Risk of Rain 2 - All Characters "Speed"run -

the goal of this run is to beat mithrix with every character. it is not fun to run and it is not fun to watch. if you die once, you should reset, although i did die once on stage 2 as commando but kept going for some reason. i still don't think that death was my fault

i prioritized safe strats more than anything else, since dying is such a major timeloss and pretty much a reset since if you die near the end of a run, you lose 10+ minutes. this means i left the teleporter zone a ton, took safe items instead of only speed, and prioritized surviving over pretty much anything else since all i wanted to do was to just complete a run. i even left the teleporter zone to grab items sometimes, which completely violates any speedrunning principle and hurt me physically as well as mentally every time that i did it

since this was my first completed run, this run is easily beatable. i can definitely see this category going down to a low 1:​40 but the main issue is running it. any small mistake can cause death, like getting hit by a brass contraption, alloy vulture, mushroom, and even one of those walls on the moon when you're escaping after beating mithrix, they can reach all the way over the edge and just 1shot you with 0 counterplay while you're flying back. i had that happen to me 1 hour into a run and had to reset but i guess that's just part of this category

a lot of this run was extremely scuffed since obviously i don't really play anything other than merc, loader, and a bit of rex. all characters past merc were blind for me since the farthest i got previously was stage 5 merc, so i wasn't sure how chrysalis interacted with the movement abilities of huntress and rex. the loader run was extremely unlucky, i wanted tincture really badly but the final island on the moon had 0 lunar pods. happens i guess