Super Mario Odyssey's New World Record is Nearly PERFECT...

The date is March 23, 2019, thousands of viewers across Twitch are watching Super Mario Odyssey speedruns in anticipation of one of the biggest speedrunning milestones ever Super Mario Odyssey by any percentage in less than an hour from launch of the game more than a year earlier, people were amused by the idea of ​​a sub-hour speed

odyssey

, although for a long time everyone agreed that it was impossible, that is, until early 2019, until then Several minute barriers were broken thanks to the discovery of new tricks and the subsequent detour, and in February. There were several competitive runners battling it out every day in hopes of making it to the first sub-hour race.

It was a very close race between the game's elite racers where any big mistake would cost the race with very little room for error at the end on March 23. 2019 nikrovita achieves seemingly

perfect

race 59 minutes 59 seconds this achievement was widely celebrated across the internet bringing together speedrun viewers in a way not seen in years. It's been over a year and a half and since then 15 people have beaten nikro's historic race and The

world

record

time has fallen further than anyone could have expected and the race itself is a miracle, but how could it have been come this far and what makes this career so

perfect

?

To answer that question, we need to take a look at

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odyssey

80 speed runs beyond the sub hour and only a small percentage of my viewers are subscribed to the channel, so if you enjoy interesting speedrunning content, consider subscribing for free, feel free to change your mind anytime to get started within just 24 hours of achieving it niko. 59 59 The top Japanese runner, Gorjuya, would also achieve sub-hours finishing only milliseconds slower than Nicro in April, the other top runners were fighting for their own sub-hour races, resulting in a string of new Chaos Pringle

record

s that resulted in a 59-57.

The record was becoming increasingly difficult to improve and there would be no major news towards the end of the month, at the end of April, four of the best racers, chaos, small curbs, nikovita and stravos would appear in the competitive pace 2019 speedrunning event, where the finals would be held. Of an ongoing Mario Odyssey tournament, any tournament percentage occurred on the first day of the event, April 25, something unexpected happened after more than a year without new patches or updates for the game. Version 1.3 was released for Mario Odyssey, which added support for Nintendo Labo VR which Speedrunner certainly didn't really care about, but the patch totally changed the game for a completely different reason.

The fastest loading times were incredibly fast, around 52 seconds faster than the loading times in version 1.0.0, the version of the game used by any percentage up to that point. 1.0.0 had been the main version of speedrun by any percentage due to the exclusive version of the first moon jump trick in the waterfall kingdom which saved around 30 seconds as well as the sphynx clip in the sand kingdom and the turnip clip in lunch kingdom which were patched in the previous 1.2 update, however the time saving when running 1.0 over 1.2 was only 45 seconds, meaning that while 1.3 had certain cheats patched, it was officially the fastest version for any percentage at about 7 seconds, another major development around the same time was a discovery of a hack known as daylight saving time abuse or dsta for short and is probably one of the smartest hacks I've ever seen on a quick run before the race starts the date and time of the change are set manually on a day where daylight saving time is scheduled to occur a few minutes before 2 a.m., when the clock will be moved forward to 3 a.m., the trick comes in At play in the sand kingdom, where a seed is planted, it usually takes around 20 minutes for this seed to fully grow, after which the moon appears. can be achieved, however, the game tracks how much time passes through the Switch's internal clock, meaning that if the seat is planted just before time advances one hour, it will grow incredibly fast.

The growth animation can be skipped entirely if the jump forward occurs in a different subarea that takes advantage of speedrun with this discovery, the arena kingdom was redirected to take advantage of dsta and faster loading times to save about 10 seconds ahead of summer chaos and the gorilla would trade records a bit and a new Metro Kingdom route would be used that would save about 5 seconds. This route replaces the event moons obtained from two musicians, as well as the moon on an island with the slots moon and both moons in the Bullet Bill tower subarea by replacing them with good ones. enough movement, this turned out to be faster overall, as it skipped scenes that play when collecting a story moon, such as moons collected from musicians.

This isn't necessarily the first time kingdoms have been rerouted to cut story moons or triple moons from the route to skip cutscenes, but it's a relevant development and this information will be important later in the video, for now the progression of Any percentage record was a bit slow and steady, but this would all change in the summer when two Europeans began to take over the leaderboard for a few months. The Italian speedrunner Tyrone 18 had been climbing the ranks and improving in the game at an alarming rate and the June 8, 2019 he got his first

world

record with 59 32 only to be beaten by chaos by a second the next day, trust me, although this won't be the last you hear about Tyron.

A month later, the chaos would improve the record by another second. At this point, Mario Odyssey seemed to be a pretty streamlined speed game up to 13 years old. a dutch kid named mitch caused quite a stir in the speedrun community on july 10th. mitch surprised everyone by achieving the record for any

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odyssey percentage with a 59-14 and 16 second improvement over the previous record, how did this kid get so good and decimate the record when he wasn't even in the top 10 early when the sub hour occurred the answer is in his movement mitch's movement to put it bluntly he was a step above everyone else mitch is often compared to nindede the best mario sunshine player of all time similar to nindede mitch I would go for the craziest movement imaginable at the price of less consistency.

If he made a run, he was pulling away, but his risky strategy always made him more prone to mistakes. That's the crazy part. This race still had some small mistakes, including this moment. where he almost instinctively restarted after hitting a wall and a sloppy finish with the pillar room, regardless of Mitch setting the bar incredibly high, getting through this race was not going to be easy and he ended up standing for over 2 more months than any of the above. The records had stood, Tyrone would finally be the one to improve the record with a 5909, having finally caught up with Mitch's time and incredible skill at this point, it was pretty clear that either of these two riders would be able to break the barrier of the 59 minutes. and sure enough on October 12th Tyrone would run 58.59 in the first sub 59 minute race, pretty amazing, right, wrong, look at this, it says on the poll, what should I do next?

Any percentage before x 46. I think it's time for that to be my job. here it went, oh my god that's right, just two days after breaking another minute barrier, Tyrone decimated his own record by 12 seconds. This race didn't have any crazy new developments or new strategies. Tyrone simply started playing out of his damn mind in the second half of the race, resulting in a near perfect race for the time being, Tyrone had no intention of improving this time, no percentage seemed dead. . A month passed, two months passed, three, then four, four full months had passed and Tyrone still held. the world record that is not to say that there were no new developments, however, during this period of time, a new trick known as dino skip skip or dss for short was developed in the waterfall kingdom, as the name implies, jump a jump known as the dinosaur jump, which was a quick method to get to the brutal boss fight and had been used since the game first came out, dss was a much more difficult strategy that involved a triple jump to a Precise location on this wall to be able to get much further to the boss fight. fastest after collecting the first moon, dss would save 11 seconds if done optimally, but it was quite difficult, finally Tyrone's record was finally broken by mitch 58-42 on December 15, 2020, which was also the first race to use dss with the dry spell finally over Tyrone. and mitch's rivalry was reignited with dss and more advanced optimizations.

Both runners were able to post a time in the 5018 range during the spring quarantine. The top two runners were in a league of their own trading the record back and forth as they slowly approached the 58-minute barrier now, a few months earlier, if you had told someone a time of 57 minutes was around the corner, you would probably have been laughed at, but as the record fell further and further, it was soon noticed in the Mario Odyssey Speedrun community that it was running below 58. It was no longer a pipe dream. but a probable reality; In theory, it was clear that a 57 was possible, but with tricks developed during this time that could save enough time to break the 58-minute barrier, it carried too much risk to use in a real-world situation. speedrun in April, miwee discovered that during the escape sequence at the end of the lunar kingdom there were specific invisible spots where Bowser could stand along the corners of the 2d section wall and that it was possible to skip the 2d section by precisely climbing the wall using these points with tight jumps, this became known as 2d jump and realistically saves around 7 seconds.

However, the big downside is its difficulty combined with the fact that it is so close to the end of the race that it makes it too risky to use. World Record Attempts in Snow Kingdom another seven-second save was found where, instead of capturing a stack of three goombas and stepping on this switch, you can snag behind the ice wall by jumping at a precise spot along this corner, failing, however, resulted in a death. waste a lot of time, so it was also too daring a trick; Similarly, two roll cancel clips that would lead to faster moons in the Sand Realm and Lunch Realm were discarded, as those clips were too consistent in 1.3 and couldn't save time.

After one or two failed attempts, we'll shoot if those ideas couldn't realistically lead to a 57, which would be the answer would be in the form of a kingdom route known as lunch without stuarts since the game's release, speedrunners They have done more or less the same route. in this kingdom, which involved collecting 18 moons along the double-decker moon path and ending the route after collecting the multi-moon in the pot at the top of the volcano; However, these moons have a significant amount of cutscenes and a new route would open in the spring. developed that he wouldn't collect any of those moons using a tight jump mario could barely get past the spirit boss near the beginning of the kingdom and that's the easy part, you see the consequences of skipping the boss speewart made the other moons in the story unreachable, which in turn makes it much more difficult to navigate the kingdom.

The podoboos that can normally be captured for lava navigation are nowhere to be found, meaning that to navigate much of the kingdom, boosts and lava navigation must be carefully managed. The most ridiculous example involves jumping on these invisible blocks right after Cappy hits them, making them solid so you can reach the magma sub-area. Needless to say, this route was incredibly difficult, but it had the potential to save 7 seconds, barely enough to make 57 realistic. As of July 2020, the world record is 5810 by Tyron, who had been standing for two months. The race did not use the spiritless lunch route at this point, however, Tyrone and Mitch began to work at any percentage with the new route, but neither of them could catch on. a new personal best with his skill level the race was a crazy challenge with an unforgiving finish very few world record pace races would escape the lunch kingdom and the few that did would often die in Bowser's kingdom, possibly the most difficult of the entire race. no one was able to take a break until july 27th when on that fateful day mitch started a new career so please i'm going for five oh my god,oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh.

Oh my god, oh my god, ah 57 54. Mitch had beaten Super Mario Odyssey in 57 minutes and 54 seconds, completely crushing the old record by 16 seconds, which at this point is nothing short of legendary. There have been many times in Super Mario Odyssey's lifespan where people said that the category was optimized and that certain miles, like the infamous sub-hour, could never happen, but mitch's 57 only goes to show how far off he really was. the game to be resolved and that brings us to today, mitch's 57-54 has stood as the world record for the last five months it is longer than any previous record thanks to the new routes tricks and the purely divine gameplay and the willpower of racers like mitch and tyrone.

Both racers are currently the only two people to have beaten super mario odyssey in under. 58 minutes and third place was over 30 seconds slower since then, mitch and tyrone have taken a break from any percentage and moved on to other categories for the time being, leaving the world record undisputed for now, it's certainly beatable but It will take a lot of effort. I would rush to do it and I wouldn't be surprised if it took more than a year. If Mitch or Tyrone got back to work seriously, they probably could do it. There are other notable runners like lucid or goruya who have been making steady progress so I recommend keeping an eye on those two and as far as tiny barriers go this could be the last one to be broken for possibly a few years even if you implemented the ridiculously difficult tricks and clips I mentioned above and added them to the current route. sub 57 wouldn't be possible yet, but if the history of speedrunning has taught me anything it's to never doubt the seemingly impossible, for now let's celebrate this crazy world record of blood, sweat, tears and dedication that it took to take this game so far, as well as mitch the king of super mario odyssey, a special thanks to ganonslayer, one of the best super mario odyssey speedrunners, for helping me with the research for this video, go watch them and thank you all very much for the 20,000 subscribers From YouTube, we're just getting started, so buckle up as I get ready to create even more amazing content.

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