The History of Lego Star Wars World Records | Moistcr1tikal reacts to Summoning Salt

all right let's run it so I have I've only seen um Lego Lord of the Rings I think and the speedrun route for that is really [ __ ] cool there's a lot of really good out of bounds stuff but I don't know any of the Lego Star Wars ones so I'm hoping this is going to be really glitch heavy though I'm skeptical I imagine there's a good chance it's going to be mainly just playing the game normally fast which isn't as cool but hopefully it has a great story around it [Music] this game has insane glitches oh thank God alright cool [Music] see God damn Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga it's a game that newly has played of our original release 15 years later Nostalgia is driving another wave of popularity as more people play Lego Star Wars a question emerges why do we think in the game be beaten the Lego Star Wars speedrun has the Precision of a 3D platformer combined with the glitches and tricks of a broken NES game oh [ __ ] yeah for the past few years a dedicated community of Runners have been battling each other to take the world record lower this is the history of Lego Star Wars World Records I think we make speed running so special is the glitches and pushing a game to its absolute limits like I don't dislike games where there's not many glitches but I just always prefer ones that have such incredible Tech to it just introduces a whole new layer of a skill ceiling and now a word from this video's sponsor raid Shadow Legends nice for years a player named cabbage shirt 300 was in search of the world's best mobile game but then a familiar game called raid Shadow Legends is introduced something new in December 2022 raid added MMA fighter Ronda Rousey as a playable character he comes equipped with some of the most powerful skills in the game that's a name I haven't heard in years for both PVP battles and taking on tough losses by logging in and playing raid for seven days before February 20th you automatically unlock Ronda it seemed like cabbage shirt had found his perfect game interesting then something amazing happened raid recently introduced a special promo code raid Ronda where you'll obtain three-day 100 XP boost 500k silver I hope they do that for more celebrities that'd be really silly just enter the promo code raid Rhonda in game also if you're an Amazon Prime member you can get exclusive rewards right now hoof download raid Now by scanning this QR code or clicking the link in the description be getting unique bonuses valued at thirty dollars but you'll also be helping me out quite a bit scan the QR code now and start playing today first let's clear up any confusion with the timeline of the series Lego Star Wars the video game was released in 2005 where you could play episodes one through three this was followed up by the original trilogy in 2006 Kirby with episodes four through six being playable finally in 2007 these games were combined into Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga allowing you to play through all six episodes while the three versions are all speed ran today the most popular one by far is the complete saga the topic of this video now the earliest full game speedruns of the Complete Saga date back to 2013 but it's a bit of a hazy timeline see back then there was no concrete rule set the initial method was to play through episodes one through six in order on the game's super story mode which adds a timer to the bottom of the screen and doesn't have status screens between levels later Runners switched to playing the episodes on replay story meaning you can use any red brick upgrade on any level since these records didn't have a standard rule set and also some were filmed with a potato we'll skip going over them in detail however serious props should be given to the record holders Posh act and Lexus of the complete saga's early era for the next two years no records would be set but in 2015 the community began to form once again and for the first time all because of a meme standardized rules were created all runs would be played on new game instead of Replay story thanks to Prime saving all red bricks which are unlockables that give you a special ability were banned and you could only play with one player calling in player 2 at any point was disallowed well that's interesting rules formed I know the Lego Lord of the Rings one uses two player mechanics and the first record to abide by them was played by SM kirkey clocking in at 3 hours 44 minutes and 46 seconds thanks for subovers now this might seem long for a speed run but Lego Star Wars is a long game it has 36 levels most of which take several minutes to get through on top of that there are also nearly an hour of unskippable cut scenes between new levels so yeah [ __ ] you well his General strategy can be seen in negotiations the first level in episode one built objects 36 isn't that much my god do you know what a level is put it in perspective Halo the Halo campaigns the longest one has 13 levels I think right is it at 13. I think it is and it's Halo 2 no no no how many does Halo 2 have 12. Halo 2 is 12. no [ __ ] God damn it now I'm so spotty on it regardless it's it's like in the 10 to 15 ballpark like that's standard I feel like 11 no no no no no it's more than 11. I know that I just can't remember exactly how many point is most AAA games have less than 36 levels like significantly less reason flick and there is a hot thought 36 is a lot that's a big chunk it's needed to progress but beyond that he was running through everything as fast as he could oftentimes there was no need to actually kill enemies he's 15 I'm on the MCC right now and if you die you quickly research as I keep going in level 2 of episode 1 SM kirkey showed off quick platforming jumping through the stage while avoiding slowdowns another simple strategy used was on bosses on fights like Darth Maul and Jango Fett SM kirkey used the Jedi slash over and over the most effective way to drain the health of bosses so thus far it seems that your system of turkey was still following all the rules of the game those levels are much slower than possible and optimizing everything I guess yeah but it doesn't matter I'm just saying about pure quantity there's six of course he did we've yet to discuss because like I said earlier Lego Star Wars is a broken video game okay nice in level 5 of episode 2 you normally have to use one bomb to take out one side of the barrier then go back and get a second bomb to take out the other side however the Collision of the barrier stops extending out to the right once the right side is destroyed so by doing a precise spin move you can make it around the barrier without having to backtrack for the second that's cute so it's it's simple time saves nothing too big right over your skin it saves roughly 14 seconds in level 2 of episode 4 you normally have to build and push a block to progress through the stage but if you instead Veer off to the left and double jump off of a slope in the wall you can make it to a platform and Skip right through it once again this saves roughly 14 seconds and in episode 5 one of the biggest skips in SM kirkey's run takes place to end level 2 you have to get on top of the Millennium Falcon and the intended method to do this involves unlocking a door to release animals and jumping off of their backs instead SM kirkey precisely spaced a double jump to barely reach the top early that seems pretty easy to find nice in all there were more than a dozen I still really want to push a game to its limits that no one else has done I'm still heartbroken that for amok Runner my skip didn't work because the [ __ ] games programming didn't actually load in the final cut scene like I found a way to skip from the beginning of a mock Runner to the very last second of the game right off Rip but the game is so [ __ ] it didn't load in the final cut scene so the trigger doesn't work I'm still devastated and no one else besides me gives a [ __ ] about that game so there's no one trying to figure out how to make it work so it's just gonna be dead my skip will never be fully realized but I [ __ ] love finding little skips and [ __ ] in speed runs it's so rewarding exit tier one snake Spear and Theresa bad encounter Josh esteva and the prime Legend and chosen tricks like this across the Run adding up to minutes of time save there's honestly too many of them to go over in depth here but many of them followed the same pattern doing a precise jump somewhere you're not supposed to in order to skip doing something else that would take longer we'll see more of these tricks later but as a whole SM kirkey's run was on another level compared to the runs from 2013. hey congrats Y2K fewer mistakes more tricks and a cleaner speedrun overall it was a great starting point and it stood as the record for almost a year but in mid-2016 Along came a player known as tsg and what tsg did that guy sounds like a gamer was this [Music] reception gullible in 2016 a runner named tsg came onto the scene by June he'd have the world record and over the next year he'd do that nine more times his dominance can be attributed to a few things first his skill level was well beyond that of any other Runner the only one who was close was SM kirkey but he couldn't catch up second this was an incredibly active period of Discovery for the game you'll see soon how many new tricks tsg was able to use and third tsg played the game on PC this wasn't fully known at the time on PC is much faster than any other version mainly from having faster load times yeah I feel like that should have been his first record was a 341-17 and after the first level he was presented with the option to save but not here too after you save for the first time you lose a couple seconds from Auto saving after every level however it does allow you to reset the game before a cutscene plays at the end of each episode since your progress is saved before then this allows you to more quickly start the next episode instead of watching a long cutscene especially after episodes three and five and the time save is further compounded from the fast resetting that you can do on PC and of course he had a plethora of new strategies to use particularly in episode five one was in stage 5-2 C3PO mobile Prime cell so you normally have to build a cart to take him up this ledge but instead tsg just punched him and pushed him up saving roughly 22 seconds from not having to use the car that's a [ __ ] cool straight all right I like that you normally have to have Yoda teach Luke the force and build bridges for R2 to use but why do that when you can just use bad Collision detection in the wall and get up anyway this was discovered by grubo and saves a solid 30 seconds but the most notable trick in the Run was one known as DV3 short for Darth Vader 3. in this form of the fight you're supposed to deflect objects into Darth Vader then eventually glass comes down and you can jump across however it's just barely possible to jump across without the grand perfect meaning you can skip the entire fight you have three frames of leeway between the two jumps and a double jump and it was easily the most difficult trick in the Run but if done properly you would save over 70 seconds from not having to fight Darth Vader thanks to these three tricks and more despite having some big slowdowns tsg had his first world record these are some samira's pixels his records trying to land continue over the following weeks and the Run had a couple major changes first he changed the episode order playing episode 5 last players were allowed to play them in any order they wanted but putting episode 5 at the end was beneficial since its ending cut scene was the longest and timing stops before the cutscene plays this way it's not included anywhere in the final time and the second change Was the removal of a leaderboard rule red bricks were no longer banned that meant he could use certain unlockables as he found them throughout the game the two big ones he used were exploding Blaster bolts which lets you kill some enemies quicker and blow up certain barriers and infinite Torpedoes which means you always have them behind you in the flying levels and don't have to go pick them up having these two upgrades across much of the runs saved several minutes and when combined I figured that would be bigger time saves allowed tsg to take the record under 3 hours and 30 minutes new strategies were also getting discovered left and right and in late 2016 one of the most obvious oversights from the developers was found by a player named osumnal on the last level of episode 1 you're supposed to fight Darth Maul by forcing objects into him but over on the right there's a lamp and for some reason everything below the lamp is considered by the game to be out of bounds you can stand and jump in any out of bounds area so it's possible to just jump off the wall to the top of the lamp and across to the other side as simple as this you could save 30 seconds by April 2017 tsg had taken the record to 3 hours and 24 minutes is playing by himself out here seven minutes behind he was in full control of the world record however in May a key rule was lifted back in August 2016 the ban on red bricks was lifted of one player Two controller strats so this is where it was really cool in Lego Lord of the Rings with what you could do with the two-player strap so what's the benefit of using a second player well Lego Star Wars was designed to be a two-player game and some sections can be completed much faster with the second player in 4-5 for instance if you have one player you're supposed to build a cart to go over buttons fast enough before they turn red but if you're using two players no need for the cart there's a couple sets of these buttons in 4-5 and if you skip using the cart for both you save a full minute however you're not allowed to have a physical second player to help you out you have to do everything cannoli so whenever you want to call in player 2 you have to control them both at the same time it's known as one player two controllers or one p2c and on PC I like that that's cool there's three options makes it sound really intense you can use two controllers you can use two parts of the keyboard or you can use a keyboard and a controller most Runners nowadays go with the keyboard controller method but in June 2017 tsg set a record with the controller controller method the only Point tsg used one p2c in the Run was in 4-5 but the community knew there could be applications elsewhere less than a month after tsg's run it would be beaten by a new player Roush more meaning a new face for a while rapidly improves his personal best in mid-2017 to take the top spot he too used 1p2c in stage 4-5 and thanks to a couple new strategies in episode 6 pulled ahead for a new world record by 90 seconds however tsg was up to the task and just a week later he took the record back by the end of the year tsg's time was down to 3 hours 19 minutes and 30 seconds how many players can you have a convertible new trick in the first phase of the third to show you what I keep referencing this so I might as well show you what I mean in Lego Lord of the Rings it has an actual pretty cool speedrun I was considering doing that uses the same method I don't remember what the world record time is though oh it's a hobbit sorry Lego to Hobbit not Lego Lord of the Rings so what you can do with the two player method here is you can blast yourself out of bounds where is it somewhere over here where is it oh here it is here it is and then you can eventually get like a huge launch and then you just go through the entire game just outside of the map it's a long long Trek but you complete the game after that and it's really cool I still might speed run this I think I probably will it's a short one it's only 10 minutes like I might as well at least get on the leaderboard he's a recent e-girl maybe that'll be the next one I speed run turning the game into open world yeah it's cool you just go right to the end you hit another one of these clips and then you're through that's the root why do you like this and not album rings I love the Elven ring Speed Run what are you talking about I didn't like Elden ring zip speed runs nobody did like I don't think there's anything super cool it's cool but I don't think it's super fun with the zips like I'm just not a huge fan of the zips for those who don't know what I'm talking about it's this but prior to the Zips being the common run I loved it I speed ran the [ __ ] out of this for like two weeks [ __ ] using a metronome well you have to it's extremely precise so you got to use the metronome thanks very sub none isn't Zips only allowed in one category yeah I think so yeah it's the unrestricted category it's right there Vader fight after dealing two hearts of damage Darth Vader how does that work uh I don't remember the technical explanation but what's really cool about Zips and I think it's fascinating is it's something people found by complete accident because it's a problem with the game itself if you have your Shield up and you just happen to slightly move forward on the perfect frame you just get launched it's just something that's in the game jumps around and won't knock Luke's stormtrooper helmet off you can then use R2 to precisely land on the white part of the panel then fly and avoid a death plane to barely make it to the other side once there you activate a platform for Luke and open the door with the stormtrooper helmet to skip nearly the entire fight the trick nicknamed dv1 saves 45 seconds and was discovered by a runner named zolis when combined with DV3 it was quite evident that stage fighters of five was becoming the most critical point of the Run speaking of zolas he would set the game's next record a 3 16-12 he implemented one p2c across the run more okay this is on my brain so I want to vocalize it this is just this is just getting all the neurons firing and I can't let go of my amok Runner thing I think what might be fun I'm not sure I'll pull the trigger on it but I at least want to put the idea out there I think what would be really a fun thing to do since we haven't done a bounty in a while is just choose a dog [ __ ] game like that and then put a bounty on it like Whoever has the fastest speed run time in this game after a month gets 10 grand and hopefully that would incentivize people to run it and find incredible routes and maybe end up with a really fun Speed game and just keep changing the target for that every couple or like every month I think that might be a fun idea don't know if I'll like fully commit to that but I at least want to put the idea out there is something that I think could be an interesting idea just keep trying to find great speed games cool Tech and just making a fun event out of it or small time saves like deflecting shots so that R4 could safely activate the panel in 2-2 and others were more substantial dravilion did the Halo 2 lasso Bounty you could now it was unbelievable to activate the elevator and ride it immediately instead of having to use Han Solo and wait for its second cycle a Time save of about 12 seconds but interestingly zolas played the game idea down before I forget it I think that might I think that'll be fun okay we know from before that this is slower than the PC version but there's another consideration to be made the Wii version requires using both the Wii Remote and the nunchuck so to do one p2c you need to juggle four controllers at once sounds awful still zolas was able to pull it off with a world record by over three minutes TS and played on Ultra nightmare mode a few months later with a 314 28. it was notable for implementing yet another trick into level 5-5 dv1 and DV3 already had skips and now Darth Vader's fourth form did as well it was possible to do a couple of precise double jumps and skip having to use the force and having to use R2 they have the potential to save about 7 seconds and just added to the skill needed in 5-5 episode 5 as a whole was becoming really brutal and since it has the longest end cut scene it had to be at the very end of the Run so let's take a look at our timeline so far PSG started dominating in mid-20s just haven't seen whale yet and although he is Rushmore and zolas he'd always been able to fight back two years later his name was still on top of the leaderboard but tsg's 314 from June 2018 would be the last record he would ever set the game was about to enter a new era because in October 2018 Roush more did this oof Jesus Roush more have mercy over the span of just three weeks Roush more took the record from a 314 down to a 309. the key was the rapid discovery of new tricks by a runner named eltree tricks that would save up to 8 minutes in the first one is really stupid in 6-5 killing the emperor normally takes a substantial amount of time however if you lure him over to the corner and die intentionally upon respawning you can just push him off the edge that's hype it skips the remainder that's so cool 45 seconds good discovery later I started the fight by calling in player two it saves an additional minute and is known as the ultra kill another simple boss skip was found in 4-3 you can skip the Spy Fighters pushes him past the trigger to start the fight and if you call him in after you can just go in the open door and save about 50 seconds but the real big time save was in 6-3 in this level you're supposed to hop in your speeder and drive through the roughly five minute course instead if you go into the corner of the end barrier with both players player one gets placed above player two and you can do a 360 to make it over the barrier this activates the end of the course and you can skip the entire thing to save several that's so good these discoveries helped lead to four consecutive records from Roush more what I love so I have a love hate with really long roots for Speed Run but what I find most impressive is the memorization of every trick because that's a lot that you have to keep track of the longest speedrun I've ever done is Psychonauts and that's about an hour I think the world records like sub 50 now but when I was running it the the record was about an hour and I was pretty active with it and trying to keep track of the tricks when to use them how to do them where to do them and being super precise and even frame perfect at times is unreal especially after like 20 30 minutes worth of already going through a run the stakes are just so goddamn High what is the Psychonauts world record much lower than an hour now why did I get hit with question marks oh my wait what 30 minutes holy [ __ ] well okay that'll do it things to tier one Cappy in the resubm MCR and the prime column yeah what new stuff did they discover glad to see it's still active it's a great speed run if you guys haven't seen the psychonaut speedrun highly recommend it it has some really cool glitches and there's really great movement Tech as well I'll just watch that on my own later and catch up with it maybe I'll start writing that final time a 309 from October 2018 would be the final record set in the year always been 30 you just missed no this was set in 2020 I stopped running it when I switched to Twitch which would have been 2018 late 2017. I haven't run this game since coming to Twitch and I definitely recall it was like probably 40 something minutes because I used to be in the Discord for a while my personal best was like 57 Stingley as the record stayed put at 309 the Run started to get massive views on YouTube it went semi-viral and many people who saw the video thought it could be fun to try running it themselves and largely thanks to Roush More's video by early 2019 there was a new crop of Runners ready to gun for the world record [Music] oh good spread in fifth place there was cenor with the 311-37 in fourth place there was we super with a 310 45 a third place there was osomnal with a 3 1006 and in second place there was Shred with a 309-54 all four runners were closing in on Ralph Lauren's record it was obvious that one of them would beat it soon the general consensus for the favorite to do so was osomnol but all four of them had a shot at it then one of them broke through [Music] on February 11 2019 cenor jumped straight from fifth to first place to capture his first world record he lowered by nearly two and a half minutes in the process had gotten into the game after seeing Roush More's video and although he lowered his time quickly he was comfortably behind the other record contenders but the key to see nor getting this record was 1p2c he used it all over the Run he used it for multitasking he used it to get one player in position while the other player built he used it to push characters further ahead these were small time saves on their own but they added up when used to cross the three hour run this was also the first run to use the incredibly difficult disco skip in 6-2 after building the speaker you then try and position Luke so he's exactly 50 inside of the speaker once it's finished being built the game doesn't know what to do when you're inside a built object so if you're next to a wall it will sometimes push a huge clip meaning you can go out of bounds and Skip building the disco party to save 40 seconds this is a really precise trick since you have to be positioned just right to clip out of bounds but if you miss it you can just break the speaker and build it to try again with all the competition from Top Runners people didn't expect cenor's record to last long and it didn't last for three days on Valentine's Day 2019 record with a 306-27 shred had been running the game for over a year but only became a serious record Contender early in 2019 and his record was an improvement by nearly three minutes which was especially impressive given that it was played on a Wii it didn't do much new over cenor's record but was better executed it had a first try Ultra kill and a cleaner episode 6 overall seen or fired back just three days later with another two minute record Improvement thanks to Prime Yuka the world record was now down to a 304. sub three looking possible significant slowdowns seen or lost nearly a minute on Disco Skip and over 30 seconds in 5-5 from missing the DV skips so clean up those tricks save a bit elsewhere and add in a couple new strategies illiterate and suddenly sub 3 didn't seem out of the question in March 2019. started to pull ahead from the rest of the pack cenor and we see through subsom both of these guys had only gotten into the game in the last few months but they lowered their time we should we Superstar gift Subs Eldon and this run which is interesting 59.04 the world's second sub three oof had we super started his run just a few hours earlier roughly would have won the race the sub three but instead he had to settle for second place while cenor got the glory but cenor's record wouldn't last long he beat his own run by 43 seconds just a day later this run was notable for introducing a piece of RNG in 4-4 there's a section where Obi-Wan is supposed to appear across the room on a bridge after you arrive the way the game tries to get him there is by running through a room with barrels if he gets stuck behind a barrel the game turns him to try and get around them which slows him down but he still eventually arrives on the bridge usually sometimes he gets stuck and if that happens he never shows up and you can't progress through the level Lego Star Wars is a broken game now Runners used to have a way around this you reload the bridge room by entering and exiting the previous room which guarantees Obi-Wan will show up for a two second time loss but players then found 4-4 cutscene skip by jumping off of this ledge you can hook back and enter an out of bounds area to skip to the next room I like that this means a cutscene doesn't play and you save 18 seconds is however I really feel like getting out of bounds in a game like Lego you can do a lot more than just go from room to room but of course I I'm not in the community I haven't run this game in particular myself I just feel well we're also super early so maybe they do I feel like there's just so much room for out of bounds especially in a game as linear as Lego if you can just get out like they found here I feel like you could really push the [ __ ] out of it as a consequence of the cutscene not playing you can no longer reload the bridge he's a Prime device you wouldn't be able to leave the previous room if you enter it was back into play thanks again you didn't want to show up you were in big trouble a couple weeks later a fairly substantial change was made Community decided to alter the way runs were timed instead of starting when the players gained control in 1-1 it would now begin When selecting new game on the main menu this was mostly done so that movement in the Cantina would be considered in the final time it added roughly 58 seconds to all runs no so when cenor set a record that would have been 257.36 under the old timing it was re-timed to 258.34 and that made it four consecutive records for cenor he was the first to sub three how he was taking control of the leaderboard and for Wii Super he just couldn't catch up he perpetually remained slightly behind cenor easily in seconds but ever since he missed his chance at the first sub three the world record eluded him thanks to the reset but after the 358-34 why we're seeing or announced that he would be taking a break from the category to focus his efforts elsewhere maybe this was the chance we super needed with scene or at least temporarily out of the picture he could hone in on improving his time without needing to compete with anyone and as it turns out just two days later oh it was only record by a second but we super had finally overtaken cenor it was a run with a great early game but he lost some time on speeder Skip and had a weak episode 4. still we super had broken through was this a one-time deal or was he about to make something more out of it [Music] so you know we're coming back later that break a 60-second record Improvement by we super largely due to saving time in episode 4. the very next day another minute and a half world record wow he really unlocks the Sharingan two record improvements on the same day three days later a record cut by nearly two full minutes then we super took a break and when he came back another world record my God seven records over the course of three he got Unleashed the final one was a time of Tuesday after a while see Norton come back to attempts but this time the tables returned he was the one who couldn't catch up to we super the way he went on this run was through both improving his own skills and utilizing new strategies in 2-6 we super began using Dooku skip standing on a barrel you can force it with player 2 and clip under the floor by then dropping out with the inbounds player you can lead them forward past the trigger for the Dooku fight and enter the Next Room the trick was found and saves up to 30 seconds we super also began using the vehicle Smart bomb red brick it allows you to hold the special button in ship levels and make everything on screen explode which can save you about 20 seconds in 5-1 and interestingly with these new tricks being Incorporated and Runners skill levels improving someone new moved into second place chimkin he had been in third place for months even being a part of the initial sub 3 grind but he always remained behind we super and cenor but he was improving and by may he was ahead of cenor and sure enough when he super woke up on the morning of July 6th his record was gone chimkin had beaten it by over a minute getting a damn okay sub 250 looking good there's a run with a slow early game but after a gold split in 3-2 he was Off to the Races pulled ahead of the record and crushed it so we super had to get back to work and it took him 13 hours to get the record back oh nice over the coming weeks and months we super and chimkin would trade the record back and forth Cooper was the first to take it under 250 with a 240 955 on July 17th chimkin would get the next record and by the end of the year it was down to 245.39 how did these two take the record down by seven minutes well there was a new red brick fast Force which does what it sounds like it lets you force objects faster to obtain it quicker shimkin found a method of going out of bounds then doing a death warp to get back on track oh now it's getting really intense which is nice so players started playing episode 4 earlier in the run so they could use fast force in episode 6 3 and 5. and of course the glitches are more interesting strategies discovered in the second half of 2019 some were small and saved a few seconds While others saved closer to half a minute but the big one was in 5-6 it's the last stage in the game [Music] way back during 3csg's record rain Runners started doing a trick called best spin out of bounds you jump roll off a ledge to land out of bounds and progress forward in the stage to skip having to build C-3PO and open the door that's huge 45 seconds but was immensely difficult players used this trick for years but in December 2019 cenor found something better you join with player 2 and put Lando in a doorway door stands far enough away and Lando jumps the door will close if it closes while you're at the top of your jump you'll get pushed through the door frame and out of bounds ultimately you can get to the same room as you did from bespin out of bounds but it allows you to do so nearly a full minute faster and is much easier the only problem is that if you miss the door clip initially AI characters can randomly run near the door and prevent it from closing all those batteries want to get the trick first try you dirty [ __ ] with all these time saves combined I'd be so mad if I was running that in the AI came back on top of that the world record was down to a really solid 245. it was enough for Wii Super to take a break from grinding the category and shimkin had stopped playing it as well other than those two nobody had a PB under 2 hours and 50 minutes but over the coming weeks in late 2019 and early 2020 the game would get a huge boost in popularity thanks to an unlikely source Tick Tock oh there was a big wave of nostalgia for Lego Star Wars Millions played it while growing up and after years had passed they looked back on the game fondly a trend began on Tick Tock where people changed their profile pics to mimic how they look in Lego Star Wars with a green or blue circle around them this increased the game's popularity on the internet as a whole as people remembered Lego Star Wars and wanted to experience it again as such speedrun streams and videos exploded in popularity and starting in early 2020 there was a new wave of speedrun activity and suddenly by February we super had new competitors on his doorstep oh in second place Fresh Faces fresh third place was led astray both had a time of 247 and both had aspirations for the world record we super had no choice but to do more runs if you wanted to defend his title so he did and in the span of just one week he lowered the record twice taking it down to 244.30 but this wasn't the complete domination that he'd had earlier his competition continued to close in LED astray got a 246 and a familiar face had actually jumped into second place these guys were both capable of getting the record and could really obtain it any day now we super continued to do runs and a couple weeks later he achieved the run that put away any competition for the record a sub two hour run lots of attempts it was his ultimate run throughout the first four episodes there were no significant mistakes he gained a bit of time on nearly every level and leaving episode 6 he was nearly two minutes ahead exit tier one Megamind the final two episodes are three to five and although they weren't perfect they were good enough and when combined with the incredible start he had the end result was a monster world record okay it's not bad it wasn't that much risk of losing his title anymore or was he Senor wasn't deterred from the task at hand super was now three minutes to close the gap on March 27th he took his PB down 44 and on the 31st he shaved another half minute off despite the optimization of Wii Super's record cenor was actually able to close in these two guys were ahead of the pack just like the initial sub 3 grind we super and cenor were locked in a battle thanks to the game's boost in popularity around this time the community decided to have a Lego Star Wars speedrun tournament that's cute super Senor and most of the game's other top Runners all participated it was a double elimination tournament and there were some great times put up by several different runners but when all was said and done after the brackets were completed who else would meet in the finals but we super and cenor will get the benefit of a big new strategy I certainly hope this didn't all happen in the same day each of these runs is like 2 hours 40 minutes at best like your best run and [ __ ] how many rounds like this is like a 10 hour tournament at least hopefully this was spread out over the course of a weekend but we super and cenor these two would get the benefit of a big new strategy discovered a few weeks ago in 6-1 spiderless by using a forcible object you could clip into the wall which was faster than the old method of using the spider hey welcome you can then come back and balance the touch of great which acts as a trigger for the game to send you straight to the boss fight and skip it was months oh this trick saved the whole 60 seconds a huge Advantage for any Runner who could pull it off up to this point cenor had lost one match while we super was undefeated so to win the whole thing xenor needed to win twice while we super needed just one win and see nor handily won the first game we super accidentally soft locked in 5-1 oh using several minutes and allowing cenor to cruise to an easy victory that meant there would be a winner take all match the next day to determine the tournament champion this was going to be a tough task for cenor think of all he had going against them his personal best was nearly a minute behind we super he had lost to him earlier in the tournament and he had gotten a pretty lucky Victory yesterday thanks to a fluke soft lock needs to play out of his mind if he wanted to win this thing and so on April 19th 2020 in the final match of the tournament this opponent heavily favored to win foreign [Music] back when the Run was 16 minutes slower and it was actually a close race through much of the run but cenor eventually pulled ahead and although we super finished with a 242 he didn't stand a chance xenor won the match he won the tournament and he got the world record was there a prize for the tournament sub 240 was official once again cenor and we super were the two competitors as it turns out cenors time at the top wouldn't last five candies we super wanted the record back and it took him just five pack of cigarettes he got a 240 32. this run was actually on sub 240 Pace until 5-5 but the last two stages of the Run are two of the toughest we super lost a lot of time to DV3 and 5-5 and to Door clip in 5-6 sub 240 would have to wait imagine not doing DV3 second try couldn't be me damn that Jesus that door is really good laughs I feel like I could like see we supers anger with killing the uh NPCs there 45 seconds to Door clip and missed some 240 by just four seconds that's so sad that's a great example of how tough the end of the run is door clip is in the very last stage and if you miss it initially bad luck can make you lose the record over the following few weeks competition caught up a couple Runners named Pickle toe and ginger Legend got times more new faces and on July 14th xenor had a run on sub 240 Pace in the 5-6 but once again door clip killed it he ended up one second behind the world record we super it's a heartbreaker other players had caught up and it was a dead heat for the first sub-240. but on July 2016 Obama we super had a run with a fantastic first few episodes he then lost his helmet in 4-5 but a great episode 6 put him back in the lead he had a rough 5-5 but with time to save in 5-6 sub 240 was still possible he got door clipped quickly and left just enough room to get a sub 240. nice 39.49 we super had one we're coming this was Wii supers 20 seconds typical he'd faced competition from some of the best in the world but time and time again he had proven he could come out on top with his sub-240 goal accomplished we super finally felt he could take a break and the runners in snow shot through fourth place on this not in the same or pickle toe and ginger Legend have lost motivation after being beaten to the first sub-240. so they all stopped running the category as well oh what for the first time in many months there was little activity at the top of the leaderboard that meant there was technically an opportunity for someone outside of the top four to swoop in and make a move let's take a look at who was in fifth place this is e-road house he had been running the game for about three months and managed to quickly answer the game's top five however during the sub 240 grind he was comfortably well Lego Star Wars has an ultra shortcut let's go now we're [ __ ] cooking you have to drive around the course three times to beat the stage for years there was no way to really speed this up even the fastest World Records I love Ultra shortcuts but in mid-2020 for those that are unfamiliar with ultra shortcuts summoning salt also has great content on it here most known in like Mario Kart Wii it's so cool Ultra shortcuts are so [ __ ] cool highly recommend checking any of these out if you're interested in really cool skips p53 havester and cenor combine to develop a trick called pod fraud it's a very complicated trick but the gist of it is that the game's only method for checking lap completion is seeing if you've touched an area on the far side of the course and seeing if you've touched the Finish Line region so after driving a lap normally you go out of balance with two players leave one by the Finish Line region and one try to get your other to The Far Side yeah nice smart middle section out of bounds kills you but it lets you build up speed quickly so by dying a few times you can build up enough speed to make it across holy [ __ ] am I touching this region the next lap is activated and you skip having to drive around this setup takes about 25 seconds but a lap normally takes about 60 so you save over half a minute the other big skip is called grieve cheese discovered by pickle Toe with Concepts from fezteo the General Grievous fight is normally a slow scripted battle where you jump around the level and then attack him on the main platform however he'll only perform his scripted actions if you're actively standing on this platform so you can use Obi-Wan to lure him toward a rock then jump off the platform and shoot him with player 2 before he walks too far away you can drain his health without having him ever perform scripted actions unfortunately there's RNG involved he can randomly block your shots which wastes time but ideally grief cheese can save over half a minute with all this and more we super felt that he could crush the current record and he was right on September 18th he beat a Roadhouse by just under two minutes getting a 237.49 a few weeks later he did it again with a 236-08 the leaderboard was back to normal we super was dominating the competition multiple minutes ahead of anyone else and still years after his personal record nobody could catch we super at least not for a couple weeks after we supers 236 e Roadhouse managed to get the record back into doing this it wasn't a fluke another Complicated new trick falconless the normal way to end stage 4-5 involves activating four triggers scattered throughout a big room then killing all the Stormtroopers it's a slow process that gradually raises the Millennium Falcon so you can eventually enter it and end the level so you go out of bound to the trigger p53 found a way to end the level early you first have to load the last room of the level which can be done by entering this grapple room you then go back far in the level and by crossing a particular line the game tries to save memory by unloading the last room this means the triggers Stormtroopers and Millennium Falcon all disappear the issue is that the game never reloads them once you go back forward so you re-answer the final room and you can just fall straight down since the Storm Troopers are gone the game treats them the same as if they were killed so you can jump into where the open door would be and the level ends this saves about a minute and 15 seconds and he wrote House's new record was a 234-51 that means that even without Falcon lists he still would have beaten we super I wonder though maybe it was a fluke just based off of what I've seen so far and maybe they do do this it seems like if you can you can still just hit that trigger regardless right couldn't you find a clip out of bounds and then just do a death warp and still hit that trigger on the way up or am I completely misunderstanding how the tech works so that way you don't have to run all the way back thanks for the gift sub oyster and the resubber photo no because it checks enemies oh good point good point Luke whenever someone took the record from Wii Super he was always quick to respond but a month later he wrote house set another record 234-32 this was Uncharted Territory when was he going to response nobody so what happens in a situation like that when you hit that ceiling like where you completely blast a Roots ass wide open and you master it you have a perfect run the only way you catch up is if you find new tech you have to look for new glitches that's the only way you can make up for the difference in skill that's the only shot you have a little best below 236 there were no Challengers for the record however that didn't stop players from continuing to run the game but the nature of the competition changed it was now a battle for second place rather than the world record about a month after the 231 a new Runner moved in the second oh Ginger Legend a few days later he'd be beaten by xenor getting a 235 and then a two oh hold on a second they're starting to tickle it's important to note that there were very few new strategies being utilized the vast majority of their time save came from getting better at the game fewer mistakes better movement that sort of improvement by February a runner named Zach achieved a 235 and by March there was a trio of Runners with a 234 Senor in second place Ginger Legend in third place and Zach in fourth place for the first time since he set his Mammoth world record e-road house was feeling a bit of pressure they were still minutes away oh yeah it's not that close though their times were dropping he can still relax so he decided to end his break and go back to record attempts but he struggled to get good runs going especially compared to his incredible oh God he fell off on March 6th cenor would once again Lower his second place time 233.05 he was now within 90 seconds of the world record e-road house continued his attempts and then on March 9th Zach got on a run that was even with the world record through episode 2 that actually gained half a minute over the record in episode four okay Zach once again this was mostly due to better gameplay rather than new strategies he ended up losing time to the incredible episode 6 and 5 in erode House's record but still finished 32-23 Zach was just 35 seconds off the world record cenor had a 233 Zach had a 232 and erode house had a 231. all three of them were doing attempts and all three of them had potential to get the world record he wrote House's time had run out he was now in direct competition with two strong runners now the question now was which of these three was going to do it first well on March 22nd e-road house broke through it was only a five second record Improvement but it showed that he still had What it Took this run had another fantastic early game but he lost about 45 seconds in episode 6 from repeatedly missing disco skip episodes three and five were up and down but since his gameplay overall had improved it was enough to eke out a small record but his work wasn't done yet a couple weeks later he wrote house got a 231-35 another small record Improvement but he was making progress while Zack and cenor weren't improving their times still all three runners continued to grind over the following weeks the end goal had shifted it was officially a grind for the game's first sub 230. a half hour barrier hadn't been what date are we at right now are we still in 2020 or no this is Senor lowered his time down by over half a minute all three runners were now within 60 seconds of each other who would get sub 230 first would it be the veteran the newcomer or the current world record holder well on May 14th Garcia e Roadhouse got on a run with another incredible first couple of episodes once again this was his best Pace ever leaving May 14th 2021 he faltered a bit in levels 4-2 and 4-3 so his Pace cooled off slightly exiting episode 4. but after episode 6 he was still a minute ahead of the record it was clear that this would be a golden opportunity for the sub 230. and then in episode 3-1 something strange happened a Roadhouse was cycling through his splits to see what time saves he had left and he accidentally paused his timer he realized a while later and unpaused it but this threw everything off his Pace would now seem better than it really was he didn't know how long it was paused so if this run went all the way he'd have to re-time it to see what he really got well you Roadhouse made his way through episode 3 and it went beautifully episode 5 got off to a great start and entering 5-5 he was a minute 21 ahead but of course his real Pace was still a mystery 5-5 was solid and 5-6 was nearly perfect and when he stopped his splits they read 229-35 he wrote house knew his run was slower than that but the exact amount wasn't known it all came down to how long the timer was paused it's probably just over 2 30. the exact length of the pause would determine if this was the world's first sub-230 or if the race would continue like the recent cheeseburger after the re-time they found that he wrote House's timer was paused for 21 and a half seconds oh so just under his run was a 229-57 he still did it baby skin of his teeth he had done it his sixth world record in a row was his most important one yet he wrote house officially had the world's first sub 230. in the aftermath of this run Zack and cenor continued doing PB attempts for a short while both players lowered their times but neither could catch up to e-road house their motivation had just dried up seemed like another Community break would be in order to try noticing a pattern by now whenever Community motivation is at a low Point new tricks are always found to bring people back in God damn right on cue in May 2021 two massive tricks were discovered one of them was a 30 second time save in 3-5 found by Los but the one we're gonna go over was the one discovered in 5-5 this trick was notable for two main reasons for one thing it was in the toughest stage of the Run 5-5 was already a completely broken level you had dv1 DV3 and the dv4 jumps the new trick fittingly was called oh Darth Vader fight now how to skip and the other notable thing about this trick it was the most difficult one in the entire game that's right the toughest trick of the Run was now in a stage that was already considered to be the hardest this is the insanity of dv2 I hope it saves like 10 minutes by activating a moving platform outside the boss room then positioning Luke on a panel beneath it and placing R2 on the platform oh you send it down and you clip out platform moves down you can Collide into Luke as he's sliding off the panel if done at the perfect moment Luke will go through the wall under the floor of the next room and you can just walk underneath the boss fight getting the clip into the wall is so precise that pause buffering is used to help line it up and even so every single step of this trick is hard it's hard to get on the panel it's hard to stay on the panel it's hard to pause buffer at the right time it's hard to line up Luke it's hard to line up R2 it's hard to avoid going too low in the boss room it's hard to avoid going too high in the boss room any of these portions not being I like that results I love those precise glitches that shit's great properly it would save an additional 50 seconds of lava Fang 407 note KO and ejp Man created dv2 and it made stage 5-5 a nightmare tough trick after tough trick right at the end of The Run but with all the time safe potential people had to go for it and it brought Runners Zack and cenor back to doing runs they each got times of 2 30. and then on June 1st xenor set the world record back on top baby particularly a slow Ultra kill in 6-5 but he got dv2 first record in a while a fantastic result for such a tough trick he closed it out 20 seconds ahead of the Roadhouse xenor's first world record in over a year back when the Run was 12 minutes slower so now of the top three competitors only one had yet to get the world record Zach he'd been in the top three for the past five months on several occasions but he had never been able to take the top spot it was frustrating he knew he was good enough he'd been on Pace before and he also had a bit of time on his hands coming up so he sold his crypto company a devoted grind for the record but this wasn't going to be just any grind he was going to play the game 14 to 15 hours per day until he set the world record Zach began on his quest and over the next two weeks he played the game for roughly 200 hours run after run good that's like RuneScape hours my boy despite all that that's enough for a single level in runecrafting in fact he didn't even get a PB Zach remained in third place behind e-road house and cenor disappointing for sure but Zach would still get another chance because on June 13th Runners Zach e Roadhouse and we super all met up to grind for the world record 12 hours a day with scene participating at home only 12 hours may have been less than Zach was used to but still four of the best runners in the world 12 hours per day for three days straight surely a world record was incoming but it never happened 72 hours came and went with no world records and here's why tween all four runners more than 20 world record Paces were achieved into the final two levels all of them died to dv2 oh it was such a hard trick that's true it's trying to execute it when feeling the pressure of a record-paced run good luck with that so for Zach a grind of 12-hour days hadn't worked 14-hour days hadn't worked either option 16 hour days on June 16th Zach began a grind of 16-hour days to get the Lego Star Wars world record God damn right he did time is relative and he never had any runs on record Pace son of a [ __ ] it was starting to seem hopeless but on June 18th I tell you what though I I can promise you one thing he may not have got the record during those 16 hour a day streams but he probably [ __ ] farmed some ad Revenue off of it on Twitch that was gonna be pulling in so those are pulling in some numbers there's some long hours finally gotta run deep ahead of the record and what a pace it was entering 5-5 his best possible time was 228.43 that was a good enough Pace that he didn't even need to do dv2 he could get the record without it but Zach was committed to going for it his third try he got in the wall he could just make it to the end of the room he'd be in the clear but disaster struck he went too low and died forcing him to start dv2 over again he lost over a minute and ended up missing the record by just seconds had he skipped doing dv2 he would have had the world record so Zach kept going more this guy's mental [ __ ] more failed runs but on June 24th he'd find himself in an eerily similar situation a best possible time of 228.08 into 5-5 once again he could Skip dv2 and still get the record no don't do it don't be a [ __ ] once again he was committed to going for it my man it was a decision that cost him the record last time this time he hit it first try oh he was in a golden position now he closed out 5-5 got door clip and when Zach entered the Millennium Falcon to n5-6 he had just set a new world let's go for a minute after months of grinding what a crazy ingredients Zack's efforts were Vindicated This Record didn't stop others from trying or we super Andy Roadhouse all continued doing record attempts after the in-person Meetup but eventually their attempts stopped in large part because 5-5 was such a demoralizing stage so throughout the rest of 2021 Zack's time remained at the top of the leaderboard from not being able to set the record cracked and he's holding the top spot for six months straight well in early 2022 that was a good time decided to come back to the game it had taken him hundreds of attempts and many months of grinding to set his world record and over Bricco here this man came out of nowhere We're Not Gonna not gonna mention Bricco third place damn and we still have like 20 minutes here Jesus loose the community was as active as ever but with no records being set a big opportunity was going to waste so in an attempt to get the game a new world record the community decided to organize one more big event it was going to be another four day break the record session but instead of the games four runners competing this time they expanded It To The Top 10. 10 Runners four days and a goal time of 226. even with this many Runners nobody knew for sure if the new record would be set but one thing that wasn't in doubt was that there would be a lot of movement on the leaderboards Zack any Roadhouse were in first and second place and they were the favorites to lower the record just behind them were baking soda and Bricco still hey there and Beyond them was a mix of Prior record holders and newer contenders their personal bests range from Zack's 227 down to a 233 but all of them knew that they had a serious chance to move up on the leaderboard let the world record attempts begin Zach and E Roadhouse may have been in the best positions to lower the record but fourth place Runner Bricco got the first time oh here we go just hours into day one brick he had a run with the best possible time of 225.46 into episode 3. there was still a ways to go but it was easily on world record pace unfortunately a poor episode 3 cost them the record son of a [ __ ] who got a 227-47 this was good enough for second place it was a big motivator for the rest of the group especially for the Recently demoted to third place you Roadhouse and toward the end of day one both he and Zach found themselves on record Pace in the 5-5 but dv2 would strike again you Roadhouse finished with a 228 oh yeah he got mad there and Zach thought that dv2 will get you at 45. Zach's time was faster than every runner on the leaderboard except for his own record day one had come and gone and despite movement from some top Runners no new records were set day two featured a couple PBS from runners in the top 10. we super got a 25 second PB cut and see normooth from fifth to fourth place but for most of the day none of the top Runners got anything on a world record pace then late in the night after most Runners were done for the day Zach had a run with two 27 11 potential into 5-5 6 don't care who had to get dv2 as [ __ ] stuff you know he actually did it first try this was the best chance of the event he had one tough trick to go door clip and unfortunately he couldn't get that's unlucky he lost over 20 seconds and finished with a 227-38 the best time of the event so far but still no world record oh Jesus thank you that 20 Gifts of selling to us thank you for that cylinders day three featured several World promising runs from Zach appreciate that he achieved numerous 227s but none were low enough to beat the record there was a bit of movement from lower ranked Runners as its Jared moved from 10th to eighth place but as day 3 was coming to a close the record remained at Zack's 2 27 19. time was starting to run out the game's top Runners got so close but nobody had been able to break through but then toward the end of day three those Runners would get a bit of extra motivation with all this attention on Lego Star Wars speed George Lucas came into the equation until it was found in the Grievous fight oh before grief cheese could be used to get a quick kill but it was inconsistent as he would randomly block your shots but by switching your resolution to 800 by 600 instead of 1920x1080 the quick kill becomes much more consistent on average you save 10 to 15 seconds but it was enough to give these Runners a pretty big boost yet still day 3 came to a conclusion and no world records were set I bet they find a more consistent way for dv2s three days neither Zach nor erode house instead of PB but Zach certainly had had the better chances of the two he set numerous 227s and with the new time save on Grief cheese he was in position to get a record if he could just get there again but on the evening of day four it was a Roadhouse who found himself ahead of the record after episode six after utilizing the new strategy and having a nice start to episode 5 he remained in the lead heading into 5-5 this was the level that caused Zach to miss the record so many times in the last three days but he wrote house clutched it out oh it's big first try dv2 and entering 5-6 his best possible time was 226.40. e-road house was one level away from getting a 226. to her clip he needed to get door clip don't do it to us and he did oh let's go after wasting about 20 seconds oh the Run was now teetering on the line of being a 226 or a 227. and in the end the run finished as a oh 2703 it wasn't a 226 but it was a world record but the world record had finally been achieved Bittersweet world record interestingly at the exact same time Zach was on a run in episode three entering 5-5 existence partial to get a 226. it was a chance to take the record right back but his final two levels weren't good enough he finished with a 227.07. if he had set this time an hour earlier it would have been record but he was too late and with the event winding down it was shaping up to be a pretty disappointing few days for Zach done attempts for four days straight and Not only was there no 226 but he had lost his world record in the process runs continued on for the next couple hours but the event had a hard cutoff of 11 pm to get your last run started and it's the line it seems kind of arbitrary before the deadline ticked away Zach was on the main menu maybe you shouldn't even bother starting another run oh it's gonna be a little storybook conclusion he gets it here over the past few days and no 226 mg once I'd lost record I was like okay I lost record I no longer have a streak of Records it is what it is that's totally fine but I really wanted to win BTR and I didn't want to go out on the note that I had which was like multiple choked records in the event in previous days um obviously I wanted the record back obviously I wanted to win the event but getting the first 226 was still like the priority in my mind so with just eight seconds to go Zach started his final run of the event there she goes so he joined six the world record in the middle of their own final runs and I was like it's like watering winners where they play no one time where I reset here because even if it doesn't PB I have to get through this run no matter what once I started that run I was like I know I can do it I didn't think I would but I knew I could during every cutscene I would be looking at the restream just seeing who was who was on a run and I saw that Ginger was on a really good run and the reason I noticed this was only because I could hear the commentary and the commentary was just like losing their minds they were like I can't believe that Ginger is like on this insane run right now and I was like this must be really good for how much the commentary is talking about it sure enough it was insane Ginger was the game's Seventh Place Runner with a personal best of 231.59 but with his back to the wall at the very end of the event he had somehow mustered a run on world record Pace he did it he did it to him he went plus Ultra four minutes ahead of his PB Jesus Christ ginger has this capability sometimes to just play Insane he's an anomaly he can sometimes just pull something out that you've never like even thought was possible and I knew that it was it was actually a realistic possibility that he would get record and even maybe the first 226 just with that run was this really happening the Seventh Place Runner jumping straight to world record well you bet your sweet baby down last few levels and he finished with a 227-51 well that sucks an enormous PB and definitely one to be proud of but it still wasn't the world record meanwhile that door all eyes were on Ginger Zach had started off on an incredible run of his own so we typically talk about a good run as exiting we pay attention to our episode 4 exit that marks like around the halfway point in the run previously the best episode of four exit was I think a 109.56 so getting a 109 episode 4 exit was something that had been done I think a total of three times ever and so what happened was I got another 109 and that is something that I wasn't even looking for you don't need a 109 for a 226 you don't even need a warrant nine for a 225 and that made me a little nervous but what happened next if he was human that is this is crazy on one of the games but he's made of ice pieces ever Zach proceeded to play the best episode 6 ever performed now this was not only the fastest Pace ever it was the fastest Pace ever by over a minute Zach was in position to demolish the world record damn he's hitting him with a big shot right now in the webcam final two episodes the Run was pretty much insane uh it caught up led a little bit of time in episode three until I got to the infamous Library skip when I got there I prayed to the gods and those gods did not give me a first try library skip they did not give me a secretary Library skip they did not even give me a 10th try library skip so I ended up losing around 55 seconds on that trick now at this point I was like okay this is fine now I wasn't happy it's only a minute now that might sound like an insane thing to say this was such an insane run that I could afford a minute time loss so I did lose a minute and uh everything was pretty much still in order I was still way ahead of the record and out of episode three going into episode five everything was was definitely still set up for me to that's [ __ ] tragic 226 it was definitely I haven't even seen Library skip be a tough one really unlock episode five the other players were finishing up their runs and guess what ejp man PB by over a minute tea fresh PB by 18 seconds we super PB by 47 oh wow it was magic in the air that night all of this stuff is happening and I'm on this run and I'm like my mind cannot comprehend everything going on there's four people pding and so in my mind I'm like it's time to focus so I close the Stream with all the other Runners finishing all eyes were back on Zach he made his way into 5-5 still ahead of the record by close to a minute when you're on Pace this level is the killer I mean it's no question there isn't a level in the game that's even you can't [ __ ] up dv2 here now and I get to dv2 skip that'll haunt you for the rest of your life it's very hard to pause buffer while your hands are doing this the whole time so I have this uh this thing that I usually tell myself you could be nervous later oh no no first try you have to hit the trick I get the tricks third try which is effectively my first actual attempt at the trick dv2 skip definitely I would say is a harder trick but db3 when the when the pressure is on when the nerves are setting in is just brutal no and I'm like that's fine but when I miss it twice that's when I started Panic yeah Panic is setting six times before I finally got it and at that point I was like oh this is gonna be close the best been opening cutscene is over a minute long and I think that that's gonna be so sad get almost two minutes so you can't miss door clip not even once be ready you know to prepare the whole time I was not preparing I was sitting there shaking being nervous out of my mind and my heart was beating super fast I could not stop thinking about what was going to happen and I don't think it was helping the toughest trick in 5-6 is door clip it was a trick that killed many runs over the years but this run was perhaps more important than any before Zach made his way through 5-6 and miraculously he got door clip right away there you go all right so now it's in the books he had some leeway and as he entered the last room of the Run he was in position to get up there she is so I get there and I'm killing the I'm killing the Stormtroopers and it's going a lot worse than it usually does I should have absolutely been cementing like a low 226 5x here and I was actually starting to lose a lot more time than I thought what happened I took a very bad death Troopers that just died which is just a flat two seconds and I was like okay now I'm cutting it really close so I killed the last guy I look at it and I literally just say please please please my God please I didn't know what to do he gets it with a 226.59 I hit the door I looked at the timer 2 26 59.7 I was at first in disbelief for about half a second and then I lost my mind I could not believe it I was just so proud of myself to finally get the 226 the amount of emotions running through me were just that's huge I couldn't believe it that's so big the 226 was incredible the culmination of Zacks and others efforts since the start of the year but it wasn't the end of the road for Lego Star Wars speedruns there was still room for improvement as a lot of time was bled in episodes three and five so even in the few months after the event there's been a lot of record improvements just a few days after the event ended lowered the record by another 21 seconds largely from cleaning up the final two episodes he'd then lowered the record down Jesus 225 thinks in part to a new strategy in 5-4 by ejp man meanwhile both e Roadhouse and ginger Legend were getting close he wrote house had a couple runs that barely missed record due to a missed Skip and ginger Legend had taken his PB down to a mid-226. of those three runners Zach would have the most success in the following few weeks ultimately lowering the record to the first 224. he's a prime Wick but that's not who holds the record today that honor goes to a Roadhouse a 224-43 This Record featured a fairly slow first four episodes oh but the strongest final two get The Mantel bag ever in a run that's where the world record stands today to most Lego Star Wars is a game that you played 10 years ago for fun I didn't ever touched again it was a neat distraction and a source of nostalgia but in the end Lego Star Wars was a game of the past but to this dedicated group of speedrunners this game is so much more than that they've been able to yeah I know where I saw summoning salt tweet about creating rivalries and friendships but I didn't want to look at it I didn't want to be spoiled they've given the game A Renewed boost of popularity years after its heyday and over the course of a decade this is how they've lowered its world record look at that Jesus Christ this period was probably the most turbulent down here this was the one where it got like really crazy because a lot of the new faces came in around here and then this is where it just got cut throat [ __ ] 16 hour a day runs world record Jesus Christ thanks for watching Gotta Love an active speed running if you enjoyed the video please consider subscribing it really helps me out crypto chart true thanks for me some calo yeah I definitely think I'm gonna pull the trigger on my idea I talked about earlier I think I'm just gonna choose like some obscure [ __ ] dog [ __ ] game put a bounty on speed running it and whoever has the fastest time after a month gets like 10 grand see if we can find like the next like best Speed game I think that's going to be a lot of fun somebody's all [ __ ] crushed this man every time I watch a summoning salt video I immediately get back into speedrunning so I think I'll probably Speed Run Lego The Hobbit is this on Steam I hope so I don't want to have to download like an emulator for it let me see give me two seconds here let me see if I can find it on Steam

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Length: 94min 45sec (5685 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 26 2022