Well I did it today.
This image is proof I beat the pit before entering 2-3 as you get Slim during 2-3 even if you clip out of bounds to hit the star block and cannot leave 2-3 with the return pipe. However I actually cleared the pit literally as soon as I unlocked Boomer, before finishing 2-1.
This is definitely the most difficult SPM challenge I've ever pulled off, and it was certainly refreshing and fun. Oh, and a pretty nice coincidence I finished with exactly 256 coins (for those not in the know, it's a running gag in SPM and one of the few classic PM gags that actually got referenced in Sticker Star).
Edit: I think it's also pretty funny how if you were to clear the pit this early on on your first playthrough, the pit contains some fairly big spoilers:
This image is proof I beat the pit before entering 2-3 as you get Slim during 2-3 even if you clip out of bounds to hit the star block and cannot leave 2-3 with the return pipe. However I actually cleared the pit literally as soon as I unlocked Boomer, before finishing 2-1.
This is definitely the most difficult SPM challenge I've ever pulled off, and it was certainly refreshing and fun. Oh, and a pretty nice coincidence I finished with exactly 256 coins (for those not in the know, it's a running gag in SPM and one of the few classic PM gags that actually got referenced in Sticker Star).
Edit: I think it's also pretty funny how if you were to clear the pit this early on on your first playthrough, the pit contains some fairly big spoilers:
- Catch Cards of all mandatory Pixls not yet unlocked at that point in the game
- Tippi's card mentioned she used to be called Timpani and that Merlon made her a Pixl
- The backgrounds are the Pure Hearts' locations up to and including the one in Fort Francis
- Ninjoe tattle mentions Sammer Guys and King Sammer
- Skellobits tattle mentions The Underwhere and foreshadows that bad people go there after death
- Wracktail foreshadows the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials even though Flopside's existence isn't revealed yet as of Chapter 2
