I did my first session of this while being sick and I just got nowhere. As you can see I died 52 times with 1/5 and after that session I was insanely frustrated. I tried to come back multiple times, but always quit again before even doing any attempts. Almost the same happened again, since I just couldn't get that final jump consistent, but decided to start attempts anyway and somehow I got the star within 7 minutes today.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsa2AclKc-w
0:00 Switch Star
0:48 Reds
2:22 Literally the same as in EE
3:37 Top
4:59 Almost Top
6:13 Under the Tower
6:48 In the Corner
The spawn looked impossible at first, but it's actually pretty easy to avoid the eyeballs, I didn't find the last star, so I assumed you have to kill an eyeball. I took forever to find a strat for it just to find out it gives you a fake star.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJrxpqrLbh4
0:00 Heave-Ho Saviors
3:20 Maze Puzzle Solving
5:02 Reds
14:55 Welcome to A World of Darkness
21:35 Shameless Stagger
This was a really rage heavy experience. For some reason I already was in an annoyed mood. Despite expecting many 5/5 chokes on secrets, dying to the triple jump dive pissed me off, since I never failed that in practice. I somehow didnt get over the edge that attempt.
The bomb star is pretty easy once you figure it out, but it took me quite a while. The bomb often didnt cooperate and I failed the bomb clip a few times.
The beginning of reds is pretty annoying, so dying past it to the most random collision was really tilting. Especially since you have to do that jump twice and I had no idea what to do different the next time. After all of that I lost an attempt to the fucking star grab and that was too much for me. I would've accepted dying to collision again, dying to a random jump, dying to the heave ho, dying to fall damage, even dying to the triple jump gp, but choking the star grab after always getting it in practice was such bs.
It only got worse from there on.
I got so absurdly unlucky getting to the checkpoint. I died multiple times to the last jump, which also never happened in practice. I found a very consistent strat, but well only consistent in practice, since in attempts you will encounter invis walls you never hit before. I gave up on my strat and switched back to the c-up strat, but that killed me as well. And then every time you die to that dumb tj dive or not getting the firsty you get even more tilted.
I couldn't do that precise wallkick star at all, but I found a nice cheese for it. But as always I just had to die to the last jump once again.
I wanted to go for the other red coin star here, but then I tried the invis wallkicks with states and was like yeah no never.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icm6lSWUyVc
This was one the worst stars I've ever done. There is so much bs that would be way too much to explain, so just gonna link my choke comp: https://youtu.be/2jHLSgho82M
Dying to the last jump was just bs, not only that it never happened in practice, I also was not able to replicate it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UFfyDaCqoo
yoooo, made another star viable
The first wallkicks were close to impossible even with states at first, but that mario cam strat made it a lot more viable. It's still awfully precise, but you can just spam attempts pretty much. The intended strat for the shell part is close to impossible and I am pretty sure I wouldn't have attempted this star if I didn't find out you can just skip it.
Luckily for this attempt I didn't take a lavabounce to get up to the shell, so I was able to survive the fall damage later into the attempt.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOrdYFA7Cw
I didn't want to stream, since I only had around 40 min left, but I wanted to some meme attempts to practice the spawn a bit, but somehow this star went down within less than 12 minutes of attempts.
Nevertheless this star is very hard. That jump to the cannon is so precise, it took me ages to get even once and the fight is also super chokeable.
The frustrating part is that you basically have to do this star at the end of reds, so I am not sure if I will go for them. You have to do this entire climb twice and also have to do all the other pathes, but since you need MC, I won't do it anytime soon anyway.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkjp2edHaqU
0:00 A Failed Attempt At Carpetless
2:53 Soft Slope Jumps
So I was practicing this stage for 6h, just to find out this level is like unplayable, so I won't attempt it anyway. Later amsixx asked me to go live, so I just got the 2 viable stars.
I lowkey wanted to get the first star anyway, since I found a nice strat at 0:35, which skips a non retryable double firsty. At least I think that's intended, especially since even with a double firsty I didn't make it every time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D3H87MowSs
Amsixx asked me to go live, so I decided to do this even without being prepared very well. This run isn't that great, but grinding this category isn't the most fun thing, so whatever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRv-6g2uTOw
My first run of this was a high 21 and on the next day I already ended up getting a sub 12. While this run didn't have any super big major mistakes, there were still a few smaller ones. Mainly the underground area in c1, elevators in c2 and the top split. I could see a 11:3X, maybe even sub 11:30 being possible, but sadly this game isn't as fun to run as I thought, so for now I am done with this.
Also as shown at the end I beat my previous SoB by exactly 1 frame with this run
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6yqz2dMWk