Athena (Arcade) - any% WR --

(livesplit kept the amount of splits from Metal Saver layout lol . might genuinely be 5:49 by 1 frame but let's be safe)

Huge wall of text with excessive detail; hyperlinks soon tm: https://www.speedrun.com/athena/forums/qhkj9
Took 30 streams over 3 months at twitch.tv/skip_tracer


This is hopefully the most RNG- H e a v y game I run featuring a silent babe in (eventually) a hat; cool/clumsy as always. Nearly every encounter in the run can kill you or go haywire in multiple ways, lag can eat your inputs because the game is old (happy 40th, Athena), and the warp at the end of the first world is very reset-heavy (but not actually random [see big post]). I did make a mistake breaking the blocks at the end but it was actually enough of a time-waster to get the proper warp to show up ^__^

This was the first run I had in all that time that made it to red eye guy Mado, and I really cannot believe I went through every hallway without having to dodge any arrows hammers or beam blasts. The final zone could not have gone better at all and it may be the luckiest I will be in this life. Would have been nice if that one block didn't do what it did and I could have kept fire sword the whole way Cool style but it's ok.
(not sure why the game hiccup'd around 3:40 but it was in the raw footage too. maybe it always does that)