Pokémon speedrunner finishes Shining Pearl in under an hour

A speedrunner finished Pokémon Shining Pearl  in just under an hour.

As first seen by Techraptor, a well-known speedrunner in  Pokémon  circles named  Werster  finished Shining Pearl  in an astonishing 50 minutes and 36 seconds. Yes, barely a week after the RPG came out and folks are already blitzing through it like nobody’s business.

“The remakes are so broken you can beat them in under an hour,” Werster said in the  YouTube video description. “Shoutouts to the speedrunning community around this game, the past week has been a blast and so many different people have contributed towards so much in this game in such a short space of time. It’s been fantastic.”

You can watch the complete Pokémon Shining Pearl  speedrun by Werster for yourself below. Don’t blink, though, or you’ll likely miss five or so tricks necessary to pull this run off.

Pokemon BD/SP Under an Hour. And approaching much lower than that.

Here's a video of the full run: https://t.co/Pf4BQUVoOy

— werster (@wersterlobe) November 26, 2021

What’s particularly impressive about this speedrun is that since the Shining Pearl  is so new, even faster times are bound to happen soon. The community will undoubtedly find heaps more skips and tricks in the days, weeks and years to come.

If you’re more of a Pokémon GO  person, we’ve got a bunch of raid guides to help out on your mission to be the very best. Such as how to counter Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres, Regice, Regirock and Registeel during raids.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.