My results :)
My previous times on Standard were around 1:08 and Hardcore 1:30 so I'm pretty proud of these. Took me about two weeks and A LOT of practice. Full disclaimer I did restart on autosave on Standard just to get the time under an hour, I found it incredibly hard to get everything perfectly considering how fast you have to play the game. One mistake and you're down 10-15 seconds and its too slow. I did boss fights on 70% image quality. I tried stair skating, I'm pretty sure I dont do it right and I def dont do quick turning right. Assisted times arent far off from Standard I know and this mostly comes down to me being slow and not the game being hard. Low key bothers me that I didnt notice I have one save on Claire A Standard but considering I relied on autosave it doesn't really matter.
I skipped picking up shotgun in RPD on Leon to save time and I think I skipped GL on Claire A. I already dont pick magnum/smg anyway so obv didnt here either. Ran through all the dogs, skipped as many zombies as possible. Leon B took me the most attempts to get right. This is probably the last time I'll be actually speedrunning the game, its one of my favourite games and honestly this challenge to get Hardcore no save under 1:15 was very fun. I got to 1:20 or 1:17 and thought 'I can do better', and I did:)