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00:00As much as video games are often best enjoyed while stopping to smell the roses at every
00:05possible opportunity, there's nothing quite like witnessing an expert player bend the game over
00:10their knee and break it down to its most basic components.
00:13The speed running community has grown massively.
00:15In recent years, thanks to sites like Twitch, allowing skilled players to broadcast their
00:19brain-breakingly.
00:20And that's what we're covering today, games that only have
00:25just come out, have just hit the shelves, and have already been beaten in embarrassingly
00:29quick fashion.
00:30So let's take a look at them.
00:31As I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 recent video games that got big
00:35beat in record time.
00:3610.
00:37Halo Infinite 26 Minutes
00:40Though the critical path through Halo Infinite's campaign isn't that long, clocking in at
00:45around 10 to 12 hours, speed runners have had an absolute field day using every dirty trick
00:50possible.
00:50to boil a playthrough down to less than 30 minutes.
00:53At present, the world record on
00:55easy difficulty is a ludicrous 25 minutes 45 seconds held by the running
01:00runner, Bareface, who also holds the world record for a legendary difficulty run of 28 minutes
01:0559 seconds.
01:06Pulling off a tight speed run is heavily reliant on the player's expertise
01:10in using Master Chief's much-loved new grapple shot.
01:13There's a grappling hook that allows players to propel themselves
01:15across the game's environment at great speed.
01:17Even so, knowing how to make the absolute most
01:20of the grapple shot is what truly separates the skilled from the absolutely gifted.
01:25Barefaced
01:25Aces Run, which is apparently the product of over 700 hours of work, is nothing short of
01:30many.
01:30Mesmerizing
01:31Even as he insists there's still more time to be saved here.
01:34Also, be sure to check
01:35out IGN's hilarious video where they got some of Halo Infinite's developers to react to the
01:39previous record holders.
01:40They are
01:41Gobsmacked
01:42Number 9
01:43Resident Evil Village
01:44One hour
01:4522 minutes
01:46Speedrunner
01:47Spicy TV
01:48Currently holds the world record
01:50of
01:50Resident Evil Village
01:51Spirited
01:52Highly competitive speedrunning community
01:54Having beaten the game
01:55In a truly impressive 1 hour 22 minutes
01:58And 33 seconds on casual
02:00difficulty in New Game Plus
02:01It is a run that demonstrates absolute mastery of the various games
02:05in place systems
02:06Conserving ammo and resources for the most necessary parts
02:09Skipping every possible
02:10Skippable enemy
02:11Leaping off ladders to save precious seconds
02:13And having the various puzzles memorized before
02:15Forehand
02:16Given that most players average on around 9-10 hours on a first playthrough
02:19It is a joy
02:20Before dropping performance
02:21Though with many other speedrunners currently clipping at their heels
02:24It is just a matter of time
02:25Before he or somebody else posts a new world record
02:28Number 8
02:29Elden Ring
02:3018 minutes
02:31Elden Ring may be the newest game on this list
02:34But from so on
02:35Software fans
02:36Being the dedicated bunch that they are
02:37Of course
02:38Wasted no time
02:39At all
02:40Mercilessly taking the lush action RPG apart
02:43Though a typical Critical Path playthrough
02:45Will take most players somewhere between 30-50 hours
02:47Tirelessly committed players have already managed to conquer the
02:50Game in less than 20 minutes
02:52The current world record
02:53Which could change any day now admittedly
02:55Is held by Distortion 2
02:56Who raced through the game in just 17 minutes and 43 seconds
03:00Unsurprisingly
03:01The fastest Elden Ring speedruns are generally achieved through exploits
03:04Namely
03:05A wrong warp
03:06Where the spawn point can be manipulated to warp players much further than the game intends
03:09Which is
03:10Which allows them to potentially skip huge parts of the campaign
03:13Distortion 2 however used a specific and
03:15Difficult to execute glitch called
03:17The Zip
03:18Allowing him to skip massive portions of the game
03:20And take pole position in the speedrunning standings
03:22Though FromSoftware has since glitched the Zip out of the game
03:25PC players have simply reverted to the previous patch in order to continue refining their runs
03:30Still benefiting from
03:31The Zip
03:32Glorious stuff indeed
03:33Number 7
03:34It takes two
03:351 hour
03:3630 minutes
03:372021's Consensus Game of the Year winner is
03:40An especially interesting game to speedrun
03:42Because per its title
03:43It's a co-op only game which requires
03:45The involvement of another player at all times
03:47Given that record breaking speedruns require
03:50Perfect split-second timing from a well-trained individual
03:53Sharing that responsibility across two people
03:55Obviously has huge potential for failure
03:57And yet
03:58The it takes two speedrunning community
04:00Has been surprisingly lively regardless
04:02With the current world record going to
04:04G-Lint and
04:05Who managed to beat the game in just 1 hour
04:0729 minutes
04:08And 35 seconds
04:09Considering
04:10Considering
04:11That many were surprised by the game's surprisingly beefy play time upon release
04:14Which is about 10 to 12 hours
04:15Reducing it by a factor of 10 in tandem with another player
04:18Is not to be sniffed at
04:19Speedruns
04:20Speedrunners had struggled to crack a time below 90 minutes for an entire year after the game's release
04:24And while G-Lint
04:25Insists that there remain many areas for improvement
04:27Is still a mighty achievement
04:28Watching the pair use out
04:30Of bounds tricks
04:31To skip through portions of levels
04:32And expertly coordinate their timings
04:34Is nothing short
04:35Of incredible
04:36Number 6
04:37Deathloop
04:3816 minutes
04:39Though Deathloop's
04:40Campaign length varies
04:41Pretty wildly
04:42Depending on the player
04:43Getting to the end of the critical path
04:44Should take around
04:4515 hours
04:46On average
04:47Or if you're speedrunner
04:48Seeker
04:49You know that it takes about the same time
04:50As it does to have a shower
04:51Earlier this year
04:52Seeker shattered the existing world record
04:54By plowing through
04:55The game in just 15 minutes and 45 seconds
04:57Using every glitch in the book to shave pressure
05:00Minutes and seconds
05:01Off their time
05:02This included exploits
05:03Such as leaning through
05:04Locked doors
05:05To buy
05:05Passed them
05:06And using laser mines
05:07To propel themselves
05:08To supposedly inaccessible areas
05:09As with
05:10Halo
05:10Infinite
05:11IGN caught up with Deathloop's
05:12Developers
05:13And had them react to a
05:14Previous world record
05:15Holding
05:1520 minutes speedrun
05:16Of the game
05:17Where they can scarcely believe
05:18What they're seeing
05:195.
05:20Metroid Dread
05:211 hour
05:22And 12 minutes
05:23Metroid Dread
05:24Was one of last year's
05:25Most
05:25Acclaimed games
05:26And despite its fair level of challenge
05:27Took most players
05:28Around 8 hours to beat
05:29Speedrun
05:30Tenors however
05:31Have managed to whittle that time down
05:32To barely an hour
05:33Though technically the world record to date
05:35Is Marouf's run
05:36Of just 1 hour
05:377 minutes
05:38Marouf used glitches
05:39Which were patched out of the game
05:40Within weeks
05:40Of its release
05:41Without the switch allowing players
05:42To downgrade their games
05:43It effectively meant
05:44That no future
05:45Speedrunners could replicate
05:46Their run without using a hacked switch
05:48So the run is now part of the legacy
05:50Wing of Metroid Dread speedruns
05:52The real world record then goes to speedrunner Bane
05:55Who demolished the game
05:56In just 1 hour
05:5712 minutes
05:58With a level of practice deficiency
05:59Sure to make
06:00Regular Dread players
06:01Feel wholly inadequate
06:02Thanks
06:03Number 4
06:04Hitman 3
06:055 minutes
06:06Though the sandbox style gameplay
06:08Of the Hitman games
06:09Encouraged players to take
06:10Their time and experiment
06:11With teeing up their target's creative death
06:13It's also a fascinating thing to watch
06:15The intricate levels
06:16Be thoroughly dismantled by speedrunners
06:18Hitman 3
06:19While typically taking around
06:208 hours for the average playthrough
06:21Has been beaten in less than 5 minutes
06:23By Tupla Pecone
06:25This brain exploding speedrun races through the opening Dubai mission in just 8 seconds
06:30And excluding loading menu screens and cutscenes wraps the whole game up in a mere 4 minutes
06:35And 55 seconds
06:36Throughout the video
06:37It's clear that they have memorised the precise placement
06:40Of every single targeted NPC patrol path
06:43Allowing them to barrel their way through each stage
06:45In literal record time
06:47Number 3
06:48Death's Door
06:4945 minutes
06:50The most highly challenging action-adventure game Death's Door takes players around 9-10 hours to beat on average
06:55But speedrunners have already gotten this down to a mere 3 quarters of an hour
06:58The current record holder is
07:00WeejoN.2
07:02Catchy name there
07:03Who managed to complete a glitched true ending run
07:05Of the game's original 1.0 release in just 45 minutes and 9 seconds
07:09They took advantage of everything
07:10Every sneaky trick at their disposal
07:12While also demonstrating a phenomenal knowledge of the game's movement
07:15And combat mechanics
07:16Considering Weejo has shaved off more than 20 minutes off his time within the last 2 months
07:20Don't be shocked if he takes this much further before this year ends
07:23Number 2
07:24Returnal
07:253 minutes and 55 seconds
07:27Returnal's brutally difficult main story can take play as well
07:30Upwards of 20 hours
07:31But as of February this year the world record is less than 40
07:354 damn minutes
07:36Now to be clear
07:37Returnal's speedruns are divided into two main categories
07:40In each file are runs completed entirely from scratch
07:42And new game plus ones which begin after the player's
07:45Completed the game
07:46And has been thrown back out into the world
07:48In a regular playthrough beating the last boss
07:50Will take you back to the fourth biome
07:51And this is where new game plus runners begin their run
07:54New game plus runners begin their run
07:55New game plus runners have a major advantage
07:57Given that their weapons and gear will also carry over
07:59But even some
08:00No, beasting through it in barely the time it takes to make a cup of coffee
08:03Is absolutely glorious
08:05Absurd
08:06Runner cave cave cave got through the game in just 3 minutes and 55 seconds
08:10And they move so quickly that it looks as though there's times where even the PS5's beefy
08:15SD can barely keep up with the speed at which cave propels themselves through the game's procedural
08:20And if you think that a new game plus run is just a little too easy
08:24Cave cave cave
08:25Cave cave also holds the world record for a fresh file run where they beat it in a stonking 42 minutes
08:30And 38 seconds
08:31It is madness
08:32At number 1
08:33Sifu
08:3417
08:3517
08:36Much like Returnal
08:37Sifu's runs are divided into the fresh file and new game
08:40Plus categories
08:41Though beyond allowing you to keep your permanently unlocked skills, a repeat playthrough
08:45Still requires a supernatural level of skill and concentration to power through
08:49The current new game plus
08:50World record is held by Cranky12 who completes Sifu in just 17 minutes and 23 seconds
08:55A run which he claims is far from perfect as he lost precious seconds on the second phase of the final game
09:00Boss Yang
09:01Cranky also holds the world record for a fresh file run at 40 minutes and 30 seconds
09:05And so whichever run you prefer, he's clearly developed an absurd command of the game's
09:10Combat mechanics alongside a near impossible degree of situational awareness
09:14Basically in short
09:15Incredible isn't even the word to describe it
09:17And there we go my friends
09:18Those were 10 recent video games that got
09:20Beaten in record time
09:21I hope that you enjoyed that
09:22And please let me know what you thought about it down in the comments section
09:25below
09:26As always I've been Jules
09:27You can go follow me over on Twitter
09:28At RetroJay with a zero
09:29Or you can
09:30Swing by Live and Let's Dice
09:31Where I do all of my streaming outside of work
09:33And it'd be great to see you over there my friends
09:35But before I go
09:36I just wanna say one thing
09:37Even though you're probably gonna speed off and complete a brand new game in under
09:40I don't know like two minutes
09:41Let's just make sure that we're taking care of ourselves in the right way by taking time
09:45Out of our busy days
09:46Just to check in with ourselves mentally alright
09:48You deserve love, happiness and
09:50Success
09:51And don't let anything or anyone else tell you otherwise alright
09:53And if things feel like they're getting a bit too much
09:55If you can, take a step away from them
09:57Gain some perspective
09:58Speak to people about your problems
09:59And then approach them
10:00With new energy
10:01And fresh eyes
10:02Because trust me
10:03Staring at a problem over and over again
10:05Doesn't make it any easier
10:06Sometimes you do need to take a break
10:07And that is more than okay
10:09As always I've been
10:10Jules, you have been awesome
10:11Never forget that
10:12And I'll speak to you soon
10:13Bye
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