(long comment incoming so to avoid burying the lede i will say upfront: extremely cool and fun run to watch, got me way more interested in speedruns of this game) pseudoregalia was one of my favorite games i played this year, and i had a blast spending hours and several savefiles looking for sequence breaks and skips and just-barely-doable jumps. (in particular, skipping slide and seeing how much i could do with just ascendant light, heliacal power, and sunsetter was a really fun challenge) naturally it seemed like people would probably find some crazy stuff for low%, so tonight while i couldn't sleep i decided to go check out what people's routing looked like. of course i quickly learned slide jump exists, and was kind of dismayed to find it's such a dominant strategy that it negates the need for most abilities in the game, and low% is just "no indignation%". it was especially sad not seeing kicks appear in any% or low%, because they're my favorite mechanic in the game with how versatile and nuanced they are but then i checked out this run, and immediately my interest lit back up. seeing slide jumps integrated fluidly with all the other tech and abilities, all the slick little uses of kicks and ground pound cancels and chaining moves together to dance through every room is just so cool to watch. i've never been much for speedrunning despite flirting with the idea periodically, but this is the kind of thing that really makes me want to give it a try p.s. that goddam MLG snipe on the switch in sansa keep was the sickest thing ever, i popped off
(long comment incoming so to avoid burying the lede i will say upfront: extremely cool and fun run to watch, got me way more interested in speedruns of this game)
pseudoregalia was one of my favorite games i played this year, and i had a blast spending hours and several savefiles looking for sequence breaks and skips and just-barely-doable jumps. (in particular, skipping slide and seeing how much i could do with just ascendant light, heliacal power, and sunsetter was a really fun challenge)
naturally it seemed like people would probably find some crazy stuff for low%, so tonight while i couldn't sleep i decided to go check out what people's routing looked like. of course i quickly learned slide jump exists, and was kind of dismayed to find it's such a dominant strategy that it negates the need for most abilities in the game, and low% is just "no indignation%". it was especially sad not seeing kicks appear in any% or low%, because they're my favorite mechanic in the game with how versatile and nuanced they are
but then i checked out this run, and immediately my interest lit back up. seeing slide jumps integrated fluidly with all the other tech and abilities, all the slick little uses of kicks and ground pound cancels and chaining moves together to dance through every room is just so cool to watch. i've never been much for speedrunning despite flirting with the idea periodically, but this is the kind of thing that really makes me want to give it a try
p.s. that goddam MLG snipe on the switch in sansa keep was the sickest thing ever, i popped off
9:07 holy shit
Pretty fukin' sick, yo!
I don't understand how you can cancel the slides so fast into jumps, ultrahops and other slides, my game doesn't let me ;;
you need a power up to do that but you can do it without and i have no idea how that works
That's called Slide Chaining / Glinding, into Backflip for the ultrahops, there's a very good tutorial for movement tech by
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