Baldur’s Gate 3’s super-hard Honor Mode is now beatable in 20 minutes, and I feel bad about video games

A Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner beat the game’s extremely difficult Honor Mode in less than 20 minutes, a brave crusade against video games that take longer than your grandparents did One thought that would take less time than convincing their bodies to leave the comfort of their armchair. .

Whether it’s managing to get Raizel into bed in a way that even Larian’s romance quest designer thought was cool, or finding a way to quickly hook up with Halsin in bear form, if you’re not familiar with BG3 by now The speedrunning community, I’m not really sure what to say. That is, other than “what is this latest piece of art and tell me how you feel about it compared to Larian’s RPG”.

Following fellow runner Chronos’ efforts to get everyone who tries the mode to reevaluate their talents, Mae easily became the first to skate through the mode in less than 20 minutes. Their official time was 19 minutes and 32 seconds, a nice improvement from 21 minutes and 17 seconds a few weeks ago.

How did they do that? Well, using the same flying invisible bear one-shot technology that also recently earned them an all-action run of under 20 minutes, in addition to a bunch of other wacky strategies devised by the community, as it does against machines that have to actually take action Feel angry. It’s time to play Baldur’s Gate 3.

They even encountered a “soft lock where Jaheira couldn’t use any actions” around 18 minutes into the run, which Mae said was triggered when they “pressed jump input at the same time.” [they were] Mental Breakdown” and can only be fixed by reloading the save in a way that the running rules allow. Of course, that’s not enough to hinder the work.

Since Mae still seems committed to getting records in BG3’s five different speedrunning categories, who knows what kind of games they’ll destroy next.

If they decide to wait until patch six arrives, maybe it will end with a kiss on Astario’s forehead.