I was probably weakest in cardio, but I improved from playing the game so much.
I consider myself in decent shape – I was fairly fit from doing martial arts for a couple of years, so I could lean on that for endurance. “ a great fan of calisthenics, so I would always do a variety of exercises every morning. “The main thing was to condition myself through doing the shorter categories,” says England. This involved a meticulous stretching routine before starting making sure he got enough sleep leading up to the day of the run and ensuring he was properly hydrated, had water, and power bars on hand. While he was already physically fit thanks to a background in martial arts, he still needed to make sure he was properly conditioned for the run.
These included using elevation changes to jump over enemies instead of fighting them and launching off a specific box to skip a large part of a level – all things that traditional speedrunner would have to do.īut there were also physical preparations that England needed. He built his way up to the full-game run by doing smaller categories, and he even developed some new tricks that he wanted to try to save time. I enjoy pushing my body physically, so a full-game run was just another challenge – basically doing a marathon but slightly different.”įor his personal best run, which was the world record until a couple of months ago, England had done a lot of preparation. But it ended up becoming a goal of mine to do the run. “I was a bit hesitant to jump at it, since Nintendo always said it'd take three months of playing 30-minute sessions to finish. It seemed like a bit of a meme, but I was still interested in giving it a shot. “I then started to become more interested in the idea and saw some info on speedrunning it including a few articles on it. “I was playing it casually on my stream and I was joking about speedrunning it,” says England. The western star of the category – and previous world record holder with a time of 14 hours, 26 minutes, and 24 seconds – is Adam “Ventifer” England, who pushed the boundaries of what was possible when it comes to Ring Fit Adventure speedrunning. The current world record holder is Japanese player kirsch, who recently posted a time of 12 hours and five minutes. A run that most people would struggle to pull off. But there’s one run that takes things to another level entirely. Where most speedruns are about frame-perfect executions to save seconds, these long runs are all about endurance and stamina. And then there’s the infamous 100% run of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, a GameCube title which has a world record time of 338 hours, 43 minutes and 26 seconds. Any% runs of Final Fantasy IX clock in at around nine hours, and mark the longest speedrun to appear in a Games Done Quick marathon. The world record for speedrunning all three games in the recently released Super Mario 3D All-Stars is currently just under 11 hours. But despite all of the work put in, some games simply take a long time to complete. For years people have tried to finish gigantic games as quickly as possible, and the dedicated speedrunning community spends hours trying to find ways to skip parts of the game and complete it as fast as possible.
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