I’m back in action and decided to start my speedrunning comeback with the awesome game LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW RePOP. The run turned out pretty interesting — I made a bunch of mistakes, but thanks to the skips discovered by me and the community, I managed to save a lot of time and grab 1st place on the leaderboard in the NG+ Any% (Easy) category.

The speedrun itself is a mix of fighting mechanics and its optimization (the fewer 3+ kill combos you do, the more time you save), skips (like hitting checkpoints through walls and going out of bounds), and some improvised use of super abilities — including a glitch I found that lets you kill enemies “off-screen”, through textures. There’s still plenty of room for improvement, but I’m pretty happy with this result for now.

Overall, it was a lot of fun, even though the game sometimes threw random tantrums (I had to reload checkpoints to avoid softlocks) and boss RNG was annoying (in the final fight, you can end it in one cycle if you’re lucky).

Final time (mod retimed): 1 hour 58 minutes 46 seconds (RTA).