Sly 3: Ultimate Gauntlet speedrun in 2:21.87 [Former World Record]

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Published on August 22, 2018 8:47:34 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJaDp2iv1I

Game:

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (2005)

Duration: 2:30

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It took countless hours and attempts to get the sub 2:22 after getting sub 2:23 because I knew how good and precise the overall movement had to be. Just a no-mistake run wasn't enough. The end result looks beautiful and I'm very happy with it. If I'd have to nit pick any flaw with this run its got to be the fact that I still had juice on my gadget meter left at the end of the run. I did regulate it on purpose to have it enough at the end of the run but surely that juice could have been used elsewhere to save up to 11 extra frames (0.4 seconds) because if I would've had more than 11 frames faster pace when jumping through the fans in Otto Van Cooper's section the sub 2:22 had died to me taking damage from them.

So I lowered my PB by 15.68 seconds (IGT) with the new Shadow Pounce strats, which is slighty more than the estimate of 15.5 seconds of time save it gave us. Although, to be fair that estimate was a bit too high considering that a third health pickup was needed to do all those SP starts that saved time. I felt that my 2:22.52 run already beat my former PB of 2:37.55 without Shadow Pounce in performance so I consider this run to be equivalent to the elusive 2:36 before Shadow Pounce was discovered.

Gadgets used:
L1 - Shadow Power Level 1
L2 - Rocket Boots
R2 - Feral Pounce

Ultimate Gauntlet 2:21.87 in-game time (IGT) equals 2:19.44 real time (RTA).
VIdeo with a timer that compared to my previous PB of 2:22.30 IGT: https://youtu.be/pPaFOhUzJ2w

List of my Top 40 Ultimate Gauntlet times immediately after getting the first sub 2:22 on August 22nd 2018:
2:21.87 (Current PB)
2:22.30 (Former PB) https://youtu.be/IoMqY5IrVcY
2:22.42 (Former PB) https://youtu.be/oSWDBhNiB7c
2:22.52 (Former PB) https://youtu.be/gt8aYNy8ZAE
2:22.59
2:22.72
2:22.74
2:22.91 (Former PB) https://youtu.be/78VxAhUAYQM
2:22.94
2:23.21
2:24.13
2:24.78
2:25.42 (Former PB) https://youtu.be/5XXRCHLxdIc
2:26.06
2:26.30 (Former PB) https://youtu.be/dcAfbpl3mDs
2:26.30
2:26.54
2:26.67
2:26.69
2:26.84
2:26.89
2:27.19
2:27.27
2:27.78
2:28.07
2:28.44
2:29.58
2:29.63 (Former PB)
2:30.02
2:30.73
2:30.80
2:30.90
2:31.07
2:31.39 (Former PB)
2:31.48 (Former PB)
2:32.82
2:32.89
2:33.34
2:34.47
2:34.59
This list is of course is a bit distortive since when my PBs got very optimized (sub 2:23) I just started to reset runs even after getting to Thaddeus that could've made the list to about 2:26 and on wards.
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Ultimate Gauntlet Legacy runs:

3:29.23 - February 24th 2015 by cooopercrisp - https://youtu.be/JvQZ_w2aFlA - This Former WR was the peak of glitchless Gauntlets

2:45.24 - July 1st 2017 by me - https://youtu.be/A_yManquWmg - This Former WR was the peak of Gauntlets utilizing Skyrocket and slope intercepts with Triangle

2:37.55 - October 30th 2017 by me - https://youtu.be/oI9XYVy9CJI - This Former WR was the peak of Gauntlets utilizing Skyrocket, slope intercepts with Square, Furball Jumps and Paraglide Boosting.

This WR was the peak of Gauntlets utilizing Shadow Pounce as well as glitches listed in the earlier legacy runs, although Shadow Pounce did obsolete the use of Skyrocket completely in the same way gaining ground on slopes with Square obsoleted the same technique used with Triangle before that (A glitch I could've used to save 0.2 seconds at 0:53 but didn't do is referred to as Ledge Climb).
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Future Ultimate Gauntlet World Records would start to utilize Paraglide Skips on top of everything else.
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