Lost Universe 2 - Vanish Cap: Acidic Arsenic Swamp (Final Version) (No Savestates)

Stars are at these times:

00:00 - Level Entry
01:45 - Vanish Cap Switch + Switch Star
02:27 - Spawn Star
02:54 - Timed Boxes
06:03 - Precise Long Jump
08:54 - Jump Down From the Tower
12:16 - Secrets
16:51 - Acidic Journey in the Arsenic Swamp
21:37 - Red Coins

I already beat this level in its demo form but it had enough changes that I felt I should beat it again even if it is still mostly the same. Normal stars especially are quite similar and I got them all fast, even the last two which are quite hard. Reds had a few major QoL changes that added routing options and removed a bunch of QSLGs. Unfortunately, despite the fact that I think very positively of the creator for making these changes, I still didn't have a good experience in this level. I had some pretty awful chokes including one at 16/17 to a death pixel on axis aligned wallkicks which is basically just extremely unlucky SM64 jank and neither my or the level's fault. And that choke was on basically my first try of the entire star other than a few quick 0/17 deaths before it. That kinda killed the vibe for the whole rest of the 3.5 to 4 hours of attempt it took to get the star and I was in a really bad mood for most of it but I've been through worse when it comes to extreme hacks. Obviously I changed routes a good bit as I do on all stars with routing options but I did not expect to have the successful attempt happen on the same route that the demo basically forces you to do as it was the first time I went for that route because I was sick of choking the other 2 paths with 2/3 paths done. All that said, I have a long history with this level, so it feels nice to really put it to rest for good.