Hello Hive ! 馃憢
I am Evian, and I am something of a speedrunner myself.
If you want to know me a bit more and about speedrunning, you can go read my Introduce Yourself post.
Today I am going about the newest step I reached towards my current goal : getting into Furi speedrunning leaderboard top 5.
Probably the beginning of a series of blog posts ! This one will also serve of a first introduction about Furi speedruns.
For context, Furi is a boss rush which mixes precise close-quarters combats and shoot'em up to get the quintessence of the challenging action game.
By the way, it also has an orgasmic soundtrack.
1 week ago, I submitted Furi at the biggest French speedrunning caritative marathon.
Basically in such a marathon, speedrunners relay themselves during a weekend (or more, some marathons last an entire week!), days and nights, to showcase their runs to viewers.
The places are very limited ! For this one, only 1-5% of the submissions will have the honor to be shown on the big scene.
They have to be the most entertaining, showcased by the bests !
So I submitted Furi. I'm pretty confident about the entertainement value of the game (I only play top games 馃槑) but about my level... 馃
I actually submitted a race with the holder of the French record, also 3rd in the world with a time of 28:48.
At this moment, I was 10th in the world, "only" the 4th French with a 29:54. An entire minute of difference !
That might be too much to showcase a close race, and I knew it will count for the marathons reviewers.
To increase my chances, I decided to aim for a goal I had set aside : beating the second best french on the game, which is also the 5th in world.
To do that I finally decided to train the hardest boss to optimise in speedrun : The Song.
While you usually just use normal shots against most of the bosses, for this one you have to switch between normal and charged ones to optimize damage in a series of very precise inputs.
I never really trained the boss... because I sucked at it so I didn't like it. 馃槄
But to reach my goal I had to actually be more efficient than only launching runs which would die on the same mistakes over and over.
After a couple of days of training I finally became pretty decent at the boss, getting the 4th best time. It was time to launch runs !
I quickly finally beat my Personal Best (PB) with a 29:39 after 4 months ! A 15 seconds improvement which grants me the 8th world best time.
And I feel like it's only the beginning (which is very rare after a PB!) : I still made a lot of avoidable mistakes.
If you find this post interesting you can watch the run below (or on 3Speak), upvote the post and follow me to get the rest of the story !
See ya ! 馃憢
