Year of Harvest Moon Speedrunning: January Update

Year of Harvest Moon Speedrunning
January Update

Game:		Harvest Moon Snes
Category:	Best Ending
Original Estimate:			3:00:00
PB at the end of month:		2:41:10
Current Goal:				Sub 2:30
Likely to run again:		Yes


So the first game for my Year of Harvest Moon was the original Harvest Moon for the Snes and the Best Ending Category. I first started routing this game when I came across an old SDA thread which discussed HM speedrunning and mostly covered Snes: Best Ending, with people even having done runs. Unfortunately these runs have since been deleted, but I had a rough idea of a what was achievable.

One thing I am proud of is some of the routing changes that were made. I feel like the current route is very close to what the old 2:30-ish runs would've used with a few more optimisations. Another thing I'm quite pleased with is the discovery of Power Berry duplicating, which funnily enough killed a run the first time I got it, because I didn't know what had happened. This glitch has opened the possiblity of running a category closer to 100% as more tedious and time consuming sections can be skipped.

Overall, I'm really happy with how this first month went and will definitely return to Snes and Best ending in the future.