Great stage overall, not a lot of variance on the boss unless you flub something. My single segment, which I thought was already very fast, was a 9:07 here.

My single segment was a 9:22 and had a ludicrously good first split that I was always behind on by a few seconds. Managed to shave all my time on the latter section. Again this boss fight is pretty uniform if you don't stumble on phrases.

Just minor improvements here, the single segment submission had an 11:59. Boss is uninteresting. Don't choke. (Seven Days.)

Huge 30 second improvement here! The old single segment was 14:58. I was never happy with that boss fight because I didn't get enough damage in for the minimum amount of cycles. Getting the "two dives" finish on Nigel & Sebastian by itself saved 10 seconds from the old run. This means the main stage was separately 20 seconds faster than the old run. Part of that came from smarter survivor strats, and the rest was just solid typesmanship.

This level is a nightmare to get a perfect score on, but luckily we don't care about taking damage in this run. The single segment time was 9:39 and the 18 second difference comes primarily for an optimized boss fight with Meat Katie. The old run had 5 chops (3 chops, charge, 2 chops) - this run does it in 4. It's very difficult to get three "grey" phrases in after each chop, but necessary to reduce the number of boss cycles.

The old time was 12:31, and all of the time save came from a faster main stage. By this point in the single segment run I was suffering from fatigue and soreness in my tendons... and obviously doing it as an IL avoids this. The other advantage to IL is that I was able to play the stage a fair number of times until I had reasonable RNG. Barring major mistakes (dropped phrases) the boss fight takes more or less the same amount of time every time.

You're looking at damn near a full minute time save from the old submission! First off, I knocked 16 seconds off of the main stage time. The optimum survivor strats here are really nebulous, it really seems to depend on the difficulty of the phrases whether or not it's best to let them eat it or not. I did, however, find an erroneous trigger / intentional damage strat where you get the camera to move on even though mutants are still alive. Mostly though, the old Single Segment time of 15:16 was due to a 3-lobs boss fight with Lobber. It is absolutely imperative that you not let lobber go through three lob-puke cycles. It can range from somewhat difficult to functionally impossible to get two grey phrases in during his hitstun, depending on the RNG. You don't have to get two phrases in *every* time, but if you fall short too often he'll have just enough life left to go through the lengthy lob-puke cycle a third time. This lobber was done in two lobs and the boss fight alone saved an additional 42 seconds.

The old single segment time of 14:27 had a flawless Brutus (no dropped damage opportunities), but after a lot of trial and error I discovered that it seems faster to take one hit on this boss. This gets to the "There he goes" pattern which allows more damage to be put on him prior to him summoning mutants and this means he only summons once. Although this boss fight looks sloppier due to the dropped phrase, it is 4 seconds faster than my "perfect" run from the single segment. The stage by itself is also 28 seconds faster, partly due to faster typing - and party due to letting all of the survivors die and avoiding the particularly lengthy cutscenes you earn from saving them.

Old single segment was 13:34. The time save of 47 seconds was almost entirely due to the stage, only about 4 seconds came from improving the boss. Letting the survivors die was helpful, but I found an intentional damage strat and a few other specific mutant order sections that boosted this run further.

It was the boss of this level that proved to be a real nightmare and serious grind.  There is a pretty important (8 second) cycle skip possible if and only if you can manage to get in 16 yellow phrases and 4 gray phrases.  I had many a run die to not meeting these requirements, and was finally able to put Jasper down on optimum cycles at the end of this effort.

You'll notice a long section of me doing nothing early on here, as I discovered that  "Red Shift" (the phrase of the mutant in this run) is the last mutant in a long stretch who you actually have to kill to progress the game.  Given that I was making many attempts at this, I ignored the optional mutants to avoid the increased risk of RSI.  The next thing to note is the "Terrible" sign, which instantly kills all 3 mutants below and saves more time.  There are some challenging "throw skips" seen later in this run.  Mutants who throw projectiles will waste a couple of seconds even if you kill them right after they launch the attack, but if you can kill them before this things will advance immediately.  "okokok" and "Salty Air" were two mutants who I saved a couple of seconds each on by dispatching them very quickly.  There is also an extremely hard throw skip that RNG helped me out on by giving me the word "In".

Coco & Sindy also have the potential to kill a run with random animations between phrases that can waste time.  The worst of those thankfully did not take place here, allowing this run to take the IL WR.

Both this level and boss fight are reasonably straightforward.  You'll see a throw skip on "Sunshine", and a standard issue fight with Screamer.

This is probably my least favorite level, it is very long and has a lot of randomness to it.  There is also a minute plus section where the characters are literally on-rails, and there is nothing to be done at all.  (You can kill the mutants to avoid taking damage, but it won't speed up the run.)  The highlight of this run is my triple throwskip with "wtf" "skin" "fireman" - which will almost certainly never happen again.  This level also introduces the miserable RNG component of the aforementioned three word mutants.  In this run, I managed to get 2 out of 3 fast animations on the first mutant, and all 3 on the third - overall a very fortunate run.

This is not the greatest Nigel & Sebastian fight unfortunately, as I have done it a few seconds faster.  I was actually one phrase short of entirely missing the fast one-dive kill, which would have cost me an enormous amount of time (20-seconds) and meant that the run died here.  Fortunately, I finished him off just in time, preserving this run's amazing main-stage time.

This is a short and sweet level, with the biggest challenge coming during the Meat Katie boss fight.  You can cause her to skip an entire phase of her pattern if and only if you managed to get four gray words in after *every* chop.  Missing even one of these will cause her to waste another 15 seconds.  I was just barely able to do this here, but doing so lead to a fantastic time.

There are a ton of reasons to reset this level, but fortunately they all take place in the beginning.  There is an early three word mutant, follows by many possible throw skips ("monsoon", "jerk", and more) on the linear train section.  These mutants add up to the possibility of a big time save and I was extremely happy with this run going into the second three word mutant.  Unfortunately, I only got 2 out of 3 possible fast animations on him, preventing the run from being quite perfect.

There isn't much to speak of against Crawler, as the bug takes approximately the same amount of time to kill each playthrough unless you make a catastrophic mistake.

This level requires a lot of raw typing speed and the optimum survivor strats are rather nebulous (I experimented with both save and kill runs).  I also discovered an intentional damage boost strat here that glitches into a minor sequence break.  You'll see this when I type "owls" and move on from the other mutant even though he is still standing.

The big decider here is Lobber.  You have to get two gray phrases against him multiple times during the fight to guarantee that he only goes through the "lob and puke" sequence twice.  Speedrunner ArcticRevrus demonstrated that it is (barely) possible to get three gray phrases here, and if this could be done consistently it may very well be within the realm of possibility to do this in *one* "lob and puke" cycle, which would save a massive 45 seconds.  Things went well enough in this IL, although I was a far cry off from that theoretical next-level time save.

This is another agitating level with three (!) different three word mutants, and survivors that waste 20 seconds if you save them.  Only 1 in every 512 runs is going to give perfect RNG here, which is a grind that my tendons won't hold out for.  In my run, out of a total of 9 animations, 3 of them were big time-wasting knees.  However, execution on the main level was well-beyond my standard performance, leading to a much improved time of any previous efforts.

Even on the easiest difficult, it is relatively likely to take a hit from Brutus.  A good run will get all the gray phrases possible (which is three) , and prevent him from going into the "summon" or "he's charging" patterns more than once.

The titular level of The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is thankfully reasonably consistent.  You'll see a damage boost early on as I intentionally *don't* type "dung" and let that mutant clear the stage for me.  Even on Bitch Difficulty, the game gives reasonably long phrases on the final level.  There are some throw skips and other more traditional time saves, as well as one three word mutant who gave me pretty average RNG this time around.

Mother is a real treat, and puts ones mashing speed to the test.  That's right, the final boss of the game relies on mashing wildly on the keyboard.  Apparently I am exceedingly fast at this, and manage to put her down before she enters parts of her cycle that most other runners seem to have to put up with.   There is also a 10 second "instruction skip" timesave discovered by Seak1NG that is *not* featured in this IL due to it... well... simply not working properly on my machine.  (Not sure if it's a patch version thing, or what.)  Of all the levels in my IL table, this is the one I am mostly likely to come back and try to improve.