Skyward Sword Speedrun
8 years ago
Switzerland

Hi

I saw on the Skyward Sword list here http://www.speedrun.com/lozss that the fastes one is from SVA (5.01.44). I understand Any% as a speedrun which is completed as fast as possible and that glitching is also ok. My question now: I saw on Youtube that @indykenobi made his run in 0.07.15,( ) so is this not an Any% run or why isnt it postet here??? And if not, why not?

Thanks for ur answer!

Cambridgeshire, England

Sometimes, if the true Any% is completely broken with just one or two tricks (Skyward Sword, I Wanna Be the Boshy 'Wrong Warp'), or with a certain character that completely breaks the game (I Wanna Be The Boshy w/ Sonic), a more popular rule-set for beating the game is named Any% within the community, even if it's actually something else entirely, most likely due to its popularity and that it's more interesting or technical (OoT wouldn't count for this, as the true Any% requires a number of tricks and such that make it an interesting run). TL;DR This is just known as 'Glitched Any%' while it is the true Any%, and 'Any%' is actually Any% No Game-Breaking Glitch. The community just find Any% No Game-Breaking Glitch better so they call it Any%.

Note: there may actually be a different reason due to how the game itself works (NG+ or alternate use of a previously-made file), which I don't know much about. This is just a guess.

SpeedyED likes this
Switzerland

Ohh okay... Thank u very much for ur answer! So thats also the reason why Glitched Any% is not posted here. Thanks again and have nice day!