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The original was posted on /r/speedrun by /u/br0f on 2025-10-05 23:19:20+00:00.
So I just achieved what’s been a pipe dream of mine for a year now. When I first started running this game, the record for this stage was 1:50. My roommates and I were all a bit interested in running the game, so we poured ourselves into competing for the IL title within the household, birthing a deep obsession within me.
Eventually they lost interest, but I stuck with the game and never stopped working on this one stage. We had joked quite a bit about the possibility of getting a sub 1:30 time eventually, but the best I was able to achieve for a while was a 1:34. Four months ago I returned and brought it to 1:32 with a few new movement optimizations. Over the past month and a half, I realized how close 1:30 was and meticulously searched the stage for any tiny optimizations I could come up with, and I finally found enough to make the time possible. One problem though: they were all devilishly difficult and precise.
For the past month and a half I’d been grinding my new strats to perfection, with several sessions of fruitless full IL attempts. Last week, I finally broke through and achieved what’s probably my best single IL of any game I’ve run. May be taking a break for a bit now due to busy life circumstances, but I couldn’t have started a hiatus from the game on a higher note!