After killing almost every category in Super Mario 64, speedrunning legend completes his domination with a once-unthinkable record of the game's most grueling challenge
Oct. 28, 2024“Is this going to go down in history as one of the best WRs in all of speedrunning?”
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Super Mario 64 speedrunner Suigi quickly became an absolute legend in pretty short order, and now he’s cemented that legacy with an absolutely monstrous run through the game’s most grueling category.
Despite Suigi’s dominance in four of the five major Super Mario 64 speedrunning categories, he had never held the world record in the 120-star category - a grueling completionist run that takes well over 90 minutes per record attempt. The category has seen a ton of development in the past year thanks to thediscovery of a viable method for performing a legendary trick thought to be a meme. That trick helped lead to six new world records in the year following its discovery, but Suigi was not one of the record setters.
Which is why it was so shocking when Suigi followed up that time with a world record of 1:35:33 less than a week later. There’s no massive secret to how he set this time - no big route change or unbelievable single skip that got him there. His run through the first half of the game was middling, but the back half was unbelievable. In the end, he shaved a full 29 seconds off the record. That’s the biggest time save this category has seen in over nine years.
“Was watching this live, saw it was huge WR pace with half an hour left and it seemed too good to be true,” speedrunner and community documentarian Summoning Salt says onTwitter. “Surely something would go wrong. But then I remembered it’s Suigi playing and I was 99% sure he’d close it out. Dude plays on WR pace like it’s a warmup run with 0 pressure.”
“He just skipped 1:36 straight to 1:35,” as oneReddit commenterobserves. “Is this going to go down in history as one of the best WRs in all of speedrunning?” Or, as anotherputs it, “He’ll have the world’s first 1:34 at this rate, easily the best to ever play SM64.”
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