3 hours or less

[vtwin650]

Originally Posted by F8L Fool

That's a pretty solid first run through. You can't get all of the crows in one playthrough, because they don't all appear on one difficulty setting (they really, really, really want you to play through this game a lot of times).

The LP's only occur in specific levels so it'll be easy to get all of the ones you missed that don't revolve around beating the game.

This list should be able to help you, if you don't already have it: Collectible Guide

Thanks.

I'm playing back through the levels now to do a cleanup, last night I got the remaining LP pieces, the one crow i'd missed on normal, and am up to level 10 clean-up wise in finding the remainder of the witches resting places and portals. I've done 6 of the first 15 portals so far, basically if I didn't get them in under 3 tries I kept moving.

My next plan of attack once getting all the resting places and items from Normal is to chop down my times in a few levels, I have almost 50 minutes I can save off it from just 2 levels alone where I was slowly taking my time with it and exploring, and about 85 minutes more on the other levels where I'm more than 5 minutes slower than those times up the top, this will bring me down to 3 hours 11 minutes roughly.

I'm sure some of those times listed above can be improved much more, the person probably cut down as many levels as was needed to get it under 3 hours then stopped.

[mirski57]

I'm starting my "sprint" play through, to take a break from Climax mode.

I'm curious, do torture attacks hurt your time trying to get through the game in under 3 hours ?

I think there's too much time wasted on the animation for a torture attack, when I know I could do a normal kill faster.

** UPDATE **
Apparently Torture attacks are just fine.
Here are my times.

P: 3:30
I: 6:44
II: 7:10
III: 8:01
IV: 7:04
V: 11:28
VI: 11:57
VII: 5:43
VIII: 8:50
IX: 11:11
X: 10:50
XI: 6:41
XII: 6:55
XIII: 5:20
XIV: 16:30 (V1 : 5:01,V2 : 7:42,V3 : 3:28)
XV: 12:44
XVI: 3:10
E: 15:55

ALL: 2:39:52