Speedruns

layten · March 12

Summoning Salt has a new video. Super Mario Bros 3

tl;dw Mitch Flower Power has whichever record you care to think of.

thesnwmn · March 13

A good watch.

The addition of the interviews is a nice touch to break up what I feel is starting to feel a bit too well worn as a formula for his videos. There just aren't that many times you can see this stuff played up over different videos. And in a 1.5 hour one you can't really make the stalls in progress exciting repeatedly. Will someone beat it? Of course, there's still an hour to go.

The biggest problem here is really that there's no real evolution. These long and very hard speedruns are full of very minor mistakes that can be improved. Whilst new strategies and tricks do appear most of the gains come from being consistent.

There is an exciting angle here. World 8 gatekeeping certain barriers with pressure/stress but it's lost in the backend.

I'd like to see him find some tweaks to the formula to keep the viewer guessing a bit more.

Timmo · March 13

11 hours ago, thesnwmn said:

And in a 1.5 hour one you can't really make the stalls in progress exciting repeatedly. Will someone beat it? Of course, there's still an hour to go.

Reminds me of this comment on Reddit which made me properly laugh