Hey, I also have been running this game. I have some thoughts on leaderboard organization:

1. I think subcategories for individual chapters of the story would be valuable. I personally would have difficulty running the entire story mode at once for health reasons but I plan to run every chapter individually.

2. ILs for event mode stages would be cool to add as well.

3. Game rules currently do not exist. I feel run submissions should at the very least require audio. I haven't done extensive testing on framerate but it doesn't appear to meaningfully impact anything. A load remover probably won't be necessary as loads are instant. If the game had IGT that would be cool but most stages don't, so... I have also observed that the game has an extremely strong anti-cheat. I messed around with Cheat Engine and the game automatically crashes if you complete a stage while it's open, instead of auto-saving, even if Cheat Engine isn't attached to the game process. At least, it does for me - I assume this is universal as I've heard other accounts of it. So that's cool.

4. Characters should probably be a non-subcategory variable. Choosing your character is part of the strategy. I don't think it makes much sense to separate them since basically everyone is going to pick the fastest character once that is discovered. It would also be helpful if they were sorted alphabetically.

5. I'd like to moderate for the game. If given moderator I'm happy to implement whatever changes we agree on.

I did a chapter 1 Challenge run earlier today, will be working on subsequent chapters as I have time:

It occurs to me we probably should include something in the rules about not obscuring boss HP bars with splits etc, even if that invalidates the above run...

I don't need any mod, I already know what the rules are going to be, the events and stage will be a subcategory of NG+, I'm not going to remove the subcategory of the characters because each one is different and it doesn't matter which one is faster, the ILs will be the ones that are in RACE MODE.

And I don't know if this is a joke or because I go to your profile and the first thing I see are runs of 2h 1:30h. For that reason, I'm also not going to give you a mod because they come to make excuses just as long as I give you a mod.

Someone with health problems would not shoot runs of this length

I plan to add a subcategory with all weapons in addition to one with or without abilities

Confused, this game would be 3 hours if every chapter is roughly 10 minutes. The health problem is something that happened to me recently, as in within the past 6 months. Excluding people based on a disability (I have neck problems that make me susceptible to carpal tunnel) is ableist and I would hope for better from moderators. You may notice that nearly all my runs from the past year or so are under 30 minutes because of my disability.

There's no reason to be rude. I guess I'm not running the game then, but I don't understand why you are being rude about this.

rude? I am telling the truth.

Well, why don't you explain first?

If you had said that I wouldn't have said anything but it's the same because I'm not going to be asking why.

Also, add what you asked for if you want, run it, if not, it's not my problem.

What specifically are you asking me to explain? I'm having trouble understanding that sentence. Are you asking me to explain what my disability entails?

I'm not saying that you had to see since you had illness first, instead of saying that you have health problems, you would have explained yourself better with that.

the translator is kind of bad

Understood. I had wondered if there was a translator involved. Unfortunate that it not being so good seems to make this conversation difficult but I think this is the last thing I have to say.

I don't need moderator and can live without it. Usually I just ask for it when I ask for lots of changes because I like to make it easier on whoever is already moderating. If that is not of interest to you that's fine.

I do think having individual chapters would make the game easier to run and maybe bring more speedrunners to the game as a result. Up to you.

I already added that

I divided it by stage and phases

Ah, I hadn't gone back to check. Neat. Thanks.

This leaderboard organization is hilarious. I am going to be utterly obnoxious with this so I just going to apologize now for the runs with every character on every stage I plan on doing. May want to write actual category rules and not just a screenshot of the character.