Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! Speedrun Any% in 17:19.63

Loadless time: 15:51.18. World Record at time of uploading. I've been grinding this game for the last month, mostly because of a new discovery in 3-1 that made it possible to duplicate an egg to save around 20s in the level. At first all I wanted was to simply get a clean looking run. But after I did, I started implementing a lot of small optimizations to try to optimize the game further and further, lowering the time more and more. This meant that the run got a LOT harder, and doing any% attempts became more and more stressful. In the end though, I got the run I wanted, I can only see 15s of potential timesave but making no mistakes in this category is no easy task. Will the time go lower? Who knows! I know I'm not gonna do runs for a while as I'm pretty happy with the time I got, but considering this game has a very small speedrunning community there might be stuff we have overlooked and is only waiting to be discovered. Only time will tell. Hope you enjoy the run! The music playing is instrumental versions of fripside's songs (yes some of them are anime openings in case you're wondering) I stream on twitch every weekday!   / deku_sr​   Twitter:   / greendavideku