Glitched Sonic Boom speedrun clocks in at under an hour
It took speedrunners less than 24 hours to crack open Sega's Wii U action game Sonic Boom and produce an hour-long playthrough thanks to a game-breaking glitch discovered yesterday. The current world record, achieved during Twitch streamer Parax0's fourth-ever playthrough of the game, clocks in at 51 minutes.
Following Sonic Boom's launch on Tuesday, fellow Sonic series speedrunner DarkspinesSonic discovered that players can chain special attacks by pausing the game in between button inputs. Since Knuckles' special attack launches him into the air, this quirk allows players to take flight and bypass the majority of the game's content by skipping cutscenes, breaking level boundaries, and entering areas long before they should become accessible.
The glitch also triggers curious scenes like the one pictured above, and sometimes renders level geometry invisible. It also crashes the game occasionally, so try it at your own risk. It makes for a very entertaining playthrough, however. Nice work, Knuckles.
[Image: Sega]
