I did the achievement with disabled hardmode, action only and skip cutscenes. While (at least according to the wiki) these settings decreases the requirements for every medal, it'll still make it harder to get the platinum medals (which are crucial). And your sanity will completely deplete having to watch every cutscene and interacting with all the npcs on every attempt between every mission. Trust me its not worth it just get good instead.

I also play with the ability to slow down time. While you shouldn't spam it, its still almost necessary for some parts like deflecting the helicopter bullets during the boss at the end of Mansion.

The medal you get for your full run is actually not dependant on time, rather the avarage of all the medals for each level. According to the wiki: a bronze medal is worth 1 point, silver is 2, gold 3 and platinum 4.

So if there's 11 levels and a gold medal is worth 3 points, that means you'll have to get a total of 33 points or higher! It's also worth mentioning that the secret boss doesn't seem to affect the score.

The medal you get for each level, is decided based on how fast you beat it. I'm not sure about the time requirements though. The wiki has a sheet of every time required for each medal for every level, but it didn't seem to be correct.

The platinum medal is a little different. To achieve the platinum medal, you'll need to beat the time for the gold medal without dying.

Since the maximum number of points you can get is 44 while the requirement is 33, there's a ton of wiggleroom and (somewhat) room for error which is almost necessary for the achievement. Abusing this wiggleroom is the key for the achievement (at least for me).

I'd recommend going for platinum on at least the first 4 levels + the levels you're good at. If you die and have to reset during Murdower Hotel you're not going to lose as much time as if you died on slaughterhouse for example.

The more platinum medals you recieve, the more mistakes you're allowed to make. You can think of it like every plat = one silver and two plat = one bronze.

Some levels can be extremely harsh with the time limit (especially Studio 51). Levels like that are ok to just be happy with a silver. Though I would recommend to never intentionally get a bronze.

I'd also recommend after the first few levels, to not reset even if you feel like you've lost a lot of time since some of the levels can be very lenient with the requirements (*cough* mansion). Its also just good to get better at the later levels.

Also please take some short breaks / breathers between runs.

*You can unlock alternate weapons by finding keys throughout the game and going to the 12th level 'Government Lab' where multiple locked cases reside where you can use said keys. You unlock the level by looting the psychiatrists body at the end of the game.

*Don't overuse the time slow ability, the timer still goes just as fast.

*Bind quick restart to a button to be able to restart quick, some rooms have better cycles after restarting and you can also save yourself by resetting right before being killed since restarting does not count as dying.

*In Club, you can breeze through the stealth section by jumping from crowd to crowd while in line-of-sight of an enemy, the goons are just that blind and cannot se you if you're 2 meters / ~7 feet in the air. You get a better cycle by restarting first.

*In Prison, stealth is not only optional, but detrimental if you're trying to get something better than bronze.

*In Studio 51 during the encounter of V, if you hurt him by attacking his back during his shooting attack 4 times, you'll end the level early which is a massive time save.

*In Mansion during the motorcycle section, When you see the autosave icon in the bottom right corner of the screen, you can quick restart to skip some long ambient sections. Keep in mind that this only applies fore some autosaves. Doing this can yield massive time saves.


*In Slaughter House, you can skip through most of the level. The rooms with the TV's, where leon appears normally locks you in when you enter however, the triggers are actually motion cameras in the ceiling, So if you dodge through them, the doors won't close which gives the biggest time saves in the entire run. As a bonus the sniper won't wake up to torment you either :). This is also how you get one of the keys.

*In Bunker Part 2 during the boss, you can skip most of the fight by attacking her during the laser attack from the ceiling.

The best way to get better is to play, so keep on pushing!