Speed run of Metroid Prime's european version, completed on October 20 2005. Available in low, normal and high quality.

Author's comments:
I started of with the idea of beating the current 22 percent speedrun. I got until after flaahgra and thought of starting an any percent speedrun too. I finished the tough space jump segment anyway and could start any type of run after that point. Once I started with the any percentage run, it took over. I never touched the 22 percent run again, thinking of the vent shaft and geo core segments didn't help either. I noticed after a few segments that I could beat pirate109's 1:11. Though I knew it would be tough, his run is already very well done. After segment 6 I knew I could get at least 1:10.

Most enjoyable segments are in my opinion seg 8, 11, 12 and 15. You need so much luck getting the right refills and getting good boss battles plus there are tons of tricks you need to perform in were you're not allowed to make a single mistake. Seg 11 is my personal favourite, its a pretty long part and I died a lot of times ignoring all the pirates and torrets. They didn't ignore me though and a small mistake was enough to lose a huge amount of health. Besides that I also needed a lot of missiles, I can assure you that it wasn't funny. So even with that one big mistake (you will notice it) the seg is still good enough in my opinion.

I ended up with a 1:10 a week before this run was finished and decided to redo segment 13 up until the end. I picked up an extra item and still managed to save about 20 seconds. The last few segment in the 1:10 were not that well done though, I just got too excited finishing the run.

I'm very pleased with this 1:09. I estimated it being at least 1:09:59 :p. I actually had a one second faster final segment however it turned out to be just over 1:09 for some reason. This run will show a small amount of new speedtricks. Nothing special though, just a few 1-2 second tricks. At least I tryd to add everything I could think of to make the run more enjoyable, I think that I succeeded in that. I won't spoil anything but I can tell you that the boss battles in this run are very well done. I won time in nearly every boss battle compared to pirate109, with an awesome ridley battle at the end of the run :).

I want to thank pirate109 for his 1:11 run. I stole every single thing I could think of and added a few small improvements. Without his run I would've never been capable of doing this 1:09.

Thats it, enjoy the run!!

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