MGR NG Any% Easy Speedrun Notes

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MGR NG Any% Easy
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BM = Blade Mode
BP = Battle Point
EM = Electromagnetic grenade
RP = Red Phosphorus
Press X and O to make in-game score screens advance faster

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R00 Guard Duty
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Fight 1
-Parry, BM cut, repeat

Ray 1
-1 Aerial Heavy, 5 Light attacks, BM cancel, 1 Heavy, BM cut head
-2 Aerial Light attacks, parry headbutt
-Attack until finish

-Run through while jumping, cut fences and pipe

Ray 2
-Same as Ray 1
-Hit it more and finish when it's dropping bombs

Get hit by Sam, tap jump to quick recover and toggle left stick to escape stun

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R01 Coup d'État
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Fight 1
-Slide into Blade Mode, Zandatsu as many as possible
-Pick up BP from chest
-Kill guard

Fight 2
-Bait Gekko's ram, Zandatsu, kill the rest
-Pick up BP from chest
-Go to house for call, customize Commando Armor, HF +1, Defensive Offense							*******
-Equip RPG

Blade Wolf
-RPG, Rolling Thunder, 4 light slashes, swap to Stinger, back away, parry dash/leap, Stinger 3x with Blade Mode cancel, 2 light slashes, Stinger

-Pick up RPG before bridge
-Run through bridge (Heavy QTE mid-way)
-Target Hammerhead and shoot with Stinger, cancel and jump 5x to it
-Aerial Heavy slash, Light slash 3x, cancel, aerial Heavy, light 2x and BM finish it
-Pick up Stinger next to rightmost pillar
-Run to hotel entrance, BM cut it open

Fight 3
-Shoot balcony dude from on top of vehicle
-RPG the rest and cut them
-Climb up to next part
-Run through the area until call, restart from checkpoint after the game saves (shows icon)

Fight 4
-Get on top of container and wait for Dwarf Gekkos and shoot them with RPG, BM the two dudes and Dwarves, pick up BP from chest
-Customize Inferno Armor, Sky High																	*******
-Equip RP grenade and run through area (jump over 2 laser fences and slide under one)
-Throw RP near security camera on second floor
-Regular jump over dude near corner
-Equip EM grenade

Mistral
-Lock-on, EM, swap to RPG, fire twice, go near exploding barrel, Defensive Offense when she's close
-Zandatsu cancel the throw to 2nd phase
-RPG, cancel, Rolling Thunder, Defensive Offense, RPG
-Run in front of her, RPG, Defensive Offense, Sky High spam or Stinger until 10%

Customize Polarm +1																					*******

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R02 Research Facility
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-Equip EM
Fight 1
-EM Monkey, Polearm loop
-Jump next to Monkey, walk a bit and break gate
Fight 2
-EM the Raptors, Polearm Spin2Win
-Pick up box, stealth through the next Monkeys
-Go through hidden door
-Jam grenade, activate door
Fight 3
-Run and light attack and BM slice all enemies
-Run through area with Dwarf Gekko
-Run through and kill everyone

GRAD
-Parry startup attack, Polearm loops, EM grenade after it moves to use cannon, Sky High cancelling during stun
-Polearm and Sky High the rest
-Run to the end

Customize HF +2, Polearm +2, Falling Lightning, Air Parry											*******

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R03 Mile High
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-Polearm four dudes, kill the rest
-Go across bridge
-RP Gekkos
-Roof skip
-GRAD bridge fight with RP?
-Bait RPG shot from soldier

Monsoon
-Do dmg until he's at ~68%
-EM after he jumps down
-Grenade & RPG on wall if he uses the smoke attack
-Do dmg until he's at 10%%

Customize HF +3, Polearm +3																			*******

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R04 Hostile Takeover
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Lobby fight
Offices
Wallrun
Garden skip
Elevator

Body Doubles
-Polearm/Ripper loop Mistral
-RPG, grenade, EM on Monsoon

Sundowner
-Polearm loop him with Ripper, use up FC packs

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R05 Escape from Denver
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-Defensive Offense back, throw RP to the left, use box
-Backstab the two soldiers
-Slash and BM the next fight
-Stealth through Dwarf Gekkos: left until sign, right until pole, left until puddle, right
-Run to half-way stairs, stop, run to bottom and use box for a couple meters
-Run to the end

Customize White Armor, Pincers +4 (equip), Turbulence, Downburst, Fuel Cells								*******

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R06 Badlands Showdown
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-Defensive Offense forward, Pincer charged 2nd attack with Ripper
-Defensive Offense, slide heavy attack
-Defensive Offense, Pincer charged 2nd attack with Ripper
-Slide heavy attack, finish
-Use FC packs for more Ripper

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R07 Assasination Attempt
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-Polearm jump twice over wall, equip Pincers

MG Excelsus
-Spam Pincer with Ripper
-Take dmg to get 1-shotted for Armstrong QTE

Armstrong
-Heavy combo with Ripper, Defensive Offense, Sky High cancelling
-Divekick in front when he tries to jump to throw rubble
-Repeat and hit his back when he heals