>>16453917I started because of Mori since she made it look like a somewhat interesting game to beat and learn. I'm also pretty stubborn and don't like to get beaten by single-player games. Main game I actually find pretty enjoyable, it has a nice balance of somewhat punishing jumps, checkpoints and sneaky skips so it feels good to keep running it to get good time. I didn't do NB+ since I was curious about Ghost and I find Ghost to be pretty disgusting in comparison. The Phantom Tower and Bugstalk are two really nice areas in my opinion - they have a fair share of tricky jumps but aren't reliant on either shitty gimmicks or insanely punishing falls. Bog is just shit, it's made specifically to annoy you both with time lost on movement, starting jumps and falling. If it was snow without water it would stand out much less.
>>16453818It obviously did, I know where to jump because of Mori and unlike her I don't seem to forget shit that easily so I remember what approximate jump power I need in each spot and where I need to stand. I'm much worse than both Mori and Iroha at repeating what I remember though, I can't for the life of me consistently count in my head. Mori herself might benefit from giving speedrun a watch, she already saw the entire game besides like 2 screens anyway so not like she'd spoil herself.
>>16453868I agree, resetting yourself helps a lot. I was stuck trying to get out of bugstalk for a couple hours, turned game off, did other stuff for an hour, went back and beat it almost first try after booting the game.
