This is what an any% speedrun should look like. Bizarre glitches everywhere with unexpected comedy during cutscenes and a huge chunk of the game missing entirely. Would love to see this explained.
Hey, I've run the game at ESA Summer 2023, even though it was a different category. Almost everything you can find in the Any% category has been explained during that showcase, and even more. At the moment you can find the vod only on ESA's Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/videos/1884649536
I remember as a kid going to my older cousins house to swim in their families pool. Afterwards i would watch him play this on his ps1. He never let me play lol. Good memory. One of the few i have.
One of my favorite childhood videogames. Even with the Prima official guide, it would take me weeks to finish it (mainly because my dad kept kicking me off to "play" tomb raider lol The entire time watching i was saying "oh that's bullshit, that is pure dag-nasty bullshit" in a very admiring tone
Thank you, even though this game's glitched runs are more about knowledge than pure execution, so skill isn't as relevant as in other games. About GDQ, I don't think I'll be able to go there anytime soon since I live in Europe and so it would be a bit troublesome to do it. I might submit something to ESA sooner or later.
Thank you! I get you by the way. There's a lot of interesting things about the glitches behind the scenes, but I'm not too used to speak English and I can concentrate and relax more if I don't talk while I play.
@@veictas It's totally understandable. I don't expect the runner to commentate a WR attempt, especially if english isn't their first language. What I meant was, if this was performed at a marathon and someone was commentating it (someone who knows the tricks being performed and can explain them while adding some humor perhaps), this could be pretty enjoyable to watch.
@@MaskedGuyCh Oh ok, I agree with you. I'll try to do that for sure if I'll get the chance to run the game at a marathon. Too bad this category in particular isn't marathon safe at all because of a warp and a crash that are out of control and only sometimes they work as intended. A much safer Any% and the AllBosses could still be played though, and they would contain almost the same glitches, with the flying glitch in addition.
@@MaskedGuyCh The whole video I was thinking how awesome the commentary would be for a run like this at a marathon. The intricacies of timestop, the game storing then switching which object you're standing near, abusing the strike animation etc.. would be very interesting to explain during the run.
Hey, usually the thing crashing the Steam/GOG version at the start is the resolution selection in the settings window after you start the game. You have to open the box and try both a 16bit and 32bit version, one of them should work while the other one could crash. And you can run it in windowed mode using dgvoodoo or d3dwindower without much problems btw.
@@Laghrian At the moment there's no legal way to get a digital copy of the game. You could maybe get a physical one and then apply some patches, but I haven't done it myself so I can't help much. Let's hope it gets available again, it has been a while since it got unlisted with a message saying Crystal Dynamics is working on some important updates.
Sometimes interactions with water pools near ledges don't work properly. For example you could even grab that same ledge, ending up in Raziel's body being almost completely immerged in water, and nothing happens.
I've played this game, and speedran it hundreds of times and never once have I seen such a thing happen. In fact, I've taken damage from a single TOE barely touching water for a fraction of a second, not even long enough to trigger the splash sound and ripple effect. You got the splash effect and ripple, meaning you physically touched it way longer than neccesary to take damage. I'm calling BULL.@@veictas
@@APackOfHungryGhosts I'll keep saying it's the interaction, but even if what you say was true, taking damage by that pool of water wouldn't make any difference in the run. Raziel has no reaver, so he wouldn't lose it and the amount of damage taken by touching the water wouldn't be high enough to fall into the spectral realm involuntarily. By the way you can see Raziel losing health because of water @7:12.
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