About this game: World In Danger is a pixel shooter game with an over the top action filled story. I saw this in my steam queue on sale and gave it a go... Not at all because one of the main characters shares my name and is also a spunky redhead, honest (*^.^*) I enjoyed playing this game and after gathering all achievements wanted to try something new. Then I saw an Awesome Games Done Quick marathon and I was hooked. Now I wanted to give speed running a go and decided on this little indie game. General tips and tricks for this game: Starting of with character choices, "Sam" is your go to gal for speed running. She is by far the fastest moving character in the game and has the highest speed stats. This is balanced by her having lower health, but this is hardly an issue when running the game on Easy mode. During the mission "Undersiege" she is not available and I picked "Panther" who like Sam also has very high speed stats. The only deviation from picking the fastest character is the third mission and first boss fight "No Reservation". Here I picked "Colt" as he has the highest damage stats and more quickly drains the boss' health. There are mission where you have to play a fixed character, no choices there. When using the "Marco" ninja character, I keep spamming his special ability the flash-step which gives periodic speed boosts to move just a little faster. Unless the mission's goal is to kill all the enemies, you don't really need to shoot them unless they are in your way: So only shoot the ones that might block your path. Specific tips and tricks: When doing the second boss fight in the mission "Literal Bombshell", after the bomb lady places her bomb DON'T disarm it right away. On easy you have about a minute and a half before it goes off, instead go fully on the attack and take the bomb lady down before disarming the bomb. Every time you disarm a bomb, the bomb lady flies off screen really quickly to plant a new one. This way she just tries to skate around you and she'll stay closer to you; makes her a lot easier to hit with the slow moving character you have to use during this mission. During the mission "VIP Rescue", you have to pick either Sam or Marco otherwise you get a different style mission. When you pick Colt or Rocket you have to do a sort of wave survival mission for an X amount of time (I think it is linked to your difficulty setting). Nevertheless it always takes those amount of minutes and you can do the Sam/Marco version of the mission loads and loads quicker, something like 20-30 seconds. When fighting the nightvision goggles boss in mission "Dragon Slayer", you should really try to avoid his gas grenades ESPECIALLY the first one. It causes a sort of fake out where the game pretends your monitor is malfunctioning, this cost quiet some time. Other then that, I still think I have to find a better strategy to take out that boss faster. Major tip during the "Under Siege" mission: DON'T MISS ANY OF THE ENEMIES! I did that during a previous run and wasted nearly two minutes backtracking (⋟﹏⋞) During the last normal mission "Counter Strike", be sure to switch to the character's secondary weapon. During this mission you get access to an army styled outfit, complete with a rocket launcher! When facing off against the flame and ice bosses in the second to last bossfight, switch between aiming at the flame guy and the ice girl after landing a hit. They have an invincibility phase for like five seconds, so after hitting the one of them, aim for the other. ALSO! Be sure to use the rockets first as they do a lot more damage, only use the machine gun if you run out of rockets. I can't think of any other tips other then the usual remembering the fastest path through a level. About the run: It was a really good run. Had decent RNG with the bomb placement in the fourth mission "Container Danger", I didn't have to do a full sweep of the level to find them all. I also got really good luck with the red ninja boss fight during the mission "Wolf Hunt continued". Normally he can do a sort of super attack where he charges a giant ninja star by spinning it and throws it across the entire screen. While it isn't hard to dodge, during his charging he can't be hurt (The bullets bounce off of the spinning ninja star). So that was good! During the chopper bossfight in mission "Under Siege 2" my RNG wasn't as lucky. The helicopter has two attacks, one where a guy hangs out of the door and shoots a machine gun at you and another where the helicopter launches missiles at you. You only want the machine gun guy, his bullets can be dodged while still staying close enough to the computers to reset them. Plus his bullets don't do a lot of damage on Easy mode, but the missiles do. In fact on Challenge mode if the missile explosion hits you, it is instant dead! All in all a great run, my best time yet in fact. (^v^) Just could have used better RNG on the helicopter and maybe find a better way to defeat the night goggles guy.