Hotorubi saving the animals was the hardest flex ive ever seen in my life

"Hotarubi decided to create a run that was so amazing, everyone thought it was fake, AND save the animals just to annoy everyone" that's my kind of trolling right there

It'd be awesome to have Summoning Salt revisit this, especially with Oats's new record from yesterday.

Watching this after oats just ran a 40:36 … amazing how far he’s come since this video came out

Worked harder on this one than any of the other ones so far. Hope you all enjoy it!

I love how people don't get angry when their records are broken. It just prompts them to improve and find a way to take it back. Such a rad community

Imagine flexing so hard on a community you A) Break their record so hard they can't believe it could possibly be real. B) Do it while wasting time getting a 'different ending.' C) Break it so god dang hard they start doing segmented runs just to prove that they could theoretically beat you. D) Break THAT record because F you. E) Make them essentially start racing for second because you are a god and they are mere mortals. F) Change the scoring system by beating them so hard. G) And then proceed to move on and wreck people in other games. Talk about beaten at your own game. Dear god that is legendary levels of flexing. Aaron would have to flex himself out of the freaking galaxy to match that.

"they knew no-one could beat hotarubi" 16 minutes left on the vid

Hotarubi saving the animals makes me chuckle.

*Mission Control calls in* "Samus head out to this planet." *Fourty-two minutes later* "Samus you left your lunch-- oh you're done..."

I appreciate the use of NHL 96 music

What's funny is, "KPDR" is the intended route. At least, it seems like it with the way you get power-ups. It's crazy that it took so long for people to look at doing the bosses out of order, especially since they are using tricks that allow them to skip some power-ups anyway.

Having been in the Super Metroid community since May of 2011, I can't begin to tell you how satisfying this video was, and I can't thank you enough for doing the research and presenting it all so well. The majority of these runners are people I consider good friends, so it's amazing to see it all put together and for their story and the story of the Super Metroid community to be shared. Thank you, and keep making great videos and providing a positive source of content for the speedrunning community as a whole.

My rare-to-give sincere feedback: Please continue this series. The effort is noticed and so appreciated. I've always enjoyed speedruns in any capacity, but your way of breaking down the different chronicles of glitches and milestones is a complete treat. Usually this is stuff where we can only know half the story through stumbling upon the different runs. Your thorough coverage off all the specific interesting in-between stuff that would literally be impossible for myself to put aside the energy and time to discover is professional and concise, yet detailed and explained well enough to really the build a great story behind the runs. Thanks for the videos so far... Looking forward to what's to come!

29th April 2019 WR Name: Behemoth87 Real Time: 40m 56s In-Game Time: 27m 00s Route:PRKD

Speedrunning is so full of anime betrayals and plot twists. "HAH! You think you had secured the ultimate world record, but it was I, BEHEMOTH!"

What a nice bedtime surprise

This is officially one of my favorite series on youtube.

Yo, HOTARUBI is back! He is once again running super Metroid. Good times. His channel is called htrb Edit: He renamed it back to Hotarubi. Seems hes getting more serious again. Hes also Posting very active lately!

It's great to see how much Summoning Salt has improved over the years. Super Metroid is one of my favorite games and I would love to see a remake/follow-up to this video, because a game such as this deserves the insane production value of modern Summoning Salt

after 3 years, oatsandgoats took the record back from zoast, now at 40:36

We need a Hotarubi special. You can do a series on especially prolific speedrunners who held MANY records such as him, Billy Mitchell and others. A good off-shoot to the sort of stuff you are already producing. Pls Lord.

Would be huge to do an updated version of this, would love to see the current day Summoning Salt WR Progression story telling magic applied to the current day Oats n Goats Super Metroid magic.

Throwing in on the call for an updated version. Oats slays WR with sweat and tears

Fun Fact: DPRK Route is called "North Korea%"

God I love when one of these pops up in my subscription feed

I LOVE THE HEADPHONE WARNING! Why don't more people do this? I'm fine with that level of noise/distortion, with a heads up about 2.5-4 seconds beforehand. That's a classy move from a classy channel.

"Thr ingame timer is fairly accurate" *Immediately Afterwards* "He got a 0:38, or 52 minutes real time." *What?!*

I'd love to see one of these for Sunshine

If GDQ dosn't work something out with you to show these during intermissions or something they are really missing out. These are really awesome!

You have to make an update now that Oats literally smashed the current world record!!!!

World record now is a 40:55 by Zoast and Behemoth in 2nd with a 40:56.

I still remember when i browsed the Metroid2002 forums and randomly found a thread about Hotarubi's 0:32. It was shocking to say the least, the level of execution in his run was indeed by far the best back then. I can remember that i myself as well had trouble believing that it was real... good times :D

Hotarubi: Hmm, I've got too much time on my hands... lets save the animals.

"See you next mission" Or, in the same mission. 10,000 more times

Update on Super Metroid WR Behemoth - 41:18.

What a gold mine concept you got yourself involved with. These are always such a treat to watch. Please keep them up man. And we appreciate the work as usual!

The world record today 9/11 19, stands at 40:56 set by Behemoth on the 7th of may.

"He got a major surprise: a Japanese runner had already beaten him by two minutes". I mean, is that really surprising?

Update video?

Its always nice to get a break from current issues by going back through the summoning salt catalog. I hope you're doing well man.

The fact that Metroid speed runs end with the escape makes them all so great to watch. You can feel the tension at the end.

It’s absolutely mind boggling that a game with this much complex freedom can go over 25 years without players finding a game breaking glitch.

I'm running out of Summoning Salt speedrunning docs to watch! D:

You should make one just about Hotarubi. These are great!

Love the series on World Record Progressions. Keep em up!

2021 update summoning salt? The WR categories have really narrowed down. And we have some SICK low% runs, impossible hack WRs. Absolutely worthy of your commentary.

We need a follow-up to this video after Oatsngoats's recent 9-second improvement on the WR!

It's worth mentioning that the KPDR boss order used by Smokey and other runners of the time is the same boss order that the game designers intended most players to use. Although Smokey skipped many parts of the intended route ("sequence-breaking") like the miniboss Crocomire, required to get the Grapple Beam, he did not change the boss order because at the time, this was still the fastest route known within the capabilities of the runners. The sequence breaks Smokey used were still very significant though. For instance, the Grapple Beam allows for a relatively quick kill on Draygon, which becomes a difficult fight without it. There are some inaccurate claims in the video. For example, Smokey fought Mother Brain with 5 energy tanks, so none of her attacks could kill him in one hit. Today, top runners fight her with just 3 tanks, the minimum possible, so if they get hit by a single red beam ("ketchup"), they will not have enough energy remaining to survive her "rainbow beam," which is unavoidable. Probably the biggest omission though was Twocat. While Zoast and oatsngoats were grinding the 41, there was fierce competition at the same time from Twocat and Kottpower. It was a four-way race for quite a while before Zoasty and oats really started to pull ahead. Behemoth started to catch up too. The way you describe it makes it sound like oats and zoast were the only two in the running, which is just not the case. And it's still not the case today. Behemoth could easily show up and behemoth oats any day now. And indeed, all of these runners mentioned (along with a few others) have world records in at least one category.

Oatsngoats got it!

im so glad to finally understand the origin of the "save the animals" meme, as well as the term behemoth'd. i saw both quite often under various speedrun videos but never looked up what it means. glad i stumbled over it on your amazing series. thanks!

You're the kindest person on KZfaq entirely due to putting up "headphone warnings" in your videos

6 thousand views in less than an hour- you're on to something- keep this up dude

Would be amazing to see a 'Part 2'. Never thought we'd ever see a 40 run.

Looking at the LB now, zoast is back in first, nearly all of the top 20 scores in any% were submitted 1-5 years ago. The most recent scores were submitted 1 week, 3 months, and 4 months ago, at #10, #16, and #13, respectively, with #20 being 42:57, an already extremely difficult time to get. It's one thing for the top 5 to stagnate, but for the top 20 to stagnate and given the barrier to entry even in the top 20 means any% is dead until someone strikes gold again. The scores on the 100% cat are all much more recent.

All Hail Oats

You can really feel his pain when he accidentally kneels instead of dropping down into her ship! Great video, I love that you capture those critical moments that lead to a new world record, and their efforts to make new strategies. The music choices are on point too. Great work!

The goat

This need to be updated

And now the record sits at 40:36... Will we ever see sub 40?

loving these videos. Keep em up!

Good work on the intro and the whole video. Your comment section is the friendliest place on KZfaq. I love you.

due for part 2 !!!!

If anyone's been wondering, the current WR is 41:19 by Zoast.

How about instead of killing or saving the animals, we meet halfway and put them in a coma?

Loving this series! I hope you cover Earthbound someday! I've always been interested in the tricks for those runs.

It’s absolutely insane how far the record has moved since Hotarubi’s seemingly unbeatable time. His once unfathomable pace now ranks 153 officially. Hell, even oatsandgoats has been bumped out of the top 5 since this was posted.

This is my favorite one of your videos, it’s so well done. I’ve watched it more times than I can count. I even watch it to help me go to sleep sometimes

All of these WR Progressions have been really well done. Subbing for more. Wouldnt mind seeing some other big title games like Zelda LttP or OoT. castlevania 4 had some fun wr swapping in 2015 and recent strats that have come out to push the record further down.

shoutouts to me in the chat at 18:04 !!! (Swaaz) best game ever made !!! garrison got me into speedrunning long live the king that in my opinion made the game more popular into what it is now today considered "mainstream" zoast and behemoth are living legends, ive even skipped meals just to sub to zoast during hard times just for the sheer amount of live entertainment he has given us all oh and cant forget the god of ceres oatsngoats (who has turned PC lately which was unfortunate but he is still awesome) im soo passionate about this that i cant stop without mentioning kott aswell... this comment has turned into a mess now

I love these videos so much, i can watch them 1000 times... never gets old, ty summoning salt!

It's December 2019 and Zoast is currently streaming Super Metroid. Gotta love that hustle

UPDATE: Oats got the first sub 40:40!

i came to see if my fellow salt x super metroid heads would be here sounding the horn. i am not disappointed. the story of this record from 6 years ago to today is very interesting and im not sure i even know all of the details. i only really know of oat's most recent superhuman grind to reclaim the top spot. i would lose my mind if this game/cat got the modern salt treatment and i know im not the only one. fingers are crossed for a new sm any% video.

I’m watching all of Summoning’s videos for a second time. They are so well put together and easy to listen to. Well done man, let’s see some more progression vids!

Metroid community “ Hotorubi’s time is to good we have to make a segment run to beat it” Hotorubi “and I took that personally”

So glad I found your channel you've got some great content keep it up!

I love these videos, man. SM Sunshine, next? ❤

The record changed hands several times, but then something nobody could predict happened: Out of nowhere, a new challenger emerged, securing the record. Then the record changed hands several times, but then something nobody could predict happened: Out of nowhere, a new challenger emerged, securing the record. Then the record changed hands several ti- I feel like there's only ever one twist when it comes to emerging records.

It would be nice to get an updated version of this video

This video gave me some good nostalgia. What a nice overview. I hope you do 100% some time.

This series is fantastic, you do an amazing job, thanks for the entertainment and the insight into how each game had its own history. Keep it up :)

Such an underrated Summoning Salt video. I think this one definitely matches the quality that all of his videos have met. Not to say the 4 or so before didn't meet the same quality. But this one, narratively, just feels so good. Love these videos man

learned about this channel and this video series not too long ago and I've been watching every WRP they are incredibly entertaining and so interesting! when i catch up i'm going to be waiting eagerly for the next one

Honestly, during the later half of the video I was expecting Hotorubi to come back out the blue and lower the WR just to piss people off.

Fun fact: Hotarubi got his 31 min run the day before I was born

Us: time for you to update your video on Super Metroid and give it that 1+ hour treatment, so much has happened since this one dropped SS: here have another Mario Kart WR progression video 🤗🥰

I’d love an update on this and deeper looks at how the strategy discoveries changed. It’s still such a hot game and constantly improving.

22:13 "endingless"

20:38 “oatsngoats was streaming 41 attempts nearly every day” Christ! Where do you even find time for that?

I would love to see and update on this one day and of course a 100% WR progression and thanks for mentioning me in the video with the routing for the current Any% Route!!! I will say it was mostly Smokey, Reeve and Behemoth. I pretty much just said that going Phantoon First would be the only definite time save for RTA and they took it from there. I appreciate the credit none the less though, Thank You!!!

Great coverage! I love your thoroughness and enthusiasm for speed runs as a spectator. ;)

might be time for an update :)

I think we need another Super Metroid Video after the Oats WR :)

These World Record Progression videos are awesome! Keep up the fine work.

Congratulations to oatsngoats beating the world record, at 40m and 36s and ending his 10 year dream.

Great and I was just about to go to bed. *grabs popcorn*

All of Zoast's and Behemoth's achievements, first sub-27 igt, then Oats new WR, ShinyZeni is doing amazing things... we need an updated history AND a history of 100%.

Damn I annot stop watching these videos, so well made, its such a satisfying emotional progression with each one Ive aatched so far, the formula is just right with an enthusiastic narration. Its channels with creators like these that have me stumped as to why there isnt much exposure as more popular videos with really nothing close to offer. Good work on these brotha.

Love the effort you put into these videos dude, amazing.