have stumbled upon a TAS strat from just screwing around, though. lol I was enjoying this casually, but then noticed spamming the diagonal/alternating gives the character a speed boost. Can't reproduce it consistently, but maybe something can come of this? Going back into standstill and retrying seems to give better results than spamming mid-running continuously. Not sure if lag plays a role.

Heya, we're mostly active on the Discord and don't read the forums much.

I'm actually the guy who found this in the community. It only works without the reaver, which is why it is not used. It also only saves about one second in the intro section of the game. After which there is not enough room to benefit from the momentary slowdown you get if you do it without TAS.

You trigger it based on sound/animation cue. After the second to third step, before raziel transitions into the running animation from a completely still standing position, release the movement keys, then press them again.