So what's the best way to manage health/avoid the monsters for the speedrun?
I seemed to die to psychological damage a lot in the final level
Health management is a little tricky, since you have to keep checking your inventory to know what's happening, but ultimately fairly simple. The fastest route through the game lets you pick up health/sanity recovery items without going out of your way in many spots. Then you just use those items whenever you're in danger. I think there is only one spot in the game where you're very likely to get hit at least once, there you'll probably use an item or two. Then in the apartment there is also one enemy which you have to literally walk through and they'll most often hit you, but not too hard.
Of course, in the final area you'll also need to heal once and possibly recover sanity. If you watch my run and speedrun tutorial on youtube you can see the spots where I grab recovery items.
I posted the guide under guides. It would make people interested in the game more likely since it seems pretty detailed and now it should be more accessible
Cool. I was thinking of doing that yesterday but noticed the guides accept just text so I left it. The guide isn't great for speedrunning, but it does show the most direct route, most of the places you can get items, and the more tricky parts.
