Speedrunning's BIGGEST Sequence Break... Is in a LEGO Game.

[@carsonlord9083]

I believe Lego City Undercover has a very similar skip, where you can go to the final level without even playing the first level

[@Quiet-Crafter-real]

How

[@NoobeeGaming]

@@Quiet-Crafter-real out of bounds clipping and hitting a door (level / area trigger) using the farmer costume, which can be acquired earlier using a different clip (vehicle clipping)

[@Rebateman]

Same in MySims Racing (DS)

[@Usinghealer099]

Yo that game is awesome

[@GuitarOfTime0116]

@@Usinghealer099 one of the only lego games that I enjoyed multiplayer with my brother

[@cosmicjenny4508]

This reminds me of how Super Mario Sunshine speedrunners skip collecting the first six shines in Gelato Beach by collecting the eighth shine, which unlocks all previous shines, and then collecting the seventh shine, which is the only one needed for progression. Absolutely incredible that otherwise unobservable mechanics get used in speedruns!

[@JuicyBlueWill]

Fun fact, for a while the skip was misunderstood and people did level 4 for literally no reason. Also 8:15 is a big nostaligia hit.

[@bd1p]

I remember watching Princed’s first run when he chose to play through all of level 16 instead of leaving it. What a chad

[@JuicyBlueWill]

@@bd1p Casually played through 2 entire levels that he didn't need to. Then I based my route off his and did the exact same. Cognaso only told us after my run that you don't need to do either of them. I held the record for about 6 months after that. Fun times.

[@guayoyosports1409]

@@bd1pwhat path do I go once I get in that courner

[@Kyubeyisbestboy]

people calling a 2019 discord conversation nostalgic makes me feel old

[@JuicyBlueWill]

​@@KyubeyisbestboyHonestly nostalgic is the wrong word, it's just that I had 0 recollection of it happening because it felt like so long ago.

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

From an onlooker's perspective, I don't think it's a dev door. It looks like the bookshelf is the intended door for the bonus level and they just never unload the loading zone.

[@OKTANE0]

It definitely was at one point. In the original Batman show (which that level is referencing) the entrance to the Bat-Cave was a hidden Fireman’s Pole behind a Bookshelf.

[@SirYodaJedi]

Yeah, because you still need to walk behind the door to enter the level if you enter the level normally.

[@Lokear]

Yeah, that part confused me. The fact that he knows so much about the game, but not that that's where the loading zone always is for that level...

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

@@Lokear I guess it's like an engineer talking about architecture: it's technically related but not your expertise. Besides: it's a completion bonus. It's not very often speedrunners do completion bonuses

[@Lokear]

@@thekoifishcoyote8762 Fair point. I enjoy looking into how games work behind the scenes, and I've seen speedrunners of other games do the same, so I guess I assumed too much lol

[@SirSomeguy]

The bookcase IS the loading zone for the actual level. It's just usually locked, and they didn't expect anyone to slip in behind it without opening it from the front. It's not a dev door or anything.

[@backdrop8469]

Nice Cooper PFP.

[@autumn4442]

Yeah, I was gonna say this. It's normal for loading zones to be active regardless of whether or not the door in front of them is open.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Specifically, in this game, the reason there aren't loading zones active for all the other levels at the same time is that there are different states of the hub depending on where you are in the story. I don't remember exactly how all the levels are entered, but sometimes a vehicle will appear which you can jump into to start the next level, or a load which normally goes to another part of the hub will have a flag activated to send you into a level instead. It becomes impossible to enter those levels using those entrances later on, you have to use the level select. Plus, there are a bunch of story levels that can only be played from the level select in the first place. The only way the player is expected to enter any of those levels is either at the appropriate time during the story, or later from the level select. The bonus level, on the other hand, can be entered through the bookcase again and again and again, because the player is only able to open the bookcase after the story is already over, so it didn't make sense to deactivate the loading zone for any reason.

[@enthusiasticbanana6232]

The 1966 Batman level is actually available right after completing the story, no saving Adam West in peril required. Great video though!

[@3Zleda]

I don't think it's a dev door, I think it was intended for the bookcase to open like in the TV show, and for you to go in there to start the level.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Yeah that was misrepresented, it's a normal level entrance which never gets unloaded

[@Dovah_Slayer]

The confusion is understandable, though the is the only actual load zone that you can trigger prematurely in lego batman 3 (other lego games as well as other games in general have load zones you can trigger ealry though)

[@guccigamer5907]

Kind of unrelated to the skip itself but Lego really missed out on calling them “mini figures”

[@JadonTheRedFox]

Crazy how it went from 5 hours, to 5 minutes lol

[@BaconNuke]

It's almost like cutting out 90% of a game, where the long levels are, cuts the time down

[@loading...4091]

@@BaconNuke I'm pretty sure they understood why the time was cut down so much, I think they were pointing out the humor in the fact that the amount of minutes it now takes to beat the game is equal to the amount of hours it used to take to beat the game. Cool passive-aggressive comment though.

[@tjknight]

Actually, you don't have to save Adam West in all the other levels first. The only requirement is the other levels to be completed. Sauce: Did a 100% playthrough bout a month ago, due to one of the saves requiring Poison Ivy and only her for some reason (who I had no idea how to unlock at the time) saving West in one the levels was one of the last things I did. Played the bonus level way before that

[@braydengraves4655]

A much smaller skip can be found in Harry Potter Years 1-4. Tom Riddlde's Diary can be skipped entirely by simply exiting the level, at the expense of locking yourself out of 100% completion because the level cannot be entered again afterwards.

[@Manavine]

skip but also uh a really nasty game breaker for those getting 100%

[@braydengraves4655]

@@Manavine Yeah. As a kid, me and my brothers discovered it on accident when one of us got softlocked in the area behind a wardrobe. It was on the Wii version, though I'm not sure if the bug is exclusive to it.

[@EmmyEntropy2000]

@@braydengraves4655 I believe it was patched on 360 and ps3. The wii version had like 3 or 4 nasty softlocks that prevented unlocking Voldemort and getting 100%

[@braydengraves4655]

@@EmmyEntropy2000 Three or Four? That's news to me, I only ever encountered the one. Which is kind of surprising, since I think that's the one we played the most. Now I'm curious, what are the other ones?

[@EmmyEntropy2000]

@@braydengraves4655 Its possible for a gold brick in the bell tower to not spawn when the puzzle is done, (this happened to me) and entering the dragon dungeon too early I'm hogwarts can lead to you getting completely stuck and any time you return to hogwarts you will still be trapped in the room. Another minor one is that its no longer possible to go to hogwarts after getting all 200 gold bricks, as the "continue story" option will always send you to nocturne ally to get you to do the Voldemort mission.

[@bogesy]

Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated had a glitch discovered like day one where you could skip to the final boss with all the moves needed to beat the game and roll credits, WR sits at a minute eleven seconds

[@devilord3271]

I don't think anything can beat ZOOL, where all you need to walk backwards and you immediately get warped to the credits

[@izzy1979]

For real

[@c.3715]

It’s funny because when you said Lego Batman 3 had a skip I immediately assumed the ‘66 bat cave would be a part of it due to the way you enter the level through it

[@deliboy8895]

I thought the biggest break was in sonic 06 when you could beat the game by opening two menus at once

[@fyrebolt7162]

Lol 06 was way broken

[@brodyman30]

this man's never heard of Spyro Enter the Dragonfly speed running. it's a very similar situation.

[@BaconNuke]

Never played Lego Batman 3 but.. bookshelf seems intentional since in the 60s show that is how they got to the Batcave, behind the bookshelf So confirmed some speedrunners do not play a game casually before running it since in a casual playthrough and/or 100% run I would assume you would get to the bonus level in the intended way and know that it is just an oversight to have the entrance available at all times

[@Miriam_J_]

Casual playthroughs wouldn't have lead you to that room, though. You gotta actively try to unlock the level, so most casuals probably have no clue about that level either

[@Dovah_Slayer]

​​@@Miriam_J_ actually no.... all you have to do is beat every level. People just assume the level requires more effort being a bonus level when it really doesn't

[@nathanroberts3638]

It's weird to hear Snolid Ice's name in a video essay. He runs a Rivals of Aether workshop tournament I used to play in. I knew he ran Lego games, but I never knew he held a WR.

[@vortaheadthebeast8072]

Never thought my second favorite Lego game (Lego Batman 2 being my favorite) would be covered in such a way where it’s the biggest time save of all time. love the vid and keep up the good work

[@darthvader9969]

I also believe in Lego Batman 2 supremacy

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I personally think Lego Marvel Super Heroes beats Lego Batman 2 by a narrow margin. It got a lot of things right that Batman 2 got slightly wrong, and did a lot of other things a little bit better, mostly in the hub.

[@LowIntSpecimen]

@@darthvader9969 based

[@hydrocritical2268]

1:30 to 1:55 The lanterns and the music are so cool together.

[@L0rcuS]

What’s the music he used here?

[@YeetZmeN]

When I saw this title my first thought was “yeah that makes sense” Never have I played a Lego game that wasn’t buggy as all hell.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Except this isn't a bug or a dev door you are just loading an active load zone before you usually would (a lot of load zones just aren't unloaded ever for one reason or another) something speedrunners do ALL the time in even the most bug free of games frankly I'm surprised no speedrunner found this earlier (then again you'd have to actually do the level at least once in a casual run to realize behind the bookshelf is the trigger for the bonus level)

[@craigelbagel0012]

This helped me understand the trick, now I’m no intimidated by it when I come to run the game!

[@ikaiju-eu9wn]

what do you mean load shortcut? going through a secret passage behind that book case is the only way to access this level

[@9nikola]

From 5 hours to 5 minutes. Amazing.

[@snolidice]

12:16 i only did that run cause i like playing batman 3

[@safrprojects]

Idk man the Link to the Past damage clip to the triforce room saves a lot of time

[@JackJugglerGames]

LEGO Hobbit has a huge break too, you only need 10 mins to beat the game.

[@vtninja_2906]

Hey man amazing video, little bit rushed from the actor deloading to present. Also how the strats in persuers changed drastically after the punch launch discovery and later train skip.

[@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771]

3:19 you say that as if Lego games aren't always some of the most broken games ever made

[@tajkoreddeninthearctic194]

That's a little bit of an overstatement I would say

[@Yoshimitsu4prez]

Lol I always like the little details in these. Like the THWACK BONK etc. That pops up Using the Adam west costume

[@StoryTeller796]

bd1p: This is the biggest gaming timeskip, in a Lego game. Me: I'm listening. bd1p: It includes a hidden level to skip through the entire game. Me: You had my nostalgia. Now you have my undivided attention.

[@masterawesome1000]

LEGO batman 3 is one of my favourite lego games because of the suits and characters.

[@joshuavis2736]

Lol I got to 10:40 where you said los uploaded a video to the Lego speed running discord and right after you said that I got an add for Telstra. Quite an interesting video for los to upload lmao

[@idontwantahandlethough]

really good stuff man (as usual) :)

[@purplehaze2358]

The lore of this speedrun skip feels less like it belongs in a normal lego game and more like it belongs in a fuckin Bionicle arc.

[@ShadowMewto]

Hey can you tell Prnced he needs to check the forums on Lego Marvel Avengers? He's the only active mod and theres been a mistake on the formatting of the leaderboard for literal years, and there have been multiple forum posts about it, yet Prnced has done nothing. :(

[@michaelh908]

Love your content. I’m not sure if I missed it but did you ever make that fourth video on the skywalker saga about the minimum jumps in free play?

[@arklados3596]

Your content is so niche but as a hardcore LEGO fan I am all here for it.

[@mcsmileycorp]

This skip is crazy, mostly because you don't actually have to subject yourself to playing Lego batman 3

[@HahaFunn1Naem]

While much smaller, Batman Arkham City has a huge skip where it takes you from when you unlock the Batsuit to the end of the game.

[@mightymi2k746]

wait what?

[@grape3587]

I imagine the reason for that clip working doesn't have anything to do with dev shortcuts rather just that its load zone just doesn't get created when the room is unlocked and instead just always exists

[@heretible]

Great video premise, great editing, great use of music, great script, incredible video.

[@reezuleanu1676]

Damn, that guy was so disappointed by the game that he just found the biggest exploit in a lego game ever just to skip most of it.

[@RealPersonGuyDude]

One time on youtube I saw a 5-minute long speedrun of LEGO batman 3. at first I thought the original video was on twitch and this was a spliced version, but no. that's more or less how much time it took to beat it in the run using this trick.

[@BaconNuke]

Yup speedruns be crazy, but also speedrunners also be insane sometimes.. like some runs that are 100% are like over 24 hrs long and shit.. like i hope some of it is automated and the people can sleep and eat..

[@RealPersonGuyDude]

@@BaconNuke same

[@SMLReviewer-z3w]

Lego the force awakens also has a similar skip but it only requires the very first version, a dlc and it only skips to Starkiller Sabotage which means you also have to do the rest of the story but it saves a lot of time especially skips that one level where you open a door

[@ComfyCherry]

6:50 well from what I've seen of glitches and various videos breaking games as well as a very small bit of knowledge about making games. For many games if something will ever exist in a level it's generally stored out of bounds either just outside where it will be/was or at the level origin point 0x,0y,0z and then moved/teleported into place when it is needed in the level. This is done for various reasons but I'm pretty sure one is to make sure it actually loads in since it's always loaded in when the level loads it should never not appear when it should, I believe another reason is that it's easier to call on something that is already loaded rather than having to make a call to load it in and put it somewhere you just gotta put where it needs to be when the time comes and if it's gotta move just shift it away rather than tell the game to completely unload it. someone else can correct me if I'm wrong about anything there, I'm not a dev but I find all that stuff interesting.

[@Wxczut]

There is a similar things to this in lego marvel superheroes 1 where mini characters can make most levels skippable with flying characters

[@YangyChaddyDad]

That reminds me of the original marvel Lego game where you can fall through the open world area with Ant-Man and fly into the loading zone for the Deadpool level

[@srcoeiu6100]

LEGO Batman 3 my beloved, LEGO games (that aren't the complete saga or the Skywalker Saga) are so underrated

[@Czar_Khasm]

There’s an amazing clip in one of the Spyro games that lets you skip straight to the final boss by ground pounding into the floor next to the loading zone. WR is just about a minute iirc

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Must have been Year of the Dragon (which I haven't played yet) because both 1 and 2 had completely different hub worlds for the boss with several loading zones in between, and the ground pound mechanic wasn't even unlocked until the final world of 2, almost at the end of the game. 1 didn't have it at all.

[@dreamcat8919]

It is Enter the Dragonfly.

[@MugApwool]

This is pretty much the same as the Outlast any% where the loading point for the final chapter is out of bounds in the first chapter

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@mrziiz6893]

Elden Ring coming in to take the title of largest raw time skip:

[@_cfmca]

The door unloading thing though lol. Great video!

[@Marzu228]

Man i like this kind of videos pls do next lego star was tss speedruns

[@bd1p]

TSS speedruns are pretty dead, the game is super long, full of soft locks, and patch 1 ruined every skip. Unless something major is found, it may be a while

[@musk_operacji]

@@bd1p u gotta make lhp video, fans are mad that you only do indy, tcs and batman Kappa

[@Lokear]

@@musk_operacji The freeze clipping trick is good in 5-7 for that. I have no idea if it's in 1-4, but a video on 5-7 would be cool. I've tried to sequence break in it and always met a dead end softlock though, so they'd have to be very careful if their goal is the end of the game.

[@finedig1854]

Yooooo Sethbling cameo in Lego speed running video??!

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

One of my friends is the only active runner of a very obscure free indie game called Treasure Adventure Game, and has singlehandedly discovered almost all the glitches used to skip most of the game. At one point, I think it was last year, he found a clip that was so hard to perform that he created a category split so he could still run any% without wearing out his hands. I think category splits like that one are pretty common in response to big discoveries in a specific game.

[@5MadMovieMakers]

Batman would approve

[@Real_Genji]

11:12 BRUH

[@sillybilly4710]

I absolutely dislike changing categories. Any% is Any%, you can’t be mad people trying to beat the game very quickly end up beating the game very quickly.

[@kuba4ful]

In most games with a huge skip it's usually another category being made solely for playing without that skip. For example Any% NO AJS for GTA SA (AJS standing for Arbitrary Jump in Script)

[@christiangleason122]

Eh it is what it is some glitches just make any% not very fun to watch or play so I can understand why they would want to add more categories.

[@sinek191]

Have you seen LEGO hobbit speedruns? They skip the whope game with one glitch

[@bd1p]

yup, made a video on that as well

[@sigfuskjartan8595]

lego the hobbit and lego city undercover have very similar skips

[@NBKVamp]

Idk how one speed runs a game that requires collecting every collectible to actually finish the game.

[@bd1p]

you don’t need to collect anything to finish the main story

[@GayAnnabeth]

lego the hobbit has something kinda similar tbh

[@emocatgaming2332]

Have you yet covered The Legend of Zelda: A Link To the Past speedruns and the exploits involved?

[@easports1377]

you should try to beat a lego game where if a character dies you cant use it again

[@chancethomas4969]

saw the thumbnail thought it was a summoning salt video ngl

[@toxictincan]

I was not expecting to see snolid_ice's name outside of something Rivals related lmao.

[@all4JaSam]

This game is so nostalgic

[@makotoplush9776]

I had no idea how broken Lego Batman 3 is

[@Lucid_PZPL]

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam can literally be beaten in around 50 minutes because of how glitchy it is

[@justatanuki.6495]

Correcting a small amount of misinformation about level 16. 1. The level only has 1 requirement, beating the main game 2. The loading zone for the level hasn’t been moved anywhere

[@draco6966]

wait if level 15 is breaking the ice that's the one where you fight superman I'm pretty sure the last one was in Gotham and there are different teams made from the hero's and villain's beat Brainiac. Idk I played this game when I was 7. so if I'm wrong well idk.

[@RipplyAnemone67]

I thought It would somehow use the free play level select to go to other sections as it one of few games that have it

[@asackboyplush6508]

You need to beat a level before doing it free play

[@lennonstover8580]

attempting the first method because i don’t have a second controller, where is the trophy room located

[@theconnorthatusedtoreactto6283]

I feel like paper mario 64 is really high up there because with FrAmE pErFeCt JuMpS you can skip chapter 2,3, and 4

[@KR_Kosmik]

Praise the fish god

[@srcoeiu6100]

You don't need to collect all Adam West in peril at the levels, just finish the game

[@DuplicateGamer13]

Does anyone know the intro theme played??? It’s such a banger!!!

[@AspiLeo]

Also possible in The Lego hobbit.

[@xenohunter9482]

lego dc super villains the level where you fight sea king. there is a chance he clips into the floor. if you hit him on that exact moment you instakill him. can beat it in less than a minute

[@darkstudios108]

I’m doing this I’ve play the story 7-10 times ahhh I don’t want to play again lol

[@morganduffy4752]

i love you bd1p

[@bd1p]

and i love you random citizen

[@morganduffy4752]

@@bd1p damn i’m just a random citizen 😔

[@TheJoker666HQ]

so i just did this glitch myself and found out if you do the glitch then play the game till 100% you can only get 99.6% due to you skipping the plastic man side quest to unlock the hanger from mr.freeze lol good to know to do that quest next time before glitching out of bounds but pain in the azz for not knowing ahead of time

[@ErikLotz]

on what do you play because the glitche doesn't work for me?

[@TheJoker666HQ]

@@ErikLotz Xbox x series

[@selimhelal6060]

What plastic man side quest? Doesn’t this only skip the main story?

[@TheJoker666HQ]

@@selimhelal6060 the side quest you need to do to unlock plastic man and the watch towers hangers its after mission 4 I believe

[@selimhelal6060]

@@TheJoker666HQ I’m sorry but how does that affect percentage, can’t you do it after you beat the game?

[@tajkoreddeninthearctic194]

Yo I've only played Lego BM1 and 2 and 3 looks new but also like 1 that's awesome

[@strogonoff1121]

Wait, so you're telling me that the third game, has a level skip on the third level, that can also be accessed by capping the fps at 30?

[@XxEmulatingKing]

What about SpongeBob Battle for Bikini bottom? You can practically get to the final part of the game with 0 or 1 spatula/s without doing it the intended way

[@PriffyViole]

This is still a bigger skip timewise. IIRC BfBB only takes about an hour without the skip.

[@XxEmulatingKing]

@@PriffyViole there is another game I know, crash tag team racing. You can glitch into the final world, and you can skip the jumpad requiring 20 crystals. This is a big sequence break as you can glitch into the final world from the start of the game, then skip the jumpad

[@Miriam_J_]

@@XxEmulatingKing This was patched pretty early on. You can't do the skip anymore, so that's probably why it's not mentioned

[@Lou-yf1jo]

sequence break? more like console break. im not going into detail about the absolute amount of BLACKSOD's i've gotten because of my disc.

[@tinyreader6759]

What about Ocarina of Time Any%? You don’t even talk to the Deku tree and half the run time is taken up by the beginning cutscene.

[@bd1p]

i mention that in the beginning of the video. this saves more time because the current no levels early record is longer than ocarinas no wrong warps

[@4ee]

That’s insane!

[@spouwnerring]

When will someone make 100% speedrun and post it to KZbin?

[@justadude450]

Isn't that loading zone just the one to get to level 16 normally, why would it be a dev shortcuts

[@spooderman6312]

Imagine some poor kid discovering this by accident and having so idea whats going on in the story lol

[@dyll_pyckle]

I know this doesn’t matter much, but my favorite superhero is Martian Manhunter, so seeing him get such use is really cool :)

[@admixon.]

Can anyone explain the how to the launch glitch on most speed runs on level 15 when you swap charters

[@4ee]

Is there any chance to see lego batman 4 soon?

[@jamesflames6987]

Is there a bigger timesave in any other game?

[@IanNBF]

When I first played LEGO Batman 3 in 2014, after the first level or so, I could tell the game was **different** from the previous 2 entries, & by different I mean weirdly broken in strange ways

[@NoobeeGaming]

LCU's Sequence break?

[@doctornoahphd1288]

BRUCE you still owe me 16 dollars!