Curse of the Empire - Surreal Ascended Devotion, Red Coins (No Savestates)

This grind went pretty well. I think I only died with more than 8 reds five times so I must have practiced pretty well. My worst choke was to jumping off the slope at 18:32. I did struggle with the beginning for quite a while, before getting good attempts going. The first red is really annoying because of invis walls on the path to it and the second red is probably the hardest red coin in the level. However, the difficulty is packed pretty densely here and it remains consistently hard throughout. It's still tough for me to say whether I found this star or course 12 reds to be harder in this hack. I got this star faster but I got an ending choke really early in C12 reds as well. I'd say course 12 had a harder ending, this star had a harder middle, and they both had hard beginnings. I guess I'll give this star the tiniest edge over course 12 in difficulty due to it being several minutes longer. Also, I found a VERY strange glitch where sometimes when you throw one of the chuckyas like I did at 8:45 it will disappear and then reappear around the waterfall area at 17:09. No idea what could cause this. Anyway, the only stars left in this hack are a free star you get for getting the other 181 and the star I fear most... The bob-omb star in course 15. That star features near-TAS level movement and I've never done anything else like it before. I'm really good at long red coin stars but I'm not sure if I can do THAT star. I will at least try though. Not gonna lie, it's also a pretty miserable and badly made star as well, so this will be fun YEP.