Afterimage restricted The Essential (advanced) in 40:56 RTA

This is a speedrun of Afterimage, a 2023 metroidvania developed by Aurogon Shanghai and published by Maximum Entertainment (formerly Modus Games). I haven't run The Essential since I ran it at SGDQ in 2024, so I wanted to revisit the category with a fresh mindset, tighter routing, and cleaner execution. I think there's still lots of time to be saved here, but it's nice to see that over 7 minutes of time save was available in the first day of derusting. 48'08" (previous record):    • road to SGDQ: Afterimage grind day 17 → Is...   Afterimage speedrunning leaderboards: https://speedrun.com/afterimage Originally streamed live on the 31st of August, 2026:    • Afterimage !wr The Essential new route spe...   run on 120 FPS Afterimage PC version 1.2.1 #afterimage #metroidvania #speedrun