Crash Bandicoot 2 Speedrun | "New Game+" 100% in 1:14:55 by Riko

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Published on May 31, 2019 7:25:41 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQ4edt13Rc

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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997)

Duration: 1:20:15

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"New Game+" is a glitch achieved by using the Walking While Talking Glitch (moving around while a Warp Room cutscene is playing) to access the Load/Save screen while also having control of Crash. Doing so, you can load a save file at the same time as you enter a level, resulting in the save file loading with all of its progress, but in the level that you entered. By using this on a 0% save file, you can start the game from any level (in this case Pack Attack), essentially letting you play the entire game backwards.

Along with completely changing the route, there are a lot of cool things that this lets you do that you wouldn't see in a normal 100% speedrun. Air Crash can be completed in one visit (although you still have to return to it to unlock the secret entrance to Snow Go), and through the use of the save manipulation glitch in the middle of the run, you can actually skip every single boss fight (except Cortex). This shaves several minutes compared to a normal 100% run and also makes the run a lot faster paced, due to the boss fights generally being regarded as the weakest part of Crash 2.

I think it is a very cool category that unfortunately does not currently have a leaderboard on SRcom. Maybe that will change one day if enough people started to give this category attention, but for now I'll run it regardless because I really like it. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/riko_ksb

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