Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a long 'ol game, especially for a 2003 release. Its main campaign can take you around 30 hours, and going through every mission could land you closer to a playtime of 50 hours. Playing normally, you'd struggle to get it down much more than that, as there are strict criteria to meet before you can progress through the story. Main missions have to be completed, they can't be avoided.
However, speedrunners have found a way - and without using glitches. By memorizing exactly where you need to be, how to take down each enemy, and how to speed through conversations, Kotor can be beaten at a fraction of its intended time. And this week, the world record has been brought down even more, now sitting at just one hour, 51 minutes.
Speedrunner Seraphim shared his latest world record on Star Wars day this week, showing how the game can be beaten so fast and without using glitches. By just knowing the game inside out, Seraphim is able to blast through Taris in 23 minutes - much faster than most of us take to get through the loathed tutorial planet.
After that fantastic start to the run, he moves on to become a Jedi remarkably fast, and then starts his journey to find the Star Maps. Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of the run is how quickly Seraphim can navigate Kotor's fiddly menus, seemingly having the whole layout memorized from previous runs.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, it takes just one hour and 17 minutes for the runner to reach the iconic Revan reveal. It's funny to think that the Ebon Hawk crew have this bombshell dropped on them less than a day after they all met.
After that, the Bastila fight takes less than a minute, and Sion around a minute and a half. Probably a whole lot faster than BioWare intended.
A final time of 1h 51m 44s makes this the new world record for Kotor Any Percent Glitchless. This beats the previous record of 1h 52m 28s, achieved by speedrunner R4NG3.