Hi, I am a current speedrunner of this game, and I need to explain why this is a very unoptimized TAS.
In the last 4 years since the previous TAS, there has been over 20 minutes of time save found by the SPM community and then some.
This TAS has only been able to utilize maybe at most 10 minutes out of the 20 minutes due to the amount of poor movement in this video.
Like people have already pointed out, many things like the Fracktail fight, and other movement options are slower than RTA speedrunning, and alone should be a big give away that this is not a good TAS.
The only reason why this TAS is faster than the previous is because of the amount of time saves that have been found, which has been given no credit to JohnP55, or anyone else in the speedrun community.
The projected TAS time is a 3:25, which is almost 20 minutes off the mark, which in my opinion this should not be accepted into tasvideos.
I'm not going to nit pick every single thing wrong with the TAS, but I, as long as many other people in the SPM community, do not what an unoptimized TAS to represent what we have become in the last 4 years.
Verifiers if you have any questions, all of us are here at the SPM Speedrunning Discord to discus this. 2r66vqUNQP