![]() But sure enough, instead of choosing to change to disc two, I chose the "reset game" option somehow. I had done many speedruns of the North American version of Xenogears on PSTV, so it never even crossed my mind that I might have difficulty remembering which boxes to select to change to disc two if it was in Japanese. I was getting nice luck with fights and escaping from battles quickly, executing well, and I was even about seven minutes ahead of the world record at the end of disc one (around 14 hours into the speedrun).īeing that it was being played on a PSTV, swapping the disc means a bit more than just popping open the lid and switching discs. I was playing the PSN version of Xenogears on a PlayStation TV last year when I did the attempt, and things were going really well. The worst way I have messed up, though, over everything else, has got to be when I reset my console when I was on world record pace for the Glitchless Japanese category of Xenogears. During runs, I will drink water but in smaller and smaller amounts as the run goes on." "Usually the day before attempting a run, I will eat most of my meals early that day so that on the day of the speedrun I can go to the bathroom shortly after waking up. I don't know if it was because of a possible static discharge or because the console itself has been heavily used and the slightest touch set it off, but this was an incredibly frustrating way to lose a run. ![]() And I hadn't saved the game in a very long while. What happened after this? Well, the game just froze. I was getting a bit concerned with how hot the console might be running, so I decided to just touch the top of the console to check it. Usually, I will have an external fan running to blow air on whatever console I am using, but on this particular day I had forgotten to turn it on. I play Xenogears on a PS2 I bought used, and the fan on it has never been stellar. Back when I used to do more risky strategies with certain equipment setups, I had many runs die in the 8-14 hour range for Xenogears.Īnother interesting incident was when I was near the end of disc 1 of Xenogears once. With these games, I have tried to be very methodical in my approach to learning, rather than just jumping in and going for doing a full speedrun attempt immediately.įor Xenogears, random encounters are the biggest enemy in certain parts of the run. ![]() When I learned Dark Cloud or Xenosaga Episode II, for example, there was little information available on how to speedrun the games, so a lot of my experience with these was figuring out the best route to beat the game.įor virtually every speedrun I have learned besides these two games- X enogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Xenosaga Episode I-there has been an existing route already in place to start with. When I learn a new speedrun, the first thing I set out to address is the route or the plan that is used by current speedrunners to beat the game. It must be daunting to start breaking down a game that, when played normally, can take dozens of hours to beat. Talk me through your approach to a new speedrun. I wanted to emulate that, so Xenogears (and eventually Xenogears 100%, a roughly 27-hour speedrun) was right up my alley. Sometimes, he even did multiple Final Fantasy VII/VIII 100% speedruns in a row. I found it so cool that someone was doing a seemingly superhuman stint of endurance, playing a single game 12-18 hours. Back when I first started watching Twitch, I watched a lot of XeroKynos' Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII 100% speedrun streams that he did on a regular basis. Besides already liking the game, I noticed the length of the Xenogears speedrun right away being around 19 hours, and found it very appealing.
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