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Baldur’s Gate 3 can be beaten in 7 minutes, apparently7 minutes isn’t even long enough for character creation.
7 minutes isn’t even long enough for character creation.
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The trick, really, lies in using the Jump transmutation spell to triple his hop height, leaping over every combat encounter and skipping through most of the game’s cutscenes. There’s one real testing point, in that the player needs to make a successful investigation check to make it through a well into the Whispering Depths. But from then on, it’s a simple case of soaring into the game’s final area and completing the run.
Of course, there is some contention over whether this “counts” as a real speedrun. Palmer doesn’t engage with the plot of the game basically at all, never even minding that - as the first act of an unfinished game -Baldur’s Gate 3doesn’t really have an ending to speak of anyway. As it stands, his speedrun simply gets his character to the final point in the game’s map.
To be fair, though, Palmer did make a go at trying a more conventional speedrun. He just realised that the lack of a concrete ending made it all a bit pointless.
To his credit, though, Palmer did note that he plans to route a separate, all-quests speedrun that does get through the meat and potatoes of Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s just a shame the character he’s speedrunning with doesn’t looknearly as fashionable as ours.
