Why does EVERYONE in speedrunning OBSESS over the first level like it's the holy grail of gameplay?? It's like, "oh, it's the first level, guess I should spend 100 hours shaving off 0.1 seconds!" Newsflash: JUST BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST LEVEL DOESN'T MEAN IT'S AUTOMATICALLY FUN TO GRIND! People act like optimizing the first level is some kind of rite of passage when in reality it's just repetitive as hell. The rest of the game? Yeah, let's just forget that exists because everyone wants to be a world record holder in Level 1, right? You could be mastering complex skips or perfecting your boss fights, but nope, let’s spend days mastering every pixel of the first 30 seconds of the run. WHAT'S NEXT? SPEEDRUNNING THE TITLE SCREEN?? COME ON, GIVE ME A BREAK. PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE TUTORIAL.
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Why does EVERYONE in speedrunning OBSESS over the first level like it's the holy grail of gameplay?? It's like, "oh, it's the first level, guess I should spend 100 hours shaving off 0.1 seconds!" Newsflash: JUST BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST LEVEL DOESN'T MEAN IT'S AUTOMATICALLY FUN TO GRIND! People act like optimizing the first level is some kind of rite of passage when in reality it's just repetitive as hell. The rest of the game? Yeah, let's just forget that exists because everyone wants to be a world record holder in Level 1, right? You could be mastering complex skips or perfecting your boss fights, but nope, let’s spend days mastering every pixel of the first 30 seconds of the run. WHAT'S NEXT? SPEEDRUNNING THE TITLE SCREEN?? COME ON, GIVE ME A BREAK. PLAY THE GAME, NOT THE TUTORIAL.
Because it's faster