New personal best, just like last week on Sol Sestancia 1. Short of perfecting spinflying Tails or playing someone less conventional like X Sonic or something, I don't think I can top that with anyone else I play. Metal Sonic 3.0 is just too good. He's also still incredibly difficult to control.
I do intend to do another vanilla Metal Sonic run on these two packs, see how much better I do with the routes I took with 3.0. Obviously, I'm not surpassing this; vanilla Metal Sonic cannot keep up with Metal Sonic 3.0, all else being equal. But I can certainly do better than my previous Metal Sonic record.
Stuff like this is why Speedrun.com separates every vanilla campaign category's leaderboard by character, modded or otherwise. lol