Just below the surface while looking up at the surface, double tap and hold forward, followed by a quick jump out the water, still holding forward. Water boosting: Fairly well known this one, but not well documented on actually how to do it. The reach and range of the item in question affect the consistency for collecting it, so being a segmented run really was a priority here. Overhead item trick: collect items hovering overhead no matter how high they are with a certain kind of jump, as you can imagine this can heavily speed up many areas, avoiding detours and such. I'll get right to it explaining the all important glitches and tricks which to me is what this run is all about, and then onto explaining the run level by level. I'd also like to think that the run could be used as a TAS planning guide or something if the game will one day emulate properly. This submmission text is very long, but I felt it would be important to document everything as a sort of mini strategy guide to help viewers understand it all better and as a head start for budding runners interested in the game.

So right off the bat, in no way should this be compared to an N64 run. You can even skip the first level intro and the end credits, which the N64 version could not. I should start though by saying that the PC version is much more favourable to speed run, or even to just play to be honest Proper straffing, precision aiming and anytime saving add up to make the run much faster and also more playable. I started the actual run on around the 10th September 2011, and finished it on the 13th May 2012. The tricks and strategies we both found throughout the months ahead still boggle my mind, and a lot of things were found during the making of the run !. Squeebles informed me of a handful of great tricks when I first started out which really opened up a can of worms as far as further optimization goes. I had already played through the game several times on Hard in the past and enjoyed it, so surely a speed run in this catagory would be the best one, and I can honestly say from the level of optimization, the same run on normal or easy modes would probably only shorten the final time by 1 - 2 minutes. I chose to do the run on hard mode due mostly from inspiration from squeebles N64 efforts and also from the natural challenge the game offered.

I started posting a little showing interest, before eventually practicing and running the first level Somewhat competing with Ewil's excellent Port of Adia run also done on the PC.

I've always loved this game but I got interested in running it in February 2011, after spotting the 'Turok 2 hard mode speed run' thread created by Squeebles for the N64. Turok 2, Hard mode Speedrun, PC version - 44 segments.

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