“That game has a much different approach compared to Up. So what went wrong here? “Heavy Iron Studios is known for making Battle for Bikini Bottom, one of the most popular speedrunning games currently,” HoonGoons says. To fans of the speedrunning community, hearing that Heavy Iron was Up’s developer might come as a surprise – the studio is known for entertaining platformers that lend themselves well to speedrunning. I’ve been unable to contact 97Timbs, but I can only assume they decided to break the Up world record out of sheer masochism. 97Timbs has previous entries in two Simpsons games speedrun lists, and set the record only a month after my Simpsons report was published, which contained HoonGoons’ dire warning to never speedrun Up. Interestingly, when I began this report, TRR was top of the list, but has since been eclipsed by a newcomer, 97Timbs. “It’s repetitive with the multiple dog fights, it’s wide-out third person gameplay is like the Lego games but not that interesting compared to those games, and nothing about it changes throughout its run time except for the two plane fights at the literal beginning and end.” “What makes Up a boring speedrun is that nothing about it stands out from any speed game,” they say. ![]() ![]() They seem less sold on the idea that Up is a good game that’s just bad to speedrun. Second spot in the Up Wii charts belongs to TheRayReviewer. See also Skyward Sword Boss Guide The Imprisoned Up is by no means, however, a good speedgame.” There’s an infinite amount of games that are magnitudes worse than Up. That’s too highly contested of a title for Up to claim as its own. Is Up the worst game to speedrun? Not a chance. The tricks and AI are unreliable, cutscenes and pseudo-autoscroller sections grind pacing to a halt, and it has a core gameplay mechanic that directly slows down the entire game’s speed. Up fails at most, if not all of this criteria. Speedgames require consistency, little to no downtime, exciting gameplay both as a viewer and a player, and the ability to simply go fast, among other things. Up is not a bad game it has decent level design, fine gameplay, and interesting mechanics. “Speedgames, the word usually used to describe a game that is ran, don’t necessarily have to be fun casually to be a good speedgame, and a bad speedgame can still be fun casually. “There is a lot of criteria for what makes a game ‘good’ or ‘bad’ to speedrun,” they tell me. Suprnova is fourth in the Wii solo category too, and they offer further insight into the topic, explaining why Up is particularly unsuited for speedrunning, despite being very similar to lots of other games perfect for it. They’re also top for the Wii co-op version, partnered with Suprnova, who also goes by Sex. HoonGoons is currently third for the Wii version and top for the PS3/Xbox 360 version. There were countless things in the way that didn’t wanna make them more than just theoretical.” All skips me and Nova thought of were just that, only thoughts. It’s linear, the levels all have tall invisible walls around them, the mechanics the characters have aren’t that great either. “Definitely because of how the game is made. But what is it that makes Up so terrible? ![]() HoonGoons is the only person on both lists. Only five people have completed a speedrun for the Wii version, with only three on the PS3/Xbox 360 combined list, compared to hundreds on the various lists for The Simpsons Game or The Simpsons: Hit & Run. This was specifically the Heavy Iron version of the game, which is on Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360. I did it just as a meme but it’s so mind numbingly boring.” It is the worst experience you will ever have. One of the speedrunners, HoonGoons, told me – entirely unprompted – that Up, the platforming adaptation of the 2009 Pixar movie, was the worst game ever to speedrun. You Are Reading : Inside Up Speedrunning The Worst Experience You Will Ever HaveĪ few months ago, I spoke to some of the major figures in The Simpsons speedrunning community about how the various Simpsons games have been kept alive, why Hit & Run desperately needs to make a comeback, and why Simpsons Skateboarding definitely doesn’t. I heard Up was the worst ever game to speedrun – I asked three world record holders if that was true Inside Up Speedrunning – “The Worst Experience You Will Ever Have”
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