Today marks Hollow Knight's 8th birthday, a fitting time to go on a journey through the game's lifetime, and explore the development of the game's most popular speedrun; Any% No Major Glitches. Through the dedication and passion of dozens of speedrunners, the category developed tremendously from its infancy, turning into an extremely optimised speedrun with countless fascinating skips and strategies. So, let's go back, 8 entire years. This is the World Record History of Hollow Knight Speedruns... This project has been in the making for almost two months. I hope you all enjoy it. BONUS VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BZ4K-sc_Rs Commentary track of the first ever performed run of Hollow Knight by Spleen! also join my Discord! https://discord.com/invite/eAbmKXw4nP also i stream on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/bluesr bsky https://bsky.app/profile/bluesr.bsky.social CHAPTERS: 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:02:00 - Early History 0:09:10 - Two Major Finds 0:17:38 - The (Almost) Barebones Route 0:28:55 - The Run Gets Much Harder 0:37:14 - Two Updates, Three Discoveries, Two Runners 0:55:00 - A New Generation 0:59:38 - The God Gamer 1:10:05 - Pest 1:20:51 - Catching Up to Pest 1:29:33 - The Race to 31 1:42:42 - A King Skates In 1:57:00 - A new route? (Epilogue) 2:00:51 - Epilogue of the Epilogue CREDITS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ov4jTnPgi3VLDnqMVdr2oDx3hXRK6MnWikZ5ggosMZI/edit?tab=t.0 Music Used in this video: The Hollow Knight OST - @ComposerLarkin The TOHU OST - @ComposerLarkin Hollow Knight Piano Collections @ComposerLarkin The Celeste Soundtrack - @LenaRaine Undertale OST - Toby Fox A Short Hike OST @mguitars Portal 2 OST Balatro OST - LouisF Cult of the Lamb OST - @RiverBoyBeats Risk of Rain 2 OST - @AstronautDown Home - We're Finally Landing Thumbnail by Bluequills (@bluequills ) Additional editing help from @AverageImposter and @PyeFive Chart sprites created by @Fly-Sky-High Massive shoutout to Eridan for their work in compiling the community's history. Check out their spreadsheet if you're interested! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tGiKda_nTw_r5s7ZnPXJeQYOYxyDASEDp6gE2sGgMus/edit?gid=1263869062#gid=1263869062
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The discovery of the blue lake shade skip perfectly exemplifies the creativity and ingenuity of speedrunning
fireborn's intro gave me chills, i was literally like "why do i hear boss music"
fireb0rn getting introduced like a Dark Souls boss
Morals of the story: Lesson 1: always record Lesson 2: Are you sure you’re recording?
Helt sjukt hur bra din engelska är, speciellt för din ålder! Jag är 34 år gammal, pratat engelska hela mitt liv, men jag har fortfarande en liten brytning. Hade du inte nämnt att du var svensk så hade jag fan aldrig gissat det! Awesome video, har sett dina Silksong speedruns med, stort fan!
I need a sequel for how the wr now has dropped below 31 minute mark
32:19 "when I started speedrunning Hollow Knight at age 13 in 2020-" me, quickly doing math: IS BLUESR YOUNGER THAN ME??? In all seriousness, I've been considering getting into speedrunning with the recent release of Silksong, and that line was seriously inspirational to hear.
This video makes me feel like the Celeste's ost is the embodiment of speedrunning
In one week it begins all over again🎉🎉🎉🎉
... YOURE IN HIGHSCHOOL ???? God do i feel unaccomplished now. Good job on making this video! Amazing feat.
The namedrops of now famous content creators are so legendary
SEPTEMBER 4THHH
i was so happy to learn that the sentence in chinese had been translated and read by a chinese speedrunner instead of an AI like a lot of youtubers this day, thanks for going for the human route it’s huge
Blue: "I wonder if a new record will be made soon" (Lep destroying world record by a minute and a half a week later)
The recent fury of the fallen no spell run right after this video is criminal
2:01:04 So you are saying I watched a 2 hours video like it was 10 minutes. I was hooked from the start. Didn't know many good speedrunners. The editing and story telling are well made. Thanks for the video ❤
Can't wait for a video on Lep's new fury+baldur speedrun review. It was INSANE
Lep enjoyed your video so much that he forced you to make part 2 💀
Lep broke the record like a day ago, by nearly 30 SECONDS with a SUB 31
Lep got 30:53 today with the Fury of the Fallen method you mentioned at the very end of the video 😂