"It takes diligence to speed run."
That is pretty obvious, yes. But it made me think about my efforts toward Seaside Hill. Every other stage that I did a speed run for (except Speed Highway), I put a lot of time into before I had my PVR. Green Hill... I ran for a long time since the Generations demo as the whole Havoc engine was still new to me. Sky Sanctuary, I ran for at least two weeks. City Escape... I don't remember though my first serious time which was top 50 may have taken at least two days and a few more days to top ten. Crisis City... MONTHS, and I loved every bit of it. Seaside Hill - 5 days from scratch with minimal hours of play.
Honestly, I don't know why I was in such a rush considering I had previous experience in other stages. This was the quickest I've ever learned a stage, and simultaneously... it's the highest I've ever put myself on a Sonic leaderboard. It really was a stage I could have simply been patient towards. Perhaps a part of me was convincing myself that the actual stage wasn't as hard as I thought it was... or maybe I'm getting better at the game... or both? Maybe I created my own sense of urgency to make a recording of it by always talking about it? Who knows.
After I had finished uploading the video to YouTube, I just watched it... over and over. When I had to leave the computer, I was watching it over and over.... over my phone. My brain was feeling some sort of release from the experience. That was probably the stress of practicing it a few days ago being liberated.
I saw some missed opportunities in the run (at least the last 2D and 3D sections where I dedicated the least amount of time to) but in the end - it made the music sync with what was going on quite well from start to finish. Didn't even have to move the track. I just started it when the video started. Must give thanks to my good friend for throwing that song in my direction. Again, in the end, it's not so much about having the fastest time more than a good looking run with some nice music... and I'm glad just how well it turned out.
From the exception of Crisis City Act 2, that one mission where you hit the music notes and Action Master, every other stage that winds up recorded from this point on in Generations will be from scratch. By that, I mean every stage up to now will be taken seriously for the first time. So when I start Unleashed.... man... there's probably going to be a lot of downtime in between Generations and Unleashed, let alone between Unleashed itself. I've BARELY scratched the surface with that game.
Speaking of Sonic Unleashed, lately I feel like I haven't been sharing enough speed runs from other people, and I want to throw this one in because it's a stage I never really liked (at least the non-DLC version of it). But I think I've changed my mind now.
Man, Unleashed is so fast. Miller states in his description that it took him over 5,000 tries and he's very proud of this. I don't know how accurate that statement regarding the number of tries is, but hey... can't say I don't relate to him about how he feels in the end. It's just the love for the game... and when it comes to love towards anything, in spite of how frustrating it is and how many fails you have to stack up before you succeed, you just don't know how far you can go...
... unless you are willing enough try and keep trying.
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