Zoomlancing

Journey of the Odyssey had a thriving speed-running community, until around sixteen hours ago.

If you use the Gunmetal Lance that Otouto begins the game with and press the middle trigger for exactly 1.5 frames while holding the joystick in two different directions - the Gunmetal Lance will Gunmetal Lance itself once every frame the joystick is held, and Otouto will reach speeds fast enough to make the game designers weep. Attack the terrain as you collide with it, and Otouto bounces like a golf ball. If you can navigate to the final boss and strike it - it dies instantly.

The user who found the exploit named it Zoomlancing, and everybody hated it. Except for you. You just watched a YouTube Short about the JRPG that you can beat in the time it takes you to take a crap. The current world record is 20 seconds. Armed with a Twitch stream, an emulator, a keyboard macro that the mods forgot to ban, and too much free time, you set out to claim your 15 minutes of internet fame...

We highly recommend you play this game with a controller!

This is our submission for the 20 Second Game Jam 2024

Jordan McCoy - Programming

Anon Alpaca - Art, Game Design

Craig Henderson - Sound Effects, Music