Just ran an updated 100% route. Recorded it, will upload it with some commentary and actual splits in the next day or two, when I'm feeling better. This run was sub-3hrs despite some major rust on my part. I'm very go-with-the-flow in my running, but by planning this out better (exact number and point of level-ups, exact number of Dust of Disappearnce needed for end) and simply executing many points better I could probably get this down to near 2 hours or even sub-2.

I'm using a full group, which I'm simply used to--4 F/M, 1 C/F/M, 1 F/M/T largely for the mansion although he still doesn't manage much--but I could probably drop one of the F/M and blaze through with 5 pretty easily. Four? Not sure, but you get so much exp from doing 100% that you don't need to reduce party for bonus exp too much. All my characters are 4-5 by the time we finish, so I think going less than 5 won't help too much, but a bit of extra xp by going to five will make multiplying items a little easier and give enough bonus exp that I could skip some of the treasure grabs I do in places like the mansion.

I use a thief because there are traps in a couple of the places, like Koval Mansion, that a thief can disarm, but he generally failed on 90% of the disarms anyway so maybe I should just drop the F/M/T. For the speedrun in the gold box games, the thief has only (sometimes) been helpful in Secret of the Silver Blades

While often considered the black sheep of the Soul Series, SCIII did give us Chronicles of the Sword, an interesting Strategy-RPG minigame that is conducive to speedrunning. Having completed, recorded and submitted my first run of this game, it is now up on Speedrun.com!

Hello everyone; my handle is MSKain and I'm a new member of the Speedrunning community. I hope to be a part of it for a long time.

I'm seeking to start several projects, among which is a speedrun of Soul Calibur III, or specifically, Chronicles of the Sword, the Action/Strategy RPG 'minigame' that is part of the Soul Calibur III experience. It doesn't yet have any speedruns as far as I can tell (for understandable reasons, certes), but I hope to get it started. What do I have to do to offer a new game and category to the site?