Sonic Robo Blast 2: The-Flour – All Secrets + Lap 2 as Knuckles the Echidna

Some of the people I interact with in the SRB2 speedrunning community don't seem to like Knuckles a whole lot, but at least as far as The-Flour is concerned, I think he's alright. A mid-tier option among vanilla characters. My boy cannot jump to save his life, though; an attribute shared by Metal Knuckles, who I also play sometimes for vanilla campaign speedruns; individual level categories thus far, but I'm gonna get that full game run eventually.

Anyway, this ain't about Metal Knuckles, this is about the real Knuckles. I took what I believe to be a suboptimal Pizza Time route here because I missed landing on the first speed shoes monitor with my initial jump and couldn't be bothered to redo it, but I believe if I can smash through that wall, Knuckles can save a little more time than I managed to. Hell, Amy might be able to do it, too, though I'm pretty sure she'd still end up slower in the long run. I don't think either of them convincingly take it on lap 2, but I might be surprised. A better player than me is welcome to try.

As for the speed shoes that I had Amy and Fang both take in the Act 1 portion of Pizza Time, Knuckles could probably benefit from it a little bit in hindsight. I was concerned it would be too much of a time commitment for him, but apparently him, Tails, and Sonic are exactly as fast as each other when they're just running according to the wiki, so those speed shoes should benefit all three to some extent or another depending on one's pathing. Metal Sonic is also the same speed before Boost Mode kicks in, but it's precisely because of Boost Mode that I'm convinced he's the one vanilla character that absolutely should not go out of his way for that one and just keep going.

You can download The-Flower here: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/the-flower.7514/

Timestamps:
0:00 Act 1
0:18 Secret 1
0:41 Act 1
1:10 Act 2
1:30 Secret 2
2:03 Act 2
2:43 Secret 3
3:08 Act 2
3:52 Pizza Time
5:50 Lap 2


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