Forgetting to grab that damn yellow herb cost me probably close to 3 seconds at the beginning of the chapter. There were a few spots that could have been faster (had to knife 3 times for one of the Gigante doors, got the don't leave behind Ashley message twice entering the gondola, picked up the Mendez money slowly), but I got the fastest Mendez which more than makes up for all of that.
Up next is the dreaded 3-1. That chapter is going to determine whether I decide to stick to the no resets rule or chicken out and abandon it (actually, no resets is going to be much, much, much worse in 5-4, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it). Not resetting looks like it's going to mean that I have basically no rifle ammo at all to spare, and that's WITH grabbing the 3-3 rifle ammo.
The rules (based on Shimarisu's run):
-new game, pro mode, no damage allowed for Leon or Ashley
-no (major) glitches allowed; I'm using the speedrun.com rules here (no OoB, no Ditman, no wrecking ball room spawn trick, but red zealot incendiary is allowed)
-no restarts
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