@@nekjotti Tool Assisted Speedrun. Tl;dr: Tools outside the game are used to create a demonstration of a speedrun that is technically possible, but not necessarily feasible for a person to pull off. The most common sort of TAS has the creator picking exactly what input is given on exactly which frame. This allows a TAS to be 'perfect' - it never has to play safe, it does all the hardest skips and tricks first try, etc etc. Blue has some videos showing off various TASes, I'd recommend giving them a look if you're interested.
this guy can do watcher knights with close to no equipment and on 1.3x speed i cant even do it with pure nail, nearly all charms, 8 masks and all three upgraded spells (edit: and shade cloak) this is so depressing
i was thinking exactly this as i saw the thumbnail, what a coincidence! eta: with the adjustment that it starts at 1x, and that killing enemies gets you more speed
I restarted watching hollow knight content and after watching like a hundred speedrun videos by you, skurry and Fire I decided to try some of my own and now I'm addicted. I blame y'all for how much fun I'm having and wish you a very great year. (also, thank y'all for reinspiring me to play HK, I got very upset at flower quest XD) editing to add: I completed everything except the steel soul achievements and pantheon of Hollownest now. thank you :)
@@xenongd6974 good luck to you as well! and maybe you should just try it, you might do better than you expected! and on the off chance you don't do better, that's fine as well. you can practice what you don't do well on! it's what I'm doing lol
@@xenongd6974 The practice in godhome is pretty nice and I'll let you in on a secret when I first did it, I got to absrad in p5 (got demolished immediately but got to her) and then I had debug and infinite hp on, infinite hp gives you feedback and I spent all the time just dodging her hits without attacking her and only made it go to the next phase when I felt ready for it.
Can’t wait for the next video where you do Any% NMG but time slows down every 3 minutes. Until you’re fighting THK in a matrix style slow motion battle!!
Have been slowly falling out of the hk fandom, I have practically stopped all other hk channels but yours is the one video I will not miss, live the content!
The reaction to base speed after having it on 1.7 is what it feels like when I start playing hollow knight after a month long period of only playing celeste
it's kinda crazy how even the SLIGHTEST increase in speed can make the whole game feel weird and off-putting XD that's what happens after hundreds (thousands for others) of hours in the game at normal pace.
Watching this video is real weird because although I've played Hollow Knight, I mostly watch videos and I watch videos at 1.25 or 1.5 speed So the speed up doesn't look too impactful for me but I know it must feel really strange
0:39 Actually 🤓a constant growth of the same value does not get exponentially harder (grow exponentially) but in fact is quite the opposite. It would grow at a squareroot rate or at least looks more like a square root growth although not exactly the same.
My retention time on this is going to be incredible. This it better than the sped up subway surfers gameplay on shorts. They're gonna need to put medical restrictions on this content, it's simply too powerful
Blue: I will probably mess things pretty quickly. Also Blue: perfectly makes skips with 1.1 and even 1.15 speed. Oh, Watcher Knights became the problem now with 1.25 and 1.3 speed... But you did it thankfully right before 1.35 speed increase, lmao. OMG. That Crystal Peak crawlers cycle was so perfect lmao. And the lasers cycle too, loool. QGA wasn't THAT bad. You nailed it IMO. Just few tries and you were done with it. In your first run, you finished Watcher Knights right before speed increased to 1.35. On second run you made it before it increased to 1.3. This is a major improvement (over 3 minutes faster). That fall in the Herrah's dream 😂 20 minutes of tries to beat The Hollow Knight... GG!
I feel like that's what the hollow knight difficulty should actually have been like. Was so gutted when I did my casual playthrough and I beat him at like my 3rd attempt
I agree that fun is always more important than the rules of the run. The point of the challenge is to enjoy the game in a different way, and if it's impossible, all you're going to accomplish is frustrating yourself.
at the start the video still feels normal bc I'm used to watching almost everything on x1,5 speed. Tho i still recheck if the video is actually normal speed every couple minutes to be sure😅
this is what a speedrun seems like to a normal player
I can confirm.
as a normal player I can also confirm.
What is today’s percentage?
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The watcher knights fight was a good representation of how it feels to fight bosses in your very first playthrough.
The first thk attempt where hes just praying for a stagger is exactly how i play the game
I was gonna say this lol
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@@Matthew.Morcosfunny enough I actually beat the my first attempt my first playthrough but I have 95% completion so I just abused sharp shadow
Quick Slash, Quick Focus, Dream Wielder, Sprintmaster, and Dashmaster lookin kinda weird.
You forgor sprint master
shield would be moving lightspeed xD
this challenge took blue's time perception, tossed it in a blender, and made it into smoothie.
THK at 2x speed is totally doable - even hitless. As long as your initials are TAS
Yes then i can do it cuz my name is tactical ass-smasher
TAS?
@@nekjotti Tool Assisted Speedrun. Tl;dr: Tools outside the game are used to create a demonstration of a speedrun that is technically possible, but not necessarily feasible for a person to pull off.
The most common sort of TAS has the creator picking exactly what input is given on exactly which frame. This allows a TAS to be 'perfect' - it never has to play safe, it does all the hardest skips and tricks first try, etc etc.
Blue has some videos showing off various TASes, I'd recommend giving them a look if you're interested.
@@nekjottiTool Assisted Speedrun
@@nekjottiToby Andrew Smith
The 1hp watcher knights gave me more stress than anything I’ve ever seen
2:07 "we're just gonna do it on the fly" *pogos on the fly*
YES ANOTHER Blue video!!
well well well, look who it is ('ello lad)
YES
IT'S A WILD WIMBDY
Slowing down the video as it went on really made blue look like he was descending into insanity.
you really spent two hours watching this
this guy can do watcher knights with close to no equipment and on 1.3x speed
i cant even do it with pure nail, nearly all charms, 8 masks and all three upgraded spells (edit: and shade cloak)
this is so depressing
Same 😫
alr, now I NEED to see that crystal peak route done at 2.5x speed, that would be nuts, if even possible at all
Could you please record it. I believe you can do it but I also think it would make for good content.
This is the only Blue can actually put "speed"run in his streams and it actually be true.
LMFAO WHY IS THIS ACTUALLY TRUE
nahhhhhh cant do blue like that 💀
Now do it starting at 2x speed and you lose 0.10 speed every 3 minutes 👀
this is a good idea (if it can go below 1)
@@chri-k it can
i was thinking exactly this as i saw the thumbnail, what a coincidence!
eta: with the adjustment that it starts at 1x, and that killing enemies gets you more speed
You have a hour to beat it 👀 ((90+93/168+387k/46189)min in game time (gosh i love math))
@@endernightblade1958 doesn't eta stand for estimated time of arrival
If you put the video on 0.75x playback speed, it just looks like he's playing normal speed and he's really bad at the game
If the timescale is faster the sooner we get silksong!
so that didnt help
Google - How to increase timescale in real life
1.4 is what it feels like playing anything while having way too many drinks
The first time someone talked to Elderbug without talking to him, does this still make the run valid?
Schrodinger's Elderbug
@@sparkcircuit7029 When unobserved, Elderbug simultaneously has the flower and doesn't have it.
I restarted watching hollow knight content and after watching like a hundred speedrun videos by you, skurry and Fire I decided to try some of my own and now I'm addicted. I blame y'all for how much fun I'm having and wish you a very great year.
(also, thank y'all for reinspiring me to play HK, I got very upset at flower quest XD)
editing to add: I completed everything except the steel soul achievements and pantheon of Hollownest now. thank you :)
did you get the last two achievements?
@@xenongd6974 just missing Pantheon now! thanks for asking :)
@@tooth2887 good luck man! i too am missing p5 but scared to even attempt it :(
@@xenongd6974 good luck to you as well! and maybe you should just try it, you might do better than you expected! and on the off chance you don't do better, that's fine as well. you can practice what you don't do well on! it's what I'm doing lol
@@xenongd6974 The practice in godhome is pretty nice and I'll let you in on a secret when I first did it, I got to absrad in p5 (got demolished immediately but got to her) and then I had debug and infinite hp on, infinite hp gives you feedback and I spent all the time just dodging her hits without attacking her and only made it go to the next phase when I felt ready for it.
Can’t wait for the next video where you do Any% NMG but time slows down every 3 minutes. Until you’re fighting THK in a matrix style slow motion battle!!
This is crazy Oo (Also you start sounding like the Collector after a while which seems like a valid reaction to this madness ^^b)
You’re honestly the most underrated UA-camr! I don’t understand how you dont have 1 million subscribers already!
Because it’s not a mainstream game and he doesn’t upload much.
Because the game isn't that popular?
HIGHLY AGREE
Because not everyone plays HK
Have been slowly falling out of the hk fandom, I have practically stopped all other hk channels but yours is the one video I will not miss, live the content!
That hornet fight was so stressful and yet so sick
This was truly the zoomiest run ive ever seen lmaoo
This is how hard I thought the hollow knight was going to be when I started playing hollow knight
The reaction to base speed after having it on 1.7 is what it feels like when I start playing hollow knight after a month long period of only playing celeste
it's kinda crazy how even the SLIGHTEST increase in speed can make the whole game feel weird and off-putting XD that's what happens after hundreds (thousands for others) of hours in the game at normal pace.
And that is why I am nominating Blue for the our Triforce of Courage sacrifice.
*Ends presentation*
No longer a speedrun this is a speedsprint
Hollow Knight: Made in Heaven
W comment
this video plays like one of those "you didnt have to cut me off" lore memes
Seeing hollow knight players struggle to react to the slowest boss fights known to video gaming brings a smile to my face
it may just be a skill issue on my part😭
Lol 112 run next where timescale increases with every boss. Honestly could have interesting routing to fight hard stuff earlier
Watching this video is real weird because although I've played Hollow Knight, I mostly watch videos and I watch videos at 1.25 or 1.5 speed
So the speed up doesn't look too impactful for me but I know it must feel really strange
Holy shit. Actually some insane gamer skills. That Crystal Peak Segment I had to watch twice
22:12 that might the fastest THK death ever 😂
What a fun video to watch! Haha great stuff, Blue!
As a 2x watcher, this was especially entertaining to watch people enter my domain
Damn the knight achieved heaven uh oh
Hollow Knight is what it feels like to fight it for the first time
The hollow knight just seems like an even harder pure vessel
UA-camr actually gets videos out fast and consistent no way
Eight videos in a year is "fast and consistent"?
@@perlundgren7797 best upload schedule
Damn man, retrying is the pinacle of determination. I would be devestated. Insane
8:35
You’re fired…
And under arrest
"Hollow Knight speedrun, but every time I deal damage the video gets 1% faster."
this is basically watching the normal nail turn into quickslash on its own :D
Cant believe blue tried to obtain heaven (jojo reference)
Alternative title: BlueSR realized why challenge runs that build speed start below normal speed
22:40
Blue: Fights the hollow knight
Me: ok the video is almost over
Me: *checks time on video*
Me: ITS ONLY HALFWAY DONE
Sounds like a fun challenge, put the hollow knight on crack.
yooooo this was so crazy!! incredible, thank u for this 🛐
0:39 Actually 🤓a constant growth of the same value does not get exponentially harder (grow exponentially) but in fact is quite the opposite. It would grow at a squareroot rate or at least looks more like a square root growth although not exactly the same.
He said exponentially harder , not fastee
Hey blue, that's what hollowknight bosses feel like when I fight them.
My retention time on this is going to be incredible. This it better than the sped up subway surfers gameplay on shorts. They're gonna need to put medical restrictions on this content, it's simply too powerful
40:10 practicing for pure vessel
Blue: I will probably mess things pretty quickly.
Also Blue: perfectly makes skips with 1.1 and even 1.15 speed.
Oh, Watcher Knights became the problem now with 1.25 and 1.3 speed... But you did it thankfully right before 1.35 speed increase, lmao.
OMG. That Crystal Peak crawlers cycle was so perfect lmao.
And the lasers cycle too, loool.
QGA wasn't THAT bad. You nailed it IMO. Just few tries and you were done with it.
In your first run, you finished Watcher Knights right before speed increased to 1.35. On second run you made it before it increased to 1.3. This is a major improvement (over 3 minutes faster).
That fall in the Herrah's dream 😂
20 minutes of tries to beat The Hollow Knight...
GG!
When you killed Umu for a second time (in the video) i wanted to scream at you to dab, but thankfully you remembered
bro think he made in heaven
19:43 "imagine dying to petra arena" :) ,called it
Thk with 1.75 speed is like Pv on shawblades
I feel like that's what the hollow knight difficulty should actually have been like. Was so gutted when I did my casual playthrough and I beat him at like my 3rd attempt
I mean he IS a mindless zombie operating on pure muscle memory
22:59 hollow knight but harder than Pure Vessel
He messed up the speed several times in the first run. Should have been higher.
Your Crystal Peaks were *so clean* tho. Congrats : D
WOAH, THAT IS SUCH A WACKY AND SILLY CHALLANGE, YOU HAVE TRULY EXCEEDED SILLYNESS THAT IS POSSIBLE BY MERE MORTALS, AND YOU HAVE ASCENDED.
I need to see what nkg and abs rad look like with this mod.
Bro gave us the cleanest transition into salubras shop
Didn’t know Mustache Girl got into Hallownest
"on the fly" he says as he literally jumps on the fly ❤ blue
21:37 well he certainly wished you luck
jojo part 6 made in heaven
“i need more souls”….*drowns*…”great start”👁️👄👁️
Honestly, it'd be cool to see a speedrun category with increased speed.
i watched this whole video on 2x speed and it was certainly an experience lmao
the same is true for watching at 0.75 / 0.5 speed such that you mostly undo the speed-up
Shoutout to MoistSucculantPyro at 20:32 for that BANGER idea in chat
Hollow knight but you are the hollow knight and sleep for 100 years till a knight wakes you up and kills you :(
I agree that fun is always more important than the rules of the run. The point of the challenge is to enjoy the game in a different way, and if it's impossible, all you're going to accomplish is frustrating yourself.
That clean ass crystal peeks 😂😂
This is the one time I saw someone scared of THK's 4th phase
Imagine NKG on 3 timescale speed
Alt title: Hollow Knight but I get mentally slower every 3 minutes
i’m what is commonly referred as a psychopath (i watch everything at a 2x speed), so this was watchable for me.
When you are at hollow knight but there is half the video left
Using quick slash at home be like:
just the title made me exhale nervously
Now imagine doing NKG or Radiance with this speed 🤣
21:41 i’m shedding tears
I feel insufficient now. I struggle to bear THK with 94+ completion
I often watch videos at 1.5x or 2x speed, so this actually didn't feel odd for me to watch at all.
In the spirit of the challenge I watched this video on 2x playback speed
Get wings Makes it ez plus i love the vide
he is so good and so bad simultaneously thats its hilarious
"no mistakes"
[makes a bunch of mistakes]
at the start the video still feels normal bc I'm used to watching almost everything on x1,5 speed. Tho i still recheck if the video is actually normal speed every couple minutes to be sure😅
Yesterday I beat watcher knights on 1.8, absrad on 1.4 and sheo on 2.0, cool coincidence
New blue video :D
nah u were GAMING at crystal peak
this gets crazy by the end
22:11 Literally Pure Vessel
Now do this with an item randomiser