It's interesting how some of the rock formations seem to be there specifically to fuck up speedrunners.

That WR video is like when they had the expert on the Generation Game and they'd demonstrate creating a piece of beautiful pottery and then my own efforts by contrast are like when the plebs had a go and ended up just making a horrible lump of clay while Bruce Forsyth watched on in dismay.

Eric wrote:

I think this is the current WR run on Greenhill. It's pretty mesmeric:

Aye, this is the gist of Sonic.
You can play it like a mario title exploring every nook and cranny but after that it's all about parkour running through a level. It's part memorising obstacles and part knowing when to surrender control to blistering speed.

Crazy run that wr.

Ha ha ha

I've never been sent to spikes by the bumpers. you can send yourself there after with the wrong move, but that isn't the games fault.

Ugh just ignore me for now. Tired and grumpy. Shouldn't have been playing it.

I don't usually take part in Time Attack competitions, because A)I never get near anyone else's time, and B ) I get fed up of start/mistake/restart gaming.

After setting my previous 'best', I stopped trying. I then challenged myself to finish the blue sphere game.

Tonight I went back, and a completely unenjoyable evening eventually resulted in....

It is 2017 and time to play a Sonic the Hedgehog game that apparently doesn't gobble a tank of shitty dicks.

Sorry Mark...

I hate
It's just so slow, and long.

God I'm terrible at this speedrunning thing.

We need them to do the Master System levels as DLC, then I can smash you all on that.

Made some progress on my Sonic run tonight.

A few things of note based on earlier convo.

Hydro act 1 boss.
There was discussion on the point of dropping bombs. I noticed that if you drop them on top of Robotnick's bomb they neutralise each other so there is less risk of pulling up Robotnik's bombs in the turbine. Not really necessary but that seems to be the point.

Hydro Act 2
Still not sure why others find the side scrolling part of the boss hard.
Touch the canon thing to start it tracking you, keep yourself the cannon and Robotnik roughly inline, dodge the projectile.

Plane section.
People always struggle with this and seem to in Sonic 2 but I have always found it easy. Tails will catch you in his plane every time so don't even think about it. The main danger is landing on a large turtle which act as a platform. It is a bit of a mind duck I guess, that you don't have to land on the plane, the plane will always come to you.

Oil Ocean Boss 2
Much, much,much easier with Sonic than Knuckles.
The problem with Knuckles is as I hammered jump to get out of the oil I would inevitably start glidingas soon as I did. Sonic's jump also seems higher as I could take out the act 1 boss really quickly whereas I couldn't reach him with Knuckles.

The trick, I gather, is to find it easy.

The weather one I think.

Also: I don't think the bosses are difficult to physically perform the actions to beat. It's more that you are put in fairly lethal situations and you have to unpick what will be a newish mechanic
and without knowing what you need to do it is likely you can die to game over. I think not playing many sonics is a real handicap here. Anyway this would be forgivable if starting at act 1 wasn't the punishment, especially if the levels are fairly easy but time consuming (5-10 mins per level) just to try out a technique on the boss.

I dropped bloodborne because the trek to the first boss was too long after every death.