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I seem to keep blowing my previous times out of the water with this level pack every time I take a new character to it. Surely that can't last forever, though.
Metal Sonic 3.0 is a truly powerful character, and probably one of the fastest modded characters meant to meaningfully compete with the vanilla roster. However, he is incredibly difficult to control; truly, he makes wrangling vanilla Metal Sonic feel easy. You really have no idea how long it took for me to get this run.
If I ever revisit Sol Sestancia with Metal 3.0, I think I'm going to try to optimize further. I think sub-17 minutes is theoretically possible. I'm not as confident with the other characters I've tried, though there's certainly room for improvement with them as well, but Metal 3.0 definitely has sub-17 potential.
Personally, I just hope Sol Sestancia 2 isn't nearly as much of a headache with Metal 3.0 as Sol Sestancia was. Although, this run did make me consider revisiting vanilla Metal Sonic and trying for a better run than I got with him last time, so there's that. I think I'm done pushing the envelope with new characters; it's time to focus on the characters I know I want to play in the long term, regardless of which level pack I'm playing. I'll probably run more vanilla characters on the vanilla campaign, but that's about it for me.
Side note: Metal 3.0's idle animation of all things is actually a liability in this level pack, because certain transitions teleport you very high into the air while cutscenes are playing, and his idle animation makes him fly; the teleport doesn't do anything to interrupt this animation, so if you do nothing while cutscenes are playing as you might with any other character, you will lose time in a speedrun because Metal 3.0 won't be falling into a position where you can make progress while you wait for the cutscene to end.
You can download Sol Sestancia here: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/sol-sestancia.116/
You can also download Metal Sonic 3.0 here: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/metal-sonic-3-0.4718/
Timestamps:
0:00 The Tale Begins
0:30 Egg Fleet 3.5
1:54 Cutscene- Arrival
2:36 Alcudia Port
3:14 Jungle Crash Site
4:47 Cutscene- Discovery
4:56 Boot Camp
6:44 Santa D'or
7:16 School Campus
8:37 Cutscene- Escaped
9:05 Party Like It's 1959
10:42 Boot Leggin'
13:16 Cutscene- To Science!
13:49 Science Fair
15:06 Cutscene- Commercial
15:47 RUN
17:43 To Be Continued
18:22 Ending
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