3:36.363 Hell Speedrun World Record by Kinnijup
Posted by krille71 on June 9th, 2016 @06:37AM
Hell has always been one of the most insane speedruns. Since D_Tea finished his 3:44.411, it seemed that it would never be improved. But Kinnijup did that, and not only once, but twice. He improved his previous time of 3:42.571 by six seconds and achieved the hell world record with the final time of 3:36.363!
Much like Latedog’s long standing hell speedrun, the run started low% into a visible black market entrance near the start of 2-1. 39 seconds into the black market is nothing exceptional but from there on, the run turned insane. A jetpack in the first shop, a teleporter in the mystery box and bombs and a compass in the two shops to the right was enough supplies for the rest of the seed.
Two fast jungle levels followed, and 1:10 into the ice caves is 6 seconds slower than his previous personal best, but that would soon change. Psychic presence on 3-2 forced the Moai Head to be in 3-3, thus allowing him to teleport straight to the exit instead of wasting time looking around the level. The next big rng section of the seed was 4-1. Anubis spawned in the chunk right next to the entrance, and Kinni took him down with two paste bombs. The path down to the exit was on the left of the level, so he bombed down below the entrance to save time. After a three second 4-2 he was 1:55 into City of Gold, an absolutely insane pace.
Olmec started off in a scary manner. The door to hell was slightly to the right of the entrance, so he was forced to first deal with Anubis 2 before bombing down. If he went to the right, he would trigger Olmec again and ruin the cascading strategy, so the only way to avoid Anubis 2 while the bomb timer ticked down was going straight upwards. A slightly mistimed cascade made the bombs blew up in the air, but luckily he had time to place another set of bombs before losing any time. The first try to lure Olmec into the four tile wide hole failed. He got Olmec down the hole on the second try, which resulted in about a four second slower fight.
The last major part of the run is hell itself. A time off 2:48 into hell is astonishingly, nearly never seen before. The hell levels were fast enough, but Yama was another deal. Extremely scary start, with an imp that from the cutscene looked like it would cause no problem and just fly towards the left side of the map. Sadly a floating tile blocked its path, and Kinni found himself in a really bad situation in the middle of a horde of enemies. After getting hit twice, he managed to reach Yama and improve his world record! He entered Yama with four hp, and left with merely one.

Overall, the seed was played exceptionally well, and really showed off the high skill needed to pull off a run like this. It is a remarkable feat to not only take home the world record in the most insane category, but also improving it a month later! Congrats Kinnijup for this amazing speedrun!
krille
