Lol, well technically you don't have to, it'd just be a much longer run lol. In the early days of routing 100% the runs were about 15hours long. We realized pretty early that unlocking & visiting Tanalorr early updates the game into unlocking new planets/areas, abilities & other stuff like that. For example, it unlocks Nova Garon, which means we don't have to go through the 'forced' section of the game where you race Bode & play as Cere (saving like 20-30 minutes alone). If you're interested in learning more details about the run, feel free to join the speedrunning discord (can find link on speedrun.com)! We have a few documents for 100% routing which you can follow yourself or use to come up with your own route!
Boy, you really have to skip a lot in order to speedrun
Lol, well technically you don't have to, it'd just be a much longer run lol. In the early days of routing 100% the runs were about 15hours long.
We realized pretty early that unlocking & visiting Tanalorr early updates the game into unlocking new planets/areas, abilities & other stuff like that. For example, it unlocks Nova Garon, which means we don't have to go through the 'forced' section of the game where you race Bode & play as Cere (saving like 20-30 minutes alone).
If you're interested in learning more details about the run, feel free to join the speedrunning discord (can find link on speedrun.com)! We have a few documents for 100% routing which you can follow yourself or use to come up with your own route!