The Man Who Broke Spyro in Half

Good afternoon.

Today i wanted to highlight one of the most underappreciated contributers to speedrunning. Touval. His discoveries and records caused earthshattering changes in every community he's been in. This video will go over his legacy.

Soundtrack:
00:00 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Summer Forest
01:12 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Crystal Glacier
02:43 Spyro the Dragon - Lofty Castle
04:11 Metal Gear Solid - Warhead Storage
06:01 Spyro: Year of the Dragon - Midnight Mountain
08:13 Tekken Tag Tournament - Ogre's Theme
09:26 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Winter Tundra
10:32 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Autumn Plains
14:33 Spyro the Dragon - Gnasty's Loot
17:12 Super Mario Sunshine - Gelato Beach
18:08 Bully - Preps Vendetta
19:54 Donkey Kong Country - Map Screen
20:53 Final Fantasy VIII - Martial Law
22:25 Ratchet: Deadlocked - Planet Torval
24:56 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Aquaria Towers
25:38 Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus - Credits

Touval's Info:

My Info:

[Akay]

My favorite tale is when a run seems dead but the runner decides to do some outlandishly hard skip at the end cause they got nothing to lose... And then pulls it off like it's nothing.

[GarfieldTheLightning]

One of my most vivid memories from the world of speedrunning is Touval's stream following his discovery of Gulp skip. It began with Spyro just sitting there in front of Gulp, Touval saying "hi", then opening the guidebook to show that he didn't have 14 talismans, before detailing basically the holy grail of Spyro skips with that signature calmness of his. What a legend.

[nathancarver]

Love how this man casually finds skips to eliminate half the game, and just passes it off as "hey, lookie what I found!"

[gengarguy]

Touval: "ok so how do i glitch hunt."
(Skips Twilight Harbor
(Skips Sorceress
(Skips Gulp
(Skips Gelato Beach
"don't worry guys i think i figured it out."

[tgamagedon]

"Touval you're on a roll man!"
"Yeah dunno what I'm even gonna do next"
"I mean what's even left at this point? Early Jacques?"
"I mean with my luck I could go for Gelato skip"
"Hahaha Touval you're too funny man"
"I have a gamecube..."

[Jumpyluff]

Touval is the best. Thank you for this video, you covered it all and did him well.

[the_echoYT]

Touval is an absolute madman, and easily deserves more attention than he's gotten.
How the hell do you just burst onto the scene one day and completely change an entire speedrunning community like that

[tjg]

A semi-detailed account of me watching this video:


"Oh, he found that? Cool"
"He found that too? That's insane"
"And THAT?"
"HE FOUND GELATO SKIP?!?!?!?"

[TrainfanJanathan]

I was expecting Spyro to literally be in half.

[GamerBoyDevin]

When I was a kid I thought I was just really bad at Enter the Dragonfly but then as I grew older I simply realized it was a bad game

[Picobits]

Doing this in Reignited Trilogy:
>find game breaking glitch
>your glitch is hailed by the community to an extent
>your glitch inspires EZScape to make a video on it
>the video is found by Toys for Bob
>the glitch is patched
>nobody remembers you

[somwhere]

I was tricked into watching this video thinking that the speedrunners name is "skipskipskip"

[zuke]

I love how in all these kind of video game history videos the narrators sound all serious and calm and explain the people and their accomplishments in a suspenseful way and then introduce the persons name as something like DuckiBoi and I lose it-

[metleon]

"To prove the power of glitches, I sawed these games in half."

[BreeTheV]

I love how Touval is a fodder seagull. Amazing.

[BlazeStar]

Enter the Dragonfly: Exist
Touval: I'm about to end the developers whole career under 1 minute and 9 seconds

[WodahsR]

Wow, really enjoyed Spyro 1 and 2 as a kid and didn't know anything about the any% or glitches used in those speedruns. Very cool to see how essential skips were found by Toval in a really engaging video :)

[fricc]

this all basically boils down to
someone: you cant just skip major parts of the games for a speedrun
touval: collisions go

Update a year later cause i thought of a better joke while watching this again:
The community: you cant just skip major parts of the game for a speedrun
Touval: ya ever watch that one part of doom eternal involving blowing a hole into the surface of mars?

[Lasfial]

Touval: The man, The myth, The legend.
He who gave us so many glitches that we see used in runs to this day.

[dacienfelice]

This guy found Harriet Escape!?!? This is one of my all-time favorite glitches, and he also found a bunch of the big Spyro skips and found the famed Gelato skip!?!? How did I not know him, this guy is a legend!