Anna Endings

Ending 1: Good Decision (70 seconds)
As soon as you enter the sawmill, turn around and leave.

Ending 2: Just a Scratch (5 minutes)
Proceed through the game until you solve the leaves puzzle, unlocking the stockroom door, and clear away the dark fog. Behind the fog is a door. Leave through that door. This ending is unobtainable after the first blackout.

Ending 3: So Soon? (6 minutes)
Proceed through the game until you trigger the first Blackout and head upstairs. There's a door in the back, past the hooked chair and pair of dressers, that triggers this ending. There are apparently two versions of this ending, but I don't know what they are or how to trigger one or the other.

Ending 4: Expelled (6.5 minutes)
Go insane from taking too much damage. The fastest way to do this is to proceed through the game until you trigger the first Blackout and head upstairs, and then find the wooden lady and look back and forth at her until you take enough damage. You can view your "healthbar" from the inventory screen, on the left side.

Ending 5: Sabot Maker's Way (12 minutes)
Proceed through the game until you enter Anna's Room after the second Blackout. Solve the mannequin puzzle and put the mask on yourself.

Ending 6: Inadequate (12 minutes)
Proceed through the Inadequate ending, but, instead of putting the Chair Mask on your face, put it on the mannequin in front, opening up a bridge forward. There will be mannequins blocking the path. Approach them to trigger the Inadequate ending. Keep in mind that, if you collect enough intuitions, the mannequins will not spawn, because you're... too adequate, I guess. If you have few enough intuitions to get this ending, there will be a Yes/No prompt when attempting to use Anna's Key on Anna's Door.

Ending 7: The Truth (13 minutes)
You can kind of... walk around the trigger that activates the Inadequate ending. Watch speedruns to find out more. Alternately, you can collect a certain amount of intuitions by exploring. Go forward, put the axe in the killer's hands, and then run to the ending.

Ending 8: The Whole Truth (14 minutes)
No matter what ending you get, if you end the game with all 33 intuitions, an extra cutscene plays after the credits that reveals what is behind the chained wardrobe in the living quarters. Spoilers: It's a carpet. The post-game screen will display "The Whole Truth" as your ending if you complete The Truth ending with all intuitions, even though it's literally the same ending.

Anna Misc. Instructions

KALYPSO ACCOUNT
Go to your Firewall settings, and create a new Outbound rule for ".../Steam/SteamApps/Common/Anna/AnnaExtended/AppData.exe" that blocks all internet connection for that application. That will remove the need to log into Kalypso every time you boot up the game.

DUAL MONITORS
The game doesn't always lock your cursor, and, if you click outside the game, the entire game pauses until you click on it again. And, if you're playing in fullscreen, this has a chance to crash the game. The best way I've found to bypass this is to go into my Windows Display Settings and move the two monitors to be diagonal instead of side-by-side. That will at least lock your cursor from going off the left/right sides of the screen.

BORDERLESS WINDOW
Fullscreen works, but is slow to click out of and back into, and has a high chance of crashing when you do so. Windowed mode also works, but then you don't have your entire screen space to work with. Thankfully, there is a free applicatio called "Borderless Gaming" which will easily put the game into Borderless Windowed mode, which has the best of both worlds. It looks like Fullscreen, but is functionally Windowed.

SENSITIVITY
The in-game sensitivity slider is a bit ridiculous. Anything lower than 5% or greater than 50% is unplayable. My sweet spot is somewhere around 10%.

RESOLUTION
Try to play in the WIDEST resolution you can. The inventory screen will show more items at a time the wider your screen is in pixels. At 1920x1080p, all items you'll need for the speedrun will fit within two inventory screens, which is perfect.

Anna RNG Explanation

~BLACKOUTS

Blackouts are the major RNG mechanic of this game.

The first blackout occurs early on and must be triggered in order to access the Upstairs segment. The second blackout occurs sometime after the first and must be triggered in order to access the Underground segment.

In speedruns, the first blackout will occur after doing a total of three things in any order:
1) Examine the puddle.
2) Clear the dark fog in the stockroom.
3) Witness at least one spooky event.

The second blackout will occur after doing a total of two things in either order:
1) Take a certain amount of damage.
2) Find a certain number of intuitions.

~SPOOKY EVENTS

These are not random - they are perfectly consistent.

Spooky events happen once every 160 seconds. There is literally no random number generation involved!

The 160s timer PAUSES while your cursor is not a "default" dot, an "examine" eye, or a "pick-up" hand. If your cursor is one of those three icons, the timer is counting down. Otherwise, the timer is not counting down. Thus, the timer does not count down while in the main menu, while in your inventory, or while scrolling through items with the scroll wheel, even though you have complete control over your character while doing so. It also does not count down during scripted events that turn the cursor into a clock symbol.

The 160s timer RESETS back to zero each time you launch the game. Thus, it's recommended to close and re-open the game in between runs. It's also recommended that you disable the Kalypso launcher (see the "Misc Instructions" guide on speedrun.com). The timer also resets to zero after each spooky event.

There appears to be some sort of system that reduces the time between spooky events as you take damage. However, that is not relevant to any speedrun.

Spooky events do not trigger outside. If the event would trigger while the player is outside, nothing happens, and the timer resets like normal.

Before each run, you should restart the game, and load up a save file, and just sit still for a couple of minutes. Personally, I wait in the workshop for about 140 seconds, then exit to main menu, and click "New Game" to start the speedrun. The game has good music, so I don't mind. The exact amount of time you wait should depend on how you play the game, though. I tend to leave almost zero gaps in between my menus, so the global timer goes down very slowly for me. If you leave bigger gaps, you should wait less time pre-run. The goal is to get a spooky event to trigger sometime around when you start the leaves puzzle. You want either the Old Saw event (spooky white ghost that chases you) or the knocking on the Stockroom door event. The place you are looking when the event triggers appears to be the most important factor in determining which event happens.

~WOODEN STATUE

Certain spooky events can damage you. Looking directly at the wandering wooden statue is the only other way to take damage.

She only begins moving around after you go upstairs for the first time. Before then, she is stuck in the storeroom, and cannot move or deal damage to you. You can still grab her ring, though.

Once she starts moving, she cannot appear outside, in the main downstairs area, or underground area. She can only appear in the downstairs workshop, downstairs temple, upstairs attic, or upstairs living area. 

She can deal multiple instances of damage to you if you wiggle the camera back and forth while looking at her. This is the main way to deal damage to yourself for the second Blackout.

Keep in mind that her orientation is completely random, so be sure to check for her crouched on the floor, too. She's also guaranteed to appear in the downstairs temple, on the left by the switch the first time you enter that area. Otherwise, she moves around randomly while you aren't looking.

Anna Speedrunning Guide

Hi. I'm Moqlnkn. This is a guide... for Anna: Extended Edition, a game which everyone knows and loves because it is extremely well designed and programmed.


MOVEMENT

Movement is stupid.
1) Gravity is infinitely strong in this universe. You can never be above ground, only directly on it.
2) Walking is vector-based. If you hold a direction, the game applies a force in that direction... except it's very, very janky.
   a. Since it's vector based, you can hold two directions, and the resulting force is stronger than if you held one key. Therefore, walking diagonally is faster than walking straight forward.
   b. The vectors are 3D vectors, not 2D. This means that keeping your head straight makes you walk faster. Looking up at the sky or down toward the ground makes you walk slower. Try to keep your vision perfectly parallel with the ground at all times.
   c. The vectors aren't environment-based, but you-based. This matters because the game has acceleration. For example, if you were to walk left, then stop and walk right, there's a big pause there where your character slows down and speeds back up again. However, you can turn on a dime by holding the same movement keys the entire time and just rotating the camera. This causes no decelleration, since the vectors are based on your character's rotation, not your character's relative rotation in the gamespace. All your momentum carries through loading zones, too.
   d. [[[ TL;DR ]]] --- Walk only in diagonals, never change your key presses (only rotate using the mouse), and keep your chin up instead of looking up/down. These are the secrets to success in life.
3) There is no other form of movement than walking. I guess you can crouch. But that's not very fast.


MENUS

Menus are very important in this game, arguably the most interesting part of the speedrun. There is often more than one way to go about doing things, so this section should clarify how to do most things fast.

First of all, rebind your inventory key from "i" to something else that's reachable with your left hand. I use V.

Make sure you're on the WIDEST resolution that you're comfortable with, because reducing the resolution makes the inventory show less items. If playing on a super-low resolution, you'll need to scroll longer through the inventory to find what you need, which is slow.

You cannot move while in the inventory, and all important events pause while in the inventory. Therefore, you should try to be in the inventory as little as possible. Close the inventory by pressing the same key used to open it (V).

You can use the scroll wheel to auto-access items in your inventory without opening the inventory. This is fast because you can move the whole time. Right-click to put away a held item. When using one of the first items in your inventory, this is usually faster; also, when you're moving to an area, the first item you use should be accessed this way, since you have plenty of time to scroll to it.

If you need to get an item out fast, and it isn't one of the first few items in the inventory (Self or Lighter), then it is usually faster to manually open the inventory and click on the item.

Once you have selected the item, you have to options. Firstly, keep the inventory open, move your cursor over the object you want to use the item on, and click it. Secondly, immediately close the inventory, and now the selected item is in your hand as if you had scrolled to it. The second option is always preferable.

Before you bring up the inventory, try to aim your cursor at the thing you're interacting with so that you can quickly press V then left click to interact instantly. That full interaction would be this:
Aim at the overworld object > V to open inventory > cursor over item > left click > V to close inventory  > left click to use the item on the overworld object

Name	Author
Anna Endings	Moqlnkn 3 years ago
Anna Misc. Instructions	Moqlnkn 3 years ago
Anna RNG Explanation	Moqlnkn 3 years ago
Anna Speedrunning Guide	Moqlnkn 3 years ago