The History Of MediEvil Speedruns 

If anyone would like to get into Speedrunning MediEvil, here is a link to the discord server - discord.gg/3Hnd2VcPvd

Pap set out to make the most proper video on this topic that he could. He took the time to come to the runners of this game, to ask every question, to learn every intricacy and detail of MediEvil's speedrun - all to make sure that he got this video right. I have high standards, and I can say with certainty that everything this man says and explains about this game is 100% accurate - and presented properly. The effort that he put into this video is immense, and I respect him for that. Enjoy!

Man i cringe and laugh so hard at my old stream layout, and my english skills lol. Great video man ! The time & work you must have put to make this must be insane ! Can't wait to see more

Man this video was a trip. This was extremely thoroughly researched, your narration is top tier and the explainations for the skips were clear and easy to understand. Big props to the MediEvil community for pushing this PS1 gem.

NoobKillerRoof here - If you liked the remix of The Graveyard in this video, then you ought to know that I am also remixing the soundtracks of other classic games - including Croc, Ratchet & Clank, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic Advance, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, and many more!

I never understood why Daniel was considered a coward. From what we see he's courageously charging at the front of the army, exposing himself to the most danger. It's not his fault that he got super unlucky and an arrow slipped past his helmet's slit.

Great video mate. Easily one of the best speedrun documentary videos I have seen. Despite having no prior knowldege of MediEvil or its speedrun, I didn't feel lost and was engaged throughout which is no small feat to achieve. I hope the video gets the attention it deserves.

I was not remotely expecting this game to be so insanely precise

Majestic work on the research and on the attention to details. you could not have honored in a better way one of the best PS1 game with one of the most underrated speedruns ever. Thanks Pap, honored to be part of it

I feel old af now! Almost ten years since seeing my first run of this game. You made me remember so many moments of this game's history, it's crazy. Well done, edit was on point, amount of information perfect and well explained. A huge thanks for your work, from a big fan of this game and this speedrun.

Thank you sir for your hard work, research, and dedication through out the creation process. You did Fortesque good.

Fantastic! The full breakdown at the start to explain what's required to finish the game really helps set the pace for the rest of the vid. Love Medievil, exciting stuff!

Medievil is such an underrated game, that ps1 demo was absolutely legendary, such an awesome game!

So proud and honoured to be part of this

Considering this is one of my childhood games, it's surprising that I never even considered the speedrunning aspect of it. And what a story that was! It's great that the remaster's release brought some more attention to the original version and I guess much like Sir Fortesque himself, the speedrunning scene saw an unexpected revival! Thanks for the very informative video, it was a blast to learn all of that history!

Not gonna lie, the first half of the video felt more like "The Quest to beat NoobKiller" but when his 7 year record was taken after new tech was discovered I was eagerly waiting for him to come back and decimate the record. Good video and great narration 👍

Not going to lie, I'm a little high on painkillers from a dislocated shoulder and when I first read the thumbnail , I thought to myself "I didn't know they tracked world records that far back"

I am not kidding. For whatever reason the game freaked me out so much during my childhood, that I was never ever able to walk through dark hallways in my mom's house normally again for YEARS. I was always sprinting to the next light source during the night.

This is an absolute masterpiece- thank you. Your storytelling, editing, data-gathering, articulate explanations made this the best video I've seen of its kind. I sincerely look forward to seeing more!

I never wanted this video to end. It was quite a ride. OUTSTANDING work!

With love from the MediEvil community ♥

For anyone wondering what Nazz said at the end of the crazy Zarok split run at 1:31:23 : "My legs just melted, I've got butter knees" It is a pretty surreal experience to watch a "speedrun history" video talking about people I've actually met for once. Thank you for the amazing work you put on this, keep it up, man!

100% was not Sir dans fault he died immediately, as shown by the events of the games he was actually an absolute boss. He was just EXTREMELY unlucky

Here from dark viper

Scrolling through my recommended videos and what should I find, if not a comprehensive history on the speedrun of one of my favorite childhood games. The MediEvil TAS done by Torn was the one that introduced me to TAS and speedrunning in general, and remains one of my favorites to this day, even if it's been long since obsoleted. Amazing job on the video, definitely subscribing!

groobo, what an absolute lad and chad. a pioneer. someone with extremely niche but impressive knowledge given an opportunity to shine is something you just love to see.

For some obscures reasons, RU-vid recommanded me your Spyro 2 Speedrun history (I don't watch that many Spyro videos to begin with) but it was entertaining nonetheless. And I saw THIS video in your channel, I was like "Ooooh boy, one of my favorites games get a Speedrun history as well ? Better watch it, it can't be THAT hard to speedrun Medievil right ?" After seeing this whole video, mad props and kudos to each of theses speedrunners for improving the WR despite all the hard tricks everywhere.

This was the first game i personally played and have memories of. This actually is super amazing to see it explained in a speedrun! 21+ years ago I couldn't believe how cool this game is!

I'm rewatching this video a second time. Your story telling and editing make this video very fun and entertaining to watch!

Ah yes, the single best Playstation franchise ever made. God I wish they would make a new entry, the psp remake of 1 was the best psp title hands down.

Won't lie I almost skipped this video but curiosity led me to watch it, mostly because this game was a childhood game I played a LOT and hilariously enough I discovered it and wanted to play it form those demo discs that used to get shipped out way back in the 90's/2000's. And it was surreal to see this game be so breakable and quick to beat, absolutely insane what these guys did to lower the record so much and just crazy to see how much lower the time can still go, but its what makes speedruns so much fun to watch, the fact that they can almost always go lower. Thank you for a good video and a trip back through time for me, now I gotta go dust off my own copy I still own of the game and play it all over again c:

I've completed this game at least 20 times since it came out. However, I've never attempted a speedrun myself. What I do at least once per month, though, is search on RU-vid for any new speedruns of the game that have been posted. I've watched every single speedrun shown in this video. Massive thanks to everyone involved in the speedrunning community, and a special thanks to you Pap for gathering every bit of information on this topic and keeping the legacy of this game alive.

Genuinely fantastic video, great work!

I don't normally comment on "random videos" (someone I am not normally subscribed to). Very solid video - I enjoy watching the histories of speedruns and learning on how games are made and how they can be broken. I look forward to watching your "The History of Spyro 2 Speedruns". Keep it up!

As someone who found your channel through your punch-out content, I think my favourite thing about this (fantastic) video is your introducing each of the players. When you hype it up and create suspense, oh who could this person be they sound so awesome, and I'm so used to hearing names like "Mike Tyson" and "Don Flamenco", and then its NoobKillerRoof. Makes me laugh every time.

I really enjoyed watching this, thank you for putting it together.

Simply amazing video through and through. You rekindled me with this game. I need to replay through it.. well I should say play as I never got passed the asylum as a kid.

It took me a while to watch the final version and, oh man, this is great! Thank you for the hard work and your skill to portrait this game's crazy run evolution! Also, proud to be part of this, even tho in a marginal part.

The fact that each level has exact copies lurking beneath actually adds to the creepiness factor of this game, for me. One of my all-time favourites :)

I've always loved the MediEvil series, even pre-ordered the remake as I knew that they can't mess it up, it's genuinely one of my favourite video games series, glad that Matto mentioned this video in one of his new rambles

NoobKiller being so dominant in what he does, is scarily accurate with his name.

11:27 The "inventery" menu??? LOL All jokes aside, I really enjoyed this game growing up. I highly recommend getting the PS4 remastered version, which can also run on the PS5!

Love the storytelling with NoobKillerRoof as this unbeatable godmode player that all the runners respect.

i loved this game a kid. no one ever knew what i was talking about when i brought it up in the school yard. glad to see it has following these days, it most definitely deserves it.

One of the most creative and fresh games of the era. Great video! Thanks for making it!

Really excited for new vid. The detail you go into is fantastic.

Feature length documentary about one of my favourite games growing up? Hell yeah! How recent some of these discoveries are is amazing. This is such an underrated title and I wish more attention was brought to it.

I've been a huge fan of medievil since I was a kid and I had no idea there was even a speedrunning scene this video is gonna be a joy to watch

Oh man, this was like a telltale from childhood, with a game i still love to date, then the community, the progress and improvement in runs, and all this massive skill condensed in a single video. Love everything about this, perfect video.

I´m still fascinated with speedrunners. To hell with magicians and illusionists - speedrunners can force me to yell "HOW?!" even now!

Awesome video! It is a bit curious to me that that community accepts the soldier despawn glitch, given it only really works on LESS accurate emulators (without doing the crazy stuff you mentioned at the end that don't sound viable). I guess every community has different standards about that sort of thing, but it sounds funny in a vacuum to say "oh, you can lower your world record times by seeking out the equivalent of a knock-off Chinese Playstation that doesn't run the game quite right" :D

Damn man just gotta say you're making some awesome vids lately like the deeper dives on MTPO and now stuff like this. Really hope to see more of the speedrun history type videos, always so cool to hear about the stories that can be lost when you're just looking at records on leaderboards.

The best video of a game's speedrun history I've ever seen, everything from the pacing to the explanations of the tricks to the storyline was impeccable. Thank you!

That, was, amazing! Thank you for putting this together, highly entertaining!

Almost two hours of speedrun history for a kind of obscure game I played as a kid. This is the content I crave.

HUGE work done, huge respect dude

Looks like I'm getting some popcorn

This was outstandingly well put together. With so many different challenges and skips it's a true test of ingenuity, it must have been a challenge to gather all of the relevant information. Thank you for putting the effort into making this, it was a pleasure to watch!

Absolutely stellar work on this video. Having followed Nazz and NKR for some time now, I still managed to learn so much about the history of the speedrun and its tricks. Top tier production!

It must have been an insane amount of work to puzzle all this together. Super fun to watch - thank you!

this is absolutely incredible!! very well explained and quite easy to understand and follow for someone who has never even heard of the game!! the editing was just topnotch too! had my eyes glued to the screen!! amazing work!!!

one of the best video on medievil ever made, interesting from start to finish, good job mate. cheers from italy

Finally 100% this game in 2022. Remember renting it all the time as a kid in the 90s and it was too scary/difficult to get past the enchanted forest part.

S-Tier speedrunning doc my friend I thoroughly enjoyed it and looking forward to more of your work! Crazy work by these madmen!

I learned more about this game in the first minute of this video than any other video for the past 15-20 years, thank you

Wow. This is one of the best WR speedrun history videos I’ve ever seen. I got the same feeling from this one that I did when watching my first SummoningSalt video. Great job!

Medievil really is a masterpeace. Not just for the story, humor and soundtrack. This made me realise how well everything works.

I'm so glad someone finally made a video about these speedruns! Definitely one of my favourite games 👏

I _loved_ this speedrun documentary, you're definitely on par with Summoning Salt with your thoroughness and clear explanations of the tricks and the history. I only had one of the PS1 demo discs so I only ever got to play the Graveyard, but it was one of my favorite games on there, along with Brave Fencer Musashi and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. There was just something so... magical and gloomy about it that I didn't get to see again until the N64 version of Rayman 2. I always love to watch speedruns for it when it comes up in marathons, so I knew some of the tricks, but you explain them really well. Definitely earned a sub, looking forward to seeing what else you've got planned!

These speedrun stories are some of the absolute best i-would-have-never-thought-this-is-interesting-enough-to-spend-an-hour-and-a-half-watching-a-video-about-but-here-we-are videos

Your Mike Tyson single level videos are incredible. This one blows all of those out of the water.

Each day watching it all over again Fun fact Previous to MediEvil, Chris worked on another game series, James Pond 3 (obvious reference to James Bond). Out of randomness, the writer they brought along to polish the story details for Sir Dan (as initially he was just a skeleton in a hack and slash game, little to no reason why) is casually named Martin Pond, and he came up with the idea of a redemption story, to clear his name of any history retcons made by the Peregrine King

I really enjoyed this! Thank you for putting so much time and production into making this

Me, who has never played Medievil in his life: "Yeah, sure, I'll be the next world record holder" 😂

As an "adult" with no time to play and 8 hours to survive at work, thanks for this content. Always appreciated.

This is one of my all time fav games, I didn't know people speed ran this. Great video man, thanks for the info! Subbed.

WOW what a ride! Such a great and entertaining video. Thank you very much for this well produced and informative masterpiece!! And also a massive thank you and respect to the community. MediEvil is a childhood game and it takes a special place in my heart and memories. So lovely to see, what it still brings today!

Honestly best video I’ve seen in so long! Honestly it would be cool if you can do a history video on Medievil 2 and the first one as well and talk about the stories and cool stuff behind the scenes because you’re honestly so great in explaining honestly

This is the best speedrun explanation ever please make more of this kind It was never boring even if it was a hours long, no it was almost 2 hours i was soo hooked that it felt like it was a 30 minute video good job m man

Amazing video, after that I watched your Spyro video too, two excellent videos, well researched and written, congrats! I've never player MediEvil, but after watching the history of speedrunning I got interested in the game. I hope you make more videos like this.

Bro amazing video and finally something that breaks from the monotony of all those Mario and Zelda speedruns, well done and hope to see more of your work

1 hour and 47 minutes?! Let's fucking gooooo

Wow such a long and full in-depth analysis of Medievil speedruns! Your effort and work is undeniable, the amount of time spent on this is immense. Please do more like this on other PS1 titles!

I really slept on this game it seems! Great video.

You did an excellent job with this Pap, thanks for the entertainment!

perfect timing, was just lookin for something to watch

this is so interesting, i've been incorporating a couple of these into my own playthrough

Since it's release I have rewatched this video 8 times all the way through. I don't often leave comments but this video is absolutely awesome and super rewatchable. Well done Pap.

These video's must take a hell of a lot of time to produce but they are _incredibly_ enjoyable. Thank you very much for your efforts Pap!

Man! I played OG medievil back in the day and I immediately fell in love with it. I was completely unaware of its fanbase. Idk why but I feel so welcomed here.

Hey Pap, I watched this over the course of a couple days and I want you to know that It was not only great at scratching my nostalgia itch for a game I played loads as a kid, but was also extremely educational! I look forward to more!

Crazy stuff, glad this gem is still being played, awesome video.

Never done this before, but comment for the algorithm. This video deserves it.

man im a sucker for long form world record history videos on games i have never played and will never speedrun

Research, editing and thoroughness. I can easily see your channel becoming extremely popular among other speed running historians!

One of my favourites ever! Great video! Cheers from México.

Of course this game is perfect for speed-running, It's in the lore of the game itself. Dan was the first to die from the first arrow fired, He speed-ran "Fighting Zarok's army Death%"

Great Video! I love all Medievil content so this is an awsome suprise 2 hours long!!

Each day watching it all over again Fun fact During development, the team even went to several graveyards to rake ohotos for the art department. It is said that a priest that guarded the resting lands impeded them grom desecrating the yard with their photos, but the team managed to persuade him by portraying their work as a documentary instead

I love your videos last week I was having a panic attack I don't know why but I needed a video to help relax me and I decided to watch this video due to my love for speed running and medievil and I was not disappointed with your videos they are very calming and enjoyable Thank you for your hard work and effort