Fighting Force (PSX) Speedrun (Hawk - Hard) in

I did it. I never thought I would be speedrunning this game on hard, but here it is. Though I can only see myself do one more, with Mace probably, other than that, no way.

This was only my second attempt at beating the game on hard in one sitting, the first one was also around 1 hour 7 minutes, so I could be happy, right? ....not really. The start was a mess (I think), I got a bit lucky at the Train Station (end of the level, could have given me +30 seconds of waiting, didn't happen), all of the Train medkits were the good ones (Blue ones SUCK), but then again, the Train ending was kinda eh.... Also I just figured the strategy to beat Exo (on the fly, even with that abysmal health I had), he was a struggle. Even Vulkan should be beatable with 8 barrels, now, for some reason he needed some metal sticks too.

Also, this difficulty sucks. Because the game cheats a lot. Sometimes, you can do things without a problem, sometimes the AI is on FRENZY, and it will not stop blocking/infinitely punching with invincibility. Other times, they can gang up on you and take half your HP, before you could say "Fighting Force".

I think 1:07:00 is kinda the bar. I don't think I could go faster, and Hawk's the best character for this. Maybe I could squeeze 1:06:00 one day, but what is the point, right. I am happy as is.

If you want to ask anything, feel free to do so, and thanks for watching.