God of War: Ascension NG+ any% RTA in

This is a Real Time-Attack speedrun of God of War: Ascension (category New Game+, any%) in 2:21:22, made by me (AKheon). It beats the old world record by almost 4 minutes! Don't try this at home.

If you want watch a version with my dry audio commentary on top:
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Here are the splits:

Sewers 7:46 (-4.5)
Guardhouse 10:42
Hecatonchires 18:53 (-9.8)
Kirra 25:15 (-14.4)
The Cistern 32:49 (-1:38)
Tower of Delphi 35:33 (-1:30)
Python's Belly 39:16 (-1:25)
Ice Caverns 45:03 (-1:01)
Temple of Delphi 54:30 (-55.7)
Castor & Pollux 56:25 (-58.7)
Amulet 1:03:20 (-54.1)
The Grotto 1:10:01 (-2:30)
Prison 1:13:26 (-2:29)
Delos 1:20:07 (-2:29)
Rope 1:24:20 (-3:23)
The Gauntlet 1:27:43 (-3:37)
Ribs of Apollo 1:40:12 (-4:15)
The Furnace 1:41:57 (-4:32)
The Furnace pt. 2 1:49:44 (-4:12)
Eyes of Apollo 1:53:31 (-4:00)
Trials of A... 1:59:17 (-4:09)
Fury Citadel 2:09:04 (-3:51)
The End 2:21:22 (-3:50)

The final in-game time (as the game measures from the final checkpoint) is 2:16:54.

If you see me doing something strange like waiting in menus or retrying from a checkpoint for no reason, it's probably because of trying to avoid some specific softlock or crash. Yeah, this game has a number of them... Feel free to ask questions about the run and I'll try to answer them the best I can.

The run still has some sloppy parts, and especially towards the end of the run I start to play it more safe. Even with this route I'm sure sub 2:20 would be possible, if you grinded it long enough. But I'm personally happy enough with this time... I just want to move on to some other project now!

Thanks to findlestick, Robin Fleming, Wulf2k9 and BigVEE for making valuable contributions to the process of breaking Ascension.

Differences from the previous run:

More optimizations in movement and combat.
Far fewer mistakes and deaths.
A new Tremble speed glitch in Chapter 7 (just a small timesave though).
New Ribs skip in Chapter 22.
Removed some Ice Rage glitches at Chapter 23 to avoid crashing.
Didn't go for the Chapter 30 timesave.