This run beats my old 26:47 wr, which at the time I was immensely proud of, by over 2 minutes! It just shows how far we've come, and will continue to.
00:20 - Day 1
06:04 - Day 2
12:19 - Day 3
17:40 - Day 4
20:06 - Day 5
Do I think this run will be WR for a long time? Probably not but all levels except BA and SST2 were very well played, so I'm happy with this time for now. I could see 15s timesave in BA, another 5 with good spray usage in SS, so a goated run with current strats would be around sub 24:30. We've only just broken the 24 barrier, so I'm not going to try that yet!
The biggest problem during this run was the dwarf bulborb in the first level somehow did not grow 4 pikmin! If I had 20 yellows, BA would have been much faster. At the start of the level when I saw 16y, internally i gave up, which is why I had that mistake at the start with the electric gate. I nearly reset then. Alternatively, if I'd known I wasn't going to get the dwarf yellows, I'd have just gone to sunset when the flarlic got in to save a couple of seconds.
The HH was an in-run gold, but I'm fairly sure I've done it even faster in practice. I just have been practicing it so much, since in the past few days I've choked 3 different possible 24 pace runs in HH. The last one was a 25:17, which I didn't submit because I was disgusted with the mistakes!
Thanks for reading this stuff, it's important to me to be able to explain my thoughts on the run so you can see my perspective while I play, especially when it comes to embarrassing, rare mistakes like at the start of BA.