Hey all. After toying around with the game for the last couple days I'm thinking it would be a fun run. Game kicked my butt as a kid so thought it would be fun to return the favour. I'm guessing there's no real difference in characters based on them being combined on the boards (aside from visuals for their attacks), but just wanted to make sure. Rash is quite a bit shorter & was just wondering if this impacted his hitbox or range of attacks based on height.

Hey!

The character differences do come into play - Rash's hitbox is quite a bit smaller and I want to say he hits slightly less hard?

I'm sorry I can't provide a lot more context here - but yeah - I can at least confirm they are defintiely not cosmetic.

Awesome, thanks for the confirmation! After doing a couple runs with Rash it definitely felt different from my play over the weekend with Pimple. The hitbox seemed to make sense just based on character model.

To GlitchWiitch answer, Rash Hitbox is indeed smaller and slightly less hard than Pimple, so you would require to hit more times the Mobs in general, it honestly doesn't make any difference only for the boss fights. What makes Rash ideal to use it for the speedrun is that is faster than Pimple and more precise, Pimple hits might be stronger than Rash but he is to slow and the most important thing is that you can kill the Queen 10 times faster with Rash than pimple cause you can hit it twice when she is in the ground and Pimple cant do that. So in summary, if you want to play casually use whatever but if you are for real my recommendation is Rash.

Sounds good. Is there a guide or any tips for getting doubles on the queen when she is on the ground? I can do them easily when she is top left/right, or on the ground when she fires her projectile straight ahead, but when she fires it diagonally down I always get hit. I know her positions are fixed but where she shot seemed to be based on RNG and I had no luck with a visual cue or manipulation to force her shot forward when she was on the lower part of the screen.

There is no guide for the double hit for the queen, but there is a visual cue to force her to fire the projectile forward all the time, it's not RNG, please take a look on my video how I do it.