The easiest way to obtain a Clear File for someone new to speedrunning this game is to use a slightly-modified route from the standard Any% NSC route. Before you begin, you should familiarize yourself with one of these routes, and understand how to perform [[Death Skip]], [[Richter Skip]], and [[Relic Skip]]. Of these, the only skip that can't be practiced or learned efficiently during the run itself is Death Skip, as there are no Save Rooms prior to it. Therefore, you should start out familiarizing yourself with the visual cues for Death Skip, in particular.

The rest of this section contains timestamps that refer to their corresponding points in the video above if you need or prefer a visual guide of what to do.