Espgaluda II Double Feature! 683 million

0:00 - Failed Run 23:34 - PB Run After a long break from playing this game, I did some full runs this weekend. My intent was to just play around and have some fun. During that session I got two very different runs. The very first run of the session started out way better than I expected it would. I hadn't practiced stages 1-4 in almost a year, so I figured I would make a lot of mistakes during those stages. To my surprise though, I apparently still remember the route, more or less. These past couple weeks I have been doing savestate practice in stages 5 and 6, so my mindset was that if I can make it to stage 5 then a PB will be in the bag. After getting to stage 5 though, I relaxed way too much and just made one dumb mistake after another lol. Never celebrate too early! Later that session I had a run that went more the way I was originally expecting. I had a sloppier start, but since my stage 6 is a lot better than before I was able to close out the run with a nice new PB! I was extremely annoyed after the first run happened, but in retrospect it's encouraging that I remember how to play the game still. There's still some kinks to work out but I should hopefully be able to hit 700 million pretty quickly, and 800 million is in the realm of possibility now with a good run. I feel motivated to play this game again, so we'll see what happens!