Don't have time to devote yourself, mind, body, and soul to shaving tenths of a second off your favorite game? Nintendo has a tourist's option.
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Out of the various hobbies that exist adjacent to gaming—collecting games, writing fan fiction, getting apoplectically, lifespan-shorteningly angry at the existence of women or people of color in “your” hobby, etc.—few require as much sheer focus as speedrunning.
Happy news for dilettantes like us, then, who are interested in simply sampling the speedrun lifestyle without giving themselves over to it mind, body, and soul: Nintendo came up with a clever compromise recently. Last week, the publisher released, which is, on its surface, a pretty pure nostalgia exercise—but actually a “” how-to in disguise.
), each cut into tiny chunks, and tasks them with achieving the best times possible for each of these little video game snacks.the exact same premise as Nintendo’s old, stupidly funis basically the same concept, except without the very fun “remix” part. What it offers, instead, is an overwhelming focus on.
At the end of the week, you get back your ranking , which can then be safely stored in whichever portion of your self-esteem feels appropriate. Importantly, Nintendo also releases a video of the fastest completion of each challenge, allowing you to learn tricks from players who are better than you, the better to steal their life’s work from them in turn. The whole thing feels like a tourist’s version of speedrunning, which is, honestly, as much as our aging constitutions can probably handle.
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