Bowser: (Kidnaps Peach and rushes to have a shotgun wedding on the moon) *59 minutes later*

“Sub hour will never happen.” -Fearsome Fire

Imagine if Karl said “and in March, he achieved _this run_ , then played the entire 59 minute run LOL

10 years later: But then he figured out X trick, finally shaving off that one second, bringing the record below 30 minutes.

"I dont think there's been a battle this close or hard fought" SM64: "Hold my YAHOO YAHOO YAH YYYYYYYYYY"

Awesome job man, this gave me chills! Always gonna be a dope journey to look back on! :)

More diverse speed running content from the absolute legend himself.

Summoning Salt wants to know your location

Great video and well put together. That was fun to watch. Keep up the good work. :D

I was there for the stream with the 1:00:00.XX run. He had lost like 4 seconds on a random bonk in cloud kingdom that kept him from sub 1 hour

"Mario help I've been kidnapped!" "Aight,be there in an hour"

Karl you are an absolute legend and champion. Thanks for this awesome content. I eagerly anticipate learning more about speed running in different games with your experience and perspective.

Hello you absolute legends!

Karl "I've been speedrunning for 20 years" Jobst Nice vid

I've gotta tell ya, I've started watching a few other speedrunning channels, but they lack the energy, passion, interest, diversity, and plain-old love that this one does. Kudos, mate. You've got something pretty special here.

Watching Nicro get sub 1 hour was probably the best moment in speed running I've seen. His friend running to his house and falling, causing his palms to bleed. His mother (I think) asking if they want a celebratory drink. Oh man so great

I love how all speedrunners are a big family and how you all compete and improve against each other. Thank you you absolute legend, love your videos!!

Nicro: "Humans can' not get sub hour. we're just not gonna do it" Also Nicro: *First person to get sub hour*

"I don't think there's been a battle this close or hard fought" Pannenkoek: Hold my A press

I Miss Shaeden, he was a Legend. Watching his Streams felt magical. Thanks for the Shoutout, this game has kinda become my Life

I thought I had FTL open in the background :​)

13:27 "Another COMPLETELY NEW SPEEDRUNNER" Goryuya has been around for ages lol

It amazes me how speedrunners figure out these strategies. They must comb through the game pixel by pixel to find out this stuff.

Being lucky enough to have watched myself the record being lowered to this amazing feat gives me a feeling I haven't felt since I watched Abney's weathertenko and AverageTrey's godlike sub-3 hour SMS 120 shine record

I think that the 20 years it took to get sub 9 seconds in DOOM's Hangar level is on par or better than this. Epic moments in speedrunning history.

I’ve never had much of an interest in speedrunning, but for 15 minutes it was the most interesting thing ever. Amazing video 👍🏻

I dont know a thing about speedrunning but you’re such a compelling storyteller and the information you gather really reflects your passion for speedrunning. Love your content! Keep it up!

Your parents should write a book on how to raise an absolute legend. I'm glad you exist Karl, great work as always 👏

i'm so happy each time THE absolute legend posts a video

And now 3.0 is out and makes sub hour kinda a joke for top runners.

12:45 that hug was so wholesome

What an awesome and informative video, man. This really helps you understand just how insane the progress and optimization has been in this game, even just days at a time, and it's so new in the world of speed games. Thanks again for the informative, entertaining, and absolutely legendary video.

0:03 Columbus when he arrived in what he thought was America

Note the subscriber count on Smallant1 and Limcube. I get a feeling those numbers are going to get an absolutely legendary boost soon

As someone who has been meticulously following the world records of this category since the first month, compiling stats, remembering specific details, strats, times, etc and contributing this knowlege to the community. I have to say this video was very good and very well researched. Was a little nervous to check it out at first due to the fact that I've put so much time into following this category. But this video has exceeded my expectations and pretty accurately recounted the journey to subhour. Was a wild ride. Nicro/Chaos/Kirbs/Goryuya and the community are absolute legends.

Thanks for promoting smallant1, he makes super quality content, and I was suprised how little following he has when i found him

huge-ass props to karl for sick production value + promoting smaller channels

I love seeing speedrunners beating world records because the twitch chat goes wild

Normally I couldn't care less about the history of shaving time off a completion time of anything. However your passion and in depth knowledge somehow manages to make it captivating and interesting to listen to.

Hearing FTL music at the beginning is how you start a video off right.

Fantastic video, Karl. Love seeing the diverse speedrunning content you've been covering lately.

I pulled this video up out of curiosity based only on the title, and when it became clear it was gonna be something about Odyssey WR speed runs I immediately had the thought “Man, I hope someone does one of those World Record history videos for Odyssey sometime.” Lo and behold!

This is so epic to watch as someone who follows the community of SMO!! (Btw 1.3 made everything fair again so no worries)

The dedication of super mario odyssey speedrunners is insane. I discovered any% speedrunners pretty late and didn't know about Shaeden and his legendary runs. Thanks for the information as always!

You forgot the part where Chaospringle recently obliterated the competition by lowering his record by over 20 seconds in like a day Jk this was amazing, great job!

Damnnnnn, after watching the SMO hide and seek streams over the past year it's crazy to see how far people like Nicro and Smant have come

i love how underrated this channel is

@Smallant1 is the reason I got into speed running, quality content!

i am a gamer but i never knew much about speedruns. But honestly your channel is really well done and i love to watch your videos! keep up the good work

Imagine playing a game for an hour, and consistently being within a second or two of your previous time. Insane consistency

oh I watched this just out of the blue but I've been watching smallant for like 2 weeks now lmao, shoutout to him, crazy ass legend

One of the only speedruns I kept up to date on, love this game

Nice shoutouts at the end there mate. You're the real Absolute Legend

As someone who's been occasionally watching speedruns of odyssey and seeing the skips being entirely eclipsed by new skipped, I loved this progression vid!

He recommended smallant when he was small its hard to see him with so few subs

Hmm, it's nice to see people adjust their ways when an update changes a game. Not only do we get new videos, we also get to actually see and hear about it with details!

Nicro's first major time: 1.04.20 Nicro's date of next major time: April 20th....

I want my money back this game ain't even one hour long

Well, R. I. P. "World Record Progression - Super Mario Odyssey" by SummoningSalt

I just found your channel and this shit is amazing! I’ve played and beat all major games you’ve ever covered but never tried to speed run them. Years ago my brother and I would beat Super Mario bros 3 on the NES under 18 min. The world record is a lot quicker but this brought me back to those days. Keep up the good work!

I'm not even close to a speedrunner, but something was immediately clear when I played both Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey; just how versatile they are. With the right amount of skill and/or time, you can do some crazy shit. I've seen people using stasis and remote bomb and revali's gale in tandem like they were artists with a fucking brush, and using Cappy to get over seemingly impossible gaps in seconds. I love that about games like this, it's not only great for speedrunners, but to me, it makes the game seem like something to play with that lasts way longer than a majority of games do. I really hope Nintendo continues to make more of these really open games with complex ways to do shit.

That nerdgasm at 12:34 was epic 😂

This was the first video containing gameplay I have seen. This game is more bizarre than I was expecting.

I love how much the speed run community came together

It’s wild to see how far limcube and smallant have come since this shout out

Speedrunning is such an awesome stuff to watch. For real, few years back when I was introduced to it I've never met a more friendlier community like this... I wanted to speedrun a almost forgotten game "Might & Magic 6" and after that I wanted to learn 7th and finally 8th Might & Magic game to speedrun. When it comes to Might & Magic 6 it is literally my most favourite game of all times. I've played it for the first time when I was 3 or 4 years old and to this day there is so much stuff I just love to do. Having the knowledge of the game in my memory since I was a little kid I know to this day where everything is... from NPCs to Items to random locations and times when they appear. And for sure I've found a lot of secrets and glitches when I was playing it on my own. Years later I found out other people knew about these secrets and glitches too which made me kind of "egoistic" thinking I've found it first but never told anyone (How could I, our internet was slow af and how many people did have internet in 1999?) But one glitch in perticular was really interesting for me. You see... you start the game with 4 characters which as a younger me I've spent hundreds of hours trying which classes are the best for completing the game the fastest way and I always went with 4 archers(rangers). Whenever I've needed to kill anyting I killed it from afar but I've always needed MORE characters but not starting with bow skill kinda fucked me over. Until 2017 when I found out there is a glitch you can add a invisible 5th character to your party. Imagine playing a game from 1999 to this day, over and over only to find out there is something you don't know about in that game. I've watched every single speedrun of that game I could find, but after year of trying I was never close enough to times others got. I didn't want to bother other speedrunners for advices on game that barely people know, but after literally watching the wr twice in a row I've realised I cannot beat them nor come close to them because of one simple thing. You see, when you play some game for too long, you develop a some kind of playstyle you cannot change even though you try your best... Nowdays if you play for example CS:GO and in my case I've always been a great lurker. My aim sucked so I've always sneaked behind them or was waiting somewhere for their rotations but whenever I was put in any other situation like retaking a site or having an aim duel with their AK/M4 players I've always lost. Now going back to M&M6 I've always played the game saving so much resources I've never actually needed a single potion or spell scroll nor did I use things like shop after like 15 minutes into the game. I've been skipping alot of things that I nowdays just cannot learn to do. I remember when I was a kid and was trying out every single possible combination of potions you can create. I've made a huge list which told what combination do and mainly because of my laziness I've slowly stopped using potions at all. Now when it comes to speedrun of this game I saw a real usage of healing AND mana potions with combination of others like potion of awakening (when your character is put to sleep you need to wake them up via potion, spell or sleeping OR you can "heal" them in churches) Spell for this kind of state of your character is like the first spell in water magic so why would I create potions for it? Well, when it comes to one location it is much faster to just go to the inventory and spam click the potions AND because in the whole dungeon (and it is one of the biggest ones) enemies burn your mana and active spells so it is completely useless to use them. Another thing is the glitch I found whenever you wanted to learn your characters something - it was class based. By that I mean only Knight or Paladin could learn how to wear Plate armor and for example mage could only wear leather armor. With that glitch you spam clicked a corner of your screen whenever you were in the dialogue of learning anything and whenever you heared a "coin sound" that character learned something that he shouldn't be able to learn. This is only possible on a official versions of the game because fan-updates patched this bug, but honestly one of the best bugs there is... must be the when where you glitch your character into wearing armour upon another armour and another and just slap a whole bunch of armours on him. Same goes with weapons so with luck and enough time you have a character that gets next to zero damage and almost insta-kills anyting. That is possible only at the "1.0" version of the game and from what I've seen there isn't a solid explanation anywhere on the internet. But I've not lost faith and once I'll be confident enough to try and beat the we in Migh & Magic 6 I'll reveal that glitch to the public. Yes it is selfish but something I found out as a small kid so I'm somewhat "proud" of it :^) Got a bit carried away ... damn no one's gonna read it all so hey if you did, props to you and have a cold one on me ;) One day I can promise you'll see a nickname "TEJR" on Might & Magic 6 leaderboards... one day.

Thank you for the insight in the speedrunning community. You are an absolute legend! Keep up the great work.

nice video. The best thing I watched when I got home from school. I remember when sub 1 happened and I was blown away. So It is suprising you maintained the hype. good stuff

if peach had a crown like cappy the whole time couldnt she just use the other hat to overtake bowser and we wouldnt have to to do all this effort

"The record was held for a very long *26 days"* _how hard do y'all speed runners fucking go lmao_

since i love to watch speedruns but i have no clue, these videos are worth a lot to me. thx!

Great video, thanks for taking the time to put together and share this! Keep being awesome!

Did anyone else find that "I'm a strong and independent whamen, I don't need no man" ending cut scene as frustrating as I did? We just laid waste to an entire fing universe for you princess. Can't Bowser just lay there trashed, and Mario just "get the girl"?

2019: Super Mario Odyssey was beaten in 59 minutes 59 seconds, absolutely insane 2020: Super Mario Odyssey was beating in 57 minutes 54 seconds. Just shows you how much better 1.3 is

Good Jobst, man. Lovin all the new vids...

I like how game mechanics help this speed run more and doesn't make it look like a glitchfest.... Now nothing wrong with glitchfest you guys but this one looks better imo

People are gonna come back to this video 10 years from now and laugh at the idea that people were struggling to beat Mario Odyssey in under an hour, the same way that we now laugh at the idea that people were struggling to beat Super Mario Bros in under 5 minutes.

man that "seventy-fouR" threw me for a loop, i didn't expect a hard R sound

Love these videos. I don't really know anything about speedrunning, and enjoy getting to learn a bit about major achievements.

Me: person beats super Mario Odyssey in 1 hour ?? Me: finally 3 years later I beat it

This man makes it sound like the world record is just like the first man on the moon lol

*I love these long and relaxing videos :D*

i've never had an interest in this.. but your youtube acct and the way its explained has actually made me want to watch your vids this has been a great learning experience.

Bowser: fucking threatenes to literally kill peach Mario: yeah uh an hour or so I'll be there, how's that sound?

I get so excited when I see a new Karl Jobst video, even if it's for a game I've never played before.

12:40 The top Psychologists all around the world say this clip is *physically impossible* to watch without smiling.

I like the way you constantly rep other channels, you're being a great ambassador for the world of speedrunning

Monkeykinghero literally made history, even though his record was pushed way down. Still congrats to him.

SmallAnt is the man! His Pokemon runs are fire and I watched his speedrun too. He is such a great player

I'll never understand how or why people get satisfaction or fun from playing the same game over and over and in almost the exact same way every time. But I'm glad people can have fun while doing it

This had probably been said before, but I feel like devs should add a speedrunning mode that's essentially 1.0 except for things like stability fixes it wouldn't be too hard to implement.

I'm so glad you made this!

Could probably listen to Karl talk about speedruns for a few hours tbh.

Great video Karl. Really enjoyed this one. Cool to see and learn a lot about things and it makes me almost feel like I experienced it myself

"There has not been a race this close" Super Mario Bros. 4:55 race: Hold my spaghetti

This is a great history of SMO speedrunning

Good thing this video had nothing to do with a new barrier skip like the title implies

Here at a historical mark in speedrunning history.

god this is good content jobst. i have a feeling youre about to have a much bigger presence on youtube

this game has really good graphics and art