Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Extremely creative combos under big time pressure, this one ended up being a really good one.

First big combo starts at 0:45. The start is deceptively tricky keeping enough height for the wall, but then the huge decent to phase through the barrier to extend it below is the real kicker. Really wanted to challenge myself to get this into the route, because object phasing for a combo is not something you see every day, and I love unique combos.

Second one starts at 1:51 although this one is quite simple.

Third one starts at 4:40 and is pretty cool. Requires breaking the blocks first to open the small path, and letting the star pointer shed its shield so it can be picked up with a spindash. It requires a decent amount of camera and speed control to not despawn the penguinator, or go too far with the spindash. Enables a jump down the hole with combo intact to get the 3 down the bottom.

The fourth starts at 5:53, the only tricky part of this one is the 4th enemy, making sure you have enough height to get him without touching the ground.

And the fifth and final starts at 6:29. This one is damn cool, 3 super glides with off camera enemy control in order to get the height to extend to the final penguinator at the top. Vintage Knux combo stuff.

Of note, this run actually does *not* get all the available rings. It gets 659, while the ring record is 662. There are 3 rings inside the wall near the end of the stage that can be obtained with slope glitch. The idea is you carry over slope glitch from act 1, traverse to the end of the stage, get those 3 rings and then backtrack for the rest. This take over a minute of time, and given the time pressure, these 300 points were not worth it.

In fact, even if I had an extra minute of time, I still wouldn't get them. I would instead spend the minute of time to extend the combo of two enemies at 2:58 with the enemy below, which isn't hit until 5:14. This would be worth 400 points, and similarly take about another minute to do, since it would require nearly a full backtrack of the stage.

Because those things aren't done yet, and there was still some time leftover, I can't call this one perfect yet. But it's very close, and you'd have to optimise a pretty crazy amount to get them in time, so I'm happy to finish here.

This beats the previous record of 78,200 by 17,300 points.

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