Blood - Cryptic Passage Any% Speedrun in

Описание: This is a single segment speedrun of the Cryptic Passage expansion episode (developed by Sunstorm) played on the easiest difficulty. I recently went through this episode on the NBlood source port, and I decided to make a NBlood speedrun of this just for the hell of it. Gameplay-wise, NBlood appears to be highly accurate to the original (all of the tricks in this video also work in the original DOS version). The one big advantage NBlood has over the DOS version is that it doesn't have the difficulty glitch... unlike the DOS version, saving and then loading on the same level does not scale up the damage you take. For this run though, I don't use the save/load feature.

Got a time of 8:26, which is a 2 minute improvement over my old DOS run. Most of that time-save comes from better routing. The clips at 6:07 and 0:11 in particular save a tremendous amount of time (I didn't use those in my old run). Perhaps the coolest trick though is the one at 4:43. Some time ago, I found that you could build up a lot of speed by running against a Life Leech staff while standing on top of another sprite / voxel object:    • Blood - Two Life Leeches Jump Trick   . Before I make the jump, I make sure I grab the top Life Leech so that I could have that for the clip at 6:07.

Overall, pretty rough run (I especially lose a lot of time in Mountain Pass and Abysmal Mines), but 8:26 isn't too bad I think. I mainly worked on this just to show off the new routes! :P Sub 8 minutes is definitely possible though!