My first ever full official speedrun and my first submission to speedrun.com -- Pokémon Shield run in 04:55:10. I've done practice runs before this, but usually took breaks. There are obvious mistakes and bad RNG that could have reduced the time below 4:40:00 easily.
Mod note: footage is missing a couple of seconds. In the future, if the length of your footage does not match the final time, make sure to upload your local recording of the run. Most notably, the fight against Oleana is missing 6 seconds after defeating Milotic. Also retimed the run to 4:55:12.
Hello everyone! With the release of the Nintendo Switch 2 imminent, we have added a new annotated variable to all of the Sword/Shield categories: the Console variable. This variable is used to denote whether your run was performed on the Switch 1 or on the Switch 2.
This new Console variable al