Knights Contract - skip most of Episode 18 (v1)
12Turns out this game has an (almost) universal wall clip technique! I foresee many more skips in this game in the near future...
Whenever you do Gretchen's witch special, you get a cutscene where a massive version of her is floating naked in space. She then proceeds to insta-kill all nearby enemies. Pretty impressive, but it gets even better: it seems the game itself becomes distracted by the sudden nudity on screen and forgets to check collisions for about 1 seconds. Therefore, if you are rolling or doing an attack towards walls as you do the witch special, you are able to breach any wall in the game.
The only limitation is that you need a full witch power bar to do this, so you can't spam the special too frequently around the game. There are also some short stretches in the game where Gretchen is not with Heinrich and the power can't be used, but that's pretty much it.
Episode 18 in Knights Contract is actually pretty similar to Mission 18 in DmC: DmC. It's a complex ruin level where you hit a trigger right at the start which scrambles the ruin, forcing you to go fight some fights and activate power generators and whatnot to open up the final path. It makes sense that it can be skipped in the same way too: avoid the trigger near the start of the level, and the path to exit remains intact, and you can just walk there without too many problems.
This is the fastest route I know of so far. It seems it's not possible to just phase through the cutscene trigger itself using this trick - otherwise a much more direct route would be possible.
I think this skip saves around 15 minutes, maybe more. Hard to estimate, but it is one of the longer levels and has many challenging fights since it's near the end of the game.
1:21 - then it's just a pretty simple boss fight which closes the Episode.
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