#Before we begin
Just so everyone understands, this category was Any%unrestricted, but there was a trick found with prologue which would have ended this route. So the categories were split in two; Any% and Any%nmg. This is still the main category. The other route is basically 1 min of gameplay then 6 min of cutscene.
If you have not setup stuff like Debug mode, Autosplitter or want to know about different patches, please look through this setup guide first. Debug mode is crucial for efficient practice.
#Introduction
I hope I can help new people get into the Out of Bounds Speedrun with this guide. Glad if it helps :)
This guide is for Any% no menu glitches (easy) routes suggestions to start with.
I made 3 routes you can use as steps for your runs, start with the first one and then advance if you feel like it. With every new route there are new skips tricks to learn. Thats how I started to speedrun this category and I think its a pretty fun way to learn the game and the tricks. If you'd just try to copy one of the top runs I am very sure you'd give up.
Every route has a full walkthrough video with comments. The bigger tricks are marked with a T in the video and have separate videos explaining them further.
**Also, please make sure you read the comments of the Trick videos, I will do my best to post updated version/newer versions of the strats! **
#Keyboard and Mouse vs Controller in Any%
Both are viable. But if I had to make a recommandation, I'd say Keyboard and Mouse.
-> Keyboard and Mouse have some easier setups, because they can actually aim with their mouse. ->Controller sadly has a very hard time doing shop anywhere, a trick that can buy you extra shards, which is very usefull.
I think in this category Keyboard and Mouse are the most favoured. Still if you very much more like to play on Controller, its not a big dissadvantage, like we can see from the TOP RUNNER Snowstrom18.
I play with keyboard and mouse and its really recommanded to work out a custom control scheme. Doing sentry jumps with keyboard and mouse is rather hard. Having two keyboard buttons next to each other for sentry jumps and clips is really good. As a reference this is my control scheme:
#Route 1
##Description This route goes for early sentry to be able to do sentry jumps as early as possible. It goes for Bash what isnt requierd for the run, but helps newer players with movement. You do Silent clip to skip the swimming section, this will probably take some time to learn the timing. Also make sure you are running with 60 FPS (Vsync ON), if not the clip wont work. From there you get Ku and rush through everything until you enter Feeding Grounds. There you have to do some sjumps to activate the cutscene further up to get into the wall. Make your way to Shriek and then by leaving and reentering the willow kill/skip Shriek.
You can download a Livesplit splitfile under "Splits", here.
###Bigger tricks to learn:
#Route 2
##Changes to the route: In this route we skip Bash, this will save alot of time, though there will be generelly harder movement over the whole run. Especially willow will be definitly very diffrent to play through. Another thing this route skips is Ku, Ku skip is a cutscene skip which allows us to go through the Ku section without Ku. The third big new part is elevator skip, we skip the whole elevator section with a hard OOB.
You can download a Livesplit splitfile under "Splits", here.
###Bigger tricks to learn:
Doc. with all tricks ordered for this route
#Route 3 (current WR route)
Example for a route without Double Jump. (current WR, 26.5.2021)
Example for a route wiht Double Jump, by Ownesy
##Changes to the route: This route just changes the early game of the route, the later route should be exactly the same. The early route is very very hard to do because of 2 tricks: dash to sword and bow lift. After getting sentry this route gets bow and heads instantly down to dash. From there you either do a bow lift off the chrusher, or take the casaul route. We go up to a certain spike spot, where we can get out of bounds. This out of bounds seaquence is probably the hardest trick in ori speedruns currently. It requires alot of patience and practice. From there you get sword, (double jump) and then teleport back up to the teleporter we activated before. There we head to Twillen and buy some free Shards. From there the route is the same, except if you go for no double jump, then some setups are a bit different.
You can download a Livesplit splitfile under "Splits", here.
###Bigger tricks to learn:
