Hey everyone. New runner here. After many attempts, I was able to pull off the Mi'ihen Highroad Skip on HD Remaster.

Thought I would share since there isn't any other videos to be found. Not sure if this will help anyone considering how difficult the skip is regardless haha. Happy running!

That's kinda mind blowing you got that in real time...any set up you used? to be consistent? I've tried to find a set up for it. but I've also not spent to much time into it either

I have a setup, but it's not consistent unfortunately. But here's what I did. I found a spot that if you were to nudge forward at all you would trigger the cutscene. Here's a reference photo: https://twitter.com/unheilig47/status/971025614344867840 What I try to line up is Tidus's right hand with a white spot on the ground. His finger tips rest on the bottom of the spot. In the video, it didn't quite work out like that, but the skip worked haha. It seems the cutscene triggered on the 2nd textbox as well. I kept trying to trigger on the 1st but maybe it's more consistent to be done on the 2nd because I feel if he is stopped, then it seems easier to initiate the skip. Not too sure on that though. But all in all, I think I just got lucky as well.

For anyone unfamiliar with this skip, here's what's going on. To initiate the skip, you need to talk to the NPC right as you walk into the cutscene trigger. In the PS2 version, the skip isn't difficult to pull off as you can talk to the NPC from far away, essentially mashing for text as you walk into the trigger zone. On the HD Remaster version however, you need to be right next to the NPC to talk to him, making the skip really hard to pull off. The gap you have to work with is almost non-existent.

I will try to find consistency, but really this trick on HD Remaster might just boil down to lots of practice and some luck.

So I've spent some time trying to get a consistent setup. I've managed to initiate the skip 4 more times (all within about an hour.) I have videos saved and will upload them if anyone is interested in seeing them. Really though, I haven't found anything new or groundbreaking that my setup isn't already trying to do. Like I said, it just seems to boil down to lots of practice and maybe some luck haha.

I hope other runners can find themselves pulling this skip off more often than not. My favorite thing about speedrunning is learning all the tricks, skips, tech, strats, routes, manipulations, whatever it might be haha. It's what makes speedrunning such a cool thing. And discovering new things is always awesome. So I hope this has helped out and would love to see others getting this trick down as well.