I Beat EVERY SRB2 World Record (As Knuckles)

Yep, all of them.
Hi everyone, it's been a while, I know I haven't uploaded in a while, and I haven't touched SRB2 in about 8 months, but I'm finally back to show you what I've been working on! And today, I get to show you what is quite possibly my biggest speedrunning project to date! However, I do think we should talk about that a bit.
So, this all started just over a month ago, when another player named Astronight did exactly what I've done here today, beat every SRB2 world record with Knuckles, it was, quite a shock to say the least. It was a very impressive feat, and all the records were dropped at once, so it was very surprising to me to suddenly see all the records taken by one person. Seeing all these records however, did start to make a certain desire well up in me, but at the time my objective was simple, take back my GF1 record which had been beaten by 1 frame, which I quickly did, and I thought that would be all, but a couple days later I decided I wanted to take another record, Techno Legacy this time, which again I did, and I thought that surely that would be the end of it from me, but then I realised something, I wanted ALL of the records, every last one of them. I wanted to perform an amazing feat like Astro had done. Now, I knew that I already had most of the records with Amy and Fang, and while it still would've taken some time due to a couple hard stages cough Aerial Garden and Azure Temple cough I could've gotten a full record sweep with one or both characters, but that wasn't really what I wanted, sure that would've indeed a full record sweep exactly this Knuckles one, but it would've been too easy, given I already had almost all the records I needed, I wanted to prove to myself that I could spend weeks of my time, grinding runs daily towards an ultimate goal, I NEEDED to prove that I could do it, so I decided to get started.
So I decided to take every record with Knuckles, including the bossfights, which Astro had not done, and I decided I would take at least 1 world record each day, which I mostly stuck to, while I did have some days where I couldn't take a record, I had a few where I took more than 1 record so it evened out by the end, so I ended up taking just under 30 records in the span of exactly 1 month. However, it wasn't easy for me, and I'm not talking about the amount of hours I put in. See, this project, it was not great for my mental health, it was pretty bad actually. I'm not the best at keeping a positive attitude when speedrunning, I get disappointed in myself very easily when I see myself failing good attempts to dumb things, or just generally taking a longer time to beat a record than I think I should, and that happened a LOT throughout this project, so there were a lot of times this past month where I would be frustrated with myself, or just plain unhappy, and what's more, this came at the cost of more than just my mental health, my productivity throughout this month absolutely fell off a cliff, I was spending many hours each day doing these runs, and when I was finished I just couldn't get myself to do a lot of the things in life that were actually important, you could honestly say I did nothing but play this game for a month and you would basically be right, and while I can't say I regret doing this project exactly, I know that my own well being should've come first, and I don't wanna make that mistake ever again. So, for anyone wondering if I will do the fullgame run, I probably won't anytime soon, sorry.
I know this has been a long read but I wanted to get across how I've been feeling this past month, and how I managed to let this obsession of mine consume me, I'm not sure if anyone reading this can relate to what I went through while working on this, but if you do, just remember to take care of yourself okay? Love yourself 💜
Speedrun leaderboards: www.speedrun.com/srb2/levels
TIMESTAMPS BELOW:
0:00 Greenflower Zone 1 (15.68)
0:20 Greenflower Zone 2 (23.28)
0:48 Greenflower Zone 3 (11.65)
1:04 Techno Hill Zone 1 (44.28)
1:54 Techno Hill Zone 2 (57.68)
2:56 Techno Hill Zone 3 (12.88)
3:14 Deep Sea Zone 1 (32.17)
3:51 Deep Sea Zone 2 (1:27.88)
5:23 Deep Sea Zone 3 (18.57)
5:47 Castle Eggman Zone 1 (1:05.71)
6:57 Castle Eggman Zone 2 (1:03.22)
8:05 Castle Eggman Zone 3 (40.17)
8:50 Arid Canyon Zone 1 (38.00)
9:33 Arid Canyon Zone 2 (1:26.51)
11:04 Arid Canyon Zone 3 (20.57)
11:29 Red Volcano Zone 1 (1:19.20)
12:53 Egg Rock Zone 1 (1:03:17)
14:01 Egg Rock Zone 2 (1:54:57)
16:01 Black Core Zone 1 (43.97)
16:49 Black Core Zone 2 (54.82)
17:49 Black Core Zone 3 (45.97)
18:40 Frozen Hillside Zone (27.48)
19:12 Pipe Towers Zone (57.85)
20:15 Forest Fortress Zone (1:01.88)
21:21 Techno Legacy Zone (28.20)
21:54 Haunted Heights Zone (1:11.54)
23:10 Aerial Garden Zone (1:54:45)
25:10 Azure Temple Zone (1:47.74)

[@chromplex]

I'd always believed that Knuckles in SRB2 had crazy speed potential- and now, after almost ten years of playing this game, I see that idea at its peak. Congrats.

[@EmilySailor]

Thank you! Knuckles has some shortcomings but with the right routing he can go really fast, so I hope I did a good job showcasing what Knuckles is capable of

[@Yorigami32X]

"glide and climb" my ass this mf fly as hell

[@astro-]

LETS FUCKING GO I WAS SECRETLY HOPING THAT THIS HAPPENED

[@nailaveliz2350]

Tutorial how to speed ran with knuckles
Step 1: find a enemy
Step 2: get super speed boots
Step 3 Bounce on the enemy
Step 4: get to the end

[@xxhiroyukixx4833]

And with Coop Emblems now possible, an 100% speedrun could be done with just Knuckles, Tails, and Amy. Knuckles focusing on clearing stages and Tails and Amy focusing on nabbing Emeralds.

[@GHNeko]

There is a level of precision you have. Like when landing on ledges, rails, guard rails, edges, etc. Just a extraodinary amount of instances I can catch with my eye where if you were off a little, it'd give you severe time losses due to clipping or dropping to the floor.
It was so excrutiatingly visible that it took away focus from the run itself because it was mesmerizing to see how close you cut it on for minor time saves and opportunities (as well as strats that only work from landing in similar spots)
I havnt finished the video and I can tell that these are ILs, but your level of precision was so pristine I had to ask myself a few times was this a TAS, then a little while later I see some movement that can only be read as human movement lol.
Thanks for your work that you put into these performances. It's so far been a pleasure to watch and I cant wait to finish the rest (after sharing this video with my niggas)
If you see this, be sure to know I was immediately impressed. I havnt seen many Knuckles runs but despite that I could tell that you really like being good with this character lol.
Good shit homie.
EDIT: man the way you use certain slopes too is super fun to watch you're so good at this wtf
EDIT2: the fucking glide into landing skid to get into a spindash position faster than brake omg im losing my mind there is so many cool things to spot even as a casual player hahaha
EDIT3: the smt 4 boss for brak Kreygasm

[@user-ft3nm2to8f]

he really was rougher than the rest of them.

[@Bassicaly69]

jesus save some women for the rest of us 💀

[@EmilySailor]

dw I've already acquired a boyfriend by playing this game so the women are all yours :P

[@Orange_Swirl]

​@@EmilySailorDamn, what a lucky guy he is!

[@mamadourodepokemons6226]

Man this is beautiful, im looking foward to seeing your future content❤

[@kimberlywilber7723]

1:25-1:27 God-tier movement with the glide stop animation cancels! Wow. One of those details I almost didn’t notice

[@SonicChief]

WOW THAT'S SO IMPRESSIVE HOLY COW

[@ohmygodmateitbearinnitkid9251]

this game's speedrunners scare me, the combination of the batshit crazy routes and extreme mastery of the game's movement system is incredible

[@justsans.]

Unlike Sonic he don’t chuckle.

[@Groovysmoothies5]

Underrated as hell considering all the work you clearly put in to get this good. Also what was the song you used in black core 2?

[@EmilySailor]

Thank you so much!
Also, this is the song: th-cam.com/video/NqEkFnSh98M/w-d-xo.html

[@dextertheio2857]

hes just built like that

[@ShioSatou]

Persona 1 battle theme spotted, great taste

[@thehoonshack]

goat

[@RalphTresvant-1]

What is that song name in greenflower zone 1?

[@Linzmaus]

Music for ACZ1?

[@ICANTFINDNAMELOL]

Sonic robo blast 2 & knuckles

[@ova_knux_98]

Give me a list of music in this video please, this music is super

[@Gerahdont]

How do you make the sounds appear in the corner of the screen?

[@Virtual_rand]

closed captioning in sounds options

[@Bellitchi]

Hey what’s the song you used for Egg Rock Zone 2 ✨

[@EmilySailor]

th-cam.com/video/ciwm-9cpeOU/w-d-xo.html

[@BCannonThaMc]

im jealous. i run into walls and stuff...lmaoo

[@someone.8878]

imagine a knux tas

[@GaMe_OvEr85]

Nice record but u need to learn more bc there some one beat the game and zone have finish under 25sec some one beat game and got all emeralds 7 and he got 18min and he beat game (but with sonic)

[@RandomTomatoMusic]

You broke ACZ1 in half wtf

[@felixtv1717]

First.