A beloved speedrun favorite takes the bench The list of games for next year’s Awesome Games Done Quick is out, and one of the annual speedrunning-for-charity event’s most popular titles isn’t on it: Super Metroid.
The Metroid series — and the beloved Super Metroid in particular — has gained a reputation as one of the most popular series to speedrun.
The Metroid franchise will still have a presence in AGDQ next year: Speedruns of both the original Metroid for the NES and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption will be streamed.
Since a big part of a successful Super Metroid speedrun (or, really, any speedrun at all) is shaving off as much time as possible, players rarely bother to save.