Game:

Blast Wind (1997)

Duration: 1:54

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Definitely the hardest part about this stage is figuring out how to get around those Hanabiran Clock Arms. I do my best to Blast Wind/Tengu Blade past as much of them as I can, but there's still some that you can't ignore without losing tons of time. I opt to just damage boost past them.

Another part about this stage is that the enemies have different HP values. The reskinned Hot Heads only have 6 HP now, the reskinned Cutting Wheels have only 2 HP (as they should be in the first place), and the Battons have a whopping 5 HP now. Obviously, the issue is the Battons. They have 5 HP so they take all three hits of Rain Flush before dying. So if you stand around waiting for them to die, you'll be losing a lot of time. This makes doing that long stretch over death spikes with the Battons not worth it. I just Rush Jet through that. The other option is to use Beat which does 3 damage per hit, but that ends up being about as slow as Rain Flush so I don't think it's worth it to fight most of them. Although you do have to fight a few. I take care of those with Rain Flush.

Around the end of the vertical section, there's this weird jump that you have to do. I'm still not sure how you're supposed to do it buster-only without having to use damage boosting. I guess the correct answer is that you don't. I assume you're supposed to use some sort of utility to get a bit of extra height to do that jump. Rush Jet is probably your best bet.

Then there's the Saturn fight. The spikes in the middle really make me nervous and since they're there, you can't really camp the middle to dodge the time freeze attack. Speaking of which, Saturn has a lot of ways to waste your time. Try to waste him as quickly as possible with Concrete Shot before he wastes too much time doing the time freeze attack or the black hole. Although with the black hole attack, you can end it early by shooting a Concrete Shot into the black hole. It's a little hard to do so if you get sucked into the corner though.

This run beats the previous normal record, MystSvin's 2:06. Honestly, the only improvement I can think of would be a better Saturn fight. Which I'm 100% certain is possible because this Saturn fight went horrendously.

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