You may notice that in the third town, during the second night, I'm standing around not doing anything. That's because I already have as many hearts as I need and I am waiting for daylight to come so I can exchange crystals with the knight.

I acquire every whip powerup in the game because stronger whips cut down on overall time spent whipping, it addition to making it easier to stay alive.

I did the last two mansions out of order so that I would have the flame whip for both of them, again for purposes of cutting down on whipping time.

This run is not perfect. I didn't navigate the "Item Select" screen well at times, I missed some jumps, briefly walked the wrong direction, got hit in bad places, and a couple times I died when I didn't intend to. However, death in this game really only sets one back about two or three seconds.

The most time wasted was during the fight with the evil mask, because I should have kept hitting him with golden knives after the first hit. Since I missed, I had to wait for him to cry fireballs, after which I proceeded to miss some golden knife shots. That's my only real complaint about this run, otherwise I think it went pretty well.