Ugly first split, but decent run overall, apart from Waffling About. The best thing is getting to run against splits that don't have a lucky dome code.
When I first played this years ago, I also finished it in 5:07...as in 5 months and 7 or so days, and by finished I mean I didn't finish it in that time.
HOW SWAY?! 🤣 As soon as the game started we went FLYIN’ through like crazy! I woulda have gotten hung up at the underwater tram and of course the fire marble puzzle. It’s interesting to think about how you never had to touch Survey Island at all if you already knew where the marbles go, all the color symbols, and what the Whark and Fish symbols are all about. 🤔 AMAZING!🙌🏾🔥🔥
I use to play this on ps1 as a kid. And since it had 5 disks I would try swapping out disks at random times. Can't remember which but I would ride a specific monorail and when the ride started I would swap out whatever disk it was for the 5th and it would shift around a few cutscenes and then play the bad ending by always freeze halfway through. Not sure anyone would ever care but it's always fascinated me and I've never seen anyone else talking about it.
I just finished watching the first play playthrough (not a speedrun) of someone here on youtube, and his code was: 1, 2, 10, 11, 16 That'd be a nice code for a speedrun, he only had to move 3 of the 5 thingies, and even then the 3rd one is just a quick bump against the "11"
You can't, because Cho steals it at the beginning of the game. The earliest possible ending depends on how you want to interpret "early": * It is possible to brute force the star fissure at the beginning of the game (and get a weird ending where nobody shows up, not even Atrus), but this requires trying (on average) over 1,500 combinations. If you got lucky and guessed it first try (1 in 3125 chance), you could probably end the game in under a minute (you'd still have to restore power to the telescope, and the "lowering" transitions are unskippable, so I'm doubtful you can go too far below a minute). In practice, the easiest way to get this ending is to get Catherine's journal, then reload a save from the beginning of the game, but that's slower than the next bullet (and speedruns often disallow reloading saves anyway). * If we rule guessing out (it's actually a banned strategy on the speedrun leaderboard, because it would make any% too boring to run), then the next earliest ending is in Tay, when you get the prison book back (and immediately trap yourself). This is completely deterministic, and does not even require looking at any clues because the Tay puzzle has a fixed solution. All you have to do is close the gallows and extend the submarine ladder. * However, the speedrun leaderboard specifies any% as any ending in which the star fissure is opened. The first option is invalid because it requires either guessing or reloading a save, and the second is invalid because it does not open the fissure. So that leaves us with the usual "bad" ending, where you reopen the fissure as soon as you return to Riven from Tay.
In the Riven remake you can actually trap yourself in the trap book in D'ni before entering Riven so the Any% time for that game is probably faster than the original if trap book endings are allowed. But most of the animations aren't skippable and running speed is much slower than this super fast click warp speed so any other ending times are probably much slower in the remake unless special glitches are discovered.
