I had planned on doing a run of this game years ago and finally decided to give it a try, it took me 2 weeks to complete this TAS, and previously discovered some glitches tricks doing RTA runs. I use the normal shots (arrows) since it's the fastest way to kill enemies. If you shoot, you have to wait 2 frames to make another movement (4 frames of you take damage), on the air you have to wait 5 frames to shot another arrow.
In this level i have to destroy some houses on the way, they have a little much iframes so i have to shoot it waiting some frames for the next shot. On the mid of stage i took the flame, this helps me to beat some bosses faster due to more damage. Just right away of the flame i do a jump below a house, this pushes me a little bit forward and is faster to just do a slide, also works to fix my movement on the air to do correct slides during the next parts. The first miniboss is just mashing as fast as possible. Passing the autoscroller i take damage, this is faster than trying to kill the two big green monsters because they have more health than normal enemies. On the next part i do a precise jump to climb on the upper way, i discovered this glitch doing RTA runs. The boss has iframes on his normal mode, but when he throws a stone from his mouth the iframes dissapear and you can just mash.
On the first part i do a little slow down, this is to manipulate the position where spawn the enemie from the ground and not get hit. Minibos hass iframes, it may look a slow kill but can not be done faster. I took another flame to get a stronger flame. If your position is good you can slide through some enemies that has small hitbox. In this boss fight i discovered that if you shot, then grab to the ceiling, then fall again you can shot really fast and you don't have to wait the time between shots.
I took damage at the start of the stage because i have to take a Super Shot from a flying chest, if you don't take damage the chest will give you cards. Doing RTA runs i discovered that you can combine the time-limit of the Super Shot taking it two times, at the start of the stage and a little later, and you can reach to the miniboss with the Super Shot doing a way faster fight. The boss fight is just mashing, i manipulate the boss to take longer time to shoot his projectiles for more time on the ground, if he is close to the sword he will take it and do a jump.
The first part is just jumping over the clown boxes, if i press down+down stepping on the box, the box throws me forward, i can do a slide stepping the clowns that comes out of the box, if i shoot stepping on a box before the clowns comes out, the clown will not hurt me and i can do a slide anytime before the shot animation ends, i use this trick at the final part of the stage to make a slide instead of a jump. The boss is just mashing.
In this stage i have to take damage, but at the start there is only one big green enemy unlike the first stage, killing him and then get hit finishing the first miniboss is faster since i will not lose time waiting for get-hit animation time, because you have to wait for the miniboss explosion. On the final part i have to take the Super Shot, tha's why i have to get damage before reaching out here, killing the final boss with Super Shot is way faster than with normal arrows.
