Lethal Weapon SNES speedrun in 21:20 [WR]
10This game is awesome, the music especially.
Decided to run this as a pleasant side quest away from SM as it was another game from my childhood. As it stands I ended up putting a ton of time into it, using the TAS done by CoolJay in 19 minutes and 18 seconds as a reference for much of the movement and strats, barring the insane stuff. I narrowly missed out on a 21:1x here if I'd just played a bit more risky in the final level not collecting a body armour and not getting screwed by a few little things but that's ok. A 20 should be possible with a dedicated lengthy grind and if the player has crazy consistency with the frame perfect rope jumping and some other stuff maybe but otherwise pretty happy with this achieving the goal of sub 2130.
Also I should point out level 1 (Docks) is by far the most volatile with the RNG where the run can die in a variety of ways. The resets were mounting up and I started getting irritated badly. Eventually I started continuing runs with less than steller paces. This pace out of Docks was one of those where my gold is a full 10 seconds faster than this. Had this been in the red I might've been tempted to reset. My golds on Sewers and Shopping Mall are also 5 seconds better than those in this run, while Police Station was just 2 seconds slower than gold. Apartments was the standout here with the gold but fun fact, I actually golded this level in the previous run with a slightly faster pace, -12. I ended up softlocking in the Sewers after a gunner shot me clipping me into a wall where I couldn't move. Incredibly bad luck! This follow up gold and finished run was a bit of redemption.