katamari

there is two aspects to speedrun katamri. first is route you have to know a lot of numbers in you own head and know where every relevant thingy and stuff is in every level which is hard. the second aspect is movement you have to be able to control rly well and manipulate your speed exactly how you want to whether its going slower slower or going faster faster or going slower faster (you dont need to ever go faster slower). the difficulty and infinite depth is in combining these two things, route and movement, in a seamless way which requires you to make alot of decisions on the fly about what to pick up in, to anyone watching whos not familiar with the game, an opaque way, because in the best case its all about seeing five seconds or so into the future and planning ahead with boosted or unboosted momentum or changing the hitbox/geometry of the katamari, and in the worst case you just got blasted in the butthole by a ledge or swan boat and have to fix yourself. god bless everyone. dont play this game if you want to just grind a bunch of savestates you have to feel the katamari in your bones.