The Most Difficult Trick in Adventure Game Speedrunning

The tech used in the Quest for Glory II Any% speedrun is wild. From spellglides to wrong warps, this video essay from Yet Another Speedrun Content Monkey™ comes to you courtesy of an unregistered version of DaVinci Resolve and a Norwegian looking to while away his winter months. Alternate title: The Speedrun Trick With a 95% Failure Rate. You'll soon see why. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Speedrunning tech 05:10 Particulars of the run 07:00 The hardest single input 15:14 The wrong warp 20:46 The world record run 23:20 Outro and credits Quest for Glory speedrunning: Quest for Glory Speedrunning Discord:   / discord   Quest for Glory II Leaderboards: https://www.speedrun.com/quest_for_gl... Thanks to: ‪@OneShortEye‬ for his feedback on this video, and for permission to use some footage from "King's Quest VI Speedrun History":    • King's Quest VI Speedrun History   ‪@polygon586‬, SantaClaus, for telling me I should grind this category and therefore eating two whole weeks out of my life. ‪@MisterMiller‬ for fostering the Quest for Glory community, without whom we would not be here. My budgie for co-commentating this video with me. Attributions: https://pixabay.com/ for the image of the clock and the bus. https://freesound.org/ for the dramatic hit sound.