Hello you lovely mario maker person, my name
is ceave and welcome back.
Today we start our new speedrun challenge!
A while ago I presented four levels to you
and challenged everyone to get a really good
record on these stages, and afterwards I tried
to beat your times.
So let’s find out how I did!
The first stage we are going to speedrun is
called 1-4 run of the wigglers by Hi Guy.
It’s a pretty cute traditional level built
around easy platform challenges featuring
wigglers.
There is a secret pipe which transports you
to a later point in the level if you take
it, but as it turns out taking the shortcut
is actually a second slower than skipping
it.
So let’s take a look at the speedrun.
Speedrunning this stage is pretty straight
forward.
It’s basically hold right and press a.
There is not a single moment in the stage
where I stop to move at highest speed.
The tricky part was to find out when to jump
so that you never have to cancel your momentum.
Running the optimal route on this stage is
pretty easy so getting the world record here
comes down to really small things.
I think the point where you are most likely
to lose a few frames in this level is the
angle with which you hit the goal sign.
So anyways, let’s find out if I got the
world record!
Well I didn’t, that was the best time I
was able to come up with, I have no idea where
I lost these 12 hundredths of a second, but
it’s probably at the goal sign.
So congratulations to David Asato for getting
the first entry on the PFTCL!
He hold the world record when I was trying
to beat it.
And now let’s take a look on our second
level!
Hooray we shot mario into space, again!
This time he is not in space because of bowsers
space base, he is there to complete the level
metroids in mushroom kingdom as fast as possible.
But this level is no ordinary level, while
everything seems to be quiet normal at first
our plumber soon has to realize that nothing
is as it seems, as huge metroids are exploding
on the surface of this stage while he makes
his way along.
Is he able to survive this stage, and if yes,
how long will it take him?
Let’s find out!
Speedrunning this stage is pretty straight
forward as well, usually the challenge in
this level is to avoid the metroids which
drop down on you but if you hold right the
whole time you are too fast for them to hit
you.
This part is the one where it is the easiest
to lose some time as you want to move on the
vine for as little time as possible.
Once you made it through this part you only
have to perform some basic jumps and wait
on top of the goal axe for the bob omb to
explode.
Waiting here takes a lot of time but sadly
I wasn’t able to find a way to avoid it.
I tried this level more than one-hundred times,
and most of my tries I lost a lot of time
at the vine part.
This was my best playthrough, but was it faster
than the best of your times?
No it wasn’t.
Congratulations to mario maker user Mechna
Myte.
He beat the stage in a sick time, and somehow
managed to be almost half a second faster
than I was.
Let’s move on to our third level.
In this stage we have to make our way through
bowser jr. new house.
There are several paths which we can take,
some are faster and some are slower.
Once we found the optimal route it’s possible
to beat this stage pretty fast!
Let’s take a look.
The beginning of this stage is really challenging!
Hitting this blue platform is harder than
it might looks and we need to keep our momentum
in order to make it on top of these spikes.
Here we need to jump at the right timing so
that we don’t need to wait for the thwomp.
In this part it’s super easy to lose time.
We cancel our running animation before we
drop down a semi-solid platform because this
is a little bit faster.
Aaand that’s the level!
Let’s see if I was finally able to beat
one of your times?
I wasn’t, again!
Congratulations to Thomas, he got a time on
this stage, so good, that I wasn’t even
able to get close to it.
At this point I became worried.
There was only one speed-run left, and I really
wanted to beat at least one of your times.
Was it impossible for me to beat one of your
insanely good world records?
Was I … slow?
The last stage was by far the most complex
one.
A casual playthrough through this level took
about four minutes, and there were so many
little tricks and optimizations possible to
optimize your time.
I decided that this stage, will be the first
stage where I get a world record.
So let’s do this.
The first room is pretty straightforward platforming.
In this room we have to wait for the platforms
to reach the ground we take this mushroom
here because we need to damage boost through
the next section and getting the mushroom
in this room is faster than in the previous
one because you have to wait for firebars
anyway.
We take a quick ride on top of this platform.
Once we are able to jump on top of the firebars
we do exactly this and damage boost towards
the end of this room.
The first part of the next area is pretty
boring, we have to wait for these platforms
to bring us to the top.
Once we are on the top we activate this skeleton
roller coaster, and make our way towards the
end as fast as possible.
We need to wait here for a short time so that
we can land on the platform the moment it
hits this track piece.
There are three red-coins hidden in this level
and they are completely optional.
But as it turns out it’s faster to collect
all three of them as this allows us to skip
a bowser jr. boss fight at the end.
We make our way on top here with wall jumps
as this is faster than the intended route
and try to lose as little time as possible
to these muncher platforms.
In this room we need to make our way through
dangerous jumps and we collect a red coin.
We take intentionally damage here because
there is a trick in the next room which is
only possible if we are small.
The intended way to beat this challenge is
to activate this platform and to wait for
it in order to make it through these small
gaps.
But as we are small it’s possible to make
these jumps without the platform.
Now we have to wait again until the platform
reaches a certain spot and we are able to
jump towards the next pipe.
I tried to come up with a solution that allows
us to skip this platform ride but sadly I
wasn’t able to find anything.
We need to collect another mushroom in this
room as this allows us to save a little bit
of time later.
There is a hidden block containing a vine,
climbing upwards here brings us to the last
red coin and gives us our key.
In this room usually we would have to wait
for the platforms to line up, but as we are
currently big it’s possible to damage boost
through.
This room is the one I had the biggest troubles
with while playing the stage slow, as there
are so many goombas after such a short time
here.
But if you're going fast it’s by far the
easiest room.
And now we say hi to bowser jr.
And then we say goodby to bowser jr.
And that’s the stage!
IT took me a while to get such a good run
on such a long level.
Was this finally enough, did I get the world
record?
TEN SECONDS?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
…. HOW!
…
Congratulations to Thomas again, he somehow
managed to save ten seconds in the previous
level, which is really, really impressive!
And congratulations to all of you, I seriously
had no chance to beat one of your amazing
times, but maybe I’ll get one of your records
the next time.
These are the stages for the next speedrun
challenge.
I think it would be fun to give each speedrun-challenge
video a theme.
We will start with this the speedrun-challenge
after the next one, and our first theme is
traditional cave levels.
So if you have a cool traditional cave level
leave me a level ID in the comments, I’ll
pick the next four stages out of your submissions.
I hope you enjoyed this video, and that you
have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.
