ROAAARRRR!!!~~...

I haven't heard of anyone speed running this game. It was really fun taking the game apart.

Commentary time!

I stagger my saves in case I do something stupid. That way I can reverse fate!

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 1: OUTSET (sounds better than hub, fool) -----------------------------------------------------------

- Hitting the switch before getting the key. Saves about 10 seconds of staring at the wall.

- I'm not sure if strafing while running (GE/PD style) increases speed but it sure does feel like it...so I do it whenever possible. However, it can sometimes be rather glitchy in this game, especially near ledges, corners, and bridge rails.

- Diagonal jump = farther, not as high.

- After the second checkpoint and before the Tek arrows, if you do a high normal jump and hit one of the bulges in the wall you will end up higher than where most people land. I had to try about 3-4 times before this happened. The speed save is roughly 10 seconds (climbing eats it). You know you have succeeded if you appear directly by the life force triangles.

- I only shoot enemies if they unlock an obstacle, are an obstacle in and of themselves, or if they would do too much damage to me to ignore at the given time.

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 3: ANCIENT CITY -----------------------------------------------------------

- I do this before level two because I can. I'd also rather go to the ruins after an easy level two than a hard boss fight at the end of three where I am drained of health and ammo.

- Notice that I like running with my knife out -- I think this is a symptom of playing Counter-Strike too much. I continue to do this throughout the game. I have no idea if it makes any difference at all but hey, it looks neat.

- Getting fun extras like Tek Armor and Ultra Healths is extremely addictive when I play this game so I must fight the urge. I only get them when needed. I try to skate past levels with the bare minimum required.

- I keep this backpack for a long time. Obviously, I need a tremendous amount of ammunition for the bosses because hard mode = 2x the health of normal for all enemies.

- I get the invincibility power up because it saves a lot of health for a minor time waste.

- I get closer to the Purr-Linn (big green ape things that are scary. The ones that are required to be killed ALWAYS have a ridiculous amount of HP compared to ones that fall from the sky or are just wandering around) so I can spam Tek-Arrows as fast as possible.

- Jump in a stairwell to magically float down at high speed.

- After the warp in the basement of the above area I try to jump to the right. If this were possible I could save about 15 seconds of waiting for the pillar to lower, jumping in, etc. More importantly, it'd be extraordinarily kinky. Instead, the game decides an invisible wall should be there. I've tried all angles. Curses to a forward thinking Acclaim programmer or random chance?

- GG clipping glitch on the slabs of rock that slide down after climbing the tree. Seems to happen everywhere with a sheer vertical surface.

- I really dislike the jeeps. Besides being a bad choice for a boss I also need to kill them fast yet I need to save my explosive shells. Feel the agony of the chugging assault rifle. I suppose one could be much faster with lucky respawns of constant Tek Arrows. I do not enjoy sleeping with lady luck, however.

- Tank the longhunter, exploit explosive shells. They are the true boss killers. His plasma shots melt armor.

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 2: JUNGLE -----------------------------------------------------------

- Always swim underwater -- it is much faster than treading on the surface.

- Memorizing the tunnel directions can be a pain, although some are easy. E.g. the water tunnel is all rights until you see the surface on the ceiling. The beetle tunnel near the raptors after the Chronosceptor is almost all lefts.

- You may have noticed by now that I keep avoiding the pump. I can't waste having an extra slot in my already lengthy weapon menu because the pump is extremely inferior to the auto. If only cool sound effects could kill.

- Leapers on hard mode get the award for "best moving obstacle." Depending on the size, they require all three bullets from the rifle to die -- the larger ones take even more. They like to jump directly in front of you as well.

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 4: RUINS -----------------------------------------------------------

- I perform the most dangerous section first (area behind wooden logs instead of statue/canyon area).

- Meet your new friends the dart blowers, not to be confused with their brethren, which yield poleaxes. They will be accompanying you through the next three worlds and will prick your neck with highly accurate and damaging darts. Kill on sight or have balls.

- This level is made more enjoyable by four tough enemies that must be killed to open doors: two Purr-Linn and two Warrior Priests (identify: warrior minus dart, plus mystical fire powers that fry your ass). Bow down to Tek Arrows.

- In the statue-fighting arena, try your best to get them to fight each other. That way they won't wander off.

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 5: CATACOMBS -----------------------------------------------------------

- I ran this world the most to figure out how to best use my ammo. Thus, I found myself having to fall and get the cache of ammo behind the beginning. Explosive shells and Tek arrows are that valuable.

- One Tek arrow takes down a warrior even on hard!

- The Warrior Priest guarding the level eight key *the caged one) is a unique priest which I like to call a pink priest because he can teleport in a cloud of girly pink sparkles. Lady luck kisses me here by making him not teleport, which wastes a lot of time. There's another one by the Chronosceptor piece but we don't go there so it's all good. He is EXTREMELY durable.

- I take the time to blast all the darters with my machine gun because I had 10hp and they do 10hp of damage. Good enough reason I believe.

- Before this speed run idea I knew I could hop to one of the switches to save time. After a moment of thought I realized I could do the same to the other switch, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside as I skipped an entire section of a level (a rather long and annoying section, if I may add). Not an easy leap, however.

- I need to get the grenade launcher in the caverns because it is required for a smooth Mantis fight. The cave is dark and confusing but I get through, wasting maybe 4 seconds being stuck between a rock and a warrior (it looks like I should be able to slip through!)

- I don't save before the boss because I have balls and have practiced enough.

- I use explosive shells immediately because you must force him out of stage 1 because it's so easy to become trapped in a corner with pools of acid all around. By the way, how does the acid look so sexy? Best real time liquid effects I've seen from a game in the 90's, let alone one from 1997.

- Grenades are good -- magic grenade respawn is GOODER!

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 6: TREETROP VILLAGE -----------------------------------------------------------

- How linear can a level be before it becomes difficult to actually speed run? This one takes the cake. What a snore fest. All I can say is a) swimming is fast, know where to go so you don't tread the surface and b) I know killing myself on purpose was extremely cheesy. But come on, the checkpoint was in such an ideal locale. I simply couldn't waste such an opportune moment.

- Oh yeah, strafing on this level is scary. Sometimes you will randomly slip through the railing in certain places (so if you see me going forward, you know why). Also, sometimes you can see a path below but I don't jump because sometimes you make it...usually you just fall through in a puff of magic. This level is long enough without having to make me die in the middle from a glitch.

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 7: LOST LAND -----------------------------------------------------------

- The amount of platform jumping in this level makes me cry because every once in awhile Turok will mysteriously fall through what is clearly solid ground (floating in the air nonetheless) to his doom. That happened about two times while I ran this level for the video.

- Dodging the triceratops fire while going up the wall was extremely irritating. Sometimes I would get to the top with 10hp...or just die. You must make him spin in place, teehee! The part where I run blindly, dodging the insta-kill avalanches feels amazing but I think you can simply outrun it.

- Feel the wrath of DEMON LORDS, the most powerful magic caster in the game. Feel the torment as they take 10 explosive shells to the face. This is why I bothered to get the Fusion Cannon in the lava for after the lava pillar obstacle course.

- Speaking of lava pillars, if you asked any Turok fan which part of the game made his skin crawl it would be this obstacle course, which consists entirely of lava and rising pillars that have funny shaped heads. I take my sweet time on the middle pillar because it requires perfect timing. GOD I HATE THIS PART OF THE GAME ROAAARRRR.

- Why did they hide the subterraneans (super duper slick worm guys ala Tremors) in a corner of the level to guard a Tek armor? They should have been SOMEWHERE required...*sniff

- The stairs that spiral down from the sky can actually be gone up by diagonal strafing all the way. You won't fall off. Instead you will be sent ROCKETING straight up (while still going forward) and you will land ahead. I almost wanted to do it but I knew if I did after a fairly awesome run I would have fallen through magically or some such. You can try that trick on your own time...

----------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL 8: FINAL CONFRONTATION -----------------------------------------------------------

- Most of the tricks are self-explanatory. Things to watch out for: baiting robots to one side of the hall and then going around (these guys are less dangerous than dart dudes - use tek arrows if one binds you against a wall), jumping to bypass two "MOTHER WOW THOSE GUYS ATE THEIR VEGETABLE!" strong Purr-Linns in a pit. They take so long to kill that if I had to face them I would have gotten the fusion cannon in the water earlier in the level. Thank you for the sideways jump, Acclaim!

- Sorry about the incident in the sewers near the start. Sometimes you can simply slip through the pulse robot and the wall...other times that happens. No big deal, right? I tried to be a clever fox. I look like a clever beaver instead. Oh well!

- I take time to avoid the first two sets of laser traps because they turn armor into dust instantly and I need my armor for all the other bad guys shooting me.

- I get the fusion cannon when I can because a) last place I can get it on this route for the 2 shots and b) I have to go across this platform for the shortcut across the room regardless.

- My goal was to reach Thunder (Campaigner's pet Rex) with maxed ammo for the fusion, rocket, and grenade launchers. He has too much health for anything less, especially on hard (on normal you can skimp and still kill him easily).

- The Campaigner has a vortex shield that protects him from all explosives (except the Chronosceptor; why would we have that, though?) and both the plasma and alien guns. Use, in this order: auto shottie, Tek arrows, machine gun, and finish with the assault rifle if needed.

----------------------------------------------------------- OTHER NOTES -----------------------------------------------------------

All the bosses can be baited into coming close to you and then committing to an attack. Once the attack begins you can back away and fill them with hot lead as they sit helpless. Repeat until the burning sensation in your wrist ends.

Jeeps - uhh, the drivers are drunk, have fun

Longhunter - wait until he taunts or uses a physical attack so you can pump him with autoshottie. Make every explosive shell count

Mantis - grenades hurt the most; make them count. I usually shoot three at a time

Thunder - max all ammo for fusion, grenade, and rocket launchers. At least 50 for the plasma gun to finish him off.

Campaigner - lots and lots of shotgun shells.

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Thank you for downloading my videos and reading my rambling babblefish-esque explanations. Fly on the straight and narrow.

First of all I would like to give shoutouts to the CLgamers for supporting me through all the rage filled runs I endured upon trying to complete this game as well as getting to the point I am. Not to mention Panda in particular taught me how to jump after I fall :p Also shoutouts to Mmobossman for his TAS of Turok which taught me quite a few tricks along the way. This is my first run to be submitted to SDA and hopefully more to come.

Level One-

• Strafing by far proves to be the optimal way of movement throughout the game.
• Hitting the switch before obtaining the first key saves about 8-10 seconds.
• Gliding up the wall to the second key sheds off about 3-4 seconds.
• I missed the highjump leading up to the pur-lin, but not too much to worry.
• Jumping to the last pillar and killing the soilder on the direct right reduces time tremdendously.
• In the cave leading up to the last key, there's a small window to skip jumping up all the pillars which sheds off a few seconds.

Level Three-

• Like many other runs, I skip Level Two first for the sheer fact of ammo conservation and a chance to enter with tek armor.
• Leading up to the higher portion of the level, there's a set of stairs that are able to be hooked on to in the corner which allow for "wall climbing", the first of three I do throughout the run.
• I visit the stave station without saving for an unofficial check point. Doing this allows me to take a death after obtaining the second key without taking on two pur-lins which saves roughly a minute.
• After the death and re-entering the portal, I jump around the tower in order to get to the switch more efficiently than the intended route.
• On the way up to the last save station, there is a chance for another "wall climb" but the chances of succeeding are very slim so I opt out.
• Jumping over multiple pillars optimally leading to the Longhunter allows for 10 jumps rather than 17.
  • Boss Battle- Jeeps and Longhunter
  • All the jeeps do is circle you so take advantage
  • The Longhunter can be a pain to target, so I tried distance attacks as well as close-ranged.

Level Two-

• When swimming towards the first key, I strafe to maintain the speed.
• After obtaining the first key, it is time to perform two "wall climbs" back to back @.@ however executing the climbs saves about a good minute.
• KNOW YOUR CAVE ROUTES, otherwise they can be rather troublesome.
• Jumping in water-covered grounds is faster than just strafing through them.

Level 4-

• Instead of going towards the first key, I head towards the Level 8 key first to avoid backtracking.
• After obtaining the first key, I take an intentional death to save a rough 20-25 seconds.
• Everything else is self-explanatory, although I still have yet to figure out a one trip strat for bringing down the force field after hitting the switch.

Level 5-

• Probably one of the easier levels in my opinion, except the dreaded ledges DX.
• I pick up the grenade launcher early in the level for the Mantis battle along with three 10 point life forces for later death strat.
• After getting to know the game a bit better, I realized that knifing the High Priests throughout the game is more effective than using ammunition.
• At the section where there are heinous mazes to travel through and much much agony followed, I make a falling jump to reach the main switch to raise the pillars. Overall that saves about ten minutes, I kid you not.
• Up until the last key, I continue to snag up life forces for Level 6.
• Climbing up to the last key is the MOST ANNOYING THING EVER! Quite possibly the glitchiest portion in the game.
  • Boss Battle- Mantis
  • Rather simple, just use the grenade launcher and whatever other ammunition you may have until its dead

Level 6-

• Oh boy, monotonous bridges and evil dart warriors. Lets begin.
• I grab the grenade ammo since I am out by the end of the Mantis battle and decide to make some leaps of faith, seriously....
• After reaching the check point leading up to the first key, I venture on to the key only to take another intentional death (number three), this really does save you the trouble of coming back normally.
• Bridge jumping is very risky..... You might vanish through it to your death.
• I visit the first save station just as a check point marker in order to execute the Easy Way Out strat, or a shotgun launch up to the end of the level. This never wants to work when I do runs, but luck was on my side (:
• So at that point I just transverse the level collecting the last two keys and at that point take my last intentional death, about a good three minutes saved if all goes well.

Level 7-

• Demons, demons, demons, that's all I have to say.
• Nothing out of the ordinary until the Triceratops, just watch out for flying aliens @>@.
• I skip battling the Triceratops for one simple reason, ammunition depletion.
• Be careful and watch out for falling rocks, they have ruined many of my runs.
• I go ahead and grab the Pulse Canon to avoid any troubles in getting it in Level 8.
• To quote Marshmallow, "Pillars of DOOM!" Yes I take my time after finally memorizing the patterns, just don't fall.
• After the first key, I pretty much just go through the level normally while watching out for cute vicious dinosaurs along the way.
• At the exit, do watch out for what I call....

Level 8-

• ROBOT RAPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Yes, robots do not under any circumstances take pity on Turok at this point in the game,
• There's honestly not too much to comment on throughout this stage except for always avoid Cyborg Sergeants. They are meanies >.<
• Whenever I run into the two Pur-Lins, you only need to kill one of them to gain access to the next area.
• Other than that, I just grab any ammunition I can get and make my way to the most precious T-Rex I've ever seen.
  • Thunder-
  • He may seem difficult, but just circle him and unleash every last ounce of ammo you have on him, Pulse Cannon first people!
  • Ring around the Rosey.

• The Campaigner-
• After Thunder you stock back up on every weapon along with a Tex Armor, unfortunately no energy powered weapon or grenades harm him.
• Shotgun shells (explosive preferably), minigun, and tek arrows are your best friend.
• Watch out for his sky attacks and blazing inferno, otherwise you might be having a fried Turok with a side of despair )=
• TAKE HIM DOWN!!!!!

So that's my walkthrough of Turok (= thanks to SDA for