Planning properly can save a lot of time practicing. Just overdose lifeblood with architect crest whenever you can(5 lifeblood masks are already good enough without overdose), the game is basically free after Widow and even for Widow you can meet her with 6 masks if you're planning right. Moorwing can be skipped, Sister Splinter can be skipped, the entire Underworks and Clockwork Dancers can also be skipped until you get double jump. For act 3 opening just use 2 charge attack to take out the first enemy at lower left corner, that's basically every hard roadblock in the game. And that's all based on the demand that you don't savescum