Hey guys! I've been a lurker around here for a while, but recently I did a Knytt Underground and then also an Uurnog speedrun, so I wanted to share the Knytt Underground one here for anyone interested.
Some of you may be familiar with the any% runs on speedrun.com that use the disorder (
https://www.speedrun.com/Knytt_Underground).
Well, I decided to do one of Chapter 3 WITHOUT the disorder, to see how the routing turned out. Well let me just say now: the routing turned out to be very exciting indeed, making liberal use of Utopioca as well as two secret shortcuts (proper secrets). Although I've owned the game for around 5 years and fully finished it twice, I still was nowhere close to memorising where all the items are. So I relied heavily on this incredible map:
https://jayisgames.com/review/knytt-underground.php#prettyPhoto[walkthrough]/2/
Here's a very poorly drawn illustration (drawn on top of the in-game map) of the exact route i took:
http://imgur.com/a/VkkRPAnd for anyone interested in the run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IK6W4pMeyUI make a LOT of small mistakes, including one bigger one in the middle of the run, but it still turned out to be my best time (and it took a good 20 resets so I was absolutely determined not to reset again
)
I get 4 Flowers, 4 Stones, 4 Artifacts and 2 Glyphs throughout the run, as well as 10 coins. There are a few 'tricks' where I do things in a weird order, but in my opinion the best way to save time is just to be efficient with your movement in general. Smooth movement saves far more than even the best trick, it seems.
I think there's a lot of potential in this category, so I hope someday someone decides to come along and beat my (not even very good) time!