misc. content post that I've edited a lot for documentation purposes

found a clip through the Bustin' Out slanted wall ┬┴┬┴┤(･_├┬┴┬┴ you need to be full health to safely do this, as if you're closer than this you will be left with 1 sliver for reference (though the end is safe enough to do that low), or any closer than that and you'll blow up.

mercifully the game gives you a good setup: backwalk off the top step, turn around slowly (or double-tap for the quick turnaround, just aim further accordingly), where I aimed here is about the absolute limit for you to be blown back by the grenade I do believe, once blown back mash shoot to quickly recover (naturally recovering won't put you in the right position), press down to fall down. or if you have the cajones, put JC's right foot on the tiny dot indent thing in the sun decal part of the floor, first-person shoot, hope the grenade sticks, then walk up to the top & turn around. it takes some distance-judging instinct to know where to stand to blow up well however

top 10 gamer relief moments having found this (most of the rest are posted above). I only went searching for this because of JC's earlier level v

if you're perpendicular to this bolted part of the drill hatch, you can walk into it in place from either side in perpendicular perpetuity. if you strafe while walking you'll fall right through! unfortunately.... you need to still finish both objectives for the mission to end. and all the remaining guards still spawn. smh JC

this is the only method I've found** (beyond a 1/1000000 chance jumping & getting stuck in the wall at the entrance to the tunnel on Catfight) of clipping through walls.... very .... very .... slowly .... by doing the secret backflip: (well first you have to come to a stop & be like parallel with your back to the wall) press the jump button then hold back and you get a slow backflip with some actual height behind it. you can get a slower sidehop too but with no added benefits as of yet. secret backflip can almost get into the room straight ahead of spawn in Dangerous Discovery but not almost enough.

it takes 8 seconds to get into that pillar, 40 if you're going the other way this side into the far wall, if you have a lot of free time. you can do this slide clip with a lot of fumbling around on some plants in Museum, like the one opposite the system link room. this works on the elevator fuse box in Rigged but sadly you stop before you touch the elevator / _ \

**this is the second method I've found: Museum clips ! ! !

I think this is PAL only? you can fall OoB here & die on a whim on both versions but I can only ever seem to fall out on NTSC. you have to crouch & attempt to whip which will cause Sydney to zhuzh forward without ever getting to whip, moving her ever so slightly (you can see this in her feet shadow). for whatever reason, facing away from the door (and I mean barely; don't let the camera change) will let you fall into ??? & out of #$% and land in the farther side of the gate, where you can jump at any point and successfully clip through. I mean, if you're lucky.... Sydney likes to pop out of position when whipping sometimes. I don't know how precise your pause has to be because she likes to still die midway through the floor

do take note!! that this only works on the left sides of these gates, as each time you press against a wall your Danger Girl will move slightly to the right, as well as the camera doesn't really orient itself on the right side like it does here. you can smush yourself into many doors like this but you can't flip out of them =\ only Sydney can whip twitch through (for now . . .)

also, I think this only works if there is an OoB/death plane above you, as I can't get it to work on the Caution card door nor computer room door

**this is the third method I've found: Museum clips but consistent albeit slightly slower than the ultimate best you can do the previous clips (NTSC-safe version) ! ! !

this way you need not risk the warpz0r either not working at all or KO'ing you instantly. a few times I crashed around the laser gate for unknown reasons (laser lag?). you need to position yourself so the camera is "stuck" on the wall you were just pressed up against, and far enough to the right that you actually nudge forward while whipping (you have to enter crab-walk stance, hold forward & whip to move; sometimes you won't move at all so look closely). too far(?) and not far enough from whatever the sweet spots are will nudge you backwards and you'll have to re-wall-press. that quick stop (animation cut short) that Sydney does in both clips is considered clipped into the wall.

for the Curves door, it takes 5 nudges before you can walk further forward still in the door, then in my experience 10 more to safely be able to jump out; try not to adjust the camera position or you can fall through the floor if you're parallel with the door. as long as Sydney gets that semi-stuck jump you aren't at risk of jumping backwards out the door. this makes the rest of the route harder if you take the first cool jump.... you'll have to headshot the shotgun guard at a minimum. but the last two guys shouldn't be much trouble

you can complete Museum without needing to pres butan or do the QTE, but you softlock if you clip through the final gate . . . . maybe there's a non-panel trigger ?

you can clip through the first door on Countdown, but it takes so much longer than the clips above and you would be without the SMG

• if you're not at full ammo and you (run &) jump & press O in midair for the grab animation your gun will reload itself a moment after you land. extremely helpful tech

• with the 2 jump clause you can make it on top of the locked gate in Rumble where you'll find the spikes are fake, but this would be out of the way in the route. you can jump to the lightpost behind you though for a nice view

• the pillows in the crew quarters in Caution have weird vicious physics that shoot you off the bed or in different directions for some reason. the sphinx(?)'s cheeks in the Sydney clip have the same properties

• messing around in Countdown with the invincible glitch, Sydney will fall down a hole forever instead of dying within a second of being out of bounds, which makes me think if you can go oob reliably on a non-objectives-complete-needed level with the glitch (Dangerous) you could pull something off? run on top of rooms ?

• behind the start in Curves you can stand on those railings and almost no others in the game. there isn't any level to jump down to below them unfortunately

• an invisible man shoots at you from under the floor while on the way to the security card in Finders Keepers. not nice

• there's another jump on Curves you can do that I found after the two fast ones, right after the cutscene that pans up to the guards - go right & jump over the stubborn railing into the wall (which I believe is the reason you don't insta-die doing this on this level, the game checks for you touching something or whatever) to end up further back than the other two jumps. still neat

• the L/R/1/2 buttons move the equip menu a smidge faster than doing it manually. but memorizing that is daunting to think about

zooming in on (distant) interactable things with sniper rifle & pressing O to use them: no success

(pre-whip clip discovery) Curves: you can clip into the inner wall on the left of spawn up against the left door to smush yourself between the AC unit(?) and the wall, then backflip down into the ether where you can see the helicopter in the distance. so far cannot clip into a wall further along to see if you can insta-end the level, though the 3 mismatched boxes a room ahead look promising. or a trashcan

blowing up a fire extinguisher to try to clip your feet into something: wahh

you can climb into these things, backflip around to either fall forever (until you activate invincible cheat), somehow land on top of the thing itself (but you can't grab onto the railing ledge), or fall off unceremoniously

Museum Mayhem

read next post that contradicts the second half of this sentence: very scary route until wall clipping is found. on that note, with Sydney in particular, if you are up against a wall & aim in first person all the way up or down, then crack the whip & switch weapons, you can aim even further up or down for a weird camera angle. but it might just be a fun visual thing ,'/

also of note, in practice I managed to sideflip through the second set of stairs on the way up to the laser room & got the oob death within a second. I was being fired at by like 3 dudes so it could be DK64-style lag. also managed to despawn the first room after getting caught while entering the first cutscene once if that was what caused it. how neat is that

Crossing the Line

as long as you focus on the center as he teleports, he will always spawn in those spots on either side of the room. if your focus is off even a little he will spawn in the middle left or right and zing ya! I swear I got up to 10 shots off on him once

Bustin' Out

read next post that contradicts this whole paragraph: maybe the least special level, but the grenade launcher is a must for the next level. Museum stair thing makes me think you can clip through the two-button door, but I've tried many moves on it to no avail. you can shoot the guard through the top though if you're evil

Maximum Firepower

this guy sucks; sometimes his tanks take 3 hits instead of 4, I swear once it was 2, you have to stand close enough that you don't get hurt by them exploding & far enough that the shotgun spread is fully.... spread? and even then, it'll feel like they should blow up but they don't. then pace your grenades so you don't die to the second one (don't hold down fire). the tops of the tanks feel like they take less hits than the bottoms?

update: ok I've found a consistent (enough) setup for him after all, you gotta be quick though. fire two unaimed shots into his back, then first-person the right tank twice, then go for the left in hopefully another two. the switch from third- to first-person lets you shoot a lil quicker than usual which is nice. maybe alternate for each shot?

Countdown to Danger

emptying out the sniper rifle at the start has a nice bonus: the guard can spawn right where you jump and shoot you off, so all the shots will distract him long enough to avoid him. I have no real clue for the sniper shot other than the box is about where that guy's shins are

update: I empty out the sniper rifle after picking up the SMG and aim for the panel with that instead. better chance of hitting it that way

Catfight to the Finish

foot hitbox abuse is my favorite discovery behind the ceiling jump. those micro movements while in first person prevent the aim wavering that happens after a second or two. I collect the AK & empty it out on the goons because it's a painfully slow gun to use on the final boss and a lil faster than collecting extra SMG ammo at the end. be wary right after foot guy dies that there can be a guard that spawns in your face!

if I never rerecord this level, you can get a one-cycle on this guy by loudly emptying the pistol down to ~15 shots, shooting them & nearly two full SMG clips into him; you have to be a quick aimer though. you only need <50 ammo for final babe

I stumbled into this game through retroachievements because next to no one had played it and it turns out this game owns. they have leaderboards for each stage which explains the pop-up at the end of each level; it's clearly not in real-time. a lot of things are now outdated as I edited this & the next two posts a lot after finding more sweet stuff. incoming long post I had to break in two

Rumble in the Jungle

if you jump at the right time you can not trigger that very first cutscene, though it doesn't save any time. you can sort of strafe through the (back of the) fuel can tree to save .x seconds but it's not a guarantee. blowing the first QTE saves you 5 real life seconds, and it takes 1 or 2 to get the AK manually. the jump after the last demo spot is real hard with all that lag, and you can crash the game when the cutscene loads if you haven't killed enough guards? to the best of my knowledge/testing. sadly even if you could clip through the mansion door, you would still have to plant all the demolitions for the mission to end

Finders Keepers

not continued from the above run, otherwise you have to equip the AK yourself, get the SMG later, empty one to get the other, try to survive make your time. otherwise nothing special about this level, though it's dangerous! and the last guard likes to spawn far away !

Rigged to Blow

imo the hardest level, lots of health and ammo juggling & lag suffering. for some reason you don't need to interact with any of the hostages for them to be considered rescued + the objective considered complete at the end of this level & the next one. I don't think going for the HMG is worth the few seconds

thankfully you can ignore the middle 3 bombs as long as you can ultimately reach the final bomb before the previous bomb's timer runs out; its timer will pause during the defuse. HOWEVER!!1!! I found out a while later, the previous bomb's timer will still tick down as you're ending the level, so you need a good 20+ seconds after defusing the last bomb to beat the level real quick! and if you don't skip the final cutscene, the failure scene will play out after you've beaten the level and you could still lose after you win I think. careful!

bonus: I wasn't recording it (-_- ) but one time the entire big room with the broken elevator fuse box didn't spawn anyone at all, even the hostage, and I could still complete the level just fine. no other room was affected; I found out in other levels that there are triggers to spawn each room I assume, but just knowing they exist is the extent of my knowledge. this particular case was back when I would turn the steam valve, and I was messing around with turning sounds off

Caution: Curves Ahead

very dangerous route health-wise; if you're not (near) full you should not risk the first chump jump™, both of which I'm very glad work, and head down the ladder hole for a few more seconds. emptying the sniper rifle will keep the first two guards from deviating. if you could just clip through the card door.... (read ahead 10000 words ^_~)

bonus: for a few days I only tried jumping off the left side of the turret room and learned that it despawns the next 3-4 guards - their trigger is falling down the ladder spot. but with red health vs. a turret - Yikes !!

Dangerous Discovery

there's an SMG right there ! (although you could save like 3 seconds getting the one in the locker room after emptying out the pistol.) you don't have to protect the uplink whatsoever; I think the enemy stays aggroed the whole time. if you could just clip through the frozen door....

Frozen Assets

ah my pride and joy. I've since changed my mind and pick up the HMG instead; I think it's like 1 second faster. I'm very glad you can chump jump® through that ceiling, saving a lot of time ammo & health, but you have to be far into it otherwise you will be considered inside the wall/out of bounds and Die!!!

now the last section is miserable if you take it normally: not enough ammo, a guard up there can shoot you off the ladder (you can hold O while being shot off of things and you won't lose all of your balance), it's laggier than usual.

enter the 7-Up (patent pending): there's a white 7 on the rock wall I use as a landmark so I can jump up to the sadly only possible spot in this area. unless I'm mistaken it will always take 2 jumps to do.... for whatever reason, your second consecutive jump when standing still is higher than your first

month later update: it's easier safer & faster to do this on the furthest top-right wall by using a barely visible U as your cue, after you shoot a few dudes along the way. hopefully it'll be on video one day

one last thing, if you have low health and fall & grab the chain right as you'd splat, you'll "die" but in "reality" actually be invincible. unfortunately you cannot use the equip menu, just the pause menu. further unfortunately it goes away once you watch the crystal cutscene; any cutscene that changes the aspect ratio will do that. even more still unfortunately I found out in Countdown to Danger that even if this carried through the end of the level, the end of the level will never actually trigger, you'll just stand there forever. (you can do this on Dangerous Discovery too by falling off the first elevator & grabbing a ledge but you get softlocked on the uplink cutscene)

I've managed a 33.62 on Frosty Frontier - the pop-up is from retroachievements & doubles as non-savestate proof (you have to be in Hardcore mode to submit a time). there's an achievement for each stage to beat it in under a minute, hardly 2 dozen people have done each stage, and there's next to no footage of the game so I thought I'd help the folks out with quick routes to the bosses, but I've only done this one so far. and I don't want to make a cyberscore account that much ~_~

damn! this is like a real category now....

oh man those are so clever. I don't know if I wrote it down anywhere but the box trick only seems to work with #4 boxes and under for some reason, which sucks for Daitengu. if you could get one on your head in Doro somehow then that would save some time.... it would hurt though

for the 2 box you want to jump the second time very quickly after the first as the box is still rising in the air; I think it considers you're jumping off the lip of the roof in that moment. I didn't have a good 12 box plan like that but I did know about the kappa, just more often than not I blow it. and for the jar jump it's not on the instant you land on the jar but an instant after that for the sweet spot~

it might be superstition but jumping off the ends of the red bridges is less distance traveled I imagine. and I realized that you won't stand around the start of levels if you hold a direction after the screen looney tunes shrinks into black & level starts loading, rather than right after pressing the button.

nice run & route! I've been playing around the last few days looking for more ideas that could fit in and I have a few that happen to stick to the old route minus the forest. I haven't timed any of them, but going with 2 & 3 save you from the wiggly road on the overworld

you can get through Tanuki Town with just 3 coins, one tighter than it looks jump onto the 1 block thing, and one quick double jump up into the 2 box which is also tight and can take a while but once you get the hang of it etc. you can also get one of those jumps from the jar onto the 1 block thing and skip the rooftops but it is not advisable. I tried for a good 7 minutes to record it and got nowhere, even with a setup of walking off the balcony onto the jar and jumping (you land on the very last pixel or two of said jar), even with mashing spacebar ahead of time

after getting 2 more free coins on the intro level & up to 10 or so on the second level, with the coin farming you could spare another few seconds to get a Big coin. use that big boy early on the Onsen level (while waiting around) to be able to go through the 4 block faster than waiting for the pear & you can make the geyser cycle at the end, provided you wiggle around a bit in that one gap well enough.

West Cave done before the bass drops

• has the micro-optimization of holding right after using the menu
• less scary jumps than East
• can beat without breaking stride (Hard)

• the very end requires either a jump on a cloud or on the cliff lip :s

• for the last screen, if you hold right as the coin up there on the HUD flattens out you can zing straight to the end without much maneuvering. you can restart checkpoint on this screen too to practice !

https://gfycat.com/esteemedgrandiosegerenuk as for the Giri box, I found I may have made it seem like you need to hyper spam jump (I used my right index on spacebar) but after trying it a lot it can be done with casual mashing on a controller (with a bit more speed after the clouds). you want to hang right to hit both 3 blocks & continue right through a cloud, otherwise you'll most likely lose your box on a number block if you try those. however if your box is bumped from your jump you'll need to think quick!! my computer chugs a bit on this stage too

https://gfycat.com/kindlyhairygoshawk dumb slide that makes the 12 box jump easier but getting this angle is not

if that weird warp is anything like another game I ran, La-Mulana 2, it looks like it might send you to the 0, 0 coordinate on the map, though if that were the case it wouldn't be in a different screen. I guess it's a level-with-doors only thing (for now[?])

here's just about the dumbest-looking way to skip half of a level that there can be:

I cannot explain why this is, but for some reason you can gain infinite height just by jumping a bunch with a box on your head. landing on those clouds allows the box to meet up with you so this is very consistent to do, and saves a good 15s. but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought this would be the way to skip this level

well.... this cycle is almost reachable but unless without one more adjustment somewhere, like a way to fall through the pear real quick, I think this is as close as it gets for now

it takes approx. 20s to get a Big coin from the store after Warashi so that's no good

but! For Doro & Tanuki Town you can "exit level" the moment you jump on the club goblin guys' foot and it will still count & trigger the paths opening~ so there's a good 7s per foot. sadly you can't collect a boss bone and exit out

This game rules and I can't believe it only has one run, <40 reviews on steam, and not 100% positive at that. Rising Dusk, here's some attention you deserve

For starters, here's a rough run-through of Tanuki Town that saves at least 30s The secret double jump works wonders here; you can use it for the kappa if you so wish, on the drop-down 1 block with a precise jump, and in this case on the 12 box. I highly recommend only holding D/right as you're coming down grazing the side of the roof or you'll have one less box. You can always retrace your steps if the box falls off The last coin in the way is not so big a deal since you can bump into the nearby tanuki if you grab it. On a few attempts I skipped the recoil animation off the right one on the roof, I guess by moving left the second I bumped into him. neat!

other minutiae -- "restarting from last checkpoint" after the first checkpoint in the Mine level will spawn the lantern friend further in; the more offscreen you are when you trigger it the better

• for the kappa that pushes the rock, you want to get between him and said rock and walk into him 1 or 3 times, before he starts moving it. That way he will be further along in his push distance so our lantern friend won't stop and wait for kappa to katch up twice, just once. You can do the checkpoint trick again at the end of the rock segment too

-- Daitengu is real tricky but the second half is more manageable if you restart at the checkpoint

• Some Things to Note: you can double jump on the shove dudes!
• try not to get 5 coins!
• for the mudmen, jumping on the left side of its sludge when it sinks into the ground usually won't trip you up like the right side almost always does (video got lucky). More often than not you should wait in the middle of the second one before jumping
• (for practice) making it to the checkpoint pre-explosive punch guys and restarting without having previously restarted/died in the level will stick you to the floor for a beat, which helps to gather your bearings since it's such a small platform

-- you can just stand here for the last boss skeleton

• other than some double jumps in places, not much else I can think of at 1:37 AM

I was real let down when using a big coin for the mine level and ringing the bell didn't work ,'/ There are some other cool moves throughout the game, like jumping over the first undead vikings in their level and disabling the auto-scroller like it's Yoshi's Island, but that's a non-any% matter. If it's possible to do so in the mines & last boss then I haven't found it

roger. well in frustration in the menu earlier I found something else that is so obvious it hurts

(it's not a specific input thing, I just pressed down 1 too many times here)

not sure what to think. definitely leaning towards skeezy but there's no denying it :|

at the very least this fixes having a bad camera at the start of each section but it'll keep your timer running of course and the limo angle will be off when you restart. but I won't do it in a full run and it'll just have to stay there for the time being

I had an idea today that I really can't believe actually worked but I was wondering how ethical it is to other (future [hopefully] and former [come back]) runners' eyes

enabling Midas Mode in the Extras does this in the full run:

.... sometimes. it works more often when you drive straight through to the next ring without doubling back and aiming for more dudes, I guess provided there are a decent amount in the way. the video isn't the perfect line but it was the second time I tested it out of like 7 times as my confidence in this wavered back and forth. from what I could see it has no effect on the beach group route, which was already not an issue in losing more than like half a second in the run.

my original thought was that hitting a dude and turning them into a statue would count as 1 hit and them then falling and hitting the ground would count as another. that or it's because I hit dudes before the ring that turn into statues that then hit other pedestrians on- and offscreen while the counter is up.

to make a long post longer I was wondering how skeezy this seemed to be for the full game. personally I'm in favor of it (even though I love the zoom boing ding no violence noises more and the two can't be enabled simultaneously) since this is the only thing outside of bad terrain in the game that can be considered RNG & so it's a reset heavy spot normally. if you were to get the perfect alignment of people along the way without this enabled it would have no extra effect or bearing if that makes sense, but that never happens without having to double back and lose time. basically it's a backup plan that makes the game nearly fully reliant on the player's skill. and all you gotta do is press A on an option ! but I can see why it would be frowned upon for not Playing the Game As Intended.

I want to document this to be fully transparent when it comes to this game so whoever comes along in the future, uhh, is aware. and can weigh in. or to flesh out the speedlore episode of this 20 years from now. I'm going to run with this enabled because I don't get out of the suburbs some nights and it sucks nards

SUPER EDIT: i've run with this a bit and even if the people are in line it's still every bit as random as usual so sorry for reading a big chunk of text from a dork

Hey you!!!!!!!

I've been getting records on the main story missions over the last month and I didn't want to keep the routes in the dark. I tried to show the best way to start each run (where to orient the limo & red cars, or where to bunch up the pedestrians in the first Ranger Stacey level) but some might be cut off too early. some of them have the sound glitch from restarting while mid-crash explosion and I didn't know what caused it at the time & I wasn't listening to game audio. I'll put them in story order out of professionalism

Mickey (intro) - https://streamable.com/1ol7q - took the longest out of any record, approx 4 hours total, is so much better with shadows off

Kids - https://streamable.com/dsuja

Coach - https://streamable.com/lns73

Date Guy - https://streamable.com/g5e4h - idk why the audio desynced but if you start the second cutscene as he finishes saying "ruined" you're good

Elizabeth - https://streamable.com/uaajj

Priest - https://streamable.com/vd1jd - -.04 (cut off too soon)

Ronaldo - https://streamable.com/tahdg

Charles Maximillian - https://streamable.com/obski - -.03 but who knows why

Beth (mall ride) - https://streamable.com/iw74d - last one I needed to become Suburb Champ (except for dmv instructor :| )

Ranger Stacey - https://streamable.com/q4tvf - this one left me sour because it's not a Pure style of level

Swedish Tourist - https://streamable.com/7rgi7 - the ledge after the construction site blows to get off safely

Beth (to city) - https://streamable.com/htync

Mickey (to city) - https://streamable.com/mevti

Mickey (to Chinatown) - https://streamable.com/iss6s - lucky end jump, -.01

Charles Maximillian 2 - https://streamable.com/tvpx0 - skip the middle jump by shrinking at the right time & angle, don't think it's a 100% consistent thing

Beth (first Ronaldo challenge) - https://streamable.com/uwrbw - you have a better chance of avoiding the first falling car if you shrink before its uhh spawn plate, also the terrain up is pretty annoying

Danny Stephens - https://streamable.com/oljn4 - note the little wall before the streetlight that has no collision; I didn't bother trying to set up a soccer ball in the goal if that would even work. I did in fact do this the day of the world cup final

Disco Sylvain - https://streamable.com/dlecy - found out if you activate the dive mid-jump you can fall a scooch faster and it can help you line up the limo better. the jump near the shipping container is hard enough without bonking but all this being said this was only -.06 better than a run with a bonk and no sweet dive move

Mickey (rooftops) - https://streamable.com/k39xf - save a jump from the street to the first platform & third platform to the roof. driving off the last roof is rough

Challenge Ronaldo - https://streamable.com/csdhk - squeezing past the tree at the start is a pain, the jumps too; the red car at the bottom of the screen at spawn had just stopped at the other end of the street iirc. didn't realize until I rewatched that you go off-road right when Mickey says to (and shrink to avoid the little bit of terrain jutting out there)

Jeffrey - https://streamable.com/w4pfp - retrying this mission almost always results in crashing because of the uneven terrain

Priest 2 - https://streamable.com/5ihmb - the ending was so nice that I didn't want to bother trying for a third day (jumping after the second coffin lines up the next one better than waiting around). you don't have to shrink at the first spot I bonk, maybe not the second one either, but this guy's missions suck hard to do well. southwest red car at spawn

Not Mickey - https://streamable.com/mub1w - I think this was the first time I noticed how high the ring hitboxes are. shame about the end

Charles Maximillian 3 - https://streamable.com/6eb1h - "work in progress" because I think you can cut out the first jump and maybe even the second and be fine. the propeller for the plane at the right of spawn has to be southwest for most things to line up

Canadian Tourist - https://streamable.com/6kweo - hardest mission in the game!!! not sure if the red cars near the ice northeast of spawn are close enough to judge without getting camera whiplash. innovative jump moves & barrel bounce save my hide

Mickey (to the fairgrounds) - https://streamable.com/264av - first one I ever recorded, hard to tell but the limo looks like \ at the start. I thought I got insanely lucky with two police cars blowing up before I saw the SGDQ run and apparently that's supposed to happen. jump saver

Ranger Stacey 2 - https://streamable.com/n6bir - lucky bonk that didn't lose any time(?). jumping as soon as you can is the key for this and many others as is crossing your eyes and getting through trees

Beth (finale) - https://streamable.com/pukaz - saving the :beth: for last. thought about jumping into the cutscene and wiggling around after somehow but it didn't result in anything. cruel hand of god that gives me the url pukaz

if no one reads this and gets inspired intrigued impressed (and if the videos stay up forever) I'll be happy regardless. this game feels extremely good when things line up and I wish more people knew about it! as buggy as things get and as overshadowing the story and theme are to the speedrun portion of the game (for good reason), there's a really great movement style and finesse to Roundabout that I've had more fun with than any other game (outside of surfing in Counter-Strike: Source). I hope you made it this far to read this: thanks for reading