[Normal Mode WR] All Star Adventure 146 Star (2:05:59)

So now, with a bit more time now that The Lost Levels has been released, I learned the other stars to finally do a run of this category. This run was the result of a 1.5 month long grind after my SSRM2026 run. katze also ran this category before, so I just used his route, not expecting to get a run close to his as he got a 2:14 in what I thought was a mostly decent run. After just a few finished runs, I saw the WR potential, so I continued the grind. This category is not easy, though. There are a lot of long stars where it's very easy to lose time, and the very last star, Magna Dorrie, is a major runkiller if you die late into an attempt. It's a 10 minute long gauntlet where traps constantly spawn in your position, and getting caught by one of them at the wrong place and at the wrong time easily kills your attempt. This run went quite well, but I still lost time in places like C4, B1, C11 and C2, just to name a few. Fortunately, there were no big mistakes. Some splits like C11 coins and even Magna Dorrie are still improvable, but getting good times in those long stars is very hard because anything can happen. This beats katze's run by almost 9 minutes and, while a much lower time (even a sub 2) is possible, I'm done with this category. There are just so many things that can go wrong in the first half of the run, plus having a late Magna Dorrie choke really kills the motivation to continue the grind. Besides, I don't have as much time as before to do longer runs like this. This hack is still among my favorites, though. I would like to try speedrunning the other modes in the future.