The Speedrun That REVOLUTIONIZED Lego Star Wars

[Music] foreign [Music] has a rich history with its world record going down by almost an hour and a half across 78 distinct records over the past seven years these runs range from the early playthroughs that trailblaze the game to the most recent runs that leave little room for error from Runza took minutes off of the record at a time to those that shaved off only a second among all of these achievements one world record stands Above the Rest as the most impressive Lego Star Wars speedrun ever completed one that pushed the game far past the boundaries of its time and revolutionized the way players approached it this is the story of bat run e-road houses 2 3149 thank you [Music] let's set the scene on July 22nd 2020 veteran TCS speedrunner we super became the first to complete the game in under 2 hours and 40 minutes the race to sub-240 had been a close one with each of the top three runners achieving runs that barely fell a short of being the first one to break the 10-minute barrier in the weeks leading up but during the same time another Runner just outside the top three had been rapidly improving he rode house first started running the game in Spring 2020 as a joke but quickly began chunking down his time throughout the summer as he became more and more serious about the hobby in August he became the second person to break the sub-240 barrier jumping up four spaces on the leaderboard with a new world record of 2 39-43 oh oh my gosh dude we super returned over the following few months armed with two new skips found over the summer and got a pair of World Records to lower the fastest completion of the game down to 2 3608 on October 11th before taking an extended break to focus on other projects however only two weeks after this record was set a new 75 second time save was found using this new Skip and matching the execution of Wii Super's latest run he wrote house obtained his second world record a 2 34-51 at this point he had his sights set on achieving A 233 a run which would leave him satisfied with the category's level of optimization he spent the next two months trying to achieve this but struggled to see major Improvement lowering his time by only 19 seconds after another 100 attempts to help ease the frustration on the evening of December 17 2020 he decided to do a race for fun with fellow Runner ejp man what followed was one of the craziest and most unexpected runs of the game ever performed there we go dude I've never seen you play that well before I don't see anybody play that yeah look at the time just just stare at the final game let's dive into the details to see how this run came to be three two one all right I think I'm gonna win this one at the time of this run the biggest early game obstacle was pod fraud a newly found very difficult trick in the fourth level of the Run making a mistake while performing the skip resulted in over a minute of time loss and forced a reset as a result the expectations of the three levels before it were slightly lower than they have been before the Trick's Discovery just to increase the number of runs that made it to most espa pod race e Roadhouse played the first three levels without much issue having a slight time loss with a second try jump over the barrier negotiations making up for it with a very fast tree climb invasion of Naboo and a textbook escape from Naboo to enter pod race only six seconds off his sum of bests as I alluded to pod race was a difficult level at the time requiring a precise high-speed maneuver to hit the second lap trigger with one player while remaining out of bounds with the other to still execute the Pod fraud lap skip if you don't know much about this skip I broke it down in detail in one of my older videos which you can check out for yourself linked below having successfully executed pod fraud he cleared pod race and continued on retake feed Palace and Darth Maul are the first major execution test levels of the Run featuring a number of Skiffs and complicated 1p2cs that require practice and honed skills to consistently perform well at a high level e Roadhouse cruised through theed with no mishaps and got a clean first try dm1 in the beginning of maul before getting both of the double frame perfect cycle skips in the end fight of the level this episode 1 was pretty solid avoiding any serious mistakes and coming out just 10 seconds slower than the fastest episode 1 ever executed at the time he said only 20 seconds off of his son of best and was ready to continue a decent early game into episode 2. the first half of episode 2 is mostly a test of execution featuring three levels with a lot of 1pt2c and not too many skips levels like these tend to be what separate the good players from the best those with the best average play tend to save seconds over those with slightly worse gameplay and being able to capitalize on tests of execution and eke out those few extra seconds consistently allows good players to push ahead of the rest e Roadhouse cruised through these three levels scoring a Droid Factory that was only a fraction of a second off of this gold and the only noteworthy mistake here being a second try R4 fly on Discovery on kamino then came Jedi battle the first RNG heavy level of the run the first half of the level heavily tests execution from killing the droids surrounding the three pillars before two waves of hide and seek where the player has to locate the randomly spawned insecurity in super battle droids he wrote House's pillars are pretty clean but he lost a little bit of time to some mediocre RNG in the two waves finishing up the level 13 seconds off of his goal which is a pretty standard split for the time he finished up the episode with a no mistakes gunship cavalry and a successful Dooku skip although there was a bit of time loss between kamino and Jedi battle the rest of the episode was clean enough to secure a six second best split time out of episode 2. a comfortable Pace as he transitioned into the mid game at this point he was 48 seconds off of his sum of bests with the best possible time of 2 30 28 which is more than good enough Pace to be on when aiming for a 233 after purchasing exploding Blaster bolts and entering secret plans e-road House Began the first original trilogy episode of The Run the OT episodes are usually considered to be harder than the prequels with more skips tests of execution and opportunities for time loss episode 4 starts off with a fairly consistent level and e-road house flew through Seeker plans without any issue before starting through the genlin wastes John Lin is one of the more broken levels in The Game featuring skips in most rooms of the level with a quick red brick grab and clean sand crawler he entered the second to last room with a level on a pretty good genland unfortunately he took a costly death in the first quicksand jump and another on the second and then had some issues getting speeder clip in the final room which resulted in a split that was 27 seconds off of this gold segment while this is not ideal since e-road House's average level of play is pretty high and he has been playing well throughout the run so far he could afford to have a bad split here or there and maintain peace with his goal knowingness he shook off the time loss and kept his focus on the Run ahead continuing into most Eisley Spaceport he got a fast first try on oil glitch and powered through the next few rooms without issue Landing a quick no deactivate spy fight skip without problem and rescue the princess he landed the audubon's first try and despite a slow appearance from Obi-Wan he still finished the split with a good time off the back of his clean execution into death star escape he wrote house faced off against the newest large skip in the game falconless with this skip he was able to bypass the lengthy end room of the level which routes out over a minute of execution-heavy gameplay and some inconsistent enemy combat the only major time loss that can happen on this level comes from losing a stormtrooper helmet but he wrote House made it through all of the Imperial panels without incident and finished only a few seconds off of gold the final level of the episode Rebel attack is relatively straightforward and he played through with almost no issue taking only a minor time loss to a pair of deaths at the halfway point of the Run he wrote house sat at plus three to his best exits with the time loss of johnland offset by the rest of episode 4 being close to his goals keeping close to best exits was all he really wanted to see out of these three episodes his 23109 best possible time at this point was 129 off with some of bests so if he could replicate that in the second half of the Run he would finish with the 232-38 however since the back half of the run is where a lot of the Troublesome splits reside it's harder to play this close to bests in episodes 6 3 and 5. in either case he had plenty of room to still hit his goal of 233 even if the second half of the Run didn't go as well after buying fast Force e-road House Began episode 6 with Jabba's Palace cruising through the first half of the level before approaching spiderless he clipped out first try with a fast setup and executed the out of bounds after it and the rancor boss fight cleanly resulting in his first gold segment of the Run this would turn out to also be a community gold the best segment anyone that ran the game has ever achieved on that level during a run with a good start to the episode he continued into what is debatably the worst level in the entire speedrun the great pit of cartoon this level features a lot of enemy variants in its first and last rooms and disco skip one of the least consistent tricks in the game at the time which many well-paced runs have been killed to e-road House made it through Room 1 with only a single death towards the end which was about as good as you could hope for with that room he managed to first try disco Skip and even though he got unlucky with a despawn power up in the end room he still managed to play only five seconds off this gold a feat anyone would be happy with on cartoon cruise through Speeders Showdown getting a quick first try speeder Skip and playing close to Gold then entered Battle of Endor probably the most execution heavy level in the game he played the level very well avoiding any real errors and finishing only three seconds off of this gold he got Ultra kill on the next level on his first try albeit with some issues pushing Palpatine towards the end of the trick and then headed into the final level of the episode into the Death Star this level features an RNG heavy first room that even top level Runners can easily lose 20 seconds to e-road house got a solid first room only 10 seconds off of the best ever done and played through the entire rest of the level cleanly without dying or blanking a single torpedo this resulted in another gold segment beating his previous best by 11 seconds and also beating the community gold one that had stood for almost five months this episode 6 was the fastest ever performed in a full game run at the time seeing it only 14 seconds off of e-road House's episode some of bests and only one second slower than what his sum of best was when he started the episode in that run at this point he was now a minute 45 ahead of the world record and his best exits and with a 231-21 best possible time he did not even need a good end of the run to shatter his goal of 233 in fact 232 was very possible at this point as long as there was no disasters in the last two episodes and there was even an outside chance of a 231 happening that was a bit far-fetched since playing within 39 seconds of summer vests in the last two episodes is pretty difficult to do on to episode 3 after sailing through the auto scroller battle over Coruscant he had a pretty decent opening to Chancellor in Peril minimizing time loss to enemy variants in the first four rooms and then Landing all three cycle skips in the boss fight to finish out the level in General Grievous he faced off against the third RNG heavy level of the run but managed a pretty decent quick kill dealing 9 Hertz of damage in four Cycles before finishing the boss off with a lightsaber slash he followed that up with a very well executed defensive Kashyyyk before heading into ruin of the Jedi where he played flawlessly and beat yet another Community gold the longest standing Community gold in the game at the time which hadn't been beaten in over 10 months he rounded out the episode with a couple of hiccups in Darth Vader which ended up being a weak split but not enough to derail the momentum of the run or his Focus episode 3 was pretty solid particularly into Chic and especially ruined which helped balance out the time loss on a few of the other splits he lost 11 seconds to his Pace in this episode but was still sitting at a minute 34 ahead of the world record his best possible time was still under 232 which gave him a comfortable cushion in the last episode to walk in a satisfying PB a 231 however looks to be out of the cards given that he had only 23 seconds of leeway to beat that minute barrier and episode 5 features two RNG heavy levels as well as the hardest level in the game starting out with Hoth battle he played the opening well before heading into the arena at the end of the level his first two waves had very good RNG and after finishing out a decent last two waves he exited the level only one second off of his goal next was escape from Echo base a consistent level that he wrote house had mastered during his run although there were a few small errors throughout the level he finished only five seconds away from his gold certainly good enough to maintain the pace Falcon flight was up next out of all the RNG levels in the game this one is the most out of the player's control since the highly variable Boulder encounter at the end of the level can make or break Paces when a run gets there given that e-road house was a minute 54 ahead here it was nearly impossible for even a disastrous Boulder to ruin the pace but given that his best possible time at this point was still sub-231 a really good Boulder could make a 231 a reality however small he ended up losing around 15 seconds to a really good falcon flight and although he actually saved five seconds to his personal best his best possible time was now sitting at a 231-56 making a 231 pretty much impossible given that three levels were made in the Run undeterred he continued into Dagobah getting past hutskip without issue and finishing out the level 2 seconds off gold at this point e Roadhouse entered the penultimate level of the speedrun Cloud City trap considered the hardest level in the Run given the infeasibility of a 231 at this point there was not much pressure to perform perfectly on this level to clutch a minute barrier but since he was really happy with the pace of the Run he decided to defend the voice call he was in to maximize his Focus as he entered the second room at the level he got this very lucky d-flat to destroy the barrier early normally you would walk over the barrier and then deflect but this rare variant saves a few seconds over the normal result right after he attempted the first major skip of the level panel fly and landed at first try in the Next Room he got the Gap jump and panel jump first try as well continuing into the second Darth Vader boss fight although this room didn't have a skip at the time it was still one of the hardest boss fights in the game to do optimally e-road house executed the room perfectly then continued into the third boss fight this room features the most precise jump in the run a jump that has only three frames of leeway split between the two jump inputs The Roadhouse quickly lined up for his attempt and nailed this trick first try as well an almost perfect Cloud City trap up to this point he got the jumps in the last room first and second try respectively before finishing the final boss fight as the level ends e-road house said it best this ended up being an 11 second gold in a 6 second Community gold and on such a difficult late game level goals like this were not a common thing with Cloud City trap out of the way and the new gold under his belt he was now sitting at a 23148 best possible time making it now totally feasible for him to snag the 231 with just betrayal over bessman left he had a chance to close out the best episode 5 ever achieved in a run if he got a solid last split the level features only a few points that could potentially cause disaster and he was able to get by the first one door clip without issue into the second half of the level he continued to play cleanly also clearing box clip without issue and entering the last room of the speed run pacing his goal [Music] 2 31 49 a new world record by two minutes and 43 seconds the largest drop in a world record time in one run since solus's 317 near the three years prior e Roadhouse had shattered his goal for the category leaving fellow top runners in awe that a 231 run had already happened heralding in as the best executed Speed Run the game had ever seen so where does a game go after having its best run ever it is the nature of all competitive speedrun World Records to continue lowering over time and what was once a good time never remains that way for long e-road House's new world record was not so noteworthy because it got a time that no one thought would ever happen but rather because he got the time much earlier than anyone could have thought it would have been achieved it was quite literally a run ahead of its time but eventually with a combination of more competition new struts and a constant increase in the average level of play the time that would be considered a good run would continue to lower further and further but regardless of how many minute barriers have been broken in the time since the 23149 is still to this day considered the best executed world record the game has ever seen and that is a legacy few runs are able to come close to but who knows maybe in the next few years we'll see another run that is just as ahead of its time thank you for watching if you enjoyed this video please like and share and if you are interested in others like it related to Lego speedrunning feel free to subscribe and check out the other videos I've made the TCS any percent world record continues to be lowered with the top Runners frequently doing attempts live on Twitch if you are interested in keeping up with their progress links to their streams can be found down below until next time I hope you have an excellent day [Music] thank you

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Length: 20min 25sec (1225 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 21 2022