VVVVVV custom level "Nova" beaten in

This easily is the hardest custom level that has ever existed in VVVVVV. As the author himself describes, it's "an excrutiatingly difficult adventure designed to test the mettle of the very best".

I started speedrunning it recently after clearing it for the third time. My initial goal here was to get a sub-2 hour run, which as you can see here I completely blew out of the water by saving more than 30 minutes. Because of this, not sure I'm feeling confident to continue, even though it is only my 5th clear in general.

The way I timed my run was, from a few frames before the level shows up, to the first frame I touch the last crewmate.

Zone 1 and 2 were more sloppy than I would have liked. 3 was okay, 4 very good. Spent too much time on 6,8 (40:40) and 3,4 (51:54) in zone 5. But oh boy, zone 6 was insane, all of the trials went by really quickly. Besides 11,2 (1:17:38), everything was pretty good in that last zone. Could have realistically missed the sub because of pressure, which thankfully didn't interfere too much. 767 deaths.

I chose to skip the gravitron (Guts trial at 1:00:02) and using a few minor skips (Namely at 49:55 and 58:34) because it's faster and easier that way. Sub 2 would still be fairly possible by doing things as intended.

That terminal at the beginning was added by me for unrelated reasons, and is the only "modification" I've made to this level... as far as I can remember lol. Played this twice last year.

Featuring mouse cursor.

[4 years later to update the video with the link of the level
https://distractionware.com/forum/ind...]