Teresa's Lament (Ch. 2): Any% | 1:47 | Shadow Gambit Speedrun

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Published on February 14, 2024 7:57:21 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXbJe7MIcI0

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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew (2023)

Duration: 2:53

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Most of this level is bottlenecked waiting for the confessor to walk to each location. To optimize the route, you need to activate the confessor as soon as possible and then talk to him as soon as he arrives at each location.

My previous route made Teresa invisible before activating the confessor. This route saves 9 seconds by sending Teresa straight to the confessor, using a bush to hide her because alarms will interrupt this cutscene.

I also changed Virgilio's route to make it fast enough to keep up with the faster confessor. I make heavy use of the Grand Blink Refresh glitch here, but the glitch only grants up to 4 total grand blink uses before it stops working. I save one grand blink by using a John dive across buildings, so I'm able to use the extra one to make Virgilio's path in the first section more efficient.

The most likely area for further optimization would be to have Virgilio snipe two final section shadows instead of one. It will be difficult to do that and still get into the tear by the time Teresa finishes, but I wouldn't be shocked if it's possible. Dropping a Toya katashiro off the side of the tower with the last pre-ending shadow might help

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There's a window of time while Virg is switching characters that he can't pick up bullets (or likely activate any other area-based triggers), which is important to keep in mind. A few runs died due to switching while running over a bullet and then later not having any ammo to shoot the shadows

In the final section, Teresa's snipes get automatically refreshed without having to collect her bullet. However, you need to collect any bullets used before this section or else she won't start with ammo. Virgilio's snipes don't automatically refresh in this section.

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