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#Spyro 2: ripto's rage! plus#
“For me, they're all straightforward, Gulp skip can be consistent after dedicating a lot of time into learning it, plus it's done early in both Any% and 100% so it's not as frustrating to fail the skip. There is a good tutorial for this by drashed for anyone learning this.” This can also be one of the trickier things to learn.ĭest explained why it can be a challenging exploit, “It involves a lot of delicate inputs to clip inside a breakable wall, and then having to do more inputs to get Spyro out-of-bounds to skip into Gulp. When learning either types of speedrun for Spyro 2, there is one skip that is essential to learn known as the Gulp Skip. “Always start small,” he said, “Or maybe learn how difficult something will be before going for it.” We then asked Dest what his main lesson was for going after the Ripto’s Rage 100% run. It was a usual go-to for beginners trying to get into Spyro runs.” So I officially started out on learning Spyro 3 100 Egg, a former Any% category, which was another run I found through GDQ. However, for all categories in Spyro 2, they all have some tricks that were pretty difficult for me to learn at the time and were necessary for each category. “I don't think I knew of the Any% run for Spyro 2 until much later, I was mainly interested in learning 100% at the time. We asked Dest why he chose to do 100% rather than Any% when he got started.
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“I got a good computer finally, setup an emulator, and starting learning and practicing Spyro 2 100% straight from that GDQ run.”įor some runners, having a game that is extremely short is appealing. I was actually blown away at all the tricks he did and wanted to get into speedrunning Spyro again immediately.”įrom there Dest pick up Ripto’s Rage and hit the ground, well, running. “Way later on, I found Games Done Quick over on YouTube around late-ish 2013, which led to finding a Spyro 2 100% speedrun done at Summer Games Done Quick 2013, ran by spudlyman. Like many runners, watching runners online led to watching Games Done Quick. I think he was the only speedrunner I was really interested in watching at the time.” “Around 2012, I got into watching speedruns on Twitch, namely siglemic when he was running Super Mario 64. There were more let's players of Spyro trying to speedrun it at that time than there were actual speedrunners, so there wasn't the community for it like there is today.” “I tried getting into speedrunning Spyro around 2011, but gave up on that dream quickly, because I didn't have a good computer for screen recording anything at the time. We first went into what brought him into speedrunning the game. In his speedrunning resume, Dest has admirable records on the SpeedRun leaderboards for the game, including the current first place for a 100% run. We caught up to AlexDest, who is an expert on Ripto's Rage to say the least. While the runner we’ll be interviewing is fairly high on that leaderboard, we’ll be focusing on his 100% run because it’s more robust. Arguably one of the best games in the trilogy, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! as an Any% run ( as indicated over on ) is incredibly quick, coming in well under ten minutes by utilizing out of bounds skips to get to each boss.
In the wake of Spyro coming back to modern consoles in a big way, we thought it was a great time to talk to some Spyro speedrunners to see how the classic trilogy translates to playing quickly.