I figured I'd ask here since finding information elsewhere is likely to be a huge pain in the ass. Playing Galidor I've found the grapple to be near impossible to use consistently. I can't get it to swing very much and sometimes any momentum cancels when I let go of the grapple anyway.

You can watch me suffer here:

I've watched MyTMorty's run of the same part of the level above and it looks way more like what a grappling ability should look like. So I'd like to know what causes the grapple to misbehave like this and what the fix is. I know this is a speedrunning forum not a troubleshooting one, but with my game running as it is I have no hope of even attempting a speedrun (unless I can somehow master the insane speed I can get from my glitchy grapple). I'm on Windows 10 and have tried different compatibility settings with little to no change to the grapple though sometimes the blaster stops working with these different settings.

Any insight anyone could provide would be welcome as I'd really like to play this game as intended and speedrun it at some point. Thank you!

I imagine some already know about it, but if you run at an object you can interact with your hand and interact with it as you collide with it, you can clip through it. Not sure if it's actually useful though outside of not having to break down locked metal doors.

Parkour Races are the only thing from this game that could be considered an individual level run (IL). Leaderboards for ILs will not be kept here as they are automatically submitted to a Steam leaderboard.

The full release of A Short Hike was today (dubbed the Extra Mile) and it's going to shake things up as far as how runs are categorized. For the time being, I've removed the 100% and All Gold Feathers categories until we can determine new rules. Thankfully, I think Any% and Featherless will be unaffected because there don't seem to be any changes that affect the current route nor anything, at first glance, that could improve the route that you can't do in the Humble Monthly version.

I think going forward we should refer to the Humble Monthly version as "A Short Hike" and the Steam/Itch version as "A Short Hike: The Extra Mile." Or we could also refer to them as pre-release and release.

I don't really think we should do separate leaderboards for the two versions since they're so similar and not a lot of people run this game anyway.

Let me know if you have any thoughts!

Is it possible for someone to upload a 100% completed file? That would be a huge help for people wanting to get in the Any% NG+ category.

I made a website (my first actual site ever) that you can use to keep track of your items for 100% or other collectible intensive categories. Hopefully it ends up being useful for someone.

You can find it at: http://www.hyrulecompendium.com/index.html

EDIT: I can only guarantee that it works in Chrome.

I wanted to start learning the game and haven't watched anyone else play because I want to get fast on my own and then search out strats. Before that though, I was wondering if the runs include the Special levels in each world. I figure it must for 100% but wasn't too sure if it did for Any%.

Thanks!