{"id":11790,"date":"2022-12-16T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-speedruns-are-already-clocking-in-at-around-5-hours\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:41:59","slug":"pokemon-scarlet-violet-speedruns-are-already-clocking-in-at-around-5-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-speedruns-are-already-clocking-in-at-around-5-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Speedruns Are Already Clocking In At Around 5 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanks to a flamingo friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How long did it take you to beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>? 20 hours? 30 hours? Well, the speedrunning community is here to put us to shame, as <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20221216-17282\/\">Automaton Media<\/a> has spotted that the latest Pok\u00e9mon games are being completed in under five and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the world record on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.speedrun.com\/pkmnscarletviolet?h=Any-ENG&amp;x=z279eozd-wl3d2v98.jqz34r21\">Speedrun.com<\/a> is held by Pok\u00e9mon speedrunner <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.speedrun.com\/user\/truely\">truely<\/a>, who has managed to beat the game in an impressive <strong>5 hours, 27 minutes and 11 seconds<\/strong>. Okay, so that&#8217;s all three story paths, a decently levelled team of Pok\u00e9mon, and plenty of other things we don&#8217;t want to spoil here, all wrapped up in an evening?<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-speedruns-are-already-clocking-in-at-around-5-hours\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Speedruns Are Already Clocking In At Around 5 Hours<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to a flamingo friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How long did it take you to beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>? 20 hours? 30 hours? Well, the speedrunning community is here to put us to shame, as <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20221216-17282\/\">Automaton Media<\/a> has spotted that the latest Pok\u00e9mon games are being completed in under five and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the world record on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.speedrun.com\/pkmnscarletviolet?h=Any-ENG&amp;x=z279eozd-wl3d2v98.jqz34r21\">Speedrun.com<\/a> is held by Pok\u00e9mon speedrunner <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.speedrun.com\/user\/truely\">truely<\/a>, who has managed to beat the game in an impressive <strong>5 hours, 27 minutes and 11 seconds<\/strong>. Okay, so that&#8217;s all three story paths, a decently levelled team of Pok\u00e9mon, and plenty of other things we don&#8217;t want to spoil here, all wrapped up in an evening?<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-speedruns-are-already-clocking-in-at-around-5-hours\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}