Why not? That’s because another, more nuanced barrier exists: mastering the mental game of speedrunning. However, once players learn these tricks and the movement of a game, they don’t immediately shoot to the top of the leaderboard. It is evident that these maneuvers require practice and such practice, as well as learning the route involved to speedrun a game, will take time and present a barrier to new players. Tricks such as these involve precision and practice, and many such tricks, inputs, or movements are often necessary in order to speedrun a game. Another example in Super Mario 64 is called the ‘BLJ,’ or ‘backwards long jump’, which involves using many long jumps repeatedly to gain speed and shoot through walls to different areas of a map.
This particular speedrun involves tough tricks such as the use of bombs to make Link hover in midair and reach certain areas: ‘bomb hovering’ involves using bombchus (while another glitch called the ‘infinite sword glitch’ is active) and backflipping, along with other inputs, repeatedly to make Link hover. the pathway taken to complete the game) of the game together, with the temple portions falling into place. MajinPhil notes he spent a while learning the 100% Majora’s Mask speedrun in chunks: first optimizing the main temples within the game, and then putting the route (i.e. These impressions are correct, to an extent.
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You can check out our full interview below.Īt first glance, the fast movement and frame-perfect tricks within speedrunning seem like the major barrier to becoming a good speedrunner. His opinions and insights into speedrunning were vital to the formulation of this article. MajinPhil is a Twitch streamer and speedrunner of Majora’s Mask (100% and any%), and he generously made himself available for an interview with us. Note the timestamps on the left where we keeps track of his time throughout segments of his speedrun.
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