Jet Grind Radio Speedrun

[Gamerforlife]

Not a huge fan of speed runs, but this might be of interest to some of you. I don't know if anyone ever did a speed run for this game before

http://speeddemosarchive.com/JetGrindRadio.html

[racketboy]

Not a huge fan of speed runs, but this might be of interest to some of you. I don't know if anyone ever did a speed run for this game before

http://speeddemosarchive.com/JetGrindRadio.html

Wow -- JGR is a crazy game to do a speed run on. You have to have awesome timing to do some of the required jumps and such.
Can't wait to watch this whole thing...

Thanks for the post!

[Gamerforlife]

You're welcome, I figured you would definitely appreciate it, and maybe some other people here too.

[Mozgus]

I check SDA daily, so I already saw this. It is a damn good run and he used some clever ideas to skip massive points of time. He still makes mistakes here and there, but that just makes it more interesting.

[Gamerforlife]

I check out the site on a somewhat regular basis myself, but I rarely ever download or watch any of the vids because I'm not entertained by conventional speed runs. I made a whole topic about that.

However, there are certain games that I enjoy watching runs for because they go against the usual speed runs norms like Devil May Cry 3 S rank videos or Contra Shattered Soldier runs where you can't avoid combat or purposely take hits. It's because of games like that that I check the site regularly. Handy too if you're about to play a game like God of War on God mode and need some tricks. I found a certain God of War speed run more useful than any of the guides on gamefaqs were.

Anyway, I may actually watch this run myself. As you guys have pointed out, I doubt anyone can do a run for a game like JGR that wouldn't be fun to watch. My usual complaints about speed runs don't apply. Combat avoidance is what you're SUPPOSSED to do, and I don't think the player is going to want to take hits on purpose since it would actually slow you down in this game.