Spelunky 2 - Cosmic Ocean 7-99 (Jungle-Tide Pool/Abzu route)

Little bit of audio issues again around 1 hour.
Luckily it ends at 1:05:27 just when it seems like it's getting really bad.
My 3rd Cosmic Ocean 7-99.
This was my 102nd visit to Cosmic Ocean and 3rd clear. By this point I had played Spelunky 2 for about 445h.
So about 7 hours and 2 more Cosmic Ocean runs since my second 7-99.
When the game first came out I played about until I reached the Cosmic Ocean for the first time(7-5 being my best) and did a lot of other stuff of course.
Then about year later I played for some weeks. Got a lot better with the game. My new best was 7-70.
Then over a year later(about 1-2 months ago) started again.
Took some weeks to start getting new records. And then finally 7-99 through Volcana - Tide Pool.
Few days after I already found myself trying for Jungle-Temple route even though I originally planned to do 7-99 only once.
I still wanted to keep playing so I changed the route again for fun. Got this on the second CO run since the previous win.
There's still one route(Volcana-Temple) I could go for. And I'll at least try it as long as I keep playing for now.
I switched the character to the next one every day I played.
So I didn't really choose which characters won. I tried my best with all of them.
The 7-99 winners are:
1 Pilot
2 Valerie Crump
3 Demi Von Diamonds (this run)
4 Princess Airyn
5 Dirk Yamaoka
6 Ana Spelunky
7 Alto Singh
8 Nekka the Eagle
9 Margaret Tunnel
Stats so far:
Win # / Cosmic Ocean visits / Deaths / Total Playtime
1 / 82 / 411 / 386h
2 / 100 / 463 / 438h
3 / 102 / 469 / 445h
4 / 103 / 470 / 449h
5 / 104 / 470 / 453h
6 / 107 / 480 / 462h
7 / 114 / 498 / 477h
8 / 116 / 501 / 483h (Eggplant)
9 / 129 / 522 / 515h
-death count is XBOX version only so it's only good for seeing the difference between wins. But the total playtime includes all versions I've played.
My other 7-99 runs and much more:
• Spelunky 2
My best runs so far:
VOLCANA - TIDE POOL
7-99 (normal)
7-99 (daily 2023-10-30)
7-99 (daily 2023-11-02)
7-99 (daily 2023-11-06)
7-98 (normal)
7-91 (normal)
7-83 (normal)
7-81 (normal)
7-71 (normal)
7-70 (normal) x3
7-66 (daily)
7-65 (normal) x2
7-61 (normal)
7-59 (normal) x2
JUNGLE - TEMPLE
7-99 (normal)
7-85 (normal)
7-74 (normal)
7-69 (normal)
7-60 (daily)
7-58 (normal)
7-53 (daily)
7-43 (daily)
7-36 (normal)
7-30 (normal)
JUNGLE - TIDE POOL
7-99 (normal)
7-66 (normal)
VOLCANA - TEMPLE
7-99 (normal)
I can record 1 hour max at once. So this run had 5 separate recordings combined.
I took a few minute break and switched the recording to a new one at the beginning of 7-11, 7-31, 7-61 and 7-92.
For this video I cut those breaks into seconds.
0:00 Menus/Hub
0:17 1-1 Dwelling
9:45 2-1 Jungle
15:03 The Black Market
22:30 3-1 Olmec's Lair
26:18 4-1 Tide Pool
31:58 4-4 Abzu
33:37 5-1 Ice Caves
36:19 6-1 Neo Babylon
40:48 6-4 Tiamat's Throne
41:52 7-1 Sunken City
47:15 7-4 Hundun's Hideaway
49:11 7-5 Cosmic Ocean
54:30 7-10 Cosmic Ocean
1:08:13 7-20 Cosmic Ocean
1:26:40 7-30 Cosmic Ocean
1:46:21 7-40 Cosmic Ocean
2:05:26 7-50 Cosmic Ocean
2:19:46 7-60 Cosmic Ocean
2:33:19 7-70 Cosmic Ocean
2:46:19 7-80 Cosmic Ocean
3:05:36 7-90 Cosmic Ocean
3:19:30 7-98 Cosmic Ocean(last level)
3:21:08 7-99 Cosmic Ocean Ends(constellation)
3:21:55 End Credits
3:26:45 Constellation view from hub
3:27:35 Player Profile
3:28:10 My 1st Constellation
3:28:26 My 2nd(previous) Constellation
Played and recorded on Xbox Series X.

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10:04 I told myself "no shoes...". Few seconds later I had already forgotten.
16:07 I almost never use Hoverpack. It can be great, but I felt a bit uncomfortable with it. Kind of like with Climbing Gloves but not as bad.
25:05 I was going to hover all the way to the other side, but I had to cancel because I'm not sure there's enough time to come back.
30:40 I was thinking of bombing the left trap. I chose not to. So when I was supposed to put the sword down I accidently left a bomb instead.
35:55 oh yeah... these things shoot when crouched.
I was already thinking about leaving the Hoverpack behind before entering Neo Babylon, but this wasn't what I had in mind.
47:19 this is one of those situations where I think later that I should have paused the game to think how to deal with it.
I knew my approach was bad. The run almost ended here because of that.
1:07:50 what a lovely sight.
1:08:15 this kind of stuff is why I usually wait 10-15 seconds under ground tiles at the beginning of Ice Caves levels.
1:09:49 I am sorry, but I was determined to do it this way.
1:20:28 satisfying.
1:25:55 for some reason I thought I could grab that ledge. Almost bad again...
1:42:35 camera shy.
1:43:38 good old heart attack.
1:54:28 what could have gone wrong there...
2:32:45 this wasn't that painful because of losing the ankh. It was painful because of how I lost it.
Such a dumb death. At least I got to take one last picture before losing the camera as well.
2:33:29 lovely sight 2.0
2:34:20 damn ufos... not close at all.
less than 10 seconds later another heart attack.
2:36:00 didn't realize it was that close.
But I knew getting poisoned would mean death at that point.
2:42:13 ice and seek minigame.
2:49:36 I couldn't believe this square man survived this. Minor heart attack at 2:49:45.
2:57:07 surely just as I intended...
2:57:43 I accepted my defeat during this. Couldn't get much luckier.
3:11:10 I noticed the lava while on top. But I didn't pay attention to it when getting rid of the traps.
I knew the exit door will stay clear from lava, but this still felt like a run ending mistake.
There wasn't much room for error when exiting the level at 3:11:50.
3:13:10 unplanned breaking of the final orb before locating the exit isn't usually that scary. But it happening as far as 7-94 did make me a little nervous.
3:19:30 not a lovely sight... as the last level.