MoistCr1TiKaL Reacts to Super Mario 64 Speedrun History

The level of dedication it takes to break a game this thoroughly is something else. Summoning Salt dropped another one of his masterpieces, this time charting the absolutely chaotic history of the Super Mario 64 16-star speedrun, and it's a wild ride. You start thinking it's just about playing the game fast, but then you see someone launch Mario backward through a staircase at lightspeed. The Backwards Long Jump, or BLJ, is the cornerstone of this whole thing, a glitch that lets players bypass entire sections of the game by building up absurd momentum. It's the kind of thing that looks like a complete joke until you see it shave minutes off a run. This entire category only exists because people found a way to weaponize broken physics. From there, the insanity just snowballs. We're talking about the Mips Clip, where runners use the golden rabbit, Mips, as a battering ram to phase through a locked door. Someone had to sit there and think, 'What if I just... shove the rabbit into this wall?' and it actually worked. Then there's the 'Cannonless' strat for Whomp's Fortress, a frame-perfect jump that bypasses the need to even activate the cannon. The documentary does an incredible job showing how each new discovery by legends of the scene created a ripple effect, forcing everyone to master these ridiculous techniques. Watching the evolution of the record is like seeing a scientific breakthrough happen in real-time, only the science is how to make an Italian plumber violate the laws of spacetime. This is the kind of stuff moistcr1tikal lives for. It's not just about one person finding one glitch; it's a decades-long community effort of people pushing a beloved childhood game to its absolute breaking point. Every single millisecond is fought for with techniques that were never intended to exist. The entire Summoning Salt video is a testament to human ingenuity and maybe a little bit of madness. If you've ever wondered how people beat a 20-hour game in less time than it takes to order a pizza, this penguinz0 reaction covers the definitive explanation. The whole thing is just a beautiful, chaotic mess.