I decided to try and speedrun this map because I thought it’d be fun and interesting with this maps depth. I did two runs, one with another guy and one solo. My duos run was around 22 minutes, and 23:12 for solo. Sub 20 is definitely possible. My run route was basically speeding to get into the castle, turning on rampage mode on wave one is a very viable strategy but also it can be pretty tight because you’re gonna wanna use a well cooked grenade to kill most of the horde and if you mess up it’s a restart. I personally didn’t do it in my run since I hadn’t binded server kill and the restarts were getting irritating. I just tried to rack up points, round 2 bowser isn’t a big deal since headshots with the M14 usually results in a fast enough death. Once I get inside I talk to toad (absolutely essential) and then run to mystery box room to pick up a weapon. You’re generally going to want to get a weapon and stick with it, but if it’s especially bad you might have to reroll. Then I farm the Star while getting points to open the courtyard, and if I get unlucky I have to also go to the Tactiquilla Star, which I did in this run. It’s also important to check behind the Tactiquilla machine for a chance at the SM64 box for the shield. I eventually got enough points to get into the courtyard, and it’s important to be precise and fast for the boo key. The locations for the boos are: Near Boo Key door, down hallway to courtyard, 2 near speedcola, one in corner near door on speed side, one on the walls near the right, one on the castle, and one in the corner on the side opposite to speed. Once you hit them all it takes some time for the Boo Key to spawn, so I recommend picking up the mole to set up for a glitch later. Once you get the Boo Key, go down to the basement, feel free to hit the Yoshi egg for Africa, if you don’t have the points then you can go up to the door to farm points on dry bones. Once you have enough, open the doors for power, hug the left side of the steps for more consistent climb ups, then jump in the pool of water and drain the water and open the exit, then teleport out to the main area of castle. Farm stars until you have enough points to get Tactiquilla, which is very worth to detour for due to infinite sprint plus shooting while sprinting, then load the stars until the first bowser fight starts. If the round ends, wait for it to start again before enabling fight or else you’ll have to deal with 120 dry bones, which can cause problems and significant slowdown, and then if you have enough points, PAP your gun, or shoot bones until you have enough points to PAP, then just focus fire on Bowser until he dies. Once he’s gone wait for the key and painting to spawn, which takes a while, then go ahead and hop down the railing to go to basement to save yourself the hassle later of collecting those stars. You can also grab the bat in the deadshot room for the glitch later. Once you have those done and dealt with, go upstairs and pick one of the rooms to power up. As far as I’m aware, the N64 is guaranteed to spawn in one of those two rooms. Now, you might recall me telling you to grab the mole/bat later, here’s why. I found a glitch that can make the pedestals give you perkaholic without actually having to gather all the creatures. Place down the mole and bat, then interact with the rest of the pedestals in a random order, I don’t think it matters, except save the penguin pedestal for last. If everything works correctly, then once you interact with the penguin pedestal it should give you perkaholic. (Map maker if you’re reading this, please don’t patch this out) Now with your new perks, get the last star, then drag your ass upstairs to the clock room to deal with the stair on top of the platform. Once that’s dealt with, it’s time for Bowser Fight 2. Same strategies apply for Bowser Fight 2, but it’s good to exercise more caution due to the fact that several bowsers can spawn during this fight. If drybones spawn then it’s recommended to lead them to the star in the center to power it up a bit, since there’s a good amount of time between collecting the 2nd bowser key and the painting spawning, and the dry bones don’t spawn until after the painting spawns. Once you get the pop-up that you can escape, get ready to run to the basement as fast as possible to open the exit door, but it’s important to be shooting dry bones while running down since you need 25,000 points to finish the run. Once you do, that’s run. There’s definitely some optimizations to be made, and we’ve still yet to see if there’s some crazy out of bounds glitch or something, but yeah. If you try running this then I hope you have fun with it.