The Most Difficult Trick in Adventure Game Speedrunning

The tech used in the Quest for Glory II Any% speedrun is wild. From spellglides to wrong warps, this video essay from Yet Another Speedrun Content Monkey™ comes to you courtesy of an unregistered version of DaVinci Resolve and a Norwegian looking to while away his winter months.

Alternate title: The Speedrun Trick With a 95% Failure Rate. You'll soon see why.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Speedrunning tech
05:10 Particulars of the run
07:00 The hardest single input
15:14 The wrong warp
20:46 The world record run
23:20 Outro and credits

Quest for Glory speedrunning:
Quest for Glory Speedrunning Discord:   / discord  
Quest for Glory II Leaderboards: https://www.speedrun.com/quest_for_gl...

Thanks to:
‪@OneShortEye‬ for his feedback on this video, and for permission to use some footage from "King's Quest VI Speedrun History":    • King's Quest VI Speedrun History  
‪@polygon586‬, SantaClaus, for telling me I should grind this category and therefore eating two whole weeks out of my life.
‪@MisterMiller‬ for fostering the Quest for Glory community, without whom we would not be here.
My budgie for co-commentating this video with me.

Attributions:
https://pixabay.com/ for the image of the clock and the bus.
https://freesound.org/ for the dramatic hit sound.