Speedrun games that deserve more attention
4 years ago
England

Gotta be Puyo Puyo SUN ( https://www.speedrun.com/puyopuyosun ) for me. A lot of people say Puyo Puyo is complicated from looking at the competitive side of the series or even some of the speedruns from games like Mean Bean Machine on hardest difficulty but this game is pretty different than all that.

SUN is a great short game for beginners to the series and since we use the 'Extremely Easy' difficulty in all categories, you only really need to make 2 chains or 3 chains which isn't as intimidating as some of the 7+ chains you see in regular competitive Puyo. It also just makes this a pretty relaxing game to get some PBs in. The game is pretty dead right now with only me and two others running it and could do with some more runners. If you decide to run this game though try using the PC version as it is the one we are active in right now.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Phoenix, AZ, USA

Plasma Sky is really fun. Just got added. Android game. Needs runners. Noobie friendly for Conquest mode unlimited continues.

https://www.speedrun.com/plasma_sky/full_game

Canada

the Puyo Puyo community wants more people to play our games as more keep coming out so i'm here as the series moderator to promote all puyo related speedruns as nobody runs very often anymore and i need more runs to verify so check out these games if they interest you, if you have any puyo games dont be afraid to give speedrunning a shot.

Here are links to all the main speed games we play

https://www.speedrun.com/puyopuyo1#Any_Hardest Puyo 1 https://www.speedrun.com/d.rmbm Mean Beans https://www.speedrun.com/puyopuyo2 Puyo 2 https://www.speedrun.com/puyopuyosun Puyo 3/SUN https://www.speedrun.com/puyo_puyo_tetris Puyo tetris https://www.speedrun.com/puyopuyofever Puyo Fever go here to see all them https://www.speedrun.com/puyo_puyo

if you have questions ask me.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Lemin, Reality, and RetroPacman like this
Finland

https://www.speedrun.com/hellcat https://www.speedrun.com/hellcatredux

Why not put these here, hellcat and its dlc Its a top down shooter and you play as a cat

Aquitaine, France

https://www.speedrun.com/silver

I wana speerun it more because there is way to improve the time but i lack challenger for the title =/

We should make an exchange program: every runner without competition in their game finds an exchange buddy and they run each other's games. 😄

I'm running Bibi Blocksberg: Big Broom Race 3, a racing game with witches on brooms. We're currently three runners and would love some friendly competition. A run takes roughly 45 minutes. https://www.speedrun.com/bigbroomrace3

I also run Bibi & Tina: Adventures with Horses which is a horse riding game and currently I'm the only person running it. A run takes about 35 minutes. https://www.speedrun.com/adventureswithhorses

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Reality, ckellyspeedruns and 2 others like this
Colorado, USA

Super Ledgehop: Double Lazer and Yuuto Ichika's One Time Wonder. The first one has a small but semi-active community. The latter, no one except me speedruns it, and I haven't posted any of my runs, yet. Yuuto Ichika is a Touhou fangame. Also, Laika's idea is very good.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
United States

https://www.speedrun.com/lasgba Lilo & Stitch for the GBA. A fun and surprisingly challenging run n' gun. There's a few autoscrollers, but thankfully they're also challenging and involve some bit of speed. There's an OoB clip that skips a level, and a TAS-only glitch that currently seems inhumanly possible, maybe due to subpixel positioning. There's also a 100% category that isn't much slower than the any% if you're a completionist. Even if it doesn't appeal to you as a speedrun, do try it casually! If that's not your cup of tea, then ...

https://www.speedrun.com/bkcc Cyber Cross for the TurboGrafx-16, aka PC Engine. A sidescrolling brawler that pays homage to tokusatsu shows such as Super Sentai (aka Power Rangers.) There are 3 forms to take, each with their own unique weapon, and an alarming amount of enemies coming at you at any moment. It's always a battle between which enemies to defeat and which to tank damage from to reach the end of the game as fast as possible. I think anyone could speedrun this with some practice and memorization. So please, do try it!

ckellyspeedruns likes this
Kent, England

Yakuza: Dead Souls

Pros:

  • Fun and simple speedrun
  • Great cast of characters
  • Totally didn't rip-off Left4Dead mutants
  • Less than 3 hours long

Cons:

  • Only on PS3
  • Can crash, the most infamous being during the finale