How To Speedrun FFX No Mix *EXCLUSIVELY* On HD Remaster

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This video is a breakdown on the route for a no mix speedrun for FFX HD Remaster. It includes everything the player must do in the route from the very first fight to the last. All the gameplay was recorded in segments from loading many different save files and basically stitching it all together. So there are going to be small inconsistencies throughout the video, like exact items in the inventory and exact weapon and armor drops from boss fights (like how Oblitzerator dropped a Thunder Ball, but I'm using a Lightning Steel that I got from Oblitzerator.) So it's not really a single run condensed down, but importantly, the route shown works.
My commentary for the video is beginner friendly and was written to be thorough and accessible to everyone. So even if you aren't familiar with FFX, it's easy to understand the route and know how and why it works. This is the first time that I've ever written a script for recording commentary. I chose to write one because I realized that there were so many interesting things to cover throughout the video, and it was hard to remember everything I wanted to talk about without the commentary falling behind. Also the process of covering every aspect that there was led to me find a few routing errors actually, and I was thankful I realized them and didn't release a route that was inconsistent. I also released a no commentary version of the video for those that have that preference.
So the original PS2 no mix run that this route is based on is no longer available to watch on speedrun(dot)com. As of this video's publishing, that category has been removed from the leaderboards entirely (I'm assuming due to no activity or interest.) So I don't know who ran this category originally, and I couldn't find the original run anywhere else. I would have liked to thank them in some capacity. So whoever you are, know that this video would not have been possible without your original run, and if you happen to find this video, I hope you enjoy.
So I want to say that, although I'm so very proud of making this video, I actually have no plans to do speedruns of it, nor have I even done an actual run myself. This project started about 4 years ago, and at that time, I definitely was gonna do runs. But at this time, I'm deciding to release the video and move on. Lately, I've taken an interest in challenge runs, and I'm wanting to make more videos pertaining to that. I would even say that this video was actually more about the challenge of coming up with the route than making it for the purposes to learn how to speedrun it. That being said, I encourage anyone who's interested to run this category to do so! I really think it's a super fun route that has a lot of interesting differences from other categories that change up the pacing for a lot of the fights. If anyone does decide to give this run a go, let me know! I'd love to watch someone do runs of this! And who knows, maybe someday in the future I'll do a run or two.
I wanna give a shoutout to a few awesome people for the darn heck of it:
Davesterio for being a great dude. I would watch his FFX speedruns while lurking in his chat and he inspired me to run the game myself.
Keeanolookalike for hanging out in my chat while I was doing any% speedruns. It's been a while, but I hope you are doing well!
CarcinogenSDA for continuing to be my #1 inspiration to make cool awesome content that other nerds like myself can enjoy. Keep on keepin' on my dude!
Much love, everyone ♥♥♥

[@Elwiz9999]

Glad I stumbled across this video. I'm not a speedrunner but this was a very entertaining watch, good job. 👍

[@unheilig47]

Thank you! Glad you liked it. I've always enjoyed routing over actual speedruns and this was a fun project to work on.

[@knickabocker29]

this video deserves way more views than it is, amazing work my man!

[@unheilig47]

Thank you! It was such a huge project that became bigger than intended, but I was happy with it.

[@bradking6902]

Love this guide, would awesome if you could make another guide with the new crusader sin fight skip.. Maybe adding a timer in the top corner that shows you progress as a guide for people following to compare with, also would be good to add some mini sphere grids around the boarder of the vid with a live update on where each member was at in case people skip sections which would allow then to see the path they need to follow.

[@jarg6985]

Awesome video! Incredible how much planning goes into routing a run like this!

[@petepeterson1240]

thank you! - not a speedrunner - but used this to beat the game. It was a pure joy to blast through it. Thank you for your work

[@sublteiamnot3960]

Amazing and informative video my man, good shit 🐐

[@TheOnexDeeJay]

Awesome video! I followed the script from the start and was easily able to beat the game following it.

[@unheilig47]

Woo! That's awesome 👍 glad you enjoyed

[@Otschki]

Very entertaining and informative! Glad I stumbled upon this. Would love if you uploaded more ffx content!

[@unheilig47]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 😁 as of now, no plans for more FFX content, but who knows, I might find something interesting to show off in the future.

[@gonzaloalva126]

Thank you for the video! Very informative and helpful

[@bandit-revolver]

No idea what I'm doing here but good video.

[@unheilig47]

Thanks! Howdy and welcome ✌

[@giovannimartinez5515]

Love this. I’m gonna try this route on the ps5 remaster

[@neonfatum]

Great video! Always love seeing interesting FFX content. Sorry for being very pedantic, maybe you omitted that detail for brevity, but you could actually do this run in FFX International or in the PAL version on the PS2 as well, since the HD Remaster is mechanically identical to that version. Although if you were to play the PAL version, it would of course be a much slower run.

[@unheilig47]

Oh, that's right! I had totally forgotten about PAL being identical mechanically and didn't think to include that info. Thanks for pointing that out!

[@cheesemonk9504]

Awesome video man, makes me wanna try this run for sure!

[@unheilig47]

Thanks! You should go for it! I still need to do an actual run sometime haha

[@cheesemonk9504]

@@unheilig47 post it for sure!

[@metalmephit]

good job, im now running along side this tutorial. thanks' my kimahri did over 7000 self destruct damage on the sinspawn gu fight needing only an energy blast to kill it!

[@unheilig47]

awesome! have fun with it 👍and thanks for checking it out!

[@metalmephit]

Ave you done a bahamut run explanation? I'm trying to understand what is necessary for a speedrun to work

[@unheilig47]

@@metalmephit I haven't had any experience with Bahamut runs. That route came after I had stopped doing any% runs. I'm sure speedrun.com still has good resources if you haven't checked that out yet

[@Micahlopl]

Thanks, very interesting vid 😊

[@zombiiz1624]

This guide is awesome.

[@unheilig47]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@sesmcawameqi]

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