This guide is in a draft state and may not be complete.
Unrestricted, as the name implies, involves beating the game by any means necesary usually accompanied by the usage of heavy glitches like Bomuhey Skew and Aim Down Clip (ADC)
There are many variants of unrestricted routes, ranging from beginner friendly routes like Storm Skip Route or more difficult faster routes like Wave Skip Route and by extension Raven Skip Route
During an unrestricted speedrun, most of the changes compared to other categories usually happen after collecting Speed Booster and Grapple Beam as these allow the player to perform necesary speed tech to achieve competitive times.
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- Proceed through the rooms normally.
- Once you enter the Melee Tutorial Room, at the top perform Proto EMMI skip and head left.
- Perform Early Cloak Pseudo Wave and head to Corpius.
- Defeat Corpius and obtain the Phantom Cloak.
- Exit Corpius Arena and proceed through the top Sensor Lock Door.
- Climb the room, enter the Network Station North and talk to Adam.
- Proceed through the rooms normally to the EMMI zone.
- As you're aproaching EMMI Zone Exit Northwest, slide through it then on the other side coyote jump to avoid a sized portion of slow underwater movement.
- Enter Waterfall Room
Waterass RouteNormal Route
- Land on the left side ledge of the Waterfall room and perform Waterass, the usage of Phantom Cloak greatly facilitates this trick.
- Avoid the Muzby on the 2nd room by jumping over it, shoot it once to make it stop moving and have a clear, shorter jump.
- Kill the Klaida with 2 missiles then slide off the edge, then once you're past the middle ledge press the jump button to move forward, don't hold any direction on the stick.
- Enter EMMI Zone Dock Southwest.
- Slide down the slopes and proceed forward through the water.
- Kill the Dizzeans on the way with Missiles
- Destroy the Blob in the Water Reservoir room and backtrack to the Waterfall room.
- Go up through the Map Station back into the middle part of the Water Reservoir room.
- Enter EMMI Zone Dock Southwest.
- Perform Water Platform Skip in the EMMI Zone Hub into EMMI Zone Exit South.
- Proceed forwards into the Charge Beam room and collect Charge Beam
- Circle around the same path as the start into the Invisible Corpius Room
- Go through the top Sensor Lock Door.
- Destroy the blobs blocking the way, proceed forward normally to the Thermal Device and activate it.
- Return to Network Station North and talk to Adam again.
- Proceed to the EMMI Zone through the Arbitrary Enky Room.
- Perform Magus Skip and activate White EMMI
- As the Thermal Door is opening, shoot the blob at the top, then go through the door.
- Drop down through the Flipper to the right ledge.
- As you're going down, open the Access Closed door at the top, then go through the Charge Beam Door
- Enter the Central Unit room.
- Destroy the Central Unit armor with 15 missiles, get drops from Rinkas then kill the Brain with 11 missiles.
- Exit the Central Unit room and confront White EMMI
- Escape through the movable Magnet Ceiling into the room with the previously unlocked Access Closed door.
- Jump to the top of the room with the Magnet Walls, destroy the beam blocks (collect the Missile Tank if you want) and move the Magnet Wall that leads to the Early Cloak room.
- Proceed forward through the Thermal Device room into the Lower Path to Cataris.
Damage Boost (Faster)Ceiling Magnet (Slower)
- Damage Boost off the Plys to skip the moving ceiling magnet.
- Take the Ceiling Magnet and either kill all the Plys in the way or use Phantom Cloak to avoid them.
- Enter Transport to Cataris and take the elevator.
- Run left, shooting out the hidden wall blocks. Once you've removed the four, aim down-left to shrink Samus's collision just enough to avoid the Sclawk in the ceiling without stopping. Then spinfall down the rest of the room and talk to Adam.
- Head left and down, passing through the thermal door and activating the Magma Switch. Then go right, through the barrier, up and over the switch and through the trapdoor.
- In the next room, do the 5upaboost to skip an elevator cycle, then continue moving up through the room. The next ceiling magnet is not skippable.
Hell Run (Faster)Go Under (Easier)
- As you are aproaching the top door, make sure to hold an angle roughly towards 10 to 10:30 so you're able to shoot the wall blob as you're aproaching it, reducing damage taken.
- Once you're in the 2nd room, drop down (still holding left) without doing any special inputs, and as you land, dash melee to the left to kill the Ply as you go, then quickly climb up the next ledge.
- Slide off the middle ledge, then climb the right Magnet Wall first then jump to the lower ledge, this way you won't have to aim anywhere to shoot the blob and can just mash to destroy it.
- As soon as you destroy it, shoot a bit more so you open the door and go through.
- Wall Jump off the left wall to then grab the ledge into the EMMI zone.
If you did everything optimally you should be able to go through the hell run without losing any Energy Tanks.
- As you run along the top of the 5upaboost room, shoot out the blob on the far left and slide through the gap made. In the next room immediately jump after landing, then slide again.
- Keep moving left, shooting out the blocks in your way. Begin jumping up the vertical room.
- Once you're past the two lava-spewing Vulkrans, start charging your beam. Samus should pseudo-screw the enemy that comes out of the wall as you wall jump up on the right side and into the EMMI zone.
- As you enter the room after the cutscene, locate the EMMI using the minimap. Your goal is the door on the upper right.
- If the EMMI is to the lower right, just run straight past it.
- If the EMMI is on the ceiling just in front of the door, aim down and run right under it.
- If the EMMI is in the tunnel moving into the next room, pass through the door and make sure you fall down the right side of the next room.
- If the EMMI is just on the other side of the door, either bait it and wait (easier), or jump over it (faster).
- Once at the bottom of the next room, move up and right to just below the magma trapdoor, then begin charging your beam.
- Head up and left. Release the charge shot at the door just before coyote jumping across the gap.
- Climb the next room, head right out of the EMMI zone, and activate the Magma Switch.
- Head left back the way you came, falling down the room you just climbed as quickly as possible.
- As you move right through the door, take note of where the EMMI is.
- If the EMMI is visible as you fall, coyote jump and take the high road to the newly opened trapdoor.
- If the EMMI is not visible after the fall, it's in the next room. In this case, go low, triggering the EMMI's detection animation. This will give you enough time to make it through the trapdoor.
Hell Pseudo (Faster, Harder)Going Over (Slower, Easier)Once you exit the EMMI zone, enter the hot room and Pseudo Wave the Red Button through here in the sloped part of the ceiling. You can either pre-aim your angle before going through the door to have a better chance of getting it, or you can choose to get it on the fly, though it is very difficult.
- Once you exit the EMMI zone, head through the top door and continue right, jumping over the autclast and heading into the next room.
- Slide-cloak through the door, and begin immediately charging your beam. Either:
- Pseudo-wave the red button through the barrier, or
- Slide under the barrier, then release your charge and immediately slide back under it before the cutscene.
- Head back to the room with the now activated magnet elevator. Kill all the enemies while you wait for the magnet to come down.
- Start charging your beam as the magnet elevator take you up. Walljump off the elevator early and start running left.
- Jump under the Ply to the upper-left door, but just before jumping shoot your charge beam at the lower door, opening it.
- Head through the upper left door until you reach a Magma Switch. Aim up as you stand on the activation platform; this will ensure the trapdoor above opens now.
- Go back the way you came, slide-cloak through the door, fall off the edge and spin to the left to avoid the Ply. Head left through the open charge door.
- Descend the next room and head left into the EMMI zone.
Adam Save Skip (Faster, recommended)Round the Long Way (Very slow)
- As you enter the EMMI zone, immediately jump, fall through the now-open trapdoor, and head left out of the EMMI zone again.
- Perform the ADAM Save Skip.
- Head to the top-left door, pseudo-screwing the Ply. Re-enter the EMMI zone.
It is very recommended to learn Adam Save Skip over choosing this route as it can lose up to a minute, and the benefits are far more superior than just avoiding taking a long way here.
- As you enter the EMMI Zone, immediately jump, fall through the now-open trapdoor, and keep descending to the bottom of the room. Head left through the door.
- Proceed forward to EMMI Zone Exit West.
- Go up the Long Mouth Statue Room into Red Teleportal Room.
- Climb Up the room with the Ceiling and Wall Magnets.
- Enter Network Station Northwest and talk to Adam.
- Proceed to the EMMI Zone Entrance West and avoid the EMMI
- Exit the EMMI Zone and the Map Station, head to the top-left door, pseudo-screwing the Ply. Re-enter the EMMI Zone.
- Move straight up, and exit the EMMI zone again at the top-right of the room.
- Run right, shoot the two Ply, then slide in and out of the firebox.
- Pseudo-screw one of the Ply on your way down into the glass tube. Head left, through the fire and the flames, and begin charging your beam. Either:
- Pseudo-wave the red button while standing in the fire, or-
- Slide under the barrier, and release your charge while aiming up at an angle.
- Head right, back the way you came. Pseudo-screw the remaining Ply, then head back through the firebox and into the EMMI zone.
- Running melee off of the edge, then fall down and right. You should be standing on a ledge with the EMMI at the bottom of a pit in front of the exit. Jump over the EMMI and immediately exit the EMMI zone.
- Head right to the dual-magnet tower. Shoot the Ply above, then wall jump on the tower, the left hand wall, off of the magnet as it moves down, off of the tower, and grab onto the top magnet. Missile the Shelmit and head down and right into the EMMI zone.
- Just as soon as you enter the EMMI zone, wall/magnet jump to the top of the room, and continue moving right, out of the EMMI zone.
- Pass through the save room, then climb onto the magnet wall above in the next room, and shoot out the blocks. Open the Charge Beam door with a spin fast-charge and enter it.
- Running melee off of the ledge, slide under the barrier, then wall jump off the left magnet wall and pull the magnet block down.
- Fall off of the magnet block, slide back under the barrier, and head right through the door.
- Shoot out the far floor blocks and move right into the next room. Pseudo-screw the Ply as you move to the top-left door.
- Head left and collect the E-tank. Then move up through the trapdoor and left to the thermal switch.
- Run left through the thermal door, then jump up at the wide-beam block and up again, now heading right. At the top of the room, begin heading left, down, and left again until you reach the train to Dairon.
- Head left off the train platform towards the door. Jump as you exit the door onto the magnet above, and jump up to the top ledge, moving left. Shoot through the floor and fall down to the bottom-left door.
- Move left through the save room and then head down: slide off of the door's ledge, spin fall off the edge to the left, then run-melee as you head right again. Jump over the Autsharp, then shoot two missiles into the Sharpaw, and head left to the next room.
- Jump onto the ledge in the next room, then run left along the bottom, jump up and slide through the door.
- The moment you enter the next room, jump using the coyote time the slide gave you, then head left through the door.
- Head up and over through the room. Moving at maximum speed will let you ignore the first enemy. The second enemy, at the top of the room, can be killed with two missiles. Shoot out the floor, slide into the next room, and power the generator.
- Head back through the same room to the newly powered missile door. Get past the enemy up top by melee-countering it then sliding underneath. Head through the door and collect the Wide Beam.
- Shoot out the floor and head through the door.
- Coyote jump right off of the ledge to avoid falling to the very bottom. Shoot a Charge Beam, slide and missile twice to kill the Autsniper, then mash kill the Nailong.
- Charge a beam as you spin-jump to the Wide Beam Block, then open it.
- Head up to the top of the room, kill the Sharpaw, then jump left and enter the the EMMI zone.
- Shoot out the walls in the EMMI zone as you head left. Jump up to the floor above, and immediately skip the cutscene.
- Run right as you charge a beam. Release your beam just before short-hopping up the ledge, opening the door early, and head through it.
- Continue right, jumping through the shutter but over the pressure plate, and charge your beam.
- Release a fully charged shot at the Wide Beam Block as you exit the EMMI zone, then melee over the gap and continue right.
- Jump up to the Wide Beam Block in the next room, shoot it out, then continue to the train back to Cataris.
- Run right from the train room, shoot out and slide through the corner block. Start charging a beam as you continue down, and use it to shoot the Wide Beam Block. Head left into the EMMI zone.
- Running melee off of the ledge (and through the Autool). Destroy the Wide Beam Cover on the left and through the door, jumping immediately as you do. Jump off this ledge onto the magnet wall.
- Start charging your beam as you jump up the magnet wall. Once you reach the top, run left, release your charge, and keep shooting in order to explode the blob. Running melee off of the ledge and move into the CU room.
- Defeat the Central Unit. Unload as many missiles as possible before the Rinka forces you to move left, then spam beam (+weave with turbo) to finish it off. Jumping is an easy way to dodge.
- Exit the Central Unit and confront the Green EMMI.
- Move to the bottom left of the room and hole-in-one into the morph ball tunnel. Continue left until you fall out of the tunnel.
- Avoid the missile tank and head left out of the EMMI zone.
- Continue down through the Slidle tunnels. Then slide-morph-jump into the statue's mouth and move through the tunnel.
- Break the blocks into the cavity. Break the block hiding the morph tunnel, then slide through it.
- Start charging your beam the moment you unmorph, then stationary jump up into the next bug tunnels, releasing the charge rightwards to kill the bugs just spawning in.
- If you're on rookie, don't grab the Missile+ Tank, otherwise do get it.
- Take Red Teleportal into Artaria
- Head down from the Teleportal, (Ensure you avoid sliding in this room if you are attempting item tutorial skip) then move left towards the door, staying in morph to pass under the first Sunnap.
- Run through the save room. As you enter the next room, immediately jump-morph into the tunnel.
- Jump to avoid the energy part, then shoot out the Kreep and head into the top-right morph tunnel.
- Unmorph immediately, and spam beams to shoot out the two destructible blocks. Slide in, and just before falling off the ledge, morph again to clear the gap over the first divit, and jump over the second. In the next room, head up and through the next morph tunnel.
- Start climbing the next room, charging your beam as you do so. Once you reach the top, you want to both get through the morph ball tunnel and open the door beyond.
- Spin jump towards the tunnel, aim at the door through the tunnel, then morph. This will automatically release the charged shot.
- Manually unmorph after the tunnel and move through the door.
- Charge another beam as you run right. Release it at the far door just before you jump up and activate the magma switch.
- Ignore the explosions. Begin climbing the room.
- Once you round the first corner curving from right to left, shoot out the block covering the tunnel and jump-morph into it.
- Slide through the next two tunnels. Jump up the magnet wall, shoot out the blocks, and pass through the tunnel.
- As you head right, shoot out the blocks rather than sliding under. As you round the next corner, again shoot out the blocks in the tunnel and jump-morph into it.
- Slide into the next room. Climb up, shoot out the ceiling, open and pass through the missile door.
- As you run right, charge your beam. Release it at the door.
- Jump-morph into the tunnel, destroy the Item Sphere and collect the Varia Suit.
- Head right and slide through the tunnel towards the previously unlocked door.
- Shoot out the floor on the far right of the room, then begin charging your beam. As you start sliding left under the lower Autclast, release your shot at the door, then head through it.
- Move down and left in the next room. As you slide into the pit, morph.
- At the bottom, move left through the tunnel, then immediately hole-in-one into the right tunnel.
- Continue heading right, run-meleeing off of the next fall to skip one platform. Continue down through the door you unlocked earlier.
- Charge a beam as you head through the door. Shoot both the leftmost Ply and the charge beam door with it.
- Head through the door, morph down the pit, and take the Red Teleportal.
- Slide-morph left the moment you spawn in. With correct timing, you will max-speed fall down the tunnel. Once you land, head through the right door.
- Slide into the tunnel and shoot out the blocks before you auto-morph. Then shoot out the floor and move right through the Mouth Statue and enter the EMMI Zone.
- Climb up and head through the right EMMI Valve.
- Jump up the center of the tunnel and head right through the Map Station.
- Climb up and enter the left EMMI Zone Entrance.
- Climb up the room and proceed forward into Transport to Dairon.
- Enter Dairon.
- Head left, jump into the ledge and keep moving through the rooms.
- Head down into the Dairon Hub.
- Slide off the ledge, destroy the Autector in the way with a missile.
- Slide before going through the door and coyote jump on the other side.
- Avoid the Autsniper and proceed forward.
- Destroy the Beam Blocks on the floor, then jump-morph into the tunnel, and shoot out the Wide Beam Cover. Jump-morph through the first two tunnels in the next room, then head left.
- Continue left through the next room and through the Network Station. Jump-morph the tunnel, jump again over the Armadigger, then wall jump-morph through the tunnel and head into the EMMI zone.
- Short-hop up the first ledge. Shoot out the blocks then begin climbing up to the magnet wall.
- Both at the start of the climb and near the top, locate the EMMI, then:
- If the EMMI is near the bottom of the climb, jump off of the magnet wall, run left to the opening, then jump up.
- If the EMMI is just above the magnet, you have two options:
Dupe it (Fastest)Wait (Easier)
- If you've made it up the climb near-optimally, the EMMI should still be above the magnet ceiling. As you run left past its faceplate, slide-cloak.
- Uncloak as far left as you can while still being able to jump without bonking.
- Spin jump right over the EMMI as it climbs down. It'll detect you, so you must get the upcoming single wall jump first try.
- On the magnet, before it detects you (slow down if needed), cloak and start climbing along the ceiling. Remain cloaked until it's moved away.
- Move left and jump through the gap in the ceiling, heading right and up.
- In the next room, perform a Single Wall Jump to move vertically up.
- Head up, right, up and left, until you're at the top of the room above the power bomb tank. Running melee off of the ledge and exit the EMMI zone.
- Move left until near the end of the room. Slide-morph to hole-in-one into the tunnel. Manually unmorph and continue left.
- Immediately jump up, mantling into the morph gap. Continue climbing the room, charging a beam.
- Release your charge and spam beam/missile to kill the Armadiggers, move left through the door.
- Pass through the map room, and in the room after slide-morph off of the ledge.
- At the bottom of the room, head right, slide-jump onto the magnet, and climb it to the ledge above. Jump up via the ledge on the left and move through the door on the right.
- Jump up to the power platform, take aim, and start mashing beam at the blob on the wall. You should ideally destroy the block before the cutscene plays.
- Slide-morph off of the ledge, and move through the hole you opened by destroying the blob.
- Manually unmorph and move through the Armadiggers in the same way as before.
- At the top of the room, jump-morph into the tunnel. Make sure you hold jump to max height.
- Destroy the Missile Cover, head through and collect Bombs.
- Bomb out the floor, making sure you're unmorphed as they explode. Bomb out the next bock, slide in to bomb out the second, then slide-morph through the tunnel into the morph ball launcher. Bomb and get launched.
- After exiting the launcher, running melee left immediately upon touching the ground. Respin and fall to the bottom -left of the room, and head through the left door.
- Slide almost immediately off of the ledge as you enter the room. Slide-morph-jump into the launcher and take it into the next room.
- Run left through the Z-57 corpse room. In the room after, spin fall down, morphing as you hit the floor. Jump into the launcher and take it to the next room.
- In this room, avoid sliding to continue the item tutorial skip. Take the bottom-right launcher.
- Enter the EMMI zone, and wind down through the room until you reach the bottom-left door.
- In the next room, Slide under the platform, fall down, and continue left. Slide through the next tunnel, then jump up to the top-left door and exit the EMMI zone.
- Coyote jump over the pool of water in the next room, then melee off of the edge. Slide-morph through the tunnel, staying morphed as you pass under the Dredhed.
- Slide-fall off of the next edge and hole-in-one into the morph ball tunnel just above the water. Move left to the door, and take the tram to Burenia.
- Head left through the door, slide-morph off of the edge, and when you near the bottom, start laying bombs. Do this high enough and the Rodotuk will eat a bomb instead of Samus. Unmorph after the tunnel, shoot out the floor and run left and off the platform, morphing and heading right as you enter the water.
- Morph-jump right through the water. Follow the path down, unmorph and missile the Rodotuk, and slide-morph over the pit to continue left.
- Unmorph, and as you head left missile the Rodotuk. Jump-morph and let the other Rodotuk above carry you up. Bomb at the right time to kill it, then unmorph and move left.
- Missile the two Rodotuks before entering the first morph tunnel up. When entering this tunnel, spin jump off of the ledge and mid-air morph to avoid mantling.
- Jump-morph into the next tunnel. If you missed the enemy from below, bomb it now. Jump-morph into the final tunnel.
- Once out of the water, head left through the door.
- Slide-cloak just after entering the next room to avoid aggroing the Armored Shelmit, then run left (aiming down-left to avoid colliding with the Nailong), jump up to the ledge, and jump-morph into the tunnel. Once you exit the other end, jump up and run left all the way to the door.
- Talk to Adam if you didn't do Adam Save Skip
- Otherwise, run straight through.
- Move left, running melee the Daivo, and morph-fall down to just left of the water at the bottom of the room.
- Slide under the enemy and coyote jump to the other side of the water, ideally without grabbing the ledge. Head thrugh the door.
- In the next room, running melee off of the ledge just before the water, and morph before walking off the ledge underwater to get a boost.
- Jump-morph into the tunnel. Stay in morph for the first fall, but slide through all the others.
- When you exit the morph tunnels, running melee off the ledge to minimise the time Samus is in the water. Jump through the water and onto the platform in the middle, then running melee over the next pool. Mantle into the morph tunnel.
- Fall after you exit the tunnel, begin jumping right through the water, and charge your beam. Kill the higher Nailong, spin-fall left and mash out the leftmost one. As you fall down the next bend to the right, charge and release a shot at the Sharpaw, then coyote jump over to the shutter.
- Perform Backdoor Flash and obtain Flash Shift.
- Fast climb the ledge and Flash Shift over the Shutter.
- Head to the upper Shutter, avoiding or killing the Nailongs.
- Collect the extra Energy Tank if you want.
- On your way in through the next room, spin fall down to the water then melee the Batalloon out of the way and morph near the ledge to get a boost, unmorph and jump over the Slidles.
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Standard Water RoomWater Room LedgewarpDivergent Route 3
- When you enter the next room, flash shift to the water and navigate to the two blobs at the bottom of the room and break each one.
- Quickly navigate to the center of the room and set up a Water Bomb Jump to jump up to the yellow platform.
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- Perform a Dash Melee Pseudo Wavebeam on the right wall twice to break the blob. Position Samus's cannon such that there is a small gap between the charge beam animation and the small glowing line in the background.
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Varia Skip, a route that skips varia suit. This skip requires runners to save in a run in order to bring Bomuhey skew state from other save files, Making a new category- Unrestricted ( Multi-files ). But since the change in route isn't big. This part is talked in this guide.
- After getting morph ball, go left, enter the tunnel, slide left and return to right unlocked beam door.
- Climb up the room and proceed forward into Transport to Dairon.
- Enter Dairon.
- Head left, jump into the ledge and keep moving till the save room.
- Save and back to the main menu. Load a save file that at least with speed booster and flash shift in hand.
- Set up a Bomuhey skew and return to your run file.
- Climb up the ledge and skew a slightly left angle
- Enter the EMMI zone and jump into the EMMI door. If there is a quick screen and you're still in the EMMI zone. You delete Yellow EMMI existence from now.
- Continue your way to the left. Slide-morph and jump to not trigger the pressure valve.
- Grab the ledge and do a ledge drop skew.
- Jump to the left wall. Right Melee and slide left to clip the EMMI valve. Morph when...
- Drop down. Perform hobbit skew. Jump right and continue countering to the left.
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