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Speedrunners are h🍷ard at work trying to finish Metroid Dread as quickly as they possibly can with eight players registering times of less than 90 minutes at this point.
Shortly after certain games are released, some of its players become so in-tune with it that they start to share speedrun times that us casual players can't quite believe. Metroid Dread, for example. The sidescroller is prime real estate for speedrunners, and someone managed tꦡo beat the game in under tw🌠o hours just days after it launched.
Considering currently has the average time to beat Dread's main story at eight and a half hours, that's pretty impressive. Well, not if you fast forward to today to find 191 people have now achieved that feat. Not only that, but eight people have beaten Dread in less than 90 minutes according to , and the current world record is one hour, 25 minutes, and 21 seconds.
The record is currently less than a minute faster than the second-placed time which was the best in the world up until three days ago. That might not sound like much, but it is a significant gulf in the world of speedrunning. Especially when you consider 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:sp༒eedrunners of the original Super Mario Bros. have been gard at work for years shaving thousandths of a second off of each other's records.
If you have played Dread, or even if you haven't, then the videos of these speedruns are mesmerizing. Watching someone utilize all of a game's exploits, and defeat the bosses without putting a foot wrong. It feels like a run can't possibly be beaten, but it almost always is. Dread is less than a month old which means the top spot on the speedrun leaderboard will likely change hands multiple times over the coming weeks and months.
Odds are more people are speedrunning Dread than any Metroid to have come before it too. The critically acclaimed Switch game is setting all sorts of franchise records for Samus. That'll happen when a game this good is one you have made its fans wait almost two decades for.
