The Hardest Kirby Speedrun: World Record Explained

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Published 2024-03-18

Over the years, Kirby Super Star still has a community dedicated to exploring, routing, and trying to speedrun the game as fast as possible. A lot of people who have run the Kirby series enough have debated that this particular title may in fact be the most difficult of them all, with it notoriously being very RNG heavy and fast paced. Let's dive into the current fastest ever completion (Any%), and analyze why this run is as challenging as people say it is.

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Footage featured from: AidanMse, cabbage_tamana, Gumrun, Moyashi, わみ (Wami), Yotta

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Music Used:

0:00 - Intro
Kirby Super Star - Candy Mountain
Run, Kirby, Run!

3:49 - Great Cave Offensive
Kirby Super Star - Hilltop Chase
Kirby's Dream Land 3 - Ripple Field 1
Kirby Super Star Ultra - The Great Cave Offensive

10:42 - Dynablade
Kirby Super Star - Peanut Plain
Cocoa Cave
White Wing Dynablade

15:03 - Revenge of Meta Knight
Kirby Super Star - Grape Garden
Halberd ~ Nightmare Warship
Taking Over the Halberd
Flying Through Outer Space
Marshmallow Castle
King Dedede's Theme

27:00 - Milky Way Wishes
Kirby Super Star - Boss Confrontation
Together with the Spring Breeze
Megaton Punch
Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land - Ice Cream Island
Kirby Super Star - Marx's Theme
Kirby's Dream Land 3 - Sand Canyon 1

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All Comments (21)

@nippo4512 3 months ago

It was awesome being able to work with you to make this video. Yotta is truly the KSS king and deserves way more attention for how much he grinds. Please show him some support as he grinds toward sub-33!!
@Scrimsion 3 months ago

I love it when storster uploads a video about the hardest kirby speedrun
@themightyripples6582 3 months ago

31:30 "...because this Knuckle Joe has so much health that it takes 2 kills to attack it.." lol
@Controllerhead 3 months ago

KSS truly is a technical tour de force. It's up there with Super Metroid, Mario 64, you name it. I've loved following this game over the years watching great runners like 0xwas, usedpizza, and a ton more. Yotta is absolute GOAT material. Happy to see you shine some light on it!
@MegaKirbySuperstar 3 months ago

Kirby Super Star is such a great game and it's awesome there are people still running it. I always found the movement in the original so... distinct. I just like it the best. I'm so fascinated by folks playing it this sharply also. I enjoy the speedruns and LOVED the 4 player race they did at Games Done Quick that one year. Anyway, FANTASTIC video!!! Thanks so much!
@BroedgeMan 3 months ago

I thought i knew the most about KSS speedrunning, but there are so many tiny optimisations in this run I wasn't aware of at all. Great Video. Proofs again what kind amazing gamers Yotta and other top runners are!
@Zorothegallade-gg7zg 3 months ago

The biggest surprise for me is discovering that Kirby in KSS has a 1/8 chance to drop his ability when taking damage, when I play it it feels like 90%
@nightingem 3 months ago

Super Star Ultra is one of my favorite childhood games, and I'd casually "speedrun" it as a kid. Excited to watch this!
@skeepodoop5197 14 days ago

Okay, the name "Redline" is probably one of the coolest speedrunning tech names I've ever heard.
@Eficiente_VSB 3 months ago

I like how logical some of the things that made everything faster were, like going on top of elevators.
@Xarenth 3 months ago

Another banger vid from you :) I must say you have a most enthralling presentation/commentary style - it's both calming and engaging. Great to watch actively, but also great "noise" to put on for a rewatch while im focused on something else
@CoffeeFlavoredMilk 3 months ago

Wheel's probably my favorite copy ability, and its helper form probably my favorite helper to use in Super Star (more so in Ultra as that's the version I played but alas). Nice to see both used well here. At least in GCO.
@idontwantahandlethough 3 months ago

aye what a good monday: one of my favorite content creators talkin' about one of my favorite pink balls of unimaginable destruction 🤗
@kevinhay2267 3 months ago

That was fascinating, learnt a lot! Great work as usual Stor!
@attackontimmy19 2 months ago

Great video. I’m not a speed runner but love watching breakdowns. You really explained this run perfectly for me. Keep up the great work!
@TheNezperdian 1 month ago

Thanks for the video! Played the game recently, after having played it as a kid long ago, and seeing all those strats and boss fight skips was interesting.
@TheJJ65 1 month ago

I love this game so much, glad to see discussion of it
@Daeeedal 1 month ago

Wow, really great video. I figured I'd be entertained but I didn't expect something so comprehensive. I reckon you could use this to learn how to run the game yourself. I used to watch 100% of this game all the time, one of my all time favorites. I remember runners would wear down the rubber beneath their dpad from charging up plasma so much.
@kody5183 3 months ago

She's back! love these videos from you, i love learning about runs like this.
@VinsCool 3 months ago

There is no such thing as too much Kirby.