[Former Record] Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition In 57 Minutes -

Last time I ran this game was year ago for preparation on peak of darkness tournament which had me 1h flat RTA. Especially when recent runners including former record holder dropped me into 4th place, so I thought it may be a good time to pay back and started grinding this from March.

Currently the game optimized to the point where having 54-55 LRT is a lottery ticket where you have make sure you get an acceptable early game then not get robbed halfway into the run. Therefore, this run is very beatable for many reasons and will likely not last long within few weeks or days even.

Therefore, there is a lot of time to save still but most of them are really RNG. The most important ones which heavily costed me sub 56 LRT are:

Early game: Wave skip setup failed in Mission 2 even though it has 50-50 chance of game crashing. Mission 5 Blood birds RNG.

Mission 9: Lack of triple kill release against spiders

Mission 11: Vanguard Soul Eater room. You want to bait vanguard with his leap attack at the center of the area RG guage while you jc at it at the same time which instantly causes the soul eater will come itself trying grab you as you kill it during your DT Aerial cross against Vanguard. This helps you to clear the first wave of wagon spawn faster.

New Vergil 2 cycle: There is a new vergil strategy which done by hies that you can skip his phase as well as using devil star if you get DT flux release that deals massive damage. Only issue with it I do not find it consistent at all. Maybe its worth a shot when we reach into a point where I have to go for sub 55 LRT.

Mission 15: Needs better movement overall.

Chess enemies in general: the DTE flux sometimes robs off from you even though you completely waited enemy spawn as they didn't inflict any damage on it at all.

Boss rush mission: Agni and Rudra didn't setup well. You have to kill them in one cycle where they are both stunned at the same time.

I wanted to go for low 55 LRT but I will just leave it at that for now, because I have many other games to catch up in my speedrun catalogue. My main goal for this run was beating the record holder once again.