Soul Reaver Remaster DESTROYED by Local ITALIAN SPEEDRUNNER! 🤭

[@kevinbernardini1293]

Kain: Finally, I must admit I’m disappointed, I thought you’ll get here sooner…. Raziel: It’s been 8 minutes Kain: Did it trouble you to murder your brothers? Raziel: I don’t even know where they are……

[@SignorTromboncino]

Kain: I had faith in you, in your ability to glitch hunt Raziel: Lies, you could have not foreseen all of this

[@lux2625]

@@SignorTromboncino Kain:Raziel as long as one of us exists, we will optimize time to bizarre levels. The crux always awaits the brave. Raziel: Lies and more lies kain, I will destroy you in 2 seconds with 34 microseconds !

[@mastadon1154]

​@@SignorTromboncino Kain: You nearly had me Raziel.. *Raziel is already talking to Kain at the pillars in the second game*

[@SolitarywolfSquall]

xDDD

[@LegendaryDarkKnight602]

Raziel:DAMN YOU, KAIN. YOU ARE NOT GOD, THIS ACT OF GENOCIDE IS UNCONSCIONABLE!!! Elder: See, this guy gets it. Raziel and Kain simultaneously. Raziel: SHUT UP!!! Kain: What was that?

[@delko000]

Raziel: fights Kain and gets the reaver. 5 min later: oh no the sanctuary of clans is in ruins 😅

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@delko000 My god...! 🐦‍⬛

[@CHILLCREWGAMING]

I still don’t understand how people can sit and just find this stuff out… like who goes to a corner, presses a sequence of buttons accurately then glitches a map? Like how though lol!!!?? This stuff is godlike.

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@CHILLCREWGAMING Most of the stuff you see in speedruns is originally found by mistake, then further investigated more carefully by many members of said game's community. Everyone does it differently, but as a glitch hunter myself I can tell you that my process starts by observing how the game works, making assumptions based on what I observed and then test my assumptions until I understand why things work the way they do. Once I've got a grasp on how the game works, I start applying these concepts with the intent to save time with different uses of already known skips or by experimenting completely new stuff by myself with the knowledge I gathered before. For example, if I know the enemy AI triggers the moment I touch a cutscene, I'll try to avoid the cutscene so I can have a better time clearing them. Or even better, if I can skip the sequence entirely by skipping the room by for example, abusing geometry and stuff. My only limitation is that I don't know how to read code, otherwise I would also carefully be doing that and abuse any fallacy I can find, combined with the knowledge acquired by observing how the game behaves! Of course, all this needs to be changed based on the game, but the process I follow is more or less the same!

[@Cinemaphile7783]

These are the same kinds of bugs and glitches in all 3D games. Speed runners spend hours looking for them.

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@Cinemaphile7783 That is incorrect. I glitch hunted on quite a few games and no one was triggered the same. Even this remaster, which takes the original PC game as a base, had different ways to pull them off

[@CHILLCREWGAMING]

@@SignorTromboncino this is so informative! Thank you for this. I’ve been completely clueless until now how it all works. Now, I’m really intrigued haha. You all have amazing brains hahaha. Well done!

[@SignorTromboncino]

​@@CHILLCREWGAMING Yeah, it's quite fun! A lot of runners just copy and paste what others already found before them, but I personally prefer to take everything that's already been discovered, put it under further questioning and come up with expanded or entirely new stuff!

[@DeimosXVX]

Kain: Ah Raziel you've arrived. Let us continue our rich dialogue regarding fate and- Hold [Space] to skip 😂

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@DeimosXVX Funnily enough, if I didn't skip the dialogue Kain would've mocked me for being too slow, which was the best part of all the speedruns on the OG LMAO

[@TheBitishDragon]

I Know You Raziel! You Are Speedy!! xD

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@TheBitishDragon Use your glitches to reave their souls, I can make it possible. Become my...Speedrunner... my angel of speed.

[@robertolimadaconceicao4658]

😂😂😂

[@SP_Spyran]

Tromboncino... You are worthy

[@SignorTromboncino]

What madness is this? What pityful category is this that I have come to run? A ban would be a release, next to this travesty...

[@ThatRandomDude204]

I like to imagine that Mobeius is running to the portal to do his speech to Raziel while being out of breath because he didn't expect for atleast a few hours or days later lmao

[@SignorTromboncino]

AHAHAHA That made me laugh out loud so much, such a goofy image 😂

[@gizzad]

You know whats funny. This is exactly what it looked like when I was a kid.

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@gizzad You had a wild imagination then! 😁

[@franciscolagrifa18]

I said exactly the same to some friends!

[@DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheapD4C]

For a second I read "Soul Reaver Remastered DESTROYED by Italian Localization, and I was about to throw hands cuz the italian dub is so good lmao

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheapD4C Ahahah! The Italian side is actually very well done because one of the devs is Italian and got very involved, in fact!

[@hypan0vaULTRA]

local italian makes carpaccio out of dark, deep and spoopy vampire game

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@hypan0vaULTRA AHAHAHA

[@X3PL]

Your jumps are so graceful that I had to watch until the very end

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@X3PL Thank you so much! It's quite a graceful way to move indeed, not gonna lie! The rhythm along with the animation and sound effect is quite relaxing 😃

[@shacrime4544]

Dude I laughed a lot because of these bugs that I didn't even imagine I had in the game lmao, excellent speedrun and I believe it could have been even faster if you didn't have the bad luck of falling into the water and returning to the spiritual world after jumping the broken bridge =/ congratulations! Greetings from Brazil

[@SignorTromboncino]

Thanks man, much appreciated and I'm very glad you laughed while watching it! It means a lot, because fun is the reason I do this kind of stuff in the first place 😇 And about the time, you're absolutely right! In fact my objective is to reach sub 10 minutes, so I'll keep trying to improve the route and execution until I'll get it. Greetings from Italy!

[@kingprone7846]

raziel..... you are worthy.... "Si."

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@kingprone7846 "Raziel, ne caghi a scoppio..." "Eccerto!"

[@PabloB888]

This speedrunner has mastered this game, but it surely took him hundreds of hours to get there.

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@PabloB888 Just a few (thousands) 😁

[@kirak1561]

Raziel is so fast here, that’s not even kain is yet in the chronpalast lmao

[@SignorTromboncino]

Raziel is a very fast boi when he feels like it

[@kirak1561]

@ true lmao

[@RazorBladezX]

I can barely even navigate the early part of the game on where to go. And this guy speedruns in 13 minutes

[@SignorTromboncino]

I may have known where to go from previous playthroughs, not sure tho

[@PseudoJudgement]

Maybe with the glitches, I can get past the bugged areas 😂

[@SignorTromboncino]

Doublejumping can take you far... no pun intended 😁

[@quinceywatches6020]

Nice master of the controls. Even when I played the earlier versions I had difficulty with camera and combat controls, but got used to them. The worst part of returning to the game was re-learning the dodge button of all things. I’m so used to the circle button on controllers being the default dodge button for 90% of the newer games. Great game, great speedrun!

[@SignorTromboncino]

Thanks a lot, appreciate it! The controls have been atrocious at first, because I was used on the original PC version with keyboard, which used 3 buttons for the camera. Now I'm also forced to use mouse, so I basically had to relearn the whole muscle memory (and I still have, hence some of the mistakes in the run). But I can see how it can get much more precise with these controls! I'm also thinking about using both keyboard and controller depending on the area, because with the timestop open the camera is fixed and I cannot move it around, and using keyboard's digital movement is slower than the controller's 360 movement!

[@ArthasTheLiftKing]

give this Raziel a biiiiig Pizza with whatever he likes, you, my friend, have skills!

[@SignorTromboncino]

I think Raziel prefers a Cheesecake! 😄 But for reals, thank you a lot! And if you really wanna know, being a pizza delivery guy allows me to eat good ass pizza every single day for FREE! 😁

[@ArthasTheLiftKing]

@SignorTromboncino Now we totally need to a see a giant Pizza Speedrun

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@ArthasTheLiftKing Video titled "BREAKING NEWS: Local Italian Speedrunner Almost DIES Eating Pizza 2FAST! 😂👌"

[@Photauntas]

Awesome work

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@Photauntas Thanks a lot! 😄

[@sfelix42]

Very impressive... I'm not a speed runner myself but I enjoy watching others pull off this kinda stuff. Took me 10 hours to complete the game, took you 10 minutes! When it comes to glitches, I like finding ways to get into places where you are not supposed to go, or do things you are not supposed to do. One thing I've always wanted to know, which won't help with speed runs, but would be pretty amusing. Has anyone found a way yet to get to the material realm in the starting area yet?

[@SignorTromboncino]

I don't think anyone ever tried as it's not useful, but in the original I've been able to shift while keeping the Spectral Reaver! And if the loading zone is funny enough, I could jump out of the geometry, trigger the previous area and fly back in the Underworld while in the Material Realm. The water would make me shift when I'll touch water, but with Rahab's power I should be able to swim the whole Underworld and tickle the Elder God's Eye! 😄

[@user-xv4hb7gh1o]

Actually I did on the ps1 as the game constantly loads from the disk. Get far enough away from the wall that appears to block the underworld and open the disk tray. Come back to it and that wall is unloaded. Walk into the void and the game pauses. Close the disk tray and the game loads the area. Raziel passes through the wall. The area is u see water but if I remember, not fully. Nothing changes except it is less green and there are no enemies.

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@user-xv4hb7gh1o Very very interesting! Hardware manipulation is usually not allowed in speedruns, but I find any kind of broken thing to be interesting regardless of its use

[@user-xv4hb7gh1o]

@ Yeah I had no concept of speedrunning when I was messing with this at the time. One of my favourite things to do was throw an enemy into an unloaded section and then close the disk flap to load in the level. I liked the idea that there was an enemy falling out of bounds into oblivion. The only other use I found for it was bypassing doors and gates but I never found much use for it really

[@SignorTromboncino]

If you manage to get through an unloaded door and close the tray to make it run again when you're right at the edge of two loading zones, in theory you should be able to cross gates without needing to do puzzles for example. You gave me a very very cool idea to test, if only I can make the game run on my old PS1 :D

[@IdarkshadowI]

Time stop glitch is so broken... and I love it!

[@SignorTromboncino]

It is definitely the funniest thing to look at AND execute in the game, everytime I pull it off correctly it's a short dopamine hit as I know I'm risking my life when I use it 😂

[@yere_kira]

this guy can get inside in every wall

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@yere_kira Solid walls are an illusion...

[@yere_kira]

@ 😂

[@cornjeebus]

and i thought your 33 minute run was insane! great job!

[@SignorTromboncino]

Thanks! The 33 run was decent, but had poor execution along with no timestop and it was my very first remaster run. This is much funnier! 😄

[@cornjeebus]

@SignorTromboncino I saw that run right after finishing a 10 hour casual playthrough, and you've really inspired me to check out some these tricks. I've been having a lot of fun messing around with Time Stop and testing out how the game reacts to it. Thank you for helping breathe more life into one of my childhood favorites!

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@cornjeebus Hell Yeah brother! That makes me very happy, not gonna lie. It's the same reason I do these kind of things myself and seeing other people enjoying it in my same way can only bring me happiness! ❤️

[@default8522]

GG, I'm glad timestop is still a thing, even if it is more of a faff than before

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@default8522 Timestop is still very strong, just requires to be used differently!

[@jblasutavario9549]

Well done 🎉

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@jblasutavario9549 Thanks!

[@Magnifico145]

Is the "flystop" trick not possible to be performed in the remaster or why isn't it used here?

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@Magnifico145 The Flystop is a combination of the Flying Glitch + Timestop. Flying doesn't work in the Remaster the way it did in the OG (so far), and even if it did it would've been slower, because it requires the Force glyph and that's a bit too far away to get!

[@TimmyJay02]

$30.00 ladies and gentleman, right here.

[@SignorTromboncino]

Weeell, AAACHTUALLY...! 🤓👆 It was 0$ for me since I got it for free by one of the devs 😇

[@EraseTime]

Avevo visto tempo fa una speedrun molto simile alla tua alla fine i glitch sono gli stessi ma cambiano alcune cose. Non ho mai capito come si fa quella cosa del menu con Select che attivi e disattivi rapidamente e freeza il game, cosa dovrebbe comportare a livello di codice e ti permette di fare cose assurde tipo il giramento dei cubi o il doppio salto

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@EraseTime Si, i glitch sono eseguiti alla stessa maniera, ma specialmente il timestop funziona in modo diverso per come è stato riscritto il codice. Infatti se provi a fare le stesse identiche cose dell'originale, il gioco crasha o non ti butta fuori dalla geometria. Devo fare un video a proposito letteralmente domani, ma alla base ci sta il fatto che si chiude il menù dei glifi il frame esatto in cui il modello di Raziel passa la zona di caricamento tra due aree. Poi riposizionandoti davanti ad un oggetto su cui è possibile fare un'azione, il gioco crede che tu sia lì anche dopo esserti spostato, perché di fatto il gioco è freezato. Quindi muovendoti in un'altra zona terrai la capacità di usare l'oggetto in questione, ma l'oggetto non essendo più in memoria viene sostituito con il target più vicino in memoria e il gioco cerca di buttartici a fianco, il che porta spesso e volentieri ad un teleport fuori dalla geometria per la velocità a cui viene sparato Raziel. È una cosa molto complessa che richiede tantissimo tempo di trial and error, perché gran parte dei teleport o crashano il gioco o non passano attraverso le pareti. Ed è questo il motivo per cui mi vedi assorbire anime, uccidere nemici apparentemente insignificanti e fare avanti e indietro in certe zone, è il metodo per manipolare la memoria in una maniera conveniente 😃

[@Boccy98]

Grandissimo​@@SignorTromboncino

[@xxArCxxWavExx]

Out of curiosity, is a run on the old version basically the same, or did they change some stuff in the remaster? Sick run btw!

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@xxArCxxWavExx The tricks are more or less the same, but they work differently. The timestop doesn't use the same route, for example, and the fly doesnt work. At first we thought it was useless because the same teleports weren't going through walls or the game was crashing, and only the Breakout (doublejump) was working. Then I started to test unconventional stuff, I managed to get OoB, and with the community effort we managed to restore doing Kain1 and Kain2 only like in the original game, but in a different way!

[@xxArCxxWavExx]

@@SignorTromboncino Very cool! Are there any video's you'd recommend going in depth on the tricks/history of the run?

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@xxArCxxWavExx The old game had a very underground community with just a few runners, with the main moderators being elitists and gatekeepish towards new entries/strategies/ideas, info was scarce so everyone was on their own learning these cryptic glitches. If you don't have direct links shared in private, it's basically impossible to know the history of the game and your best bet is to use the History function on Speedrun.com on the original game In fact, only me and my cousin Veictas knew how to perform the Ariel Skip in the OG game, as he understood it himself by watching the TAS from mamuuuut & lapogne36, hence why we are the only two with a 23 minute run We simply didn't get the chance to explain it to the community, along with other things, but now that the speedrun community is integrated with the main LoK Discord, the music has changed a lot and new things are much more welcome, hence how we got the route shown in this video! And about the tricks, the Breakout is already done by NudiusJoe and I'll be working on a video tutorial on the Timestop myself. It will be Not Listed, but visible as a Guide on Speedrun.com and the Discord itself!

[@Axel_ODST]

I only gonna say.... What?!?!?!?! ❤❤❤❤

[@SignorTromboncino]

WHAT THE HEEEEEEELLL OH MY GAHHH...NO WAYY~AYY~AAAAYYY

[@SmokingBarrels88]

Bro really beat this in 13 Dawg

[@SignorTromboncino]

Hell Yeah! And will eventually do it under 10! 👊😎

[@fernnyz]

I've tried to make the glitch to stop time and looks like it dont work as it was in the vanila. I though that was not possible to do that on remastered, but looks like its possible by other maners.

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@fernnyz Yes, the glitch can be triggered just like the original but the game crashes in different points and some teleports require a very specific setup to make them work properly. That's why you can see me taking a torch and sucking souls in the run!

[@Slampbell]

Can someone explain the glitches used in this and how to perform them? Also, why were there so many pauses to devour aouls, especially in the Oracle's cave? Doesnt that needlessly increase the time?

[@SignorTromboncino]

Good question! The major glitches used in this run are the Breakout and the Timestop. The Breakout to put in simple words allows you to cancel any action and input another one right afterwards, useful for double jumping in this case. The Timestop allows you to make the game think you are always in front of an object or enemy, therefore allows you to perform actions that you would be able to do if you were in that position like using blocks or executing enemies. However, since the objects you are locked onto are no longer in the memory after 1 area, the game tries to teleport you to another entity, resulting in a teleport that if set up properly allows you to get through walls. Killing enemies/absorbing souls is there to lock onto a very specific thing, get through walls and not make the game crash. This is what they do in simple words, but they are way too complex to be explained in a comment. We are working to make these things more accessible, but at the moment you can find what you're looking for in the Discord. Link in the description!

[@alenvranar2151]

exacly before brekout and timestop didnt work together now wola there y go 12 min

[@layoso7999]

Mangiare le anime in un videogioco su più realtà parallele? Non mi dire altro

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@layoso7999 Mangiamo anime, giriamo i cubi di Pubic, saltiamo tanto tanto e si volaaaa :D

[@MaxColayera]

Belandi ! Quanto c'hai giocato in passato prima della remastered? 😏

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@MaxColayera Praticamente tutta la mia infanzia e circa 2/3 anni in seguito da speedrunner! 😄

[@MaxColayera]

@SignorTromboncino che bravo 🥰

[@Boccy98]

Stupendo complimenti non é facile fare queste cose

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@Boccy98 Grazie! 🙏

[@luaamoon]

Muito bom 🎉🎉🎉

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@luaamoon Thanks!

[@jantirdil9885]

"At last"... I must say I am quite impressed in your progress... But wouldn't be even faster to open Abyss portal before first fighting Kain, and then use it, rather than runnig all the way from EG pit to reach Oracle's Cave? And one more thing... Soul Reaver is all about the story so this speedrun is worse blasphemy than turning the Sarafan into a Vampire 😎

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@jantirdil9885 That is a very good idea! I thought about it before, but never actually timed it out. In the original that's out of question due to the cutscene not being skippable, but now that could actually be very clever. I'll keep it in consideration to test new routes in the close future, thanks! 😉

[@norbiv6592]

Works on ps5 ? And can you do it with soul river 2 ?

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@norbiv6592 Should work on all platforms, but Soul Reaver 2 uses a different kind of heavy game breaking sequences!

[@marcusbighouse]

So the engine is exactly the same as the original! Even rhe bugs can bw reproduced

[@SignorTromboncino]

The code has been rewritten, but most of it can still work the same or with slight variations, yes!

[@theendisnear1131]

che buggoni incredibili. ma c'era anche nel gioco originale sta roba?

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@theendisnear1131 Assolutamente si, e anche peggio a dire la verità! Nel gioco originale era pure possibile volare per tutta la mappa!

[@maraxussrafhael]

❤

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@maraxussrafhael 😘

[@dantenage9687]

Tromboncini rapidini

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@dantenage9687 Coi piedini velocini

[@nedex91]

My father

[@SignorTromboncino]

My nenno 🐎

[@CabalisOrder]

lol oh no

[@SignorTromboncino]

Hell Yeah :D

[@smartlibra2965]

What’s the point?

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@smartlibra2965 Having fun! Well, at least for me... :D Other people may lose their sanity trying to do stuff like this, but I LOVE finding ways to break apart my favorite games and finishing them in record time abusing my game knowledge about them!

[@christiangottsacker6932]

Using keyboard?😮

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@christiangottsacker6932 Yes, I'm used to play anything with keyboard, much more comfortable to me

[@wxyz.letter]

ebic

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@wxyz.letter damn locals, ruining these wonderful games

[@matcarfer]

its imrpessive but no glitch speedruns are better for me, they show you master the game, not cheat it.

[@SignorTromboncino]

To each one their own, I personally love to run games with the lowest difficulty and all the glitches available and also at the highest difficulty glitchless, and that's why I'll eventually do a 100% Glitchless!

[@ozar_midrashim]

At least you've skipped all cutscenes and as a result, there are no major spoilers. But, I personally don't see a point to this.

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@ozar_midrashim The point for me here is having fun by giving a concrete objective to a game that I love since when I was a child, indefinitely extending its replayability! And I also love breaking my favorite stuff apart, as finding and executing glitches is highly amusing to me, as it expresses an extremely deep knowledge of the game and how it works!

[@charg1nmalaz0r51]

@@SignorTromboncino So i was casually playing this today and accidently fell through a wall into a void and just went down forever until i reloaded. How are you doing it on purpose and how do you not fall through the void

[@SignorTromboncino]

Very interesting, could've probably been a misplaced texture or loading zone. I do it with a very very specific setup that makes the game think I'm always in front of the block by frozing time using the glyph menu the exact frame im in between two loading zones. Then I can use the block anywhere by reloading its ID in the memory and changing its position outside the wall by manipulating it by absorbing souls, crossing loading zones and stuff, so when Raziel tries to use it, the game tries to teleport Out of Bounds to use the block and if the speed is high enough and angle is perfectly aligned, I can get out and have 0.5s to jump away after animation to not fall down to Oblivion

[@theasadoguy]

why? the whole point of the series is the plot..

[@SignorTromboncino]

@@theasadoguy It is, and that's why I love the game! But would you watch the same movie for the 100th time and still enjoy it like the first?

[@jakeweatherman1737]

So we should never try things like this because that's not the point of the game? When you play a game so many times, you want to try different things with it at some point.

[@rauldejesus-e4s]

Not valid. Using a bunch of glitches is not a speed run bud

[@SignorTromboncino]

I was waiting for this comment, no offense but you get the pin of shame my friend🤭

[@godofhell52]

I mean, to be fair no where in the title does it say glitchless, speed run is a speed run.

[@SignorTromboncino]

​@@godofhell52This one being Any% Unrestricted, according to speedrun.com category rules

[@tombraider200571]

Im not sure Raudlejesus gets to have a say on what speed running is. Glitching has been speed run viable for several decades friend

[@Yamah96]

Hes fuccin goofy, he even feels proud of himself, I'll bet he got upset over somebody cheating him in a game but hey "a win is a win"

[@randomguy-re7mi]

And people areinterested inthis type of playthrough? 🤨 I just enjoy the ride. Like these plays are just ruining it's charm. Just play the games normal man actually every people. Speedrunning games shall be forgotten in the past as a weird gaming trend. But real games play the game in fashion way. Not not like this. It's even boring to watch. Ho

[@NudiusJoe]

Speedrunning doesn't necessarily meant to be a must way to play a game, as a personal experience I played this game so many times since I was a kid that speedrunning it is a way of expression, showing love for the game and understanding how it behaves to its limits. There are more categories, probably this is the more cursed one 'cause of it being unrestricted. NMG subcategory could be more pleasant to watch maybe. And last, speedrunning could extend the time someone plays a game, so I don't really think it got to be forgotten.

[@randomguy-re7mi]

@NudiusJoe yeah whatever. I am the the least person wanting to know more about thing that no loger catches my attention because it was overdone for 10 years of gaming. Speedruns are sure impresive showcase of skills in each game but at cost making the game loose charms and estetics and harmony inplemented in the environment the whole atmospere just disapear. It is unnecessary for gaming. Because it drags you away from the purpose of that game. Imagine if actors in movies were speedacting the whole movie to make it as short as possible. I just hope they will never ... Rather than speedrunning the games people should give a try maybe speedrunning theirs liftime careers instead. Or speedrun raising their children. Everyone was speedrunning their lives and was it a joyable ride you would rember for the rest of your days?

[@NudiusJoe]

@@randomguy-re7mi I kinda get your point, I mean obviously the game has a lot time of work behind to not see the details of the world and cinematics, but if you read other comments it's not like people doesn't know about the game's story or dialogue which are the main characteristics of this series. On the other side of the coin, speedrun is just a challenge self imposed, think of when you're training a sport you need to invest time learning how to do things and strategies. Comparing a game with a movie is a bit weird, experiences are very different. You may play something and never have the same experience as the last time, nor with a movie but in this last case it isn't something that is interactive. TLDR: Speedrunning is something that is naturally born from people, as more as you do something you'll unconsciously be doing it better or efficiently. In this particular case there are no restrictions, that's why more categories exists. If you are interested, I suggest you watch No Major Glitch. Lastly the game is still there for you to play the way you want to 😉

[@SignorTromboncino]

I don't want to insult you, but I think you have a very narrow point of view to consider something "normal" or not, right or wrong. Especially here because we're talking about a singleplayer game. And on top of it, especially for Soul Reaver, this boring "playthrough" requires an extremely deep knowledge of the game to even make it behave like that, not make it crash, and an extremely precise execution to not softlock because every single teleport you see not only requires a very specific setup, but has the chance to make you fall down and softlock if you mess up by a few frames or pixels, forcing you to start all over. I can assure you most Speedrunners played their games like "normal" much more than you can even imagine and they have a love/hate relationship with their games, they can tell you incredible stories and they know their games by heart, hence how they're able to do such things. Like Nudius said, it's a way to give the game a new objective, a new life, and that's called passion. And on top of it, I personally couldn't care less about trends, I just enjoy breaking apart the games that made me happy in my childhood and have fun with them again, not to please other people. If other people actually enjoy the same, that's a plus, but it's not the main objective and never will be. That said, I think people like you actually ruin other people's fun by telling them what they should and should not do in their games (and lives too at this point, since you brought up the matter), not me trying to enjoy the games I love the way I prefer. And most importantly, remember that games are meant to be played to have fun and that everyone can find fun in the same thing in different ways. "Think outside the block" and Enjoy the new pin!

[@35milesoflead]

​@@SignorTromboncinoAren't you part of the MGS speedrunning community?