Around 3 hours to beat. I didnt realise until later in my Stage 2 attempts that the game offered continues. Had I known I wouldve beaten it a little faster. The continue prompt pops up very quick and defaults to "No", so its very easy to miss. Great game otherwise. Will review it soon. I had to split this playthrough up into 2 parts since the full video would not upload, after several days of trying.
For this video, any unsuccessful section attempts are edited out. Only successful sets of lives are shown. This means if I carried over some lives to a new section, then lost them and restarted the section, you will see the section done clean with the full set of lives the game gives when you select "Continue". The game gives you 3 continues to beat a stage. If you waste all 3 continues you have to start the full stage over again. You do get permanent checkpoints each time you complete a full stage though. The ending is also edited out.
This is actually the Tutorial version edit. I was having trouble uploading longer videos, so hopefully this cut down version will upload without issue. Need to find out whats causing upload issues. Been trying to upload this run for days. If a put up a tutorial for this game this will be the footage I use.