My Speedrun Improvements + 35 Hardest Stars of 2025

I made a list of old speedruns, that I wanted to improve during this year. I tried to go with like 1 game each month and while I mainly focused on kaizo it somewhat worked out. However like halfway through the year I decided to retire from kaizo for different reasons. From there on I fully focused on speedrunning, but I quickly noticed I don't enjoy that a ton either. Especially my LI grind was absolute miserable and during SR2.5 RoD I lost so many good paced runs to some ridiculous bs. I even lost 2 runs to the final fight, one that was barely and one that was easily on pace for my goal. After losing more good runs in the most random spots, I decided to quit speedrunning as well, since at this point I enjoyed it even less than kaizo.
I already wanted to scrap this entire project, but decided to keep the clips I had up to this point. Certainly disappointing, but just so you know why almost all clips are from the first half of the year. Also since editing this was a massive task I started doing it in my vacation in the final week of november, just like last year, so I decided to include stuff from december 2024 in this video.
The entire completions of the stars can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...