How Speedrunners Already Beat TUNIC In 20 Minutes

I know the TUNIC text in the video is messed up. I don’t language well :)

Tunic was such a delightful game to play. I am not well versed in how many sales makes an indie game a success, but I feel like this game didnt get the love it deserved.

By the way, many of the exploits being used in Tunic speedrun were discovered during development, but was intentionally not patched, according to the developer. The autoscroller skip was also intentionally patched in after the game have launched. I guess the idea is that, exploiting the game is still the intended way to play, because "the adventure isn't for you in the first place".

To anyone who is wondering what the "holy cross" is, it is a major spoiler, so go play Tunic first! This video is mostly not a spoiler for Tunic. It does spoil one of the plot twists, but the whole puzzle-solving side of this game is still unspoiled.

When I finished the game, I was dying to see a speedrun, it took over a week for anybody to start speedrunning this game, but when I saw its progression, I was blown away by the speedrunners' performances, I've not been disappointed, and am looking forward to any development for the routing in the future. This is my favorite game to see speedruns of this year.

I was wondering how long a video like this was going to take to come out. There's a very clever thing in TUNIC that players don't realize they can do, and it makes for a GREAT speedrun when combined with the hyper-intense movement.

"The Librarian is one of the most difficult bosses in the game" IDK why, but I managed to beat him on my second attempt. I had way more trouble with the Scavenger boss. I think I ended up fighting her like, 20+ times.

Loved this video, Tunic was really an excellent experience. I'd strongly encourage anyone even a little interested to check out the game, whether you intend to speedrun or not, and to go in as blind as you can. It's such a ride.

I appreciate the text at 1:14 being translated correctly, really cool! (edit wait only some of it was right, most everything else is messed up) It took me 2 days of deduction and process of elimination to translate the language myself. Page 54 really does tell you all you need to know. I urge everyone to try deciphering it yourself, it was greatly rewarding for me at least

Awesome vid. Hadn't heard of Tunic till now but I'll definitely keep an eye out for more content about it in the future. Also hats off to the runners. Nerves of steel to run a single hit away from death.

Thanks for this excellent video (and good on you for sidestepping some spoilers)! This game's something special and the speedruns are too. A large part of thanks for the game keeping speedrun mechanics around has to go to the game's sound designer, Kevin Regamey of Powerup Audio, aka OTDQ. Having a couple runners on staff always spices up a game.

Tunics such a fun game, been a minute since i interacted with the speedrun community though, this video made me want to continue glitch hunting in it seeing as not much changed since i left. In particular i wanna find a different method of skipping the key cutscenes as the current one is real annoying for a trick near the end of the run, im not actually sure if it was patched or not but while testing it the timing window actually changes based on how long it takes the title screen to load, the longer the game is open the longer it takes and while usually negligible it can mess up a trick like that

Banging video, also love the Mirror's Edge music! Feels like the video quality just keeps improving :)

amazing run, amazing ideas! And very nice video!

Tunic is next up in my queue (behind Elden Ring, lol, see you in a few months), so I'm gonna hold off on watching this until I play through it. But it's dangerous to go alone, so take this like and comment.

The video was amazing! The way you spelled words with the secret language in the beginning drove me crazy though 😂

Fantastic video. I hope to see more obscure game speedrun breakdowns.

This is such a fun breakdown! Tunic is a real gem of a game; even after finishing nearly every secret in it, I still want to consume media related to it, haha. Side note: it was a real treat to hear PMD music pop up in the video, too!

best part of these your videos is when the Castlevania Symphony of the Night music plays

This game is an absolute treat!