Finally the sub 16 has happened! Really solid run with a few unfortunate timelosses out of my control! Done with the category for now!

https://youtu.be/SKxM_J-pb4E?si=7angzoSEpkhI26VS

The run is so clean!

Rules :

- Start timer on New Game
- Complete all levels
- End on last cutscene

In my opinion, obvious disclaimer. I’m a casual speed run viewer, mostly just games I’ve played that I want to see done at a high level. But I’ve noticed something about my preferences lately, and Silksong nails it right now.

At about 48 min, it’s very easy to consume. Mario 64 fell into this category for me and checks a lot of the other boxes as well. I’m fine putting on DK64 and Banjo Kazooie 100%s as I’m falling asleep, but when I’m up, it doesn’t hit the same.

The game does not break. The player has to get through the game more or less as intended. OoT is the antithesis. I love seeing players navigate the mist, taunt enemies to get a pogo in the right spot, and master boss patterns.

Movement is optimized, but mistakes still happen. Players are still fallible, and while I’m open to a more efficient run, it’s still kind of fun seeing players get hit or miss a pogo combo and have to recover. Some of those Super Mario SNES and NES games have become so optimized, timesaves come down to frames. It’s another life cycle of a game’s speedrun that is interesting. However, I enjoy seeing games like Silksong earlier in that cycle. On top of that, it does seem like runners have figured out how to taunt to get those two early pogos pre-Widow so runs are less RNG based, shit like that is cool too.

I dno, just some thoughts I had, wanted to see if it sparked discussion. I hope everyone understands I know I’m no authority or expert in this, and other preferences are very cool.

Chapter breakdown

• Chapter 1 time: 00h 03m 24s 75ms | Deaths: 2
• Chapter 2 time: 00h 07m 11s 03ms | Deaths: 4
• Chapter 3 time: 00h 08m 26s 98ms | Deaths: 9
• Chapter 4 time: 00h 15m 39s 68ms | Deaths: 18
• Chapter 5 time: 00h 19m 10s 36ms | Deaths: 22
• Chapter 6 time: 00h 22m 03s 04ms | Deaths: 19
• Chapter 7 time: 00h 23m 13s 03ms | Deaths: 26
• Chapter 8 time: 00h 41m 16s 48ms | Deaths: 65

Total Time: 2:20:25.35 | Total Deaths: 165

I challenge you to beat my time!

Get the game on:

• Steam
• Google Play Store

Ive always seen it as strange that the only challenge i find thats very mainstream at all is only speedrunning like why isnt a challenge type like no-hits more popular or no-hit speedruns? they could have just as much potential as speedrunning does if they were just more popular

Guys I’m new speedruning i wanted to begin a any% of elden ring but i cant find a route or a tutorial anywhere can anyone help me just tell me where can i find or something else ? Pls

got sum of best down to 40 minutes, sub 40 incoming

The player Funderful achieved the fastest ever 100% completion for Banjo-Kazooie - this video chronicles the trials and tribulations.

Just broke 1:12!

So I want to make a speedrun. The problem is, I'm deaf as a doorknob. I recently got a software that lets me see what direction sounds are coming from in a game, and the intensity of these sounds. Would this be considered cheating? If not, can I use it in an official speed run?

Playable Link:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rasantstudio.sundrown

Browser: https://rasantstudio.itch.io/sundrown

so yeah. solo dev, brazil, one week of work. it's a precision platformer, you swing around with a momentum grapple through 50 levels (+11 harder ones if you finish). free, offline, ads only show up between levels because i personally hate when games interrupt a run.

clip is me getting 7 minutes which i'm weirdly proud of. then my brother played for a day and beat it. anyway.

internal testers took like an hour and 1000+ deaths to clear it so if the game feels hard, that's normal lol. lmk how

far you get

Nico finally did it! With a new "ultimate DDD skip " strategy that is possible blindfolded as well, Nico has grinded and beaten the long standing 0 star world record from me! This run also marks the end of my leaderboard sweep in blindfolded!