I don't know how people speedrun this, let alone complete it at all without savestates. Very surreal and dreamlike, which I always really love! But GOD it is nightmarishly hard. So many failed stunts at the hands of enemies that just...randomly spawn while I'm trying to do my shit. The enemies are probably my only major complaint, aside from a small amount of lives and no continues (which on emulator is like, no problem right? but it still makes me wonder like how the fuck do people sit down and complete this on original hardware)

To sum up I guess it's honestly just not a fun experience due to the sheer difficulty, but it gets several brownie points from me bc i love the visuals and the strange aura it has as a whole i dunno

Reviewed on Dec 20, 2021


4 Comments


2 years ago

i beat it without save states. it required LOTS of replays and looking the bosses up on youtube bc i am not trial and erroring that shit

2 years ago

The PC version has a practice mode that lets you replay levels you visited before and unlike SFC, it has no slowdowns so it helps a lot.

Respawning enemies and boss fights in these games are really bad but once you really start to understand the movement system it starts to click

2 years ago

I learned to speedrun it without save states too. It's nightmarishly difficult but you have to learn to play the game by its rules. Start with practicing how long you need to hold up for your fishing hook's grapple.

2 years ago

Also you don't have to deal with bosses depending on the route you take. You can trial and error this or look it up.