Secret Agent HD episode 1 in 19:46 (former WR)
Channel: timixretroplays
Date: 2022-11-11

SAHD ep1 is now sub-20! No deaths, no resets, it's now down to consistency and strategies.

The big time losses here were several mistakes in Barrel Run meaning I had to wait a whole extra platform cycle to continue, a hilarious misstep and recovery in Blue Sky, some mistakes and hesitations from trying slightly different routes here and there, and some atrocious overworld movements (I'm a lot better at that with an analog thumbstick, and the controller I used for this run doesn't have those, so it's time to collect another!).

The arrows on the splits are reminders to myself of which direction I need to go in at the start of a level - this is crucial to getting plenty of split-second cycles without losing seconds by restarting a level once I've remembered what it is and where to go. I might add more hints like this for overworld movement.

There's a new strategy for Moneybags (go left) that I haven't tried yet, and I'm still avoiding having to develop spike skip in Powerup for as long as I can :) Both of those strats were started by @Vilde321 and it'll be interesting how they turn out.

Don't pay too much attention to the splits that were there - those were from a fairly disastrous 21+ minute run, and I'm still working on the habit of splitting at the end of every level.