I went back to play this game again and have discovered... it's a little bit too easy to win this, even on hard mode, by doing very little more than just holding the up and right button (there's one level where you go to the left too), and occasionally reacting to avoid pits or get out of puddles or maybe punch someone to get free. If you do minimal damage to anyone, it decides you're doing a "pacifist" run and it skips the snow leopard chase and the squid dog conflict, and it gave me the pacifist ending even though I did in fact punch something one time to get out of being attacked. The below screenshot is not the result of practice, of trying over and over to squeeze down a speedrun time to the minimum. This was the result of one single attempt at seeing how fast I could get through it, with no practice, and winning the whole thing in less than 6 minutes, I don't know, I wasn't intentionally going for a pacifist run, just a speedrun, but it ended up being a little too simple: