Ov's video: Super Metroid NG in 24:28

See below for a brief outline of what this category entails. New Game Plus (NG+) is an extremely low variance category where the player starts on Ceres like normal, but with every item at their disposal, including Hyper Beam if they so choose. Phantoon and Ridley are the only large random variables - almost everything else is pure execution, with death a virtual impossibility. Hyper is slightly faster of a beam to have than Ice for this category - even though this makes disposing of Metroids much more time-consuming, it makes all bosses and a handful of rooms much more streamlined. This is a 10 second improvement over my previous personal best from August of last year, and the first 00:16 IGT. Since then, I came up with slightly different ways to do a few things. Most notably, I came up with a way to always prevent MB2 from firing redbeam, which my 24:38 had happen and costs about 4 seconds. Basically, if you fire the first shot soon enough from directly underneath her, and jump for the last shot (to minimize its travel time), she should never redbeam, even though she is within frames of potentially doing so. Most of the rest of the timesave came from a fast Phantoon opening (my 24:38 had a mid) and a better Tourian escape. The main reason I returned to this category is because I wanted to have one less personal best in composite quality, but also to gauge how well I could juggle another category alongside Any%, to break the monotony. The ceiling for this run appears to be around 24:11. The potential timesave for this run is (approximately, in seconds) 5-6 before Norfair (~2 from incorporating ocean fly), 7-8 in Norfair (Ridley mostly), 2-3 in Maridia / before Tourian, and 2-3 in Tourian (more if a riskier baby skip was incorporated). Phantoon's 50% chance of slow can make further whittling painful, but luckily he's disposed of around the 3:20 mark, much earlier than any other category. I completed this run live on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/389557939 --- Game: Super Metroid Category: NG+ Recording Date: March 2, 2018 Time: 24:28 RT / 00:16 IGT Timing Begins: Start Game (0:09) Timing Ends: Zebes Escaped (24:37) Specifications: 640x480, 3000 kbps, 60 FPS (watch in 720p) Twitch - http://twitch.tv/overfiendvip Twitter - https://twitter.com/overfiendvip