![]() At a normal pace, you’ll be able to slow down to negotiate your way around a bullet, or duck a punch. Speedrunning Superhot essentially means ignoring the game’s primary mechanic in which time moves only when the player does. Since Superhot’s launch on the Vive a few months ago, the two have shared a budding rivalry along with another runner by the name of Fhajad_036. But this new world record is something of note, shaving a total of 12 seconds off of the previous best held by Gibe_Shrugs (below), a runner that Masey speaks of as a friend. Massey has been playing Superhot since launch, and we’ve already talked to him about how VR changes the game for speedrunning. I’d assumed the concept wouldn’t really translate well to VR but, clearly, I was wrong. ![]() ![]() As a fan of games like Super Metroid, I’ve always been fascinated by eye-opening methods that mad gamers concoct to tear through games you’d have thought were water tight in their design and impossible to conquer in less than five hours or more. Speedrunning is an art I’ve always respected if never attempted. Imagine my humiliation when, a few days later, I watched in astonishment as Ben Massey shot, sliced and punched his way through the game in eight minutes and 21 seconds. ![]() It took about 40 minutes, and I laughed to myself about how quickly I’d managed to run through it the second time when I was familiar with enemy placements. The other day I turned on Superhot VR for the first time since it launched back in December and played through the entire campaign in one sitting. ![]()
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