Speed run of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes in 19 segments, completed on August 15 2005. Available in low and normal quality.

Author's comments:
I'd like to thank Sparky for his help, I'm sure that if he hadn't shown me his awesome route, I would have never get a time sub 1:45.

In fact, my goal was beating the game sub 1:50, I thought that it was the lowest time possible and at the same time semi-impossible because you must skip the grapple in order to save between 3mins30 and 4mins and skipping it is very difficult.

It took me 3 weeks to finish this run, I spent a whole week in grand abyss before landing on that robot. Landing on it is the only to get the screw attack without grapple and it's for sure the hardest trick you must do to skip completely the grapple beam. The robot hopping is in the 12th segment. You'll notice that I did many mistakes in that segment, I lost approximately one minute. I didn't reset the game because it was too risky to do that after bypassing GA, I didn't know if I could reproduce it and I was sure that in spite of the mistakes I reached my goal: sub 1:50. Just after segment 12, I was 8mins ahead my 1:55 run and I started to think that sub 1:45 was possible after all.

I didn't use the same route as Radix to collect the sky temple keys, I think that the one I used is faster but it's possible that a better "sky temple key route" exists.

I'm sure that the game could be finished in 1:41 or something like that because my run can be improved. 2 big improvements can be done in this run:

1) a minute can be saved by not doing the silly mistakes I did in segment 12.

2) After killing Quadraxis, instead of going to aerial training site I return to hive dynamo works and it's for sure longer. I did that because I didn't raise the barrier blocking the way to the dark portal in watch station. If you don't raise it, you can't use the portal in aerial training site. I lost time by not activating the bomb slot in WS but it was another difficult trick in that robot segment which can screw your segment very easily.

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