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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007)

Duration: 2:44:57

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This run is really bad; this was only my second attempt after recently [re]learning the game. However, it's still an 11 minute improvement over Aruki's segmented run, which has stood as the fastest time for almost SEVEN years. This is thanks to this being the first serious run to finally do the Early Elysia route.

Early Elysia was found in 2011, and has always been known to potentially save tons of time (though people tended to overestimate how much). However, the issue was that it was just so incredibly difficult that no one wanted to do runs with it. More recently though, new tricks and more consistent strats have been found, which make the route a ton easier, leading to this run here. I hope to improve this time by a lot still, but as the first single segment run with this route and the first sub-2 hour time, I figured it was worth uploading.


Some of the major tricks used in this run:

Early Elysia - Getting out of bounds in Main Docking Bay so you can wallcrawl past the Hyper Ball gate in the next room. This also requires wallcrawling back into and out of MDB later for Plasma, and wallcrawling past another Hyper Ball gate before East Elysia. Skips Ice Missiles, Main Ship Missiles (replaced with an expansion), and Hyper Ball.

Early Spire - After the Spire sequence, you're sent to Escape Pod Bay. By going waaaay out of bounds in Escape Pod Bay, you can find and transition the dock that connects the two rooms the other way, and get to Spire early. Skips Ship Grapple and building the Theronian Bomb.

Hazard Shield Skip - You can just stand in the corner near the barrier in Command Courtyard and deactivate the gate without the acid rain touching you lol. Technically Hazard Shield isn't completely skipped, as the game gives it to you when your suit is changed after Omega Ridley.

Spider Skip - Getting out of bounds in Defense Access by getting back up the tunnel that lead from Skyway Access, and wallcrawling up the room to get past the Spider track; this is the only Spider Ball requirement that isn't otherwise skipped anyway. Requires reloading the room first after arriving from Skyway Access, as the trigger that pushes you out of the tunnel will still be there otherwise.

Nova Wallcrawl - Going out of bounds in the Pirate Mines and wallcrawling to Nova, skipping the long pirate fight. You're stuck afterward so you have to die to get out; when I collect Nova, the current room is set on Drill Shaft 2, so the checkpoint will respawn me there instead of Main Cavern. The community decided to allow deathwarps such as this in single segment runs.

Demolition Wallcrawl - Going out of bounds through the Demolition Trooper sequence at the end of Pirate Homeworld. In addition to being faster than going in-bounds, it skips having to disable the pirate's defense.

Energy Cell Skip - You can skip two Energy Cells on the Valhalla by screw attacking against the top ledge in Aurora Chamber.

Phaaze Wallcrawl - Going out of bounds through Phaaze. The first half of the wallcrawl is required anyway due to not having Hyper Ball, but regardless it's faster to wallcrawl past the entire thing up to the final bosses.


Done on the original North American NTSC version. The exact in-game time of this run taken from the save file is 1:58:22.600

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