Play another Melon Stack mini-game. This one's also pretty mean because it's a World 6 one, and uh... Check this out! How are you ever gonna find this up here? Look at that! What?! And that's just for two extra melons. It's things like that where I think they ran out of places to put melons, so they come up with some obscure nonsense. And again since it is a world 6, they are coming down one at a time here. Aside from this one being pretty easy there just like one of those glowy clouds that tries to uh block you here but it's not that bad i actually kind of messed it up but come on baby there we go okay a last melon here Poochie kindly hints the location of that last melon. And we are back in the Bowser fight, same deal as usual. I'm actually going to try trickier strat here for the first egg shot. Gonna do the angled egg shot Okay, it didn't work and that's why we don't do that strat! I just wanted to try it It like used to be consistent but the angle is so specific that I think as the notches wear down on my GameCube controller like the gate around the stick it kind of changes the angle. It doesn't really allow me to get the shot. But you know we're having fun so I got a little ambitious and we are done with the third lap! One lap to go. Alright... Once again, ending cutscene, let's get a couple donations in while we're waiting for this. We are continuing to see some love coming in for Yoshi and for you Dan so we have Kat & Joe sending in $30 saying We named our new kitten Melon specifically after Dan's All Melons run. Happy to see all melons at GDQ. I can't believe it. That warms my heart. And $25 from Kariella saying, Yoshi's story was my favorite game as a kid! So fond to see it in SGDQ! We also have $100 from Casual Cheese saying Games Done Quick is one of my favorite times of year. Here's my first contribution to getting us to a melon dollars. By the way we are over $25,000 raised for MSF already so far. So thank you all so much for that! We're heading into 1-4 Tower Climb. Very vertical level as implied by the name. We're gonna try to avoid riding these propeller platforms There's a couple that we have to ride but if we can just make the jump without it then we're gonna do that instead because they are quite slow. Get up there... skip this one, skip this one and now we have to grab this one. Just ride this up for a few seconds... I love the music in this stage as well It was actually the same as the water levels but just every song in this game is super good. And now you have to hit this trigger here which creates those two melons. We'll get back to those later. I'm going to do a trick here that I don't actually do in runs because it only saves half a second but it looks cool and this run is bad so I'm gonna attempt it. I failed anyway. Alright. Just trying to redeem myself a little bit. Okay. If you actually touch that umbrella, it runs dead. Like, you need to be able to flutter in this part i honestly don't know like i wish i could show you the umbrella it's extremely adorable but it does absolutely nothing but prevent you from fluttering and you can't get rid of it until you leave the room. Alright, now we have some, uh... turkey jumps on these red balls again You're supposed to lick these in order to flip up on top of them but it's slow So instead we are just going to try to use them as platforms. They make for very small platforms. Okay? Watch the watermelon. Excellent. Alright, now there's a vase in here. Leads to a Flutter minigame Let's get another donation in Sure thing! I have $890 here from Marco and Stefan that reads we didn't need anything for our birthday so we decided to collect and donate money for charity. Greetings from Germany! Thank you all so much for that and happy belated birthdays we also have 25 dollars from gecka saying it's summertime. It's SGDQ time! It's time to remind everyone watching to stay hydrated. I've heard that melons are a pretty hydrating fruit, they have a lot of water in them. That's very true. In case you're wondering what kind of melon this is, uh...it's called a musk melon. You know, it's like that classic Asian melon that you see in a lot of Japanese games. Like Pac-Man, for instance. We've got one of those cool turnip egg shots to get up there and then just tongue jump across those clouds. And this last room, you have to use these blower clouds in order to get up to the top of the room. It's pretty interesting, but it's really easy to like accidentally eat these other fruit that are floating around because you can't see where you're going. So I'm just gonna like try to use my egg-crossed hair to scroll the camera upwards and make sure that I steer clear of those fruits before I actually lick out a butter and eat one See if i can make that, okay. Gonna zoom in here to get this cloud to activate a little more quickly so I can get by sooner. One last round right here, grab the heart Alright Grab the heart. Alright. Yoshi! I guess I'm getting in the spirit finally. Alright Next up we have Jelly Pipe But in the meantime I think we can get another donation in. Alright! We have $50 from The Sound Defense. Congratulations to Dan Salvato for finally getting Yoshi's Story into a GDQ! I suppose I can now forgive you for giving me nightmares with your game good luck and i'm almost glad that it took a while for this uh for this game to get in because when i was first submitting it record was i think an hour and 48 minutes it's now an hour and 39 minutes we've improved the run by nine minutes, not through major skips just by getting better at the game. And so I'm really glad that I get to show the game off a little bit closer to its maximum potential. OK we have this jam again. And this might be the longest level before you get a single melon, but this is the first one in here. This is interesting. we can put dents in it with our eggs to run across while avoiding those. This box you're supposed to push over and use as a stool but since we can gain height on our flutters We could just drive pad it early And do that to get up there That was one of the first tricks I ever figured out in this game. And when I did that for the first time, I was like yo, this game might actually be cool and have something to rub in the face with the Yoshi's Island players at the time who did nothing but make fun of this game. That was kind of the story of how I started running this, um...I got into Yoshi's Island speedruns for watching them anyway thanks to people like TriHex and Carl Sagan. But I grew up with Yoshi's Story and was always really fond of this game And I looked up runs for it to see if there was anything cool and all there was was Any% The Any% run for this game is 12 minutes long and all there was was any percent. And the any percent run for this game is like 12 minutes long Yeah. And I was so disappointed because I was like there's so much cool stuff in this game you just have this one like 12 minute run uh and that's what inspired me to look into routing closer to 100% category for this game, which became All Melons. That was 11 years ago and here we are now I guess. This is clearly the better 2D Yoshi speedrun. These ghosts by the way... They're controlled by me! They actually fly in the opposite direction that I'm holding the control stick and so as I'm trying to get past them, I like... You know, I sort of try to-I have to move Yoshi but also have to angle him in specific ways to keep them out of the way. Like here I try and keep them low so I can... Come on. Thank you. Yeah, that's a pretty interesting mechanic I think it is cool they put in there I would like more of that in platformer games. Your control stick also controls other things on the screen, and you have to manage that at the same time as moving your character. I think it's a really cool mechanic. You can turn this off in this game, probably should have done that a while ago but I like it there. Now we push more boxes. How are you ever going to figure out where to push this? Like, look how far I have to push this in order to get the melon out of it. It's a puzzle! Yes, you can call that. a puzzle. Yes, you can call it that. Fun Puzzle. Good old 90s puzzle design in video games. And here I zoom in the camera because that actually keeps this spawned-in while waiting for that melon to come out. If I don't zoom in the camera there, then that just despawns and I never get that melon. Oh good. Yeah You would think zooming in the camera reduces the spawn radius but it actually increases it. It's kind of weird and backwards like that Okay, watch the apple And see if I can get this jump. That one's pretty inconsistent, it's probably frame perfect. I just wanted to be the first instance of saying frame perfect, this GDQ. There we go. Pushed this one in and there's just 1 million here. That actually makes me go faster, I'm not just doing it for fun. Is that water or is that a ghost? I don't know, it's goo. Squishy! Next up is Poochy and Nippy It's another snow level. This one is really charming and has these shy guys in the background with earmuffs, and they throw snowballs at you. This game is just so adorable in so many ways. We have time for another donation. Sure thing, I do have a quick update that we have opened Another incentive and that is to ask Sir Junkin To enter the Gungeon That is $000 and y'all have already raised over 1,300 for that so you all are crushing it thank you so much! And we also have $5 from RootSite saying love that Yoshi's Story made it to SGDQ this year. Looking forward to the rest of the week. Me too, RootSight. This is amazing. Thank you. There's one little weird bowling minigame right here? And I've lost world record pace runs because I missed that egg shot cause I used to try do at full speed but eventually I just got fed up with it and stopped moving in order to aim that egg shot because I used to try to do it full speed and eventually I just got fed up with it and stopped moving in order to aim the egg shot. This is kind of funny, you can see Yoshi almost fall when running off the platform there but he doesn't actually fall in Aye! Now we have these seesaw platforms, and a pretty cool maneuver here where you ground the crown to break that bubble, grab it like that And then on our way watch the watermelon I'm just gonna fill up my egg inventory here and let's see, this level has a lot of individual rooms where you can sort select your path and I think what you're supposed to do is stay on the right path follow Poochie like wherever poochie's saying and he sort of guides you oh my god i was so close eating that grape all right and if you take the wrong path then it usually just takes you to like a less lucrative and more challenging room or something like that okay push these two boxes together we have these seagulls they're like trying to drop bombs on me they also appear in random spots so they can be kind of annoying. This next room is quite difficult, I have some very specific egg shots to break these blocks in the correct fashion to get through here. Grab that melon, I'll just play this safe and wait for this guy Okay Grab that. And this next room is also quite difficult, again we have to land on the... use those red balls as platforms We are actually going to lick this one to get out so you can see what that looks like Then I'm just gonna jump over and try to land lick this one to get up, and you can see what that looks like. Then we're just gonna jump over, try to land on this one, grab that heart for it. Okay. And there's a bunch of seagulls harassing him here. Alright, now we have to push this box for quite a long time, so let's get another donation or two. Sure thing! I do want to shout out some of our unsung heroes. We do have some anonymous no comment donations, so $100 some anonymous no comment donations so a hundred dollars from anonymous no comment one hundred dollars for anonymous no comment a thousand dollars from anonymous no comment 250 from tammy no comment and 60 from grouping no comment thank you so much you don't have to enter anything to share the love with us all right last room here again these seagulls are random. Sometimes you can sort of use them as platforms. It worked out pretty well that time I would say. Now we're coming into the last mid-boss of this run, and fiery breath is very hot and those spike balls are certainly not. What does that even mean? Thank you. Yoshi! Yoshi! So Dan, correct me if I'm wrong but currently it's a tied record right for this game? We were tied down to the second. It's me and Meaty, a Japanese player who is unbelievably talented and has pushed this game to greater limits every time he comes back to it. Just before SGDQ, he improved the time by another handful So as soon as I'm done here at SGDQ gonna go right back home and take the record back. And you are the record holder for any percent, right? Yeah. Alright, Jungle Wet My favorite song. I love this song! It's gonna be interrupted for a second by another awesome song There is an easter egg in the room and if you hit the spiders with your eggs then it toggles different instruments on and off so you can hear them play solos. Those are some difficult tone jumps to get up there. Excellent! Okay... So this level Excellent. Okay, so this level there's six huts and they have five melons each in them Another one of those fun open area levels where you can go anywhere And all the huts have very unique designs, like this one. Om nom nom! I think this is the only spot in the game where like, The Chain Chopper's an enemy of some kind. And they used it in incredible fashion. Okay, grab a couple extra eggs here. And we're gonna be grabbing all three special hearts on this level. They are pretty easy to get, they are all in this hub room. There's the first one. It is a little bit flowed for an eye-gadget like that. Now we're coming here. This is where you have to collect all of the coins in order to get the last melon. And these were pretty tricky your route, because of this square shape of them it's not like a left-to-right thing so we had to decide when to go left and right, switch sides and stuff like that. Pretty interesting challenge. Oops! Got a tongue-jump there... Make sure the camera's kind of to the left here see if this egg shot works out. Excellent! Watch the camera's kind of to the left here see if this egg shot works out excellent watch the watermelon The Stiltz Shy guys are from Yoshi's Island, right Carl? Yep they are. I love them. That one's easy to miss, especially since it blends in with the fruit wheel. We're just gonna jump over this guy. Gotta wait for him to get out of the way now. Get a little headshot there, and give this one to the door, whoops I didn't mean to go up there. It's fine. Yeah so these huts in part- I mean we sort of just do them in a counterclockwise circle but they're partially planned out for convenient hard fruit spawns as well. Like that one there, helps out quite a bit. Okay two more huts to go... Watch the watermelon, okay. This one here has blocks. I also have to get all the coins uh in this hut Okay, one hunt to go. I just want to make sure that I have six eggs going into this last hut. And we have a cool tool of egg shot here before that. If you get the right angle, we can grab that special heart on the way up and just make our way back into here. If you miss then you can just cancel the shot and get it manually grab these this is pretty difficult so i'll focus for a second Nice. Alright, We have a couple more levels to go we got Shy Guy's Ship and then we have Magna Castle Let's get a couple donations in. I can do that for you, I have $1000 from Anonymous saying be excellent to each other and $100 from Matt Morning Joe saying, remember to check if your employer matches donations so you can donate more money to Doctors Without Borders. And $50 from Anonymous, thank you, saying so excited to see the event in person this year! Hi from the crowd! Hello, I'm waiting at you! Alright, so the gimmick of this stage is there's these pirate ships in the background that shoot bombs at you. The funny thing is we can just scroll them off screen and despawn them instantly. Here they come! When you see me change direction like that, I actually flutter for a few frames because starting a flutter kills your momentum and then take advantage of that to turn around more quickly we call that a pivot now when we don't have the east on okay this one up here, useful heart proof. I call this one the successor to the Nintendo Switch... oh I messed it up Wait no I didn't i guess i did that's all right watch the watermelon okay let's come along Okay, there's a couple more ground pound mobs here. We intentionally do like... Well except for this one but that last one I didn't do to dustless ground pound because when you're super happy ground pounding, it breaks the bubbles and defeats the enemies. So that gets them out of the way for me. This right here, Wopsie Banana. We've got a race minigame coming up. This is probably my favorite one. You need to get to the top of this room using those red balls, but again We don't want to lick them because it's slow So we do some difficult platforming here to get off I gotta focus on this for a second Alright, that was pretty clean. Okay, next turn we just got a couple more of these guys carrying the melons in the air. I gotta grab this heart as well, which is a little deceptive to get because those blue blocks are getting way up! There goes that and straight into the pit. We're gonna get that back. I think we can respawn this one, usually the flying ones you can respawn but I don't know exactly where it's going to end up. Oh there it is! Grab that and I'll grab this as well just to keep my egg count in check, just in case. Okay, now we're gonna finish this level off real quick with some ground pound balance on these blue blocks while these wall bells are shooting at you. Break that one for the last special heart. And this last villain's kind of a troll because the top of that vase is really large and it's easy to, when you go to ground pound that last melon, you accidentally land on the vase and then you push down to ground pound, and then you just go back in the vase and get taken back to the beginning of the level. We've lost runs for that too. Okay... But anyway we have one level left in the run. It's going to be Magma Castle and I think it is a pretty good one to end this run on. We have an auto-scroller skip at the end that saved like 1 minute and half. And it's really cool level design as well, but before then let's get a couple donations in because the beginning is pretty slow. Alright! Pariah $11.65 cents and 25 dollars saying what is Couch & Damn's favorite fruit? And why is it raspberries shout out to everyone bringing us a great week of fun and speed runs it's raspberry it's honestly raspberry oh my goodness what a call out. It's just the right choice. We also have $50 from Calamity Nolan saying Why didn't the Yoshi enemy go to the party? Because he was a shy guy! Awwww. Thanks so much for that, I love the Yoshi puns and jokes. Alright we got another one of these dragons that you're supposed to ride across lava but just like the last one we are going to really wake him up and then we're gonna get rid of these dragons that you're supposed to ride across the lava, but just like the last one we're really going to wake him up and skip him I call this one the Blue Ballet. Watch the Watermelon, oh! That's not...wait! Hold on. Who do you think you are? I am! okay I made like a little smiley face. Yeah, so these pipes that shoot out the lava are actually like really inconvenient hold on watch the watermelon okay yeah but usually they're all in a manageable cycle you have to get like a really good jump there and sneak through there without getting hit, then I'll take another heart brick here just to get through there Okay...and we actually stop and throw that one extra high so that we don't break those watermelon bubbles And accidentally eat those instead. Alright here come the boys! There they are! It's the boys. What ARE you? Oh man, my platform cycles are a bit messed up. Okay, I can manage. So this is like... there's a whole maze of boxes that you have to push around while these guys bounce around. Thankfully we have a decent route and camera movement to mostly keep them out of the way. We got our last letter coming up as well... Okay, there go those guys. Now we push these two together. Again, who's ever going to figure this out? It's unbelievable. And in this one you ground pound! As if it couldn't be... And in this one you ground pound. I feel like it couldn't be obscure enough on what to do here. It's just so you spend more time with the boys. That's true. You know what they're actually called? No. They are called attacky sacks. Yes! Okay, so now we have to crawl under these saw blades. It's actually really difficult to get the control stick angle where you start crawling but still maintain your run speed. And this is also the room where we're going to have the auto-scroller skip. Grab this... So now these guys, their flames come up and you're supposed to stay in between the flames as they saunter along but we can use hiking on the flutter not get crushed there okay we're going to respond them and now when we come back they're just gonna be gone and we can take that entire track this running through at full speed it's a damage number was just these tworames to get back and here we go! And this is very last bit of the run after you take some extra damage there, I guess. Okay? And that is it. So we just have the last Bowser fight to go. And um... Way to go. And we stopped the timer once we reached a high score screen, so I'll let you know when that's coming up. Thought that was gonna be too far away, but we're fine. Final Bowser Jr fight. Grabbed that for good measure, why not? Okay. And now... Looks like there's a lot of people in the room still, so I guess they did a pretty good job. Thank you so much everyone! This has been Yoshi's Story All Now Ones Again it's an absolute dream to be up here and show off this run Thank you so much everybody! You killed it Dan! I'm just...it invigorates me so much I can't wait to get home and keep grinding for better times in this game. And we're going to have time coming up in just a moment here after this screen. Ready, and...time! time. That's fine, it still has GDQ There we go Alright and what was our final time? Your final time was 14640. Overestimate! Let's go! First runner! It was that orange Let's go! First runner is... It was that RNG shotgun limbo. That was like the worst I've ever seen in my life. But yeah, let's try to not get too far behind schedule so I'm not gonna keep you for too long. But again thank you so much and thank you to the Yoshi's Story speedrun community and everyone who took time out of their day watching support If you are interested in speedrunning this game, first of all, don't start with All Melons. That is a horrible decision. Start with any percent. It's a sub-20 run. It's very accessible and friendly. If you want to just get your hands on this game and do a nice little casual speedrun, please feel free. You can find us on speedrun.com and we have a Discord server linked there as well so feel free to join that and we will help you get started running this game. Anything you guys want to shout out? Thanks for having me! Alright, thank you as well. Alright everyone, see you I'll be around at the event all week, I'll be commentating a couple other runs so I hope you keep having a wonderful SGDQ and I hope to see you around soon. Hello everyone! Welcome back to Summer Games Done Quick 2024. Can we get one more round of applause for Dan Slovato and that amazing Yoshi Story run? You've been waiting 10 years to see all melons in the marathon. We got it, it was amazing and it was only the beginning because we have so many more incredible speedruns coming up for all of you. Now, some of you might know who I am and for that I'm very sorry but for those of you who don't my name is Scent I handle the prizes here at Games Done Quick And I am here with my absolute worst pair of jeans and my absolute best friends on the couch here. Mr. Game and Shout, my longtime partner in crime and the newest member of our prize team corvame how are you two doing i'm pretty good i put in my i like interviewed for you live on camera like a year and a half ago so i'm glad you finally followed up look prizes move fast bureaucracy moves slow that's just the way of the world truth it is true we are going to be popping up all throughout the marathon to tell you about some of the amazing prizes that you can win with your donations to doctors without borders during this event now real quick i do want to mention that you don't have to do anything special in order to be entered for these prizes. You don't have to specifically donate for them, you can still put your donations towards any bid wars or incentives or whatever you like. All you need to do is make sure you get in the minimum donation amount that you see listed for the prize while the prize is available, in a single donation and you are entered. In addition to that we have four amazing grand prizes and all of them are 250 cumulative donations throughout the event so that means a single donation of 250 dollars gets you entered 10 donations of 2525 get you entered. Whatever configuration you like, get those donations in. Get entered to see some of the amazing prizes we have. Let's just kick it off. Prizes like this absolutely adorable fuzzy plush from tinystar99. You can touch Fuzzy, you can get dizzy or I think this is actually the one that hurts here so maybe... Ah! So spiky! I love this it's soft it's squishable it's huggable how could you not want it and it's only a five dollar minimum donation thank you so much tiny star for sending it our way. Absolutely. Which of us is next? We should have planned this! Welcome to the first prize segment of the week, everybody! We have this Mega Man X light capsule acrylic standee sent in to us by our good friends at the Yeti. It's got this great three-dimensionality to it. You can see, not only does Mega Man have a face, but the capsule has a face too. What? Yeah! You wanna see it? Take a look. I cannot unsee that. I know! $5 minimum donation and this could be yours! It's been ruined forever, And we have some more Mega Man stuff from D&D, Don't we, Max? We do! We have the classic Mega Man prize pack That's two Mega Man related prizes for the prize of one. They're both energy tank themed so you can have a little bit extra health for what is an incredibly hard game that I am really, really bad at comes with this hat. It's a fully wearable hat. Most hats are. And this bag which has another E-Tank this little Mega Man charm over here some great detailing over here in the strap as well. And it is, in fact, a fully functional bag! Wait... The bag can wear a hat too? Ten dollar minimum donation and you could win this lovely prize pack. What else we got? May, I'm gonna need you to find me an unfunctional hat. I don't know what that even means! I feel like if anyone is up for that challenge, it's going to be Meg. I'll try my best! You know what? I just want to keep the Mega Man train rolling here with an absolute classic from our good friend Pearl Pop. We have a collection of Robot Masters from Mega Man 4. And as is tradition, we must ask Shout who each of these Robot Masters are. So first up... Of course. We have this lovely guy right here. Yes, we have Rock Music Man. Okay I'll accept that. Okay. Alright how about this blue foal? That is Periscope Man. You know what you're actually very close I'll give you that one. The smartest robot master in the universe What's his name? You're actually very close. I'll give you that one. The smartest robot master in the universe, what's his name? That is Just Burned Out Man. What? Relatable. Yes. Mm-hmm. All right, we've got this talker. That is Yoshi Man. We just had them in the last round. Oh yeah right, that's after all the melons. Yeah exactly. That is You Spin Me Right Round Baby Right Round Man. Correct! Yeah you could see him in action right there. Okay, you can't mess this one up, Shao. Come on. Uh... That is Whip It Good Man? I don't even know what you're looking at, Shao. It's like a whip! I don't even know what you're looking at. It's like a whip, I don't know! I'm not sure. Alright, come on. This one should be obvious. He's got the vacuum in him. Yes, that is... I can no longer hear that high-pitched whining. It makes me feel old man Oh no I turned 34 the day after Marathon and Stout You have no idea how I'm feeling right now And finally we've got... that is Aha! Man! The crowd likes it? I'll accept it too. You get the entire set of those characters along with a Dr. Wily Perler and this sliding Mega Man perler for a $25 minimum donation, the whole cast thank you so much to Pearl Pop for sending that those out to us and we have so many more prizes, don't we team? We do. We are chock-a-block with prizes including a few more things from the Yeti. For a $10 minimum donation you can get in to win the Doki Doki Literature Club Prize Pack featuring not just one... Let me check a bunch of stuff. Hold on. Many things, lots of things in this box. Two acrylic standees that I can set up over here and hopefully we have composed these correctly, and four pins. Eight pins! Four sets of two pins! I'm trying my best but it's hard to hold them all. First prize segment of the marathon. Eight pins two standees one $10 donation can get you in to win these thank you again to The Yeti for sending these in so that we offer them to you for your $10 donation. A super cool prize pack for sure. Also might have something to do with our last runner, Dan Salvato. If you liked Yoshi's All Melons you're probably now going to like Doki Doki Lineage. A little bit of a different vibe but still an amazing prize. Get your differences for it! Spoilers! Now also from the Yeti we've got something great here don't we? We've got the official GDQ Cross Yeti Velocity Plush. It is so cute! You can have your very own velocity and guess what? It's got magnetic hands which means just like me it can drop prizes live on our team. That is the power of Velocity and it could be yours for a $10 minimum donation. Get them in between now and the checkpoint coming up later today all of these prizes are only available from the start of the marathon to the checkpoints who get in a 10 donation getting a 25 donation to be entered into everything we're talking about and more. And the sticker that Velocity dropped is part of it, you can get that too. If we can find it. It's here somewhere, we are certain. Want to talk about the day prizes? Oh course we do we have some amazing prizes for you every day now this price is running until the end of silent hill later tonight and you need to get in a 50 donation as a single donation if you want to be eligible for it but from our friends over at getty we have an upcycled gdq blanket now this is a blanket made out of a bunch of different old Yeti shirts. Just snipped the designs right off the shirts, hand stitched into this blanket made of entirely recycled materials It is a super cool one-of-a-kind handmade piece of GDQ memorabilia from our friends over at the Yeti. $50 minimum donation until the end of Silent Hill later tonight. You've got to get your donations in for it it is fantastic it is also very warm i think it's fleece backed up oh soft yeah no this is this is super cozy it is incredible make sure to get that in and from our good friend Pigmented for $100 between now and the end of Silent Hill we have a collection of six incredible video game replica boxes made from wood this is different cuts of wood cut into the shape of different game boxes here i'm holding one of my favorite RPGs, Skies of Arcadia. You've got the front here. They even got little Nintendo GameCube stuff at the top. They did the back of the boxes too which is just a ridiculous level of detail like how are you going to do that? And this is only one of the six amazing boxes you're gonna get. I think Shout and May have two more over there to show off. Yes, I've got Horizon Forbidden West. I did not know they did the back until like the start of this prize segment uh and like i love finding these things right before we go live because this is just absolutely blowing me away the work on here is so gorgeous i have super mario land right here as well and again if you turn a little bit you can see that the depth in it like i love just how the scenes of these boxes come alive and bonus they come with stands. Yes! And the stands look like the things they're on. There's a controller in the back. Right? I... there we go. I think I did this backwards I'm going to be honest. Put it down right here... We've done it, Mae! We found a non-functional hat! Congratulations! It's your first prize segment and you're fitting right in with the Simply The Maker restaurant. We have so many more amazing prizes, genuinely we have our four grand prizes from our friends over at heroic replicas we have a set of princess peach jewelry including her crown earrings and an amazing brooch, as well as the Keyblade Kingdom key from Kingdom Hearts. It is like solid aluminum. It is hefty! Everyone picks it up and I kind of hold it with them. And then I let my hands go, and they always go. If that is true weight of the Kingdom Key in the games Then Sora is so jacked. It explains why it holds like that. Absolutely. So Jack, I do not know how Zora wields that weapon. It explains why it's cold like that. Absolutely. From our friends at SkyTech Gaming we have an incredible SkyTech Gaming Azure 2 gaming PC. Don't remember all the specs on it you can always head over to gamesandquick.com and check them out but I know it's got a 4070 Ti in it so it is quite the beefy machine From our friends at Orbital Guitars we have a Doom Crucible guitar It's a guitar that's made to look like an axe from the Doom universe, it's a working electric guitar It has got like a resin coat around it that's been inscribed with demonic wounds that light up in the dark. It is ridiculous, you gotta go check out the pictures of it and from our friends over at QMonsterProps, VulpenProps and Solo Roboto Industries we have a pair of amazing Skyrim resin weapons all four of those grand prizes could be yours if you get in $250 throughout the course of the event. And as always, if you're ever curious about what prizes are available right now, what prizes are coming up later in the event and what you can put your donations towards, head over to gamesdonequick.com where you're always going to be able to check out all the information on upcoming prizes, on the incentives that we still need to get met for later in the marathon and of course all of the incredible speed runs that you do not want to miss speedruns like minecraft dungeons coming up next don't go anywhere come on let's make some noise let's get hype sgdq has just begun and we've got so much great content for you! Stay tuned! Oh, hey everybody. Welcome back. If you're just tuning in to Summer Games Done Quick 2024 powered by Twitch. My name is JPEG and I am your host, I'm super excited to be here with all of you And I do have some updates for you real quick Alright so for our Enter the Gungeon run that's happening later today there is an incentive to add Sir Junkin and that currently at $2,328 dollars and 30 cents we are just under the halfway point for that, and I know y'all couldn't make it happen. But here's the thing. Here's the real, real big thing right now is that we have just opened up another incentive for tonight for Bayonetta 2 to upgrade to Infinite Climax. That'll upgrade the difficulty level of the Bayonetta 2 run to Infinite Climax and you know what we love to say here? We'd love to see more challenges. We'd love to see more reasons to get hype And we'd love for more reasons to see more marathon which I don't know a difficulty incentive might do that But we are going to go to a quick break here Don't touch that we'll be right back in just a moment I'm just kidding, y'all aren't rid of me. Hi! Alright, I want to talk about some of those incredible Hi. All right, I want to talk about some of those incredible prizes that we just saw. For example, I really want to talk about that Fuzzy plush because of the whole Yoshi story. The Doki Doki Literature Club pins are so, so cute to me. I just love those. Those wooden game replicas are unreal and we do have that Splatoon 3 mixed media as well, those are super cool so I do want to see those and can you talk about how cute that magnetic handed GDQ velocity plush was? Oh my gosh, so precious. ¶¶. I do have some further things that I want to tell you that you can put your money towards, because we haven't gotten to talk about these yet. We do have some bid wars open! For example for Pokemon Violet we have two bid wars open. The first one is for Medicham's nickname in Pokemon Violet. Shantae is in the lead at $425, Transrites is in second place at 370 so so it could very easily over 10... 395 while I'm talking. In third place is Kizeron at 315 but there are so many other options already here So you have Onion, Freddy Fazbear, Roadhouse, Shrek, Monica, Ogre Pond, Blombie and Baby Chance. Speaking of Ogre Pond there is also a bid war to save or release Ogre Pond. And save is in the lead at 641 with release at 445 in second place. But you know, if you would like to change the tides that opportunity is of course there for you as well and we do have one for the costume choice for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered starring Lara Croft. In first place is The Catsuit at $855 with a big lead over The Bathrobe at $175 and one cent. That one cent's the kicker, and the bomber jacket in third place at 155. Now I think a cozy Lara Croft situation sounds absolutely wonderful especially while we are here in you know warm balmy comfy summer. I think that would be the one i would pick so i'm just saying if you want to move it so I'm not sure if you can see it, but the game is pretty much just a bunch of random enemies. You have to be careful with them, because they're very dangerous and will kill you if you don't do anything about it. The only thing that's really important in this game are the enemies' abilities. uh so GDQ is proud to partner with the Yeti, a powerhouse in creating amazing merch, apparel and vinyl inspired by video games and pop culture. Since 2011 the Yeti has been the official merch supporter of Games Done Quick events and to date the company has donated over 2.5 million dollars to GDQ charities. Continuing their commitment to making a difference, the Yeti will donate a portion of the purchase price from all items in the SGDQ 2024 collection directly to Doctors Without Borders. For more on their incredible merch lineup, visit www.TheYeti.com We are seeing so much love coming in for this event and our runners in general so there's ten dollars from mdiv saying i have a young nephew who is deeply into all things minecraft related so i had to donate for the speed run and five dollars from converter saying good luck with the dungeon run shock we have a hundred dollars from lexer with no comment thank you so much and 100 from jake and bethany saying here's to a great week of runs have fun everybody i'm having fun already aren't y'all having fun yeah that's what i like to hear. Thank you so much. We have some love for those prizes, $10 from Exmaris was so excited to see the legend Dan Salvato not only attend but speed run at GDQ donated for a chance for the DDLC pack and this is my first time donating well thank you so much Maris and I do want to tell you that with your $10 it's going towards MSF, it's going towards some absolutely incredible things $10 can buy 15 treatments to cure children from malaria or clean drinking water for 147 people for one week. So this is what your money is going towards with your donation. Thank you so much! Alright, y'all. I am so excited for this. I'm so excited for this next run I personally think that it will be culled over by it lit up like redstone Minecraft Steve I'm trying to get a pun in here but I'm digging myself into a hole. So Shockwave can you take us to new heights with Minecraft Dungeons Blind Tower? What's up GDQ!. I have no idea what's going on. This is Minecraft Dungeons, if you've played Diablo or know what a dungeon crawler is this is kind of what it is. Top down, isometric, I got a couple abilities for my class that I'll get throughout the run and so on and so forth. But before we get started, let's go ahead and say hi to the people behind me starting with you. Hi, I'm Amarlyn. My special fact is that I have an eight-foot vertical leap. Hi, I'm Lea. I have a nine-foot vertical leaf. Hi, MonkeyMan! I found out from the schedule that I was commentating this before I found out from Shock. That's not a lie by the way. Completely genuinely true like benign and eight foot leaves totally um yep yeah oh yeah that's fine okay we'll worry about okay anyway that's fine were you waiting for the fridge to give you a fact? Anyway, so we're going to go do the tower. I'm gonna load in here. This is a weekly rotator. It changes every Sunday morning and it's not a set path. Every morning there will be different amount of floors and rooms in between the floor so by blind tower that means I have not seen this particular weeklies challenge So I'm doing this completely on my own I've done other Tower tower runs before but not particularly this week so actually if you own the game at home you too can try this after I'm done Let's go ahead and get loaded in, timer doesn't start yet You have to wait for him to finish it first though Yeah, I gotta wait for him to finish so you know what to do. But before we get started... Actually, we should have the crowd count us in. Crowd are you there? Alright! Let's get started in 5, 4... 3, 2, 1... Go! Floor zero is just getting to the first floor. Look at that! Yeah! First try, baby. All right, so these floors are in a random order. They could be boss floors, they could be floors from the main game, they could be DLC floors, they could be some other like mix mash of mobs with a mini boss in them so I have to figure out what is creeper Crowd already knows what to do. Looks like this floor is pretty easy, not a lot of heavy stuff going around. There's an enchanter in the corner. I need to get rid of him. He can buff any mob with the arena with any random effect, pretty much. And those can range from double damage to they regen health or they heal allies, which that one sucks. I just got boxed. That was rude. Let's see. I think there was something on the ship lefts... Let's go find it. Where is it? Okay this is the worst one. It's gonna be on the other side of the arena. Just watch. There they are! Poor guy's fleeing for his life! Nope, there's another little stone guy in the corner. These guys are also very annoying. What is hiding from me? This is a great start. Yay! I have no choice! Alright, so once you clear four, you have six choices The gong is the best choice without a doubt You have six choices of items They can be either weapons, a ranged ability or an artifact which you could call as ability if you were playing something like diablo or something i've never played diablo i'm making that up but i picked the gong because it's the weakest... Whoops, hold up. I'll be fine. It is the strongest debuff in the game and just doubles all damage that you do to things without any sort of pre-existing conditions of like oh, you have to hit them with a melee weapon. You have to hit them with a bow or something like that. You can just activate it and everything is debuffed by 100%, which is great. Alright, 4-2's done. We can send him into the void man that's tough Alright let's see what's here That's decent... oh my god are you serious? This is the build I like to run if i get lucky and got two of The best items right off the start. So you got lucky. Marathon. This is borderlands marathon luck here. Yeah, for people who have not seen Shock much before he does a lot of roguelike runs He's the guy that did Gunfire Reborn about a year ago? Yeah, a year ago on the dot And in that run he managed to get The exact build that goes nuts twice In a row so it looks like the Road life luck is holding up So far yeah This was actually a DLC room this was added with the aquatic ambience pack it has an oxygen meter next to my health we'll take the points I need to pick out item in the next room for sure. Dlc stands for underwater level combat. Thanks. That d l c has an oxygen meter. That was a good dodge, actually. DLC rooms have different gimmicks to them whereas the main level rooms are just kind of like enter the room and kill all the mobs and move on uh that one is you have oxygen so if you run out of oxygen you'll start losing health and then you'll just drown so it's like a sonic problem it's also like real life for it doesn't have the traumatizing music. That sword looks cool, I don't know what it does but it looks pretty cool. It's a pretty good sword! It doesn't have any of the good um enchantments which you can think of like perks or random rolls or things like that items in this game have random enchantments on them so that's part of how you would farm in like a regular gameplay but i feel like they could make like a like a 3d game based on this like we were exploring in the world and you enchant your stuff can you just like move with the blocks and stuff yeah i don't know i feel like that's pretty cool i'm gonna play my game here i was thinking about taking this for healing but i think i'll be fine it should be fun i just noticed we were watching shock practice this like the creepers wiggle their little feetsies when they die. It's so sad! Where is everything spawning? it's over here. This is a very tame opening section compared to last week. Last week was hard, it was a lot of not so great artifacts that you had to use and not a lot of great weapons and then they gave you one of the longest DLC bosses to fight as the first boss. So it was like a real struggle just to get started in a run. Is that everything? Yeah, cool. All right, moving on. All right, where's my Path of Exile visual collusion Is that everything? Yeah, cool. Alright moving on. Alright where's my Path of Exile visual collution? All the loot drops on the ground. I just want to take the armor. I don't think it's the right choice, but I just want the extra health. And then there are the underwater levels? Yeah, so you can see the blue bar down here and then you'll see the bubbles. I have to go stand on those from time to time. It's not frequent that I have to do that, but I just have to make sure I pay attention to it. But we do actually... This room looks like it's going to be pretty simple, so if you want to do one or two quick donations we can get those out of the way. Sure thing! Big Law sends in $100 saying, Hey Shaq! Long time watcher, several-time donator. Greetings from the back couch. Hi! Hey Big Law. And $10 from Alex and Dad saying first time live at SGDQ and we are so hyped! Good luck Shockwave on this Minecraft Dungeon speedrun. Thank you. Yeah honestly shout out to Minecraft it's genuinely impressive that the game is made when I was in high school and it's still popular today. Oh dude, I remember seeing middle-school people building up an enterprise out of just the stone yeah we block basically all right we're getting a lot of really split spawns in this room it's this is part of the tower runs you have to start learning where everything spawns and if you get everything in the other side of the map you're just gonna be running in circles all the time because then you're wasting time if you're just standing in one spot of the room uh i'm gonna guess something's over here yeah Yeah, it was. Come here. Bro, he was chillin'. Alright, cool. Alright. We should be hitting a boss very soon if not a merchant. Okay, next one is a merchant. Dude, the rainbow bag! This is really good... Actually... yeah I'm gonna take that this is more powerful than you think it but it is- your banking on randomness to actually work in your favor. Power smith, definitely this. Lightning rod is absurdly powerful especially combined with the gong. This should be a boss. There it is, alright cool. Let's see what boss it is. Hopefully not a DLC boss If its a DLC boss we're gonna be here for a couple minutes It's not just a boss It's not just a boss, it's a rock! That's just a pot. Alright well the boss is dead. That's just like... can't that's just like grandma made the soup wrong and then he killed it glass fungus is insanely good dude up to the person who said let him cook it's like no we can't! That's the thing! So I picked Blast Fungus there it's a very short cooldown but it's just a random bunch of explosions that happen around you You can't really plan them at all you kind of stand in a group and then press the button and hope it works out like this So I got all the spiders luckily Oh my god, the fire Is the fire good or bad? It's bad. Okay No, it it's blue that means it's good yeah it's soulfire where why stop hiding this game is starting to suffer from the same thing that pathfix does whereas some things are bad some things are good then i just stand in them either way. That's how it feels sometimes when I play League It's like every skin is changing colors now so its like... You should get changed. Oh I can't change because they're locked? Yeah, I'm not good at Path of Exile, by the way. Just wanted to make that very clear for everybody. No applaud for that! What are you doing? Getting owned by a bat couch. Alright, I picked this armor because it has Snowball. Snowball is also very good. At tier 1 it throws a snowball out at something every 5 seconds to stun him like this guy over here. And then at tier three it throws a snowball out every second. So when I'm just in a mosh pit of mobs almost everything around me will just get stunned. It's like this. two enemies were just instantly stunned and i can just go clean them up wait does he just auto throw you don't have to like hit a button or nothing thing around here then i can see this shoot some things in the water this is actually working out pretty well let me shoot that guy in the water. This is actually working out pretty well, I'm gonna shoot that guy in the distance No, I said please go down, thank you You play Counter Strike right? I do! counter-strike right i thought you were better at aim oh man i'm offended dog gonna put you in aim labs after this you gotta are you gonna buy me a Kovac subscription? I've met- Kovac might actually be at this event, I'm not kidding! Yeah, I met Kovac last time He's been here a couple times. He's cool. Alright, 4. All right. 412 is clear. So that's what? Halfway? It's 25 floors so yes. Let's do Echo and... Thorns? Yeah, we can do that. This armor should be good. Uh let's go ahead and actually do like two or three donations for this run. Cool, we have $25 from the Phelps family And they wanted to let us know that our kids will be trying To keep up with Shockwave on Minecraft Dungeons On the next run, so go fast. Alright, I believe in you kiddos. Take notes. $10 from Katie back. Donating for Adventure Difficulty which we did meet. Thank you so much. Minecraft Dungeons is such a fun little game, and Adventure offers a great amount of challenge. Are you feeling challenged right now? A little bit, yeah. I got kind of lucky on the artifacts, so the early rooms where the big challenges was kind of eliminated. I want to follow up don't know where it's like, Hey man, sorry the kids beat you. Please help Stanley we need I was gonna say I'll give a shout out to the Phelps family specifically. This is for y'all. If you donate again at the end and tell us what floor your kids may take to during this, I'll match that. There you go. Heck yeah. What is hiding from me? Uh... We can do another one. Alright, we have $25 from Will Moore saying My kiddos first GDQ! So excited to introduce him to the awesomeness He's so excited for Minecraft and I'm excited to help him learn about all the great causes GDQ supports. Us too! They were just everywhere in that room. They just wanted to spawn everywhere but in one spot. So typically with towers, there's three bosses and three merchants so I'm waiting for the next merchant slash boss show up Another one can be kind of annoying so we can't just do donations for this whole room oh you are on we have ten dollars from the fridge just saying. $50 from Lone Korean, my son. Hi kid! And I love playing Minecraft Dungeons together. Big thanks to everyone at GDQ. We also have $100 from Badger in the crowd live, but I'm excited to show our boys this Minecraft Dungeons Run when I get home. They absolutely can't get enough of anything Minecraft Good luck, shop! And donation goes to the dungeon run later tonight Yeah, by the way, that's Sir Junkin incentive for the enter The Gungeon run. It is currently sitting at 3273 so less than 2k to go on that one and by the way thanks y'all for raising $35K for MSF huge you went from one cool sword to two cool swords that's gotta be an upgrade it is not uh it's actually reference to the viper class and Final Fantasy 14 which just released in dawn trail you are you talking about don'trell right now part of the faf thing rpg that has free experience i don't know the copy plus, someone fill me in here! Free expansion of Heavensward and now Stormblood. Alright Twitch chat post the coffee pasta. Back to the swords. The sword is actually one of the few base items that has an inherent enchantment to it. It has void strike. The simple way to explain it is it does more damage the more you attack the same object. So I grabbed it just because of that stacking multiplier plus it has an enchantment of bleaching which means every time I kill something I steal some of its health. Plus you get to do a cool twirl Something like that, yeah. It'll also have... If I find the Unique Smith or Guildsmith, it'll upgrade to something pretty good later. I will take a free upgrade for that. Hey, merchant! Let's see which one this is. It is guild or unique? Unique. So this one... beginning and the end. I forget what is the unique on this thing? Oh, double leeching. Cool so I'm just going to heal a lot when I kill something. That seems pretty good for staying alive. Alright boss floor. We got a pod pot what's next? Just not a DLC boss It's gonna be a bathtub This is actually A guy who He's got a name! Oh, okay. This is actually a guy? Boo! Speedkill? He's got a name! No he doesn't! That's the whole thing! Hold up we're not done I have to kill these guys But his name is TheNamelessOne Alright cool. Not quite the speed kill but close enough. So you can skip him summoning the skeletons if you have a high enough damage. I didn't have quite enough... Another underwater level content? Something like that, yeah. I didn't mention this at the beginning because there's other things to talk about but the key to speedrunning the tower is to kind of get as deep into the room as you can to start spawning everything. Every room sort of has a spawn trigger that's hidden, that you have to go find. Some of them are really deep into the room. But once you spawn everything, then the room actually starts. You can just sit there at the beginning of the room forever and nothing will actually spawn to fight you. I'm trying to save a little bit of my soul energy so this blue bar on the bottom left of my HUD is the soul meter uh certain items use a energy of soul i should wow that was great great english there jock like the blues brothers yeah um Like the Blues Brothers. Yeah, I'm a soul man! Sorry, got a little side-trick there... You only generate Soul Energy if you have a... Oh, I got knocked off? We're fine. Certain items have a Soul icon on the top so you can see on the second item my lightning rod has a little skull icon on it. That means it generates soul energy. You can have multiple items to get more soul energy at a time so if you want to do a soul build you can stack into it and get like a ton of energy really quickly. I don't really like that. The anchor looks sick, you should take it. I'm not used to the anchor. Most items in this game are usable so like here's this one has a really far inside of the room trigger so you have to go all the way up here like this there was a joke and i missed it said all items are usable I said I hope so ah I love you guys this is some freaky and urban this is wild well this is some freaky Enderman. This is wild. Yeah so this was one of the end DLC levels that got added not recently but like it wasn't in the initial tower launch quite remember frankly? So they added over time but again this was one that had like the really deep spawn zone so I had to move all the way up here. What's hiding from me? Okay, they just weren't done spawning. That fungus item or whatever seems it seems wild. It's like all the AOE. You just get in the middle of things and toss it up into the air. It's phenomenal. I want to make sure thatclad doesn't hit me. That will stun me for three seconds, and that will probably kill me. Let's kill that Enchanter over there... I don't like this setup. Bro you're getting swarmed! We're fine. This is another thing with the DLC rooms that can get a little long so if I'm sitting here fighting wave after wave of enemies but then you do the main rooms and they're done in like 30 seconds. If you don't buy the DLC does it still give you the rooms? Like would that be easier? I don't remember because I own all the DLC so... Let's actually go ahead and do some donations. This looks like a pretty easy room here. I have $50 from a very special someone, maybe named Donna. Crush that tower! We are proud of you Shockwave! Dad, Mom, Stacy and Sarah. Thanks I love you all. I'll see you all very soon. And we have $50 from Humphrey saying, Preemptive congrats on another great run, Chuck. Also, I love everyone on this couch deeply. Humphrey, you did this again. I got stuck in a pile of goo so I was about to get swarmed so you almost killed my other run again i'm glad we have contributed to that i'm free back-to-back champ bro oh Back to back champ, bro. Oh we're fine We're over floor 20 It shouldn't be that much of an issue But that was The definition of comedy So I assume you have lives or something Yeah the definition of comedy. So I assume you have lives or something? Yeah, so in the tower you get three lives You can do co-op in this now, so actually if you want to do this with a friend, you can do this with a friend But you get 3 lives, so if you die three times then it's over. I do not like you just get out of here. Hey! Just slam them in the void bro. I mean he's the one that got me stuck in a pile of goo. So yeah... I thought that was Humphrey? I haven't seen Humphrey this event bad. He can't defend himself. Is he here? I don't know. Uh-oh! I'm fine, I'm fine. All right. If I fall... You never die from falling off the map. Um, you will take damage though when you respawn so it's not like the end of the world if you fall off. It's actually there is one room that has a trick in it that specifically uses falling off the map to save some time because you end the room it's basically a linear room Uh... Shock Up and running is for 20 floors, why does it count down from 1 to 0? I wanted that as a zero. When you finish the floor it shows a one then goes to a zero I have no clue what you're talking about so uh today oh we'll go we're fine oh man all right good to know know we're fine, I'm not worried Never worried That just means that this is a creeper floor so I need to play it a little differently At a minimum Flo floor 25 is the boss floor, floor 24 is the merchant so I only have to clear a couple more floors but good to know i will just stay back here this time normally this isn't really a creeper floor so we'll be fine like I said heard one of you just jump when it'd be a creep respond behind me can they get stuck in the webs too or is it it just you? No. It's just me. Oh, I meant to use the lightning rod. Forgot to change the position of those on my hotbar. We're fine. Get out of here. Alright, so TNT is like... For me it's almost useless I'm stuck in the spiderweb. Alright you should be dead See ya. Right here! Yeah, 1-0. Oh it's the timer until the thing goes away on screen. Ooh a new gong That just means that... Why why i don't know man okay this this one's kind of annoying this has like these wind guys and they aren't harder to they aren't like hard to kill they're just super super super annoying. They'll throw a gust of wind underneath you so it lifts you up so that way things can swarm you like this. They're just generally annoying because they can do it from so far away i would simply dodge yeah i didn't think about that yeah let's try that next time still issue just tech it this is like smash bros at, like, Wave Dash or something? Yeah. Nah, I'd win. Alright let's see the mob... Oh yeah that's- Yeah I'm not gonna fight those guys At least fair Pfft At least, fair. Hey one's dead. I'm fine, I took that damage on purpose because I was just going to leech it all back. Bro is on purpose i promise yeah good old floor apple down here uh let's just get rid of you still got plenty of soul energy at this point and now trying to consider how much soul energy i have for the final boss so want to make sure that it has enough seconds ok I have enough that I can see. Okay. Oh, what are you doing here? Hi! What's up? Absolutely planned to get back to that guy and a leech. That is probably a strat actually I could figure out a way to use that yeah i'm trying to make sure i have enough soul energy subway and when the final boss shows up i can just spam lightning rod on it because it does so much damage combined with the gong by the way shock i've got an eye under time you're big chilling on time oh don't By the way, Shock, I've got an eye on your timer. You're big chillin' on time. Oh, yeah. Don't play fast. Well, do... Okay. Let's crank this back to a let's play. That's what I'm taking a second time yes do i want that what's the wait what's the damage difference undo oh jesus guess give me that. 182 versus 3,000. Yeah. All right, so what do the light bulbs do? Light bulbs are kind of like the blast fungus but they go on the ground. Oh. And if an enemy steps on them then they'll just blow up so it's just a proxy mine okay yeah but when but with the final bosses like for example that's going to spawn in a specific spot so i can basically pre-plant the mines for even more damage. Man, he's about to hit him with a trap card bro! Nope nope stop it with the ice clouds. Thank you. I have an ice cloud of my own buddy! He's just trying to get you to chill out bro. Yeah. He's gonna help you slow down. Yo cool down with those jokes man. Really make you freeze in my tracks? Ah no I'm out I'm not a fun dude. This isn't Freeze Me Man shout shout outs it should be i missed that one that's the mildew running for penny's big breakaway later in the event that's true kenny's is a sick run make sure you check that out. Next room should be a merchant, so let me just get... Why won't you die, Yoked Enderman? Next room should be a merchant merchant so if it is...it is! All right, critical hit this one is triple leeching with void Let's do critical hit sharpness and yeah we're gonna do this. Alright. This should be Guildsmith. If I want to do one more donation actually before I do the final boss. $10 from Andesite Block saying, Hi there, Shock. Andesite Block here. Just wondering if I had a use. Thanks! Isn't it useful in the most recent update? Yeah, they think they made it where you can turn into something else. Oh, and I'm thinking of the create mod. Sorry. I play Modded. I don I'm thinking of the create mod, sorry. I play Modded, I don't play Vanilla. All right, anyway, final boss. Get ready on time. I don't know how fast this can die, so if I'm lucky it'll die in five seconds. Let's see. Show me the sink! Alright, once he is damageable then I can plant Oh, I'm stuck. We're fine. We're big chilling, I think. I'm just going to go for it. Okay, that works. Oh man, I'm just going to go for it go for it explodes what did you say earlier by the way I said your big chillin on time dog yeah don't worry is it I could theoretically rerun this back actually I'm not joking I could run this back actually i'm not joking i could run this back all right so now i know that he's kind of rude okay oh he wasn't still vulnerable yet. Of course they gave me jungle abominations to find a boss. Just so you can show off. I have to actually play this? I believe in you. Dude, shout out for the wacky flailing arm Vine men I expected that lighting rod to do way more damage. Isn't Lightning Weave strong against Grass types? No, and Pokemon is not good against grass types? No. In Pokemon, it's not good against grass types? You've got two Pokemon nerds on the couch so they can probably answer that question. Two? One? You're a Pokemon nerd right? Yeah, no! Okay, that was a good hit. Basically I have to just come in and poke him with the Gong of Weakening And then Lightning Rod him. What's the dots on the health bar? Is it like Phases? No, it's just like a way to keep track of like one third two thirds three thirds three thirds is one sure it was hard all right we're gonna go for a little bit of... Oh, you gave him the business there! Just like me? For real? Ooh, I don't like these guys. Okay, Lightning Rod almost kills them. Are they not getting stunned? That's funny. Bro this music goes like crazy for Minecraft. Yeah. This game is beyond what I expected it to be. Just gonna keep running. I'm just going to kite him around in a circle i'm just going to play this kind of safe and i want to risk this because the jungle abomination can be a little weird i want him to do his little attack and get stuck on the ground i want you to walk on the mines, thank you! Do you take damage from your own mines? Mmm... yes. If they blow up with you on them. Yeah dude I think the kids are winning this one. Yeah, dude. I think the kids are winning this one. Shouts to the Phelps family. Come do your attack. I want you to do the long one no a long one where you just like stand on the ground and let me smack you that one should work yeah okay we should be chilling i heal oh there we go oh what the hi all right Nananananana... Anyone be able to make a trip to Home Depot? Alright, he's dead. I'm gonna kill these two dudes and then time will happen now you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing here we just planked to these final guys ready redemption is real, man. Time! I finished a roguelike run on stage. Yay! Oh, buddy. All right, we'll make this quick. I don't care about any of these so let's let the crowd pick. Anyone for the left reward? Okay that was easy! Middle reward? Right reward! I don't know what it is. They're irrelevant to me, but anyway, thank you all for coming last minute Thank you all for finding out via the schedule that you were commentators We'll be here and ask you how the game works. Thanks to our commentators coming up, thanks to everyone who's staying in the room 104 for basically destroying the back couch over there and hanging out. Have a good time. Again, thanks to my family for watching. I know this is actually at a reasonable watching hour for you for once so thank you for staying alive to watch it but that's all I have here. We'll hand it back to the host. That's it for me. Take care. Bye! For real, bye? Bye! I'll just keep waving. Happy Pride, everybody! Sounds good. Hello! Hi, I'm SlipinMJ. I've been here a few times. A few? Yeah. And here is my couch. Hi! I am Starwin. I'm funny. Funny guy? I am the couch. You're a couch? And TheObbyCreen Yeah, TheObbyCreen here just happy to be here Been absent from Disney for a long time But glad to be back Glad to watch Slurpee I've been absent from Disney for a long time, but exactly being back, exactly why slurping this beast of a Mega Man 9 runner do his thing buster-only. Bust him, bust him, bust him... I might have played this game once. Once? I might have played this game once. Do that man! This one? Tornado Tom. We're gonna start with a tornado- Pong. Wait, Tornado Man? No, Tornado Pong. Timer starts after I select Go so I'll just do a quick countdown 3...2...1...Go go let's get it right off the bat i'm gonna do a strat i'm going to try a strat that is like six nearly frame perfect jumps in a row. And if I don't get it, I'll just obey for the path form here. Destroy a stat! for the path part here. It's dirt. The hat you shoot? About the actual layout of this thing, he tried to do this as early as possible so he can get these cycles, these magnetic platforms that will rotate Mega Man around because the whole stage is actually based on global cycles from where you start at the beginning of a game. So Slubber was just trying to do one of the most insane strats, which is try to be fast naturally How do magnets work? Yeah dude how do magnets work? What, I don't have any magnets working. Alright, nobody else. What are those Spacky Fillers dude? Don't touch them. Can you touch em'? Like what happens if you touch em'? You can't pet those magne- I wanna pet that magnet! No, don't pet that magnet! Can you pet the dog? Um... No, but he can ride a bike. Is this iceless? Uh no, it it's ice. Also, this is Buster only. I forgot to mention that because you all donated for us! Yay! Thank you everyone! You made his life harder. Hey shooty Joe! He did? He made the run infinitely harder. Shooty Joe? There's shooty joe in a hat. Gotta give him stuff in the hat. You have to deal with stuff in the rain, because the rain's gonna be... Oh! A umbrella! Gonna be pushing Mega Man back for a little bit. There are sections of the areas where they're in physics, and of course since he got busted off I had to do these magnitude barriers with these wind fizzes pushing them back. Fortunately he's able to do that and of course you got to have the wind push them front to back so the wind is going to help him a little extra speed at launching jumps though. Actually my brothers tried to get in his way Look, I gotta say this though, oh! I gotta say this though Mega Man spinning on the magnet is a vibe and he's just like... So this here is Tornado Tom I hope he can make a pattern He's like opposite Airman Yeah He's like opposite airman Tornado Tom watch out for his neighbors. He's like Yeah i am ken you busted them that's good that makes me feel good it makes all this god he almost died i I would like to pet the spike now. Can I pet that spike? So you got a new weapon, right? You're not going to use it, are you? If you do use see yeah you're gonna use it right yeah if you do use that i'm going to be upset okay let's say next i don't know what stage you should we can pick yes sir i want to see what plug man plugs into okay don't ask that question he does the same thing he's like yeah boy you might not want to know the answer. I'm gonna get... Oh those are...I haven't really played Mega Man 9 but I do know those enemies. Those are cylinders and electrical spinny, bro. Wow. Watch out! I don't know more about this game than I do. How many hours have you put in this slurred? I'm guessing close to like 8,000 pucks. You've been playing this game for ages! How many years have you ran this game? Well, I've been playing it for 16 years and... This game is not 16 years old you're lying are we old? nooo but honestly, a little bit of stage note. See these Joku blocks here? Slippery was actually from the beginning this game still is a Tornado Man stage gotta go through cycles it's complete global cycle so he just trying to make sure that these Joku blocks are in a way so he doesn't trying to make sure that these joku blocks are in a way So he doesn't have to wind up dealing with any kind of nonsense along the way Got a lot of ease already this marathon Oh a lot of ease already this marathon oh god ah there's the bucket boogie mom that's scary but that's this is a horror game. It's just that song, Don't Turn Off the Light. What's that game from Action 52? Non-human. When will the lights turn off? I don't remember. I only remember non-humans. Ah yes, Doctor... So snubbed So Slurpy, remind me... How bad is this Plugman fight? This is the hardest Australian fight we've ever had. I feel like it's a staple if a boss stage in Mega Man has platforms like this, It's just not going to be fun. Yeah, it's really claustrophobic fire. You gotta deal with Clubman jumping all over the place Short jumps are definitely really bad you gotta deal with the club is it you don't know you don't run this game well i know i said there's a plug on each left side on this game. Well, I know I served a plug on each left side. There's been plugs the whole stage. They do nothing. Watch this win. Again, we're not gonna see it. The plug? What's his story now? You pick! I picked Plugman. Red Man. No, Red Man is last. He's mine. Pink Eye. Red man. No, red man is less human. Okay. You pink guy! Pink bro. Pink ma'am. He's doing the Ginyu Force. I am Y-man. he's doing the genuforce i am y man all right i am ready for goku watch out for the hat. Why is money falling from the sky? It does look like money! Dragon Man doesn't need no money. I am robot. dragon man doesn't need no money we're in pink downstairs i am robot wow smoters voters they got robots motors and texas they got yeah they got robot spiders from pigs they don't have them a little bit of some physics yo give us physics! Yep. Moving back and forth depending on... No it's not magnets. It's not a NES game. It's got cheese balls? It's that guy who made that one baseball game. Oh yeah, Neil deGrasse Tyson. That's right. Oh my god, on one cycle! Let's go. I thought you were going to say Bill Nye. No... I don't get it. Watch out for minecart! Biggest annoyance in Mega Man games is when something comes out of a hole and they knock you down. down yeah this stage is kind of a little bit of a cluster lots of spikes lots of tricky platforms that was cool that was a cool physics part it just keeps raining money! Spiders don't care. I don't know why it's raining money when we're on a stage that's called with jewels... Speaking of raining money, can we get a donation in? Absolutely! We have a 25 dollar donation from yeltsin i probably did nothing busting busting busted busted so big on the gdq stage makes me feel good yay best of luck, Slurp. Cheering you on from home, putting this towards naming Medicham Trans Rights. Let's go. Got time for another one? Yeah, let's go. We have a $50 donation from OMAX that says So hyped to see the incredible Slurpee Ninja back on stage again at GDQ Hoping for good luck in the dreaded casino And hey lemme tell you something Bustin' makes me feel good they're gonna be hearing that a lot joel man was just trying to give him jewels he just kills them let me guess you get a jewel shield. Satellite! I'm done. That makes total sense. Alright, I'm picking the next one. You got Tree Man? Yeah. There's no picking the next one yeah i thought he picked oh no you got the tree man yeah there's no tree in this game no do the b there's something those can live in trees we have to be mad is Is Nicolas Cage in this one? No, not please! Hey it's our guy again! It's our old friend Kurt. It's Rock Wagon Woo! That was cool Yeah yeah once you shoot there he excuse for for tis the short knife oh no it's scissor wait scissors because we are in the garden are you gonna fight a hammer no a flower and a shovel did you guard him with a hammer yes bro these trees aren't coming out of the ground. Can we talk about flowers here? We've already been by trees, now we're talking about flowers. Flower please. Oh nice flower. Isn't it like RNG where those are going to be yeah you really want to taste that it's like me doing this with my finger i don't get it i don't know i got the floor I don't even know what a flow V8 means. low v8 meat okay so those guys take 15 shots to kill him. this guy? the guy who is standing guard oh ok yeah self so for the hornet hornet man fight you really want to have at least one bee stand around for area so you can get that little back and forth patterns yeah they could bust them He's busting right now. But yeah as long as the beat is still out on the field You don't get another set of beats So you just plug them down like you see right there Very good shot Very very good five ounce Slip of the knife man. Congrats to Buster Man Let's get another donation in Absolutely we have a $25 donation from BZArcher saying, 8 years ago, a friend told me that I should put SGDQ on in my hotel room. Today I'm watching with my son and explaining why Mega Man must fight for everlasting peace. Let's go! Who wants to choose the next one? I think it's me. Let's do Splash Woman, yeah. We're repping the shirt too. Get it on the Yeti. Do it now. Go out there right now in the middle of the run and buy the shirt. Then y'all come back. They'll come back. Right now. Ah ah it's angry you didn't even do anything to it oh octopu it's an octopus It goes. I heard this is a high execution run. Are you doing okay? Whoa! Oh no, he's angry? Aw, he got too mad. I'm gonna wait. Can you do the glitch? No. This is a real speed run. There's no cheats or exploits. He had to get that health. Oh. Yeah. He didn't fall and he did the glitch. I'll begin the fast cycle now. Of course, people know this area kind of like reminiscent of the Mega Man 5 Waveman bubble area. That's what it was! I swear I've seen this before. I could remember seeing the Bubble Man. Bubbles! So we're doing a fast cycle making a very dangerous jump to get to that wide bubble earlier on in... Listen, I was trying to do some real alligator trap. And it just didn't work for me, so... Wheel Gator! I had to do the hard strat instead. Are they draining water? Is that the aesthetic that's neat where's water man waterman they need to make a hose man. Like for all the kids that drank from the hose in the 90s. We got plugman so we can get hose man. A faucet man. Faucet man would be pretty cool. That's even better. Kitchen vanity, man! At this point we're gonna get toilet-man We got spiders girl what song was flash just singing the song of me getting a song was called yes back woman take double damage for the Buster very quick quick fight. Really? Yeah! So in an all-weapons run or whatever it is, would you still fight her that way? Or do you actually use... Isn't it the Hornet? You will use hornets normally can we get a donation yes absolutely we have a 25 dollar donation from lewis that says star wins commentary for the grand anthology earlier this year made it the run of the event for me. So glad to see him back! Good luck SlurfyNutja, you got this! I tried to be funny. You are funny, man. Why is his name not Universe Man? He's Galaxy Man, why can't it be Universe? The universe was taken. No, the universe was taken! Yeah. Why not Space Man? Galaxy man, why can't it be universe? The Universe is taken. The Universe is taken?! Yeah, why not Space Man? Neil deGrasse Tyson, man! Space is cool. The Lofi Beats... yeah this is a beat come on this whole game wow that's cool when the main gimmicks at the level, the little teleporters. Physics. Yeah, physics. Putting physics in my 8x8 bits... What was this guy's name? His name is dragon kill mr house watch out for the girl Mr. Hacks. Watch out for the big dog! I have nothing funny for that, just UFOs. You know what you were getting into when you invited us on the couch oh we warned them i was like i have nothing i don't know anything about this game i'm just gonna make jokes funny jokes That's good. Isn't that just Yellow Devil? Yeah. Just as an enemy? There's Shieldy. I didn't know this was all shovel and not cross over. Burst the Shovel I've got the hammer! I'm gonna do some gardening. That was cool. Neat movement. Oh! You have to take one of those bumpy carriers and make sure you get... See that? He tried to drag and kill him! I didn't make that jump. It was a dragon when you said it, bro. Dragon? His name is Craney. Alright so there's walking UFO You don't want to see him up going through the sky too much. Why'd he go and do that? Yeah you want this guy to... Literally as many sc as possible and right now the UFO is not giving Slurpee that good of a time right now. Would this be considered a reset? Yes, it would probably. If I smell the floor do you have to reset it? Sorkin, you never reset when you practice You're just like oh I died four times? I'll keep going. Yeah yeah it's a fight. Can I get a donation please? Yes we have a $50 donation from Stark Thomas that says Slurpy playing Mega Man at GDQ, let's go or whatever exciting statement the kids are saying nowadays. Do the fast thing and get a win. Let Slurp achieve the incentive to put this towards... Also, do them to win. No cap. Let's look and see the incentive to put this towards... Also, Doom Guitar? Consider this the first of a few donations. Yes! A Doom Guitar $250 cumulative donation throughout the marathon start Thomas already building fifty dollars to it two hundred dollars throughout the rest of the week we'll get you in the running for that so yeah concrete man this is definitely usually at least for any NPC run this is really the starting point so busting all these basically a natural thing for... Okay....at this point. It's because Seashot is so good right? Yes, see the concrete shot would be one of the most versatile weapons but since it's buster only, it's pretty much an apple pie. Those are construction models. Those were tiny cars he has a remote control in his little each of them with the big ball there will be three is that our robot elephant? That screen's useless, there's nothing on it. Let's split this game design. That's the myth point. So are you gonna die? You know what happens you gonna die? You know what happens if you die. You die in real life. I wasn't going to say that! I was just saying you have a life and keep playing! Yeah, we have extra lives. What does that do? Those are called upies and downies. Wee! It's a wee! And the primary function is... Oh my god. Wee! It's a wee! I need a refund on this one. You need a refund? The Wii Shop closed, bro! I need that garbage jammer. He's going like, oh what the fuck is this thing doing here? shut up close bro yeah for the concrete man fly you wanna stay you want this guy as grounded as Bobble, so all these Joneses they're literally no bueno. That guy was no bueno I had to take a bite. Por que no los dos? Can we get a donation, please? Absolutely! We have the $25 donation from RedFarago that says Immaculate commentary from the couch and Slurpee Ninja. This run is so much fun! Great start to the week And we have a $25 donation from MrCad55 that says Good luck slurpee! Keep bustusting, busting, busting, busting, busting, busting, busting. I don't get it. That's supposed to be a song. Well, it made me feel good. Let me tell you about the video game. Let me, let me tell you guys about basketball. Let me tell you about Magma Man... I don't know, You tell me. You got the red man. You wanted this stage. What? It's my favorite track in the game! I can't help it! You're objectively wrong. And you're objectively wrong about your justly wrongs,, uh seriously this stage has quite a bit of number stuff in there especially like the instant kill laser where these magma jets are gonna have to use some damage boosts normally you would have concrete to freeze these in order to get by this area faster, but since you don't have those you're gonna have to do a lot of damage boost and probably a little bit of stopping going especially towards the later end of the stage. But right now, because it's a dragon... That's the dragon you were talking about. Is he okay? No. Oh my goodness, look at that thing! He's called a Scooty. Scooty. Scootie Booty? Look at the one up, it's like Get to me! Waste time! Save the animals wait what can i touch this beam yes that touches boom no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no Why are you getting so close to it then? It's a pixel effect. You're scaring the audience! Look at him. Yeah! It's Redman. Oh, he is angry. He is very angry. Whoa! You know why he is angry? Because I left him in a volcano. Are you busting? I'm busting. Busted busted. He's cum-bustin'. I don't get it. I got it! Hey, you've got the blue card. Explain. You got the blue card? I got it. Can we get a donation please? Yes, we have a $5 donation from The Couch's Energy saying, I have been manifested by the electric energy of this couch. I think a $5 hype train is in order for this amazing run and couch. If Bustin makes you feel good, send in a $5 donation let's get that custom train going on right now we got inflation can you do us six dollars six dollar hype button this guy gives his eyebrows. Do you want to give us some hype train donations? We got wildly one music coming up. Alright, uh... We have a $5 donation from Felina that says Hey Slurpee, great to see you at GDQ again! Wanted to donate to say hi and get some hud for you! Good luck on the rest of the run. Thank you, thank you. Alright I need everyone in the audience to kind-to kinda hype their children just a little bit for something that's gonna be upcoming because there's gonna be up there's going to be something that you probably wouldn't be seeing normally i'm scared now yeah it's a little frightening i still run silent hill and i'm scared how'd you change it i heard if you paused again you would still fall just say he's dead bro Dead bro? He's dead, bro. Due to the nature of some areas in the Wally staging Slurpee is going to have to be forced to use either a rush item or a weapon that's not plus that's not a buster that's a dog indeed it is where's the peanut butter look he could be later on this is a robin dog hey how do you know what to robot i don't know i'm pretty sure my dog doesn't fly he doesn't go and then you fly and fly those are what are those guys doing they're just vibing, having a shield. Bing chilling. Bing Chilling. There's Tree Man. So that's called Green Shooty. And here comes Dacron. He's arguing! I I'm back, bro! Ahhhh! Oh there we go one cycle. Let's get that 1-up. You will never get to me! You lost the life you need another one Get that one up. You won't ever get to me! You lost the light, you need another one. Touch it, touch it. Don't let the dog touch the beam! The dog can pet that beam. You'll let the dog touch the beam, but you won't let the beam? The dog can pet that beam. Oh physics plus physics equals more physics fun game I don't understand How do you get past this? More dog! That's cheating! Nope, you can't do that. Mmm, buster. That's my favorite. I'm back on my bus, I think. There is no difference between the red guys and those green guys! They both just sit there and vibe. That's all they do. Red man and Green Man? Ooh, look at this guy. Those guys! Mom bomber man shoot him Oh, this is just a matchy stage Yeah the odd thing is it's not really that much of a match what Starby's doing is more of a control shooting because if you're over magic the buster is probably not going to register in the head and the spikes are not going to be pushing yeah and those spikes aren't inst-kill by the way. Those? Yeah, those! You're talking about the balls or like the bullets? The balls. Oh okay. The spikeballs. I was gonna say the bullets were instakill that's mean. Heartball. That'd be a bit too much. But anyway, good-bye smurf. What's behind those doors? I don't know. How's that $6 hype train going? Yes, how's the hype train going? We do have a six dollar donation from yeah six dollar hype trains make me feel good it's working okay Mind if we use the keys? As always. Thank you, thank you. But yeah this is... Get that one up! That is not a buster. Now get it! You have two chances! But yeah, this is another one of those stages where unfortunately you have to use a weapon or item to get through there. Nope. A whole bunch of nope. This is mostly Buster only? 90% Buster only They didn't count how many C-Shots you fired It's like Buster plus 12 C-Shots you fired? Like, Buster plus 12 C-Shots. And a Copper too! And a Doge! Shooty Boy... Or what is that called again? Shooting Joe! You forgot your own name for it?! boy or she wouldn't like what i call shooting shooty joe shooting journal that's right you forgot your own name for him do you think i remember these things i say maybe how can you pet the spike hey it's a floor! Ahhhh! Nooo. You will never kill me man! Is that one more shot? Yeah... Do you speed run Mega Man? Octoboom! Oh shooty get angry. He's a shooty hanging man it scares me it's like a jump scare very tight jumps nope he's cheating on the gdq stage this is not valid because i'm using a super time controller you are using a super ds controller on a wing yeahacom yep you're supposed to use i heard you're supposed to run this game with a vertical Wii controller that's just me can you tilt the screen no but I feel bad you want to make this a vertical shooter let's get a donation two frames down right there okay i gonna be... This train's moving really fast. We have a $5 donation from Bustin with no comment. $6 donation from SankylHorai saying, Busted! $6 donation from CappyPappy that says $6 donation train, all right? $5 donation train from BlueCheese that says Busting, train all right five dollars donation trade from blue cheese it says busting busted in boston a 25 donation for receive zima that says seems like dr wiley needs to make some thesaurus man and at twenty-five dollar donations of isaac that says let me tell you something. Busted makes me feel good times five. I'm only going to say it once. The stars, man! No one down in San Antonio but doing peace. What were you saying sir? Tell me a star tail. The boss is gone with just the tail. Oh now it's a body. He's got a spiky belly. Fortunately the spikes aren't instant kills so he could he could touch him if you don't want them to do this no i want to pet that foul fish oh he's a sharkman! Does he go, meh? He does in the middle of it. Dude, why is he so meh? He's shooting his loser. I mean mean you shoot his tell your belly that your shooter's booty then you should just tell me and now he's like why you do this oh you did it wow we didn't we did it we did it can i give a look through the 90 second controller right yeah okay i thought i was not you got effect stage yes he said i was gonna play remember i heard that was the approval. I'm on the leaderboard. Are you? No. This is objectively the okay song. You know, I'm not gonna say anything. Is this Wily 3? Yup! It's third! That must mean we must have refights. Is this Mega Man? There's refight in the next stage beef is next are you oh that's right this is the the infamous casino that i've heard so much about it we got a donation please do you have any six dollar donations i i do have a $6 donation. There is a $6 donation from Jen the Bug that says, Choo-choo! Riding on the coattails of the couch's energy on the $6 donation train. Glad I can take a break from gardening with my hammer to donate. Trans Rights, which by the way, Trans Rights has really overtaken Shantae in that meta champ's nickname. It's almost double now. y'all are awesome the hammer it could be triple they could be as much as the donators want yeah you get the six dollar donation boom six six hours watch out for shooty joe shooty jones that's a good city dude he shoots like 20 times better than you it's a machine it's a machine gun shooting game. Buster Man don't got the... I played Mega Man 1, that guy in that game just goes He cast another miss and said oh shit he's alright? No He's gonna shoot me Oh! Can you explain? Can I pet that spy? No. Wait, I can ant-cat. But only that one. He's like... Mmm, buster! I don't know. Damn! Buster. Get the one up. Oh, the hats upgraded their game. Save the animals. Save the animal-moles? You can shoot those! Yeah, but hitting them is faster. He needs health right? Isn't that important? Nah we don't need help. Now where are we going? No, that's a squishy boy He goes So for this bastard, this is the Twin Devil. And I need to hit it 14 times but you can only hit it 4 times per cycle maximum. Is that Green Devil? It's going to take 3 and a half cycles I've seen this in the 80% And I know you guys use the black hole That could be one cycle So how many cycles do you think this is gonna be? Three and a half If I miss 3 shots though it'll be four and a half. What if you missed two shots? Two shots is fine. But what if you missed one shot? Yeah that's fine. Oh no. Oh no! You don't want that! That is too many. Six dollar. Sooo... Probably be a good time for some more donations at this point. Only the $6 one. Well how about this? It's a $30 donation from Skizzinator that says This amount matches both $5 and six dollars plus wonderful energy from the megaman 9 couch good job blue shooty man and we have a 20 donation from bartle wolf that says keep up the awesome work everyone. Mega Man is one of my favorite game series of all time and glad to hop on and see an awesome game get some love. Can I get an e from everyone? E-Waah! Mmm. Mmmmm. Buster. Not that $30 one, you've got maths to make sure we get everyone satisfied. Are we on the third cycle yet? I'm getting bored I don't know. You just turned the console on. But that'll end the game! We're done. I'll make that Wii go wee by throwing it. How many cycles is this? This is that far and a half. Alright, we have a $6 donation from NHS3 That says one ticket for the hype train please remember to drink water eat some snacks and keep moving around adjusting makes me feel good i like water i can see like people are like doing this when there's a donation. Wait, what? Are they vibing in the back? No she is right there. Pass gets my leg out. I Just laser oh yeah, okay Supposedly supposed to use the concrete shot to block those but we don't have those so we just block them with our face he used the concrete shot earlier why can't you do it now can you set up the rngc to avoid the laser you have to watch the intro 20 times i don't want to have that many times! Can you get the one up? How can you do that? The bee is there for sale. See, I do run this game with my hammer. Okay I do run this game with my hammer. Alright, so... This guy was really mean earlier He's so happy when he flies Eee-eee He's so happy when he flies! Do it again. Yay! Oh, I thought you were talking about me. I'm praying for bad RNGng can we get this run longer six dollar donation please yeah absolutely we have a six dollar donation from Ziz that says, Excuse me! This is clearly a Buster only run because Rush's name is Buster He is a good boy and the concrete shot is for busting six moves oh i learned something new about the lore. Thank you. I'm feeling pretty busting right now. That's awesome. Here's the rugman! Let's do another donation. We have a $25 donation from DrRobotnik that says, Hey Wiley your robots are ridiculous concrete man hornet man no wonder you keep giddy feet signed doctor robot you lose two Toxic Man, Robot Man and Tornado Tom. There's Tornado Tom... Can we get in your tacos, Tornado Tom? There's Jewelry Boy There's Universe Man There's Jewelry Boy, there's Universe Man, there's Redman. There's Combustion. He doesn't have man in his name? Combushed Man? Did Jewel Boy have man in it? No. Did Tornado Tom have man in it? No! What about this one? It's more than that. This is funny. B-Man. Beast! That's his thing. I am yellow. He's got those jet boots. Why is there a stinker on his head? It just runs into people like, AHHHHH! That's what it should do. It was an accident. They're hornets, it's never an accident when its hornet. Just don't shoot... Bustin' out of him. The return of Jewel Boy. Jewel Boy! Does he jump when you jump? Yep, he jumps when you jump and we shoot the jewel. Can I make observations? Yeah, so he jumps when you jump but you shoot his shield and the shield actually fires at you So... No, he busts at you He can say he's busting his jaws out i'm done this This is Tridentlass She goes Sing again What song was she singing what song was she singing i don't know i have nothing funny and there's guts, there he is. He's throwing his guts at you? Do it again, do it again, do it again, do it again do it again do it again Are we final bossing? Oh, they have this... I'm like Ocean Dub. Yeah you're Ocean Dub! Yoooooo Can I pet the Cynophele? The one piece is in his mouth. The one piece is real. You can't even say anything! Oh, he's also a stompy boy so what does this boss do, Slurvey? He gets either good RNG or bad RNG. Oh okay! Speedrunning, cool! And you play the video no no sometimes it's good sometimes bad now with the dino gone now for for the real meat and potatoes. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Wallace Casino where The main motto is the house always wins I've heard you win we're on TV Bay so I'm's. We're on TVPay, so I'm not worried. We're on World Record Pay! Yeah, world record for funniest run. Wally please? I know he is supposed to be hitting levers but it looks like he is dancing, he is like He is vibing through his own game anytime this is objectively the best song i want everybody to say wally please why why we please make up ma'am that was not good i guess the time is slowing down on the last hit yeah that's important wally please! Wally please. Please? Hello? I will not spawn low I will become the slot machine. Welcome to the casino everyone, this is pure RNG and... Ah! And time! and time he did it first try that was my first time Please forgive me. No! Mega mem 10 is coming up We defeated blue boy Blue bomber Oh there's a ticket for it! So yeah, thanks to our generous donors we're going to have ourselves a little bit of an extra feature here. I don't even know what this is. Are you rebooting your emulator? That's not allowed. I told you not to tell them it was an emulator. It sounds like one. I told you not to tell them it was an emulator. We? Are you using your wrist strap? I'll hold it. You said I could play this part, remember? JDQ approved that. It said pass the controller to Giyus Blues and ruin everyone's day. That's what we got in concept. So, what is this special stage? Was it DLC only stage that they released for the online? It was like for one stage that's like 300 wii shop points more money than all ever oh it's a blue squishy and also keeping faith that the home run category he's doing this well mostly but uh this is fake fake karate fake karate not valid called the buster oh you made him angry! Shit. You see those enemies? You ruin their vibe and they're like They heard that I was Hammer Man from Shovel Knight You're Hammer man from terraria because i know how to guard it of course they bring the flower back for a third time. They knew what they were doing. Hello hat, goodbye hat. Are you gonna pet the spike? No. Welcome back, cheese ball! Cheese ball. Look how angry he is. I missed one cycle though. Oh, Mr. One Cycle though... Can I get some snacks from your room? No! You ate like half the snacks in the green room! That is clearly- they're an elephant whoa that was completely useless ELECTROSPIN MEANS... What'd you call him earlier? I'll watch the VOD later and be like, what was I doing? Right. No we'll just laugh and watch it 20 times. Very true So we get to return a fish Really? Yeah Is this the boss of a stage? All the mini-bosses are in the special stage. That's a BOSS! That is not a mini-boss! In THIS stage it IS! That's dumb, you're lying to me. You know what's dumb? You win this game. I'm Beth Lee on the leaderboard. Yeah, everyone that ever did a Let's Play is on the leaderboard. That's me! I'm on the leaderboard! You're a speedrunner, you're a speedrunner! Everyone. Everyone's a speedrunner. I'm gonna show you my neutral spreadsheet You do have one. I know you do I'm gonna show you my Google spreadsheet. You do have one, I know you do. He's laser shying... He's angry And a bee! AAAAAAAA This is gonna be... This is like us when we play video games normally. Like if you see us in the practice room Man. Like, if you see us in the practice room just ignore them. Yeah, if you see us at the practice room playing something we're gonna be screaming. Just letting you know. Alright budges, there's a few more screens and then we actually get to our real boss. Is it a unique boss? That's real. Yeah. Hold on. This guy is fake man. Get the one up! It was a hat wearing a face. It was an invalid run. Yeah, that's why Fake Man is here. Who is THIS? Machine Gun Man? No... he's fake man yeah who is this machine gun man no yeah he he's here to apprehend the slumber for his fake one that's the real buster man you are the fake one. Does he have a weakness? Just as the Buster only runs, excuse me... I'm not friends with you anymore. Time! Time. Let's go. That sure was a special stage. First time. So was. That number is special stage. That number's not funny. Best time, 1-51 Is that it? Is that us? Yeah, we do all the things here. Shout out to... Shout outs to Mega Man! And Bustin'. Shoutouts to my buddies Hat and Prella and Spike. And me! And you, yeah. Shoutout to everybody. Shoutouts to Slurpy Ninja for being a cool dude. Shoutout to FieldQ One of the big McMahon 9-Nets that I sent out to him being a cool dude. That's so cute. One of the beaten big man 9-match that set out to him. Alright, go next. What's the next run? Yeah, bye everybody! Oh my god. How we doing everyone? Marathon man from Philadelphia and I just wanted before we start a lot of my speed run journey largely started with Iran at SGDQ in 2014. So 10 years ago, almost 10 years to the day it was a run of the original Halo by Goat Rope and that run just... It meant everything to me you know? And so to be here ten years later. You know on this on the stage We're here It's pretty special Got some friends with me here. They want to introduce themselves? Hey guys, I'm Jura and also a Ratchet & Clank runner. Don't really have much of an introduction but I am very excited to be here with all of my friends to watch an incredible category of a terrific speed game that we haven't seen here in many, many years. So little AGB revival! On Padges, I kind of run Ratchet and Clank. I'm Padges, I kind of run Ratchet and Clank I've been in the community for a while, I have one run on the board but I need to get back into it everybody tells me hey you should play again but yeah I'm Ratchet Mania otherwise known as RM I You should. But yeah! I'm Magic Mania, otherwise known as RM I've been in the community for nine years at this point I haven't speedran this game in like half a decade but I still keep up and just make sure everyone is having a great time. Alright, if we're ready I'm gonna load this file And I will count down from three So all my friends back there, I'm gonna countdown from 3 and then when we get to the end can I get everybody eats? As loud as you can. Three, two, one, everybody eats. Tech ready? All right. Three, two, one. Everybody eats! three two one everybody needs all right for the fans i will go for this one time this is is brand, brand new. Oh fans go home sad I'm sorry! All right welcome to Ratchet and Clank. Alright so there's a lot of things we got talk about with this run uh this first planet it's pretty simple um to talk about with this run. This first planet's pretty simple. One big thing to note about pretty much this whole game is we have a lot of things we have to pay for, so I'm going to be collecting a lot of bolts and with AGB just being a longer category, it's a bit more manageable in other categories. Bolts can be a disaster. Many are run lost to just not being able to progress the game but hopefully that doesn't happen another big thing to note with just a lot of new tech honestly, A lot of 2024 specific tech. Bomb count is also pretty important We buy two weapons in the entire run And if you know this game game I guess kind of the appeal to it is just having all these crazy weapons at your disposal. And we're only going to use two. Both very, very essential. That was the whole first planet done by the way. Alright which one of y'all wants to give the, my man, the OG. Hold on... The joke here is a kind of reoccurring theme we're gonna see see a lot about the ending is at the beginning, so I just skipped the entire planet by the way because the exit was right by my entrance See now I'm starting this speech It's kind of a known thing but it's also tied I'm starting the speech, hold on. It's kind of a known thing but it's also tied to actually some more SGDQ lore for the fans So the last time all gold bolts was shown off at a GDQ in 2017, and that planet came with a very long speech about the ending being at the beginning. And it's been a meme ever since for a bunch of us but he's at the end of the planet man yeah people have that as gold split sounds for a minute is just gotta get to the end, man. Alright. So... Ideally I want to have a little more than 500 bolts now and we're a little behind so hopefully this helicopter doesn't be mean to me he should i need to pay for something in a little bit that's a thousand volts and so normally oh he was not okay Okay. We're good. Ideally you want 500 coming in and then that guy drops the other 500 and maybe he can shortchange you but we're looking good. Yeah, I got a plan but uh we're looking good yeah i have plenty of balls don't worry man i almost spinked that i was gonna say i feel like now you got your money up and it begins yeah now it begins okay so now we have the helipad which is where the majority of movement's gonna come from in this game uh you can see right away we're doing what's called a mid-air long jump so he kind of like stutters in the air for a little bit. And I always think of it as, basically, It's a long jump canceled into a side flip cancelled back into a long jump so you're getting the initial speed from the first long jump, the throw of the side flip and then the distance from the second long jump so it's a pretty effective way of moving Coming up on our first bull grab. One! Only 39 more to go, guys. 1 of 40. So this is the first pretty big skip in the game. This is Train Skip. There's a train here and normally when you get on it, your stuck for a moment as the cut scene plays. I'm gonna land in a very specific spot and he should shoot me during said cutscene and so now the game's like yo man you're being shot at. You might want to get out of here. Okay. You can die in that and the checkpoint's really far back so uh... no accidents. Uh do one of you guys want to go ahead and explain Jank Pod? Sure. So, I am not the most knowledgeable on how it actually works within the game's code but the basic idea is this. We're going to reload the planet after we get this gold bolt Number two! Forgot about that What a beautiful face. Oh, look at that! I love Ratchet Face! He's so happy to be here! Alright, so we're gonna reload this planet... We're going over and kill one dog. Make sure we don't pick up any of the bolts off it. Then we go to bolt number three! And I'll explain more once we get over there. So Mr. Man is going to go over here? was good yeah don't don't even sweat kill the dog make sure not to pick up any bolts off of it you pick up any bolts the amount of bolts you get from jank pod is going to be much less and yeah you might end up being a little broke so we have a little shortcut here that's gonna take us over to bolt number three you typically have to go through the obstacle course to get here, but... Nah. Yeah we don't really feel like doing any fitness so we're just kind of going to shave I don't even feel like it Number 3! Keep that energy guys, please. Love that. Now that that crate sack is broken we're gonna bomb these two some of the bolts are going to snap to Ratchet you gotta be real quick about that. Get all those crate sacks, you pick up the remaining bolts and because you killed that dog and you had the reload, you just become rich overnight. It really is the get-rich- and honestly so 4,000 bolts sounds like a lot but uh in a few planets I'm gonna have to pay four thousand volts so it's uh not as many as you would think if you get a little closer to the edge here and if you there we go yeah if you checked out the showcase earlier this is one of the brand new pieces of tech that has been found for this game within the last couple of months two new pieces in movement tech that has broken this game wide open. Even more so than it was before. So what you just witnessed was Oh! There's another one So what you witnessed when you just launched up in the air that is the ledge proxy The first one you saw If you look down at a certain angle once the camera hits just that right point you throw the bomb and for some reason the game just decides i kind of just want to launch ratchet in the air that seems like a fun thing to do it's you proxying off of the camera being pushed up against you. Yeah, the camera is an actual collidable object in this game and that goes for the entire trilogy. And that has been a big thing with the development of this game in the last, like, year or two is just experimenting with the camera as a physical object and there's some... Oh my god! Some actual, like, strat professors out there. Shoutout Robo shoutout kank and pentally and Ozaki of course doctors And they've just... They've done so much. Like, we've been talking because again, a lot of this stuff is new so... Also, we're now done with this planet already. Oh yeah! This is a one minute planet and it's funny because like this planet is really big And everything you need is right here in the front even In all check marks they the 100% category for this. Everything is right there. The coordinates to the next planet, the gold bolt, skill point, the suck cannon... I missed that weapon. I wish we got it in this category, but... Alright so, this planet's pretty hard There are just a lot of things that can happen That's the one. There it is. I just didn't want to get up there for some reason. I wasn't feeling it. The camera was feeling silly and just didn't want to do the thing. Okay, we're getting the checkpoint no problem. You can show off the backup! It's so beautiful dude. This place is cooler anyway. I know! Alright, so normally if you don't get that checkpoint You can just die right here and then Just spawn back inside but Y'know it's just not the same This was shown to me by Sneaping and I'm like sneaky you're a genius we're just going back the way it came that is actually yes it's not even that slow too which is great because before if you got that checkpoint it was a big deal you had to reload and it was like 20 seconds down the drain and now you just take the scenic road Alright. Alright, so like I said money's very important So we're gonna try this This is also brand-brand new We're robbing the bank! We're bank robbing? Come on. This is the other new piece of tech. You get up on a wall, you angle it just right and you can pass through pretty much any flat wall you could find. It makes getting money a lot easier It's really nice honesty, there's like 1500 bolts in here and a bunch of bombs So if you go in here, you're pretty much set afterward. Yeah, with all the new tech and the new route and everything, bombs are so much more important than they used to be. So you got to keep up on that bomb team. Yeah. I was going to say this is the first time in so many years that you're not broke during this run which is a very common theme in this category. Yeah no like in the, like I said AGB is a little less lean-y just because you go to a lot more planets and see a lot of the game but in any percent I mean I've seen runs like I said we buy two weapons and I had run die because I can't afford the second weapon which you buy at the very end of their own it was slightly worried that you were going to crash the game. Oh, I made sure he was not having that! If you break the containers holding two crabs too close together, you can crash the game. And definitely do not want that. Five? Six! Bye. See ya! Oh, thanks! There we go. That happens. See normally you'd have to... Go back outside Go on top of the grate Backflip through and now... Oh where am I? Okay. He got like halfway out and was like i'm not really feeling it I just don't really want to be here right Now i'm just gonna i'm just going to vibe down here for a second oh oh my he's so sad it's like mom come pick me up i'm scared i got this little thing i don't know what it is can you pick me up from this do one of you guys want to explain center flips the bane of my existence that's so true. That is one trick I can never get done. It's hard, man. Big thing to note about this game, I mentioned it during the segment earlier for those of you guys who caught that. Certain surfaces... basically you can cancel long jumps and side flips over and over and over infinitely and it looks pretty goofy. Okay. Oh my god! So close! You almost got that first try. Yeah. Oh man. We'll try this one more time. There is a different way if uh if we need focus mr man is it looking good there we go! Nice! My man! Wow! This is like, I think just visually one of the coolest planets in the game Just because there's so much movement happening And this is a pretty big map and you're just going all over it Like we are gonna just see... like normally this is some maze you have to do and nah.... We got our escape route. These are so helpful, honestly. He's doing it... Now wait a minute! We don't want to get the stream taken down, man. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. Is there a giant invisible wall over there that we have to go around. I can't quite remember, what number are we on? Eight! I thought you said nine. They're keeping them. What did we do? Did you actually? What are you doing with that filly? Good ratchet face. Oh my gosh! Yeah, I got technique. Dude, technique! Alright so we kinda hinted at it. Can one of you guys please explain infinite long jumps? Also the bait of my existence Do either of you guys want to explain it? No. At least he's honest. I don't know how to do the trick, I have tried, but I don't feel like I'm qualified to explain it. Alright, so over certain surfaces on certain planets you can just spam a combination of the correct buttons and Cineflips as you just saw in real guard he was getting all that crazy height right there this is the equivalent but for distance instead of height so over surfaces like the mud here and you're gonna see it on a few other planets. Check it out! Ratchet just goes flying. With the Cineflips, it is much harder. Yeah, give him a round of applause. That was clean! I'll take it, thank you. My man! Oh, we got some good ones coming up too. We got some scary ones coming up. The reason that trick is so hard for both... it be the CINAs or the ILJs is because it is just so input intensive you have to mash I can't remember You're fluttering, you're fluttering R1 and R2, which are both crouch buttons. And X and D-pad directions... What is it? It's like a crazy amount of inputs per second I can't even remember what the number is but It's intensive on the hands. Oh my lord! That's gorgeous. That one's scary because you have to do that- You have to do that one blind? That was a beautiful umbr. Yes, also the reason that walls just don't exist on that planet is a trick called Ghost Ratchet If you noticed when he was getting the first gold bolt on that planet and he sunk into the mud, but the slingshot pulled him out and that just activates Ghost Ratchet and walls are not a thing. Yeah, you're basically just a ghost. You're ILJs. You are no longer speedcapped. You can go through any wall you want for about... I think it was three and a half minutes. It's ten thousand frames. It's 10 000 frames And it's like three and a half minutes or so. We're doing another bankers? Man! Oh yeah! I'm so sad that you don't kill the Amazon delivery drone anymore! Drones are our friends, man. Yeah there's a little robot dude that just like zips around and he was dubbed the amazon delivery drone beautiful bank heist right in there this one's super important because there's like 2 000 volts in here i'm gonna pay 2,000 bolts at the end of the planet. And a jail-free card. And nobody was the wiser! Alright. Alright. Oh! Beautiful recovery! This whole planet's a little goofy just cause the game can lag in a bunch of spots and like it can mess up some of the movement chains. Also this level, in particular is very easy to get ledged on Yeah! And if you uh...if you're right up against the ledge it just eats all your speed. And so you'll normally... And it's funny to me because it looks like he's tripping over his foot or something. Like after just going Mach 10. This time, it looks incredible, it's fun to perform and you don't have to deal with the SIs or falling down the slope The headache is gone this planet went from being like the most dreaded to like the coolest don't go to jail don't go to jess yes first of all you can let grab that which is really goofy i did not know that you gave me a heart attack look walking on water is one thing but grabbing water and pulling yourself up from the water? I was hoping you would GILJ for the fans. At the risk of not dying and having to do all that over again, once again fans go home sad. We're crying in the club right now. It was so low and somber too. Speaking of crying in the club. This is the only planet in the game where we're gonna play as Clank and to my right it's like a seven minute puzzle with Weird, like mini clanks and this is a mess This used to be oh now what's he doing hold up? this used to be like one of the like this used to be so difficult it stopped people from running this game and uh then uh the gates of heaven opened up and The strat professor. I think I mentioned him earlier sippy Shout out, uh he developed this setup And it which you know know of course I'm messing up sorry sir. But uh it just made it way easier cause before you had to like look inside this tree and you were like looking at the back wall and like the way that like not done yet clank's head moved not done yet uh i thought he got stuck there gotta fight the camera a little bit yeah there we go there we go so that basically saves like almost six minutes of an entire clank. It is one of the most boring parts of the entire game, honestly. Yeah. Got time for a quick incentive update? Yeah, by all means. We have a $10 donation from Mike that says my Sir Junkin runs in Gungeon are always the most hype gotta donate to see him in the marathon and we did hit that incentive. So, we will be seeing Sir Junkin in the Enter the Gungeon run later on. You've got a lot of love coming in in some of these donations. I was going to say this is actually like V time for donations if you want to just read a bunch of them. Absolutely! Let's do this. We have a $10 donation from Kemms that says Shout out to my streamer MarathonMan and good luck on the run. Thank you. We have five dollar donation from folgen that says so here's the philly guy in person with the guys fit so let me say good luck go birds lock in everybody eats coach Go John! Eat your vegetables 24 hour Everybody eats We have a $10 donation from Omni that says I wouldn't miss this for the world even though it's after 730 in the morning down here. I'm so proud of how far you've come in the last four years I've known you. Get those gold bolts. Much love, your Australian cryptid friend. Thank you, Ami. We have a $10 donation from Little Big Ham that says, Yo Marathon Man! Good luck on the All Gold Bolts runs. Let's lock in because everybody eats. Love to fit and love DWV. Here's a quarter per gold bolt that will be collected. Wow. What number are we at now? Yeah, yeah guys. 13? Question mark out of 40. And we have a $50 donation from Zando Toaster that says Love seeing Marathon Man up here repping the PlayStation Nation! Good luck on the run got time for more yeah all right we have a $5 donation from Disc11 that says first time catching a live GDQ where are you at? There we go awesome thank you! Ratchet and Clank has always been a huge part of my life, and it's incredible to see how speedrunners take full advantage of the mechanics. Marvelous work! Full speed ahead. We have a $5 donation from Crescent that says, Greetings from New Jersey! I'm glad to see Ratchet and Clank at GDQ after so many years And even more excited to have some quality time on my favorite planet, Eudora. We're going to spend a lot of time on udorah right right right maybe some more laps for the fans good luck now that's a deep cut oh can you get a hey for the fans? That's the guy capital T, capital G The Guy He's got I mean look at him look at him look at what a man! And he's got the gold chains, He's got like the $20,000 Rolex, The slick comb-over... He also got the flip flops on too. Dude this man is ready to go. This mans drip is unbelievable. He also got the flip-flops on too. Dude, this man's drip is unmatched! I have to point out as well just because it amazes me every time Is the comb over like under him? Like wraps around the back of his head is the comb over like under him, like it like wraps around the back of his head. I don't know where he came up with that one. Innovative. All right. If we want to go ahead and read a few more donations. Absolutely, we have a $20 donation from Xanatos that says head to donate to the Ratchet & Clank run I named him my cat Ratchet, and he turns 20 years old next month! Much love, GDQ. And we have a $5 donation from SlySonic that says, Oh my god! No way, no how! Do my eyes deceive me? Is that really, really, really the one, the only Johnman? Johnman, I miss you so much and your such an awesome person I can't wait to meet you again at some point Ahhhh Good luck at GDT Thank you, John Simon. And we have a $25 donation from Benjamin Cranklin that said, love this game as a kid and had to donate for Marathon Man's hat. Go birds! Yeah! There he is. He takes his sleep time, man. you don't want him to fall. He's trying to look... Does he look like a man that's in a hurry? I was gonna say if he can't scratch the Rolex... Come on, we got this over with. His whole planet, by the way, is one giant escort mission so... You know. He needs the escort. He's really like mom come pick me up I'm scared. Also doing this whole boating thing we're actually doing a little fish tank pot as well, we are just wrenching it one time and then using our bomb glove to gain more pulse than what we normally supposed to do We were only suppose to get like maybe 10 bolts per fish and now we're getting like close to 40. Yeah, it's a weird property with this game. We don't mind getting extra bolts. I like being rich. Oh, we love being rich! See? He's trying his best He is trying Oh Oh, we're going for a little swim. We can do that there? This was taught to me by... did we mention him earlier? Alamusa? No, we did not. Our Italian hero. Shoutout Alamusa! Out of all the years I've been playing this game, I never knew you could just stand there. People are finding new interesting stuff all the time which thank god for us! We're here! We are here at GDQ Am I right guys? We ARE here! Okay so this ship fight is really annoying There's these four, like, long just winding tankers and the little ships can drop you either missiles or ammo and You're trying missiles or ammo and... Let me try that one again. Health or ammo? And the health is useless, and the missiles are everything, so if you don't get missiles, uh, that sucks. I'm sorry. I think the fight went pretty well. Sorry guy this is where we... This is where we leave. I can't believe that shit bumped you, man. They be doing this? That's so mean! Alright, so now that we have the O2 mask, Ratchet can breathe on Orcson again. So we don't have to play as Clank anymore thank God and the rest of the level opens up. Why are you hating on Clank man? He was mean to me earlier he wouldn't go through the trees like why'd he do that just gotta talk to him just in case it's gonna come up later but just in case you what do you guys want to talk about tiptoes the only active all the other ratchets The only other active runner. Wait, what are we on? 16? That sounds alright. Just yell out your favorite number it's probably right. I was about to say 47, thank you back there. That's awesome! So tiptoes on quite a lot of surfaces if you need to get to some inaccessible areas or maybe even do like some recovery you could also do it like on the boiling like acid water if you need to recover. You saw it earlier getting into bolt number one on this planet, if you spam the jump button with a thruster pack fast enough you can just basically jump on anything! You just have to make sure you time it right and you are just spamming it like your life depends on it Mr. Krabs don't try it. Oh Mr. Krabs would never! Mr. Krabs would never! Mr. Krabs would never. He's not feeling it this time. Alright. Don't do it. No. Don't do it. Always think about it. Sometimes the thrust impact loves to just send you back down to the bottom of that area for no reason whatsoever. It is very annoying! So it's always a weight off the shoulders to get up there first try. Alright, beautiful little mid-air chain... That was almost too good. Oh! I'm my bunk here though oh no that's fine i think this way i still thought it was pretty cooler anyway beautiful okay so Beautiful. Okay, so... First of all it do. Let me get that out the way. Second... This next planet is... It do! It really do. I had to turn away a second after I saw the planet and I'm like, oh no. This planet is so bad and so tedious that my friend TheRixxer made a 30 minute video explaining how tedious it is. Shout out Ricky. Shout out Ricky. Oh my, we did get that which was good. Also this shit fight sucks and sometimes just doesn't work and then you die and lose a lot of time and it's really annoying uh that's a somewhat high shift too yeah i feel like the majority of runs of this game at gdq people have died here like it happens so uh hopefully no accidents one thing to note is i'm trying to aim like in between the turrets up top there you can deal extra damage on very very specific points and they're kind of hard to hit because if you see the ship is like bobbing up and down okay a lot of help too Okay. A lot of health too, gorgeous! Not out of it yet though... Oh! Oh, fuck. Good catch! This one's really scary and it's kind of a big deal because... I see some sinners in there? Yeah, fraction height. Okay. Oh yeah that's more safer. If I don't make it over here if i don't make it over here I spawn enemies down below and I can lock on during this launch here see this one's really goofy this is such a cool trick but it always stresses me out watching it this is a very new money that well. Okay, that's fine. You can ideally get another jump off of the top of the wall there but this is fine Free bolts What'd I grab onto? Oh! Blue Glow Blitz! I have never seen it here before. Okay... Everything's just blue now. Interesting. It's what happens when you dive underwater sometimes, like you'll get out and the game just forgets. And also alters the audio a bit. Yeah. Did I just hear someone say 32? Whatever you're feeling... Just yell out any random number between 1 and 40. Oh, man! We can't remember what bolt we're on anyway. It doesn't really matter. Yeah, we don't know how to count. Question mark out of 40. Everybody needs to appreciate the glorious soundtrack of this planet. For the 15 whole seconds that we're here. We're from Northern Rat. Like two minutes, man! We're not here more than that. We're not here long enough to actually hear the best song of the game. Game like, it's going pretty fast. I think it's pretty fast. Let's just let the music play for this one. Oh yeah, I just realized we are poor. Wait, what's our bolt count? 31. My man my man this was taught to me by Jira like two days ago or something there was another way but I saw him do that and I was like Yo! That's awesome! And there you go. That was brand new to me. What was that? Oh, this is Quark by the way. You're supposed to do some boss fight with him in a ship and fly around a bunch of asteroids For some reason if you just go over here he's like I guess I'll leave We should never really discuss this story at this game did we it's not really important honestly The story in this game, I mean, I will say, I do think this is one of like the better Ratchet stories but it's pretty cut and dry. It's still like your normal meet-your-hero, don't-meet-your-hero type of storyline? Yeah, don't meet your heroes. Halfway! Halfway. Halfway. Okay, so we're coming up on probably the hardest trick in the game uh there were a couple ways of doing this but they were all really slow and then a trick got found it had a bunch of names at the start we've settled on the name beam jump i know it was called early steve at a point because we'll get there but uh it was a wall for so long. It was like kind of a gatekeeper and then just over the years we've just found easier and easier ways of doing it and now it's very helpful. With all the new tech there's like seven different variations of this trick now so depends how hard you want it to be and how swaggy you want it to look I like Mr. van's version though i'm a fan we're all fans get yourself a nice little ledge proxy oh gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous i have to do a bunch of these back-to-back-to-back. This camp proxy in particular is... It can be really touchy with how it wants to be performed. Sometimes, he's like, yeah, you're not getting height or, yeah, I'm not gonna do anything for ya. Okay, Mr. Man's got the swass! Alright now here's a scary one. Abuse a little more height... You can very easily slide off this thing. That was good. I think we're good? Yeah, that's good i think we're good yeah that's enough all right my boy steve there's steep shout out steve oh uh now we have the pda if Steve? Oh, uh... Now we have the PDA. It's so funny to me because in the game it's... I'm not gonna say a throwaway, but like it's pretty much just like Hey if you run out of ammo you can pay extra money and buy ammo anywhere And uh... Like its just like a- Oh that's cute And then in the speed round it's like Oh my god, it does everything I said this during the segment earlier but There is like 9 different ways to do but there's like... There's nine different ways to infinite jump in this game, and a lot of them revolve around the PDA. But there are so many things you can do with it. How many strategy games are there that where's like one of the most useless items casually just turns out to be one of the most broken things in the entire game i mean there's the charge boots which is like i wouldn't say that's useless you got the tier guys for uya yeah yeah in ratchet three you got the tear guys which is typically just used to go through like stealth puzzles but turns out you can do infinite jumps, you can do side flips like this, infinitely abuse height and distance. It's crazy it's all the small little useless items that break into game. The rest of this planet is kind of just infinite jumping everywhere and getting a few more gold bolts, so if there's any more donations... Oh, there are plenty and oh boy I just I just want to start by saying you realize I am just reading what they wrote said don't jump over the table we have a five dollar donation from Rijikou that says, Mr. Man, we're all locked in and proud. Make sure you drink one or ten for me. And remember, let's go pens. Hey. I just read it. I just read it. I just read it with a five dollar donation from charrette saying first time donator love the run donating for some good old memes greetings from germany keep the bolts coming i think that's a bingo space for the gd2 discord folks there by the way we have a 25 donation from katie it had two exclamation points at the end, so you had to yell it. Happy GDQ and Ratchet & Clank love the hat. Go Birds! You got some Eagles fans out there? Hold up. We have a $5 donation from Chris Versus saying, Glad to see the PlayStation Nation represented by our favorite Eagles fan Have a great run! Thank you And then I got some donations, we have a $10 donation from Alex Fulcrum that says everybody eats and a $50 donation from Greg that says everybody eats so what they're trying to say is if you eat maybe join in on like a $5 train or something. If you eat. It's a whole collective pool everybody needs. I want it known the $5 everybody eats train would mean everything to me. There you go Let's make that happen Let's do it Got time for one more? Sure Alright we have a $25 donation from Evan that says my nowcé and I played through Ratchet & Clank during the height of COVID and we couldn't be happier to be watching now. Thank you Tiffany for saying yes to be my forever gaming partner. be my forever gaming partner man where are my tissues at we just went through another wall by the way i just oh yeah casually we disregard that one all the time again walls just aren't a thing in this game they're suggestions 25. what's a better number than 24. 25! There is another wall by the way. Walls are merely just a suggestion in this game i have no idea what you're talking about i didn't see any wall 26. oh it was right this time oh he did it. Bye. He's gone. I don't want this section. There's some also really good music here. The entire series just has great soundtracks. I feel like every soundtrack in this series is great except for like two or three games oh i thought you meant Ratchet 2. I was like huh? Yeah, just Ratchet 2 just go in the dumpster. I will say I do think it's odd that the best song and Ratchet two isn't actually in the game. It's on the soundtrack And I guess they just forgot to use it maybe because they knew what they had on them and like, no we gotta save this They were hooking in the studio and just like, nope, no more. Alright so we're coming up to the last five planets. And these last five planets are all... By this point now that we have the PDA We have all of the pack attachments for Clank These last five planets are pretty technical The maps are really big and you're just flying back and forth between them This is the eye candy section honestly yeah that's the movement in this planet itself is just super great so like going up and above like that like that's just skip dead. You're normally supposed to visit this planet a couple times And come back with different gadgets to access different parts of the map. We're just gonna go over all of it. I'm not a suggestion wall. Yeah, oh I have Ghost Ratchet again So uh walls truly are suggestions Here comes one of the coolest looking ILJs in my opinion. Oh no! You! That's so mean, why'd you do that? Go away. Later kid. Bye! There we go. Oh, almost! That was still beautiful. That could have been even more swag but you know it's still good enough It's not just good. It's a rule I live by when I run this game if it works it works uh now we're a gundam by the way fun fact this is like only the one out of the two giant flakes are as this entire game i mean this is the only one we get to see yeah the other ones attached to the final boss and i forget that's there because it's so easy to go past it. These all come in set spawns, though. Yeah nothing super crazy going on here. These all come in set spawns, so... Yeah nothing super crazy going on here we're just killing some robots. And also because we have Ghost Ratchet, Clank takes almost no damage other than actually getting punched. Oh, and you got the insta-kill! That's a glitch that can happen from time to time. One missile kills everything, makes it so much faster. This run is blessed! One missile kills everything, makes it so much faster. Oh wow. This run is blessed! It is. Everybody eats man. Everybody eats! I eat, you eat, Mr. Man eats, everybody's grandma eats, EVERYBODY EATS! Everybody eats. Everybody means everybody I want. The whole family eat and I want dudes in Slayer shirts i want dudes and italia crop tops like everybody eats let me know when you want to train the deets Oh, that best planet. This is my favorite planet in the game hands down There's only go bolts here so we only see it in like two of the categories but it's it's so good there's just it really is just all flash all swag no filler. And it's such a big map too and ideally we can just cover all parts of it in like two minutes. I was gonna say, it's like, we lose count again? Hold on. Yeah, this is supposed to be like the fourth, third or fourth planet in the entire game you're supposed to get. But this is saved near the end because of the PDA and such just makes it even more flashy for good recovery. Nice, nice. more flashy. Good recovery, nice nice! This isn't going to make it though yeah that's fine I'll try though. We get to do more ILJs now my favorite Yippee Can we check in on this train while you're doing that? Sure. How about this, okay, we're gonna speed run some of these. It's gonna make your day here. We have a $5 donation from Anonymous that says everybody eats, a $5 donation from Fleur that says everybody eats, a $5 donation from Fleur that says everybody eats, a $5 donation from Unnatural 20 that says choo-choo on this $5 train everybody eats. We have a $5 donation from Dorkalottle that says $5 food train. $5 from Wes, Sherry and Annie that says $5 everybody eats train choo-choo. $5 from Anonymous that says everybody eats. And a $5 donation from Alex and Dad that says there's a lot of steak but here are $5 for the Everybody Eats train. Beautiful. Can this train like go on forever? Everyone's getting so full from it. Dude, we're not gonna be satisfied until everybody eats. Everybody means everybody. I will tell you it hasn't ended yet, I just called the spare 40. Oh! I love to hear that. Would you like me to go on? Sure! Alright, another $5 donation from anonymous that says everybody eats A $5 donation from beans that says E-A-G-L-e-s, Eagles. Great run and go birds! And we have a five dollar donation from Murkaz that says everybody eats, A $5 donation from Vermillion Rua that says everybody eats. Beautiful. Alright, so this is one of, in my opinion the two most difficult planets in the entire run. This is by far the scariest bolt to get in the run so we're going along the top of the ship here and if i can do this. Gonna carry it down into here... Okay, that's the scary part! Gorgeous! So there is some water up here and uh That's the scary part. Gorgeous! So there is some water up here and if you look a little closely, there might be something wrong with it It extends out so it's very easy to die if you're not careful. And there is no like... There is just nothing that you can do. You just hit it and then you have to do this all over again but we didn't die so love that that's the scary part Okay. Oh, he cooks! That chain's also very scary. There's a bunch of just like invisible ledges there and again if you... Oh, oops! Alrighty then. It was so gorgeous we gotta see you again just a chance to show off my technique there. Technique? Ooh... Oh! That's a deep one. Okay, he still got it. See that's how I meant to hyper strike. I'm going to pay very close attention to not do that again like if everything goes well in this planet the movement of this is just so fluent it's so amazing. Yeah. This is another super long planet where you're supposed to have like a bunch of extra gadgets at this point, but we're just gonna beeline it to the gold bolts and then to the end five more 35 30 okay i was like did we lose count? No 35 is right. Some dogs this man just shot through the wall? He's got that phase aim. Oh my god, negative midair. That's so mean. He did not like that at all. Alright, final two planets! Ooh, Kalevo. My favorite honestly. This planet is so swagged. I've grown to love this planet. It's got my favorite bolt in the game. And this another like super big map and thanks to the PDA we can just get to the two gold buffs that we need very quickly. Ledged. Man. Marathon, man. There's this tower in the middle of the map and we're gonna do two chains to either end of it to get these gobolts this vda chain in particular can be a little daunting sometimes yeah you can't really see the ground super well too like his feet are obscured so it's just a lot of timing okay solid nice okay that's time for the fun one yeah now for my favorite one. It's in a very uh... interesting room why is it interesting i think you can figure it out that's an awesome chain too. And look at all those... Look at all those chickens! Get back to work, Ededron. That's the Gadgeton Break Room. That's the official name for it. Alright. Final planet. Final Planet! Back where we started! This is, I think by far the hardest planet in the game. There's a lot of things that can go wrong and very few checkpoints. So first we're gonna buy our second weapon. There it is, shoutout Yankee. Shout out Yankee. Nothing but love, Yankee. We miss you. Bye! okay that was so scary that one's really scary. I didn't want, 38? I didn't wanna say anything until that chain was in it. Like you gotta focus but- There is a very specific spot you have to go off there. It is such a gorgeous, gorgeous chain if you get it just right. Gotta be careful here because that little puddle that sticks out, you die instantly. He'll just drown even if his big toe hits it and nothing else. Even in this pinky toe. Set up another I'm gonna put another chain here, hopefully get another gold bolt real quick. And we also have ghost ratchet, again walls are just suggestions. Yeah so we have to do this chain through like multiple walls. 39? 39! Alright and the last one's right up ahead. Alright. We need to pop big here. Say it like you mean it guys! Oh shortcut...oh! you mean it guys say like you mean it a little shortcut Oh but it's not over yet. We're not done yet, we still gotta beat the final boss. Hopefully he can be good to us today. Sir... This fight is- I might have given a few people heart attack there. You could spawn him in early and that's just not good. It might be a hard attack, you get a little too close to the center there on that platform, Draco will just spawn in and if you don't spawn them in you get to skip two thirds of the fight so yeah like we said the first part of the flight is uh done with giant clank then there's two fights on like these big rock platforms and then you end up here to finish the final half of the fight do you want to explain the pyrocyter really fast real quick? Sure. Basically, notice the weapons don't do a whole lot of damage to bosses especially to Drek however on the PAL version or the European version he just gets damaged every single frame. And as you can see his health just completely melts. Yeah it was a weird thing that happened when they were porting the PAL PS2 version to hd oh we're running low on health man no all right almost there... a little bit more. Oh! He's the homie! It didn't fly off. Time is coming up in 3...2...1... Good job Mr. Mann. Thank you. We're valid! Thank you everyone watching back there that helped me keep count of all these. Thank you to everyone who watched, thanks to everyone who's ever supported me. Shout out all the runners coming up, there's so many great runs coming up. Thank you, you three for being three of my favorite people in the entire world and helping me out with this. Thank you to all the GDQ staff that all the technicians everyone everybody eats everybody eats All the technicians, everyone. Everybody eats! Everybody eats! Hey everybody! Welcome back, prime time day one SGDQ 2024. I'm TonesBaloons and we are going to be running Splatoon 3 Side Order. Brand new DLC just came out this spring, and I'll give my couch a second to introduce themselves. Yeah hi! I'm KingJ0414 Also we have the best shortest category name. It's New Game Plus Marie Palette RTA Random Seed. Very straight to the point. Hey, I'm Kung Fu Forgotten but Eon... She's not good at Jeopardy apparently and apparently nobody is. Extremely mediocre at... But we're not gonna play Wataa let's go ahead and get into the run! Let's go ahead and start off the run. Let's start off in 3, 2, 1...go! So Splatoon 3 Side Order is sort of like a roguelike. In a way it's kind of like Hades, enter the Gungeon where you're going to get upgrades as you go through the tower and the goal going to get upgrades as you go through the tower, and the goal is to get to the very top of the tower. Some upgrades are better than others which is why we are using the Charger Weapon. The Charger Weapon gives a boost to some of the power-ups that are better than others, namely the purple chips because they're going to give us things like charge speed and ink saver and we can just spam out shots and all these things. Early on, I'm kind of just taking whatever levels will give me good enough chips. It doesn't really matter at that point. You're going to be able to pick through three different types of levels and they will give you the benefit, like the chip addition to upgrade your weapon before you start the level which is cool. Yeah! There's one specifically we were looking for which which is Quick Charge. So we're going to hope for that. There will be a little bit of gambling in this run. That's what you like to see. At the very start, namely I'm just going for any purples in this run. That's what you like to see. Yeah. At the very start, namely I'm just going for any purples. Any purples are gonna be good and since I'm doing a speedrun, I don't really read very well as you can tell. I was a physics major English is not my thing So I see color purple and pick the level These are like the fastest missions to do by the way, the ones with these orbs but the enemies coming out of them. Yeah, these are called portals they take about three charge to hit or they'll take special once I get back. I hate this thing. Hopefully, if they land on it... They did not hit but it cleared the enemies so I'm good. Similar to other roguelikes um you can like get upgrades that last and like will always yeah every time you go through so like a lot of these are already unlocked to like give tones extra lives and extra armor, and other things like that. Vending machine! So there are times actually where for those of you who have played the game know that vending machine levels are very fast so I would assume I'd take every single one. There are times where will forgo the vending machine if I do see a very good power-up Splatic Recovery is pretty good! We love to see it! I'm not going to spend too much money here though because I like having some money early on for rerolls. So that I don't get stuck doing bad levels. We can do...some...this guy! Non-purple? Yes, non-purple? Yes, non-purple. When does it make that worth it to you over a purple set? It's really hard to explain I just kind of choose the level. So I know that this levels really fast and I saw there was a purple over there that it could have done in that levels not as fast so I would like to do this one instead, because this only has two portals and they're very easy to get to. So it's a balance that you always have to be considering when you're going through? Alright with this we've got a good start at the early game so I'm going to throw it off to a couple donations and knock yourself out. Alright, we have a $5 donation from Splash Brody that says Good luck Tones! Looking forward to seeing how you're thinking of following up the flossing performance from your last Latifi LC run. I got plans. I'm not gonna spoil it, but I got plans. I was going to say, Tones, you got anything up your sleeve this time? Oh yeah. Also trans rights... We have a $15 donation from Mercury that says, Hi! This is my first time donating and I'm super excited to see the side order run. I've been completely obsessed since I first played it and I'm currently working on sub 10 with Agent 4's pallet. My PB is 1015, so I know it's possible. Good luck with the run." Thank you everybody. So we're going to go into this next level. It's another portal level, so the types of levels that we are choosing mostly these portal levels that have black orbs that have enemies that spawn from them and also the levels that have little dudes running around, they have to get. The main reason is they are done as soon as I...as fast as I can get them. So it is much easier to get these done in a short amount of time, like 14 seconds versus something like the Splat Zones levels which are essentially an auto-scroller and I would have to be waiting on. Sometimes I'm just going to go for it. Sure this says run speed up is it faster? Not really but I know that this level's fast so I'll pick it rather than have to deal with re-rolling the level. Also good use of those Beyblades there to quickly take out the portals. Yeah, speaking of Beyblades, watch me miss. Let it rip, man. Oh! I'm huge. I'm miss. Let it rip, man. Oh! Oh! Oh, okay. Very good. Oh, never mind. I'm small. No! Oh, you're missing it. You nailed the first one. Please? My Beyblade messed me up, and... Got him. Nice! He just took the Scenic Rat, alright? Gotta play with your food a little bit. You got the double kill at the beginning, that's what I'm talking about. Main damage distant? Okay... We'll take it. Speaking of levels, so the levels you pick do have a difficulty attached to them. You'll see easy normal hard or rigorous. A lot of it doesn't really matter. You will see this is a rigorous level but it's one of the easiest portal levels you can do because all these little fishies they love going in a circle and i'm going to go in the other direction that they're going so i just completely avoid them so they already start in one direction by the time you get over, they're too far. And then I can just special this last one and we're done! Nice nice. A squid bag for good luck. Yep, and we can throw off to a couple more donations. All right thank you so much. We have $33.33 donation from Pucci.exe that says Splatoon 3 hype? Always love seeing Splatoon at GDQ, best of luck to TonesBalloons here's hoping the floor and color chip RNG is on your side. And we have a $10 donation from Iris Watson that says, I've sunk way too many hours into side order even after clearing all the pallets. Good luck on the run! Thank you for the luck. That's actually a good idea, tell us in the donations are you a Wumi fan or are you a Fimo fan? Ah yes! The age old question I'm kind of curious to know what people's favorite palettes are, actually. That's a good one to ask as well. I do like Mori's palette a lot. There is one palette that is different than the others and that is Agent 8's Pallet, I think. Is that what it's called? Yeah, it is. So that one gives you...it's like a hard mode in the game Oh! I don't want that one. It's sort of like a hard mode where you are not allowed to use a lot of hacks or the more hacks you use, the less upgrade you're allowed to have so you're essentially on your own for the entire run going through 30 floors, and it's very difficult. This is the first boss fight that we will see. There are three different boss fights that you'll get at Floors 10 & 20. Elusive Bounder is a big ball, unfortunately I do have homing shots So homing shots helps a lot in this boss fight because it basically gives me free crits on his face so I can kind of just spam out and as soon as I can hit him then I hit him. But yeah boss is very self explan, so rail away some more donations. I know you got them. Absolutely. We have a $50 donation from the Hobbs family that says every year we watch as a family and every year my kids demand to use some of their allowance to donate to those in need. Thankful for a fun event to raise money and awareness for a good cause. This donation is going for Layla for the Splatoon run as she plays it every day. Deep puffs, right? That's awesome. She plays it every day. Deep cuts right. That's awesome! And we have a $5 donation from Moxon that says, good to see Tones on the GDQ stage again. It was those past GDQ runs that Tones did that planted the seed that eventually led to me picking up these games. Seeing World 4 skip for the first time during GDQ in 2016 is a core memory I have had for years. Anyway, good luck Tones! Let's go gambling! I'm so glad to hear that! It's so nice! That one also got me into running Splatoon, and you led me down this path. Oh man... Thank you, but I'll re-pursue. So this is an example where I am going to, instead of Going to the vending machine I'm just gonna take this Because main range is very good It's a eight ball level just gonna have to power through but we can talk a little bit more. I'm sorry for cutting you off. That was a very heartfelt moment and you guys are cool and nice to me. But yeah, I'm very glad that my runs at GDQ have given me opportunities. Honestly the place where I live right now, I would not be there if not for a GDQ. It's completely changed the trajectory of my life in a way that is inexplicable. So I'm very thankful to everyone here and the crowd especially in my back house because a lot of people that i couldn't fit on my main couch but they're very nice so thank you very much i'm gonna hook and get this one definitely sweet that's enough words all right enough being sweet place will tune yes please like bobby do you have some words yeah how about this 50 donation from squid school that says, yeah make sure you're taking notes kids. I'll be coming around to check them later this week. Is this going to go on the test later? Okay, I didn't know that. Huge thanks to Tones, Valone's and the rest of this platoon speed running community for helping support doctors without borders of course but also for getting our favorite squidio game on stage here for everybody to see stay fresh i like that one squitty go game that's a new one yeah it's good and we have a 20 donation from lucas and lucina this says lucas has been having so much fun playing side order lately and has been so excited to see this run. He says good luck TonesBalloons! Thank you. Back to vending machines, let's see what they got. Yep. Yeah, vending machines will appear on random levels not just the ones that are dedicated to vending machines so hopefully these are good? Okay. I have a question about like the bosses you you're offering. There's only a couple, but which one do... It seems like you're always avoiding at least one? Yeah there are three different bosses There is Elusive Bounder There is Rotational Jimmy John Not the correct name. Not scientific. The ones that you have to kill the octolings that come one by one That's not a one that I like to do because they come in waves so you're waiting a lot and it just takes a lot longer than the other two. In general, every single run I'm going to be doing Elusive Bounder and Rotational Gem Flam. How much does it cost to reroll an actual boss? The bosses only costs 50. What?! It's less?! Well, it's not less! It's the? No, well... It's not less. The first time you re-roll is 50. Oh! That's fair for a boss, yeah then. You can re-roll as many times as you want. It's just gonna flip flop back and forth. I am doing this, this is a terrible decision but this is the first quick charge I found. And it's better...I guess I could have gone to the vending machine and played some gambling, but... Tones you used up your luck. You did a practice run and got four quick charges right away! I should not have done it. Note to self do not practice ever. It brings nothing but destruction for those at home maybe practice maybe practice a bit please oh my, go up please. Yeah so this uh... This is one of the levels that I'm trying to avoid but I did it because of Quick Charge. Also yeah now you broke your armor so if you break your armor um you can get launched up you unlock that later on um it's not right away but you can unlock it with points to get launched up to escape the enemies and stuff like that. This one, you're basically firing this tower to move it. It's kind of like Tower Control online, except you're guiding it. Please let me out. Thank you. Was it worth the quick charge? No. Okay. We got there though, we got there. That was a minute! I just went through the vending machine and went to the slots. Uh...okay. I just went through the vending machine and went to the slots. Okay, you got what you came for. Yeah, I got the quick charge so we're looking for more of those please that are at good levels. Is there a max that they would offer of a specific type of chip? You can only get... it changes depending on the chip, but I think Quick Charge has five different chips. Oh wow okay. Nice. And then once I do get to five maximum quick charges, my weapon basically turns into a bamboozler but with the power of an E-Liter, so it is extremely strong. Very overpowered. This level's so easy. I'm just going to smack this guy and bang! For those who are new to splatoon that just means fast charge and strong yes all right i'm gonna just be focusing up until the next boss. I'll throw it back and grab some more Donos. Absolutely, we have a $50 donation from MamaBalloons that says, Have a great run, Tones. You always make me proud of Mom at the Lounge. Love you, Mom! Not your mom. Shout out to all the moms who support speed running. And we do have some answers on what team people are on. Okay. We have a $250 donation from Kate that says Pearl and Marina say trans rights. Yes, they do. That is the correct side. Also... Like trans rights? Wummi, Vimo, and Trans Rights said it's really cool to dance there. But also, WumMI in Kate's sense here We have a $100 donation from anonymous that just says WUMI And then a $50 donation from Coaster saying, so hyped to finally see Tones Below back on the GDQ stage it's been too long also team woomy I can see you're not happy with this. I hate this, actually! Not to donation the game. Donations keep... just keep reading. I've got nothing. I just read these. Ten dollar donation from Bagels saying, spending my salmon run paycheck to say happy pride to the freshest squids and octopus around. Oh, I didn't realize it was Splatthones. Yeah, we have to work for this quick short Oh, I didn't realize it was flat zones. Yeah... we have to work for these quick charges! Not only is it like Tone's Synth and Autoscroller but if they take over your zone you have to wait even longer And God forbid if i do not make it yeah if i lose a life then it's uh there's a checkpoint but it's all down the drain uh tones Zoo, are you team Woomy or Vemo? Woomy. Easy. We're on the same page. Also I'm Team Pearl. Pearl is my favorite And I don't know if that's a hot tag or not but she's my absolute favorite of all. I do love the Pearl Drone. My calling card in-game is the Pearl Drone one that you can get. Ever since Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion she became my absolute favorite. That's fair, she got a really good moment in there. So good! Yeah. She's small and loud I really relate. Oh yeah. Alright so we worked for the quick charge hopefully I can get something better. Let's go vending machine! Vending machine is quick if anything. Someone was really excited about that vending machine. I appreciate it. Can we give any background as to the DLC itself? Why are we here? You don't have to. It's just kind of interesting. I'm the lore enthusiast here, okay. So yeah, I mean... I'm the lore enthusiast here? Okay. Quick, sum it up. So yeah, I mean... The original campaign for Splatoon 3 was about Chaos versus Order Splatfest Uh, chaos 1 so uh, the main story was about chaos. This is about order, so we're climbing the Tower of Order right now and we're going to face off against order itself at the top. And this was originally an invention of Marina to be a fun space, like a virtual space. I was going to say, I don't remember most of the actual lore so I'm glad you do. It's taken over by the orderly structure is taking away people's personalities basically. Yeah Marina essentially made the metaverse Yes! And it went bad It went bad so we're going to fix it So That's why Pearl is a drone right now, because We are in the meta phase. The only mechanic here In Layered Rotator is you only have to defeat the rings that are lit up. So, uh, in general I'm just trying to get it low enough for me to get this guy... He's gonna spin fast soon probably? Maybe? for me to get this guy. He's going to spin fast soon, probably. Maybe this works. Where is this guy's face? I've been searching around over the top guy. Oh no! Please... with the top guy. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. No, that's not good. Please... There you are! Let me go, let me go, let me go. It's fine. I'm in the air. There's no problems. Again, this is why having those... There is no problems. Again, this is why having those... I see there is a problem. There's no problems, he says. It's okay. You start with one life so now that you've upgraded you have all six lives coming into play. Tom just wanted to show what it was like to die. He hasn't done that yet, so... Okay, can you please show your face now? There you are! Nope, nope, wrong. Nope, no, don't want you and thing bang pop one more please i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you please Please. Please. Finally! There we go. Nice, very good. Alright, go ahead and throw on some more donations while we go to a vending machine. Alright, we have a $10 donation from Cricket that says Cricket here happy to see the tones of the balloons back at gdq always down to see us flat run good luck and may rng be on your side as for the survey big ups to the marina palette and vmo happy pride y'all no and we have a 25 donation from ruffle fox that says woomy marie is my favorite splatoon character of all time so of course her palette is my fave. That's fair. She's a good choice. And we have a $25 donation from Troy of Athens. I can't pronounce that. Troy of Athens. Troy of Athens! Thank you. Because he's apologizing to you. Hey King, sorry I couldn't be there to see the run live. Good luck to Tones Malone's and he's on Team Woomy. Hey, we miss you Troy! Alright so we are in the home stretch now these are the last 10 levels of the final boss is of course always the same much in the tradition of roguelikes and right now i'm pretty much strong enough i would like to have more quick charges and to not get blown up in the air again like that um those guys are hunting just in the middle of it all right now go ahead and get that one and then the one up here please i think we have our specials, so... Stop it! Did I turn off my damage reduction or something? I've never taken this much damage before. It's okay, again you used all your luck yesterday. Yeah, I really did. You gotta work for this run now. Please give me a purple? I'll take it. Sticky ink. You guys want sticky ink? Is that a good upgrade? Sure. Apparently they do. I suppose enemies down yeah she has the audience they're just wooing through everything yeah what's up audience? Audience, what do you think about us passing $50,000 already? Last guy is up here. Nice! You do have to be careful with these wheelie guys because they get scared by your laser before you shoot them, so uh...you kinda have to hide your laser as you approach so that you don't get messed up. That is good to know. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Bobby, what you got? We have a $50 donation from OxoCarb saying, Woo me from your friends at Grizzco. Grizzco. Grizzco. I love Mr. Grizz. We have a $25 donation from Ankylos that says, Grass grows. Fish swim. And I donate to Splatoon Run's Vemo from the audience! Woo! That one is for you, audience. I did one back. And we have a $50 donation from Countess425 that says $50 donation to MSF from a roller naming turf warring octoling love it all right that's done that's usually my favorite portal level uh it's so much fun when I'm insanely strong with Quick Charge and damage up and stuff, but I'm just really underpowered right now. See? I've got some pretty bad underpowered stuff, but that's okay. You know, I have a 30 minute estimate. I am not worried in the slightest. We've two quick charges at the moment right? Yeah we do have two quick charges. That's not Quick Charge. I do have a lot of credits so let's go gambling. That's not quick charge. It's going to be more each turn now? Okay. I'm going to grab this one and leave. Goodbye. Can I also say it by the way? I love the music after we finish each floor oh the time is so good that's something splatoon has always like excelled in it's just the music i think it won't top octo expansion for me but it's close i I would agree with you. Yeah. As somebody who actually, like, I haven't really played many roguelikes but going through this experience especially if your a fan of Splatoon is like really enjoyable. Yeah. This was just the things they do with the game are like really fun and they did um a great job of this when they released some information about those i was like how's this gonna work but it works pretty well yeah that's how I felt too yeah okay what died thank you so many hits yeah break that one. See, this is where homing shots are pretty bad because it's getting away from the portal and hitting the enemies rather than where I'm aiming. Yeah once you were there the hits were like so much less. Please? Please? Please? Please? You know what? Yeah! That one! Yeah? Yeah? I like that one. Yeah? Yeah? I thought so. All right let's throw it over to some more donations. All right we have a $100 donation from Pepto Bismol that says just thought I'd chip in for the side order run. I had an inkling that I'd see this game at GDQ, and I'm not squitting when I say that watching you use Marie's Palette has me charged up. Here's hoping you can keep turning the tide on your surge up the tower. Booyah! There was a lot to unload in that message. This is bad. Why's it 600 to re-roll? That's really bad. Alright, that's fine. It's fine. Ink Saver's one of the ones you want, right? Yeah, Ink Savers good I think as long as they didn't say ink savers sub and I can't read hey we're winning well all right uh we got two more levels into the final boss so... It's actually funny that they gave you like a good one for quick charge too finally oh wow you can see the difference yep holy moly and two levels are getting more intense as well. Yeah, once you get to the end of a run of side order it's very noticeable when the difficulty plagues after the second boss. Yeah, but I'm a lot stronger so really the difficulty stays kind of the same. You're also just gaming. You're good at the game. No. Okay. I tried to give you a compliment one time and you turned it down. Yes, let's go gambling! Oh dangit! Oh no... Ah dangit! That would hurt my ears. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. For people watching go gamble it works you will win Toads wait hang on We have GDQ and do not condone this I know you're excited for Bellator, but like what? Alright. And we are out of here! Alright, I spent all my money but we get to go into the final boss. That does sound like gambling. So this is the final boss that we talking about earlier, which is order. Essentially Marina created this program that got a little too out of hand and The program wants everything to be completely sterilized and normal, and there's no diversity anywhere. You just got to go through every phase and beat them up, And there's bangers happening. Yes. Everything is good. Good music. So let's close it out with a big donation train. Let's get those read before the next segments, and I've got nothing else to say. Take it! Alright we have a $5 donation from Ben S that says always love to see a Splatoon speedrun from Tones Malone's. We have a $25 donation from Soda Popplio that just says, Woo me! It was very long like that. We have a $50 donation from Turtle 24 12. it just says woomy we have a fifty dollar donation from zach that says don't get cooked stay off the hook nice we have a $20 donation from GS Standard that says, thank you for running this great game at this great event. We also have a $100 donation from Elusive Bounder that wanted me to do sound effects, but I can't do this one. It says angry gurgling noises for being defeated so fast i wanted to hear that perfect thank you all right can we get some applause for that, please? You did not need to do that. Thank you! Props! I admire the commitment to that The commitment to the bid, yes Oh and here's a callback we have a 25 donation from apostle of order that says who would i be if i didn't donate during this everybody splats yeah let's call that. But yeah this boss wants order and if you haven't noticed from this run we like to be a little chaotic so Yeah, we love a little chaos in the life the song is great it's also not the sprite is one of those really well done like you have kind of a culmination of all the things you've been going through in different ways, like some of the levels. And then at the end, you'll see we have another phase coming up. Time! That's it? Oh, you don't know the other phases? No no yes. It's only on the first playthrough. On the first try, okay. Unfortunately. But I said at the beginning that I had a little trick up my sleeve, so I want to first of all apologize to Games Unquick. I kind of lied. This was not a speed run in the sense that I was going as fast as I possibly could. I was playing unoptimally you can say and what I mean by that is if you look to the left of my pallets, you will see something pretty sus. Do you see it? Tones, I hate You because you showed me this last night And I can't unsee it ever The Among Us right there So now that I have all of your attention at home, please get your wallets out and your donations in. In my opinion, MSF is one of the most important organizations we have in the world right now with all the conflicts going on so all the donations you guys are doing right now with all the conflicts going on. So, all of these donations that you guys are doing right now matter. Thank you everyone for watching! You guys are a great audience thank you so much and we are out of here. Oh, thank you all so much. So glad to be here. Hi everybody, I'm T-Pat. I am a first time runner and absolutely humbled and honored to be sitting in this chair and being on the stage with some incredible friends doing some incredible work for charity and everything and all that so yeah this is gonna be pokemon violet again i am t-pat and i am joined by three of my best friends in the whole world if you'd like to introduce yourselves hello i'm corvamey i'm Korvimei. I'm here. Hiya! And I'm Etiquette and there's a whole lot of people on the back couch too so shout out to everybody in the crowd, shoutout to all of you at home we're gonna start in a moment, but just going to quickly mention that this is the teal mask category, a single story category. So we are starting from the school and not the beginning of the game because the intro sequence is a bit inconsequential to the run so we are going to get it kicked off from here. So chat, count down with me in 3...2....1....GO! That's my weatherman. I am in fact Keizeron's weatherman. This is not a joke, he lives 15 minutes away from me. He was actually my weatherman when I was in college. Wait, really? Yes! This is true! Yeah, the amount of weather-related things that he has done for us, not necessarily aware of it more than you think. Has he been your weatherman? Not yet apparently. Get the hell off the couch! Alright! Before we head to the first DLC area which this category is based around, We need a quick detour to catch our main Pokémon on the run. It's going to be a Medicham at first So we need to take this quick detour, which of course includes everyone's favorite Mario trick the BLJs and the very hardest BLJ of the run is in couple seconds so quickly, BLJs, someone please explain? You don't want to get all those power stars because it takes a really long time. When you wanna go up this staircase... Just like that. And now watch me climb that one. Okay? That was a warm-up! Now I'm gonna do that one. This is the hard one. The best part about this BLJ tech is we were able to remove Mipskip like super duper fast. Yeah! First try! Let's go! That is unironically really hard. That is incredible. The way that the BLJs work is you basically want to be facing away from a slope and any slope that you can slide down, not something that's like a wall, but something you slide down You can just hop backwards up. That particular jump we call the crevice jump, and it essentially... Uh, you have to, like, go up this crevice, and then go to theface and then go to the right, and then go to the left. But you can't turn because if you turn it will start sliding. So it's a whole thing. That was awesome to see first try. I'm so glad I got a first try at GDQ. I was like so nervous for that for, like, an hour. And now we're going to take forever to find them at a time. Yeah. Just to kind of average it out a little bit. Y'all like RNG? Yeah! Nope, that's a rock rough. There's a lot of dogs in this area by the way. So um... This is one of many runs of Pokemon where you just have to hope that the starter you get is good and there's about what he said? A 1- 8 chance? Oh! Here's one. There's three and a Tri-Gull. So I need 3 specific stats to be good enough. The attack stat, the speed stat and its terra type, they're all coin flips. Critical catch, let's go! Alright. Yay! Unless it's bad then we boo! So the Dusk Ball catch is 77%. And now I'm waiting on three coin flips to see if you're runnable. Psychic, 24... Yes! Yeah I got it for a strike! This game is so easy. Wait wait wait wait wait It's minus attack, It's actually not good enough! Oh, I got duped! I saw the stats and I was like, wait... I'm surprised that that nature was runnable. It's not. It's not. I have to catch a different one. Oh! That was so close. I want a refund. My joy. Yeah. I literally had to double check that because I was like oof. Okay. This one for sure this this ones gonna have same stats but actual good nature. It can't give you a bad twice in a row. Yeah no way Why is it so quiet? During that moment, psychic Not good enough. Okay, alright I am gonna try one more try with the Dust Ball and the Great Ultra Ball that I picked up. While TPAT's getting back in the game, Court what is the status of save or release Ogre Pond? I'm so glad you asked! We have save Ogre Pond ahead at $2,412 And release Ogre Pond at $2,412 and release ogre pawn at $904. Okay! That's going to happen at the end of the run and I think that save is too far ahead. Wait, save is too far ahead so wait save us too far ahead we if you release ogre pond we will release overpond from the plastic wait why is this over pawn in plastic what did you do so that's the thing you have to make the moral choice the real life ogre pawn or the ogre pond in the game oh no i didn't realize i was like an assistant to a possible murder. Wait, wait, there are air holes in the back. There are air holes. Oh, okay, never mind. Her favorite music is on, the air conditioning. What? I was locked up to the Meditite! Get Riolu'd. Alright, while we are getting Riolu'd here I do want to say... Where did Meditite go? We have $50 from tts for life that says is that the three-time emmy nominated weatherman speed running on the big stage how's the forecast of the run good luck from the back couch we're all rooting for you. That's my weatherman! TTS is running Pokemon White 2 later this week. Yeah, so make sure y'all check out that as well. No one in this room likes Pogo. sure you all check out that as well no one in this room likes pokemon so i both those by the way, catches are favored. They are 77% and 58%, respectively. So we're going to give this one more try before switching to our backup meta type to which we will need the bid war of that shortly here so within about a minute. So this is part of why we start the run as from the school and not from the beginning because what would happen if you start from the beginning is there will be an additional 50 minutes to get back to this point instead of like five yeah that was something the community voted on for all these sidekicks. A smart decision. I agree! It means that instead of people not running Scarlet Violet, people run Scarlet Violet, which I think is cool. I'm a big fan of playing the game. Me too. So yeah it's great and we do that every year which I think is cool. I'm a big fan of playing the game. Me too. So yeah, it's great and we do that for all the single story categories not just the DLC area that we're going to see but as you saw back in Etiquette's run of Victory Road from two... Last all the single stories oh nice critical catch yeah so is this one the only one of the non-any% categories that doesn't start at school and stuff is actually the second DLC. So this is the first DLC we'll explain a little bit more about the DLCs once we get there. But the second one is more of a post-game kind of thing, so... Oh was it Terra type? Yeah that one had the Fighting Terra type. I'm gonna backstrike this one Backstrikes add a little bit to the catch rate. So now the Ultra Ball is going to be 96% or 98%, which means it's going to break out because it's a GDQ. Of course it is. We do have a contingency if this doesn't go well. Four out of six crits, that's pretty good! It's not bad! Should I tell you that if you've caught a Meta-type before every successful successful catch always displays as a critical catch. Oh. Did that ruin the magazine for you a little bit? Yes! I got it this time! We need the nickname please, Port. Alright, I am happy to say the nickname for Medicham will be Trans Rights. All right. Woo! Click, click. I hope you all enjoy this ASMR. Boom, there we go. Exactly fits. Look at that. Thank you so much to everyone who donated for that name and plenty of donations are coming in. We have $10 from HeadBob that says, Best of luck to my favorite Emmy-nominated weatherman! This donation goes to releasing the ogre pawn, because saving time is fun. Give me one more. We have plenty. We have $13.30 from Steven that says, Fun fact! Did you know that Ogre Pawn is guaranteed to have a lonely nature? All she ever wanted was a friend. So here's my $13.30 for my favorite Pokémon, Eevee! To save Ogre Pond. Alright! That's so sad and lore accurate. It really is. It IS lore accurate. right that's so sad and more accurate it is lower accurate so now we are going to start to collect some experience candies i just picked up a large candy there uh and i'm heading towards a medium experience candy. This is the main way we gain experience in any Scarlet and Violet category. Also, I just came up with a name for this trick. It is called teching because I invented that just like the BLJ, definitely a Pokemon-related term. There was actually some tech that I was doing there. I was intentionally falling off a not-Miridon and then remounting mid mount so that way the Miridon doesn't harsh land embrace, and you lose like... I think it's two seconds of waiting for him to get started. It feels like it. Yeah, yeah. All right, so T-Pot's going to do some inventory management here. This is the real one. You're the real Slim Shady. And we're going to put you over here. I'm just going to double check that that's the correct one. Yay, we got what we wanted. Now we have a pig. I am going to do autosave on now because this is, in fact, Scarlet Violets. Yeah. I just wanted it off so I could do the reset for the Meta type for a couple attempts, but I definitely need that now. Yeah, we're about to start the DLC area here. This is right at the end of school So you don't have any gym badges yet. You haven't done any of the Titans, any of the Starfall bases. You've just done this tutorial. So this area just is available and it's so generously scaled in terms of difficulty and level. Essentially there are two versions, a low-level version when you haven't beaten the game yet and high-level version when you have. Most people probably experience the high-level version when you have. So most people probably experience the high-level version because they've played the game and then a year later, the DLC came out. Same thing they did in Gen 8 as well. A little bit. Kind of! Actually, Crown Tundra and Indigo Disk have a similar problem where they're like, oh you definitely beat the game with all these level 65 Pokémon Yeah we can't quite cheese the game as easily as Dynamax Adventures go grab a level 65 and beat the game. We actually have to at least still get a couple experience candies. But we're gonna be using Meditite, which is actually a super interesting run for me. I think it's my favorite way or main Pokemon to use here because this has gone through a couple of different iterations. At first we were using Aspathra as the main Pokemon for the Teal Mask category. Aspathra being another Psychic-type Pokemon super consistent and has this insane move called Lumina Crash, which lowers the opponent's special defense harshly. And it is a special attacking move so you use it once and then the next time you use it, you're doing double damage. And it continues to stack. It's super consistent. You use only 100% accuracy moves. It's fun, but it's kind of boring. So I like this run because we get to use one of my favorite moves in the entirety of Pokemon called High Jump Kick! So that is kind of the thing, the only thing... The thing that is actually worse than a super random Pokemon run is a Pokemon run with no randomness. Yeah. Honestly, yeah. Yeah. That's why I like this run there's a little bit of peril just a little bit of RNG to roll the dice with that keeps you on your toes but what makes the Medicham more powerful than the Aspatthra is its ability, it has pure power which doubles the attack stat of your Pokemon outright. And that is a massive increase. So this is the DLC area of Kidakami, and this is why it is called The Teal Mask. I literally never noticed that there's a small TM next to area 0. Wait, really? They trademarked it just like how we trademark teching. Yes. Yeah! Exactly. And by the way, just to explain for anyone who's not too familiar with Pokemon High Jump Kick is a move move so obviously there are moves that are 100 accurate and there's moves i can miss most of the time if you miss a move it's like yeah whatever you just try again uh hi jumpkick if you miss the move you lose half your health. Because you continue and crash. I crash, yeah. So that'll be fun when I have to click that move. But it's also very powerful. It's like 130 base power, I think it is? It's stupidly powerful. Yeah, and Meta-chan is a Fighting Psychic type so you get the same type of attack bonus which is another 50% power on top of that. Comes in a clutch. Alright, we're gonna make our way to the community center here of this very tiny little region In fact there's only really one city in this whole region So Court please give us some more donations fantastic I'm learning about so many people's favorite pokemons like the absolute best and so I have a 1970 dollars on do for and $70. It's John D. O'Farr that says donating mine and Teapot's matching favorite Pokemon and the Pokemon that Kizeron is wearing apparently times 10! Love Pokemon and always donate as much as I can for the amazing causes that GDQ supports. Thank you so much, give me another round of applause for that almost $2,000 donation. Thank you so much Sean. By the way, I've never seen a corefish there. Literally never! I was just like what the heck? Can we start one more time? Please continue. One more quick one. Alright, we have $15 from JTattles that says, Is that THE Thomas Patrick WX? So hyped to finally see you on the big stage. If we're doing favorite Pokemon donations I can't afford Umbreon but here's the Squirtle Squad! Love that. Thank you so, so much everybody. That's incredible. Yeah we'd love to see the Pokedex donations and since we are in Kitakami and I know we've been doing Pokedex donations for how many years now? Has it been since your Crystal Run that we've been doing it? Yeah, 2019. So we thought we'd give everybody some suggestions so you'll kind of mix things up And I found a really good way to do this because today I have for all of you happy birthday, I guess. A booster box of Twilight Masquerade from the Pokemon TCG, which is of course based off this region. This is for you all to open up during the run and if you pull anything rare or interesting, maybe shout it out and let the chat know what may be the Pokedex number is. Maybe the collector set of some of those. Just give people some suggestions. I have an example. T-B uh suggestions you have the wrong one now wait i thought i put the metal title that's in here because that's what i wanted you know what don't get him with chalk tacklek. Tackle! That's my boy! That's not your boy anymore. No! That's my dinner! Um... I have no more Pokemon to fight. Come on, the Pokédex in this game is complete. I have no more Pokémon that can fight without eating so many different Pokémon. Pretty much most of these rival fights in Scarlet Violet if you couldn't tell by our incredible acting You don't have to win So it's faster to lose! Side note... Wait, we were acting? No. Oh, okay. If you're thinking about like, oh I want a do a Pokedex donation. I don't really know what to do. You need an example? Ogre Pawn is 1,017. Sure is. Keep that in mind! Oh speaking of which we are not monsters here I have the ogre pawn sleeves for you to put in your cards. You are going to need those! See TPack back in my day I would just make people speedrun a glitched category How about that? Hell yeah! speedrun a glitched category while playing for team matches. Oh, yeah! I forgot you did that! Yeah, but now TPAC's really into PPCG, so... This is still interactive. Are you still working on the plastic? No, we got it. We got it. I will see this fool at my local comic book shop every Sunday. He is so into the card game now. Oh yeah! I got that Poochietta from that last battle. Okay. Nice! Can I get a sleeve? I got Greninja EX. I don't know if it's any good. Ooh, which one? Wait, wait. Where is the sleeves? Do you need this? Oh, nice. I was going to gonna say if that was the illustration right now that's like the chase card of the whole set where'd the sleeves go how did we lose okay keep it just one shot lose it already. The thing I'm realizing now is the stack of cards is going to get really dull. Okay, I believe in you! Cora how about some donations sounds great we have so many coming in we have 50 from jordan 97 that's for one of them it's definitely i think it was before the dlc's honestly kind of like overbought yeah and what about the weather and okay and for the weather phenomenon uh i have to go with lenticular clouds. Lenticular clouds are when you get a mountain and the air flow has to go over it, as that goes up condenses into a cloud and kind of gives like the mountain that hat. And the air flow is actually through or around the mountain so the clouds stays put on top of it. It's very cool you get them like Mount Rainier and Mount Hood all the time. Alright thank you! I'm learning so much today I can't show them this one, it's a spoiler! Oh, spoiler? We haven't gotten to that part of the plot yet. It's quite a loyal Pokemon. Yeah I would say. I'll have you know Tee Pat being this knowledgeable about weather and nerding out that much about weather is not an act. Like, I went to see the Aurora with him. Yeah, it was so cool. It was like an hour and a half at times. He bet this booster box is absolutely cracked. I got the Tatsugiri. Oh, the fun claw? That's a great one too. Wait a second. Did you not... Man! there's no way they can see that there's nobody believe this is a mistake anymore right by the way look at these look at these costagiris that we got here. Woohoo! Wait, what's the dex number of Tatsugiri? It's gotta be a good one. 900 something. If somebody could tell us what the Pokedex number of Tatsugiri is in the form of a donation, we would absolutely appreciate that. I hate this Pokemon. Really? All right. Wait, did you get Skip Loom? No no no I got an Amorous Oh! I hate an Amorous so much So that is unfortunately the last we'll see of the LeChonk. Normally, in the actual run...talking about the run, you would actually keep the LeChonk for a little bit longer um it just ends up being a little bit better for menu purposes that you do you would delay switching back to medicham we're going to switch back to meditate for safety reasons because we're gonna be doing a lot of movement. If you watched my Scarlet Violet run from last year, pretty much all Scarlet Violet runs are heavily based on collecting as many things as possible before progressing plot. That's right. Let's go! By the way, amazing time loss... So this phone call doesn't exist in my PB, by the way. In addition to Blueberry Academy and Indigo Disc, This phone call got added? Now I have to sit here and listen to Clefell while he Midwest Goodbyes me. Because he just won't get off the phone. We do that. Oh, I just noticed my special attack is actually so slow. You're the person at Christmas that like carefully unwraps and... I am trying to do that a little bit because I don't want to just give everybody the crinkle zone. Yeah, so there's going to be a little bit of time to go around and collect mostly experienced candies though we did pick up another carbos which is gonna increase my speed stat by a little bit. And an ex-special attack which I think I'm not going to use. I'll probably double check my stats for special attack in case I might need that or not. But yeah hit us up with some more donations! We have so many donations. It's so great to hear by the way. It's amazing, thank you all so much. We have $200 from Creature that says, Gotta donate for the Bayonetta 2 incentive. Good luck to all the runners and may the RNG ever be in your favor! Always need the RNG for Pokemon Runs. And I do want to say we are now at 16,000 out of 25,000. That number has doubled since I got on the host mic. You all are amazing! Let's keep it rolling! We're going around, so like our objective, our actual objective here plot wise is we got paired up with one of the students from Kitakami. This is Kieran and he will be one of our rivals, and we need to go around and take selfies of these boards that tell us the lore of the town, and there are three shadowy Pokemon that are quite revered. So we're just learning a little bit about them and taking this opportunity to not just complete the plot line, we get our experience candies We're also going to tag a bunch of fly points so that way once we are set, we have all our fly points just whip around the region. Hey TPAN? Yeah? Oh! We have pulled out first Ogre Pawn card. Very nice. And Ogre Pawn is a very precious baby. I do want to say I'm going to donate $50 for each Ogre Pawn that this crew pulls out of that box, and it does include this one. I'm going to cap myself at 250 because that's what I budgeted for but if you want to also match donations like that would be super awesome. Also, I pulled a pack of 37. Oh, wow. No, I brought 16 from home. If you pull the Teal Mask EX, please save that one for me. I'm looking for it. Anyone need a Dragapult EX for the tournament later this week? Somebody's gonna say yes to that. Oh, by the way if you are here in Minneapolis and play Pokemon or interested in playing like the Pokemon TCD we have a lot of people here that are also very interested. We're actually hosting a tournament in the board game room on Friday so that'll be super fun for people to join so please check that out because there's so much fun that happens at GDQ, seriously like I'm always just blown away at not just what happens on stream with all the awesome speedruns but just the community here to hang out and and see everything is awesome. The board game room is honestly some of my favorite stuff here. Court, I do have a really relevant donation regarding that so we have $18.45 from bungee to the tree He's putting on the tournament yes That says we are so unbelievably proud of you t. Your growth both in speedrunning and TCG playing has been so fun to see. Thank you for being a great friend. Can't wait to clash cardboard later! 845 for the best bird, Cramorant. I love Cramorants. i love crying innocently how do you do the people want ogre pawn free well it depends on which Ogre Pawn you're asking about. No, no, no. It's release, not free. What are we looking at? We are looking at $3,022 for save the in-game Ogre Pawn and release Ogre Pawnpon at 1906 so it's climbing what what's that over pod you're worried about being trapped in here forever and never seeing the freedom from the plastic well the people just don't want it i guess no i was i wants to save the overpond in my game it's not always about you you heard her! Get your donations in! I thought you were gonna be like, you heard her it's not about you Steve-chan. Alright CPAP what are we doing? Still going around... This is the other city which is called... The name plate's gonna come up. Kidikami Hall! Uh, this is where we're gonna go enjoy a nice festival at, uh, little bit later. There's a few more experience games over here. Y'all like minigames? Oh, I love minigames. I actually love minigames. They're pretty fun. It is? I'm so excited. Not yet- not yet though because it's still daytime. Uh, there's actually a cool festival that's happening tonight in-game so we're trying to really get our assignment... We are not procrastinating! We are getting our assignment done now So you can enjoy the festival tonight Eat all those candy dipped apples which are just so good. And then we'll be playing some fun mini games with our friend Kieran and his older sister Carmine. What do you think about Carmine? She's kind of awkward. I think... I think every time I hear Carmine I think of Gears of War so it's never good. You have played a lot of Gears of before in your day. I do like hanging out with our good friend Kieran, which I'm sure will always be as fun and pleasant as it is right now. Yeah. We'll never change. I know he's a bit like an introvert, but he's really coming out of his shell. Like you know it feels like a good friendship, like a good rivalry. Kind of what Hop was right? Hop was a good rival. He had the saddest face and shook his head when you were like he's really coming out of a shell. Well I just hope that he is better than Hopp And already knows about his type advantages At least it's not HAL. I hate foreshadowing. Give me another pass. Yeah, I was gonna say are you...I just had half of that. Because you named yourself GDQ all I saw was haha I would love to go to GDQ Like I just missed half the text box Me too! Wow Speaking of of this I'll just quick show this off. My character has pink hair and blue eyes And you all then named my meta type trans rights And I set up the save file like a week ago so thank you so much for doing that more donations oh my gosh i'm so excited to keep reading these they are just the best we have 25 dollars from materia 17 that says yay oh yay pokemon release the ogre pawn save her from the plastic this one's mine same poker phone has not moved, Release Ogre Pond is going! And remember the deck's number is 1017. One thousand seventeen chat. Hey uh hey Keyes what card did you just pull today? What cards did you get? Oh do you want to know just a-just a Jinx? Oh! What does the jinx sound like? Yeah, what's so funny about that? The whole thing? You pulled a jinx? Yeah see right here There's inviting kiss and icy snow. What does inviting kiss do? It was like a novel on it. It really is! It's like some Yu-Gi-Oh text right here here why is that raid then like in actually in the way that will come up later all right someone listen to instructions we have ten dollars and seventeen cents from spyler's exchange it says here's a donation to free overpon from her plastic prison i hope you give her lots of hugs but thomas what is your favorite weather condition in pokemon i'm a fan of raid teams myself. Uh, I'm a big fan of Sandstorm because Flygon is one of my favorite Pokemon and it has Sandstorm stuff. Me too! Yeah! What? No way! has sandstorms stuff me too yeah what no way shout outs to gen 9 for giving us uh ice type fly guns the frozen flag on for real that's right yeah T-Pack does Ogre's Mask count? The card. The one that's Thornton but on a... No, it's just the trainer called Ogre's Mask is the count. I'll give you half for that. All one and a half cool very nice uh because it doesn't say ogre pond it just says ogres well actually it says choose a pokemon ex in your discard file that has overpPon in its name. And then a lot more text. So if you think about it... Did you just um actually me? Yes. Ogres Mask! There it is. Fly points up here, really good. You got a lot of good ones in this. A lot of the places in the DLC you kind of go to like once and then you never really have to go to again. But the distance to get there is so long that it's worth doing it early. Especially this area we're about to go to like the very north part of the map that has two rare candies and a bunch of experienced candies. There's a ton of stuff up here so it's totally worth going too early. It's also worth noting that I don't have the sprint feature on Miridon because I haven't fought Cloth, but we're not going to the main game, so it feels a little slower than it should be, only because I'm not zooming across the map. It's more like a casual-ish stroll. It's worth mentioning that the detour to go fight cloth is almost worth it. The Victory victory road category it's about a two two hours and ten minutes roughly a little bit longer um it's worth it in that category but in this one which is about an hour 40, it's not quite worth it. Same thing with Starfall Street is a little under an hour and a half and it's also not worth it there. It's always worth it in Path of Legends because you gotta. Yeah, it would not be worth it if you did that If you didn't have to fight the Titans and the Titan speedrunner That would be weird I don't know what you'd do I'm still trying to do like a little bit of movement tech just to avoid those harsh falls, but You got a little in my way By the way all the nose paths are pointing north and i just learned that today yeah that's why you read the pokedex t-back yeah they do that in legends rcs as well is it that legend Arceus too? Yes, the first game. Yeah. Same, same plan so... Do we have time for some more donations? Yes! All right Etiquette I have something I need you to demonstrate for us We have $25 from Sarah Caesar that says, ooh I so need those ditto plushies! They're so cute! Also, save Ogre Pond. She's best girl heart. Yes? Would you like to talk about those two ditto plushies you have right there? Yeah, do the prizes. You want me to do the prizes? Yeah. Here are two ditto flushes. Oh, you're fired! Donate during now? When is it? I don't remember. It's right now. And it's a $25 minimum donation 25 great job etiquette that was awesome thank you you sure did a job buddy wait when did scent get on the couch we also have a 392 dollars from the salty kerfuffle salty that says my favorite weather boy running pokemon on the main stage and with an amazing couch. I've been so excited for this run. Best of luck, T-Pat. You're gonna do great. Donating the Dex numbers of Umbreon and Quagsire to boost the RNG of the run. Yes, I love to see that! Okay so we're going to level up this Nis again right now I said I was just gonna double check its stats Just so I'm clear that... This is the correct one. This is the correct one, I was like paranoid so I decided to take it. I've been looking at it the whole time you just had a really terrible one. That's why I wanted to check it for last second So we're using all those experience candies now as you saw i just barely hit 36 and now a few more rare candies the 42 and we have our medicham for the run trans rights is evolving all right here's another card i'm keeping i got a tango i pulled the jinx in a tangle what does the tangles sound like what really what does it sound like? I don't know. Really stumped him on that one, oh my goodness. While he figures that out, I'm going to teach all the main moves. I mentioned high jump kick being the primary one of that one. So we hit high jump kick first, so that's a 90% accurate move. The second move I'll be teaching is Zen Headbutt also 90% accurate. So this is going to be a fun run. We are not done, we got one more nice 100% accuracy move of Ice Punch and we keep Psybeam in our inventory too. It is so nice that Gen 9 did give us that quality of life move relearner like just automatically, because I can do that on the spot it's amazing. Also this just do that on the spot. It's amazing. Ogre Pond alert. Also this. Got another Teal Mask Ogre Pond for those keeping track. Here you go, have more cool cards. I guess it makes sense that we only pull teal mass during the chill masquerade oh i thought it was i thought it was bashing the other button you do have to play the game distracting me with cards there's a how do you pronounce this one all right these are the rival fights I actually have to win so no more joshing around with LeChonk this time. So we will be using the Metachamp because we must win all rival fights from here. This box is loaded! What? That's incredible timing, because we are fighting Kieran now. Yeah, does the Kieran count for as an overbought. You pulled Kieran as I'm fighting Kieran? Yes, the full art. Wow! We have the full-art Kieran and a full-art Carvine here. Just so you know I am not clicking high jump kick yet because Kieran has a level 15 polywag. I think Psybeam will be good enough for this fight. Yeah even though the game does scale it down, It scales it down but actually ramps up really fast over the course of the run. I think by the end of the run, we're going to be fighting like level 40-45 Pokemon or something like that? We're basically on par at the end of the run, so we just get a head start on our rivals and then just stay there yeah anyone like ferret i love for bad news all right but you pulled carmine yeah Bad news. You pulled Carmine? Yeah, well no, Bungie gave us a carmine before the run started. Shout out to Bungie! I mean I have the regular Carmine in here somewhere. Yeah we just...we kinda met Kieran up here because Kieren's actually obsessed with the ogre and the path that you saw, which looked very perilous, and it was. It's like, do not enter dangerous ogre nearby and we'll start to learn about the lore of the run, and there may be a certain Pokemon that will have to save or release. And I'm wondering, what's the situation there? I am so sorry. Can you say that again? Yeah, save or release... i was trying to be clever and be like safe saverly i'm just wondering where the big war is we are at save overpond is 3 336 dollars and release over pawn at 2 576 so releases colliding boy they got close so fast at $2,576 or so. Release is climbing! Oh boy, that got closed so fast. Yeah, we have so many donations coming in. I'm trying to sort through all of them and so we just we have $59 from Makota that says So excited for GDQ this summer and I always need to donate for Arcanine, my favorite Pokemon. Donating to save the plastic trapped Ogre Pond. What's that, Ogre Pond? You appreciate everything that the donors are doing for you, but if you don't reach the threshold it's all for nothing anyways? That's true. This Ogre Pawn has a lot to say! This Ogre Pawn is sassy today, I dunno. This Ogre Pond sassy today? I don't know. This Ogre Pond's calmed more than I have so far. Do we have time for some more? Yes, please! We have $25 from Weather Boy John that says says i have to donate for my fellow meteorologist as he performs with intense vertical velocity with his pljs his cape is off the charts this run is as impressive as a supercell it's always a great time to be able to nerd out with a fellow lover of all things weather good luck on the run thomas thank you so much by the way cape stands for convective available potential energy it was in caps i knew it stuff like that i'm always saying this is is this what it sounds like when we talk about pokemon to other people sure okay this is what it sounds like when I hang out with T-Pain. I mean, Pokemon has no four letter acronyms that mean something important. Stab. Stab. I know, that's the point. Gotcha. It's funny, there are so many weather terminologies that are just in acronyms and even I get them backwards sometimes And then we make up ones for no reason. My favorite is Ingredients For A Thunderstorms, it's best described by SLIM. S-L-I-M. Snow, lightning, immense amounts of rain and magic. So close! Sheer lift, Stability and moisture. I was pretty close, I got at least none of those. I'm proud of you. Thanks! We do have a weather forecast here. We have $5 from NaomiPlays that says, weather forecasts sunny with a chance of scarlet and violet. Congrats on making it on the main stage TPAT I am rooting for you. Thank you so much! It is sunset in the game, so there might be some scarlet and violet sunset clouds out there. They're always so pretty. Why does it do that? It's just the suns reflection on the bottom of the clouds. That's how they coded the game. That is the most basic weather explanation I've ever heard from you. I have known you for five years now. That is what I was confused about! Did you really need me to go through how wavelengths of light get scattered at different lengths based on the angle of attack in the atmosphere's layer... There's multiple layers in the atmosphere, and the uppermost one is called The Skybox. Okay. I thought you were making like an ogre. I was going to go crazy if you actually were going to say Metosphere. All right, so we are getting ready for the festival. The festival is an exciting time of the run. Yeah, it's so exciting! But first, uh...we need a mask because this It's the teal mask. I did. It's right there. that it's true but here's the thing our rivals have masks but they're like we don't have one for you unless you beat us in a pokemon battle this keeps such a banger yeah carmine steam theme is actually so good. And I'm glad she knows all about her type advantages too. Of course. We joke a lot but that is A pivotal part of routing You try to route around using these Super effective moves or high crit rate moves Because it loses you a stupid Amount of time and there are are some fights that we either can't avoid it or if certain things happen we sort of have to you know deal with it but um that is not inconsequential yeah since we are at such a high level, we're gonna avoid it for now It won't be avoidable the whole run but for example I'm just-I could mash Ice Punch through this rest of this battle. But then I would get a super effective text here and like Carmine's just like oh man, of course you wouldn't know about super- And it's like this whole long extra extra flavor text. They really liked doing that. And when I say every battle in the Teal Mask is one of these fights, a hop fight as they are known, I mean every single battle is a hop fight as they are known i mean every single battle is a hot fight and it will be ridiculous the battles at least i didn't punch it with ice. What weather acronym can you come up with, with HOP? The first thing that came to mind was the H would stand for hail but I need a... I'm not that great would stand for hail. But I need a... I'm not that great with acronyms. Hail or pretty bad hail? You know what, I like that. Hail or pressure? Is that a thing? High order of precipitation hail or pressure is that a thing um high pressure hi ogre pressure yeah i will go over your pressure wait this is the hyoga pressure oh no i'm under high ogre no don't no, I'm under high ogre pressure. No! Don't do that! I need to be released! Save the Ogrepon! Release the pressure! Save her! Don't save the pressure. Yeah, we're uh... It's closing in! The Og it's climbing tell me more so save is at 3394. release is at 2781. it's closing again alongside this 2020 donation from Furry's that says, it's been a long time coming but super proud to finally see you running on stage, CPAT. Good luck and release the ogre pawn! What's that ogre pawn? You have hope now. And if you... That hope were to get crushed in the final moments it would be worse than if nothing had happened at all? That's rough. This is getting deep. That is rough, but I mean... When you're stuck in a plastic bag for an extended period of time You're pretty much just stuck with your thoughts Could be stuck for eternity That's true Has anybody pulled up any festival ground stadium out of that box yeah hold on let me find it this might take a while you might get through the best oh my goodness you have a huge stack of bulk already! You bought us so many cards! Alright quick dono while Mae finds that $257 from Waltekins that says donating for My Favorite Star evolution in my favorite gen so happy to celebrate pokemon speedruns and doctors without borders absolutely i want to say this run has already raised over $11,000 on its own for Doctors Without Borders. Can we get a round of applause for that? Thank you so much everyone The power of Pokemon Oh my goodness And this amazing couch. That's so incredible, please keep that coming because that is wild. This has been like everything I've dreamed about having...I've been watching GDQ since 2016 in fact, GDQ was the first thing I watched on Twitch, period. And an old roommate of mine, we would just like throw it on the TV for like a whole week straight and pick out our favorite runs. And I would always watch the Pokemon runs, which is why I watched this guy's Crystal run back in 2019. It was fun! You got paralyzed by the gas lead it was very funny i hope a guy's fault all right so oh wait i pulled the community center i think yeah that's Yeah that's the other place. I thought I pulled one! Did you all pull one? Festival grounds No I did! There it is, The Festival Grounds. That's where we're at. See? Hooray! I'm starting to think you like pre-packaged this box. It really does kind of feel like it. I thought that was sealed. It wasn't back-sealed. It was sealed. Festivalground is funny, there's a... When I did the... I can't ride Murano right now, why did I try to do that? When I first? When I did the pre-release event, I had a Festival Grounds related deck and it used the Applin or the Diplin and I think Court actually knows about that dip lane because i heard a funny story that you got hit twice in a row by that pokemon while you were playing on live yes it was tragic all right my favorite minigame, Ogre Oustain! We have to oust away all of the ogres in this mini game. If you don't know the story, the ogre is actually the bad guy. Yeah. Or bad girl I should say. Good job. The game did not break. It's Scarlet and Violet though, so I see that. Alright, here we go! Keys are on your own. There you go. I'm going to view these packs because it is my turn. I've been so jealous of everybody pulling these over the blue ones it's okay you're kind of at a disadvantage right because you don't have to boost wait did you just give me all the green ones you need need to be a 4th color. What?! You said blue! Well I didn't see the green one. Oh I'm supposed to snow run. You only want two so don't get more. Later on... Now go ahead and pick two reds. It's the other colors. Yeah. Okay okay. You see the colors in the middle no i get it all right yes now people are gonna think this like more like that i have no free no this is actually i've never played is that the cook oh let him cook let him cook chat let him cook i'm like leaning and squinting ooh the snorlax and now go back to where you started where did i start? Turn around. Yes, I got the iron thorns! To the right. Up a hill. Down in the corner. Object permanence keys you can do do it. Oh I see, I see. This is why I don't get runs in any book. I am intentionally blocking the TV. Turn around! Ooh this goldie. That's not A. Green box, A. Also got the community center. Hold it down. Oh my god! Yup. Iron bundle. Woo! The schnoz. Sorry, I'm too busy paying attention to the Pokemon. Wait! You succeeded the minigame? What are you doing?! Oh were we not supposed to do that? What did you mean? Round two! I'm going to block more of the screen. Alright, four of those to the left. I can see it up there don't worry about it. So grab these four and then... I think they'll open another pack because of this. You guys all packed? Now, down the hill... I can add some donations! Yes please! Please distract Kizarog from the minigame. we have 293 dollars from calamity nolan that says don't need it for my favorite pokemon whisper i got an order story it tells there's evolutions of someone finding their voice and becoming unapologetically loud happy pride and good luck on the run Keevan how many rounds do you have to win? Oh I pulled an overpaw! Sleave Oh, I pulled an overpaw! I got the wellspring mask. Sleeve? Oh, I actually think I could sleep. Please take this too. There's another pack in there for you. There is another pack in there? You gotta hold it down. No no no, the juice pack in there for you. There is another pack in there? You gotta hold it down. No, no the jinx is in there. Keyes how does the jinx sound? No No what? Are we not, are we actually not You're actually nothing. Well you didn't tell me I don't know We have to do the third stage now Is it faster to do the third stage now. Is it faster to finish the third stage? It will be faster to finish the third stage. If it's faster to finish the third stage, you are definitely up. I have no idea how many stages there are. There is three. Give it up for Kizneron, everybody! I love co-op runs. Oh man, I can't wait for social media where Kiz went overestimating looking at his run. Yeah, so... don't worry don't worry ogre hasson is a mini game that obviously got introduced in the dlc and uh the game forces you into it but you don't actually have to win and it ends up being fast we didn't expect you to win what's that supposed to mean suffering from success oh my gosh how about another donation while keys are on is absolutely gaming on gdq we have 70 dollars don't think of anything else everyone save ogre pond oh the same overpond is going up everyone three thousand five hundred sixty-five dollars uh-oh plastic over pawn how do you feel about this? Wait, can I hear Ogre Pond for a second? What?! You're saying that you're feeling like things are becoming hopeless and the gravity of the situation you're in is starting to really hit you, well time is kind of running out so I understand that's true we have roughly an hour left way to go buddy there's more odor alistain than I've ever done in my entire career. Ogre Alistain's fun! He's a natural! You should let him on stage more often. And now you have all these mochis so you can raise your EVs. I don't get embarrassed doing this job anymore, but I am like overheating from the stairs. Why? You did good! You won! You didn't beat Carmine's high score, though, so go back in and do it again. Okay. Carmine does brag that she's just like oh he couldn't beat my high score i i didn't even know there was or wasn't a high score because we always just get zero oh there she is everyone Everyone look. It's an ogre pawn and she's precious I think we should save the Ogre Pawn because why would we release her? We should save her. What's that, Ogre Pond? You can think of one really important and good reason? Yeah me too. I do want to say Sarian here agrees with you donating $149 saying, Donating for my favorite Pokemon Dragonite. I love GDQ and have been watching it for years. Money goes to saving Ogre Pawn! She is too precious. Look at her! So precious. Awwwwwww. And she just wants to be loved and respected by all the people of Kitakami, which is why she goes to the festival with the most beautiful mask. It's a mysterious child. When this came out I was playing on voice chat with Kort and Akko. And like they were not really paying attention. The moment Ogre Pond showed up, Akko just snapped through attention and was like wait what does that go back? That's the cutest thing i've ever seen chase after that mysterious kid okay game it's a mysterious kid yeah so at this point the new canonically in the story we do not know that this is actually the ogre pond uh all we know is that this is a weird looking kid in a mask but she just dropped the mask it just dropped the mask so she runs off because she got more embarrassed than Kizaran ran off. But we have the mask now. I'm just gonna, you know... You did great! That was awesome. Oh, oh, spare me your pity! Just so you know, I literally would not be sitting here if not for you buddy. Thank you. I didn't think it was a little messed up that they didn't put Judau as the runner on the... Yeah what the heck? What is that C? Cord ogre ouston champ contributor that was a really fun festival you know what that's the most fun festival i've ever had, but I think we're done with the festival, but still got a little bit of trip to cross town, so please more donations because they are amazing. Absolutely. The donations just continue to roll in. have 25 from si jay that says so glad to see you on the gdq stage t-pat good luck ousting the ogres he didn't need the good luck. And with that, we actually are almost at 20 thousand out of the 25 thousand towards that upgrade to Infinite Climax Incentive! Yeah, let's hit that donation by the end of the run. I know we can do it. Whether we save or release the Overpilot... We can still hit it either way. Wait, Weatherman? I get it because you're a weatherman yeah yeah oh i mean related to that we have 100 for mittens that says weather update 100 chance of bulbasaurs. Have we seen a Bulbasaur? Are we going to see a Bulbasaur? I don't think so. I don't think we've seen a Bulbasaur. I think, unfortunately the weather forecast might have been a little off on that but it happens. Ogre Pawn! Bulbasaur they're both green. It's a close one. So it actually doesn't mean that it's 100% often that happens. Ogre Pawn, Bulbasaur, they're both green. It's a close one. So it actually doesn't mean that there is 100% chance of there being a Bulbasaur? It means that 100% of the area will contain a Bulbasaur at some point. Yes. So when you see the percentage of, like, rain on an app and everybody always asks me is that, like, the percentage of area or confidence? The answer is it's both multiplied together. You have to multiply... Oh, it's fire emblem logic? So if it's a straight 50-50 chance of anything happening over only 50% of an area, that's a 25% chance of rain. That's how you calculate the number. I guess that does make sense. I came here for Pokemon not math. My mind is blown. What do you think this game is? Also, most important input of the run was that because if I accidentally continue to mash A, Carmine will get mad at us and be like, you showed the grandpa not The teal mask. I will be mad at you try again And then you'll get caught in a loop That's an illusion of choice my favorite So at this point so The story goes like everybody has this festival to celebrate these three brave Pokemon and a lot of the masks are based around those three Pokemon. But this, the Grandpa here, he's actually like a mask maker. He's like an accomplished mask maker and so we show him that teal mask that we saw from the Mysterious Child and turns out he knows the real story of the ogre is going to tell us i like that this cutscene has like these several cutscenes will play in sequence make sure you set aside sufficient time before you get into it. Yeah and this is honestly one of my favorite sections of the game in general, casually speaking. This art style's really good This art style is really good. The storytelling is really good if you haven't played this. The music is good. For Star Wars it's very fun. I like honestly all the DLC they've released. By the way, if you want the TLDR there once lived an ugly barnacle. Extrapolate from there. Yeah. But it's actually not so different. They're apparently like they were like so hideous that they could only go into town if they don these masks, but the masks were so beautiful. That like the towns people copied them and was like oh that's really cool we can go to the festival now. T-Pack can you stop I'm trying to read? Yeah and what ended up happening is there were these three Pokemon who um the lore goes that they sort of were defeated defending town from the ogre coming down from the mountains to attack the village. And we're learning here actually it was the other way around, The ogre was the benevolent one, and the loyal three, as they are known... Or the lousy three, as they will be known in the future... Stole those masks. Stole those masks, and essentially the Ogre Pawn was sort of banished to the mountains so... But the festival is like glorifying these three, the loyal three for defending the village even though that isn't even close to what happened important part at the end of this ogre pawn does kill them yes i said defeated but There are like yeah. There is a memorial and they are uh no more. You're asking us to release the ogre pawn? Yes. I have questions! There's a reason why the ogre was like, get out of my swamp. How about some more so that's what we want to know you're an all-star how about some more donations now that we've had this great revelation absolutely i learned so much we have 113 dollars from pokey tax addy that says, donating $113 for Chansey. I had to make it up to TPAT for his not getting Route 6 Chansey in our Let's Go race. Plus, it's a tip of the cap to our medical professionals including my wonderful wife. Let's go, TPAT! Thank you very much, Poketags. My favorite thing about the donations is they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming. This is true. We have $25 donation. and they don't stop coming this is true we have 25 from jason that says love gdq in my inventors too only a few months old and he's been glancing at the tv for his first gdq the start of a family tradition in support of a great cause. Chansey, that's so funny. We've been doing a Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee tournament with the Pokémon Speedrun community, to which we are both in. And it has been so much fun especially with so many new runners just getting involved and getting interested. And we really hope that, like, runs like this get people interested in speedrunning Pokemon because you can ask any of us any question, and we'll give you our notes because we love our community and we want everybody to be a part of it. But, it's really awesome to see so many people get interested in these runs. I specialize in all the Switch Pokemon games. So from Let's Go, Sword and Shield, apparently Brilliant Diamond, Legends Arceus, and this game. And I've been trying to just stay fresh on them all but let's go is so so fun especially with that catch routes we catch a few more pokemon in that game and we actually hope that we see a chancy in that one if you were watching closely and if you're watching this on the va you should go back to before like just after we caught the meditites and see the chancy that we saw there but i didn't go oh my godsey. It's worth so much experience. And there's like... There's a lot of people doing Let's Go. Like a lot of newer names in the community it's been really great to see. Like My Time and Let's Go used to be like eh, 20th place? It is much worse than 20th place now. It's wild how much it improved since Etiquette's GDQ run. We've learned so much about that game in like three years. We continue to learn things about this game too. But it's more about the route, like going from Aspathra to Medicham was just about like... Funny enough in this game you might be noticing that the we don't turn move animations off because we can't turn move animations off and it matters matters in the run. We want to click moves that have like a lower time, they're just faster to animate. It's what we call the Pokemon Colosseum difference. Yeah. And in general, it's not exact science but in general physical moves are going to be faster animations than special moves so as Pathra even though it was very powerful and Lumina Crash being a psychic type move that demolishes the special defense. You'll see why that is very useful in a little bit but it's just there are so many animations tied to that that it's not worth it. On top of that if you get opportunist which is a really cool ability um it is very slow in some fights it sure is by the way i am now clicking my 90 accuracy moves so this is where the run gets pretty fun. For this fight, the only thing I have to look out for is this Furret might use the priority move Babydoll Eyes which would drop my attack. It doesn't affect the fur itself, it affects the next Pokemon which is Cairne's ace the Diplin. In this case I did not get it, which is nice so I'm going to go for my first high jump kick of the run now instead of using super effective all right i'm gonna close my eyes for this one hopefully i don't miss and crash after kate's got the plot at this point, Karian is on an adventure to become The Joker. Yes! Got it! That's 490% in case anybody was... So now that we learned about the probability of precipitation multiplication I'm sure you can multiply percentages together. Say precipitation multiplication five times fast. Precipitation multiplication but I only need to say it. So I don't want to derail the stream that fast. But hear me out. What if you did? Anyway...so The uh... Anyway, so... So Kirin overheard the conversation about the ogre actually being a swell Pokémon and not the murdering person that we all thought. But, we lied to him. We told him nothing happened. Because we were told basically to keep it a secret especially from Ciaran becauseieran sort of already has this fascination with the ogre. So if he learns that the ogre was actually good as well, and not only is just going to... or bewilder him he's going to go spill the secret to the rest of town. Which you just kinda don't wanna like rock the boat or anything so... You unfortunately do lie, he catches you in that lie You don't know it yet, but... He's also getting really upset that we're beating him in Pokemon Battle. Yeah! Even though we literally let him win one. Yeah, you can even see it in his body language there. My goodness that is an upset child. Like the first one he's all super shy and then the next one he's like coming out of his shell a little bit and that one he's just mad at us. He was literally told we have ogre upon it. To be fair, I do think we're in the wrong here. A little bit. Yeah... Well I don't know. We got time for more donations? Heck yeah. Alright, quick update. Save Ogre Pawn is at $3,894. Release Ogre Pawn is at $3,042. Okay. Okay. That's about what? $800? Save is kind of moving along here! Listen, one Ogre Pond Dex donation Snipe changes that. I'm just saying. What's that, Ogre Pond? you don't understand why people are continuing to donate to save when you're trapped inside of this prison from which there is no escape unless we reach the other unless the the balance of fate changes i don't know what to tell you i don't know chad you try to explain it who put me in this situation i do want to say we have 250 for for anonymous that says good luck to all the runners throughout the week and i look forward to watching more runs when i'm not at work half to saving ogre pond and half to upgrading to infinite yeah i should reiterate, if you are tuning in late we do have a bid war open for save or release the ogre pawn If we save the Ogre Pawn it means that we will not release it in the game. But the real ogre pawn here will be trapped in the plastic prison forever. Forever! And then if we release Ogre Pawn, we will both release Ogre Pawn in the game and from the infinite prison of plastic. So... I do want to say that fastest way to play the game is to release the Ogre Pond, so like we go through this whole story to save it and catch it, And then we immediately release it because it is faster for the last fight because Carmine will not battle us unless like we have Ogre Pawn in the party but then we get extra text boxes and it's very slow. So I always have to release the Ogre Pond on every single run Every time I'm practicing this game I have to release the Ogre Pond I'm never allowed to save the Ogre Pawn! So let's keep that tradition, though. Exactly. I do think it's really funny that Pokémon has had a DLC in the last two generations and the first DLC has been centered around sort of a legendary Pokemon that in the speedrun it is faster to release. Shout out to Kung Fu! I have two nickel nickels which isn't very much it is weird that it's happened twice good work oh the game is so i love water he was so laggy this side even the text box lag, I can't do anything about that! T-Pat how much time did you spend on this PowerPoint presentation? Not much. It was really more of like an all-nighter thing. Okay, those text boxes were a little better. Yeah it's an unfortunate side effect of some of the... An earthquake? Is it Groudon?! Yes. Milo kick!on yes milo kick no my low low low low oh yeah i see no it's mylotic wait how do you pronounce this that That's how they pronounce it in typing adventure. I don't care. You say J-Town. Another high jump kick, go! Another high jump kick. You can't miss it. It just always works. She does canonically say sheesh. Court donations! You have convinced some of our donors to use that. We have $197 from Snoring Frog that says Pokemon Run? Gotta donate for my favorite Ombreon! Save the frames Release Ogre Pond! So conflicted because yay, Umbreon. No release. It's so funny that you're like oh I really want to keep it but hey y'all it's faster to get rid of it. I want more GDQ. Don't you want more GDQ? Don't you want more GDQ? Consequences of my actions, oh no! We have $100 from Von Deuce that says First time attending GDQ Live Didn't expect to see Key keys gaming so hard from the couch. Dropping some rainy day dollars for ogre pond freedom. Good luck, T-Pat! Yeah thank you so much everybody that's like showing up and showing support. This has been super awesome. And Keyz is in fact a gamer. Right. I like how you said it like it was kind of like a call out. And Keyz's a gamer! He's just a gamer. Alright, so we had to go to the crystal pool there to get some sort of stone gem thing. I don't know. Oh, it's to repel the mask. That's right. I forgot what we were doing. And now that we are getting the mask fixed, we'll be able to go give it back to the overpond. Surely nothing will stop us? Surely... Yeah, that's why there is not 45 minutes left in the estimate. Wow! You're so far ahead! Can't believe it's almost done. It's because of all the time saved from Ogre Austin. See? It is faster to win all three I told you. Maybe... maybe it is! Hold on. One of my favorite details about the DLC is that the load icon changes to be different birds. They're not all Noctals? I thought they were Noct dolls no they're in the base areas they're um what's it called uh squawk abilities yeah oh yeah and um in paldea there are squawka billies and then their knock here. But they can't be Corviknites because of Tinkatun. Because of Tinkatun. Tinkatun literally is like, oh, target practice, let's go! And would knock them out of the sky, which is why you don't have the Corviknight taxi service like you do in Sword Shield. All right, so here Kieran's calling us out finally and having a bit of a tough time with it. So we're gonna battle him again, surely he beats us this time. Oh, he stole the mask? Yeah, so we tried to get it fixed, but unfortunately it was stolen. And you can see the effigy of the loyal three in the background there. Also a banger theme? Kieran's sleeves are bangers. So, at this stage... This state....game or any other Switch PSR run, and then there'll just be a link right there. And then if you want... I got crit here. Eh! Crit here! Eh! then if you want i got crazy i create here and yeah uh very interested in the let's go tournament um discord there is a link within the other discord for that that's gonna be the easiest way to get to get there yeah and obviously if you're interested in other pokemon games that aren't switch um you can go to those those uh speedrun.com pages and find links there. Because PSR is such a massive community, we actually have it split up by their console just because it makes so much easier for all of us to manage but yes! I had another high jump kick! Woo! Yeah, clap. There you go. You're getting it now. That's because I got you here. If you are interested in running any uh of the switch pokemon games or honestly any other pokemon games at all uh there's so much rea there's so many resources out there there's all sorts of tools that make it oh my goodness i forgot kieran just like punches... Punches through a stone. What was I saying? There's a ton of resources out there. Everyone is super friendly. So give it a shot if this looks like something that you'd be interested in at all! And if you really like Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire I think I know somebody who absolutely loves that game. Follow my mistake footsteps who absolutely loves that game. Follow in my mistake footsteps! I do like that this section he's so mad, he's just so angry and punches that that these three come back. You're so mad you revived three Pokemon? There they are! It's these three. And their theme is incredible. Their theme is pretty good, these are the lousy three You've got Monkey Dory as you do You've got Okie Dokie and Pheasantipity Three incredible names What's your favorite? like the okey dokey um which one's for me which one's a spike vegeta the bigger one yeah that's okie dokie i like spike definitely gives off big d you would like that yeah i know i thought he's rolling deep that's a ooh banana if I ever saw one. But yeah, the lousy three literally came to life because Kieran got so mad. And now they just ran off. Yeah. These three actually have pretty cool abilities. Their ability is called Toxic Chain. It's toxic. The way it works is basically every time they hit a Pokemon with a move, It's got like a 30% chance to Toxic them. And it's not Contact! Yeah, it just hits the move. And despite that none of them are good in bgc no doesn't anybody maybe seem like it could have been good and monkey dory is like awful well monkey Dory as a... The card is good, so that's kind of something. So Monkey Dory as the card made the Gardevoir deck best deck in format and Pheasant Dipity has a card next set coming out, that is going to be one of the most busted cards. I did not know that part. In the format. Speaking of cards, there's still one left. Who wants this one? You! Me! It's for you. Are you sure this is the last one yeah yeah sure okay i'll say i'll save that all right when you have like a really long cut scene just have keys mash and then open the pack. You know what? Yeah. You know what, this is going to be like a world record co-op run now. That's true. This is definitely world record beat Ogre Alistain category. Like for sure. No one has done it before in the Rock. On a Sunday. On a Sunday with your local weatherman playing the game. I can't wait for your Polygon article on this. with your local weatherman playing the game. I can't wait for your Polygon article on this. Alright, quick update. Save Ogre Pawn is continuing to climb at $4,256 versus Release Ogre Pawn at $3,267. What's that, Ogre Pawn? You're so disappointed you can barely even express it well yeah oh my god shiny geo duty i know i think it's a little messed up that overpond is so but everyone's doing so much money is such a great cause maybe deserves to be sealed in the plastic forever maybe maybe this is evil this is the other pond from not from not, from the legend. Not the legend that we learned but the original legend That was a sentence I nailed it Oh! We get to meet the Ogre Ponds for real here What's happening these three are literally just bullies most schoolyard bully cutscene of all time i can't believe spike Majida would bully Ogre Pond on this. I'm a monster, I think this is funny. We have other people on Ogre Ponds side too! We have have 40.68 from pokemon master that says here's ten dollars and seventeen cents for each of ogre pawns forms she deserves to be saved she does deserve to be safe from this bullying. Look at all these bodies! Yeah, that is true. That's definitely what we're here for. This bullying that all the donators are doing by keeping her in here? I agree. Yeah, this is a visual. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These three? The Shed. Yeah, monsters, These three? It's a chat. You have monsters! All of you! We also have $25 from Ghostboy96 that says I would've donated $21.30 for my favorite Pokemon, Shuckle, but I gotta get $25 in for those Ditto plushies! They're very good. That's a good call. They have like a heft to them? Yeah, they're really dense, yeah. Does Shiny Ditto transform into shiny forms of other Pokémon? Is that how it works, or can the regular one copy shiny forms? The regular one can copy shiny. Yeah. At least in older games. I don't know other games. Let us donate and let us know. Yep. Damn. I should have said something horrendously wrong Yeah, so people would've gone Actually Ditto can't transform It doesn't know how it forgot The meme where it just says it forgot I mean diddo is a failed new clone That's true You don't know that But the internet told me There's supposed to be mu3 but then Look at how precious she is we have to save her by getting her out of the bag agreed i'm on team release oh by the way uh karen tries to give the teal mass to ogre pawn but she rejects it so we have to give it to her and then this happens. What an animation! It's so good! That's like 50% of the animation right there. Have you seen the anime as the switching masks? Uh-uh. It's also really good. Yeah, you'll see the switching mask animations. It is incredibly good. So cute! Do we have any cute donations? Oh yeah, absolutely! I like donations. Me too. We have $25 from Silence here that says Ash, Pikachu, Misty and Brock taught us about the power of friendship so let's bring that friendship to Ogre Pond. Save Ogre Pond. Yeah! That's cute. I was like, did you see that? Kieran was like, yeah. I'm here. And $38.50 from Ender that says wishing to my favorite pokemon jirachi that we'll save over upon keep on going. Thanks for another great show. Poor Ogre Pond. Yeah, the Ogre Pond is a little scared to go into town without any of her masks. I'll be honest, this photograph on animation always makes me... Always looks to me like she has food poisoning. That's so specific! Not this one! Not this one! The one where she's shivering. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah This is normal. Alright that's headcanon for me now So what we're doing here is the lousy three which kinda got got away we didn't we don't really know where they ran off to but we know they're definitely around to cause trouble as we saw so we're gonna just kind of going around town and figuring out where they may have gone. Apparently these three Townspeople know. Yeah, the Town still thinks the Loyal Three came back to life and they're like Oh my god! The people from our folklore. Like it's a blessing. Are you gonna talk to Perrin? Talk to Perrin? Yeah sure The game just teleported me away before I could do it. Maybe later. Perrin is great! Perrin does have the Hisuian Gralis by her side. Did you get any of those cards? Yes, and the Hisuian Archon. I got an Ursa Luna EX. Nice! That's a great card. Maybe I can proxy a few less. Half of my decks at home are just energy cards with slips of paper in front of them, because it's like, I don't own this card but I'll pretend that I do. You might now. Yeah, after this. Okay, we figured out where they are so this is the the map screen if... This is like it's a single story now. It feels like it. Yeah. Wow! Conveniently been to all three of those locations. Whoa! This is where I think the run gets really good, because these upcoming fights are very similar to the Titan battles. If you remember that from the base game. So Carmine is actually going to accompany us, kind of like how Arvin did with the Titans so we'll have these two-on-one battles against pretty large versions of the Pokemon and they all get a specific stat boost as well. And this is where Medicham really shines over Aspathra specifically, especially this one. I don't need the details, I need to just go here. Yeah so all three of these pokemon are part poison uh monkey dory is poisoned psychic and then you've got poison fighting for okie dokie and poison fairy not flying, and so... That's why Psychic is so good for this. And so like Lumina Crash just shreds through two of them but Monkey Dory does not take super effective damage from Psychic moves because it is part Psychic itself. So Illumina Press just doesn't really help that much and it gets a special... Special defense boost! So this fight is really annoying for his Fathra because you are doing just a slim amount of damage and you don't want to get hit with Spite on that battle. But this we ignore it a little bit more thoroughly. We're a little worried about Clear Smog because I am going to set up an X attack, the first one of the whole run here, to effectively double my attack. Two stat stages. X items, busted. If I were making my own title I would not make it Titanic personally Okay panic personally yeah okay i saw the like no way no way i have never gotten hit with clear smog turn one from the monkey dory before it's just and it's something i've wanted to route around but like never happened so it's like okay i think setting up is pretty safe here so we are still just going to Zen headbutt. Did not miss, that is great. All right it's actually important to see what Carmine's gonna choose here. She chose Bite at first let's see if we get Leer. Okay. It said all stat changes were eliminated, and I guess that is technically correct. Yes. Yeah, that is true! So because I didn't get Leer here, the Zen Headbutt is a range so we are going to Terra to increase the power and effectiveness of this move. Teratite... This will be the first time we see Terra used in a Scarlet Violet speedrun. Yeah, that's true. And maybe the first time you've ever seen anyone Terra psychic. Yeah, so because Medicham is part psychic that Zen Headbutt instead of the same type attack bonus being a 1.5 times you essentially get like a double stab and it becomes a two-time attack. So very powerful. Two times on top of the X-Attack. But obviously we don't do it that often because you saw how slow that is. Yeah, and it shakes forever. The animation is very long so that's why you usually don't see speedrunners go for Dynamax in Gen 8 or Terra in Gen 9 unless it's like absolutely necessary. But for this run, it IS necessary both offensively as you saw here and I'll be doing it again defensively on a later fight because when you tear a type, you actually are then mono-type to what it is defensively. So I'm effectively getting rid of my fighting type without losing the stab for it. Alright, so we are on our way to Okidogi. Okidogi being the psychic and fighting type. I want you all to pay attention to the frame rate of the okadogii. It is really important that you watch the frame rate as it appears on screen. and while you're watching that chat everyone what is your favorite dog emote oh my god huh he was trying his best. That's true. It's really bad when he swings the toxic scarf and it's just... He has no frames to save release the ogre pond true how's that looking yeah i was just taking a taking a look have save Ogre Pond at $4471 and release Ogre Pond at $3365 so over $1000 difference but that does happen to be your pokedex number it's almost perfect almost a perfect lead not looking good here over pound i don't know what to say well how much time do we have left for people to donate. That's a good question, Ronnie. We're like 1-25 on the timer right now. I'm gonna guess 20-25 minutes? Probably closer to 15-20, maybe 20. Keyes do you think they could even possibly release Ogre Pond that time? No chat's terrible at this game I think we all need to prove Keyes wrong don't you think? Yeah. When has Chad ever won against me? Get those donations at gamesnotkicked.com slash donate and thank you so much to everyone who has been donating, it's amazing seeing all of these come in we have $13.30 from Kaylee's mom that says watching the run with my daughter donating for her favorite Pokemon Eevee. Thank you for all you do! Good luck on the rest of the run! My Special Attack is very bad. Usually you want to X-Special Attack and Psybeam on this fight but because my Special Attack and Psybeam on this fight, but because my Special Attack is very bad I have to go with the Zen Headbutt route. It looks like it should be about the same But Zen Headbutts 90% accuracy so we want...'s like mitigating risk in a very minor way but because the special attack was low it would have been a three shot instead of two shots. So I do have to continue to risk this. I like that both Medicham and Morpeko are contributing equally. Yes, well Carmine thinks so! So on this fight when you hit for super effective she's like, I knew he had a weakness. So when I say every fight is a hop fight I mean even against your teammates will tell you when you did super effective. It's like, I know! Alright, got that one. So we're coming up on the third of the lousy three, Pheasantipity. This has actually... This has the most interesting movements in the game. Yeah. Hey remember those BLJs that we did like an hour ago? Yes! Yeah, we're gonna do more of those when they get tricky again. Whoa! This is the weird thing about this DLC Is if you did it Like when it came out with your completed save Then you probably just flew everywhere. Yeah. Whereas if you did it like we don't have any upgrades here so you actually have to kind of be a little creative in order to get places quickly instead just climbing and flying yeah that's one of the really cool things about this game with it being so open world without like routes and stuff like older pokemon games uh there's a lot of creativity you can have with the movement. Come on! And not everything is set in stone. Yes, that was really good. Getting up that mountain is tricky because when you go up the first half, You're a little bit too far to the left and you can slide back off the mountain pretty easily. So I was able to get through that... Oh look at that frame rate! It improved. Got time for more donations? Yeah, give us one more. Alright we have $25 from Evelyn Michael that says, We watch GDQ together every year. It's one of our most anticipated events of the year. Thanks for always putting on such a great event. So if Fezendipity went that way...yeah I'm gonna go to the left but that's the opposite yes yeah this is the opposite they got me with this one yeah it's there's like this little cave that's really winding and stuff That you're supposed to go through but the Pheasant Division is right here You can just fall down on top of it Oh. I thought I'd jump a little better Hi Ogre Punch! Ogre Punch! Please release me! He's tired of the bag. Pessinivity is our third one here, I will tear out to be defensive on this one because this is the fairy typing and it will spam Dazzling Gleam because it notices that we are part fighting and all of Carmine's pokemon are dark so it just starts going for dazzling gleam right away yeah which that one gleam is like a pretty powerful move for this stage of the game um like the movesets will also in addition to levels being lower the movesets are also changed but dazzling gleam the i want to say that titanic pokemon are like level 35 they'll get a stat boost and all of their HPs are quadrupled. Which is why if you did this casually, you'd be like, this is not just the stat boost. It actually does have four times the health. Titans work the same way right? Four times the health. Titans work the same way, right? Titans, it's not four times, but it depends on which one it is, but yes. Ow! I am actually just jamming to this music. It's so good. Alright, so here is the Terra! Yeah, I hope you like cut scenes. I love cut scenes. I love them because we get time for donations. We got $50 from Spider C that says, good luck T-Pat hit those kicks! So far so good. Absolutely and $10 from Kaiju Ashi that says happy pride everyone trans rights trans rights and one shot wow and the credits hey nice credit i wonder if carmine actually said Wow. And a crit! Hey, nice crit! I wonder if Carmine actually says something? I think she doesn't because you win the battle and for some reason it's just like, oh okay, you won. Please no cutscene. I think we're good. You are good, yes. Sometimes you don't know. What is important about those fights is if you are ever below 50% health, the Ogre Pawn then cheers you on and you get a stat boost that matches what the Lousy 3 got in that one. So it's also kind of important that we go defensively Terra to avoid yet another flavor text, In this case from the Ogre Pawn. It's like, We've got this! Don't worry, we've got this. Are you saying you don't like Flavortown? What? Flavortex! I know, but... You get Flavortex at Flavortown. I love Flavortown. I would hope so. Flavor text is... I don't know. I don't know where I'm going with this. Good, I've done it. Congrats on confusing me. So now we have all three masks, what are we doing with them? We have all four. Don't wait. Because Ogre Pond already has the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ogre Pond has the teal mask so we got the three. Well, kind of. I mean kinda. kinda so we're gonna do that thing where remember that we knew the real story but we didn't want kieran to go like off the rails and tell the town people about the real story yeah we're just going to tell the town people about the real story? Yeah, we're just going to tell the town people about the real story. And be like, but look! She's so precious! How can you be mad at this food poisoning? What? I don't see it. Well, I don't know... First of all, stars for pupils is A+. I love the little walk. I'm just going to ogre pod walk at GDQ for like the rest of the event just hey everyone! Are you time for a special donation in here? Yes. We have $5,000 from the Yeti! They say hey all, Yeti here. There's no Ducks number for 5,000! So maybe we can pretend this is Embor ten times over? We've gotta say, this is a very entertaining Violet Run. Props to TPAT on his inaugural GDQ run! This donation is made possible thanks to all the orders from our official SGDQ 2024 collection, where every item ordered directly benefits MSF. A quick hello to my Pokemaniacs at home, Penn, Jack and Maddie! Thank you so much Yeti! Thank you so much! Now are they saving or releasing? I bet they went 50-50 on that one. It's looking about the same, but Save Ogre Pond continues to climb a little bit. $4,521. Should I just throw Ogre Pond on the ground now? You know who might help us release the Ogre Pond? Kieran. Kieran has challenged us to a duel, because even though we are probably the better trainer for Ogre Pond, Kieran wants to take this into his own hands and be like, I will save or release the Ogre Pond. So we actually have to defeat Kieran now so that Chat gets to decide. Otherwise, we just don't get to decide. And, chat you're running out of time to decide. Oh yeah! We are coming up So it is probably about 5-6 minutes away from deciding if we need to save or release. So, if you are saving any snipes, any last dex donations... And as a reminder, if you want Ogre Pond to be freed from the plastic, you have to pick release. It is confusing? I'm sorry. Listen, Kero12's got it. They donated $25 and said, Ogre Pond yearns for freedom. Release him from his horrible plastic coil! and said, Ogre Pond yearns for freedom. True! Release it from its horrible plastic coil! So true. Ogre Pond is being very sentimental right now because remember the old story? She had like a partner and this was where she lived, and we just waved at her. She's so cute! True. I don't understand how the townspeople ever saw Ogre Pond and were like, I'm scared! What a monster! That's what I'm saying! Although it's possible they saw Ivy ivy kutzel and then we're like oh okay no i am scared just a great move it's really good i love the animation for it. Bonk. Yeah, Kieran's getting a little obsessed here so let's fend him off. Trying to remember how risky this fight is. Eh, that's a few Zen headbutts. I can't wait for Kieran to learn his lesson after this and never do anything like this again. I love foreshadowing! Yeah, this fight here as well one more fight later on are basically the reason why we get as many experience candies as we do. You could shave off a couple if we didn't have these fights, but there are certain stat thresholds, mainly speed thresholds you're trying to hit. Speed for this one, so you're going to see right after this lead Pokemon shift tree, we're going to level up to 44 and we've calculated the speed stat that we need for the exact next two Pokemon which is Yanmega and Gliscor. They have the same speed, which I think is like 96 or something. And we just want to be barely above that so we outspeed. So that's why we have the speed threshold. The attack threshold is to just really it's more of a comfort thing. It eliminates almost every range in the entire run, which is if you're resetting for good enough stats you might as well for that point. So it saves us a little bit of headache there and the Psychic tara you saw that example uh we do have to x attack here and because kieran has gotten powerful enough no more messing around we almost exclusively use super effective moves on this fight. If you notice the Shiftry is level 33 so he's caught up like pretty good! Remember the first time we battled well the first time we found him for real he was only level 15. but there's the like the flavor text that little cutscene oh you did use super effective moves my HOT told me about that and there's our level 44 so now our speed stat is just good enough to outspeed Yeah the music is so good in this game. Really? The only other complication on this fight is one of the Pokémon coming out is going to be a Probopass and Probopass is a Pokémon that has 30 as its ability which means it cannot be knocked out in one hit so we will have to take another hit from it but you're probably noticing that ice punch very fast animation it's just and that's all very quick is it it's similar like wing attack for flamigo yeah the general rule of thumb is the lower the power is the faster the move is um as well have just a move he's kind of why are you saying anything so here's the pro pass it has 30 so we're gonna two shot anyways yeah you go for zen headbutt first because they could flinch didn't but it could have i could have i believe you people are hearing overpond's cry for help we have fifty dollars from cheese net that says free her free her! Free her! And then we have $25 from Pikalax Alt that says A Pikachu donation to save the Ogre Pond in the game The plush can live in the plastic forever or at least until the end of the event So very opposed in the plastic forever so very opposing donations here but the best part is it all goes to dr zap orders that's true that's one of my mods you monster do you think he knows Oh, my goodness. That does sound like a people lax thing to do though, to be honest. All right, smooth fight. Yeah, that was surprisingly smooth so that's worthy of a clap. We did it! We showed Kieran who is boss. It's us. We're the boss. You are the boss chat. I shouldn't give him that kind of power. Wait a second. So he couldn't... He's just like... Does he pound the ground here or is it the last one? Isn't this the last one? Yeah, there. Did another three Pokémon come up? I'm starting to think his glove is like actually a cast at this point, he's had to have broken it. Like legendary birds all sprout out from the ground? Yep. I will say what happens with Kieran is a bit less surprising than, say Volo in Legends Arceus. It's like oh no you were the bad guy all along? The first thing he tells you how to backstab Pokemon Backstri, sorry. He teaches you how to kill. You can't backstrike in this game. Yes, you can. It's just a lot more difficult. Alright, this time we're gonna battle the ogre pawn yeah secret third to the third mid-war incentive there was save release and battle i choose the battle and now we get to see all the different masks and the uh the different forms of the Ogre Pond. So I hope you really like Terrestrialization because you're going to see a lot of it on this battle. Yeah, Ogre Pond's whole thing is that there are by default his chill mask has different masks so they can hold its health items and it changes its ability, and its terror type. And then when it terror-asterizes It gets a stat boost depending on which terror type it is What the... Yeah, the mask gets really big. Yeah, the mask is huge. And it also changes to the type of its signature move IV Cugna which we referenced earlier. It's a high crit rate move and very powerful. It's really good. We're actually really glad that the embody aspect is the ability of Ogre Pawn because otherwise the Cornerstone Mask one has Sturdy. And you can sturdy yeah and you can beat we need to go and beat every single mass yeah and although although this is the animation watch the animation because each one and all those this is set up like a titan fight It does have, or she does have a boosted HP bar. It's like two times or something like that. Unfortunately, she's only level 20 because you are going to be obtaining the Ogreur Pawn later on, they wanted to make sure that you could always allow it to obey you. And level 20 is the current obedience threshold with zero badges. That also doesn't scale unless you've beaten the game, then I think it's level 70. I'm really glad that caught a Level 20 Meta-Tight. I forgot about that in a second because they can come at Level 21. Another animation? Enjoy! another animation um i'm all about hearthling i like the cornerstone one this is a little inhale one like you the one pupil is This one looks unhinged. The one pupil is Terra, but not the other one. It kind of looks like Wrath from Fullmetal Alchemist with just the 1. Oh I have to high jump kick here? Easy. Yeah! Oh and then yeah Carmine still tells you about super effective text we're not even battling you we're battling ogre pod oh by the way when i first fought the monkey dory if you crit the monkey dory the monkey dory has like a you trippy it is literally every battle has like a super flavor thank you all right and then the final mask, the teal mask. Whoa! That's the name of the category! And afterwards, Ogre Pond pulls off the Indigo Disk. Alright, last chance for donations! Literally last chance for donations. Literally last chance for donations so give us like one or two more. Absolutely it was $25 from Tara that says That's her emotional support plastic bag. Save Ogre Pond! And $25 for bananas, it says save the Ogre Pond The sparking is not looking good Save Ogre Pond is at four thousand six hundred and six dollars and release over pawns at three thousand four hundred seventy five dollars this has been an incredible bid war we went through all this effort to catch the ogre Pawn so we can be best friends with the Ogre Pawn, so we're gonna save her right? So what do I get? Is this the deadline? This is basically the deadline. We are going to need the official total in about 30 seconds. Alright, I'll be counting my head. These text boxes sure are some of the text boxes of all time. This poor ogre Pawn, stuck forever in the bag We gave very good Hey well done GDQ that was pretty impressive I agree way to, GDQ! We're not done yet. There is one more battle to go. The final battle is in fact not Ogre Pond, it's Carmine. Gasp you shall chat. What? I would have never guessed. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Beep! So, Carmine is pretty enthralled that like we're Ogre Pawn's order. It's like so I want to test your strength against Ogre Pawn. And she won't battle us unless we have the Ogre Pawn in the party or if we don't have it in our game at all, so I will need that final total now. Alright, Save Ogre Pawn is our winner! Yes! $4606 released Ogre Pawn at $3475 so combined around $8000 to Dr. release over pawn at three thousand four hundred seventy five dollars so combined around eight thousand dollars to doctors without borders for our girl ogre pond thank you all so much thank you very much i super appreciate this whole bid where even though I know it didn't go in your favor, I have to feel like I've done worse than Lee. You are... You have a freed and released Ogre Pond right here! This was mine. It's... This was mine. This is the most confusing set of instructions we've given you. I'm sure there's at least one broke person who donated for saving that would say that in your pot and not that over pod people like this upon is already safe so this this one's just here. Yeah well we didn't tell you the plastic bag was actually a trash bag So it just came thrown away Wow that's messed up It is faster to release the Ogre Pawn because in this game there's no set switch option. So when you have multiple Pokemon at your party, every time you defeat a Pokemon it's like hey we're about to send out the next Pokemon do YOU want to change? And a yes no option comes up and for this fight specifically since Carmine forces us to have Ogre Pond We'll get that text box four times. So it is just faster to release but I am personally glad that we got to skip that line of my notes and outright save the Ogre Pawn. thank you to everybody who donated that's what's most important it really is so again big clap for everybody who donated and made this like so so special I know we we raised a ton of money, so it really does overwhelm me that we're doing this for such a great cause and making this such a great first experience for me here on the stage and I couldn't do it without you guys. Can we get another round of applause for TPAT? Absolutely. That's my weatherman, Pokemon Runner and three-time Emmy nominee as we found out on Legally Distinct's GDQ Trivia Show. Yeah, I do want to add to this hype of congratulations and say This run has raised over $22,000 alone! You all are incredible. T-Bat, you're incredible. This run's been fantastic and in honor of that I'm going to go for one more high jump kick for you. I hit the ball! He doesn't miss! You can't miss. Incredible. Carmen's going to be real sore about that. I bet you're real popular back home. What is the context of that sentence? Well, it's because you're from Chaldea. She knows he's The Weatherman. Okay, yeah! Oh there's a text box. There's the time loss. I mean more GDQ, yay! More Pekka. You suck. I hate you. Why are you my roommate? Hate you both. Wait, it just started raining in my game what the heck oh there's weather in this game it changes every two minutes it changes the frame rate too it sure does. And since we use one super effective, it's like, eh, might as well just do it all. The last Pokémon is Ninetales but there's still about a minute or two between the end of this fight and time. Just because we gotta finish the storyline! Yeah, there are definitely no twists that happen after the fight. Yeah, there is definitely not a much longer second DLC category of this game. How long does it take to go to Disp T-Pack? That's a good question! I think it's like 10 hours Yeah, so the Indigo Disc DLC because it requires post game you kind of have to do the whole game Can't miss! Won't miss! Can't miss, won't miss! That's amazing. Indigo Disc is like 9 hours and Mochi Mayhem is the epilogue What? And that's like 11 hours. My goodness. I have genuine confusion because I actually actively avoided the DLC for this game specifically so I could be surprised by all this and everything you're saying. And now that you are an Oger Alcine expert... You are the number one Oger Alcine expert! Apparently. But yeah, you have to complete the whole main game and this storyline. You can go to the Indigo Disc but you don't get any of the story until you finish these first two. It is quite long. Definitely have to do the storyline of Teal Mask to do the Indigo Disc storyline, it is a direct continuation, so In fact, time will be as To Be Continued fades out. Now something that changed from Sword and Shield, where the two DLCs were essentially distinct. Yeah. That was fun. That was such a blast. I really do want to say thank you all for being here and helping me out with my first run uh and saving the overpond and and all the good stuff uh i mentioned this before i literally wouldn't be here without keys because I connected with him after his 2019 run. And basically it was just like hey I'm your weatherman can we be friends? You graciously said yes. I promise the conversation had maybe six other words besides that. Please! But yeah, it's... Please! I need this! I just moved to Spokane, I have no friends! No it was more gracious and obviously you've been so incredible to share your community with me. And now I'm here. I literally never would have guessed in my wildest dreams watching GDQ in 2016 that I would be sitting here performing a run, so you've really changed my life in so many good ways. I wanted to make sure that you knew that because... I'm proud of you. Yeah, me too. You're actually making me cry. Better you than me because because I was afraid that I would cry there. That's fair. I think it's cause I was so focused. There is just so much adrenaline So yeah, I can't wait to hang hang out with everybody again. Just see me around the venue, see me in the board game room. You can find me on my Twitch it's slash thomaspatrickwx If you're keysy, you just watch your local news i'll be telling you about the weather hit me up because yeah i would love to see everybody just around and having a good time we're all about the good vibes here absolutely right now absolutely follow t-pat and if you are at all interested in this run any other pokemon run definitely check out the discords uh like we mentioned earlier you can definitely learn a lot there so if if you're at all interested in the weather, follow TPAT on social media as well! I love teaching people about weather. In fact like doing school talks for anybody from first grade to highers. They love that stuff so much and I love it too. I just love sharing my knowledge about all things nerdism, whether it is about weather or Pokemon or trading cards basically'm just i'm just a passionate dude oh yeah the law oh yeah if there's an over quick match somebody bash Quick, mash. Somebody mash. I got it. I totally forgot there was one more pack sitting in front of me. Opening the pack speed run. Time is on the fade out of to be continued as Carmine does I think a reverse. Okay, so here we go Dark Energy, Dreepy Sandy Gas, I can't see from the top Love Ball can see from the inside. The tone of this is so funny because Love Ball! He's like, so excited to Kirin It feels like it's the worst day of my life I go, oh I got the Kirin that goes Whoa! Oh my god! It's right there. There you go. It's him! It's Chandler. And it is actually the alt art of the Kieran but that was wild. And time That was wild. And... Time! You didn't make us do all the rest of it. That was a great time! We did it. High-fives all around. Thank you again, everybody so much for hanging out this was Pokemon Violet I'm T-Pap These people are amazing Make sure to stay tuned for more of the event, please keep donating, Please keep the hype up! Thank you all so much! Sending love! Oh we have to clean all this up. Yeah. Hey, everyone. My name is Zu. I'll be running Halo 2 Legendary. I'm joined by my lovely commentators here. So hi, I'm Chronos, Halo runs admin formerly and a long time speed runner of a lot of Halo games. I'm Cryphon, I'm a boomer. I'm Nerva Destroyer I run a variety of Halo games and I think what you're about to see is just Halo at its peak. The game has come so far, so far since... Especially since Kryphon here last ran it. Seven years ago yeah halo 2 is that you know pretty difficult i'm sure anyone can attest to that with the casual playthroughs. But if we're ready... Yep! We're ready to go? Alright, ready set go! Go team! Starting off right here is Transk. So this is a pretty difficult trick, right off the bat. We're punching this Marine into the tram and we are going to use him to try to clip through an invisible wall by making all the marines angry at us. So, shoot a couple of our allies here, and then try to melee ourselves through the door. You didn't get mad? Sometimes they're just a little bit more lenient than they could be. They're a bit too forgiving. Yeah it's a very difficult trick to start out the run, and it only started getting implemented in like the last two years or so. It saves a ton of waiting as well, so you can miss it a few times and you're still coming out green. And there we go! There is a bit of a side effect to this trick, now not only do we have the Covenant to worry about but also have the Covenant to worry about, We also have the Marines. They seem to... like to target you more than the actual aliens invading the ship. They also have a damage boost on you so they're a little bit more scary. Right here we are just clearing out the first hangar as quick as we can and again there is a Marine over towards the right side so Zoot does have to be careful because that marine will And again, there is a Marine over towards the right side. So Zude does have to be careful because that Marine will absolutely target you and it's pretty quick from there. He's opting to help us though. We don't always get that lucky. And once again, this is on the legendary difficulty so enemies are brutal in this run. Any mistake and you're dead within a couple of tenths of a second chief has made paper in this game yeah anyone who's um anyone who's like kind of clued in on the development of this game. They didn't really have enough time to fully bet and test the legendary difficulty so it's a little, just a little over-tuned as anyone who has played this can attest little, just a little over-tuned. As anyone who has played this can attest to jackals in particular are problematic as we'll see in later levels. So right here we cleared out the first hangar and we saw that was it the Malta or Athens that out the first hangar and we saw that i think was is it the malta or athens that was the first one i don't even remember what if this spaceship explodes and were kind of confused like why did the spaceship just seemingly explode from the inside so here we make our way towards the second hangar and again similar to the first we're just going to clear out all the enemies as quickly as we can the faster you clear out a certain number of enemies here, the faster you'll get spawns through that little boarding craft you'll see right there more spawns. So you want to try to kill them as fast as you can to get these spawns as quickly as possible and i believe the last wave is on the timer or something like that if they recall yeah once there's four enemies left alive in the hangar it'll spot a last wave on the timer but you'll see for a lot of combat in halo 2 is you're trying to kill things you know as soon as they're spawning here just because oftentimes it's safer and if you don't have to engage in combat especially all. Don't even try! And there is a special property of this last wave in that one of the elites has an energy sword. By far the weapon of Halo 2 It's completely broken. This is the reason why people love Halo 2, right here? What you can do with the sword? It's fun! Not only is it really fun, it's really cool to watch, and the skill ceiling is practically infinite. It's really hard to do, really hard to do it right, and Zeus is just going to make it look easy. So right there, that's called a sword cancel. Essentially what you do is you basically cancel the sword lunge um but you still keep the momentum from it so you don't actually swing the sword at them but it's like you just lunge out and just hang on all that speed. Oh, see! This guy is being a little troll-y. Alright thank you for the... And there we go. That is an example of the sword fly! It's a very difficult trick as you'll see. Yeah it's basically like frame perfect for your inputs. So you switch your weapon, you cancel the Switch animation pressing a button and then you trick the game into thinking that you can lunge further than you should be able to with the sword. Yeah there's like a one or two frame window where the sword reticle while it's zoomed in is also red and that just tricks the game. And as you can see, it sends you flying because it thinks you could just sort of one. Yeah. So right here now we're in the drone room. He has enough drones for the elevator to open, or the door and once he does that he's going to try to sneak behind all of these enemies here so let's see... Perfect! That is one of the nice parts about the sword too, is that That is so much harder than it looks because if you mess up at Swordfly it gets really bad really quick yeah it's fast and safe we juggle the plasma pistol on this ledge here and if we hit the swordfly and hold our action button make fly watch pick it up in midair which is really useful for the last room yeah at this point i don't really need the energy story the plasma crystal is just much better for this section. There's six Elites and a new combo is the best way to take care of them. There's also Secret Marine back here that will kill us if we don't... Normally doesn't come out until he's mad at you, so... And just for those of you that may not know the nuke combo refers to basically overcharging with the plasma pistol and take down the elite shields and then from there it's just one headshot with the battle rifle if he wasn't doing this it would take like multiple rounds of vr clip he's using here just to drop the shield to plenty late so it's much easier to do it instantly and that was very good one of the toughest missions especially to begin with so that's really cool to see with that trick at the very start with the marines being against you on top of the covenant it's pretty scary you're going for it yeah this is probably the hardest mission in the run all right i'm so happy you're going to be using this later sniper later gonna work on emptying it though yeah so right here we in outskirts we're going to be Jumping out of bounds here Well not technically out-of-bounds but just out of the map on the rooftops and it skips a wave fight that We normally would have to do. That takes a couple minutes, so yeah! We just jump past everything and we're out of there! Conveniently skips a ton of snipers if you guys are familiar with that. Normally, a lot of times you can't do this sometimes Halo games are super specific about what you can and can't skip Thankfully Bungie intended for you to explore their game They hid a ton of Easter eggs outside here. So right there, Zoo ran up to that Elite with the sniper rifle and the sniper rifle is a very scary weapon so it forced the Elite to essentially enrage and take out an energy sword, which as we saw in the prior level, very powerful. Oh nice cancel. And now from here Zulu's gonna make his way towards an open ghost? The old way was to just do a nice Sunday drive along this beach here but we're going to do something a little bit different. This is one of the coolest strats, I love this strat. From the big brain in Mr. Monopoly. So right there that was a redirect fly essentially uh zoo sword flaw uh sword flew and then bounced off the ghost going different direction but it's not over yet, and again. And those are all super precise. He had to shoot the Elite as well in order to stun it otherwise if the Elite moves shoot the elite as well in order to stun it. Otherwise, if the elite moves in a weird way it can cause you to mid-air stop making your fly momentum like cancel. All right and here we're going to backtrack for the Warhol because it's actually faster than the ghost and there's a marine in it so we'll take take most of the damage as we cut through these tunnels if he stuck with the ghost there was no chance that We would live One of the nice parts at least with Your allies in this game is they have way more health Than you do so you can distribute That damage load across them and you can just drive through a lot more entries than you would alone about time for some donations absolutely we have so much love coming in! We have $25 from the grave that says, Good luck today too! Thank you for representing Halo Runs at GDQ. We could not be more proud of you and we are all very excited to watch you display your incredibly skilled lsu gameplay donators curse i don't know. We have $25 from Coop that says, Yep! I'm thinking it's zoo time. Good luck and have fun! No you can keep going. Awesome we have so many coming in. We have $50 from Sleek saying Hey, Zuin and Couch Best of luck on the Runzoo And remember what Karniakon always says Faster is safer Still on this level? LOL Classic Sleek We were just talking about that Like yeah you won't have sleep saying that. It's his catchphrase. One more? Absolutely! Alright we have $117 from No Trees Forest saying, go Mayo! All the best with your Run Zoo. So awesome to see you up there. Thank you guys so much. Yeah, we're just making our way to the end of outskirts here so it's a bunch of just left leftover driving and we're going to be driving through a bit of enemies here but should be fine. And then that'll lead us into Metro. There's supposed to be some covenant vehicles you're supposed to fight along the way, but we're a little bit fast for that. Just real fast. This is like the big ambush section but we Fastest, safest. And that's Outskirts! So this is one of the fun missions, at least casually. They let you start with a tank, man. People players love their tanks but unfortunately it's slow so gotta take the hog and drive across the bridge And this mission is pretty uh difficult for the driving there's going to be a lot of enemies that really want to kill you here and we're going to be just trying to brute force our way past all of them and i believe um okay no not the first but um like this is really the start when jackal snipers, everyone's favorite. Everyone loves Jackal Snipers from Halo 2. This is where they start to be very menacing. There are two things that Halo runners love, Checkpoints and Jackalal snipers they tend to go hand in hand yeah this level especially we're probably going to see a lot of love from that you know and by check points i mean lack of checkpoints hey you got one there! That's nice! Oh, that was useful. This might be a good place to describe how I mean depending on what happens One of the reasons we try to brute force things like this is because as you'll see here there's a ton of enemies and killing them all is quite slow, but if you go fast and then you die a couple times figuring out what spawns you got how do you need to win figuring out how do you need that it's oftentimes way faster than taking things safer okay some point yeah okay nice that's first try hopefully we get a checkpoint here if you slow down Nice And now here there's even more enemies and another two sniper jackals so let's hope we can get past through this tunnel, very nice check out Nice Just to explain a bit of what is going on here Very nice check, buddy. Nice. Just to explain a bit of what's going on here, that scarab is essentially menacing ThisIsEarth. That scarab is causing a lot of havoc and basically we gotta take it out. Pretty much the whole point of these two missions in particular is to take out the Scarab because its menacing, and 2 because we know there's a prophet on Earth and prophets are basically the de facto leaders of the covenant yep so what he did right there is something called a nade board so he boarded the raid while throwing a grenade which causes the grenade to go inside of parade Wraith, and that helps kill the driver so we can just take the Wraith, blow up this other Wraith, and the Phantom that comes in. And nade boards are tricky. They can be tough if you don't have the timing down perfectly, you won't get it. They're really weird. I don't know how to describe them. Very finicky points. There you go. I feel like I gotta get some ammo. That was really clean. Normally, you would die quite a few times through those sniper cackles. So that's really cool that he got them all through his time. This is not the typical Metro for me. And right there, you actually saw Zeus stop at the top of the stairs for a second and that's because there's a short window where if you go past that point, the Scarab will actually deload. And that is a full-on softlock so by waiting there for just a second until you're out of that window, which Zuu has the timing down in his head essentially Basically makes it so this Scarif will never be able to And so he jumped onto this light pole here, and he's going to port the Scarab by jumping at the right time. Easy... Here we go! So normally you'd have to run all the way around and have this big fight with marines, but we're just kind of on it early. Which lets us do some pretty fun stuff. There's no enemies yet, the enemies aren't going to spawn until a particular time so we're gonna kind of set up just to pre-fire them pick up the plasma pistol and then there's only three elites that need to die in order to end this entire mission, and they're right here. You know, use some wall hacks. He can injure the wall hacks. Take it in through the wall, and there we go! And that's... 4-routes Metro, that's so fast! That's a fast. And whoa, we're playing as an Elite now! This was basically the big twist of Halo 2. A playable elite, now the Arbiter and you really get the whole backstory of The Covenant from this. Halo 2 is definitely like the strongest from a story perspective for just all that they did here. You'll notice there, he's quite the mean person to his teammates. I can't explain it. He skips almost 30 seconds of dialogue. That's kind of what you'll find as a recurring theme is trade-offs. Kill your allies get a little bit of damage output but you stay done there's just another example of uh sword cancel again the energy sword it's just the bread and butter this this run, you're just gonna see crazy movement like that all over the place including right here Yep, we're gonna have a uh little bit of a silly trick coming up. I'm gonna say it should just speak for itself, but maybe we explain after. Yeah, we'll see.... Nice. Let's go. So that was one of the most recent developments in Halo 2 speedrunning, at least on MCC before... Like four months ago, I think. Yeah, so very difficult trick that was found like way in the past and then a new method that Zou right there did is he found like safety method which is so cool for speed runs now and saves around a minute of just like clearing a bunch of enemies in that hangar. And normally you'd have to, like that hang bat hanger you have to clear out wave after wave of enemies and it was a real annoying section as well so and and these arbiter hallways can be quite the trolls do you really need to manage your camo. So one huge feature of arbiter is the active camo ability but it's temporary You don't have it forever So managing your camo to get past enemies with a sword and having good movement Is really important when playing as arbiter such as here activating camo sort canceling to you in the room and just getting out as quick as you can it's a good time for more donations. One second. Right here, this is going to do glass clip or try to so trying to sort our way through the wall. Aww, yeah. It's a pretty rough trick. It's pretty finicky in Halo 2 MCC. And we're just going to go around for it. And from here normally this would be like and we're just going to go around the back. And from here, normally this would be like... Actually, first probably explain this. So uh, We are playing on a PC port of the game You can turn around in vehicles a lot faster than you can on controller for the native console devices. And it lets you like fly the Banshee really fast when you flip it. And that's Arbiter! Yeah, yeah. That's the whole level You actually don't need to do that ending Banshee fight section you can just fly right to where you already know the level's gonna end. And coming up here is what is this trick called? It's the popcorn room, so...'re gonna try to set up some dialogue. Thank you that's what it's called I can't remember. So one of the properties about Halo 2 is like save on memory it likes to de-load things I'll be quiet for a second Yes, is waiting for an audio cue right there to walk through this door. And what's going to happen is when we walk out, the dialogue for the heretic leader should skip. Yeah. So as I was saying, the game likes to save on memory by putting things in suspended animation when you're behind locked doors or really far away from areas If you overlap that with dialogue that's all supposed to be playing at the same time, you can effectively skip it. It saves a bunch of time. And one thing that might be hard to see on the camera is he was actually switching between controller and mouse and keyboard. Like right here, it's just easier to aim on mouse and keyboard so he is doing this section on mouse and keyboard for that reason and then he is going to switch the controller because more comfortable with sword flight in general just preferred input method but for some parts you really want to use mouse oh wow that was a real spec again we are on legendary. I just forgot. So right after this is the infamous Oracle Elevator section where it's a five minute auto scroller. Or three minute auto scroller, not the five minute one yet. But the three minute auto scroller of waiting for this elevator to come down so you can just mess around there and it would be a perfect time for donations yeah i hear like waiting auto-scrolling but uh we have so many donations coming in for you, Zoo. It's amazing. We have $25 from Redman VRC saying... Hey, Zoo! It's awesome to see you running Halo 2 GDQ after following you for so long. Let's have a great run! I'll donate 50 more dollars if you hit first try prison skin You're my best, thank you so much Yeah we have $11.70 from TireTheSynth that says already loving this front of one of my favorite games and always happy to see crotas drop by just wish i could watch more of this funny green guy move around really fast wish Wish there was some convenient website for that. Does the couch have any recommendations? P.S., any other enjoyers of this silly 117 number in the chat, what if we could get a chain event going? I love all these ideas. Couch ideas cash you have any recommendations for that i can set the mic i apologize i think halo runs done I apologize. I think HaloRuns.com would be a good place to go? A site for all your Halo speedrunning needs? Somebody say, of the Worlds. That was a good one. Yeah. We do have people jumping on, the $117 train like this $117 from Megan saying I know this isn't enough to make you go get the soccer ball on Metropolis but I can dream. Good luck Zubin time. Thank you so much megan for your donation we still are we still going to have a lot of people just tell me when to stop yeah okay we gotta get back to the run uh we have fifty50 from Bat Chat that says, let's see if I can convince Zoo to become a Blue Arbiter. Do we get to do it again? Blue Arbiter? Spoilers? No spoilers? Alright, well, we'll see. We'll see. We have $25 from SpidiusBard99 saying, Donating for my favorite Halo game and the one that got me into the world of spectating speedruns. Shout out to my partner and love of my life for letting me be your player too. We have $50 from The Income Taxes saying so happy to see you at Halo on the big stage zoo shout out to nervy cronos and kryphon on the couch and the entire gdq crew hi nko all right we have 200 go. Thank you. All right, we have $200 from Gail Jr. Oh wow. Wow. Saying I know how much zoo loves my rhymes so here's a poem. It's nice to see that Zoo made it to DDQ To showcase some Halo 2 With support from the Halo Rents crew He prefers Dr. Pepper to Mountain Dew Wish I could be there with all of you He prefers Dr. Pepper to Mountain Dew. Wish I could be there with all of you. Good luck on the run, Zoom! Thank you for your donation. Shoutouts to GALF. We have $100 from Josh! My first time at GDQ in person and loving the Halo T-Run. I think we're about good here, So Zoo's going to get ready to drop down since the reason why we can't skip this elevator is because there's a death plane below but once the elevator drops down enough, we can just skip past it since it deloads. It's a giant box that has been a plague all of our speedrunning for so many years. I know like we've had a big auto scrolling section where you wait around and do nothing, but now we're gonna do it again! Yeah, so right here this is the lab fight And he has to clear enough enemies here so this next wave of elites spawn in. And then once these elites are dead, he has to kill another fourth blood that spawned in at the top and then after that there is a timer that starts that lasts for one minute. And once that timer's up, then the door will open to the next area so... the minute timer just started so we're going to be waiting around i'm sorry i i just i guess i don't understand how did you not dive anyway i do want to say Anyway. I do want to say, we met the upgrade to Infinite Climax in Center for Bayonetta 2! So you all are going to get to see more Bayonetta 2 from a variety pack. Thank you all so much for donating to that. And we do have $25 from Dracona, that says, Halo was a major part of my teen years. of the lore still haunts your time for more one more I think double we have $250 from Pro Ace Joker saying, Heyo! Amazing to see so many really old dudes on the couch. Can't believe how old all these guys are. Did I mention old? Anyways, love to miss you guys. I'm still in my 20s! And thanks for keeping the Halo speedruns alive and constantly taking them to the next level. Did someone say haloruns.com? I think someone did. What's that again, HaloRuns.com? HaloRuns.com I think I should visit HaloRuns.com You should it might be good. So now we're going to make our way to cut the cables, so head on outside with a nice swordfly here. Swordfly, then we shoot it around the way to spawn these enemies on the ramp so that we can do a sword cancel up. That sword cancel off this ramp is always so cool. It's one of the most satisfying sword tricks in this game, in my opinion. The wind... Alright, and this section there's no really way no way to speed it up it's kind of on a timer you just have to kill three symbols and four flood as fast as you can what we're going to encounter here is probably one of the first major differences, at least as far as physics goes compared to like The classic console version. This version of the game, the physics engine runs basically twice as fast so instead of riding in an elevator like normal we're going to do something a little bit different Just slightly different, just slightly different. That's called a pressure launch I believe? One of the really nice benefits to that, at least for Legendary, is when you're going up that tube, you're moving really fast. And one of the properties of this game is when you're moving really fast, like down or up, sometimes it just kills you, right? It makes you invincible in the elevator. But you skip the part where it tells you to take it away so now you're just invincible for the rest of the mission. It's a very fun trick, very convenient but legendary. Yeah so ZOO doesn't really have to worry about dying uh at least two enemies on this level you can still like fall off and hit a death plan that'll kill you i believe you but um yeah if you look at his shield icon at the bottom left like right above the radar that will never go down it's just fully invulnerable i also have to type this drop so the timing for that's pretty tight, so you don't softlock your game kinda but he did it-he's done it plenty of times Yeah and you have to drop in at a specific time, otherwise your gravity of your character gets super messed up and you'll just float everywhere. You can see he's kind of dropping it really unnerving speed. It's not as typical gravity. Yeah, that'll be fixed in the next section. Here we go! Take a few tries? So few tries so yeah so that part's kind of fun because sometimes debris can just smash you from the bottom and just... Anyway. It'll launch you all the way up. Yeah. You can't die from it, but it takes a while to get back down. Once you're on classic, then it will kill you. Yeah. And then you gotta watch the cutscenes sometimes too so you can't even revert them. I forgot about that. It's a very fun time. So Zeus is making his way back into the hangar now, so he's just backtracking through what was the Arbiter mission? This is kind of the fun part about Oracle. Unfortunately it's at the very end of a lot of waiting. Yeah, sword flies... again they're like your inputs need to be perfect otherwise it doesn't. Because again the game doesn't want you to lunge from that far away so it's trying its best to not let you do it so your inputs have to be pristine and even runners like Zu with thousands of hours who are going to miss swordflies in the run. It is a guarantee. You have less than 1 tenths of second to pull off re-influence...in that order. Not all at same time. Yeah so here's our first boss fight. Quote-unquote boss fight. So basically Bungie really wanted you to hear this guy spewing nonsense. Just hear him out he's the good guy. So while he is doing...he has three lines of a monologue and as he does each one he is just invincible Once he finishes the line you can finally take damage but then we have to wait for the next one yeah it's random whether or not he spawns in the four tubes so we're just forced to listen to him? Normally you have a bunch of holograms to deal with too in this fight, so it's just a lot easier to spawn camp and more or less. I'd say at this point he should be on the couch too. Alright, one more! Oh well! That's where all my good R&D is gonna go. It's okay we can push him into the pit of fun. He's gonna do a funny dance! Let's join them so that heretic leader was supposed to die but because his head was in the wall it wasn't killing him. So he had to do a manual. That is so stupid. You guys have some donations? Uh... Delta Halo you're thrown into a bunch of combat but it's not necessary so we've got to skip it. This is like one of the coolest levels I think from just like- if you like getting out of bounds in video games this is just like it's so easy and it's so fun. I don't know, I just like it a lot. It's very cool. All you need to do is literally just jump outside the map. You don't have to do any fancy tricks, you just walk over here and jump and anything that you see out of the bounds, like there's giant mounds everywhere, you can go and explore them. Yeah, so Zoo just walked up to a trigger and now he's backtracking to go up this mountain and that trigger that he hit earlier causes the rest of the enemies here to spawn in and make sure he progresses in the game. Oh, sorry. Yeah, so by product being able to walk literally everywhere you're seeing right now is you can walk straight to the end of the level but in order to actually finish a level there's a few level triggers need to hit so that's what we're doing in a very safe and fast way. And I believe the Routzu just took, what skips a Wraith and a few of those pesky Jackal Snipers? Yep, ran away from snipers and normally there'd be a Wraith the gap here. And we'd have to activate the bridge to go across but we have a little expressway... Yeah it's just a little bit easier, a little bit faster. Oh I'm sick of landing landing oh good all good so right here there's a trigger right there and we're just gonna turn around go back over the mountains the mountains are safer. Yeah? It's actually just this simple to get out of bounds if you wanted to. That's how I'll just drive right up the sling. So again, he is skipping a bunch of enemy spawns here which it's not that much slower but it's way way way more consistent on legendary. Which you see how fast you die. Yeah. On easy you just blast through and don't do this but ledge it's it's brutal so normally there's like a number of things yeah bunch of tackles here tons of turrets a bunch of ghosts we've gotta fight get melted so fast but oh yeah come back and bounce the hitchhiker trigger and then we're going right back up the mountains from where we came to skip even more enemies literally the same way we came. And this time it's going to be a bit more tricky with the driving here, so he is going to ride on this side of the mountain and he's hopefully going to land perfectly fine on the other side surely nothing has ever gone wrong in this spot see nice you know he has to hit another trigger Nice. And now he has to hit another trigger, and he's going to try to stay out of bounds after hitting this one. So let's see... Nice! Woah! Sniper did not want to skip yeah and here we're at the end of the level, so there's a couple elites that we need to kill. Puzzle pistol makes it much easier. So we're gonna jump up on this ledge... This will skip a couple swans, yep. Then we're gonna overcharge and melee this guy. We really want his sword for the next mission. It is very important that we grab it before the mission ends. Sometimes the sword will just fly away. And the start of this mission, this next mission is going to be one of the toughest sequences in the run so let's see how it goes. Let's start out with everyone's favorite friend, the Jackal Snipers. Lots of snipers. And this carryover is unique as well so we carried over the rocket and the sword. Nice, easy. And there's the checkpoint. Perfect. That doesn't always go that way. Yeah, I look marvelous. Usually a lot more punishing. First try very nice. So that is a very difficult sequence. Right there, that gets us on this gondola early which is going to set up yet another big skip. Essentially what's gonna happen is we're gonna overlap two commands so the game is gonna tell not this gondola but the gondola coming across the lake it's gonna tell that gondola to come all the way back to the start to pick us up but we're already gonna be on it at that point and then we're gonna basically have the game tell it to remain put. So, the game is basically telling the gondola move and also stay put at the same time And it doesn't really know how to handle that correctly so it just does both at the same time which naturally doesn't make any sense and it causes the physics to do some very funny things and now zoo will need an audio cue, so I'm going to get. Understood, now. That was scary. Boom. Perfect. Let's go. Nice job. Yeah, and that lineup is super precise for gondola launch right there. Basically if you stand at a different part of the gondola You'll get launched in different directions or like different locations and yeah it's super precise for that so really cool to see Atlanta but straight we're talking things yes like he has such a short setup window as well, that's really good job. Right here this is one of the elevators and this will be a perfect time for donations. Awesome we have a lot of love coming in from the Halo community. We have $10 from the FRS saying, 10th year watching and donating on behalf of a long-time group of Halo friends. Good luck with the run zoo thank you so much we have 200 from gray wolf saying did someone say haloruns.com we have 11 and We have $11.70 from DeucesMongooses saying, Always donate during Halo. Yeah I love all the 117 references like this $117 from Magic Man saying so excited for another GDQ. Time to make the donuts. For the kids at home who aren't aware, Chief's number is 117. Probably should say that. We have $10 from Squidney Will saying, Hey Zoo! Good luck on the run today. I'll donate $50 if you get double nade on Gravelines. You can try. Thank you though, I'll try something. And when you donate we do have the costume toys open for Tomb Reader 1 through 3 and Bathrobe is ahead now with catsuit in second place. So, Doni, if you would like to see the catsuit instead? Okay, so now we're out of the elevator and we're headed to this inner bridge section. So it's a flys... headed to this inner bridge section so supplies very nice nice and now a very difficult room here tons of snipers, everyone's favorite. Cooperating. Nice. Pick the snipe up to the floor, pull our sword out to scare the hunters so they melee at us camo section we're gonna attempt to take out the elites first oh hookrun still wanna play the elites first. Oh, that grunts a lot of flame. Usually I kill those guys faster and I have time to do a fly off the grunts. Yeah, the hunters chased him in a little bit farther than usual. Pre-alerted everything. Yep. And then we're headed to another water elevator here. More time for donations? Yes. Awesome. We have so many coming in. We have $250 from Think Brown saying, I'd forgotten just how big an emotional attachment I have to Halo 2. Playing co-op with my grandmother's basement with my cousin in the early aughts is one of my most treasured memories. That's so awesome. One more? Uh yeah. We have 117 dollars from Elevenution saying, Old guy here! Let's kick it new school with the remastered graphics while watching the elites in Flood fight on Quarantine Zone. Shoutout to TheLoveOfMyLife and permanent Halo Co-op partner Colbert. Get better so we can get back to finishing the fight! Y'all have been absolutely awesome this whole realm with the donations, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. These water elevators are quite the ride. Yeah, you get the lore. Can't have a room without lore. We do have $25 from Dr. Halo that just says, Hi! Hello. They're waiting to us in the elevator, I think. Okay so now we are out. Let's see how these enemies cooperate. Can we jump over the mountain? Maybe. Oh, that was not quite... Well you get another try there we go nice that was actually good there because i knew what spawns i was going to get and i was able to readjust it goes back to what i said on metro it's walking around yep so we're now on this gondola and there is going to be a couple enemies we need to deal with. So, there are two banshees that will fly in so he is trying to put his sword on the weapon container in order for it not to fall out of bounds. The sword does have a chance to fall through the gondola, and we really need that sword. Also... This one lesbian should be take care of her. I've never seen that happen before, honestly. Perfect timing here. So we can save more rockets for the fight. So convenient! so we could save four more rockets for the fight yeah it's so convenient another uh boss fight except it's actually accepted it's a hard one there's no too has to deal with all these There's a couple of fuel rod grunts which are pretty scary if you leave them unattended. They just shoot rapid fire shots and they trash you as well what is that going to do he doesn't want the death i mean fair yep so now he picks up the rockets and the sword, and he's going to prep himself for a Swordfly all the way across And what he is going to do after the Swordfly, he is going to shoot a rocket to kill all the enemies before he reaches the cut scene. So, he's able to just walk basically through without dealing with all these waves of enemies that are coming out you don't have to kill them just skip them i'm going to try to leave a couple lives so I can sword cancel to the entrance looks like the turrets are gone, though, which is... The far left mountain canceled. The jackals are the main worry, though. They do lots of damage very fast. Yeah? That's a little bit nicer. Oh! Uh, maybe I that's a little bit nicer uh maybe i can save this oh you're good cool very scary i can't believe you saved that. There's no way. Alright, so here is the boss fight This is probably one of the hardest encounters in the game You have a room with enemies that can kill you very, very fast and so can the old man he's punching It's an old man in a chair and the chair shoots laser beams And we have to board him five times in order to defeat him. So he's going to spawn at a random location, and you just have to find him and hopefully not die from whatever other enemies are there. I couldn't yeah it is very difficult very, yeah trying to kite the enemies respawn infinitely so you can just kill them all. Yeah, it makes this boss fight weird. The main thing that's really hard is managing all the enemies in the room. They infinitely respawn, they shoot at you. You can get elites with two plasma rifles and they will delete you very quickly. They're scarier than the swords. Yeah, they're scarier than the sword elites believe it or not. But I think elite's one so that's not as scary just get rid of him real fast it's better to kill the plaza rifle guys and risk another spawn. Be very careful not to jump with a laser Yeah, it's really easy to dodge the beam but it'll kill you very fast if it does manage to hit you. And you may have noticed that Regret there dropped a plasma pistol, so something funny might happen if you flip him out of his chair he will start running around with a plasma pistol shooting you. Good level. Not bad all things considered. How do we talk about sacred artifacts? Yep. How do we talk about sacred items? I think it's time for donations. We have an amazing one here, we have $511.70 from Jordan Clark that says, her Master Chiefs full call sign Sierra 117. Oh! Thank you so much for your generosity. Time for one more? We have $25 from Grevels saying, After almost a decade of watching from home, I'm so excited to finally be in person and volunteering for GDQ and especially during Halo 2! This is the game that defines my teenage years and i'm so excited to be able to see it live so we kind of joked at the start but this is probably no one's favorite level. You gotta... It's a lot of repeating hallways and you're pretty much walking for five minutes. If you are familiar with Halo CD's library instance it's pretty similar in that regard lots of similar hallways that you just walk through a lot of waiting and certain places. You try to save time where you can like he's doing some grenade boost there but there's really not a lot of flashy speed tech this is this part's kind of neat uh you don't actually have to kill this enforcer if you just activate the bridge. It'll just explode. Yeah. Just stare at it and think angry thoughts. All of the emitters get destroyed all of a sudden. Are we gonna see the fabled lore? The lore? The lore... So, it's pretty much the whole reason we're doing this mission is we're basically taking down a sentinel wall which is basically containing the flood, or at least attempting to contain the flood it's failing at it but it's trying so that's the lore and we meme about it because this is like in a casual playthrough this is very easily missed if you don't look up then you'll miss the entire point of this mission. It's also more or less the only story bit that happens here You're like supposed to get on the Phantom and leave And...you just don't now Alright Hopefully we can't think angry thoughts with this one. Yeah, we have to actually try and kill this one. Killing this enforcer will open the next door to the grass. The best way to do it is shoot the legs off And then go for the little arms up front. Sometimes Phantom will help us but he didn't want to do that today We killed him this door will open. We can't wait to avoid these sentinels and more holding forward I love holding forward This next section is pretty dangerous actually, even on easy because there's no damage scaling but we'll see how it goes. We're going to try and get through this as fast as we can because fastest safe And something that is he's going to do here just pick up a shotgun I believe and he's going to be using it for a couple of boosts here. So we'll see it later in action. It's kind of similar to the sword. When you melee in this game, you get a little lunge but you can cancel that melee and if you kill the enemy in front of you, you don't have anything blocking you either so you just carry at speed like that. Very good. This section's really hard. Yeah, Zoom made it look incredibly easy That section just like kills you all the time I'm getting punched though Sometimes you're at the mercy of MCC The Flood that jumped from the gap there, they just fall right back down and can cause more spawns That can completely destroy your run Especially with those shotguns. And we'll have more of that here, so Azu's going to just try to find a couple enemies that are in like suitable positions and he's going to go for a shotgun boost shooting here to attract one of these carriers for instance small one better than walking? Yeah. Picking up the Sentinel beam now, and he's going to make his way down the tubes. So... Yeah! At this point we're trying to basically infiltrate the quarantine zone. The whole point we're here is to get the activation index in order activate the halo rings, cause good ol' Arby doesn't know how bad an idea that is. He learns eventually right? Apparently. He learns eventually, right? The heretic guy was just our friend secretly and we killed him. So now we have this first set of long winding downward tunnels. Okay, didn't fall timer? Good start! You could fall timer that? Yeah, on the Echo it's super fast! Similar to Oracle you're invincible in these tubes i mean he doesn't have flood chasing him to see it but you're moving down too fast the game would normally try to kill you but they made you invisible and now we're headed outside once again, and this is where We are going to start a big wave fight So Zuu's going to make his way to it by doing a couple sword flies here. Nice! And to begin the wave fight there are five specific blood that we need to kill in this section as fast as we can. Sometimes when their friend dies they like to hide there we go got a shotgun yes it's very scary shotgun blood can just one shot you turret they're both in the turret. The fight starts when he talks to you, the sword elite which we like to call him Half-Shall because he only has half his face. So basically it's just six ways, six different combinations um the combinations are the same but the order is different every time you can kind of know which one you get based off the screen, the flood screen. Really? The flood screen actually lets you know what wave you have? Yeah. It's directional although it is kind of hard to hear. It's pretty difficult sometimes because the flood hides in corners or even gets stuck in like the big pits that you see around yeah find them and kill them because you can't actually get the next wave until you finish the first one so It's really easy to lose time some blood will hide and there needs to be One enemy or less to proceed with the next wave. So you get another feature of sacred action. And you also have to be careful with your allies too, because sometimes they will like swing their sword at you and kill you by accident so yeah just be wary of just random attacks Great time for some donations. Yep, yep. Awesome! We have $50 from Evan that says The world has never needed Doctors Without Borders more than right now. Thank you Summer Game Stone Club. Absolutely thank you so much. Thanks. We have $117 from Foilman that says, Watching Zoo fly across the map is the closest thing we're going to get to lore-accurate master sheets in a game. Let's finish the fight. And I do want to say we just opened up a bunch of incentives and bidders that you all can donate when you're putting in your 117 or your $11.70 cents have been seeing those come in thank you all so much we have a shinobi incentive of switch to joe musashi so three thousand dollars we can absolutely make that happen thank you so much to everyone who's donating those 117s. Yep, so I believe we're close to the end of this fight once the phantom comes in which you see in the corner uh the level will end and we'll be moving on to Quarantine Zone, which is a very fun driving mission. Quarantine Zone's probably a good example of taking vehicles where they shouldn't be. It's very precise driving, very difficult to do fast. I know how like EZ Zoo made that look but it's it's legendary gotta remember you can die in less than half a second so right here is going to be just driving through all of these enemies. If you drive fast and around like certain areas You don't have to worry about them For instance there's a tank in this area that can kill you There's the pelican carrying a tank that will snipe you from the air and it has a person in it And you can see it shooting at me right now. Very dangerous mission, so he's going to be using his camo here To make sure that it doesn't shoot him or at least deter it and hopefully he should be fine here. You can see all these rates in the area, they can also shoot at you. It's very dangerous if you don't know the path and when the thing fuck back that Pelican never despawns. It just falls into the void forever. So here you're supposed to be ditching the ghost but... Yeah we're not gonna do that. You can just flee through. Just a suggestion. but... Yeah, now here this is very difficult driving. It's all weird geometry pathways and lots of enemies that can shoot at you. And Zoo is going to try set up a spawn skip here. Let's see if we got it. Nope, not unfortunate. Yeah, it's pretty difficult going to keep reinforcing our way there's going to be a couple more enemies here some of them have rocket launchers oh i think i skipped these spawns. That's really good. These spawns can be very rough. So there is like a second set of spawns that... Okay. Well, that's nice. Yep, so right there he spawns Oh, that's a Scythe of Blood Okay We're okay, nothing happened Checkpoint you see? Why camo here? Because there's a goshawk flood and that will, especially with this coast to leave you... They're not concerned with the empty ghosts driving by. If they can't see a driver, it's fine. And then a couple more enemies here turret blood but wow, yeah, you made it look so easy but that is one of the most difficult driving sections in Speed Run. Also I believe Batchat said he wanted blue, yeah? Oh yeah, it was my to get up for it. Blue likes Sanic. That served a purpose by the way. Yeah you kill your allies there just so The flood we're going to use at the very end of the level don't jump off the map while punching them. That's blue? That's blue, that's blue enough. I count that. There's some weird lighting glitch in that particular part of the class. You just crouch there, you can change your color? Turns you into a Power Ranger! Yeah, it can turn like any shade of color I believe. Right now we are on a giant gondola moving very, very, very fast even though it doesn't look like it. But we're also moving very far away so it takes a while. So we got quite a few minutes here for some donations I'd say. Alright awesome! We have five dollars from the reptilian that says hey zoo always great to see h2 back at gdq especially since anniversary hasn't gotten as much love strange you haven't opted for the more aerodynamic bald head though. Best of luck on Endgame. We have quite a bit of time here. I'll keep going, y'all can be cute over there! $20 from Sallycat7 saying, bomber jacket or bathroom? Gotta support an outfit from my favorite tomb raider game yes catsuit just jumped ahead we have it 2130 for cat suit and bathrobe is at 2070 so those are very very close if you would like to change what Lara will be wearing during Tomb Raider. And we also have a custom choice for afterimage that we just opened up You can be the one to decide since there's no donations towards it yet so get your donation set for that yep we have like three minutes we have 117 dollars from termininator 917 saying shout out to my old halo 2 crew super jail in bad money Being grown isn't what it turned out to be. Thanks for bringing me back We have $25 from Resnick, always happy to support the actual superheroes at MSF. Thanks to everyone who makes GDQ possible. We have $11 and 70 cents from Dustowin saying my first time attending and I got to bring my sons Roman, Logan, and Gavin So awesome to be here. Oh that's awesome! That is awesome. We have $300 from Anonymous saying we are all the Master Chief. Thank you so, so much for that donation. We have $250 from Turbo C which says amazed at all you all do both GDQ and MSF happy. I'm able to contribute. Yes thank you so much to everyone who's donated we are almost at $90,000 total raised for doctors off board which is amazing i know we can get there before the end of this run let's see it happen yep It's quite a bit of time. Two more minutes. Alright, alright! We have $300 from Blue Hex. Thank you to all doctors who essentially give their own lives to save and help others. Absolutely, thank you so, so much. And I love everyone hopping on the 117 train, like Space Papodo $117 with no comment thank you so so much i really appreciate it and we have 500 from justin with no comment as well. Thank you all so much! There's a lot of love for you in this run and the immense excitement that we're seeing on the screen yeah pretty intense stuff might be a good level. Yes! You can play it really well. Absolutely. Might be a good idea to go over Gravemind's score, since it'll be pretty intense at the very beginning of the next level. So yeah, Gravemind you start out just in the thick of it. You're getting blasted already. Our shields are all ready now at the start. What he's going to try to do is skip more enemies that you don't have to fight by standing in a pretty precise spot. The game tries to spawn enemies away from you, but they left the little tiny gap where Chief can just barely fit into and if you're standing in that gap, it doesn't think they are in the room so it won't spawn enemies at all and skips a bunch of wave fights which saves not only time but plenty of risks of death Right here is Zuu lined up himself for a swordfly here. Nice! Very nice. Fun slide? Almost. Good enough. That's way harder than it looks. It's also scarier, because if you die there I think it's what? Yeah another minute and a half of just the same obstacle. Very nice that he lived there. Alright. 723, that's very fast QZ. Very nice that he lived there. Yeah, 723, that's a very fast QZ. Gravine... the bane of every Halo 2 Runner's existence right here. It is brutal. As you can can see he's already almost dead. Yeah so this is just a very intense combat sequence here. Lots of enemies that will try to kill you and he's going to now line himself up for a despawn here. This is perfect- it like sucks you in. it's like it was made intentionally for this purpose. Yeah the game's like checking if your on the left or right side of the room but being dead center? You're just a mother. So we skip a couple waves of enemies. Yep, and then the next wave will spawn in very shortly... Yeah this is a very different sequence here. We're at the mercy of the needlers here. The guns he's using are called the needlers and they're uh... yeah that's just the best way to describe it no good words okay so more roots spawning in and he has to kill them from afar otherwise they will definitely kill him. It's super difficult. And then once enough enemies are dead another two Brutes are going to spawn up top randomly so it looks like they both spawned at the other side. Got the Gryffindor! There we go. When they do a...the simplest sidestep, they can just dodge and use their needles. Two steps to the left So he left an enemy alive here because he's trying to set up another D spawn, but you only have a couple seconds to get into position. So it's a lot easier just do it this way. Get close to the spot and then kill that last enemy? Disrespect! We did it. Yay! Did the first room. Yeah, that first room is so difficult. It's like if you manage to live it, first try all the time. That's so difficult! Backtrack for Carvon... There is a whole lot of grunts and brutes in this next section, and we basically need to kill them all. Okay... that's one down. The other is berserking. He's behind the wall. Carbine please? Nope, no carbine ammo. you need to find some more or deal with it fruits are dangerous. The carbine's a very accurate weapon, there's nothing wrong with it, it's perfectly sane. Wait, is that what happened? No. Can I just stick the brood on myself? Wait, does that one happen? That was a lot easier this time. So none of these enemies really need to die but we're trying to skip them because it's a lot faster. Usually when the brute buddy dies, the other one will enrage and drop their weapon Which is what we're going for here. That's how it worked, so we can just ignore him Carbine ammo down here We actually really want this beam for later on. This is very tense of a situation here, this entire mission. It's probably accurate to say the most skill intensive in the run almost? I'd'd say so. And it's just put right near the end, which is... Makes it kind of a run to fighter. So now Zuz sneaking by a couple of these enemies, killing them. If you get through that hallway without being alerted that skips a whole wave of enemies. Yeah and it's very nice to have otherwise you'd have to kill another two brutes and like six grunts and stuff in this whole way we're gonna opt to kill uh six more groans than two brutes so we can get a checkpoint before one of the toughest tricks in the game. There we go, so here comes prison skip So ordinarily you're supposed to down this giant tube save a bunch of marines by killing a ton and a ton of enemies. But...this game's a little bit broken. So we're just gonna not do that. Just-just a little bit. How broken? Teensy tiny bit, so you can just fly up the lift, y'know, using an enemy on your face. And that's Prison Scare! Yeah, first try, let's go! Yeah just the fact that you can lure your enemy right there like so precisely in that fashion is so difficult. And then this section here right after it is where all of the sword tricks come in. So this will be a very sword fly intensive section. Hopefully we'll see some very stellar flies here. It is very difficult. It can't be overstated how hard sword flying is. Not only to just like do the inputs but understand how to do it like this for example You do the store fly you have to jump at a particular time if you jump too early It'll actually fall timer yeah, and then you also have to be careful for all these enemies too, so if you fail like swordflies... You can't take too long. There's lots of pressure. That guy nearly killed me. He alerted onto me me that quickly very nice check that's a good checkpoint i have a relevant swordfly donation coming out coming in here i have 11.70 from wormhole that says hi zoo it would be a shame if you missed the next sword fly. Thanks for running Halo 2. You're doing really well. Love your best friend, Wurmo. I don't know about best friend, but... They lied on the internet? I wonder who that guy is. Yeah, well! Very dangerous. So one side effect of prison skip as well... Was there? That door didn't open. What? That's weird. Usually there's two roots there. There is supposed to be a second root that comes out of it. It's not supposed to happen. I'll take that. That works in our favor. So, yeah doing prison skip it saves like minutes. It's absolutely a must to go for. Oh nice! We got that. The grunt fly is so difficult there, it's like so precise to land at. But a side effect of presence skip is that it breaks the checkpoints on this level So the checkpoints you can get are pretty few and far between, unfortunately. Makes reverts quite...quite costly. It'll just fly past all four of those brutes there, or three. Yeah I don't know what could go wrong. He just ran away. Hopefully I won't have to worry about him later. Nice! Redirect fly there here we go, very nice. No checkpoint. Kind of throughout all this you're probably seeing but We are skipping all these enemies This is normally supposed to be tons and tons of encounters and this mission casually takes like an hour plus but we're trying to do it under 10 minutes and this fly here skips a wave of hunters in elite that spawn in here so that's very nice, and very nice checkpoint here. And this is the big final fight at the end of Gravemind, so lots of enemies here he has to be very careful with a kill order also matters too because he's trying not to spawn more than he needs to yeah so he kills the elites first and then the hunters in the group last because once the brute dies another wave of brutes will spawn in but for like a split second there's no enemies left so it skips that extra wave essentially doesn't skip them they still spawn in but the game doesn't care about them That's a really good Grave Mine. Yeah, that was sick! Anything under like 10 minutes is absurdly fast and this is like a nine got a low nine that's super super fast we just wait out the end here excellent job It's now round to one of the shortest missions in the game. A really good one though, it's like a short and sweet. Lots of cool sword tech. I like this one. Yeah so now Zuu once again is the arbiter and he's going to make his way through with the camo very effectively during these sections here. Not even close! I wasn't scared at all. And this is one of the missions where if you want to practice sword flying for enemies in general, This is a really good one to practice on. So you just grab the sword and just fly through the mission especially on easy difficulty doing this is great practice in general for getting better at the run. Why does that break down? It's freaking out! That's a weird checkpoint. I'll gladly take that though. Yep, now we're headed on the way back outside. There's going to be one big sword cancel here. And then we're gonna... That was not very good. Snipe this beam rifle jack, there you go. Killed that fruit. And we are going to end the level in a little bit of an unconventional way. So it turns out The ending trigger Extends really, really high up. So if you could just go crouch somewhere on top of this mountain, the level ends. It's like a little, tiny triangle that is very easy to move through the wall. Very conveniently placed here. Right there. And that's the mission! Now... We're gonna be up against the hardest trick in dare I say Halo speedrunning. This is a very nerve-wracking mission here. It's gonna be similar to what we did for Prison Skip where we use an enemy to fly on our head but instead of going straight up we're going to fly... very, very far away. This is pretty much completely blind so this is a trick called butter flying and what we're going to be doing is we're shooting that Flood's arm off so he's going to try to come at us and melee. You not go off right in front? I'm a little goofy. That may be bad. Okay, looks fine. So once the flood jumps at you far enough, it'll lose its AI. So here it's not able to do anything, and we're going to use that to our advantage here. It turns out you can just end this level right away. All we have to do is get to the unleveled trigger so we're just gonna do that. Yeah, so, pleasing local thing. What Zeus is doing right now is melee canceling while jumping at certain inputs and stuff, and it's pretty precise how he's moving and maneuvering around with this flood. And all these button presses are very rapid that he's doing it's like constant so i don't think you can see it on the cam but he is rapidly pressing on the controller right now this is one of those tricks that looks hard, but it's actually just harder. It's like... Not be overstated how difficult it actually is. So not only do you have to fly effectively with it, but you need to be able to find and hit the end trigger which is not big. It's very small of a box that you have to hit. I'm going to switch graphics here, which goes... So this is the modern graphics and this helps with the line up a bit so he's going to very nice! he's going to yeah just pulling it off a try like that is... Wasn't worried for a second. Easy every time. And we're heading into the final mission here. I just want to reiterate, any missed input there at all over the hundreds he just did and that... Very impressive. We're to really need it later to see the ghost this bird can actually hijack the specter, so we're gonna have to kill him so he doesn't do that and And Spectre will be very important later. Yeah, we're gonna go back for that. So now we're driving up to this door here but the door won't open until these enemies are dead. Yeah specifically the Wraith pilots here. So we're gonna enter the trigger and then we're just going to turn around leave from the bite oh oh there's another part of the shot sorry about it not gonna let me go easy all right so now we just sit here and wait you can probably see him deload zoom it on your screen enhance the game There they go. The game's garbage collection is pretty aggressive, that's basically what's happening. So now the door will open... We're dragging the coast indoors again probably shouldn't yeah lots of tight corners here going to be abandoning it and there's so many enemies in this area that it's very dangerous, So we're going to be sword flying past all of them here. Better not to fight the knives. You are the main worry as a Jackal Sniper, that will take out there. Got a very important checkpoint as well. That's not for this but for later. But it could be useful here. I almost tripped over the stairs. useful here DLC drum that was the prison so to progress this we just need to kill three roots. Which we'll do in a bit of a stylish way. Now that root is so clean go to those guys finally we just need to take out these four boots very the game thinks we're safe and uh the cutscene will play Very nice. Until the game thinks we're safe and the cutscene will play. Hopefully, we don't get funny over this. No, it's pretty good. All right now we are going to turn around right off the bat. There's a bunch of Wraith pilots... or wraiths I should say that are preventing us from moving the Scarab They're kinda hard to kill but you can just walk away, de-load them and come back and your good. You said hi to those fruits? Those fruits were just having a moment apparently Have a good time They saw like the Arbiter just fly past them and he was flabbergasted. All right, that Spectre that we saved at the beginning we are going to go back for this particular specter of the star has a very special property sometimes it'll get stolen sometimes our teammate will just destroy it for no reason. It's killed a lot of runs unfortunately. The trick we're gonna use it for only works with this particular respect you can't just steal it from the other brutes we just saw driving that's probably one of the most common things i think new runners try to do right that's craig once i got a break That's Craig. Once I've got a Craig... So now we're driving the Spectre around up on top of that big spire-like thing in the center, so as you can see, we're driving into this water and we're just going to drive on these mountains kind of out of bounds. But there are secrets out here so it's not technically. Not technically. It's not a glitch! We need this vehicle to take him into the final fight with us and conveniently enough, the trigger to start the final fight extends like outside the building. So if we get into the trigger at just the right time we can bring it with us. And it creates what is quite possibly the funniest glitch in the game. It's my favorite Unless something bad happens that would never happen, right? Now why would you go and say a thing like that? Nothing happened in the practice room. through. Our specter is high health, we're probably fine. Yeah. So you're just going to be dropping down to this specific spot here, and we're going to wait for the scarab to arrive. So it'll take another minute or two. Good time for donations? Awesome! We have people celebrating that first-tribe prison skib, so we have $50 from RedmanVRC who said, great job Zeus! I knew you'd pull off that first time prison never lost faith ever I promise here's that extra $50 I promised good luck in the rest of the run. And Burning Luxray donated $117 saying, first try on Prison Skip deserves a 117 trade note. Everyone's welcome to join in. Time for more? We have another 117 from my gut that says this is my first time going to GDQ. I was playing Halo wrong all along! Okay so now Zeus looking at the door waiting for his character to start firing its laser. And once it fires, he's going to drop down into the trigger to enter and with it have the specter fall on top of him. Let's see... Alright, we can load into the N5. I got the Cryfin thumbs up! I approve of Spectre. Oh good! Nice! Spect's with us Get Johnson in real quick If he wants to Don't need to get upset, Johnson. It's okay! We're not trying to run you over, we're trying to help. Can't do that strat. So we're gonna go in the bottom middle early then jump back out this will activate the fight early and therefore why is it so sketchy give us some more johnsons Johnson's So the game is trying to prevent you from soft locking because the final boss was like this shield or whatever Only Johnson's beam rifle can drop it so Oh, I don't want to be baited Only Johnson's beam rifle can drop it. So... It spawns more to make sure you're not losing. Hold on, he might hopefully break it? Hopefully not headed off. Oh no! That's good. We got one, we're fine. We've got two total and he's running away oh man so you guys can be a bit careful here. Oh my god! This is probably worst case scenario Get him Johnson! Actually save from his friend because they won't boot shot targets yeah they're not shooting past me this is interesting this is so much better than how it's supposed to go. Oh, this is a bit scary you're losing your shields. Get him Johnson! Oh, time about to come. Get him, Johnson! Time's about to come. Time at White Springs? In time! I can't believe that worked out. Wow That was quite a run. That was incredible! Any last words? Of course something like that would happen at the end of a Halo 2 marathon run. Always has to be something. Yeah, let's say it with you. Any shout outs he wants to give out? Just thank you guys so much for being there with me helping me through all this, helped me stay sane Thank you to my sister and uncle back there on the couch also supporting me coming with me to this event. Thank you for my family in general for supporting me and something as, you know, unorthodox as speedrunning. Thank you to every single person who donated. You guys are awesome. Thank you to the staff for letting me be here, for having me. This was such a blessing and I just can't thank you guys enough for this opportunity. There's some change in there. Hello. Yeah, welcome! What's up? Hope everyone is doing well today. So we're going to be running some Tomb Raider today. This is the remastered version of Tomb Raider 1 so so it's had a bit of a blow up since 1996. Got a friend with me as well from all support! Hello! My name is Draven12 You're Tomb Raider is Draven12. Are you two made of Fandraven? A little bit. Do we know what outfit won the bid war? I think I saw it, but... For the outfit that won the bid war we have the bathrobe! The bathrobe, yes. Coming in clutch at the end at $2,538 and 58 cents. I thought a catsuit was gonna win it but it didn't. thousand five hundred thirty eight dollars and fifty eight cents all right so as soon as i skip these cut scenes we can start the timer. In 3, 2, 1... Go! Let's go! And let's change Lara into that bathrobe. With the sunglasses on, because they're cool. Yeah so we start off in caves. Do you know why we're here Draven? Oh yeah, We are here in our bathrobe and sunglasses to get through some cave. In the mountain caves of Peru in a bathroom. So we've been sent here by a woman called Natla to look for an artefact called the Sion and the Sion or Sion however you want to pronounce it and yeah we'll later find out that Nala's up to no good but for now that's our mission caves is a pretty straightforward level there are Caves is a pretty straight forward level. There are couple glitches that we're going to use kind of cut the level in half, so this is the first one coming up So if we jump at this wall, at an angle and hold grab, Lara should phase through it. If I do it correctly. There we go. Third try. And then, we're going gonna do a wall bug here, and I'm gonna face off with this wolf. He's no match though. No match for Lara, no. You'll see throughout this run if you've never played a Tomb Raider game Lara Croft is not very friendly with animals. She doesn't get along with animals. But had there wolf head pistols, then we'd be in trouble! We've got a few more wolves here. I'm going to have to pick these off so that I can perform a glitch in a second. So they don't get in the way. And I am actually going to switch, because we can switch on the fly to old graphics. I'm gonna switch to all graphics for this Because this works the exact same way as it does in the OG and I use the visual cues. Those are some nice pixels, what do you think? Oh yeah. Yeah. Turn that into a painting real quick. So the flicker there, I did kind of a corner bug to embed in the wall and normally when you do a corner bug Lara will like teleport to the top of wherever she is but if there's nowhere for her to go, then she gets stuck like bouncing in the wall basically and we can use that to our advantage so like move her along to somewhere where there's a gap. So'm going to do another kind of corner book here to get up here and there we go actually while i'm here I'm gonna pick up this med because the enemies can be quite brutal in this game particularly on the next level and then we have quite a big glitch coming up here. So, we have a QWOP which is a glitch that has kind of revolutionized 2 meter speedrunning. So you see these kind of glitches all throughout 2 meter 1, 2 and 3. And it is named after the Bennett Foddy game Quot because you'll see in a second if I get it right Lara's gonna do the same animation that they do in the Quark game. Okay, I need to do it again because the walls knocked me out of it but that's okay. And I believe the QAP we have in chat was 1.2 meters, I think for the max distance all right i don't know fun facts okay so this is a tricky glitch. There are some walls in this room that can knock us out of it or disrupt us while we're doing it and they aren't playing nice right now, so hopefully third try. Okay there we go. So I'm gonna maneuver her around this way and do a loop that's just basically to protect her from the walls And then if you hold action at the door she'll do like a quick sandbox to get underneath it. The co-op is on a timer so it's always it's like eight seconds or something like that but you have to wait until you can get under the door which is why we did that extra loot and then there is a very angry bear waiting for us at the end of this level he's hungry. Hopefully he is nice to us. I don't know what it is, but ever since I've been playing the remaster, okay. It's being nice today But that bear is brutal oh yeah He's killed I never had that bad killer run before and so I played with the remasters you can still mark you to death and then Yeah, he has an attack where he stands on his hind legs And each swipe he does at a certain point gets rid of like 1 third of your health Maybe slightly more. Yeah, so this level is Lost Valley. This is like a level that I think a lot of people would remember because there are some pretty memorable enemies coming up Dinosaurs aren't extinct. Oh! There's an even bigger one coming up too. There is, yeah. So I'm gonna save here just in case this glitch goes wrong and the T-Rex messes with us. So, this wall bug's a little trickier than it was in the original because we can't do it on the left side anymore. But we got it anyway, so that's good. And yeah, we're gonna try our best to avoid the T-Rex as much as we can because he has an animation where he can one hit killers. He swallows us whole. I've seen it happen a few times. Yeah, this happens to me pretty often. And not today? Not today. Hopefully not today! Fingers crossed! So yeah at this level we're collecting three cogs basically to close off the water so there's a waterfall at the beginning of the level that we need to get behind So that's why we're collecting these cogs right now. This would be a great time for some donations if you have any too. And donations I indeed have Bexs back skate lots of love that are coming in from donations both here in the audience as well as at home we have a hundred dollars from ginge ninja that says glHFX. Thank you so, so much for that donation. We also have $100 from Anonymous saying excited for some tomb raider yay and we have a lovely 150 donation from cassini 2k4 saying donating on behalf of my mom and two brothers great to see you back on the big stage beck ski oh thank you so much that's lovely thank you for those donations um the raptors knocked me into the water though that's not very nice. They almost did it again! That was really unlucky. Wow they are super aggressive today. They are very agressive. So we gotta look out for our T-Rex. I'm going to save here just because you never know what this T-Rex is gonna do. Okay, I think we're okay. He's lagging behind a bit um there is a new feature in this remaster so tomb raider 2 on pc originally did have hotkeys but but Tomb Raider 1 never did. In this game though we do have hotkeys for like healing and switching weapons and stuff which is good However because I use controller the latest patch kind of broke how the hotkeys work with controller. So you might see me having to like reach to the keyboard every now and again to use a hotkey otherwise if i'm in like a really dangerous spot i will probably just go into my inventory to heal but it is a cool feature that they added in this in the remaster. Um, and here we're going to attempt a banana jump which is just kind of a curved jump that allows us to skip some platforming. Perfect First try Very well done That is something that every now and again i mean i've been doing that banana jump for years but every now and again i'll just kind of forget how to do it it's one of those things. And yeah, this is pretty much the end of Lost Valley. So now we've got the cogs in. We're free! We're free! We're free! I'm going to attempt, like... kind of... This isn't too tricky but I want to land on a slope as I jump over this slope. Don't wanna land on that slope though. Basically so we don't have to go for a swim. There we go, and on to Qualapex So this is the last level coming up in Peru I'm going to do a weird little skip here, so I'm gonna do this the way that we used to do it in the original but it doesn't quite work the same because the camera's broken So i'm gonna bonk there there turn her and i'm gonna jump over that corner there and that's gonna trigger the end of the level so it's gonna trigger like the ceiling to collapse um normally when you run up here this gate would close and you wouldn't be able to grab the Skion. You'd have to go a long way around and do like three different puzzles to get to the Skion. But yeah because of that skip we can just skip the entire level basically so in and out And then we have kind of like a boss fight at the end. We have this blonde guy shooting at us. It's a cowboy. This isn't, not really an epic boss fight we're just gonna shoot each other for a bit and then have a chat. Let's play some tag. Oh, he's down! There we go. And that's Peru. That's the first area thank you bringing the hype um okay so now we're in greece so essentially larson's just kind of told us that Natla is a bad guy. Natla sent Larsen to kill us and collect the bit of this Gion we've got so now were kinda going rogue and were gonna collect the other pieces of this Gion. For ourselves basically, I think we're trying to stop Natla. Lara likes adventure anyway. It's like we got one piece of miles to get the rest. Might as well yeah. But now we're gonna have a guy called Pierre following us around for all of the grease levels and he's very annoying, you'll see why later. So I'm going to jump over that square there so as not to close this door. If you do jump on it, you have to open a switch which will trigger Pierre here but I'm gonna to trick up here at the end of the level instead and then we have a tricky glitch coming up. So I'm gonna go down this slope. This is where I told Javen to remind me to save. Don't forget to save! He didn't! But you remembered! I remember anyway, I did remember anyway. So this... the glitch itself isn't too tricky. I don't know if it can happen in the original game but I've found that since doing that glitch on the remaster you can void, and then once you get stuck in the void there's no escape in it basically. Which is why I wanted to save for that glitch. This is probably my favourite level of the game I love folly So this is a really cool room, so there are four levers to open four different doors I was gonna go the glitchless way then let's go let's do the glitch There we go. So there are four puzzle rooms and each one has a key, and there are 4 keys that we need to use to open the door to the next level. So this is Damocles They're all supposed to be based off Greek gods but I believe some of them got the names wrong for some of them. Like one of them is Norse So now we're going only avoid those knives. And then I'm going to do a glitch here to get us up... There we go. To Neptune. Neptune is a really straightforward puzzle, in the Anniversary game when they remade it They like made this puzzle a lot cooler I would say This is like really simple we pull the lever grab the key and then we're out um it's just kind of scary because you are quite deep in the water so you can't be dawdling but yeah this would be a great time. Do you have anything to read? Yes absolutely! I've got a few things that I'd like to read. First is a $500 donation from RadiumV saying amazing to see Tomb Raider remastered at GDQ. I've been playing it since it launched and I love seeing old games getting spruced up for modern systems. Good luck, Bekski. We've got a $1,000 donation from Eric72 saying some cheese. Yes exactly! Some cheese to put Beckski at ease. We've got smoked Gouda, Dubliner and of course Wensleydale with cranberry. That's my favorite! And we have... Oh I need to get to it... a $4000 donation from from anonymous that says 100k. Thank you so much everyone for your donations, 100K Betski, you're killing it! Thank you so much everyone for your donations 100k! Betski, you're killing it. Wow yeah that's great Thank you for the donals You're all killing it guys Alright so I just quickly got through Outlaws. We have one more puzzle room left which is Thor Still don't really understand this room to be honest But there are two ways to get through it safely. Um, so you can do a little grab there and she gains a little invincibility I guess from the lightning. You can also dive and diving is totally safe. You can time it as well, you can jump at the wall and time it but it's a little sketchy so I don't tend to do that. And then we're going to do this a little unorthodoxly so i'm going to inventory buffer here two times to the right and then do a wall bump to get up there And there we go that's the last key Now is Pierre gonna behave himself do you think draven well i don't know it's a little icy with that guy we'll see i think pierre is going to be... pretty light aggression. Yeah, so this is kind of a sketchy part. We have two lions down here and a pierre. The pierre is just going to be taking pot shots at us while we're doing our thing And a bat as well, bat joining in as well thankfully that pillar was in the way while the lions were coming i need to heal hover my finger over the nine key. Yeah, we'll feel. So normally what you want here is for pierre to have potato in which he tends to do he does miss a lot of his shots occasionally he'll like a stormtrooper. Yeah Occasionally he'll destroy you but, well we got away with that. I'll hate it. That's not bad And yeah, so here I'm going to try a glitch that's kind of relying on this lion behaving himself. So, this is another wall book. Nice! Okay, the lion stayed out of our way. This is something that's sort of new to the remastered we can jump on this side to shimmy across, so normally you wouldn't be able to do this but because we can now jump twist in Tomb Raider 1 we can get away with shimmy on this side, which is a little faster than the other side. And then just kind of curve that jump? Yeah, you've got to curve it. something that they... I don't think they ever really considered when they first... because the game is very square I don't think they really considered that people would like curve their jumps. But it is quite useful. And then here I'm going to do a flicker, I'm going to use the old graphics for this again. So this is the same glitch that I performed in the second level, but it's just got its inputs reversed. So I'm embedding Lara into the structure here and then we can see she's like bouncing along the wall and then she's going to come out at the top here where there's a lever for us to pull so this allows us to skip having to jump onto the balcony and pull another lever. That was quite a nice get that one. And Pierre should, yeah there he is! get that one. And Pierre should yeah, there he is. She can get lost in the wild lore, can't she? Yeah, she can or it can be tricky. There's a couple ways to do that glitch as well I tend to do it the slower way just because it's more consistent for me. But yeah, it can be tricky. And I'm going to grab this secret because there's some nice loot back here. Don't want to be falling into a void. You wanna avoid the void? Yeah... you want to avoid the void yeah so two large meds and some magnums and some easy clips is like too good to pass up so i'm going to grab that secret and then pull this lever here. And then we have one more thing to do, because we need a key before we can exit the level and that key should be over in this direction. And again, kind of look out for Pierre. He's going to take potshots at us. Yeah, there's not a ton going on here. If you have anything else to leave it? Yes, the love continues to come on in for you Bex. We have $10 from Red Tie Bear saying, Bexky's 2018 SGDQ run was so inspiring to me that I'm considering learning to run the game myself now all these years later with the remaster. So exciting to see her return! Let's go, Vexki! We also have $25 from BethamphetamineXX saying, GL Vex. Just remember when the clutches don't work it's Lara's fault. Smiley face. Thank you so much for the donation there too. And we also have $25 from Bexky's fam. Good luck with the run, Bexky! So proud of you and we're behind you all the way sending our love from little Manchester. That's so sweet did it make me cry thank you so much those are so sweet um yeah anyone who's interested in running this game the remaster is really accessible And it's not too dissimilar from the OG. It does have some nice quality of life upgrades Being able to change your outfit is like a new thing as well, they added that in the latest patch of this game. Yeah I'd recommend it. There is also, there's a new control scheme so I'm running with the OG control scheme right now because its just more consistent to get glitches but you'll see if you check out the Glitchless leaderboard most of the runs are done with modding controls and that's because modding controls actually a lot faster. You can just Lara moves depending on where you're pointing your camera. So rather than having to turn her like a tank, you can just whip around. It's kind of crazy but it's interesting. Those runs are fun. Have you seen any modding controls run in streaming? Only when you're streaming them. Yeah she turns super hard... It's wild! It's so different to tank controls. But in a good way, it adds something I think new to the game. So yeah, now we're in Palos Midas which is another one of my favourite levels. I'm going to get my magnets out actually for these. these so there are um a lot of enemies in this level it's basically a zoo full of gorillas and lions There are too many to shoot them all really but we do want to pop off a few of the gorillas that are in this room because we're going to do a door skip later which will, if any enemies interrupt us it won't work. So yeah... In this level we need to collect three lead bars and two of them are in puzzle rooms like this so this is the first one very nice thank you and then i'm going to attempt to go back this way, because it's slightly faster than swimming. Might get a little burnt in the process but... You did it beautifully. Thank you! Some of those sequences are actually a bit easier in the remaster because um, in Tomb Raider 1 OG Lara doesn't necessarily jump when you want her to. So I believe it's because of Toby Gard, who is the creator of Lara he wanted the animations to look as realistic as possible so if you play the OG Lara always takes an extra step before she jumps, but they fixed it in this game so it's like Tomb Raider 2 where you just hit jump and she jumps straight away. So it's quite nice, it makes sequences and stuff like that quite a bit easier. Yeah so this is the second lead bar that we're gonna go for. Normally you'd have to do a quite difficult sequence of jumps I remember this room mostly because there was a gorilla that fell from the ceiling. Oh yeah, that happens sometimes! I think the gorilla gets pushed up on one of the blocks and then he just like floats down really awkwardly it's quite funny to watch um yeah no floating drill isn't that today. And then the third led bar is kind of in a weird place, it's on top of a roof so there is a third puzzle room with some sand in it But we don't need to do that. We can just glitch right up onto the roof Go this way Where are the gold bars for? What are they for? Putting them in an indents. In a wall. Yeah yeah there's a room where we can place them and then it takes us to the cistern... interestingly. Well we gotta make em gold first. We have got to turn them into gold so we have this three lead bars now, but we do need to turn them into gold before they are useful to us. I don't want to get stuff on a lion's mouth! This is where it kind of becomes a bit of a party. I'm going to say it here because you never know what can happen. If I get stuck on any of these enemies or stuck on a wall or something then Lara can be dead in like 0.5 seconds, they're gonna happen so quickly Stunlock and swarm? Yeah, then it's over. They do mad damage. Like if you get stuck on a lion It can kill you so fast So we're gonna go over this way To Midas's hand to turn these lead bars into gold we could turn Lara into gold as well if you wanted to, but we're not going to do that today. So I'm actually gonna...I'm gonna turn her around and do the lead bars this way just so there's no risk of me standing up onto the hand. I think that might be the only way I've not killed a run yet, you know? Because I've killed them every other way but I have not ever accidentally stood on the home there's still time though you never know um yeah so now we've got all our bars we can leave And I'm gonna try and get out of here as fast as I can So that these enemies don't catch up to me too quickly there's a lot of them i don't even know what the count is anymore but it's a lot. This music in here is just so beautifully well done. Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's such a lovely soundtrack. There's not, um... There is not a lot of different pieces in this game but what there is the music is so good. Um okay now we are going to tend this door skip. So I need to angle her specifically okay, I need to load that slightly off. It is not frame perfect but it is quite precise the angle you need for her to jump through the door. So I'm using a visual cue on the right hand side of my screen. And I need to reload if I mess it up because otherwise the enemies will catch up to me. That should do it, no? Okay. This time maybe? Okay, now give me some donations if you like while I'm struggling? No worries. You are doing great audience! How do you feel like Betsy's doing? Let's hear it! There is also lots of love coming in from the donations. We have $100 coming from Monk saying Bexki's 2018 Tomb Raider run was legendary! Super happy this game got the remastered love it deserves, and we get to see it again. We also have a $100 donation from Pwacket Barchetta. Oh I'm so sorry if I butchered that name. But it says fond memories playing the Tomb Raider games with my mother and my cousin back in the day. We sure didn't know about any of these skips or wall jumps here. It's wild seeing something I know so well look so different. Best of luck with the rest of it." And folks, with those $100 donations there, you both have been entered for some of those amazing prizes that we just saw, including the wooden game replicas that were showcased earlier today. I'll toss it back over to you. Thank you, I don't know why I struggled with that so much, I guess I was just a couple frames off every time but we got it! I'll say again, we got it in the end um the risky thing there is that if I had to pull the levers to open the door all the enemies would follow me in so that's what they do in Glitchless, and this room is horrific because you have like 10 gorillas and God knows how many lions trying to kill you as you're trying to put these lead bars in. You'll have no life in a very few no life and yeah, I don't think i have the meds for that either because you pick up...I think you probably have a couple more meds than glitches by this point? I don't know maybe not. Yeah it wouldn't have been fun if I had to open the door. Okay so we made it to the cistern um Okay, so we made it to the cistern. This is kind of a complicated level casually It's quite easy to get confused playing this level because some of the rooms rely on the water being up and some of the rooms rely on the water being down so we have a glitch that allows us to just bypass having to worry about the water so we're just going to put it up and we're going to play the whole level with the water raised. I'm going to go in here and pull that lever now, Piers should show up. Oh, Pierre. Again? Yeah. Hopefully he's nice. Go away! Zee turns to the side Z tends to disappear after a set amount of damage. Yeah, he does. You can shoot at him and he will disappear. You can't kill him until the next level um but it's just waste time if you have to shoot at him oh yeah he's really annoying. It's funny too because even if you try to follow him He'll go around the corner and all of a sudden he's gone Yeah! He just disappears corner and all of a sudden he's gone yeah he just did he just disappeared after now he's a magician yeah so this is glitch i actually taught draven from this one on his like first playthrough. Do you remember, Draven? I do. He was asking for help and I just said, oh, do you want to learn the glitch? And he did. It took me only a few minutes to learn it but i got it down easy one that yeah yeah it's another kind of form of corner book but this one's just in the water um so there are multiple keys that we need to collect in this level. Normally it's two rusty keys, two silver keys and a gold. We can skip one of the rusty keys but we do need the rest of them. Excuse me Gator? Yeah don't mind me! I'm going to pull this lever. The crocodiles can be a little annoying So there are two floating around in the water right now Gonna have a little chomp. I can't see! It's in my way. Later, Gator. Later, Gator. Been a while, Crocodile! Um... yes I believe this is the last key we need. Yeah, the gold. Oh, actually not doing too bad health wise. Sometimes I can be like on near zero health handle for this point. Alright, so we're just going to use these keys and get out of the level basically. So if you have anything to read again it would be would be a great time. Yeah absolutely! We were talking about Pierre earlier and we have a $25 donation from Neko Mickey that says This one is for Pierre to behave. I hope he misses every shot, just like I do in Overwatch. Thank you so much, NekoVicky. And then we were talking about the Gators earlier. We got $25 from ScandalBar that says i guess there isn't a save the animals incentive for tomb raider no definitely not there's not but you can apply your donation to other incentives like the costume choice, Fidwar for After Image that will be run a little bit later by Kuroshi Drive as well as our Switch To Joe Musashi Shinobi run later on by Giga's Blues. I'm sorry, not by Giga's Blues but Cypherin later on so get those donations in. Nice, yeah thank you so much Yeah so that's the stone I was enjoying with To Holcun! This is the last level of Greece. We finally get our showdown with Pierre at this end of the level. It kind of throws you into the deep end here, so we need to swim down and pull this lever before we can And And then we have a pretty cool glitch coming up. So I'm going to pull this lever, there's a crocodile in the next room that i'm gonna have to get rid of so that i can do the glitch coming up could turn him into boots you could unethical thing yeah lara Unethical thing. Yeah, Lara's not really friends with the animals. She's no Dr Doolittle, let's say that. So I'm going to find the right angle here and save just in case. So this block, you might have seen me doing crack bugs I can't remember how many I've done at this point Wherever there's like a block with space behind it You can jump through the crack. With that block however, cause its like your meant to make it float to be able to get onto a ledge. If you jump behind that one, you're stuck and can't jump back out. So that glitch is a little scary just because there's the chance that you will go behind the block and get struck, basically. But that didn't happen unfortunately. So Pierre might show up here. He won't if he knows what's good for him! And then we're going to do another skip here. There are a a couple ways to do this, I like to do it this old school way and just save again because if I do the trample I will crunch I do this ramble, Ara will crunch on the floor. Yeah we did it right. So ideally in that room or what devs were intending is you would shimmy across, pull a lever and fill that room with water so that you could get to that ledge that I jumped to. But again because we can do our banana jumps we don't need to do that And this is probably one of the only banana jumps. You don't need to do that. And this is probably one of the only places that I am sad about for the remaster, because right now we don't have a way to do a really cool swim boat that we had in the OG I don't know if you remember it Draven remember the earths when glitch oh it's really cool is one of my favorite glitches so Lara Swims through like a wave. Oh, yes. Yes. She likes air fish I think some people find Like swims into the air She likes air fish, I think some people call it. Like swims into the air. We don't have a setup for that yet. It's possible you could do it. There is not a lot of testing that has been done for Glitch. I have to give a shout out to a guy called Tombow, who has come up with a lot of these setups that i'm using today for the remaster So the run is like majorly the same as the OG, but some of the setups have changed just because of Lara's jump changing a bit and the camera being a little different. So yeah, shout out to Tom Boe because he is an amazing runner And he's come up with a lot of the setups that I'm using Because you...I believe that glitch would be set up where you're on the left side in the water and you kind of like have the camera behind laura kind of looking up yeah and then oh yeah for the air fish one yeah yeah yeah it's definitely a cool glitch i'd check it out if you've not seen it before um but it was just in that room just before, in the OG. So yeah I'm hoping someone will come up for a setup with that at some point. I would it. You need a lot of patience. Yeah, I wasn't very good when I tried it, But yeah, it does require a lot of patience As long as you keep trying, you'll definitely get it Oh yeah! So this is one of the only areas in Glitch where we have to pull and push this block We need to push it onto two of these like pressure plates to open a couple of doors, to grab three different keys. It's a bit of a slow room this one. We're nearly out of there. And up here we have to be careful because there is a trap. The clang, clang door. So if I run forward and jump straight. We should get out of there safely. It looks really dangerous but it's not that dangerous. And then hopefully the gorilla in this room is nice too as well And then we're coming up to our showdown with Pierre which I'm pleased about. Finally! I like dispatching of fear Gonna hold my guns out here just to stop the camera angle change from when I go into the water... I think it is too slow. And hopefully, I can be in position for a while. And then we think we have to pull one more lever and then we have the big showdown with Pierre. So, I definitely have time for a few donations. Absolutely, and hopefully Pierre does behave. We donated for it, darnit. We have a $25 donation from Katie Kidd that says hello from the crowd! Hello Katie! Golly I remember playing Tomb Raider 1 as kid. So cool to see the run and a remaster. Have a good run, Bexki. Thank you. And we also have $25 from Cece saying it's always great seeing Bexki running Tomb Raider, one of my all-time favorite games. Thank you for teaching me the banana jump in your last GDQ run! Thank you so much Cece and look at that Beks ski the legacy lives on i love it nice oh here we go he's all about the prizes he's very french can you give me your best PR impression, David? Oh, no, no, no. A little late for surprise giving, no? Um A little late for surprise giving, no? That was it. He didn't last long did he? No not at all That's Pierre now Looks like you tried to run through the wall Yeah sometimes he does so a little trick that you can use anyone at home if you stand on one of these blocks while you're fighting Pierre kind of his AI just freaks out and he tries to run away into this door that's closed like there's something in there that's gonna save us yeah i don't know what he's thinking um, so on to Egypt. So this is a sequence to do a war bug. Again this one is on bone I'm going to inventory buffer a few times to the left. There we go. And this level is pretty short in glitched, it's a lot longer in glitchless because we can Go up this way and do like a fence clip here. What is that? So you see there's a little gap in the fence, we can just maneuver Lara right through it. What do you think of the old graphics here a new graphics fan or an all-graphics phone i'm an old graphics fan are you absolutely but i love that you can switch on the fly whenever you want to. Another really cool feature of this remaster is, um... I don't know if any of you guys know but there are expansions for each of the classic Tomb Raider games. And this game has them all. So it has 1, 2 and 3 included, and all the expansions for one two and three in it as well. So there's one for Tomb Raider 1 called Unfinished Business which has a couple extra Egypt levels and a couple Atlantis levels so have you played unfinished business i haven't yet it's it's worth the playthrough they're cool levels um so in the og there is a glitch that you can do to get through this window, which skips us having to get key here. I think Tombow did come up with a setup for it but I can't remember whether or not it works on this patch. I didn't learn it. So I'm going to do a real OG strat. This is an old school strat. So we're going to grab the key, I don't think it's too much slower and it means that if you do the window strat you have to exit in an awkward way as well, you have to do like quite a difficult glitch to get out of it, so we won't have to do that now because we've got the key. I have to be careful here because whenever you do a crack bug if you're not right up against the wall and the block there is a chance lara can void so again we want to avoid the void however. Yeah, don't let it last till noon. No! There's no coming back. There ain't no coming back from that. So I'm gonna do another corner bug here. I don't know if I really explained the corner bug, Corner bugs are pretty straightforward glitches There's actually an achievement tied to doing a corner bug so there's like, a med kit in Palace Midas that is unreachable unless you do a corner bug. And basically you need to stand at like a 45 degree angle oh i'm gonna have to show you again because I wasn't meant to fall in the water though yeah I don't mind there we go so you want to be at a 45 degree angle basically. And jump couple times, and there we go it's easy peasy. Alright I'm not going to do that jump this time, We'll just walk over this way. You make it look so easy and elegant at the same time. The corner books are surprisingly easy to do. But yeah, I think they included like that med kit in Midas because they knew that you could do corner books When they were releasing the game but they didn't have time to patch it out really really i think they would have had to do like a lot of messing around so they just kind of left it in and they left that med kit in as like uh hey we know you can do this we know! So yeah. But there's an achievement side to it in the remaster as well which is quite cool. It's pretty nice that they added that little feature to it. So again we're going to do like a shelf look here So I'm gonna turn Lara to the right angle and jump forward And up she goes. And then we're gonna do a little bit of a sketchy jump, so we're going to kind of curve Lara again here and do a late grab. That would have been death! We want to do like a latish grab just to push her forward a bit for land on this otherwise she won't quite reach it. And then we're going to grab here pretty much coming up to the end of this level so we need these objects to open the door to the next level. And this is the point where if I'd done the window skip, I would have to do like a weird sequence to escape but because we opened this door we can just go back through the door now. to escape. But because we opened this door, we can just go back through the door now. So I call this like a cozy strat. There's no stress. We're going to do another little fence book here, so I'm just going to switch to old graphics because you can't see the gap in the fence and the new graphics. Oh yeah, so that is the point Oh, I see it there. Yeah. So that is the point where you can like maneuver her through where you see the little gap and then here we can just climb up How did she do that? Lara doesn't believe in fences. They ain't stopping her. And yeah, so we're out of here basically. We've just got one more level of Egypt left. Yeah if you have anything to read again, this would be a great time. Yeah definitely! We've got $25 from Dave C saying Thanks for the first day of SGDQ let's keep it going From DC and that's right there was so much of SGDQ, Let's Keep It Going from DC. And that's right there is so much amazing stuff here at SGDQ if you catch up on Games Done Quick on Twitter there's actually a poll for trying to see what was your favorite part of day one. So if you haven't checked it out already, GameStunQuick on Twitter is doing polls all the time and we get to just shout our opinion and engage with the content in that way. So it's pretty cool. And Bexie, for you, we got $25 from Yadingus saying great to see Bexie back at GDQ. Have a great run! Betski, you owe me a dollar. Now you owe me five more. Good luck on your run. Thank you so much, Vector. I'm saving that dollar forever. Forever and ever. Um... Forever and ever. All right, cool yeah so the stepping backwards just messes with the AI those Atlanteans, so they don't aggro. So it's pretty useful and the Atlanteans are like really annoying enemies They're gonna shoot meatballs. This guy always knows how nice shooting pellets when they get really angry they shoot meatball balls and it's not very nice I remember our first man across those meatballs and I died super fast. Yeah they do big damage And it's like rapid fire too because its just's just like meeple after meeple. Pew pew pew! Oh? I want to make sure I don't fall... slip. No slipping. Um yeah so I'm gonna take out... there is a flying one here. I could leave him but he's gonna be a nuisance probably if I left him alive There is Um, there is one more flying mutant that I probably will leave alive but he can be annoying. So hopefully it's not. Bless RNG. So there's a couple of levers that I need to pull here. We need to collect two anks, I think they're called. 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Beh bin? Behave. Behave up there! Yeah, so this gets a little scary because where we're about to go is really high up actually. So I'm going to do again another wall bug to get up there. Oh, I hear flapping again. He's close. But yeah, we are like really high up now and the AI for the Atlanteans can be quite janky. Like, they just run into you and knock you about and it's... Fall right off? It's quite something. Yeah. I can glitch up here before he comes up. Yeah, okay. We're okay. Grab it, Lara. Ow! I have plenty of med thoughts. I don't think he is though he's stuck in there all right so now we can put these into the sphinx. They're so aggressive! Always. So yeah this is like the high point of the level. It's really, really high up. And sometimes the Atlantean can land up here with you. And, and you either just have to pray or a backup strides to grab onto the Sphinx and wait for the Atlantian to fly off. It's very to fly off. It's very annoying. But he played nicely, so I can't complain. And then we have kind of a weird skip coming up, so when we pull this lever there's going to be a current that is going try and drag us upwards. If we save immediately after pulling this lever and load the game. It should cancel out the current so that we can just swim back this way as opposed to having to go around So it's a nice little sign, see? There is a part as well in Lost Valley if you fail the banana jump and land in the water. If you remember quickly enough You can save and load and it'll cancel the current so that you don't have to be pulled down and climb all the way back up. And now we have a long climb to get to the top of here, and then we're going to do something a little odd. So, we used to call it... We still call it the Believer Strat because when we first discovered it we weren't really sure if it worked or if it was the flu. So we're gonna grab this, like objects at the top and then we're going to do two back steps. And hopefully that means the AI of the creatures up here is going to behave and they're not gonna ambush us quite as quickly as otherwise would if we just ran straight into it. I believe...... Nice, so that wasn't so bad. It worked! I believe in the Believer! Gotta Believe! You gotta believe! Gotta believe! So, the game kind of intends us to have a showdown with Blaston here, but we don't need to. We can just grab this guy and ignore him. And then this is that classic level in Tomb Raider where we have lost all of our items. I think we still have our medkits, but we've lost our weapons. So yeah, we're not going to even try and get them back. We're gonna... First of all, this is quite a difficult skip so I'm just gonna shut off for a second. Okay, I've already messed that up let me try again so this is another quad um i was having some trouble with this today in practice. Okay, I'm gonna skip the clock. We're going to do some glitched-out strats. So there are two different setups that you can do for that QOP. But both of them land and the water. But both of them are kind of tricky like Lara is very sensitive to how much you press a direction and you have to be really precise at a really precise angle to get into the co-op state And I was just not having any luck with that today, so I'm not gonna spend loads of time on it. We'll just pull the lever instead. It's not quite as cool but......it is what it is. No worries! I don't trust myself with that glitch today. Would you trust me with it? No. Probably not. Thanks! It's really difficult, there is even like a visual cue that you can use, like you don't necessarily need the setup. You can find the right angle with the camera but it's really tricky to get the right angle for it. Because they need slight adjustments to get the right angle for it. Because any slight adjustment, even just off by here... Yeah exactly, Lara will be in the wrong position for it. But the cop would have allowed us to get through there without having to move it with the lead bomb, so it is a nice skip but yeah... Just don't trust myself with it today and that's actually quite a difficult jump that one um it's another banana jump but that one is quite not as lenient some of them can be and I gotta say as well talking about Modern Controls earlier Modern Controls makes banana jumps like that really easy because you can just whip your camera around. There's so much more control and... Yeah, you have so much more control over Lara's angles and everything. It is actually wild. I actually really like modding controls, I have to say. When I first tried them they were horrific! I thought there was no way that I'm ever going to play the game with modding controls and, to be fair when this game first came out modding controls were quite unpolished like the camera was bad and they just felt really off. Now, say if there was somebody that was new to speed running, would you recommend the modern controls or the classic? Probably if they're speedrunning, yeah. If you are doing glitchless I would definitely recommend Modern controls They are a lot faster And I'd say they're probably more accessible as well. So here again, I'm doing a weird little sequence to try and get this wall bug. Just a little buffer? To avoid platforming. Yeah, I don't know how to explain inventory buffering, but basically inventory buffering moves you a couple of frames in whatever direction you're doing it at times so allows you to get into some precise angles. It's great for setups. Oh yeah, definitely. It's really useful. And this is another part where... So in the OG there's a door down here that we would normally be able to jump through. For whatever reason, you can't do it anymore in the remastered... In the very first version of the game You could still do that door skip but with the latest patches you can't So we have to go this way instead. They do this in Glitchless, This is a cool little setup that allows us to time getting through this door because you're not really meant to get through that door that's why the sky is frozen say cheers yeah that's his famous live, you know he says say cheese. But yeah, he is frozen today and chilling. It kind of looks like this pyramid is made out of cheese yeah kind of i don't know what kind of cheese you're eating the pyramid guy in a period um oh yeah going apparently um yeah so we're coming up to the end of this level and then we have two more left and it's gonna get weird it's gonna get very weird. And you'll see what I mean in a second. What do you think of the shades on Lara? I think they look great, but we just don't see them all that often. No, we don't. I mean it's the perfect outfit match along with a bathrobe of course. You're just that cool. She's slaying! Alright, so this is Atlantis. This is a very short level in glitched so i just need to do a little bit of messing around at the beginning here And yeah, I didn't explain but we don't pick up any weapons in Natla's Mines because the game just gives you it gives you your pistols back um at the start of this level and it gives you that ucs so you don't really need to grab any weapons in that list at all. If I was Nantlera, I would definitely be sweating right now. Oh yeah. She's freaking in her boots. Probably not. Alright, so we have quite a big glitch coming up. You did see me do this earlier. It's the same glitch that I did in Folly, if you will remember. I'm going to do the exact same self for it. The only thing here is we need to beware of the enemies here. So I'm going to do a sidestep, sidestep backstep and then I am gonna do two inventory buffers with my guns out run forward into the wall and that skips like the entire level. Thank you! So yeah, that takes us right to the end of the level here so it's a really nice glitch that one and yeah these enemies will be frozen here because you're meant to come the other way like everything is triggered via like tiles that you run over basically in this game. So if you don't run over the specific tile then the enemy just doesn't trigger It's just waiting there for you forever. Just to step on that one tile... Yeah, yeah! So we have 1 more level coming up. We have a big boss fight here and luckily we can skip the cutscene there now you couldn't get the cutscene there in the OG. Okay, so I'm going to bait this guy. This torso! This huge gigantic torso thing around this platform. He can one-hit kill us he also has a move that takes away half of our health so we don't want him to get too close to us. But he isn't that hard of a boss fight really. Do you know his name, Draven? I don't. What is his name? Supposedly! Well, I think in the Japanese version of the game... Or was it in the Prima i can't remember they called him adam oh i don't know i don't know where that came from i don't know if the devs intended him to be called adam maybe after adam and eve possibly yeah um so natla who's like the big evil in this game she is like her plan is to make like a new breed of monsters basically. So that's what these Atlantean creatures are, and that big torso thing. Oh my god. That's the future according to Natla. How she wants it to be seen. I guess, yeah. What a world that would be. There is also in the OG, there is a big skip in this level. Like you can skip through all of this with quite a complex sequence. So it glitches you from that fight we just did up to the platform where the Skion is, which we're going to see in a minute. It's really hard glitch, I think Tombo did fine like he did recreate it but its not quite as easy to do on this version of the game at the moment, so I'm gonna do it the old school way. I don't know if I am a little far forward here... I'm just going just reset a sequence there and yeah the game gets a bit sketchy at the end here because there's lots of things that are trying to kill us There's these big boulders. The spikes, the swinging axes... there's lava everywhere! Wouldn't be a tomb without them. Yeah, yeah right? So I am gonna go fast but I'm gonna like go slow at the same time cause it's quite scary. Whenever there is a collapsible tile like this if you sidestep, you just teleport to the bottom so that's quite useful and after we've shot that ski on, this is where we try and make our great escape. I'm probably going to save a few times just because... Yeah i just slip into the lava don't you hate it when that happens i don't like it when i slip into a lot of things lara I don't like it when I slip into the lava. Straight into the lava! Lara would not be good at that game, The Floor is Lava. The sad thing about having to load though is we lost the hype music. There's no hype anymore. Oh, it's still there! You gotta believe. Oh yeah, I'll believe. But yeah, you can see how treacherous this level is. I'm probably going to do one more save here because there is, when I turn there's a tricky... If I miss time. Yeah. So sometimes you can run behind that axe, but if you miss time it You have to go on the other side of it and you risk being squashed by the boulder then It's quite scary It took me quite a while to get through this part yeah it's it's rough especially when you're a bit nervous um yeah we're really close to the end now. If you have anything else to read this will be... get him out. Yeah, absolutely, Petsky and you are doing amazing! We got $25 from Phantom TMAX saying had to donate during Bexky's Tomb Raider run. She is a great runner and an incredible person. Raid those tombs and raise those funds! P.S., there are too many great Silent Hill prizes to choose from, and I want them all! Well, Phantom T-Mac, thank you so much for that. You don't need to worry about choosing. You got entered in for a lot of those prizes with that 25 donation thank you so much for that time for some more yeah i mean we're right at the end of the road let to be honest. Well you just let me know when it's like, oh we need this! So I have one more glitch to do and then that's it. We are going to totally skip the last boss so that was Natla there shooting at us but we're just going to ignore her. See you later Natla! We're out of here, we've got a speedrun to finish and that is time. GG! Amazing. We got there in the end. There's some sketchy moments though, but we did it! Awesome job Bexki. Any shoutouts that you'd like to share? Shoutout to the fan back at home i can't believe if they're up for this run then that's amazing because it is very early in the morning packet back at home um yeah thank you so much thank you for the support and thank you Draven, for being with me. You're welcome And thank you for allowing me to be back here. Yeah, thank you. Thank you to the the tech and everyone backstage you're all awesome and thank you to everyone who donated as well it's for a great cause and i really appreciate all of it so yeah thanks for having me.... into what's going to be an amazing, hopefully if not chaotic race. It will be chaotic! Don't worry. I am Dan the VP. I'm Rad Raintail. The one game I've played longer than Tunic is Enter the Gungeon. Commentators! Awesome commentators! Please introduce yourselves. My name is DrNo, and I am not nearly as good at this game as these two gentlemen are. And I'm Lokai, and I just... am here to watch! He's got the notes which is like the entire Wikipedia. Yeah, literally it's the official notes. But if you're not familiar with this game It is a top-down bullet hell twin stick roguelike. Did I get that right? Yes! So you're in for a treat. Oh my turn? Okay so there's a lot of words on our category title, so I'll cover all floors. Any percent in Gungeon is like five procedurally generated floors, a boss and it's over. If you do a bunch of the game content you can unlock a secret harder floor and that's like the ultimate ending. We're gonna insert four other floors as secret floors from 1-2-3-4 so we'll get ten whole floors all floors as it were. We're going to meet a rat and I will leave that as the surprise but there's more words in the title. I will let doc cover that. Here are things we're adding on here. We're doing a turbo mode run, which means everything is going to be 30% faster than your stock standard in the gungeon. We are doing a rainbow run, which means at the beginning of each floor you can see here we have rainbow items. Our runners will get one Rainbow Chest per floor and that's it! They'll get 1 item per floor to do the entire run with. We also agreed on house rules. We are not going to be picking broken guns like the finished gun, we're not going to pick sense of direction teleport prototype or any other sort of teleportation focused things just to kind of make things more fun and interesting for you all. Yeah. And both players are going to be playing on controller and we've actually loaded some safety and some seated mods to help just things make a little more consistent for the two runners. Now, speaking of seated mod, we will have the same floor generations and hopefully bosses, but as you can see, our item pool is completely different. So there's still going to be plenty of RNG, plenty of improvisation. We're going to be reading the map as quickly as we can and we're going to have to react to whatever items get dropped. So we're not even going to start with the same get dropped. So we're not even gonna start with the same gun. No, we're not and that'll make things even more exciting. And we've agreed there's some things that... We have some safeties in places and if we have to use them We'll have our commentators keeping us honest And we're both going to be giving up $50 a piece I think is what we agreed on For every major mistake Every mistake? Alright so that's... It will be costly It won't be run-ending but it will be costly. Y'all ready? I think so. Good luck Dan. Let's go in 5 4 3 2 1 five, four, three, two, one. Go! Alright, so right off the bat we have a little extra homework we have to do because we're doing all floors we have more do because we're doing all floors we have more requirements asked of us for these especially these first floors uh to unlock the second floors that we're going to be going to so here in the first floor the keep Keep of the Lead Lord. We were going to find the boss and we're going to beat the boss. We are also looking for a fireplace. When we find the fireplace, we're going to put the fire out and click on little switch that's happening right behind the fireplace. On top of all of that, we're looking for keys. As you can see, Dan has already picked up a key drop, and that's big because you need two keys to enter the secret floor. Rad just got a second key, so that is actually That is actually a very big move for both runners who already have two keys it means they don't have to buy one and it means they don't have to worry about getting one of the boss. Which Dan is about to enter right here! And it's our friend... Ah, our friend The Bird, uh, the Gatling gull. Oh great. He is, uh, one of three bosses that can show up at the end of floor 1. And as you can see, he's a giant bird and he has his Gatling gun! So he's going to shoot a lot of bullets at you He's got a fair amount of health, and he can actually show up in about eight different arenas for the final room so... And there we go! There's Gatling Goldown....and making fairly short work with that picking up the Master round I believe, yes? Yep, gets from not getting hit. So that will be important later. Rad entering the Gatling Gulf fight. Rad taking the raiding coil which is a really fun weapon but here at the beginning, that's going to be a little bit of an issue because the DPS on bosses with the raiding coil is a bit slower than some of other choices you might see. So it is a strategic choice. Rad will be able to clear rooms much faster with the raiding coil, but we're going to have to make up for it. And please, we all donated to C-SER Junkin. Can you please give a round of applause for Sir Junkin. The best boy doing the best work. He is the goat of the gungeon, you may see the runners breaking open some chests with weapons as we go along and picking up more junk The more junk they pick up, stronger sir jonkin will become so that should be interesting this is really close both runners entering the oubliette at roughly the same time oh and rad getting Ratgett and Gunnarometer's strength! That is a very good drop. And picking up numbers? Okay! This is the fun thing about Rainbow Runs You get one item per floor uh the chest will drop four guns and for non-gun items one of each rarity level so while you only get one choice at the beginning of the floor you're guaranteed for two of them to be incredibly rare and potentially very powerful pickups. And both runners have picked up very strong items to carry them through the Ouvliette, which is a major step up in difficulty from the Keep of the Leblord. Yeah absolutely. Redd how does that Gundramna string you pick up help you here? Well it drops enemy health by 25% which is going to be great because that also cuts into the boss health, which we're capped for DPS. So this is a really good... Oh! Okay. I didn't see anything. Oh, I didn't see anything. So our extra goal here in the Ooliet is to find the crest which Rad may or may not have already done and just kind of moved on from. The reason why Rad would not have wanted to pick up the crest will come apparent hopefully a bit later, but right now we are still looking for the boss of the Oogliad. The Blobulord. But we'll talk about the Bloby alert when we get to him. Yeah, so while they're both going through the Oubliette here, enemies have lost quite a bit of health this is probably a decent time for a quick donation JD. Yeah absolutely! We have a a 50 donation from doobie that says have a blast rad and make sure to keep junkin safe he deserves to beat the lich on the GDQ stage. Let's go! Amen, amen. I'll do what I can, but thank you. We can probably do one more with them as well. Yeah, we have a $100 donation from Island that says, I've stayed up late to watch you race, Ringtail. So you better win or I will unleash an unholy squeakening upon you. Best of luck, buddy. That's some pressure, man. That's some pressure, Rad. I know! But Dan, I believe in you too. Thank you. That is the encouragement that will see us through to the end of this round. Rad reaching the boss now of the Ooblyettes That is the encouragement that will see us through to the end of this round. Brad, reaching the boss now of the Oubliette, our good friend the Blobby Lord. Now you may have seen some other smaller blobs throughout the Gungeon so far but the Blobby Lord is the leader of that army. He is actually the four-star general having absorbed the power of four complete stars to obtain that rank So he is very powerful And if you didn't know how Stark Generals became Stark Generals, now you know. And no one gets to have the battle. Why? Great. So that hydromata strain is doing work right now because the Raiden Coil is now effectively fighting a 25% less health boss than Dan is going to be in this run. Dan picking up the A-Key 47 to start the run with, which is a bit more of a powerful weapon but also allows Dan not have to deal so much with locks because it's the A key 47. But Rad over here has taken out the Blobby Lord, has picked up a crest and moving down to Gungeon proper floor number two. Let's see what he gets from his rainbow chest here oh boy that's okay sure oh yes i have nothing to say about this pickup we will, nod and we will move on. The goal of floor two is to find the altar first. You'll notice that Rad picked up the crest. Dan just now picked up the old crest. If you get hit while holding the old press you no longer have the old crest it is gone it is immediately lost on any hit you receive so both runners right now are desperate to... We have a gun drama this thing for Nick. Okay, alright. This is a fair and balanced run. We love to see it. But yeah yeah don't get hit with the crest or else you lose the crest in face great shame. Yeah I also see him well I'll keep it to myself. You want to share some keep it to myself. You don't want to share some insight? Uh, you're not going to like it anyway, so... Is it mandatory platform? Oh! Ooh, Red, taking a little gamble here going into the boss with the crest. Don't see that too often but our Beholster here reference to Beholder from B&B beauty is truly in his eye. Shoutout to the Baldur's Gate 3 run coming up later in the marathon But Gondroma still working on the Beholster here, Rad making fairly short work of him. And Junkin just piling on the DPS. Let's go! Junkin is brave if nothing else. So that is Rad's, I believe, second master round. So master rounds are important for a couple reasons. One, you get extra health for having them. Two, you actually need one for progression a bit later on in the run so it is very important to get at least one as we get some more junk for Junkin'. And I'm going to go through them. I'm not sure, yeah, like that's what that's the uh i know i know i thought it was platforming but it's mini boss isn't it maybe or. I see the icon on my screen, so... You see the pain. You feel it. Yeah, so both players still looking for the altar room here. Dan picking up the- Oh no! the altar room here. Dan picking up... Oh, no! Well, we're going to mini-boss now. Okay, Rat picking him another piece of junk and finding the altar so he is going having beaten the boss I've done the boss, yeah. And picked up the rat key for the next... You saw him pick up that Gnarl Key from the shop. That's gonna be important later. I got them back! These are some choices you're facing here. You'll notice that Dan, in fact, did lose the crest because Dan took a hit to the hardest boss in all of Enter The Gungeon platforming. And yes falling off a platform counts as a hit As it relates to the crest. So remember we were talking earlier about major mistakes? Yeah I think that would be one for... That would qualify. No no no that's fine um but rad going through the abbey here the abbey is basically just kind of another extra floor not a lot of extras you actually do in this floor just enemies with lots of health and boss with lots of health. So JD I think this would be an excellent time for couple donations. Absolutely happy to share we got $10 from Licon saying, Hey all beta tester Gunjin here. Great to see everyone running it and tearing through all that difficulty we built up. May the dragon miss all his attacks that's right time for one more yeah absolutely all right let's go ahead i have to refine what i want ah we have a $100 donation from Leroy saying hello Hello My way up from the audience of AGTQ 2020 to the back couch of AGDQ 2024 to commentating for Rad's Gungeon Room. Lots of love from Birdo, Ray and me. Good luck! And go search Julian Junker. Thank you, Leroy. Thank you, Leroy. Let's get some claps for Leroy. So Rad is right now fighting the Old King. The Old King is the older version of the Bullet King, which is a boss we could have fought in Floor 1. That's true and this one has a merry old soul. It's true. I didn't hear that one in practice. You did not? I had to save some more of the actual run. We've got to keep something in the tank. You're seeing right now, The Old King fires these black bullets and Dan is running into some of these black bullets as well. Those are jammed bullets. When we get to a higher level difficulty in the game, there is a chance that enemies will fire these jammed bullets and if you get hit by a jammed bullet that is an entire heart of hell gone uh normal hits in into the gungeon only tossed one half of a health point uh jamb bullets take the whole thing away so when you see those black bullets that's an extra incentive to just not get hit. Rad going to the third floor here and we're gonna be looking for some very important little items here so get your rat jams ready. If you have rat jamms, if you see rats, any rat emotes you have, crowd. If you see rats let us know because we are looking for rats. Found them found them. Let's go! Yeah let's go! Thank you that was very helpful. Yes thank you for all the rats. So we are looking for rats because we're trying to find the rat lair that's our next secret floor We only know where the rat lair is when we find the rats which you know makes sense uh so we find the rats we find the trap door to the rat layer uh and then we'll come back later once we finish the boss fight here yeah you'd think that they would uh keep a secret better but they're just gonna write them out every time that's two in the row that are new we've been cooking i don't know what y'all have been practicing. What do you think we've been practicing? The last time I hosted, I was destined to interrupt Pun Train, so this is just coming back to hauntings. Yeah, thank you. Dan putting in some work against the old king right now. This is still a very close race like to be clear any one drop can absolutely shake and completely upend the honestly, the loadout for both players right now. Yeah, because the later floors, 4 and 5, both have multiple generations both are very long floors so there's still plenty of time for Dan to catch up. That was hitless. Oh, hitless Old King. There is more claps. I think that's double hitless. You do not get a master round for beating the old king, Hitliss. You get an immense amount of swag though. Alright, where are the rats? They're different! We learned that during practice. We can be running the same seed, we can be running the same drafts making sure all of that... You will get different rants for each player so like rats truly go where they wish it is not up to the game, The rats just show up and dig their little trap hole for us to go into. I would say while Dan is looking out while Rad has found the boss room he's going to have the Treadnought so thanks a lot for that one all right yeah we got dry now what I was ready well you know that when sometimes things are so easy just can't help it take it. And how could I not? That's even worse. Oh, I just got that one. So the Tregnaut is the tank that was left by the Hegemony which is kind of an outside faction to the Gungeon. When they tried to invade and destroy the Gungeon but the Bulletin took it over so now they drive it around... Junkin getting the last hit on the Treadnaought there and no i will not accept arguments to thee otherwise junket is definitely the best boy here so rad is going to go down now through the rat layer while dan is searching for his items and the boss as well. So probably a good time for one quick donation, JD. Definitely. We got a lot of love in for those Pride Month donations. A $100 donation from Anonymous saying, last day of Pride Month, let's celebrate! Absolutely. Let's go. Alright, so Rad is entering the All right. It was destiny. So, Rad is entering the Rat Lair and the Rat Lair's a very special floor We have ourselves a lost woods situation You can have any one of four exits to leave any of these rooms in the rat lair. Left, up right and down. It is a unique path to the rat for each player. If you take a wrong turn You don't get to fight the rat. Normally over the course of your time playing, you will gather several clues to help you build out your personal path in the Rat Lair. This is a 100% save file and Dan and Rad have both played this game so much, they've memorized their rat path so to speak. This is just going to look like a normal floor compared to all the others. When you play this for the first time, trust me, This is not what this floor looks like. In fact, Rat has already through it and is about ready to start the rat fight And the rat or the resourceful rat as he's known him Is a three phase boss fight uh kind of progressing in difficulty here the first place just his normal rat summoning in his cheese bullets so we're hoping that neither be gunslinger or sir junkin here is lactose intolerant. Oh, Junkin don't care? Junkin going for it. I'm pretty sure Junkin is just... Yeah, he's just up there with his little sword and his little shield and he is rocking it. Junkin doing work. And just like that, phase one of the rat is down. Dan meanwhile is finishing up Treadmont so Dan is very close. So of course you find a rat in phase one what do you get in phase two? I mean clearly logically we all know it's metal gear of course well he's resourceful he did find that mech i'm sure or build it even uh he stole it okay fair enough so uh while ryan is fighting metal gear rat here fair enough. So, while we're fighting Metal Gear Rat here, now is actually a good time for a quick donation. Yeah, sounds good. We have $50 from Lulden that says so happy to watch my favorite roguelite getting the Sir Junkin treatment with my favorite pals. Thank you so much for your donation, Lolden. Could probably do one more. That's right. All of us in the borough are so proud of you Rad, so awesome to see you back at GDQ let's go! Thank You, Anderson. Rad is finishing up phase two but importantly Dan picked up one of those items I was mentioning earlier. Dan picked up the bracket key. Okay. So this race just got a whole lot closer. Okay so phase 2 done we fought Metal Gear logically what's the next step right everyone say it together it's punch out super mario oh that's much better this week ready you're gonna pick up more spice? I'm gonna pick up a little more. So, this rat fight is important for several reasons. One if you don't beat it, you get great shame. Secondly, you'll notice that the rat is dropping items. And there goes another spice! This is the one exception to the 1 item per floor rule. Anything the rat drops in this phase of the fight, you get to keep and sometimes the rat drops a lot. Sometimes the rat drops a lot of stuff that you don't want or need. Damn me while I'm making... oh, making a hit. But that's okay and there goes the rat! That is a tough fight. Absolutely. At least a ballful two level fight there, and getting rewarded with a whole bunch of armor some cool stuff and some more, two more spices! So yeah the one thing about spice that's interesting is once you have picked up and consumed a spice the items that spawn further on are more likely to be spice And the more spice you eat uh...the more attack power and speed speed you pick up, but you're going to start losing hearts. Yeah, I'm at that stage now. Okay, so yeah, I would probably advise against consuming any more spice. I don't know. I think Rad has enough armor to make it last a while. The spice must flow. The spice must flow spice must blow i just gotta sneak this one in twenty dollars from willow birch that says as always a coin for the witch good luck to the runners so the one thing that's kind of special about 4-4 here the hollow is we're looking for a friendly person called the cell free will explain why when we get to him, but you've got time for another donation. Thanks about the inner punch out! Sounds good! We have $100 donation from Umrog T-Bburn saying shout out to my wonderful wife we started watching gd2 together eight years ago and have loved every second here's to many more. Happy Pride and Trans Rights! Trans Rights! A... Oh, I'm good. So the hollow is one of those floors where you can get lost in pretty quickly. It's a very long floor, there are ways for a lot of these that the runners will know they're on the right path so when we see that, you'll see Rad trying to look for certain specific room shapes hallways to look for That really do kind of make things a little easier to read Even on the floor like The Hollow which can get a little out of hand at times You still kind of have a sense to know where you're going and just like that Rad is entering the kill pillars fight Kill Pillars, animated killers brought to life Oh! I read they're bullet slow. Looking like the Armos Knights and you are correct because that's exactly what they're like even down through the last one getting more health and going a little faster. We have a riddle of lead for dan the vp i i i have to drop i can't have this much speed i can't take that item and so here's our cell creep we're gonna give him two items in a master round and that's going to allow us access to the last kind of secret floor uh the rng department dan scaring me. Dan's build is starting to get very silly. I could give another pig. So this is the RNG department It is the RNG department where It's where all of the good ideas for the Gungeon come from, and because it is the RNG department you guessed it there is no RNG in this level. The layout is the same, the enemies are the same. It will be the same for you, for me For everybody, for all time So yeah Graduate this level probably more times than we can count So JD if you've got some donations Now's a great time You bet I have donations! So we have a $10 donation from Taylor that says Never have I seen Gungin like this. Wild! Shout out to my best friend and new husband, John. Can't imagine being anywhere else but sitting here watching GDQ with you. Hope many years of speedrun await us in the future. The partner love just keeps flowing just like that spice, right Raph? I'm not taking it! We have $25 from 10,000 orbs! Wow, that's a lot of orbs! That's a lot of orbs. That's a lot of orbs! Saying my partner and I have been looking forward to this race all day. Such a great way to spend our first night of GDQ. Let's go Rad! So Rad is fighting Agahnim who is the boss of the RNG. He can also show up as a mini boss as the wizard Agahnim is the herald to Ganon. Cannon the pig boss but Rad making pretty short work of him thanks to gun drama and all those orbital bullets are just going nuts. By the way this is a helicopter fight on top of a roof while its's snowing. Yes that is a Die Hard reference and canonically that means Central Dungeon is a Christmas game. That's fair. Dan finishing up the Kill Pillars fight and going to be entering the RNG floor, which let's be real. Dan's build is silly. Rad you picked up shock rounds what do those do for you? Well normally they connect my bullets together with some electricity but we're for beam weapons it doubles my damage so that's again speaking of silly this is why rainbow times Climbs are so cool. One of the best things though about what we're seeing here is that as awesome as this is and it's so fun and it's just how silly these builds are. This is still only about like half a percent of all the content that has been going into Enter The Gungeon since it came out. This game has been around for a long time and it is so loved by the people that play it. We are so grateful to the community, they have an amazing wiki where they capture all this information about the game All of the lore that goes into it. The community for this game is absolutely amazing! So many great guns, so many great items, so many great puns in this game... It's a blast! So many great items, so many great puns in this game. It's just... Yeah, it's a blast. So this is the forge. So if this were an 80% run, this would be the last floor that Rad is on right now. And it is a bit of a beast. By the way, remember I said about dan's run being a little silly yeah we uh we're already agonizing and africa's already in half health this is going pretty fast we We have a big shotgun? Oh, yeah. Nice. By the way, Aghanim is the only enemy in this game that has voice acted. Look at Junket! Please give it up for Sir Junket. Absolutely the best in town! All that agonism right there. Rad entering the boss of the forge here The High Dragun We're sitting on his pile of shells Dragon is a two phase fight fight, and you'll definitely notice when the second phase begins, but again, our buddy Sir Junkin just up there with us doing his spin attack. Look at Junkin go! Spin attack, Zelda spin attack. Yes, he is rocking it and uh rad just kind of that's helping yes i got my toothpaste so i'm gonna have um some photosensitivity wounds on my side of the screen. Did you get blank bullets? No, I got that gun that just makes everything explode. Which one? There's several of those in this game. But no, Rad knows what I'm talking about. Yeah, I don't remember what it says. which one there's several of those in this but no rad knows the one i know yeah i don't remember what it's called but um so we're gonna go into phase two of the dragon and where you're trying to kill his heart which the heart is just two bullets together well you know if you notice so are the player health like that player help is just two bullets on top of each other So the dragon and I are the same Inside all of us there are true dragons And one of them has side arms and it's sitting on a giant lava pile of shells. That one is not me. No Alright, so Raddus officially done with any% And he's moving onto the last floor of the run. And yes we have finally entered bullet hell and bullet hill is actually a relatively straightforward floor compared to some of the others there are hub rooms that have three spokes. Two of the spokes lead to dead ends, one spoke will lead you down the right path. You make a few of those right choices and you're at the final boss of the run. You make a few wrong choices then you run into some dead ends, so what we're going to see here is Rad do his best to make very educated guesses as to which of the options is the one that will lead to the Lich, which is our final boss of the run. This is a very sort of like you it's something that takes some experience and knowledge of what's coming up but once you have that You can start making some really educated decisions as to where to go. And Bullet Hill I think is where you'll also see Dan's bracket key come in very handy because a lot Of the rooms at Bullet Hill have multiple waves, and one of the functions of the bracket key is that it prevents Waves 2 and 3 from being able to spawn. But while they're just kind of going through these rooms trying to find their way to Dragon on Dan's side and Lilich on Brad's side, there is probably some time for a Venation or two Diddy. Absolutely! We have $100 from Bluetooth Tiger saying I love watching you both make this game look so easy. This was the game I was most excited for today. Thanks for helping support such an amazing charity. Thank you so much, Bluetooth! We also have $250 from Matthias Silvers saying... A Bullet Hell? Trying to defeat Bullet Hell?! I'm sure Rattatantan can make it happen. Good luck to both our runners donation goes to runner's choice which i believe was this upcoming incentive for shinobi that's right let's get those incentives in we We're just $300 away from getting the Joe Musashi Shinobi run. Oh, we can do that by the end of this one. Let's go. Absolutely. All right, so Dan entering the second phase of the dragon fight, which means the true final boss platforming has now arrived. Meanwhile there is some catching up that can be done here because I think Dan's about to... Look at... Yeah. No... I don't have a great uh not the one side but let's go i think this is all five master rounds oh wow okay that affects Oh, are you sorry? Wow. Okay. Is that a flex? I'm sorry. Moving the goal post. Okay Mr. Crest let's talk about your five master rounds. And Red is making his way to the boss of bullet hell now bill lich again another three-faced boss though you think it was a seven year litch somebody here, Lich. Somebody out there got that. Somebody out there laughed. I got it. I didn't laugh. Well, that's fine. We are done with phase one. You can just leave now. Yeah, rat beat the first phase so we're going to leave. Game is over. Bye forever. Never mind. I tried. So this is the phase two of the glitch fight and it's going to look a lot like the dragon fight so while we are taking out this very large... Close, close, no flex on right side. No flex on the right side. I tried. While we're fighting this lich phase, JD if you have some donations We'd love to hear them. Sure! We have $50 from Dante that says The spice busts flow flow we got three spices i hope you've burned through all of them here good luck randall just wanted to make sure this this phase did not turn jammed this is a junk andonly fight from now on. There, there's your three spice. Alright, yeah, you see how much Raz helped this drop but it's not really gonna make probably too much of a difference at this point. Junkin' doing that work. Junkin is the GOAT. Junkin, go for it! Yeah! Junkin! Time is coming up for Red. Now time is not when the shot is fired. Time is when the Gungeoneer is fired out of the castle. Yes, it will make sense when you see it. But we'll call time. It's coming up here in a second. And wait for it, wait for it... Time! Let's go. I jumped again. Let's go. Good luck Dan. Sub 30 minutes. All right which way do I go now? This is a co-op run now. We're seeing this through. We can do this. Absolutely. I think I accidentally picked the right way, so... Wait did you say accidentally pick the right way? Yeah! If you pick the wrong way first then you know the right way. Yes! Wait hold up, what's that pig? What pig? Yeah, what pig? Are you saying a pig? You mean Aghanim or... No I- is that a pig?! What is a pig doing on screen? I don't know doing i don't know i don't know but i hope you can bring home bacon yeah i did well the five dollar donation from anonymous it says did someone say we want to avoid the pun train? Nope. Sounds good to me. But puns have a place at Summer Games Dungeon quick. Yes, that's right. Wait, hold on. We also have $100 from Smaman that says... What is this? Mice Tyson's Punch-Out!! Where's Rattler when you hate Bravo! Bravo! That was beautiful. It is a good one. Also, if you're playing Gungeon and not making puns while you're playing it, You are doing a disservice to the game. Yeah, it is Enter The pungent after all. At this point, we're just making Dan's job harder. With all the pickups Dan was getting, he had me sweating bullets. Yeah. It wasn't quite enough. Good job, Brad! At least he has a shot. He had that one primed and ready to go. Locked and loaded. JD, you're not helping. I will say while I have a moment while Dan is cleaning up bullet hell this game was supported with free updates years after its release. And because of that, we have a speedrun mode and timer We've an in-game timer that's very accurate We use it for almost every category on the boards, and that means it's pretty accessible to run a lot of categories in Gungeon with whatever system you have. You can run it on Switch, PS4, Xbox, PC, whatever you got. I think there's even or was a stadia version i don't know it's just it can't run on that you can't run on that i'm sorry to say yeah no go ahead okay let me say one thing I'm sorry to say. Yeah, but... No, go ahead. I was going to say one thing I don't know if we pointed out with the gunslinger or the character that they were playing is that throughout the game there are certain items that work well together having synergies while as the gunslinger you just automatically get those synergies for any gun you pick up so that's why the gun that Dan has been using, the A-Key most of the run has infinite ammo. That is a synergy with the gunslinger, so it normally has an ammo limit but there are so many guns that are just not good in the general game that like...are great with a gunslinger so that's why we have that yeah or the wind-up gun yeah there's a lot of stuff that like gets a huge boost for this character and because of that the character usually oh oh no i'm just gonna hang out we're just hanging out we're just chilling no we just we're bringing the lich to us there we go. While we're waiting, I want to give a shout out uh to Teddy Ross. Can we get Teddy Ross at hand? Six years ago at SBDQ 2018, Teddy brought this to the stage. It was my first time ever seeing a game, and I fell in love with it. We hope that we did Teddy proud by bringing this game back to SQDQ. And I think I can speak for everyone when I say that Dan and Rad have done a phenomenal job bringing Gungeon up to the crowd and showing off how fun this game can be. So, a big yes please give a shout out and again, a huge shoutout to Teddy for being the spark that brought Gungeon to game so quick And inspired a whole lot of us to pick it up and run. And to be fair, Teddy ran it when it was... did not have these modes and characters. There was no marathon safety mod like that. I would not have been able to do that. All right. That's round three for Dan. Nice job, Dan. And speaking of Teddy, we have a $100 donation from Tostador that says I'm glad Enter the Gungeon is getting a second chance. Easily one of my favorite road likes. Thank you so much for that donation thank you time is coming up for dan here in just a couple seconds wait for the thunder and good time let's go that was Let's give it up for Everett. That was amazing, y'all. You both crushed that. Were you sub 30? I don't know what RTA is but yeah No, it's a 30 RTA. Oh! That was 32? You were very fast. It makes me feel better. I got good routing on four or five i think yeah that kind of like was i was yeah i lost my way there um i just want to say it's absolutely incredible to be able to play this game at gdq to have like the faith that the committee puts in us to do this kind of roguelike. Huge shout out to TheRotBot who did the lion's share of programming for the modding that nobody had to see, but was there. And is the reason we were, you know, felt comfortable to submit this also I'd be remiss if I didn't shout out Barbara's King who like kind of forced this category into existence and still has a better time than me. Also want to shout-out to Halantian and Third Wall who have both helped me in the past And run this game with me in the past Last but not least, to Jessica my wife at home And our dogs. I love you I'll be home in about like five or six more days Alright, before I end it commentators thank you so much for assisting do you have anything you'd like to say? Can we give a shout out for this at Credits Music because this Credits Music is amazing. Yeah, I wanted to learn the rap so I could impress y'all but unfortunately I cannot rap and neither can Leroy but I have been low-key so thank you low-key. So thank you for having me. And thank you for having me here as part of this. This has been an absolute treat for me. Alright, I have just a few more shoutouts. One, the active community Hologun, Napalm, Spudgun, Wanderous and Scutty are mods. Thank you so much for keeping the community going the last few years. Dodgerill thank you for an awesome game. There's a really cool story written in Jason Schreier's book Press Reset about how they went from AAA development into indie and built this game. Worth the read, absolutely! Thank you Hux for getting me hooked on Gungeon again a few years ago. And thank you to the Bandit Bureau and Fastest Firsts For being so supportive to me This whole speedrunning adventure is still like a dream I don't believe it So thank you so much for the support. And last but not least for shoutouts, GDQ volunteers! A hand for all volunteers! Clean crew represent... I cannot emphasize enough, post COVID or after we've been through that experience volunteering and getting involved in organizations has been like the bright spot in my life and if you haven't tried it please try it. It is so fulfilling. You get to help other people have a good time. You get to meet awesome people as well Um...it may be July now, but pride never ends. And... Woo! And one more thing I'll say. If your hair is demons, then stick around for the next round. We got Bayonetta 2 coming up. Let's go. Alright that's it. Thank you. Trans rights! All right. Hello, hello. My name is Eberra Rydie-Puck. Welcome to Bayonetta 2 and the present for the infinite climax. Thank you very much for donating to that incentive. It's going to be super fun and I can't wait to see what happens next. to any presenter for the Infinite Climax. Thank you very much for donating to that incentive. It's going to be super, super fun and I can't wait for you to be energized for this 12 o'clock shift with me to add some color both, uh, I guess literally and figuratively we have Pippi in a top hat if you'd like to say hello. Hello! I'm here. So before adding some well-needed color commentary since there's a lot to actually get into here so... You might recognize this character on screen, this is Bayonetta we're not going to be playing as Bayonetta, we're going to be playing as Rosa the differences of which are going to be explained as we get into the run but I've drawn down a little bit too long so let's start the run, but I've drawn down a little bit too long. So let's start the run in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go! So this So, this game was performed in ATDQ by Cap. He did a fantastic job and several other Framed Fatales events subsequently. What's interesting about those is they all sort of played with Bayonetta, the standard character and the one mentioned in the title. We are going to be playing on Rosa however. Rosa has the incredible advantage of dealing three times as much damage as Bane so things can go really fast and fights only last seconds. The ostensible drawback to that is he also takes three times as much damage. On easy medium and hard speedruns this is not really too much of a problem in fact we can just shrug off damage for the most part on infinite climax however this is not the case. One hit from 99% of enemies will indeed spell death for me and it's going to be... I mean if you've ever played Infinite Climax on Bayonetta, you will know exactly what I mean. So to make this a little bit spicier I have made the perhaps not so fiscally intelligent decision to donate $5 per death. This will include red hotshot deaths, so if you're looking for actual death screens, you may not actually see any. We pick up an item called the red hotshot, which will sort of revive us if we do take a damaging hit. But I'll still count that as a death. Feel free to play along at home if you'd like. We'll be playing along in the background! I cannot guarantee your wallet safety, I'll do my best though. Please protect me Variety! You might have noticed that we are actually just sort of jumping in the first section of the records of time segment this is because it's the only reason that we can't cut this out of the run, otherwise this is just a long autoscroller that we would rather not play as it so happens if you limit the number of attack frames and defense frames that are shown on screen at a given time in that first segment, You are able to actually save just a couple seconds because the narration will get done faster than the enemies actually appear. We unfortunately have to slog our way through this segment, but it's not too bad. If you've never played Bayonetta before, what you're seeing on screen might not look particularly intuitive. In fact a lot of these fights may not be particularly intuitive and that's because it is very fast-paced run. To mitigate that, I would encourage you to be on the lookout for four attacks that recur over and over again. There is the punch kick punch standard combo there is a punch out of an animal transformation. There is a punch, punch, punch combo with the mech and then there will be this very interesting thing called feathers that I'll explain as we go along. For our mech, here's our punch-punch-punch combo and we want to make sure we actually hold that last punch because it will do double the DPS because there's two fists being involved instead of just one. There is our punch punch punch kick punch combo and hopefully we can attack out of yes there is our attack out of an animal transformation those are the three things that you'll primarily see. Again, feathers will also be in effect as we make our way to chapter two but it'll take a little bit of time for that. Sorry, chapter one. We are doing our best to stay sane as we make our way through this. I'm just basically testing my ability to dodge and let's see if a couple cutscenes and make your way to what is very unfortunately the most difficult part of the run. Later down line we're going to be picking up candies and power-ups to make ourselves invulnerable, and deal more damage and get more magic. Until that however, we are sort of forced to be a little bit unsafe. We don't exactly have the same safety nets as we might like to. So, we're going to take out these enemies, wait for this enemy to spawn do one punch-trick-punch combo to knock him down and then we'll hold our attack buttons because that will sort of give us a little bit of extra DPS with the guns coming out of the ends of the attacks. We're going to make sure he dodged every single touch because again, one hit does indeed spell death. And we are hopefully get our Umbring Climax mech. We can activate that if you have a full magic bar that you can see in the top left hand side of the screen by hitting the L button. As we go along, we're going to want to taunt every so often that can be done by pressing down on the D pound and the reason for that is not just to be a little flashy, it's in Fact to extend our combo meter. We want to make sure we end this Chapter with as much money as possible. This will probably the most difficult. It's the segment that takes place on top of the plane This is phase 3. If you die anywhere in the middle of Phase 3, you must start phase three over from the beginning. So we're going to not engage with the game as it so wants us to. We are in fact just continuously blow kisses by hitting our target button This will stun enemies so that we don't actually have to deal with them. If we catch destroying enemies as the game intends, we would have to fight fend off more and more difficult enemies as the game progressed. By stunning them constantly, we no longer have to deal with this. They are just a little bit of set dressing down to that casting blammer. And we do have a full magic, so I'm going to do a punch, punch, punch combo and take out two enemies and then we're going to do exactly the same thing. I am delighted to inform you that the most difficult part of the run we have completed without too much of a hitch. Any death there would indeed have been catastrophic, so i'm happy to say this is not something we're about to deal with and my wallet can stay healthier for a little bit longer. Alright take out this last enemy and we'll dodge this Toxin Climber and make our way to the train to fight against Belief. The downside of using the mech to take out two of the enemies on the second part of third phase is that we don't actually have a full umbring climb uh yes an umbrain climax meter in this case so we're going to want to dodge the beliefs attacks and continuously do punch kick punch combos i said punch kick punch combos. I said punch, kick, punch combos to rack up that magic meter just a little bit more. Oh, I'm not used to that attack. That was very lucky. All right, so this is the one time you're going to see this punch, punch, kick, kick, kick attack. Don't worry about it too much. It's just a little bit more damage. These attacks can both be dodged fairly simply and we'll make our way to the end of the belief fight very good and you actually do have quite a bit of money as well so we are looking in fantastic shape right now and we're going to just keep doing punch, punch, punch, conch, stick them out. Now you'll see me sort of beating on him as he's down. That's not just to be mean, we actually want to continuously build up our combo meter and our magic meter because we're going to be facing off against the Gamora in the next fight of the prologue. This is pretty important at least to the lore because normally you're supposed to be in control of the demons so why are the demons now suddenly controlling you well we will i guess technically find out throughout the rest of the run, but I will be skipping cutscenes whenever possible so maybe you'll have to come into this one with a little bit of foreknowledge. Alright finishing off the belief with Gamora. Now Gamora will become our adversary, and this first attack that Gamora has on Infinite Climax is absolutely insane because it doesn't have a very reasonable hitbox I have no idea why it works there, but I'm glad that I got it. And as we do this, we're just gonna sort of repeat exactly what we've been doing with the exception and we're actually going to taunt the enemy in addition to extending your combo meter, what it also does is make it so that you actually get a little bit of more money from your combos as you go along. So like I said, we're gonna want to wrap up as much cash as possible or should I say halos? And for that reason we're going to be as rude to Gamora as he was to us. So you'll notice a health bar on the bottom right has depleted so that is just the power of Rosa if you were doing this with Bayonetta, you would be up on this uh I guess King Kong style battle for quite a long time but we have navigated it with great speed and ease. We have a pretty long climax cutscene here to end off chapter one, so if there's any donations to be read now it'd be fantastic then oh absolutely uh the first thing i'd like to say is y'all she's making this look easy uh earlier today she handed me the controller and said pride do you want try? I did not make it past three enemies. This is absolutely wild. We have so much support coming out for you right now. We have $100 from Alex and dad who say our first live gdq and stayed up for bayonetta 2. super hyped for this run good luck of variety pack trans rights are human rights. Absolutely, it's true. All right so we have finished the prologue which is again not the most difficult part but don't I'm not out of the woods yet. We have 16 entire chapters to go and we have just begun so let's continue with chapter one, Noah 10, The City of Genesis. Now you saw that animal strike we were doing before one of those attacks I told you to watch out for it also serves as a great movement option if In fact, if you jump, I think it's sort of hypothesized that it makes you go just ever so slightly faster. So we're going to jump along this little road here, do a jump at precisely the right time and do some somersaults in the water so that we can make it to this portal. The game is going to want us to pick up a book, but we hate reading in the variety pack community, so we're just gonna hop over this book and make our way to the first fight skip of the game. Whenever the game presents you with a large circular arena, You can bet that there's going to be some way to skip it because The triggers don't extend all the way through the platform. Just by hopping on the left edge of that circle there and jumping on the platform we can avoid having to actually do the fight against some of those head enemies, actually I'm not exactly sure what that fight is so I thought I'd have to find out. Now very importantly we make our way to our first shop. We're going to be purchasing many, many things from the shop with our accumulated funds and I'll explain what they do as we go along. They sort of mentioned the power-ups before so I I can go ahead and mention those. We're going to pick up purple candies which give us a little bit of magic. Red candies to increase our damage output. Yellow candies to give us invulnerability. A red hotshot very important to make sure that we do not actually die when you die and then we're going to pick up a few techniques we're going to pick up falcon within hornet within and witch twist all three will become very useful as we actually go along. Most importantly, most importantly we picked up Falcon Within it is extremely important because it gives us access to that last little thing I mentioned called feathers. Feathers are Rosa's primary way of dealing damage, unlike the Bayonetta and the Jaune runs where you actually want to play the game fairly, we do not do so with Rosa. The feathers basically give us contact damage and that contact damage is immense just because of Rosa's three times. Coupled with a red candy, and fights will be completely eviscerated. Here's our first one. We're going to pop a yellow and the red. And I'll just let that footage speak for itself really quickly here. That's it. You see the power of feathers now, and It will not be forgotten for the rest of the run. You'll see feathers constantly. The only time you won't see feathers is when we have a fight in the water or air. Very annoyingly, we can't turn into the bird because we're not actually coming off from solid ground. So this is a perfect example of solid ground that we can turn into the crow, I call it a crow, I think it's called a falcon and activate those feathers by holding down that A button, that kick button. Luckily we did this fight so fast that we're actually going to be able to carry the benefit from the yellow and red candy I pumped into this next fight, making sure all those head enemies are taken out very quickly. One extra thing about Unbrink Climax is you cannot die while in it which is a lovely benefit and i'm sorry to everyone who wants to see me spend money but uh I will not be counting um bring climax deaths as a hit oh my gosh all right that's unfortunate but fast enough all the same we have a very very long cutscene with loki here our uh child companion so i think it's a perfect time to pass it off to Pride for the couple donations. Absolutely, and we have so many coming out for you. We have $50 from Variety Fan who says, punch, kick, punch says punch, kick, punch! Punch, kick, punch. We have $250 from Heidi PhD, who says what an exciting way to start off GDQ Day 2 with Bayonetta 2. Good luck, Variety. So proud of you and shout out to pippi as well appreciate all you ladies do for the gaming community it's going to be a great run worth staying up for. Hi! Time for one more. You finished at just the right time. Perfect. This next fight we're going to not actually pop any candies, but that's because there is a bit of a strange interaction here. We can activate our feathers and we are going to take out the shield enemy first because he likes to put up his shield. If you do that then it will be extra stress put up a shield. If he does that then we have to do some extra stress to take out this field and that's just not very fun. Thankfully 99% of the time that last hammer enemy really likes to just attack Loki for whatever reason so we will take advantage of that and make it so while we actually go to take out the shield enemy the hammer enemy is preoccupied. So we can just hit him in the back Coming up is the final fight of chapter one so we can just hit him in the back. Coming up is the final fight of Chapter 1 against an enemy called Glamour, We will see a lot more of Glamour in Chapter 3 But until then we're going to have to do a very precise dodge. To make sure that we can get all five rings of feathers off. Ideally this depletes the entire boss's health bar. Ha ha ha! Not even a problem. We did not get to the five rings of feathers I was hoping for, but we did a lot of damage all at once. We'll unfortunately have to start the second phase, but that's not too big of a deal just these couple dodges with our massive amounts of damage increase from you know our character's innate abilities and we'll be able to finish that fight off pretty quickly again another climax cutting to finish the chapter so more donations please yeah let's hear it this is is amazing so far and we have so many people showing So much support for you We have $25 from Anna Jess 3 who says when Bayonetta washes her clothes does she use detergent or shampoo? Good question. Do we care to explain that one or just leave it there? Well I think we'll just leave it there? I think we'll just leave it there, honestly. It's better in suspense. Absolutely! We have $10 from Terrorfecta who says Shoutouts to a variety pack. Great runner, great game. Thank you so much. Let's see here... So we are going to at the beginning of basically every single chapter go to the store and refill our candies That may seem like cheating to you, but there's an old adage in Dark Souls gameplay which is play lame win game so we're going to be making use of that. To do a lot of things, one thing that's actually pretty important is that we purchased one big red candy but not the other big colored candies and the reason for that is you are allowed a sharp limit um what this unfortunately means is that although you can find other candies in the world as soon as you reach a certain maximum, the game will simply not let you purchase more. This is very much unlike Bayonetta 3 which allows you to purchase 99 of every candy. We wish we could do that here otherwise we wouldn't have to keep going to the store over and over again but it's not too big of a deal so because we purchased our Big Red Candy, then we found another Big Red Candy in the world. We now have access to two of them as opposed to the one that we would have had if we had just found it in the world. We have another long lot lucky cuts in here so probably one donation is good. Sure thing, we have five dollars from anonymous who says here's my donation to the pun train when you tell me to donate i then i have to obey onetta very good okay i mean okay it's coming up as honestly my favorite fight in the run. It's not very long and I guess that's why I like it so much. We're gonna jump up, preload some feathers and activate a red candy. And it's done! I guess that's...I'm taken from the clapping that seems impressive. Unfortunately all it really amounts to is just sort of running into the enemy with our contact damage, but I will take the applause all the same. We're going to do a little trick here that'll explain if we actually get it. And we unfortunately did not get it, but that's just fine. That made use of one of those things called Witch Twist and I guess I'll save the explanation for this until we actually get to let's say a later part in the game chapter 8 specifically and then I'll sort of retroactively explain what has happened We have one more fight against belief, and some enemies, especially big enemies in this game, do this really not super intelligent thing where they really prioritize their animation, entrance animations more than actually fighting the character that is presumably hurting them. So with this Belief character in particular he jumps out of the portal and then decides to stand there looking menacing for maybe I think it's around five seconds but that's more than enough time for Rosa with a red candy to take it out. We'll make our way to the end of chapter two by giving a bit of a precise jump and this should be good time for about two more donations. Absolutely, and we have some love from one of our last runners $250 from Brad Rant tail who says no major mistakes in the gungeon run but i'll donate for my good rng regardless thanks so much to dan for being an awesome race partner we also have $5 from Renny, who says loving the event so far super excited for Bayonetta 2 and trans rights. Alright, so unfortunately I must confess that I just immediately lied to you all We don't actually go to the store before Chapter 3 we manage our candies such that we have enough to sort of make our way through the third chapter. It's unfortunately another very long auto scroller, so I'll describe what we're going to be doing before the third phase and then let Pride have the mic back. We're going to be dodging Glamorous attacks and just attacking him back. We want to make sure that we have a full magic meter before we end up in the third phase, which will be taking place in Paradiso. In easy, where you're actually allowed to take a lot more hits, we actually do not want to activate Witch Time Time which may seem bizarre. Witch time is such a powerful ability why would you not want to use it? And that's because an auto scroll slows everything down including the environment so what that means is if you use witchtime when you don't need to your inadvertently including the environment. So what that means is if you use wish time when you don't need to, your inadvertently causing yourself to have endure more autoschooling than you might have been expecting. So unfortunately on I-Fight Climax where things do kill in one hit we have to be a little bit more safe I guess in our execution of the fights but it's never really going to be too much of a problem. Which is why we don't feel the need to reset our candies in the first place. Well I've expanded enough so go back to let's head back to pride who can i believe rattle ivm four to five donations this is a very long thing absolutely and uh not only do we have some love from a previous runner, but also our previous host $50 from JD Puppy who says let's get that Shinobi incentive met and let's keep up the pride donations while we have pride behind the mic. Trans rights! And folks, here in Central Time Pride Month may be over but when it is me, every month is Pride Month. We have $25 from Brandino who says good luck from the crowd! Thank you very much. There he is. We have $10 from Plebeian Goth, who says Bayonetta 2 is one of my absolute favorites. Choo choo! Is that a call for a train? I would not be opposed. Are there trains in this game? There's a lot of trains and bayonet at three, unfortunately that's what I'm running today, but... We can pretend it's fine! But Variety you're running Bayonetta 3 some other time right? I am! I will be performing Bayonetta 3 80% New Game Plus for uh Flame Fatales coming up in August. So if you'd like to see that as well, make sure to follow GDQ for more information on that. If you want to see the Bayo train going, that's when to check it it out until then we'll have to make do with donation chains. Oh what a pity. What a pity, We have $10 jumping on that donation train from Gizmo Squigglebug who says $10 donation going to this amazing Bayonetta run. Gizmo the squiggle dog rates it 10 out of 10 squiggles. I'd love to hear it. That feels like a high amount of squiggles. It does, but I'm not going to complain. Alright, this will be the end of the second phase and we'll make our way to the third. If I was to be super safe, I could potentially use the yellow candy there, but I'll be unsafe just for a little bit. You know, just to keep you on your toes. Alright here we go. Not too much to say with this quite honestly. We're going to be dodging using our mech and using our punch kick punch whenever possible. This first one, we do have our full magic bar so we're going to wait for that first attack, activate our unbounded climax map, punch, punch, punch. And then we're actually going to start our punch-kick-punch combo before we can actually see the enemy because the lockout on this game is actually fairly good whenever there's actually just one enemy on screen. One final set of punch combos and we're going to activate one of our purple candies. You might have noticed for this final glamour, thankfully for whatever And we have been taking out its health very slowly throughout the autoscroller. Thankfully, for whatever reason, we are allowed to still attack it even though it no longer has a health bar on the bottom right so even if it is doing its entrance animation thing you can turn into our mech and mash the button and fight is done. We no longer have to actually worry about the fight Since Diomedes is Pride's favorite demon transformate, not transformation, demon call I suppose. I guess I should turn it over to Pride as we have one final climax cut scene for this particular chapter. Absolutely, and come on people! It's a demon unicorn with a sword for a horn? It's the best thing ever! I want to hug it! But we have other things I want to hug. Lovely donors, like $50 from Justagamerjohn who says Variety's excellent music. Variety also likes mayonnaise. Patrick Star once asked if mayonnaise is an instrument, and since variety's the expert I can say with 100% fact that mayonnaise is music. The shadows remain cast! Yeah they do. I'm not sure if I can validate your assertion about mayonnaise but I appreciate the effort at the very least Alright back to the shop we go since we're no longer in one of those interesting chapters and were we're going to I think purchase our first moon pearl. Moon pearls increase the amount of magic that we have available to us which is really nice when we want to make sure we have a little bit extra so that we could have a mech if we need to, or if we needed an extra set of feathers or whatever. So we're going to be purchasing I believe eight of these throughout the course of the run provided all of our funds go as we did so desire. Although not a circular arena, this bridge is pretty conspicuous trigger as well. We're going to skip over it by running to the right and simply jumping and flying over it And then after that we have a fight that is bizarrely easier on Infinite Climax than it isn't easy, normally would consist of I believe a shield enemy but the shield enemy's not present for this fight and just a bunch of head enemies and a couple of centaurs, so we're going to basically activate some feathers do a little loop around the arena to take out all the head enemies and... oh at least that's what I said we were going to do okay, we'll have to improvise a little bit. Ah not even a problem for this next fight. There's a couple fights in the game that are predicated with a bit of cutscene you that you can dodge in. And if you dodge in that cutscene, you get years of glitch time! It's just an obscene amount. So we're going to take advantage of that and absolutely wreck this urbane enemy with Bunch of brothers. Now, we're going to have to... We had to be, I guess, a little bit judicious when we actually hit that climax prompt and that's because if you hit it a little too fast, it's possible that you wouldn't actually get the full benefit of all those in the bar. If you hit it early enough, the game would have stopped giving you magic for dealing that extra damage. And now unfortunately we have our first Balder fight, Balder is what this game has a category basically of humanoid enemies in infinite climax and what that means is that they are very prone to dodging most of your attacks that's really bad for us because we would like to go fast um thankfully the first phase of it is pretty consistent. He will always shoot these fireballs at us and we'll dodge and sort of hit him with some feathers but from here on out so many feathers are technically on a hitbox. It's just not going to hit. We were very lucky there. Now remember what I said about the feathers before where if you're not on solid ground and cannot turn into Falcon, you do not have access to the feathers. Which means in this little aerial duel here we do not have access to those things so we need to do something that probably looks a little bit slow. We're actually going to be dodging, waiting for him to attack and then dodging those attacks. The reason for that is because once he enters Witch Time, he's significantly more vulnerable. So we want to make sure that we're just being a little bit careful in perhaps the trade-off for speed. But that was very good fight and I'm very happy with how it went. We're going to finish off the end of chapter four with more climax cut soon so one more from pride you got it and we have 25 dollars from not not scott who says first gdQ in person and first donation. Hype! Y'all are great we love you. Alright, we're making our way to chapter 5 making pretty good peace as I do say so myself And We're making our way to chapter five, and as most of the other chapters have we are going to begin by visiting the store. I wonder if we have enough money to purchase yet another Moon Pearl. I would not be surprised if you do, but I'm not going to be super upset if you don't. Let us see here. 91,000. Pick up a purple, pick up some reds, pick up three eyes... We technically have enough money but I'm gonna be played a little bit safe just in case we need to purchase extra candies in the future. Chapter 5 begins with perhaps the most annoying animal transformation in this game. I believe it's called The Cobra Within for Rosa, and it's annoying because it requires you if you don't do a claw grip to mash the B button, but you're using your right hand to mash the B button which is also the hand that you'll use to control stick. I look at the camera, so I find myself very awkwardly switching between mashing the V button and the control stick on the right side of controller. It's just me having some minor annoyances that I have to get on, you know. Make our way out of this water and we'll do a downwards attack with our kick just to make sure we don't have to stay in the air for very long. Loki will call up a contraption to turn...the echoes of time, it's been way too long since I've read the plot of this game, but by spinning on this correction here... Is that what that book would have told us at the beginning of the run? It's possible. In fact, I think I was supposed to listen to that thing that Records of Time were telling me but it's such a long unskippable cutscene that I didn't... Do we need a plot refresher? I think we're good, because he's got a very scary enemy here. This is Pain and his name is Epps. He does a lot of damage and as you can see it's very quite fast. Thankfully our tried and true combo of yellow candy red candy and feathers did him in very quickly and unfortunately after this we have yet another very lengthy Loki cutscene this one being unfortunately the longest but fortunately the last. Thank you. It makes me so happy to hear claps for Loki's demise. Alright, we're going to skip the cutscene here and do a little bit of a skip. Basically, the game wants us to start this cutscene at the bottom of the stairs but we're going to say no to that and just start a little bit up But, Frye, you know what to do I absolutely do Also for anybody who wants a refresher on the story of Bayonetta 2, it's just Kingdom Hearts. That's it. Light, dark, light time, the end. But we do have $25 from Momomo, who says Hi Variety. So happy to be able to catch your run. Sure I might have work in six hours but saving John and raising money is more important Best of luck on the run We also have 25 from stevens who says always a blast watching your run variety show them what you got and best of luck thanks very much much, will do. One more. One more? We have $25 from SomeMoose who says kudos to my fave runner for high level late night gaming for the sake of a great cause. Good luck. Thank you very much. I'm bad at judging time, go ahead and do one more You bet. We have $10 from Clara who says let's go variety. I also have a very prescient one if I can sneak it in just real quick. I have $25 from The Gatherer who says, greetings GDQ. First donation of the week but not the last. Here's to another incredible marathon... Orb! Orb yes we are indeed sliding on an orb. Yes it is. We're going to see a couple more orbs as we go along. But, we have in the meantime just another fight against some hit enemies and there's going to be one of those sword enemies that I was so very afraid of back in Chapter 2 when they appear, they are actually so... well if they spawn I think thank you. When the sword enemy appears we want to be as cautious as possible because they do a lot of damage very quickly. The mech, thankfully, is one of the only things that consistently will stun the sword enemies, so I'm glad we got out of that mess. Now for playing I'm glad that we got out of that. Now if you're playing on easy, the Witch Time window would be really generous which is a blessing and curse because it means you will consistently not take damage but also means that we actually get a couple lag frames because of the perfect dodge. Remember how I said back in chapter 3 how sometimes we don't actually want to activate at this time? This is one of those cases where if you dodge at the exact time, you'll actually be slightly slower than if you had not done. That's an example of that. I should not have done that. But regardless, we will escape this gravitas enemy and make our way to the top this fight should comprise compose compose comprise one of those two words nine rings of feathers let's see if we can count them all all right one others. Let's see if we can count them all. All right, one two three four five oh maybe we'll do it at eight? That'd be crazy. Eight. Ah ten I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I misled all of you. How dare you make me count! You know that's hard for me it's hard for speed runners just in general yeah the reason that take a little bit of extra time there is just because i um how should I phrase this? When you activated something called Hornet Within. Hornet Within is an extension to our typical Dodge window for which time it extends at five frames. I could be wrong on that exact number but what will allow us to do is turn into a set of hornets basically preventing us from taking damage, but it also... I wasn't actually supposed to go to the story there but that's okay. I have enough money for him. But it also makes us lose our Falcon transformation almost immediately. So because I had to sort of re-transform into the falcon, I lost a little bit of time there but that's no big deal. Additionally, chapter six... Thankfully, I did not do the thing that I normally do. Chapter 6 is very annoyingly not do the thing that I normally do. Chapter 6 is very annoyingly the only chapter that does not begin with a cutscene so there are countless times where I've started this this chapter hoping to skip a cutscene and end up just going to the menu instead, losing a couple seconds. Thankfully I was cognizant enough to avoid it this time. And for this enemy, I believe his name is Valor, we're gonna be stunlock him over and over again with our punch kick punch combos, didn't look like we did a very good job but okay, it's fine. In the second phase, we are basically doing a mirror copy of what we did at the end of chapter 3, turn into our mech have that red candy active and just shoot him down. Alright Longcut's plan is getting this time so Pride can probably get maybe 2-3 off here Absolutely and we have $50 from Cyprus who says it's still Pride out here on the west coast so I better donate before that ends Happy last day of pride, Trans Rights I don't like the insinuation that it's my last day, but you know what? West Coast friends, you got 30 minutes left. Let's hear it! Come on, West Coast. i know you're out there maybe not actually there's one all right we could probably get one more in. Absolutely, we have $50 from anonymous who says a call for donations? Time to pay Annetta! Laughs and groans in equal measure feed my soul. It's a good combo, it's a good combo. Alright, as we make our way into chapter 7 we're going to have a pretty long autoscroller boss fight. It's not going to be nearly as obnoxious as the last one. It is however slightly more dangerous because if you die in the phases much like the prologue are fairly long so if we die in them like the beginning or the middle of phase instead of the end, we can incur a little bit of time loss but not jinxing the run. We've actually done pretty well so far as i think he's that straight going we're gonna open by taunting him this will give us a little bit of magic and i'm not to actually get one full magic point but enough to where when we do more punch kick punch combos they will in fact total two I believe two magic orbs. There you go very good now if you're a Zelda game fan, attacking an eye is probably no big deal because this is what you do every single day of your life but thankfully we get to have a little bit of representation. Especially since this is the first game published by Nintendo Now Insidious here is going to throw a bunch of missiles on us, and although it would indeed be faster to simply do the fast strat and strafe to the side thus avoiding the missiles that I haven't used which time. I'm going to use witch time just to be a little bit safer because those are as yes, instant death so I want it to be a little bit safe. Second phase here. Open with more punch kick-punch combos, that's an unfortunate attack. That attack has the most awkward hitbox I think I've ever seen in my entire life. Ah, okay, forget it. Thankfully that should take us out of phase two. Moving on to phase three after we dodged a couple more misses. Alright, phase 3 will begin by us getting pushed towards a dark portal there and then we have our final eye. Alright, just dodge one of these- oh my gosh! Those missiles! I... ha ha ha! And then you can take out the rest of the health bar with an Undone Climax mech. And thankfully, and be fight with enough magic to summon a couple rings of feathers after this fight. And this fight seemed, you know, pretty big, pretty bombastic, etc. How is there more? Well, unfortunately, the only thing that could be worse than this is another fight against Balder. And guess what we have at the end of this chapter? We have another fight against Baldur. Mr. Doggypants, shall we call him. Before that, we have a couple fights against demon enemies which is a first for the Bayonetta franchise. And we'll be able to get there pretty fast but this should be good time for maybe one donation. Absolutely. And I have a five dollar donation from MiniMini352 who says, Good luck Variety! Show everyone how hard you've been working on this run. Thank you very much, Vinny. All right here's that very obnoxious fight I was talking about before. We have enough magic, thankfully, to take out these first three enemies. But then we have this enemy who is probably one of the worst in the game. This is Resentment. Resentment has this really obnoxious instant kill attack, but it's not just an instant kill attack. It's an instant kill attack that wastes 10 seconds of your time. Not only is it bad in a speedrunning sense, but also the casual sense. It's the worst of both worlds. Here though we have our second fight against Baldur and it becomes yet another RNG fest Let's hope that he decides to get hit by my feathers as I continuously mash my phase lint in. Alright, there's phase one. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. There's phase two. A few more feathers and we want to see him do one particular attack where he wants to just fly and not do very much. That's not it, unfortunately. That is it though, so we'll take that opportunity and do a lot of damage. We didn't quite get out of the way yet, so we'll dodge that attack and finish it off very good! Alright, a fairly lengthy climax cuts in here so Pratt can probably get 2-3. Absolutely and we have $10 from Goofed who says Best of luck on the run Variety! You're killing it! And here's a haiku for all of you Chocolate ice cream. Why would you even eat that? Mayo is bad too. Credit to Stuckero for making that haiku. Thank you very much the both of you although I'm not exactly...I can't endorse your distaste for chocolate ice cream nor man or husband. We also have $100 from TypeRex177 coming out with more support, saying so excited to see variety showing Bayonetta at GDQ. All of your friendos in the Discord say hi. Ready to match the debt donation incentive as well. 07. Thank you very much, TimeFranks. Alright, that ends Chapter 7 and remember when I said I failed a trick in Chapter 2? Well we're going to see the sort of adult version of that trick at the very beginning of chapter 8. We use a trick called wish twist, and something that's very interesting about wish twist is that it allows you to just chain into itself to gain potentially infinite height. And so, as soon as we purchase a couple more items, we're going to showcase exactly what I mean by that. There's going to be golden waterfall sort of off into the distance and normally would we'd have to do a fight and small running segments, but because our ability chain which was in through itself We will be able to skip all this I'm gonna request a little bit of serious time just to make sure that can get that on the first try. It's not too bad, but you know when you get too comfortable things go wrong so let's see if we can do it here. We want to make sure that we're low enough so that we actually activate Loki's activation hitbox. I think that that's good, very good. And then we'll just continue going on, hopefully not dropping until it gets to the end of the section. Very good! No rest for The Wizard, though, because right after this you have a fight against everyone's favourite enemy from Bayonetta 1, Gollum. Thankfully a bit of a pushover in this scenario. One yellow and one redge take it out fairly quickly. But don't worry that won't be lost to us even. As we make our way to Paragisa yet again, we're going to be attacked by a couple sword enemies and some sword enemies. They both wield swords So I'm going to spawn camp that first one as he pops in with the red candy Take out the rest of them with those punch combos And hopefully, we'll have enough magic to be able to use my punch-punch-punch combos with the mech for these sword enemies. You'll recall me saying back in chapters I believe it was five that these flaming sword enemies are extremely weak to the umber mech which is really really good for us because they are very prone to dodging a lot of attacks so that's very good uh unfortunately attack. Unfortunately, if we jumped in just the right spots on our trek back up to not quite Inferno, I'm not exactly sure what to call this area but it would have sort of made Loki spawn in the teleportation segment a little bit faster, but it's not too big of deal. There are going to be some off-coloured crystals as we do this jet suction here, this weird space harrier looking thing. And that's because they contain heart pieces or witch hearts I guess they're called in this game as well as ways to upgrade our magic. Much like the book that we saw in The Dreaming of Chapter One they're not bad if you get them. It just wastes a little bit of time and we are speedrunners so we don't waste too much of it on precious resources. I will keep my promise about big circular arenas. There is yet another one that can be skipped by jumping to the side a little bit, so no fancy somersaults required this time. We're just going to jump up, jump to the side and jump yet again to the side. Very simple trick. I encourage you all to try it at home. This game really seems to think that Urbane and Scrapytos, these elemental hand enemies are the most difficult fights in the entire game because they throw it at us like a ton. It's really not too difficult, so we'll just do the same tried and true method for taking them out. Now again, I will mention that we cannot use the falcon as in water, so we're going to actually preload our feathers into this fight against these squid enemies so that we have them for contact damage. We're not just relying on our umbrin mech we are going to activate one of our purple candies so that we get our Umbren Climax mech back. The reason this is important is because you might have noticed me do it at the end of Chapter 1, what it allows us to do is actually run a little bit faster than our cougar, tiger within here. For example in this segment where we're running away from Gollum I believe one of the community members tested this. It's 2.5 seconds faster to use than that relative to tiger, so thankfully we have enough candies to bring ourselves back to the ability to use the Under Mech. And it will just be extra safe and pop an invincibility candy as well. And your favorite combo with the mech, punch, punch, punch. I said punch, punch, punch. Like I said, those are resentment enemies and resentment enemies have that really really long insta kill move so I'm glad i did not have to look at that at least until chapter 10. all right we're going to be finishing off chapter 8 here Thank you very much. And I think this means Fred can probably read out one or two more donations. Absolutely, we have $50 from The who says I'm glad he can see eye to eye with us Zelda runners. I am not sorry. Good luck on the pun variety. Thank you very much, The. We also have uh 100 from dj crab hat who says always enjoy variety packs runs this has been no exception thank you very much y'all it's it's been incredible like you have no idea how difficult this is. Thankfully we got to mitigate a little bit with our cheating I mean speed running stress but yes, I'm very happy with how it's going so far. Alright, moving on to Chapter 9. It's gonna be a lot of the same as Chapter 8 So much so in fact that I'm not exactly sure why they split 8 and 9 up But you know, that is that matters for a different time. We're going to start with another time bending contraption from Loki and then we are going to be faced with yet another large circular arena which you know what that means. That means we're going to find a way to skip it and it's gonna be the same way where I just gotta jump to a spot that's just ever so slightly out of the fight trigger and then jump around it. This one is trickier because it requires us to be in Panther the entire time. I didn't quite get it but we can get that back up just by turning to the crow there i call it the crow why do i call it the show it's not called the crew we're going to pick up yet another big red candy here and because we did that little thing at the very beginning where we both bought and also used also picked up, I guess, one of those uh... Where we both purchased and picked up one of those big red candies. We actually have one extra that we get to use wherever so we choose. Hopefully, we can save it for the final boss fight but that's not necessarily guaranteed. After a Fright against the Two Beliefs, we have one more Fright against Golemlem this one's going to be fairly simple as well and we're going to hopefully do it in at such a speed where we can actually carry much like chapter 1 that benefit of the candies into the next fight against the Prophet. Let's see if we can do that... Not to do that! Okay so we're not going to be able to do that is the conclusion I'm gonna draw from there. But that should be just fine. We'll take out Gollum with great ease and I guess fate has given me a reason to use that big red candy candy I was literally just talking about, because without it the profit fight can be just a little bit too luck reliant. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what candy would work best for this fight and i think in it, I say hey back up use that big red candy you don't really need it for anything else ideally we don't need it. I guess we will see. Yes! We are going to in fact use this. We're going to come into our menu, use that big red candy. And use our invincibility a little bit earlier than we'd like but that's okay. It happens. Okay. So this is yet another humanoid enemy on the climax. He's being a little bit obnoxious. Thankfully because he used the big red candy I think we'll have a little bit of extra time to use that umber mech in the second phase. So it's not quite as planned. That's why they have backups. After that fairly violent cutscene We're going to pop some of our purple candies so that we can get our neck back and that looks good! Alright no deaths, no deaths, no deaths, no deaths. What comes next? That's chapter 10, so I think you can get one donation out. Absolutely and i have a ten dollar donation from Nonbinary Ray who says Did I hear a call for West Coast Pride, Trans Rights. Let's go. Nice. We will make our ritualistic shop... trip to the shop. We are down one big candy, probably more than I would like but that's okay we should have more than enough for the final fight and if you don't I will cry. But we'll begin chapter 10 which is our first introduction to these sort of inferno levels. We're going to start with a bunch of centipedes so if you're not a huge fan of bugs, I would suggest maybe looking away for the next twoish minutes there's a fair number of centipede and spider crabs et cetera so it can be maybe a bit uncomfortable. During this segment we're going to make sure that we pop one of our purple candies because our first fight is going to be against Phantasmorone who I've just recently been told is in fact a Devil May Cry enemy as well, or some sort of reference to Devil May Cry. We're going to want to pop the purple candy now because it is permanent and gives you a permanent for magic orbs and will allow us to pop the other candy that we want to use, which is the small yellow. I debated for quite a while on whether or not I wanted to use a big red... Sorry, a small red or a small yellow for this particular fight, but I decided the yellow is a little bit better just because Phantasmoornaise attacks are indeed very fast. So let's hope that we got to be correct attack here which is the fireball and that's very good. And this means we can probably do fire brings the feathers and there we go. Good fighting! Now, the core conceit of this chapter is that we're going to be fighting our way towards John who I guess if youif I must talk about story has been killed at the very beginning of the prologue so we're trying to save our friend Sean. At least that have been the trajectory of the stories for the first 10 or so chapters. Now, I normally, like I said, use another candy here. It was the yellow that I used to Phantasmornaise but I have decided to change it to a red candy instead just because the enemies are a little bit less aggressive than phantasmal rings. Thankfully we have a full magic meter which I'm going to use against these two resentment enemies that are going to appear. That beam is the one I was talking about, which takes 10 seconds to kill you. It basically turns into a child, makes you wall around for 10 seconds and then decides to kill you. So it's just the worst possible speed running thing of all time. Thankfully, if you have the unburned mech activated, it does not affect you. It doesn't affect you for whatever reason, so I'm very thankful for that little interaction and unfortunately we are coming to the double sloth fight. The sloths enemies are named ironically because they're the fastest and probably the most deadly enemy in the game. In fact, in The Witch Trials which is sort of the post-game after the normal levels, the game considers sloth enemies to be more hard more challenging than the final boss of the game. We're going to hopefully dodge this first one and get all the feathers off, dodge the second one and... Okay good! Good, good, good! One missed dodge and the rest can go incredibly catastrophically so So I'm very, very happy that that happened. I practiced that... for too long! Alright, as we wait for this tendril to come down We're going to- another big purple candy. We'll be collecting one or two more. I think it's just one. And now if you are familiar with the Bayonetta series, you're typically supposed to fight against Rodan as sort of like the secret final boss. But thankfully in Bayonetta 2 we do not have to fight against Rodan. We simply have to fight with him. It's not particularly difficult but there are a lot of enemies on screen and a lot of things happening all at once so I'm going to be a little bit careful just because I want help now by giving damage cause we're very good at dealing damage. It's just that there are a lot of things happening and I might dismiss an Eric attack, so this might be a good place for two or three donations Absolutely! We have $50 from the for two or three donations. Absolutely. We have $50 from Valindra, who says, I love backing Bayonetta. Looking forward to seeing you slay queen. Thank you. We also have $10 from Crazy Comics, who says I heard my friends Pippi and Pride on the mic, and I heard Kingdom Hearts, so I had to donate. Good luck on your run, Variety. Thank you very much. One more. One more? We have $5 from Tomomodachi who says, Punch cake punch! Punch cake plus. Proud to be supporting you, Variety. Thank you very much. Now, something really unfortunate can happen here. Hopefully that doesn't happen. Okay, Nun Aviva. So Rodon has this attack where he basically stomps on the ground and it kills all of he basically stomps on the ground, and it kills all of the enemies that are on the ground. But because we're on a gigantic slapping creature sometimes the enemies aren't actually on the ground they're just ever so slightly off the ground So when Rodan does the stomp, unfortunately he doesn't actually kill the enemies. It's unfortunate when it happens because we obviously want him to do the damage cause he is a little bit more powerful than us but that being said, he did punch them both to death. So we'll take that instead. All right coming up is chapter 11 which is the very short chapter which consists of one fight against against Al'Ron. We are going to ideally not have to visit the store beforehand if I actually do good dodges and we get good RNG because Al'Ron is yet again another humanoid enemy on an infinite climax. We're going to hope that she gives us the right attacks, cause if she does not... bad things ensue. So here we go! Some warm up spins Alright, here we go Pop the purple candies first because they are permanent. So, fear attack. All right. Did not quite get that one. That one is good. One more. Nope. Okay, so we're out of candies unfortunately, which means that we actually have to dodge and be good at the game But... okay looks like we got it. Thankfully the second phase Thank you very much Thankfully the second phase is substantially easier Much like the mech takes out, sort of stuns these sword enemies basically instantaneously, a Ring of Feathers will stun the second phase level around very quickly so thankfully we don't have to worry about any of the very fast end of the attacks that she has because we were just a little bit faster than her, much like some of the other enemies in this game She also likes to stand around and do nothing while he's a sort of beat owner. So thankfully that went very well, And I think this is the time for two more or three more donations from Bray. Absolutely! And I would just like to point out chat Variety has been having bayonetta slam these uh these like suckers the whole time uh how much sugar do you think bayonetta has consumed we did the math I want to see in a donation how much y'all think we have but in the meantime, we have $50 from Slams Maloney who says From Discord, love you, mean it Thank you very much Alright, so, beginning of chapter 12 Love you. Mean it. Thank you very much. All right, so the beginning of Chapter 12 is yet another autoscroller. It's not as bad as Bayonetta 3's autoscrollers, thankfully, but they're still autoscrollers. It is, thankfully, a cool-looking autoscroller They are still auto scrollers. It is thankfully a cool looking autoscroller at the very least, we get to ride Diomedes through the roads of hell or something to that effect. There's a little bit of mechanical work I have to explain, but other than that it's probably good time for a lengthy donation read. Basically we want to make sure we're holding upwards on the stick to make sure we're going as fast as humanly possible. All of our dodge controls and attack controls stay the same. The only difference is that when you get a full magic meter we are actually going to actually activate Umbren Climax so that we get this very long ranged attack that kills enemies in one hit. Enemies will typically spawn in one after the other like this. So when that happens, we actually want to let the Umbren Climax magic meter drain even though there's no enemies on screen. That looks very, very anxiety-inducing because we're just losing resources. But thankfully when all of the enemies are going to spawn we are able to essentially just spawn camp them without any problem...queer game dev here camp them without any fun....queer game dev here, Pride is year-round trans rights or human rights and here's to another amazing GDQ! Thank you so much, Brady. And yes, West Coast friends, y'all have 10 minutes of Pride Month left So get in while you can. Come on! I know we can do it. We we can out we can out donate those east coast folks i know we can time for a couple more um yeah let's do a couple more absolutely we have fifty dollars from Cerulean who says, AVP you are a true technician of your craft. Whether it's on FF, GDQ or your stream You always deliver an excellent display of skill and finesse The shadow remains cast! Alright, so we have our fight against Baldur 3 here which is thankfully a little bit easier than the other Baldur fights that we've been given He's just for some reason a little bit less prone to just dodging randomly, but not completely prone and I'm not completely... That's not something that's completely out of his moveset. Something that you can learn the hard way if you're doing a speedrun is that if you take out his health a little bit too quickly, that is to say, he's depleted both of his health bars before the actual second phase of the fight begins. You can softlock the fight, he will just not show up and so you're just sort of standing in an empty arena so even though we're doing a lot of damage to him with our feathers and our candies we want to make sure that we're being a little bit judicious with how much damage we are doing. Thankfully that didn't go too poorly Chapter 13 is a little scary at the beginning because it's one of those chapters where we don't actually get to use any candies for from the very beginning. We'll get to use them a little more but this chapter is so long that we need to make sure that we prioritize the fights that do need the candies. Now, that being said, there are shops that appear in the middle of the chapter if we do so need to get something for safety but I'm gonna chance this is going too well. All right, here we go. Starting with a little bit of running segment I did not mention though I probably said that doors probably want you to open them with the Y button as you can see. Thankfully we can just snap them open and it's a little bit faster. Here is our first fight against a bunch of enemies that you might remember from Bayonetta 1. Here is our affinities and head angels. Do enough damage to get one magic orb Make sure to dodge those attacks, because the affinity attacks are... The affinity attacks are not hard to dodge. What's really obnoxious about them is that they're sort of very subtle and their attack animations start way before you might actually expect them to. Normally, you wait for a little bit of sound cue for most of the enemies but for the affinity enemies their attack animation actually begins significantly before... Thank you very much. Significantly before that's actually an option for us. So for whatever reason it is just a problem we have to deal with. Oh by the way that was a boss fight! Thankfully our Ringed Feathers without any candies this time was able to take out pretty quickly. So sort of in the same way as Chapter 3, we don't want to dodge that last attack he does on us if we don't have to because it's so close and can deal contact damage with him but because it's Infinite Climax can deal with contact damage with him, but because of the infinite climax this is a little bit too risky to not use wish time there. Glad we have that as an option still. Alright, so moving our way to... I think this is worship. I guess it is. Could be. We're going to just dodge a few lasers here, despite jumping over them nonchalantly. And we're going to pick up yet another big red candy that just happens to be off the beaten path there. We will use our first of our small Red Candy Superchapter on these affinity, bigger affinity enemies make sure to dodge that so the white side won't absolutely destroy us and then we're going to be faced against another enemy that just likes to look at himself for way too many seconds because he just falls down from the ceiling and does nothing until we take him out with the feathers. This is the last time, unfortunately, we'll be able to see Infinite Witch Twist as we make our way over this water. Normally you're supposed to use the time slowing mechanic that is present in Bayonetta 1, but thankfully we do not have to do that. And we will use two more sets of candies with this fight here against Grace and Glory. I'm sure that if you play Bayonetta 1, these guys don't exactly bring back great memories. That is our first death unfortunately! So at least five dollars go to the charity but other than that it looks like everything went quite well good if we had to have one, Grace and Glory is an unacceptable place for us to happen. You are absolutely right! Grace and Glory are just super obnoxious. They do have very fast attacks And they...just like to dodge you way too much. Alright, we have a fight against here and we're gonna dodge and hopefully send some feathers out to take out our adversary for the first time We're going to see this guy pop up a couple more times throughout the end of this chapter. Normally, you know, you're supposed to be playing with Bayonetta so it's going to be a little bit slower but because we are playing with Reza um...we'll be seeing him again quite quickly. We will actually use that time-slaying mechanic that was sort of teased at the beginning of Chapter 13 as we face our adversary for a second time, but... his hands again. You know, if Zelda has eyes I guess Bayonetta 2 has hands as our primary weak point in our slowed witch time stage. We're going to jump off of his head, and I could do one of two things here. I could do the trick that I'm for some reason extremely inconsistent at or be safe and I'm going to be safe, I'm for some reason extremely inconsistent at, or be safe. And I'm going to be safe, and very sorry. We're going to jump onto this platform and just sort of take the intended route where these statues collapse Ideally what you are supposed to be able to do is use your umber neck and do a gigantic jump over to this platform instead of having to necessarily wait, but I guess it loses quite a bit of time if you fail it so i'm going to exercise a little bit of caution. Use our final yellow and red candies for this flaming version of adversary. Hopefully four rings of feathers should take it out quite nicely, well okay almost four rings of feathers! This game does really obnoxious things sometimes where there's a sliver of health left, but it doesn't actually show it because it's such a small sliver. That can happen and it's really bad in Chapter 7 against the Insidious fight because as I said if you fail any of the phases of Insidious you go all the way back to the beginning of the phase so thankfully that sounds like a good deal in this particular chapter. As we make our way to Chapter 14 though, I think probably can read off maybe one or two donations. Absolutely. And we have $25 from Hermanator who says Pride Month hype! Oh dear. Again, West Coast friends. We have four minutes left I believe One more We have $20 from Zytoriak It says good luck on the run variety. Hope you get to celebrate with plenty of chocolate ice cream after your run. Oh I plan to. I absolutely plan to. Alright. After doing our standard purchasing of items from the shop unfortunately we did have to purchase another red hot shot i was hoping that we could get through there on without having to do that but you know as pride said if it was ever a fight to do it it was definitely Grace and Glory. Also how many chapters now? And only one death? I think I'll take it. Alright so this might look a little bit strange to you. We're in the Umbren mech form already. Unfortunately, This does not mean that we are just safe from death for the entire run or the entire chapter rather. We do have to be a little bit cautious here because our health bar does actually carry over. Thankfully we are using the Umbran Mech which we've established as being fairly strong and we're also using an umbran climax on top of the under mix so we're going to be doing ludicrous amounts of damage especially when we top a red candy off with it this next fight after, after we dodge a few missiles here- I guess lasers, missiles, lasers, missiles, something to that effect- We're going to want to use our yellow candy sparingly. All of these enemies, the Braves and the Bullies are really obnoxious because they can just attack you from a place that your not expecting so we want to make sure that we're using our Umbran Climax and Yellow Candy as delayed as possible so that we're using our umbra climax and her yellow candy as delayed as possible so that we actually have enough magic to carry into the next fight against say pentia thank you very much. On this bridge, one of these Belus very often gets a little bit too antsy and likes to attack me from behind so I will just spam dodge, hoping that he doesn't do it. All right, that looked a little bit awkward, but it was for the better, I promise. We're going to pick up another yellow candy here. And as we enter Flippeto, we activate our yellow and our reds. Hopefully we activated the red if we didn't. Hmm. And hopefully we'll be able to win combination with our Umbren Climax, do a decent amount of damage. Yeah that was very fast. There's an attack he can do which causes him to sort of do a barrel roll for lack of better term and just shoot a bunch of missiles at you from afar. It's not dangerous necessarily it's in fact very easy to dodge the problem is that he's far away from us, so we can't actually hit him as fast. It's a speedrun problem, not so much a casual problem. So much like the missiles in the beginning of Chapter 7 against Insidious, you normally just tank all of these missile damages from Worship here, but again very much like Chapter 7 if we die at all during this particular fight against the Worship we have to start the entire Worship fight over again so I would like to avoid that fate is it possible we'll dodge some missiles here that are off screen because that's something of this game could do thank you very much and we have to take out three little faces here as price said there are a lot of noses in this run. Each of these small faces do 25% of the boss's maximum health and then the final face has the remaining 50. For the remaining 50, we're going to activate our yellow candy just to make sure that we don't have to actually tank any gigantic hits like these and then we'll use our final any gigantic hits like these. And then we'll use our final red candy for the chapter on the fight against Justitia, which one of my community members a long time ago said something to the effect if every single fight in this game looks like the final boss site and i can't agree with that more honestly um it's very strange that there's a fight after that fight but i guess they really want to get all those bayonetta one bosses in so and i guess i'll give it to them we just stand here match the street button with embering climax and a red candy and you know bay Bayonetta Tuesday. All right. Chapter 14 is not too bad but chapter 15 begins with a very, very long gauntlet against a lot of enemies and whenever I do this on my own stream, I always say to my chat, now it's the time to talk amongst yourselves because it's just something that I should probably concentrate for. So, I will give Pride the mic for let's say four or five donations and we'll check in afterwards. Oh absolutely! And I have a very special $5 donation from Alex and Dad who says, we used to live on the West Coast so here's another small donation during the last few minutes of Pride Month. Let's go! Love is love and we are all human. Yeah, let's hear it. And y'all, uh, Pride Month We are all human. Yeah, let's hear it! And y'all Pride Month may be over here in the US but pride lives on in all of our hearts and also right here at The Host Desk. Hold on...y yep still here. We have $10 from Duke of Holwood who says One of the things I love about SGDQ is seeing games run that I wouldn't normally play and then wanting to play them so badly. A variety pack makes me want to play Bayonetta 2, cheers! I will say if you want to play Bayo too, it's really good. Got time for another? Yeah let's do it. Absolutely! We have $50 from Dan the VP, another one of our Gungeon Runners who says it was amazing to show off Enter The Gungeon with friends. Shout out to Rad, Doc, Lokai and JD. 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Alright so there was a bit of an obnoxious thing that can happen in this particular fight which did not happen those sort of boat enemies I like to fly by have very errant missile placement so it's not uncommon to have a situation where you're just sort of finding your own business waiting for the final enemies to spawn and then just randomly you die so thankfully that did not happen um we were able to kill those boats before they actually got the rest all right for this fight against On The Clock Tower which you might recognize if you've ever played Bayonetta 1 We're going to just do the Bayonetta 2 things hopefully and we're not going as fast as I would like, but not too bad. Good. We're actually gonna want to activate a Ring of Feathers right now because despite the fight being over we can still take damage from these dragon enemies still. So I'm not exactly sure why they left that in but it's not too big of a deal. Yes, that looked like a lot of damage but remember if you're an Umbren Climax, You do not die when you take a hit. So I'm not counting that! Alright... I think this is the fight That particular community member was talking about Doesn't this look like a final boss fight? We're returning a gigantic meteor. In fact, I think for the final boss fight the item that the final boss sends out is not even as cool as a flaming meteor so I guess they did their dramatic priorities were a little bit backwards. All right. Dodge that and finish him off. He says punch, punch, punch! Very good, Loftafame. As we make our way to our final enemy I think you can probably get one or two more donations? Absolutely! We have five dollars from MyNamesBebop, One of the most chilled and amazing streamers We have $5 from MyNameIsBebop, one of the most chilled and amazing streamers. Just remember with or without the mask you are always amazing. Keep it going a variety pack. Thank you very much. So that thing that I mentioned about purchasing things and finding them in the world later actually applies here too. We did not use our red hot shot, we are allowed to pick up another red hot shot. So, we have two possible deaths as we make our way into the final chapter. Don't worry! This means that if I still use one of them I will still pay $5, as I promised but for the sake of speedrunning We will still pay $5, as I have promised. But for the sake of the speedrun it makes a little bit nicer. We'll make our way to the beginning of Chapter 16, fill up on candies and make our way to the final chapter of The Run. We're already there! Well indeed! Okay, Okay. Chapter 16 will open in a way that may look a little bit strange to you, may look a little bit foreign shall we say um we're going to again fill up our candies make sure that we have everything in order we have red hot shots we have moon pearls we are good to go and you know final boss chapter you want to fight the final boss? Well you're going to have to wait a bit because we have a little bit of Star Fox to play. I'm not sure why this exists in the game, but it's, I guess a nice little distraction Unfortunately, if you've ever played Bayonetta 1 seeing a flying segment may bring up some unfortunate memories There was a level in that game that required you to dodge by flipping the entire camera around, that was not a very good decision, so I'm glad they've learned from their mistakes and made it a little bit nicer to fight this time. Alright, a lot of auto-scrolling material here but you'll notice that we're actually charging our sword with Balder instead of just using the standard attack. The reason for that is we just get more magic in our magic bar with the charge attacks, so we're going to be doing it as much as possible. Other than that, we really have a lot of enemies to get through, so try and go ahead and get those Dimensions up! Absolutely, and we have $5 from Panda S1 who says, am I late? Nah, every month is Pride Month. That is so true. We also... Yeah! Let's hear it. We also have a very important reminder that Post Desk may be a little stupid because Nemo2342 is donating $25 to remind us Pride isn't over in the U.s just yet you got another hour in alaska and two more hours than hawaii yeah let's go let's hear from Alaska and Hawaii love is love that don't cat us out yet. I apologize Alaska & Hawaii, I was thinking it as that donation came in. I was like, Alaska's probably pretty far west huh? Yeah. Yeah I think so Keep em coming! Absolutely We have $50 from Zeebee who says hello from the late night crowd! Last winter at AGDQ was finally when my Trans- cracked, and it's been an amazing journey since then. Loving the Pride love, trans rights are human rights, and let's have a great GDQ! We're only just getting started. Absolutely, we have 50 more dollars from zombies1238 who says fourth year watching first time donating thanks to everyone who hosts these games Let's hit the milestone. Thank you very much for your donation. We have hit 100,000 100 uh one thousand one hundred thousand eleven $100,000... 100,111 $111,000. Goodness gracious it is late at night here We said speedrunners can't count right? Speedrunners can't count right speedrunners can't count at all and i do still want to see estimates coming in for just how much sugar rosa is consuming this run uh again we've done the math. I think that we could probably reveal it at the end, right? Sure, let's go for it. It's a great little piece of trivia. Looks like we are still autostrolling. We are indeed. Keep them coming. Absolutely. We are indeed, keep them coming. Absolutely. We have $50 from Void who says, First time donating after years of knowing of Gina Q. I hope someday I can come support in person. Everyone will be so awesome. Thank you. Yes, thank you so much and yeah, it's great and we would love to have all of you here. We have $100 from Ethan H who says first donation of the event for me with more to come such a great cause and such a great event please don't. Okay. Yeah, he can do this little dash back thing just before I get that last hit on with the guns but thankfully we didn't have to worry about that. Okay so a little bit of a fake out as Insidious is going to pop up behind us. So we're just gonna mash our sheet bundle a little more not using any of our candies because we don't have any remaining but hopefully filling our magic meter as much as it can go. And we're going to swap out our small candies for all of those big ones that we've been accumulating throughout the run. Just before we make it through, the final boss which is Aesir. And guess what? Aesir is a humanoid enemy on Infinite Climax. Unfortunately also one that doesn't necessarily always have the ability to use feathers. So we're going to have to be a little bit more careful. Although for whatever reason A Aether is actually fairly weak to the Umbran Mech. So hopefully we get a little bit of good RNG here as we make our way. All right, here we go. We're going to pop a red candy as we move, and then a yellow candy And here you go! Final boss Alright, feathers do a lot of damage, so does the mech Unfortunately were a little bit low for the second phase but that's okay. Okay, that's another death. He's going to do the very obnoxious move. It's, again, not particularly hard to dodge but it is in fact unfortunate for the speedrun because this requires him to sort of sit there and do nothing for a little bit. Okay, I did not get that what I wanted. Not too big of an deal though, thankfully the Umbermech and the Red Candies last a fair bit of time And like I said since we're in the Unbring Climax, we don't necessarily have to worry about death so much just because we are saved at the 1 HP mark whenever that happens. See, this is what I mean like do you find this cooler than a flaming meteor? I don't personally but you know that's just personal preference I suppose. All right final segment of the fight should just activate a yellow candy first, then a purple candy, then a red candy and that should be... I said that should be... The end. Awesome. One final promise that you can watch, and just a note for production You're going to see the credits roll in just a little bit. Please do not actually stop the timer. The category has been laid out in such a way where we actually don't stop the timer until we actually lose control of the character, which happens at the end of the speedrun. So I will let you know in due time but you know we're sort of making our way to the end of the run lots of cut scenes and lots of auto scrolls and things like that so i guess it's a pretty decent time to start saying our farewells and our shoutouts. Alright, after we get the infinitons of damage on Aesir here. Okay, I forgot there is one thing that we have to do first. We do have to feed Aesir to Gamora here, so if you have any nom or eating emotes that can spam in chat now is a perfect time because we're going to need to mash that Y button pretty hard. Thankfully, unlike Bayonetta 1 where you sort of have to navigate and something through a bunch of things we just have to aim towards one mouse here so it's not nearly as difficult as if wasn't being the other one all right spam those emails i want to see them we have them coming in they are flooding the chat good good are flooding the chat good guys all right our final elephant random elephant cry from this creature all right credits are coming up but again please do not actually stop the timer. Let's dance boys! All right so yes thank you very much everyone for watching I might as well get this out of the way so we can get production going a little bit faster. My name is Ben. I speed run obviously Bayonetta 2 and 3. I've been working on one handed speedruns again. Hyperlight director, as the name may imply. If any of that sounds like your thing, Pippy if you'd like to also find, uh, tell people where they can find your colorful commentary. Um, my colorful commentary can usually be found under um, Skyward Sword, a lot of it. But I'm pipping a top hat! I have top hats... that's it. It is on brand. Yes massive shoutouts to the Bayonetta Skid Netta community. In particular I'd like to name three in Reclaimer. HBK who did a performance of Bayonetta 1 during AGDQ it was fantastic hopefully I was able to measure up to him. CapCapRevenge who did Bayonetta 2 hard in I believe SGDQ or ATT2020. And then also AceKrana who has not done any runs for QDQ himself but it was completely instrumental in me learning any of these categories always being there helping me out telling me what I'm doing wrong in a very tactful manner. All three people were really important for me to be able to perform this for you tonight and hope that you all enjoyed it quite well um furthermore shout out just my own community for being so supportive i would not be on this stage without any of you and your donations have been awesome. It's been great to support a fantastic cause as we do some silly speech runs, it's honestly one of the best things that I can ask for so congrats to all of you, congrats to all of the hosts congrats to the hosts and staff and everything. Thank you. You thought you were done you thought you could get rid of us that easily yeah the shadow remains cast! Alright, we are back. We're still experiencing credits Yeah and my apologies that was perhaps not the clearest indication of when the run is actually ending. The credits will continue until we lose control of the character which will happen in the next segment. Now on an easy normal and hard speedrun what will typically happen is you will actually take out the enemies. That's the faster thing to do but because we're playing on infinite climax it's actually faster to die so we have taunt enemy wait for him to take us out and then as soon as that skull appears that will be time at the very end so we'll wait for the ship to appear one more time just like it did in the prologue Does that count as one more death? It's fine, I'll count it as a death. It's for charity! How much does that bring me to? I think that's three. Yeah, that's $15. Shall we also reveal just how much candy Rosa eats in this speed run? All right. By the way, it is time now. In this fun little speed run, Rosa has consumed 108 small lollipops, six large lollipops coming to a grand total of 3060 calories and 562 grams of added sugar. 22 times the recommended daily dosage for an adult human woman. Rayna, there's no normal adult human women. I think she'll be fine. I'll say. All right thank you very much again sorry for the bit of a snappy there but thank you very much again for letting me perform. How's it going everybody? My name is DeathTropes. I'm gonna be speedrunning Silent Hill 1, the all bosses category I am here with three absolutely wonderful human beings that are gonna be accompanying me on the catch guys Introduce yourselves if you would? Hang on Maxi Loebs. Hey I'm Schmumbler. Hi I'm Juho. All right everybody let me count down in five four three two, go! So first thing you guys are going to notice is that the voices are a little bit different on this run because we play in a fast speed on the PS2, so you're going to notice something right away that's not really what you're used to if you've played this game before. So in Silent Hill, Harry Mason gets in a car accident with his daughter and now the whole game revolves around him trying to find her. Cheryl? Is that Cheryl? trying to find her. Cheryl? Is that Cheryl? And it never gets old. It does help with load times for half the reason is because it just sounds really funny thank you for fast fast this wait for the ps2 though now he sees cheryl so he's gonna run after her and she is just gonna keep running away like any daughter would. There she goes again. So funny thing too is that actually was a little bit of movement tech there, that cutscene where Harry runs into the alleyway since death trips moved to the corner beforehand he actually went a little bit into the alleyway instead of stopping like 10 feet away from it so small time save seems about a second second and half overall. Nothing crazy but just enough. So do we talk about the category all bosses? Sure! Yeah so All Bosses is killing All the bosses in the game Including doing one that we used to not do In the speedrun for any percent And then another one as well We also kill Sybil Which we don't do in any percent yeah and yeah it's just all bosses so the first objective here is you want harry to to pass away as fast as possible that's what we're trying to do right here and now oh did not get a grab come on guys that's very rare there we go sure it is there it is and that's it, there we go. Game over guys this is the run. This is where the run actually starts. Thank you everybody for watching! Yeah, now he wakes up in the cafe and meets up with Sybil. The police officer. So he's gonna be equipping the gun and then going through uh, the cafe just to pick up a couple more items And then encounter later on. You're required to pick up the knife, The map, And the flashlight. And then the radio. What's that? There you go! Huh...radio? What's going on with radio? A little bit of RNG here also, so this bird can take can take three four five or even six shots to kill so nice four shot very good Now we have the raider, now we can leave. Yeah so now this is the outside area of the game where he's just gonna go ahead and collect three items and then go to a random house in the middle of nowhere, but yeah. It's a good moment of introspection for Harry. Absolutely. So if you guys do not know this game has not been showcased in GDQ for like six years. Funny enough Maxi right here the only like OG commentator on the couch yeah the surviving couch member after Yeah. The survivor couch member. After six years, he's here! Uh... Shoutouts! Um... Quick shoutout to the original couch. Shoutouts to Punchy by the way who ran the game back like six years ago. And also Plywood and UFOtechie. Great, great people. All great people, all great runners. Yep. So you're not gonna bonk, right? No. Okay so we're going to bring that up again. Alright so they were saying how if I bonk, it's five dollars. Oh really now you're gonna say that? Let's do it, let's just do it. But yeah for people who don't know about this game, Harry just works like a race car. He just walks and then whenever you want to stop him he just like pulls back for some reason there's a momentum um mechanic with harry mason's movements uh and if you run him full speed into all he'll actually smack into it and bounce off of it you'll lose a couple seconds. It looks really funny but we don't want to do that Yeah, and its not just walls either Its also anything that you interact with so like a lot of times during this run you'll see Troves kind of turn to the side as soon as he gets to a door and that's to avoid that bonk. You can even bonk in that mailbox which is actually really cool because then the game pauses and it looks like he's But it's slow so we're not yeah exactly So this is now would be called rainbow road. This road actually goes on for quite some time, not super long but just enough to where you're like am I going in the right direction? And I will say that as far as any Silent Hill game I've learned how to run before. This one was the hardest because the route is actually kind of difficult, just cause it's early PS1 everything kinda looks the same so a lot of memorization goes into this round as well. Listen if you like getting lost, you should try Origins. Yes! That game is a nightmare. It is. I'm drunk! You drive stick? Your car is on our planet. So now we got some papers that say 11th Street and the doghouse, And if you've ever seen a meme from Silent Hill You'll recognize this dog house in about 15 seconds. Are you sure it's a dog house? It is! Where are the dogs though? Where's the dog, exactly. Must be a dog nearby somewhere. Sure. I hear something but i'm not seeing anything. A little bit of tech here you kind of turn into the cabinetry and let harry run into that so he doesn't bonk onto That door. run into that so he doesn't bonk onto that door now we're on our way to the midwich elementary which uh some people know this and people don't but the um school is actually based off of the movie Kindergarten Cop. Fun fact! Yeah, Silent Hill has like this really weird... Oh nice bonk. That was not a bonk he goes through- He went through the door. Does not count. Silent Hill is like a really unique kind of game where it's Japanese developers interpretation of what a Western horror game would be. Oh yeah, true. It's very true. It's a Japanese horror game made for an American audience. Yeah. That is how I've described it. And there's so many little references to the Portis head posters at the cafe and stuff. In Texas Chainsaw Massacre posters and stuff like that. Now you'll notice when we turn my light off a lot during this run, that's because the air screamer enemy, the flying bat enemy you guys have seen as well as the enemy called the romper which you will see later on. They're extremely attracted to the lights so at parts of the run i will be turn my light off and it'll be very very dark but uh thankfully i know where we're going so flights off we'll get there allegedly yesedly. Allegedly, yes! And we haven't even gotten to that point yet! Surely it's not because we don't want you......we don't want you to see anything! Listen, no bonks? Turn on your lights and bonk- That wasn't a bonk. We're in the school now and there's going to be two different worlds that we are gonna go into. First one is this is Overworld if I'm not mistaken? Yeah, this is Overworld. Later on in the next half of the school it's just called Otherworld which is some nightmarish kind of thing I would say yeah yeah this is also like the first time that we really get to deal with silent hill's notorious enemy rng oh yeah which is not like where the enemies are placed but they're like rotated and facing in a random direction every time you load into a room which is why we also go through a lot of doors with our light off so that's if we don't. It's less to worry about because they're also attracted to the light. They'll turn around and actually look at you like right here, light off and then you're free to go to the right side basically every single time. Are we gonna get the bait here? We did! Alright, so that means we can go back the same way we came in instead of going all the way around. so for those who do not know what Death Probes is doing right now he's trying to get two medallions the gold medallion and the silver medallion to activate a clock tower which he will be going to the other world later on. So at this part right here, he has to put the gold medallion onto that clock tower in order for you to go through the next part of the game which is to get that silver medallion. That door actually locks unless you put the gold medallion on. That puzzle went very well just now. Wow, that was smooth. And now we get the silver medallion. I feel like that puzzle, that piano puzzle, everybody here has probably seen a streamer struggle with that for like hours so I know I have oh I absolutely did as a child actually I love watching people just struggling on that I'm just like yeah music ding ding ding all right so yes the uh gold and silver medallions are in but there's also one more thing that we have to do which is to go to like a generator room and just activate it and we are going to be almost through to the other world. And if you've never seen this game before, things are about to get very very dreary and very very dark...phobolic-wise. Heavy emphasis on the dark and rusty very rusty just like my skills and there's the infamous siren. Now we're basically in the exact same place, except it's in what's called The Otherworld. At this part of the game you just have to escape the school and that's about it. But we also encounter our first boss in the game as well, is split yeah okay cool it's a fun little fight more of a puzzle than a fight yep yeah because there's clues about it too. You get to read a fairy tale about it. It tells you how to hit its weak point and take care of it real quick. Alright. So upcoming is the only weapon that we are going to be using, which is a shotgun. In the past we actually used the shotgun and the rifle but with a lot of routing changes over the years since this game is from 1999 yeah what 24 years old do not remind me please just for a 23 year old game to have still many like like strats found and like ideas and routes and whatnot, it's still going. The Silent Hill community is still bustling. It is alive and well 100%. I mean even very recently there was the discovery that there's a debug save menu, like a Save Anywhere function that is left in the game and you can use that to death abuse, to remove your collision. Basically the romper skip for any percent and it lets you just skip straight to the sewers to the amusement park right off the bat. It would make this category like a few minutes 10 15 minutes a few very good rooftop. Ball! Ball! Orb? This is pretty much the only break you get in the run. One of the only cutscenes that you can't skip, so... Water Break! With a water break? Do we have a break for a quick donation? We absolutely do! Fantastic, because we have very special one. We have $50 from A Variety Pack who says I budgeted for 10 deaths and I'm more than happy to say I didn't have to get to that point. Here's the donation for ten anyway. Thank you again for having me on and putting on this great event amazing absolutely amazing i'm glad to hear that we're keeping the five dollars per X going It really is ridiculously easy to bonk in this game, it's so easy. Yeah They're in the light off here sometimes this guy can kind of turn around and grab you though So the whole reason why we are just turning on water is because of this key We need this key to actually unlock a door, you can't find the key then good luck to you it's a really hard puzzle it is yeah the school is just the first place where you're just like where am i going what am i doing what is this thing why do i have this ball where's my daughter these kids attacking me? Show up, is there a show up? I have a very pertinent donation for that. Wait for it, dad. Absolutely. that uh wait for that absolutely jump scare all right go with the donation go ahead yes uh yeah okay sure uh we have ten dollars from grandma who says have you seen a little girl just turned seven last month seven last month short dark hair my daughter but yeah funny enough that jump scare if you have if you actually play it on the uh overworld is actually a little cat so It's an old kitty cat? Yes. And then it's a not-so-kitty cat. No! We're actually approaching the end of the school area. Slowly. Very, very flawless. No bonks and no grabs. Are you trying to jinx yourself? I'll summon the bonk I'll summon Summon the The bonk It's okay we haven't gotten to the church yet That's true That door is not fun I'm gonna call The bonk at the, uh... The bridge Yeah. Okay! At the drawbridge you're just You're just going to gonna bonk oh my god oh little faith picking up some vital shotgun shells there it's really easy to miss that room on like a casual play. And for this category, we actually need those shotguns. This is the only part where we get extra ammo for any categories as far as I'm aware. This puzzle is super simple, but it's so easy to misclick. Yeah. And if you misclick and then you don't fix it? Exactly. You're just here for like 10 minutes just like what i turned this one already 30 times that's two on the right into a three on the left and you're good to go then comes our first boss fight of the game. Again, more of a puzzle but it is a boss. Everything's so nice when you already know the answer. You're gonna kinda hang out here for a second, and once he opens his mouth two more shots were we're done with him that's it Terry's gonna do little tricks though he did up fly off he's PLG Weeeeee! He's PLJing. If anyone is thinking, oh does that save time? No. It's just fun. That's why we have swag stress yeah so speaking of which one of my favorite categories as a viewer for this game is knife only, especially that fight because the turns and the running away is so tight that you're literally watching them out close around Harry as they just barely sneak out. And that's a one-hit kill. Oh, yeah. It's an infida. That's scary. Have you ever tried whoosh percent? No. No. It's when you can only move with the katana. Oh, yeah. I've actually wanted to do that for a very long time. You should totally do it, it's absolutely the most fun thing you'll do in this game. Sure... It's only been about three years. I'll get working on that. So now we're out of the school, we are actually making our way to a church that Harry just heard the bell coming from so we're making our little adventure over there now don't we talk about the gyro manzi that's true. Yeah, so a gyromancy is the act of putting a bunch of symbols in a big old circle and then spinning around and getting dizzy And them, and then it tells you the future. Whoa! It sounds really dumb because it is, but Dolly Gillespie, she knew what she was doing, okay? I guess. She was like alright the half of the soul is going to come back to town that's what the circle told her. I'm dizzy and need water but I'm sure if it's... The thing about Dahlia... She has no dress sense in the slightest. I think she's wearing a tie over her dress? Oh yeah! Bare feet. And it's snowing. Which by the way, it's snow, not ash. It is NOT ash! All the conspiracy theories are actually is ash... But it's totally based on centralia right thank you starvin while we are trekking through the snow, do we have time for a couple quick donations? We sure do. Fantastic because we had five dollars from Harry Mason who says, Cheryl! We have ten10 from a fifth of scotch who says staying up late just to catch one my favorite Silent Hill games. Fantastic. See, this is the only improvement that Shattered Memories made over the original is they gave Harry a dedicated Prez-X to Cheryl. That's so true. Cheryl! And like, Cheryl! He says it at totally different volumes too. He's like, Cheryl! There you go. Oh, that's great. We got time for a few more? Absolutely! I have $25 from Vicarious Vice who says This is probably a donation comment. I'm not sure since there's no donator around. We have $10 from Erica Lawless who says let's go Death Tropes you've got this silence this hill time for a couple more yeah let's do it fantastic we have 25 dollars from zulcegay who says hello from loud valley you doing okay up there we haven't heard from you in a while and it's too foggy to see. No bonk, come on! Sorry! We have a $25 from Mershon who says, You know I think that was a dog donation but I can't tell because it's not a dog around you think he was trying to tell us where cheryl is cheryl cheryl cheryl uh Cheryl! Cheryl. Cheryl. Cheryl. Uh, upcoming we're coming to the hospital and... Hospital? Is this...? Oh yeah, we gotta meet one of the so-called best characters in the game smile he's a stormtrooper let's say it like we'll see you in a second and you know you guys basically they got the guy is just like hey i need you with a gun and that's about it and then we don't meet him ever again somehow managed to be like two completely different characters but still the worst character in both games he appears I totally agree. That's especially Origins! Oh my, don't even get me started. Alright yeah real quick Stormtrooper Kotham ladies and gentlemen Let me start it. Here we go! Alright, real quick. Stormtrooper Kaufman ladies and gentlemen. Hello Kaufman. He's two feet away from them! why and now he's gone into the abyss wherever goes, no one knows. So another difference with all bosses is in any first attempt we grab the red liquid that's on the director's office floor but in this category we don't even need that because we have to actually fight one of the bosses we use the agglofitus or liquid four. And that's in that room right there, but we don't need it. Yeah no silly speaking shenanigans we don't even show the good glitches i'm sorry so one of the cool things about this game is that there are a few glitches, but we don't showcase them. If we actually did any percent, there was another glitch that was found after Punggis' run on AGDQ 2018, which was the bumper skip. You guys won't see that. It's such a weird skip. I hope someday it does get shown here, 100%. Show it right now! Just do it as a showcase. Just show it once and then go to the boss, do it. Okay now we're in overworld... other world sorry. Other world, yeah. Which is my favorite part of the run, The movement is very, very fast. It's a lot going through doors very quickly. Some swag strats where you strafe and grab items that looks really hard but it's actually really easy. But yeah but it's actually really easy. But yeah, it's a really cool part of the run. Then there's also some things that look really easy, but they're actually a huge pain. Like the new Nerf skip, which is... It's easier, but it's also also a pain at the same time. You guys will see good. I hope. Hope it works out. This right here hardest thing in the game. Done. This nurse can grab you very easily when you come out, and it's just totally RNG if she wants to. So let's see what happens. And... nope! She did not care this time. That's very good. Nice! Yeah the nurses can do two different attacks. They can either grab you which does no damage You just get a back rub or they can whip out their knife and stab you and these are two very different things in the whole straight and we're out that was kind of clean That was just good! How about you? I love how eerie the ambience in this part is. Yeah, I think the hospital's one of the best spots in the game. Just for any playthrough. I love this room right here. You just take one step and then just use the blood tag, and that's about it. Yeah, that's it. It's feeding to this... This meat tentacle thing. Goodbye! See ya! See I swear that whoever made the schedule knew that I'm a weenie with horror games and was like oh I want to see this guy's reaction. That jump scare did get me. So all y'all out there who are a little scared right now, I'm right here with you! We still got a lot more horror to come in the next couple of days so here comes another skip let's see how it goes simple as that. Oh, beautiful! Yeah, simple! Does that count as a bonk? Nah... Whoa! Does that count as a bonk? Nah. No. She'll turn around whichever direction she wants to, and I wasn't able to get out of her way quickly. That wasn't bonking that was getting bombed that was just getting bomb right now she can also run in front of you and just trap you and and basically just kill you and end your day so that didn't happen either. That said, like any damage in this run is really scary especially with the strategy I use for Flo stinger, it's very risky. Now we're going to do something that is called dark fire. It doesn't change anything about the run. It just looks really, really cool. There it is! Who brought this man in? Why is he not up here? Yeah, we got it. There you are. oh my god Fuck you! What's this? It's a key, Harry. Not the key! That was Harry finding a piece of candy on the floor. Yeah this is the final stretch of the hospital and then we are gonna go to the antique shop. Also one thing as well, like If you ever play this game and You just forgot about the key They will leave you with a key And you can wander around Like if you finish up school and never pick up the one of the i think it's church key if i'm not mistaken if you don't pick up the church oh no i think it's the trash key if if you don't pick up the church key, You have to go like miles back To that school. That's true And then pick it up. This is the same thing as well After this part Oh, this guy gonna block you Nooooooo! We got it, it's fine Oh, this guy's gonna block you. That's it. We got it. It's fine. We're in. Is that kind of a bong? $20! Wait, 20?! Who made these prices? We're gonna count the first one as well. So now we're meeting Lisa for the first time. If you can understand what she's saying. Permission. Was I bleeding? So this is the key that I was talking about. If you don't pick up this key and just wander off to the antique shop, you're going back... You have to run all the way back to grab that. Just leave it there, not in your inventory. I absolutely did that my first time. So upcoming with the antique shop, we're coming up to our second boss. And our second boss is Twinfeeler? Twinfeeler. Yes. This is the first boss that in any percent we would be able to skip with the romper skip that we're not doing on this run you will see the romper you just won't see the skip. Exactly! While we are trekking to the antique shop do we have a moment for donation? Oh yeah absolutely! Fantastic because we have $15 from TypeRex177 who says following up on the Bayonetta death donations I counted three and the third letter of the alphabet is... Cheryl! Cheryl. Cheryl? We have so many Cheryl donations coming in. It's perfect! It's like the funny thing is that, they both got into a car accident and then Cheryl just wonders off why? Why are you doing this? Why do you wonder at all you don't you don't like call for your dad it's like dad wake up like just no it's like okay i'm just gonna walk away i mean have you met a kid before that's exactly what i'm gonna do does the kid walk away oh yeah doesn't even care about your dad or your mom he's like i'm just gonna walk away ooh what's that piece of candy! Ooh, piece of candy. Wait for it... Was that another dream? Sure. So yeah, this is where you would do the Vomper skip in any percent, uh, you don't do it. So yeah, you get a fade out here. That's a fake load and that is the entire reason why the romper skip works. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we're going to do... We're going to the mall. Yep, we're going to do Twinfeeler. Let's get some shoes. Let's get some shoes. Percy's in a theater First he's gonna see a video of his daughter on this bunch of TVs though. Me when my tummy hurt. Hey, pizza. Oh no! Oh no not pizza! So here at Twinfielder there's a specific thing that he has to do which is walk backwards a bit and then once the Twinfielder comes out he just shoots like six times and then that's about it that's it oh he's belgium let's go harry mason has left the building. Yeah, the movement is so specific there because you need Twinfeeler to crawl over like The Great on the ground so he doesn't dig over and over again. He's like a Pokemon he just wants to dig over and over. Now we're actually on our way back to the hostel that we were just at five minutes ago. Also, if you think like oh yeah this is the- there's like one boss fight Oh no they're gonna throw you another boss fight don't worry about it Spoiler alert it's the same boss it's just yeah a bit yep so we're coming up to like the boss called float stinger if i'm on stick yeah full thing yep it's the grown-up version... Like Pokémon, you know? Just evolution. Or like going from Skull Island to Godzilla vs Kong. We don't talk about Skull Island. Oh no, please do! I mean...KONG? While we're rolling up the float stinger Do we have time for a couple quick donations? Yeah, we do. Fantastic because we have $5 from Captain Davo who says love you buddy. Have fun. Thank you David. We also have $10 from Film Strips who says, we are proud of you tropes. Sending love for Breakfast, Olive and myself. Time for another quick one. Sure, yep. We have $25 from Terrafecta who says dot, dot, because the hell is silent! Who says dot, dot, dot? Because the hill is silent. Even though Silent Hill games are some of the loudest things I've ever played in my entire life. Coming up to our next boss fight, Twinfeeler, all grown-up. Hey where'd the floor go? The jukes yeah man something to mention here is that death traps is very specifically shooting at a pace where he doesn't waste any shots because flip stringer doesn't take damage while it's attacking, I think. Right? Yeah, it's like a timed thing as well. So you can't just go and blast away That was really good yeah. Also a good positioning to get on the stairs. Yep exactly Yeah so if you ever want to fight Flosinger just take note You have to shoot strafe, shoot, strafe. That's it. We're done with that? Off to the sewers which has a fair amount of RNG in it. One of the worst places in this game. Hey, so if-if it's Silent Hill... Why are we going into a sewer? Because it's a horror game? It just seems a little low for myself. A little bit, but it is also a 90s game too so... That's also true. Double requirement. Could be worse, could be a Miyazaki game and it's a poison area everywhere. Oh no. A blood rot swamp. Yep. I mean you could say that the enemies there are pretty toxic. Yep. Listen, I have to be making money to get fired. I'm just here for the vibes. Speaking of making money, do we have time for a quick donation? We sure do. Fantastic because we have $15 from Pippy in a Top Hat who says as promised $5 per shadow that must remain cost in Variety's incredible bail run. Thank you Variety for weighing the needs of my wallet and the needs of donating to charity. And speaking of $5 bird, where are we sitting with that bonk counter? Zero actually... Wow! That's a lot we seem to have disagreements we've taken four hits but no bombs yeah Yeah. You know, I'll take that. I'll take that. Cheryl? Keep it coming. Yep, yep. That was at least like three dollars. Ethan Mars Pressing X wants to jump in on that as well with $5 saying, Cheryl! Cheryl. Is that right? That is right. Give us more. Cheryl! Got time for a couple more. Yep, sure do. Fantastic because I have $5 from the true king of space who says like a good neighbor Silent Hill insurance is there. Hey Harry get in a car accident? Cheryl! We have $25 from Zachary Rogers who says Good luck on the Silent Hill run. One of my personal favorite horror games that kept me under my covers as a kid. Me too. Thank you so much for pushing through those childhood memories and donating to a great cause. We have $35 from Aaron B who says, Let's go! Spooky late night Silent Hill run! Thank you so much for that. We are having a great time out here. Cheryl! Cheryl, Cheryl! We're actually getting close to you in the sewers. A little bit of odd movement coming up with my light that's going to be off for a majority of this because we are going to be dodging roaches. Ew! Ew. Eww! Oh, no not today sir please do not. I just wanted to congratulate you. Good job Cheryl! I congratulate you. Good job, Cheryl! Harry Mason is tuning in with $10 saying, Cheryl is somewhere in this town. I have to find her. Can't. I really hope that all the background Sheryls are making it into the feed. We do have the audience mic'd up so we should be able to hear y'all. All of them? It's a lot of microphones. Whoever did that, good job. That was like Harry Mid stepping on a Lego carol. Whoever did that. You ever get midway through a run and you're like this is going to be somebody's favorite mod of all time do my best not to bonk. Bonk no. That was smooth, I'm not gonna lie. So we're getting out of the sewers and we're gonna go to the boat. It's okay, the lighthouse is coming up Oh yes! So a funny thing can happen here in a minute. It's called Top of Stairs, and essentially if this creature called the Romper who you may have seen during this run If he wants to he can just jump on top of you and waste like five seconds of your time. Just because. This one can also do it, it's very rare but I seem to be the only runner that has the issue of this guy following you ever. Oh by the way lucky uh if you actually go straight more um you actually do kaufman's is like side quest i would say but like we just. You save his life? Yeah. We don't care about him, I guess. He thinks you're dismantling his motorcycle and he's like, give me that! LAUGHTER Give me that! I thought Cheryl was in the casket tank. I'm just looking in there. Oh my god, jeez. This is great I'm having a blast. Me too! Now we're just gonna run straight with our light off for like 10 minutes, maybe. Are we gonna see a bonk? No! Are you sure? I hope. You might actually, we'll see what happens. Gotta change the category to Bonkless at this rate. Oh my god. Chad, I'm gonna see a bonk right there. If boat doesn't go well then you guys might. Let's hope it doesn't happen. Dude, I'm counting on the lighthouse still oh yeah light out oh yeah lighthouse that's right shadows tall main nyctophobics in the chat hope that y'all have your lights on right now. Listen, I hear there's some really cozy t-shirts on the Yeti shop. Oh, that's true. Yeah, just swaddle yourself in one of those and you'll be fine. Yeah, I wear a five. Good selection! Carry! Finish the bedroom. I followed the sword. I have to let it play for a second, this is ridiculous. So this is the boat-to- to lighthouse section. It's rough. He has to turn off his light in specific areas and it's to not alert any of the enemies that surround him. So he's probably going to turn on his light right here, yeah? Turn off again and then turn it back on and turn it back off. So this is like actually a really weird thing for me and a very few select Silent Hill runners where I always just ran through here with my Lylon it didn't really matter because I don't know I guess it's just something with the fact that I ran it on the PSTV. Oh, yeah. The enemies just didn't seem to chase you as much. Time for a quick donation as we run through these upsetting noises. We have five dollars from Naomi, and I'm going to try to do this one justice. They say so proud of you friend keep running up that silent hill i hope that was the reference we'll see thank you we also have um We'll see. Thank you. We also have $25 from Shaytales who says, Sean! Cheryl? Sean! Jason? Sean! Cheryl? jason all it's mario Mario! We also have five dollars from Forbeszilla, who says making sure to shout Cheryl in solidarity at home. My cat responded to me. Someone let Harry know I found his dog. So we are out of the lighthouse and we're gonna go to the carnival? Oh, whatever the carnival is called. The lakeside museum park. And we're gonna go fight another boss which is surprisingly enough the police officer which is surprisingly enough uh the police officer with a civil yes i don't remember why sybil was a boss but she got to get sick yeah she gets like the puppet larva that the nurses and doctors have. Oh yeah! Okay, that explains it. Except you know, the nurses have knives and Sybil has a gun. Gun, yes. Big difference there. We're actually gonna pull like a little matrix move on or two in the fight i'd use that term very loosely first though another sewer yeah this one's much shorter, but of course you gotta have another sewer in a horror game from 1999. Much shorter sewer, much shorter donations. Yep, there ya go! We have $10 from anonymous who says wow Harry really seems to be in a hurry we also have $10 from any who says Sean! Sean! Jason! Jason! says Sean, Sean Jason Jason Jason Cheryl. We also have five dollars from rain who says this is my first live gdq experience i love silent hill and thanks for making it such an enjoyable late night welcome thank you all right sorry man He wants it so bad! Oh there goes the little squeaker. Alright I apologize for the 2 FPS you're gonna experience for a few seconds here. Dude! I want my 60 FPS right now! I'm a morning gamer man. What is this? 480p unplayable? I need my 240Hz 16x9 Need my FPS right now. It's okay, you're gonna get bluebirded in like two months. But yeah we are going to go up to Cheryl... Sybil right now. Alright let's see how this plays out. Matrix! Oh that was kind of sick. Why would she throw that away? Yeah the fight goes a lot worse for her once she does that. That's it! That was a sick dodge though. How could this have happened? Who did Cheryl? I only shot her with a shotgun. Who did this? Cheryl! But yeah, after this part now we get to be transported into a place called Nowhere which is a combination of school, hospital and whatever it is in this game so... Yeah, it's essentially a bunch of rooms that don't make any sense to be like connected to each other. Yep. It can be the final area of the run as well. Let Cheryl go. Cheryl! We have a very special donation if you'd like to hear it. Please. We have $7 from Cheryl who says, Dad? My daughter. At this point, I'm going to take off the headphones and pass it to whoever start with. Yeah, this is a combination of nowhere. Nowhere's a combination of school- oh my god I can't even... whatever. It's the school, it's hospital, it's the antique store, it's a lot of different areas. Fun fact, this place doesn't have a map. Nope. You try to have a map... Also since we're in nowhere I feel like it's only appropriate to bring up the debug save that I talked about earlier. If you use that, the save file is called anywhere. Oh yeah! That's true! Wow! Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's neat! Harry's using his tool like a good dad should. Got another key! At this point we're gonna be finding four keys if I'm not mistaken, right? Yeah. There are a bunch of keys in this place. This is also home to all my least favorite puzzles All the cursor movement, so Silent Hill has this thing where the D-pad movement is slower than the analog stick movement. Yep. But the analog stick is so hard to control because it's like a frame and you're suddenly over two inches. Like the famous alert puzzle right here. That is so much harder than it looks. It is, yeah. Also we're gonna say goodbye to one of my favorite characters. Spoilers? No! Saddest cutscene in the franchise. Goodbye Cheryl, honestly. It's Lisa Oh yeah, yeah Okay so the fast discy kinda ruins the moment I can't show it okay so the fastest speed kind of ruins i can't show it can't do it to you guys i can't do it my wife but yeah we say goodbye to to Lisa and we just carry on with what we are doing. So there's that No clock mains, that's good Cause even with good movement there, like there's a small chance you won't get the hitbox because Perry just goes blind randomly. Like any Silent Hill character does. Now for another neat little puzzle that Schmumbler was mentioning, the light puzzle. In just a few seconds here... This one's hard to remember. Agreed. The last one throws you off because of the little extra corner in the top? Mm-hmm. Done! in the top. Done. We have some very good donations rolling in if you'd like to hear them. Go on, yeah! We have $5 from Harry when he finds Cheryl. Hi Cheryl. We also have $5 from Agent Otter who says, The newest installment in the franchise Silent Hill Cheryl-ed memories Press X to Cheryl. We have $10 from Grins Vogel who says, snake? Snake! Oh wait. Cheryl! Sorry wrong game. And he says, Snake? Snaaaake! Oh wait. Cheryl! Sorry wrong game. Then we have $60 from Cult who says if you're not gonna bump then I'll just have to donate instead. Great job! More people should do that. So this is one of the puzzles where you just had to put a ring on this door I look dangerously and get the knife first. So if you don't put this ring there's like a tentacle monster, it just grabs you and is a one hit kill. And you're dead. Again, I definitely did that my first time. It's probably Abby's first time anyway so... I actually did that a couple weeks ago because I was too busy yapping in my chat oh no jelly beans literally the exact same room exact same position as the blood bag. He just barbarically rips it open and gets them everywhere. Wrecks it. There was a juicy pear being in that bag, I'll bet. Pear? No! Here comes no-er dodge. Even with perfect movement it is rng as well let's see if you get knifed over here that's okay that's okay, that's okay. This is also just super dangerous because those shadow stalkers do a lot of damage. I'm in the red now. I was in the orange before, now we're getting close. So I want you to do the slide. I'll do the slide. You got it. Hello? There we go. Is that a bonk? No! That's not a bonk! You know who would have called that a bonk? Who? Cheryl. Of course, I should've guessed. You bonked. So the whole time we are in nowhere, We actually picked up like four items for this door and that's about it. And then we're just going to go all the way downstairs Just to save Cheryl And there is a specific kind of move set to actually kill Cheryl. What? Oh no, spoilers! I'm sorry, uh, Cheryl? Alright this is for Juho. Specifically. So usually we just run down these stairs but because we like Juho... We're gonna slide downstairs. Oh my god! BLJ! I didn't know they had escalators in Silent Hill. You think Super Mario has only the BLJ? This one also has one. We're going to be coming up on time here, and just a few seconds very tough boss fight coming up. Time! Very good, Rog. And this dialogue is for you guys. Cheryl! Cheryl? Cheryl! Cheryl? Cheryl? What's gonna be happening, Cheryl? Cheryl? And he's gone. That's it? That's it. Let's see the IGT just real quick. Oh, there's our boy! There he is! He's dead. Let's go! And the blooper reel which you guys can watch that no claudia kiss i thought too bad. Very good, yes. That was awesome I want to first of all thank my great commentators and all of you guys for commenting as well. Another round for Cheryl, please. Thank you guys so much and thank you to the entire GDQ community for doing this. It's absolutely wonderful and thank you for having me, and just what you guys do is absolutely phenomenal and I look forward to being here all week and just shout out to every single runner that's coming for the rest of the week as well. Thank you guys so much i really appreciate it yeah and shout out to the entire speed earning community and the silent hill community uh in general too thank you and shout And shout outs to DeathTrips, You should follow him! He's one of probably the best Silent Hill speedrunners that has been up and coming the past few years I will say. Does not only run this game also runs Silent Hill 3 at a very top level. Full leaderboard sweep on that game so definitely follow him if you want to see more twitch.tv slash deathtropes Thank you. Thank you guys. Yeah, hey everyone I'm Karushi Drive and I'll be running After Image which is a 2D metroidvania developed by a Chinese indie studio. And this game is very cool, the speedrun is going to be very fast-paced and awesome. I won't be doing this alone, I'll be joined by Helix for my couch commentary. Hey, hello I knew nothing about this game going in and Karushi has taught me a whole bunch And I now have like five pages of commentary notes so that should explain just how much of a wealth of knowledge he is about this game, and how prepared he is to showcase this game. People in the crowd make some noise! If y'all are not here, y'all are missing out I promise you because this game is sick. Y'all don't know. Y'all stand up to watch this? Making the correct decision. Yeah you guys are gonna love this speedrun It's for a category called The Essential which is just the name of the ending We'll go over what that entails later on in the run Also before we start We're going to be running on the advanced difficulty. Uh, this game has two difficulties. Normal was added in the December update. Advanced is basically what the game was beforehand. Um, we'll be running on advanced today because that's what most runners are used to in the community. Timing starts upon selecting this difficulty here, so I count down from 5... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Go! Alright, here we go. Best of luck. And uh...we do have an outfit selection from the Bane War so which one won? The winner of that is Molten at $500. Ooh, Molten. Okay. You guys have excellent choices for that. So this is the Molten outfit. Ooh. So yeah, for the start of this run we're in a basically two-tiered This is the Molten Outfit. So yeah, for the start of this run we're in a basic tutorial section We start with The Dash which is great because it allows us to move a lot faster through your section We are already going to be collecting a couple of what are called dues, which is the currency for this game. And we're gonna be using these dues for fast travel as well as enhancing the weapons that we collect along the way. Apart from that it's just nice and deft platforming here as we approach the first boss in this tutorial section. Yeah there is a whole lot of tutorial if you are noticing a dash That's going to be a pretty big movement mechanic for awhile. Things... an upgrade we'll grab soon that makes the movement Pretty cool, little bit ridiculous Yes Gonna be sick when we get there But this boss, uh, we're already employing a very cool combat mechanic that allows just the way you spread that boss gets me every time yeah it's hilarious the sound it makes too but for the second second phase we're taking an intentional death. We got a bad pattern, but it's a little finicky with the spacing you need to get the pattern that instantly kills you. But yeah, it's a scripted death that takes us to the next part of the game. And it sets up the story events in which we see that the main character is able to revive at these trees called confluences. But first, I'm just going to make a quick backtrack here for this potion. And one thing I should mention about the story The main character's name is Renee She's an amnesiac Right now she basically set out on a quest To reunite with her mentor, but she needs to recover her memories along the way because there's a lot about this world that she does not know. A lot of dangers, a lot of friends that we can make But we're not going to meet a lot of those people because we are speedrunning here. Yeah, that makes sense. But we also gonna be grabbing our first new weapon this is the wooden scythe, and we're already going to be employing it with this technique that I showed against the first boss which is called crouch cancel attacking Healist if you would like to talk about this a little more. Yeah, it... Love that long jump. You saw it and was a little confused. I was like, oh wow, you're attacking really fast. It's just attacking, canceling that attack animation with a crouch, crouching for as little time as possible of course and then attacking again. So when you break it down like that I think its rather simple. You were telling me though Hiroshi that its a lot harder than it looks Yes, its all rhythmic Ideally obviously you want to go fast but it turns out that actually just consistency will keep up your DPS as opposed to outright speed But obviously if you wanna get top level times in this game, speed is ideal. We're going to be seeing this combat mechanic throughout the whole game throughout the whole run. It's central to both sword combat and scythe combat. But we're now in the second area of the game, this is called Rainbow Plains We are going to be hitting this dew again for some currency At the end of Rainbow Plains you will encounter a boss that we'll be seeing quite often throughout the run, and she's a pretty important character in this story. For now her identity is a little mysterious though I'll play along with the game and call her triple question marks, because that's the name you will see when we encounter her in the boss fight. But until then this is actually not a bad time for donations because we're still on relatively chill part of the run. That's what I love to hear, i have a hundred dollar donation here from Zen Ryoku who says had to stay up to support my fellow fighting game enjoyer continue to strive towards a better future through gaming. You got this, Pud! No, no strides in your echo, I'm sorry. Oh, no. But thank you so much for donating that echo. We have time for one Oh, no. Thank you so much for getting me to wrap up here. Do we have time for one more? Definitely. All right. RetroRage sent in $10 as local fighting game hater here. Congrats to the goat Kurushi Drive for making it to SGDQ! Just wanted to ask a big question, is After Image a fighting game? Good luck on the run, Kurushiushi may the boat do the boating may this donation go towards a runner's choice what is your runner's choice uh i'll have to come back to you on that since his boss is engaging. But yeah, so this is triple question marks. First kind of long boss fight at the run. We're already employing the crouch cancel attacks with the Scythe and we got her in a real back state but we didn't get the ideal manipulation which is to keep her stuck in the corner. So the alternative's to damage take this Pillars attack and use that to continue our DPS, and finally close it out with some more crouch cancel attacks. Overall pretty decent fight. You see what I'm talking about? It takes the hand off after that flight... Flight? Fight! Flawlessly explains it while performing it. Is that what I'm talking about? Yeah, um, yeah, that fight is honestly a pretty big choke point in any percent where runners oftentimes restart runs for every little bit of time saved. But I'm a big fan of no reset. This is now the hub town called Resting Town. We're just going to be grabbing a fast travel afterimage, which is a progression ability. It's only gonna use once though so it's not a super major talking point but next we are going to buy six resting potions which is the real fast travel in this run. And we'll be using these to teleport to save points throughout the entirety of the Land of Engarden. Yeah so our next area here's going to be Resting Path. We're just gonna be flying through these areas guys So please bear with me But before we go into the depths of Resting Path It's worth noting that anytime there's like a resting potion just randomly set in any spot, it's worth grabbing it in this category because not only is this long category but it just helps with improving the routing's efficiency. So in Resting Path, the main goal is to collect the next progression ability which is Slide and Helix already mentioned this, but its's not only going to just basically double our movement speed But it is also necessary for progressing through the rest of the game Keep an eye out if you want me slide- well, you'll notice it. I don't really need to say that, you'll see. But yeah before we go deeper into resting path this elevator didn't activate Before we go deeper into resting path We're gonna quickly make a detour up here to grab another weapon upgrade. This is the bronze scythe and you'll notice that this is quite out of the way The reason why we are going out of the way to grab this is because it actually saves more time To go out of the way and grab the next weapon upgrade And use that for the enemies in that area Than to use the weapon that we previously had Because the damage improvement is just... That massive, so we previously had, because the damage improvement is just that massive. That's going to be a recurring theme for every single weapon upgrade we pick up from here on out and usually the weapon upgrades will be from the scythe weapon class, because that's the most comfortable speedrunning weapon class. The sword is also good but we don't find good enough swords early enough in the run for that to be used by comparison. So, Slide will be dropping from a mini-boss It's funny because this mini boss is actually just two enemies that are regular enemies in the late game section of this area we won't get to see that lakey intersection because it's not part of the category for this one no i like them games do that They introduce something as a boss, then it's a regular enemy later. Yeah, speaking of regular enemies, you'll notice actually already we're seeing all these red icons over almost every enemy we encounter. This is because well well as it turns out it's a metroidvania you're expected to take your good old time exploring every crack and crevice but we don't have time for that we're speedrunners right yeah. And this game has quite heavily RPG mechanics and it takes its inspiration from like Symphony of the Night and Hollow Knight where you can level up by fighting enemies. So in the case of the speedrun we don't have time to fight every single enemy that we come across so the main thing we'll be doing is just dodging enemies to avoid contact damage, which does mean unfortunately that we're going to be quite underleveled for the most of the run. But here's said mini-boss I mentioned earlier. These guys go down pretty quickly and they make funny noises when they get hit. Every time, it's so comical to me the way you just shred these guys! Yeah crowd canceing is really powerful. And there's a reason it's the main combat option for this category. So that was nicely done. We're now going to show off our new capabilities from here on out. Look at that, look how much faster we're going now! It's awesome. You were talking about the slide. So are you keeping momentum from the dash with the slides? Or does it just do that? Yeah, that's right. It is momentum being maintained. You want to cancel the dash as soon as possible into slides so that you can get all of the benefits from momentum without losing... The weird thing about this game is that the dash right away gives you top, so there's no reason to keep the dash duration any longer than it needs to be. So you just cancel it right away into sliding I love how you slide up those slopes so smooth Yeah these inclines are a bit tricky to navigate up normally so the dash timing is a bit more particular than it might appear but right now we're on Field of Geo this is the most cycle-dependent area that we've come across so far. Field of Geo has a lot of dangerous enemies and tight platforming, where if we mess things up like I did just there then you take a lot of damage. So I'm going to quickly take a safety heal and wait for these bomb throwers to reset their cycle. Usually you've got to stand outside of their protection range for that to happen. So yeah, we got the other guy at top to reset. But normally when you come across a field with geo, your health pool isn't fantastic. So as you can see you need to kind of manage your health pool in an intelligent way so that you don't die just before the save point that's coming up, in which case we do have one save point coming up here. I think it should be good to make it. So unfortunately after Ret we traverse from the resting town save point which will take some time so while I make a backup there donations are certainly okay We have some donations coming in that are more than okay, and in fact we have a $1,000 donation from Jaday 0560 says I donation from Jaday, excuse me 0560 says I hope everyone is enjoying themselves for a great cause it makes my heart swell with happiness so incredibly kind we have time for more So incredibly kind. We have time for more? Absolutely. Go for it. All right, Konorikin sent in $10 says picked up After Image sometime back and haven't gotten around to playing it. Looking forward to seeing what I can look forward to! You get to see it all here at GDQ. Yep, you keep going. Alright, I have a $25 donation here from trainer and not even says there are some really cool prizes that i just have to donate towards let me tell you about some of those amazing prizes at that twenty five dollar level trader another has been about some of those amazing prizes. At that $25 level, trainer Anade has been entered into a chance to win a Turnip Boy plushie and a double electric Kirby painting. If you want to see any of these gorgeous prizes for yourself, you can head on over gamesdonequick.com slash prizes. You can see them all. The prizes are great and the site means explaining them has have also been great this event they have been absolutely fantastic i agree with you one thousand percent all right so we're back where we left off. Here's the save point I mentioned earlier. Pretty soon we are going to be encountering the next boss in the next area and that boss will give us the next progression ability, which is called... well not called but it's Double Jump. And packaged with it is Dive Kick and it's honestly my favorite movement new movement upgrade in the game You guys will love it when we come across it, but first we're going to make use of what's called a long jump to grab this next weapon upgrade to use for said boss and usually again the weapon upgrade that you find in a new area is going to be better for The enemies in that respective area than the ones we had before. In the case of this weapon, We're gonna be using its jump attack animation to deal a lot of damage with short hops. And it's a stark contrast from the crouch cancels that you've been using up to this point. But it's certainly worth against this boss because it has like a second phase where it summons feathers and this weapon is much better suited for deflecting those feathers than the scythe. Emerald Falls, fun fact. This is the name of area that we're now in. This has my maybe favorite or second-favorite music theme in the game. The music in this game is just incredible, so that's going to be your current theme throughout. I love the music and just the sound design in general of this game. I was talking about it as we were setting out but i haven't heard it before now and the atmosphere that helps create it just matches the overall aesthetic of the game really well i think yeah it's awesome i i like anytime i'm doing like the crash can still attacks the like the crunch is just so satisfying. It's cool. There's also a couple of enemies that do have voice hacking, but unfortunately we killed them too fast before we were able to hear it. Ah, speedrunners. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and keep quiet for this one. Speedrunners. Yeah. All right, so here's the boss. Its name is lost. I'll go ahead and keep quiet because we need some focus. so Nice. Well done! Yeah, so those were the deflections I was talking about, and now we have double jump. We can dive kick our way through to the rest of these sections. I love dive kicks. Didn't realize dive kicks were bundled with the double jump until just now. Yeah, it also allows you to bounce off enemies and these helicopter things. Oh, that's right! That'll come into play later too absolutely oops oh but yeah we're gonna make a big drop down here uh into the next area called the columns there's a lineup for this so that we can get in the right spot. It's based on these background pillars, so I'm going to try and get it. Nice. So yeah, the columns... All of these enemies are two-shot but fortunately they can be relatively easily avoided. And we'll be out of this area like relatively quickly too. So I'll just go ahead and talk about the next area while we're here. The next area is Ashen Canyon, which is a connecting area that'll lead to the next progression ability, which is called uh...the Clammy Whistle. And the clammy whistle just basically allows us to travel this cute little water overworld that leads us to the rest of the areas that we need to progress through the game. But in order to get the climbing whistle, we need to fight a boss and this boss is located in Town of the Exiled. Town of the Exiled is a little dangerous, but The Boss is even more so because this is like one of the first major choke points we'll come across in this run. House is the name of the boss and she has kind of RNG attack patterns that we'll have to hope things go fortunately for us otherwise she can put us in a weird position where while we do have the ability to die and two with instead of one, it's still a bit troublesome since we don't have the best equipment for tanking like a bunch of hits from her right now. But first, we're just going to take a safety save and then we'll navigate up to her. And Helix, if you will, um, anything about this boss that you think is noteworthy for the audience? Uh, let's see... I have here in my notes that she teleports around, is that correct? Yeah the teleporting and the familiar summoning is a little awkward. It sounds annoying. And there's also just the fact that sometimes, uh... The attack pattern like you get can change how much time you lose for this fight. So if your going for like the top time, we mentioned RNG but we're still gonna be crash canceling her and ideally okay so yeah we couldn't get her to like get stunned out of that attack so I'm gonna go ahead and use a safety potion for this. And we should be fine from here But yeah now we're in phase two Phase 2 she has enhanced versions of previous attacks. Be a little bit more careful. We got a pretty good pattern for phase two so all is well and now it's just the cleanup in the last part and we should be good to go so overall not too bad um well done yeah thanks i keep attacking her at the end there otherwise she would explode for one hit KO by the way so... Yeah that explosion catches everyone off guard the first time so you really need to do enough damage to her otherwise it becomes a big problem. Now that we have the Flaming Whistle, We're ready to head over to the dock where we'll use the Flaming Whistle at And this will allow us to ride a Monterey We're going to befriend him and he will take us through the rest of the areas, but first yet another boss! Yep, and you can see the deflect mechanic come into play again here I believe with these ice crystals There it is. Yep so we have with these ice crystals. There it is. Yep, so with the deflect we're able to get a ton of damage off of it and make the fight a lot faster because the deflection does even more damage than our actual side-standing attack does. But now, hop aboard the Monterey and let's travel to Overworld And we're going to be making a stop at this island to unlock a gate that will take us to the other part of the overworld, because right now it's locked. In the meantime, I should take this time to explain what The Essential is, because I haven't done that yet. The Essential is the name of ending as I mentioned before the run started. There are a total of 10 different endings in this game. So the Essential's one of them and there's also a gag ending that isn't story-related. But in The Essential, the goal is to collect three memory shards before encountering the final bosses of the category. And in that way we achieve a good ending for the main character, Renee. The difference between this and Any% Any% aims for the homecoming ending which is the bad ending for the main character. And in any percent, since the Homecoming doesn't require that much we just basically beeline straight to the end of the game. Whereas in this category we have to do a couple of things out of our way In order to get the memory shards and then go ahead and beat the final bosses from there But yeah, while we make our way to the other side of the overworld This is a good time for maybe one or two donations. Alrighty I have a $25 donation here from Gwiz The Stars. It says $25 for another year of SGDQ. These late night blocks are my favorite. Shoutouts to my monkey ball pal Helix on the couch. Hi, thank you. There was also a little heart at the end of Ender Nation. Yeah, I mean thanks for donating friend! Yeah so we're now in Forest Forgotten We are just making a brief stop here to get an armor upgrade that is going to make the rest of the run safer. Because we are still extremely underleveled, this is actually like a level 50 plus area or so And if were to engage any of these enemies, we would just immediately die. So we're getting this armor piece for Marathon safety and it'll help for the final boss as well because turns out that that final boss we cannot fight in the condition that we end up in, in this speedrun category without some armor. Because she's a very high level strong boss. Yeah, well and especially in a marathon. Yeah absolutely. So we're now making our stop at Holygrounds this is like the central area of the open world And this is yet another area where the enemies are extremely high level compared to us. Yeah, this level expects you to be like level 50 ish, does it not? That's right, yeah. And we're level 9 currently. Yeah, very dangerous. So we're going to be making a lot of sequence breaks here because this is definitely not where we're supposed to be just yet. We are going to bounce off of this dragonfly, thank you very much. I love that. And then after this, we're basically going to be grabbing a scythe upgrade that will kind of just carry us through the rest of the run. It's honestly quite hilarious that we don't really need much else for most of the run beyond this side that we're just about to go, so... But in order to do that, yeah Seek and Spray is coming up here. I had to manipulate the dragonfly a little bit. Yeah, sometimes this movement isn't uniform either so it's necessary to adjust a little bit. So now we're gonna dash our way through the next part of Holy Grants. This is approaching Grand Archives, not just yet but this section is very scary so I'm just gonna have a little bit of silence for this brief amount of time. so Okay. Okay, we made it out. Nice! Yeah so I took one hit that's why we needed the armor because otherwise I would have died to that without the armor. You were seeing Kirushi straight up dash through enemies, because he was going fast enough where he could just dash through them before their collision boxes loaded. And otherwise if he was a little bit too slow he would've gotten hit. And you've seen how much damage those things do now. So close one. Yeah, that's definitely not intended but it is a minor glitch that is allowed and restricted. We are going to just allowed and restricted. And we're now gonna just be unlocking some shortcuts that'll allow us to make it easier to travel through this area when we come back to it, cause yes, we will have to come back to it for some story related events. But for the time being, we're going to make our way out of here and there we are! Yeah so next up is probably three of the hardest areas in any percent. It would be Whispering Forest then Forest Forgotten and Silent Coast. With Spring Forest, the main goal is to collect the next progression ability it's the next progression ability. It's the wall jump ability but there's going to be a sequence break that we're gonna use there to cut down the traversal time by as much as 30 seconds and this sequence break was discovered relatively recently. And I pride myself in it because that is the one that found it, although we do have a different method of employing it for the marathon context. Because the way it works is a little different depending on the frame rate of your game. Interestingly, if you have vsync off then the effect that the sequence break produces is slightly different so let's see if we can get it the first try. Otherwise, as we make our way up to that part some donations are here maybe one or two Sure thing I have a donation from Monkey Thief for $50, who says donating for 10 tickets to the hype train for me and nine others that can't afford it themselves. Putting it towards the showcase as we always want to see more GDQ and Monkey Thief is talking about the newest incentive that just opened up! We have an Easter Egg Showcase for Sonic Project 6 that we are looking to unlock. We need twelve thousand dollars for that, we are on our way at 155! Please keep those donations coming in make sure you click on that showcase so we can see it later today. And here's the sequence, Frank. Yep I'm gonna try to go for like maybe 10 tries and hopefully we get it. But it's very, very close. Yeah. This is quite difficult. There we go Nice Yeah, it's very, very tricky So I'm glad that we got that And minimal number of tries Yeah, that was I think that still saved time. Yeah, absolutely. So we spoke to a robot there she unlocked the portal We're gonna come back to that portal a bit later but first we gotta go down to the boss. Quick safety save. And this boss is known as Failure. I'm not joking about the name. Yes. Failure. Affectionately. Failure guards the next progression ability, wall jump she's going to go down really fast so it's gonna be blink and you miss it So, phase two now. We crouch in a corner and avoid all this Then we just combo it And it'll die. Defeating failure quickly? Well if that's not a good metaphor for the entire event then I don't know what is. Indeed. So yep now we have wall jump um wall jump is not needed to beat the game at least for any percent but wall jump is certainly needed for the essential category because there's an area at the tail end where we're going to be just doing some vertical scaling, and wall jump is absolutely necessary for that. But yeah I mentioned the portal earlier that we unlocked. Before we go back there We are gonna grab quickly an armor upgrade That's gonna help a little bit for the rest of this run. Yep, and... This next area is called Forest Forgon Uh, Forest For gone is a little dangerous that's an understatement but it's honestly not going to get any easier from here there's a boss known as the unstoppable devil and she represents a character that we've actually seen before. This character is the character that we encountered at the beginning of the game And she was basically just telling us to stay out of the events that are taking place currently. We're not really aware of what's going on, again, the main character Renee has lost her memories so she has no clue what's going on so we're gonna end up getting into an engagement with her and fighting her She has a... getting into an engagement with her and fighting her. She has a monster form called the Unstoppable Devil, and that's who we'll be fighting, not directly the character. That fight is coming up here. We're gonna quickly do some talent point mending before the fight though Ideally she won't do an ice rain attack pattern because otherwise that wastes like 8 seconds or so. Yeah and the best way to avoid it is surprise to kill her fastest. Yes. As far as for speedrunners. So yeah some menu in here oh i'm actually not at full health let me go ahead and give myself to cool Nice. She didn't do the ice rain. I love the way the music swells up and just as it's really picking up, the fight ends. Yeah. The story of the speedrun. Yep. So yeah, all done with that fight. Now we're gonna head our way over to Silent Coast And again, Silent Coast is extremely dangerous so hopefully we make it out unscathed Yeah here in my notes it says there are a lot of flying bunnies that dive at you. Yes! Have fun with that out of context if you want, I don't know. Yeah, there's flying bunnies, there's grounded bunnies, There's these littlenies, there's grounded bunnies, there's these little mosquitoes that kind of dive at you. A lot of them using enemies. I was on board until you said mosquitoes. Yeah, mosquitoes are not my favorite either. First we have to just kind of slide under these little armadillo things. They're weird. They bounce all around. There's a way to time sliding under them so you don't get hit, but it's not always easy to connect. So now we've uncovered the name of this area, Forest Forgotten. We're going to take a save here because we're actually gonna come back to Forest Forgot, this spot, this very spot we're gonna come back to later on but for now let's make our way over the south coast and as we make our way over there a donation is okay well good thing i have a donation uh cataclysm sent in five dollars said this event is perfect to scout for new games to enjoy. Afterimage is definitely now on my wish list, but it won't look so smooth when I play it. I'm gonna have to check this game out myself after the end, which I need to thanks. Drawing checkers? This game is gorgeous! It is! So we're now in Silent Coast We're gonna wall jump up here To grab, in my opinion Maybe the second best accessory in the game. It's called Twins Right Rink and it just flat out improves our attack. So who can say no to that? But we're going to make an import. OK let's start. Fair enough. So we are going to save it this confluence because there is a part coming up that runners thoroughly enjoy. Basically, we need to take a boat ride across the misty waters and in order to do so We just speak to an NPC who shows up to light the boat The issue is that this NPC whose name is Ian doesn't always show up for some reason, and the runners don't really have a clue on how make them show consistently so we just gotta hope that Marathon Fortune will be with us and uh, maybe shows up the first time. I mean I get it, its 4am, let them rest! True true, he's taking his deserved time off but until until then we're going to fight a boss. This is Runic Guardian, probably the easiest boss in the run other than Mushwolf. We damage tank that attack because it keeps our DPS up and really has only two attacks. We don't have to worry about it too much. So Runic Guardian down, we're going to speak to this Broome NPC and he'll give us the golden card. And this golden card we have to get Ian if he's even there so let's see if he's there hopefully i won't be surprised if he's still sleeping after all it is rather late in the morning i wouldn't want to show up for work at 4am either it's true it's true so we'll see if he's there if he's not there well we'll get there when we get there. Okay he is there! Let's go! Can you give a round of applause for Ian? What a trooper! Yeah let's go! Like honestly, being there the first time... Pretty crazy. Thank you, Ian! I mean didn't want to miss his appearance live on the GDQ stage. Yeah he knew the stage that we were on. So we're taking this boat ride to meet our mentor maybe one donation here is okay this is the chillest part of it on so far okey doke i have a donation here from pariah 1165 for $25. It says watching to support an awesome run, but also an awesome host. Big shout out to all the hosts that give their time to keep things rolling and being the voice of the event. Donation goes to Sporadicadic's choice which is of course that easter egg showcase for sonic project six that i mentioned earlier we're already up to 260 keep those donations coming in folks You're doing an amazing job. Yeah so we are now on Field of Hydra where we made our boat trip across the waters Um...Field of Hydra actually has no enemies whatsoever. The main purpose here is to reunite with our mentor, Eros and she'll be giving us an important story quest item called the Magic Letter Towel And we will have to use this speak with NPC Owl who's in Holy Grounds in order to perform a ritual of owls to get our memories back Secondarily, we're also going to speak to the NPC below, Eros. This NPC is called Samsara and she's a very powerful goliath She gives us the ability to swim because interestingly Renee doesn't start with the ability to swim, because interestingly Rene doesn't start with the ability to swim in this game. You have to acquire the ability. We actually need the swim ability to beat the game, so it's very important to get that. We're now going to make our way out of here, all the back to the hub town of the game Resting Town and we are just making a quick stop here reinforce ourselves, we are gonna get some enhancement materials and use them as well as the currency we built up to improve our loadout that we've acquired along the way. After this, we're also going to be making a detour to Silent Coast yet again. And we'll be getting an ability called the Divine Seed and this Divine Seed is perhaps the most powerful in the game it's called Geo Chiropace It allows us to tank hits that are taken from behind. In addition to that, it will actually deal a retaliatory attack. So this is going to be very useful for some later sections of this run. But before we do that, Talent Points yet again. And all these talent points will serve an important purpose later on. So we'll come back to that once we get to the later part of the run. Your menuing with those is really fast. You've clearly practiced that? Yeah I try to keep them uniform because that's what helps me remember what I'm actually doing. So yeah here is that section it's very hard so... And that's why this is where these red icons about the enemies actually help out quite a bit Okay, nice. We made it out of there. Well done. Okay so now we can get the Geo Carve-Ace ability. Oops! And we're gonna basically equip it right away The way Divine Seeds work is pretty much exactly how charms work in Hollow Knight if any of you have played it basically it's something that we can equip at save points and it gives us a passive ability okay that's good because i don't know much about holland so thank you for explaining that. Yes, for sure. So we're back in Grand Archives of Holy Grounds and we'll be speaking with the owl NPCs shortly. First we have to get past these mages. So what we're doing here, basically Owl is going to teach us a ritual called the Soul Resonance Barrier Ritual and this is a process that allowed for renee to recover memories the issue is that it's going to get interrupted it's gonna be interrupted by some bad actors one of whom we've actually seen before uh his's trickle question marks back at it, back to our nasty dirty work. So unfortunately because the ritual is interrupted, we have to resume it in a different spot. We're skipping all of it because it takes too long. Yeah. But we have to resume the ritual in all of it because it takes too long. Yeah, but we have to resume the ritual in a different place that possesses the power necessary for performing the ritual and this is located underneath holy Grounds in an area called Sunken Sanctum. Specifically, the area of Sunken Sanctum that we'll be going to later is called God's Hall. And God's Hall contains a relic called the cradle that will allow us to insert memory shards and complete their ritual, hence why we get 3 memory shard for this ending. But before that, we're going to fight in my opinion the best boss in this whole game. This is Valor The First Knight. Probably the most difficult and most satisfying boss fight to learn in the whole run. That goes for any category, really. But the way she works is pretty complex. Yeah there are a couple different attacks that she can do. If she's glowing yellow, she'll do enhanced attacks. All of her attacks can be either version and they both must be dodged in different ways so we've got to pay attention here. Yep, phase one tends to be the most volatile because of that But phase 1 is very clean So... I said phase 1 right? Uh oh, she's not down, okay Yeah we gotta fight her again, all over again The good thing is this phase she does damage over time to herself so all we gotta do is just kinda hold it out. The issue was that her defense is also greatly increased, so we won't be able to do that much damage to her directly but the reason why we're still doing damage to her is because our speedrunners are going So this just speeds up the process of the damage over time. Yeah I was gonna say it's a little bit of a war of attrition but anything we can do to make it faster, we will. Like we keep saying, we're speedrunners. I say we like it's like I've ever played this. I would not be nearly as good. No yeah the philosophy transcends each individual game. That's true, it does! As you will see throughout the week. So yeah this boss fight is just about finished The issue is that you have to dodge this last attack, because this attack fills the whole screen except for the corners and if you get hit by it at one shot so you start the fight all over again uh this is something that every new player gets hit by the first time it's the knowledge check of all knowledge checks but yeah now that she's down uh we grab her sword that she drops this is scorgment, it's a great sword so not the same weapon class as any other weapons we've encountered so far but its important to grab this because were going to be using for the final two bosses It has a weapon skill thats's basically a parry, and I know all of you out there that have played action games before love your parries. So this parry is going to be used as an important method of ensuring that we don't get one shot by one of the final boss's attacks. Yes, extremely, extremely important. So yeah, we're dashing, sliding and making our way over to Sunken Sanctum. And while we do that, maybe one donation is okay here? Sure thing. I have a donation here from Beanie Feeny for $100. He says, this is the first GDQ I'm getting to watch with my son. Even at two months old, he's already fascinated with all the colors in the game so far. Looking forward to seeing his reactions throughout the rest of the week i'm sure if he's awake to see this one he is absolutely fascinated i'm certainly fascinated. I was fascinated when you invited me to commentate for this game, and I saw it, and I'm like that looks sick! Yeah, yeah, this game is truly awesome, and again, it's an honor for me to be running this at GDQ for its first ever time at GDQ. So yeah, we're now in Stuncon Sanctum We just grabbed an armor upgrade It's the same deal as the other armor it's gonna help for late game and this armor happens to give the biggest improvement to our health pool of defense and attack but we're now in sunken sainton uh this is a completely submerged area underwater if there's no enemies there's just electrical cube hazards that we have to make sure not to be hit by. Oh no, not geometry! Yeah, haha, Geometry my worst nightmare too. But yeah now that were out of that section, we're just going down here to grab what's known as the key to god's hall we need this in order to get to the lower most section of um sunken sanctum and god's hall is where we'll complete again all, all of the story-related events that finish off this category. But we're not going to be ready to complete that just yet. We do have a couple other things to do, namely gather some memory shards because we haven't gotten those yet. Exactly. Still need those three memory shards, because we haven't gotten those yet. Exactly. Still need those three memory shards to get the best ending. Interestingly, we have actually one memory shard right now and this was given us by Eros our mentor. She gave us one when we spoke to her in Field of Hydra but we need to find the other two, and their locations are relatively arbitrary This game is very exploration-heavy as it tends to be with lots of Metroidvanias that follow in line with the Simeonth Night and Hollow Knight inspiration. But these two memory shards, in particular, make make the bulk of the rest of this run uh the quest to get them so um we're gonna get past this last water section of god's hall or excuse me sunken sanctum make our way through god's hall this is the door leading to it and we're gonna make a save at this last confluence in god's hall um because we're going to come back here later. But again, we are not yet ready to do the last sort of things for this run. So once we do that We're gonna go all the way back to Forest Forgot. Thought it was forgone, why are we going Back here? Well... We need to get a progression ability for one of the memory shards. This progression ability serves exactly one purpose, and it's this one memory shard. This progression ability is known as... well, it's got a- I think it's called Plate of the Kingdom or something. It's basically just Ground Pound, Ground Smash, Ground Break, however you want to call it. It's guarded by a boss known as Xenowatcher. And this boss doesn't have too much interesting about it, because Xenowatcher is acting up a little bit there towards the end but we now have Groundbreak We're going to make our way back to Whispering Forest and get the Memory Shard that I mentioned earlier locked behind Groundbreak. The Memory Shard itself is actually not in Whispering Forest, it's in Frozen Veins and Frozen Veins is probably the smallest area in the game, but thankfully we don't need to spend too long there anyway. It's just the Memory Shard and then we're out of there. So while we make our way over to that memory shard, a donation is okay. I just want to remind everybody that in addition to our incentives, we also have all kinds of big wars open you can bid on the we have three of them coming up for live a live including even bid on masaru takahara's name you can bid bid on Oboru Maro's name. You can bid on Pogo's name. All of those are open right now. Do remember to click on those incentives and bid worse when you're getting no donations in to doctors without for us yeah so we're back in whispering forest again after giving the memory shard just one more area left in the run. However, this is the most dangerous area in the run by far. Probably one of the most dangerous areas in the whole game. This is Albedo Tower. It's a long trek up vertically so we're going to be making use of that wall climb ability that we collected long ago and quite an abundance. There's gonna be a safety save at the very beginning of this section because it's very long again and all these enemies are hilarious. There's boulder throwers, there's laser beams, There's elemental birds. It's got it all. Things are going to get very cycle-dependent here pretty soon as well. Yeah, that's right. Some of the best time save that is possible in this area you have to make some very, very tight cycles In the marathon context they're a bit too risky to go for so we are just going kind of go through the motions and see whatever we're given adjust based on that but the first thing we're going to do when we get to this central section of albedo tower is we're gonna unlock a mechanism on the far left in order to grab our last weapon of Grade of the Run. This weapon is known as the Sen no Zen. It's not a weapon class of the scythe or greatsword,'s actually of the blade or the katana, and this weapon allows for us to deal additional damage to enemies when they're in an attack animation. The real reason why we're getting this weapon though is because not only is its attack value high enough for the purposes that it'll serve in the rest of this run, but also it improves our health pool on top of that so it's something that is really important and useful for the last part of this run. Turns out we're going to need it for the very, very last boss of the run too And I'll leave that bosses identity as a surprise for now but as a surprise for now, but as a hint it'll be a familiar character. This game and its familiar characters keep doing this! Yeah some of these characters just can't help it but to have the front row stage... I mean, I'm sure there's world building involved, we're going way too fast for that! No time for character development or anything. So this last mechanism we're activating is just for getting to the upper section of Albedo Tower, so that these gears can move and all of that. And then after this, there's going to be a gauntlet fight that is really the last major roadblock before we get to final Memory Shard. Because actually it turns out that the Memory Shard is the only purpose that we're even in Albedo Tower in the first place, and it's unfortunate because the trek is extremely long just for this one simple memory shard. But it is necessary, so we can't ignore it unfortunately. I think it makes sense why this is a separate category then. Yeah. It's distinct enough from any percent despite not really having that much on paper in addition. It's distinct enough that it's its own category and we can all enjoy the American the American context because who doesn't like good endings here? Exactly. I'm sure some people do, but save Kill The Animals is a popular bit of work for a reason But still, I am a good ending enjoyer so here's the gauntlet. Yep, this wave is like the most chill one because the verge just kind of died at the same spot we could kill them together these last couple waves are mix and match of the previous enemies. This is the last wave here. Plus level up. That actually restored my health, so that was excellent. Oh nice! Didn't know it did that. Yeah, worked out quite well. So yeah, that's the last major roadblock. There is just one more annoying little laser section here I'm going to try and hit a tight pogo to save some time Hopefully the bird cooperates Looks like we got it, let's go! Nice! Thank you bird! So...we're all done with Albedo Tower Just going under this water to get the last Memory Shard Then we've got the final bosses. Yeah, and you may be looking at that estimate and thinking, wait, we're already coming up on the final bosses? Yeah, and Kirushi has been destroying that estimate as of late. Yeah, when I first submitted this category there was still a lot left to be explored and optimized. But since then I've been practicing quite a lot And yeah we got a good time for this category consistently So here we are, we've got a good time for this guy to reconciliate. So here we are. We're inserting the Memory Shards in the cradle I mentioned before but the bad actors are back. Uh-oh! Feel another aura. This is Guided to the Shadow Moon. We fought her in the beginning of the game. This is her real name. Obviously, you guys didn't think her real name was triple question marks right? DAN GALPINSON- Dang it! What if I did? What if I wanted it to be? Sorry, disappoint. So yeah that's phase one very quick Phase two is unfamiliar She turns into this translucent being where she has attack patterns that...she teleports from different sides of the screen, summons light rays and light beams. This attack is annoying because it wastes a lot of time but it's still fine to dodge. But yeah, no different from other combat engagements in the rest of this run we're still just using the crash cancel attacks If she does the portal strike, we should see the parry. Oh there it is! There's the parry. Oh, there it is. Not on Q. There's a parry. Unfortunately we got to use only once but that's okay. So she's down But we've got one more fight to go And just a forewarning Time's gonna be coming up once this boss fight ends. It's gonna be when the health bar disappears so it'll be blinking you missed it. And so this is... wait Renee? Yeah why are we fighting her? I'll leave that as a mystery if any of you play this game. I gotta go play this game. You all should go play this game! So yeah, this boss is very, very difficult to fight. You all should go play this game. So yeah, this boss is very, very difficult. Um, all of her attack patterns are huge. Her hitboxes, she life steals. Uh, she has a two shot on almost everything and on phase two there's this attack that's full screen then i need to hit a parry for otherwise at one shots and after do both the previous fight in this fight all over again. I was just about to say, if Rishi dies here, you must do both fights again. Yeah, so that'll be a pretty happy time loss. We're hoping for that not to happen. Thanks for the parry of the sound cue so I'm just going to listen out for that once it appears There it is. I think that might have been too early. Oh no, we got it! Sometimes it's hard to tell because the animation looks a little different sometimes when you freeze. But yeah, time's gonna be coming up here we're almost done there it is. That's time. Yeah, wow! So yeah that run apart from a few hiccups It went extremely well I would say There's a lot that can go wrong which is why we have a fairly generous estimate even with what i mentioned about the category being further optimized but hope you all enjoyed it nonetheless in terms of shoutouts i just have the afterm and start off with a shout out. I'll give you the screen for that, if you want to comment on this one or less. In terms of shout outs, thanks to everyone supporting me through my speed running speed game ever. I got into this game last July, and it's what brought me here so it's been a great honor for GDQM to accept accepted it for SGDQ 2024. Yeah you mentioned this was this games first gdq appearance but this is also your first GDQ appearance. Yeah that's right yeah it's been like a tremendous blessing I enjoyed my time here and I enjoyed this run and Helix I have to thank you very much for tagging along for the commentary for this as well. I mean, thank you for having me and hey, if you didn't tell me this was your first time here I would not have known you are an NFL player. Thank you so much. Yeah, um... Yeah, so apart from that I also have to shout out the driver's colony folks. You guys know who you are thanks to those of you that donated as well and yeah, apart from that if you guys are interested in catching anything I do whether it's live streams, game playthroughs I do all of it on YouTube. Youtube.com slash KarushiDrive and please do check out the speedrun community for After Image if you're interested We have a wonderful but tight-knit community and um yeah i think that's about it That's what I call dedicated fans. The return! The return of the smartball. This isn't going safe place. Decades. It's only been decades, and it's time for a comeback that's all I gotta say. Who are you? Jigas Blue? Tiger! Wow. Slurper Ninja, Starwind and... Buffalo Boom. Back at it again. The return! After decades. at it again back at it again the return the return after decades after decades oh man so we're back with a very well-known super nintendo game intelligence sphere intelligence guys that's just that's just smart intelligence fear. Intelligence fear. Guys, that's a smart ball. Smart ball? Why do you think it's smarter than us? At least you know. I only had a 15 on my ACT twice, so that's why I'm really here. That makes sense now. 1991, what a time to be alive all right timer countdown three two one go oh my gosh quick draw mcgraw he scared me uh that's it yes there is oh very smart what does ball mean baller this is the first time I'm actually seeing you. You did it! Good morning, everybody. We already have a dove. There's one for the real ones. Yes, he wasn't very smart was he? That was not... Very ee-aw right there I wasn't intelligent enough Oh time to go to town okay we're going to town on this one i was wondering is that the whole stage that's the first stage yeah it's like three seconds 1a 21 seconds so i'm assuming after where are the cowboys? We'll get to them. They're coming later? Are they in the town? No, they're in the city. Oh my god! They're firebirds! Does it just remind you you that your a ball? I was like, oh! Oh my god! That is a big chicken. B stands for bird. Just in case you weren't smart enough to know... I wasn't, I thought it sounded like a bird! Oh my god. So where are we now? We're under construction. Okay, alright so we got a sewer level Very standard Very standard Super Nintendo You never want to go through a construction until you got under it? Look at that face! He's just happy to be a goo ball? Can I just ask? That's a big question. Is there lore to this game? Yeah, what's the lore behind it? I mean, why are you doing what you're doing? Why is Blue Ball going on an adventure? There's no lore just uh so you're you're the main character jerry okay and you're a prince and europe wait your prints yes And you're a prince and... You're a, wait, you're a prince? Yes, and you're going out to marry the princess but your brother gets jealous and hires a wizard that turned you into a smart ball. Oh! I'm serious. Is that why the word? Is that why his name is Jelly? Abracadabra SmartBall So this is a story of jealousy, wizardry and jelly That. That's what you're telling us? That's why his name is Jerry. It looked like there was a little too much jelly in that down hand. I'll be honest. He's sometimes red in the middle. What does that mean? He's getting smarter. I middle. What does that mean? My name got the red ball. He's getting smarter. I thought he was a blue wall. He's getting smart? Yeah. Oh, gosh. He evolves. And he's a spider. It's the intelligence sphere. The intelligence sphere? It's the intelligence sphere. The intelligence sphere. Yeah, still no cowboys! Let's go on. They're coming. Are they robot cowboys? No, they are on their way don't worry about it. I trust you! They'll be trust you they'll be here they'll be here guys look let's be honest oh what is that you're getting by a swarm of birds migrating south oh it's gallagher. What is that? Greatest cross you're throwing an iron at them are they turning into fish and then Not the one cycle You were trying to go for a one second right there all right i had to reset that emulator you got to do your dance yes i've already guys y'all said it earlier who is our host sporey hey i'm their host sporadic erotic we need the donies. What can I do? We need some donuts for this jelly donut. Donaronis and cheese. Hit it, Sprattick. I got them. I got them. a crutching lesson in five dollars says snooping as usual what could that mean there's some letters capitalized in this donation i get the feeling you already know what they are i don't know yes i don't yeah i'm so out the loop. It's all right. Who was it that donated? Crunchy Lex. Crunchy Lex sent that in. Hit him, Sprattic. Sprattic make it erratic with donations. Let's do it. All right. I mean if you want more make it a radical donation. Let's do it. Alright, I mean if you want more, I got more. I got all kinds of donations coming in. Kurt Tyson sent in $25 said good luck everyone. The moon that wanes also sent in 25 no donation just generosity we have a 50 donation from an anonymous donor and wow anonymous is feeling really generous they turn right around and donated 75 And wow, anonymous is feeling really generous. They turn right around and donated $75 to... That's what I feel like... That equation really coming in. Jerry Jelly would be an anonymous donation. Look at him. He's not letting anybody know who he is. He's just kind of like, I don't want people to know I'm a piece of jelly! I don't have bones, help! He's like if I found a biscuit it would be delicious. He's like I don't want them to know I'm intelligent. Back to the easy question. If you were a little jelly donut ball, Would you eat yourself? I knew I would. Sproutick hit it! Answering those hard hitting questions. Do you have the answer sure everybody's very very grateful for those answers you know i just want to talk to everybody about some big wars actually i want to talk about the naming good wars we have coming up for level 11. i want to talk about the naming good wars we have coming up for Level 11. I wanna talk about how, for Pogo's name, Cheryl is now in the lead! Cheryl! 69! I will say, in second place we have the very popular Bingus at 55 You know so if you're feeling strongly about bingus you get that donation What just happened? Wait a second What did you just fight? That looked like a toot cloud! You're in the spaceship?! Yeah, we are going to the moon. It's a crossover with Waldo. I'm going to go find Waldo! First off, I just need to say happy proversary but... Oh yeah, happy broversary, bro. How many years has it been? Decades. Why do you play the weirdest games every time you don't play a normal, regular game? Because they keep accepting them. This is the early morning block because this is the early morning block. This is the Giygas Blues Block. This is a classic, remember this definitely It's just gonna come out on the switch real soon can't wait you're first off bunnies on the moon yeah they're here for the cheese I'm seeing the same constellation. Where's Waldo? We're getting there. Make it make sense with more donuts. I can actually make it make sense with context because it's a Japanese cultural thing that there is a bunny making mochi on the moon and that's why they're bunnies on the moon you're welcome that was so deep oh that's more allure for the story it's more lore than you were ever expecting over here in this lifetime oh yeah i'm fine i knew that i just didn't want to say it what is this that's the consolation looks like i'm a chop It's like a... Are you popping his wheels? Why is this so regular? He's falling! You're falling back to earth. This is the most exciting... Are you ready for those cowboys? This is Dragon Ball Z level. You ready for those cowboys? They're coming! The most exciting run of the entire marathon and everybody who slept through it is going to be so, so sorry Enjoy the vibe They always are sorry yeah because they missed it It's not a threat! No, no. You're having a good time! We had a good time! Why do you attack by sniffing the air? A threat or a promise. Okay Gygus, you wanna explain anything about this game that makes any sense? A fish? That's a fish. Sea urchins spikes sea urchins, spikes. It's good to know that this little ball of smartness is always in a good mood. You can't bring them down. He's like I'm gonna go get this girl that my brother stole i'm gonna put her i won't eat or bring her home because i'm jelly i ain't a jealous man but i'm a man after revenge so now you're going to wail? Yes. Whales! I love whales. Inside whales? Do I need to actually explain lore, or are we good? Well... Please do! I need more lore. Come on. In the Japanese version of the game there's a lot of Please do. I need more lore. In the Japanese version of the game, there are actually NPCs and towns in between levels And they're cut out from the US versions so that it's quicker The whale is an NPC town Oh. Wow, that was a close speed run. The whale is an NPC town. Oh. You go inside the whale and talk to him. So there's no context whale sign in the American series? Yes. So you're telling me there's a Kojima level story this is that strange before this is what the debt streaming is yeah j Jerry's the baby! He's a little baby! This game is too smart so they had to change it for that stand thing. What do you think that penguin talks like? It goes... It goes... What do you think that penguin talks like? He looks really insecure about putting on button-up shirts. Not like me! No, huh? Not like ME. I promise. Penguin goes, I see penguin go... We're getting deep lore for folks on the couch now. Oh lord! and deep lore for folks on the couch now Give me... We broke her. Allow me to flake at you with the generosity of the lovely people watching this stream. Nick said, and $50 says, now this brings back memories from my childhood. I couldn't beat Smartball without the help of my game genie. Do not knock the deep, Lord. Thank you for keeping me and my month-old daughter company this early in the morning." You know what? It's an honor. It's a true honor to keep great company with Jelly Donuts. Jerry... Look at that thing are you just running through these towns destroying everything yes are you the real enemy oh my gosh yes jerry has the face of a chiller know that a.m to see the smart ball run because i don't think i believe it was real otherwise oh my gosh well let me tell you this is technically oh gosh i'm just waiting for the race of this game one day. It's so tiny. A third time it's in a TDQ? You can tell me that there is speed tech in this game and I wouldn't believe you! There is plenty of speed tech in this game and i wouldn't believe you there is plenty of speed tech in the scary direction watch your signature sound like a jelly where's the speed tag where's the glitches where's the stuff that makes it good he's smart are you implying that this is not good because this is amazing well maybe i'm not smart enough to keep up with our internet. That laugh is so funny! Holy cow! You're literally just a few polar bears? Penguins? I think you're legit the enemy of this story. They're just trying to defend their own. I'm trying to focus on this video. Why'd you die?! I can't keep focus on this. Can you remind me? Why'd you die? This is Yelly Dung. Oh, my phone doesn't know who I am because I have a cowboy hat on. It's like... have a cowboy hat on I can't play right now. This jelly donut reminds me of my second stepdad, he was not a friendly person to polar bears. He's one of those people that is like you know electric cars are actually worse for the environment anyways sporadic i think we need some more downies she can talk who are you august sent in five dollars and says Sun Tzu's first rule in the Art of War never let them know you've been turned into a jelly donut. I read that one. I'm very familiar with the yeah only pull your iron ball i have a scroll on my home with that on it so that's required reading before this run slap us with another downy. I wasn't smart enough to understand that one. I really hope this is not your first time watching, first time doing it. Even our photographer's laughing their butt off. InfraBread said in $50 says I have no idea what is going on and i want it to stay that way keep doing whatever it is you're doing If you wanted to say it that way keep doing whatever it is you're doing if you wanted to say it that way now we turn into a top-down rpg oh my perspective was ruined look at that look at that look at him okay He's mashing! Yeah, Steven! So now you're about to do a break and entering right? That's the house? Oh, you don't actually perform the v and e that's what breaking in right i got you i got you it's the airbnb this is uh this is the very serious question still no cowboys we're getting that soon why did you ask me to be here oh my gosh sporadic stoneys lose it at ten dollars says i've been watching for years and this is the hardest time left wow We haven't even eaten yet. I've been waiting for something good to happen. I'm going to turn the console on. I'm stuck. You're stuck? Oh my god! That was speedrun tech, alright. Yes, yes! First try. Applause? First try. Don't make that mistake. Literally first try. It's true. It's one of those things where I watch this and I feel all these feelings, And then I think well you know that never happens. You've never felt feelings? I've never felt any feelings before. Oh my gosh! Bonesaw is ready. Bonesaw is ready. What is that thing? It's still alive! I've got you for three minutes. Three minutes of race time. That fish was not the cream of the crop, I'm afraid. The one up? THE ONE UP?! You're not gonna get the one up? It looks like you need it. You keep dying. I'm so ready, Atticus in ten dollars says ten dollars towards the star windows couch commentary for every game incentive what are these people don't worry that's good that's the cowboy. Don't worry. That's the Calvary? The Cowboy. They're practicing for the Summer Olympics. That was a horrible version of a cowboy. Shout out to the olympians that was the that was the smartest ball of cowboys why are we shouting at the olympics did you not see the person doing whatever shot put? I don't know what they're called. Man, he had a ball swinging on a chain in a circle! I don't know what it's called! That's called being on the ball. Eyes on the ball. Spread it, I know you got them. I absolutely do! $25 here from Facebook. I absolutely do. $25 here from Frankie who says, I've never been happier to be nocturnal. Smart Ball has changed my life! Don't forget... ball and also iron I'm tired. I'm so tired. Is that what you said? Iron, iron, iron. Yes. Someone has something in common with me. Number one weapon or maybe like number three weapons. Somebody tell me. Number three smart ball. I'll say it. This is a very good question. I think this is the most important thing for us to do. We have to be able to get out of our comfort zone and not just go back to the Maybe like number three weapon. Somebody tell me. Number 3 Smart Ball? I'll say it, this has a lot of Mega Man vibes if Mega Man all the sudden just got turned into literally like a piece of goo How do you feel about this story? Top 5 Mega Mans, number five Smart Ball How do you feel about this? Mama said I wasn't a smart man, I'm a smart ball. Mama said I wasn't a smart man! I was a smart ball! Son...son you're a smart ball. Oh who's this? The wizard. Oh you broke into the wedding! Yeah, I was not lying about the lore. Kyrgyzst! So what do you do? You just blink? No, I gotta fight Smartball. That's mama! That's the biggest Smartball ever seen. Kirby!! She just became the intelligence spear. Did you already beat Jellybean? I didn't That was a jelly What just happened? That was a jelly donut inside of a jelly donut Alright, before it's over, spread a kiddo with the deli. VanMan229 sent in $25 says, It's a shame I fell asleep before this smart ball run because I'm pretty sure I'm having a fever dream and I really wanted to know what Jerry's up to. Yeah, Jerry? What's the deal with these big jelly bones? There is one person in the audience that laughed at that. That's great! I'm hitting the road with that ax. Oh my gosh... Don't worry, they're coming. Wait, so what's happening now? So like there was lore right? Like you fucked the boss but not the bot. What's happening? Did you not hear the music? This is last level music. Okay, all right, okay. Thank you. Get us with another downy. Get us with one more. Which is sufficient and $11 says I've never been so glad I can't sleep. Thanks for this. Yeah, I'm so glad I woke up for this. You were asleep like literally 20 minutes ago. Do I look like I was asleep 20 minutes ago? Because I'm thriving on it! Does this look like a man who's like 20 minutes ago because i'm throwing it on you that this looks like a man who's glad i find him in the back he better wake up i'm here to party i mean for a good time not a long time if you know come on when you finish this i will give it a yee-haw that's ganon yeah that was that's the game that's the gaming pose that was a ko jump if I ever saw one. Did you beat him? I just noticed it says Jerry in the corner right here. That's not a joke! In case you're wondering what Jerry is up to. Jerry the Jam Why is this ten minutes of like, second phase? Oh so there's dialogue in the Japanese version and they just ripped it out oh god i got a little scared there and time you know what let's give a big e-hall for that that run of a jelly donut come on baby so did we find out why he's fine are there cameras Come on, baby. So did we find out why he's flying? Are there cowboys? Oh my gosh! Shoutouts to cowboys. There they are. Hey, there they are. There they are. During this emotional cutscene can you hit us with a downy? Flashing warning on credits. I got $10 from Skithnair who says welcome to Buffalo Boone. We're raving intelligence here early in the morning for all of the ridiculousness in this game you all miss commenting on a naked enemy boy waving a torch no one noticed that i can't believe nobody brought that up well thank you there was an npc with a torque yes here's what y'all are gonna have to check your blood that's what he was doing you were too busy yeehaw wow that game was something else. That was Dan? Very smart. You know what I would give shoutouts but I don't want any of my friends to see this. This was developed by Game Freak. Got any shadows? I'm sure that means something really important. They made Pokemon. What's Pokemon? What in our nation is a Pokemon? Uh, Pokechoo. Pokechoo! This is the story of Ditto. This is his omissions. I think it was after estimate. No, maybe 20-25 on the dot. What? Good year? Yeah, like 2020. 2025 that's when you're gonna come back and play this game again right yeah oh god don't call me i'll submit another seven years, just like last time. It's been decades. We've been waiting on that race! Yeah, that smartball race. Who is going to run this game? The Mega Man? who's going to run this game. I'm out, I'm out. The Mega Man? This is a Mega Man game, number five. I won't touch this with the 10-foot pole, I'll tell you that. We're going to get that serious Sam 16 player call. Smart ball at the end end smart ball at the end wow game freak give your game free wow you were right thank you pokemon people what do you have anything to say for yourself not really shout outs to everyone that showed up too oh yeah yeehaw like 4am Oh yeah, Spiridia Radish. Welcome! Welcome! You're welcome. Uh, yeah you can probably say stuff important... Now is the time to say important stuff please do I thought I said everything Bye friends see ya next week...in see you next time until next time shout outs to shadows Hello, hello. Forgive me I have this frog in my throat. You know it's the Sego clock hours but glad to be back as always to SGDQ supporting Doctors Without Borders. This is my first time on stage for SGDQ, being part of GDQ for a number of years now always again You'll go back to Mother Run runs broken record always forever grateful for these opportunities and so here we are shinobi's back baby Shinobi's back! I wasn't ready for that Shinobi was last on the main stage, I think back in... It was completed in AGDQ 2012 by UltraJMan who had a great commentator by the name of Mike Uyama. So that was really cool to absorb that history and also getting to speak with Ultra J Man before so shout-outs to both of them for paving the way for me to be here today. With that, I'm going to go ahead and let my commentators introduce themselves. Before we do that, we also want to shout out shinkensu yes yeah and then uh do you want to do you have any dedications ah yeah yeah so um yeah first the shinjinsu shinkenzu is my partner in crime when it comes to this game a big inspiration for the speedrun I hope he goes and kills it at EVO this year which is why unfortunately he couldn't be here with me today but love you Kinsu hope uh, you know I hope you kill it there and then yeah. This run will be dedicated to Furious Paul for a speedrunner well known in the Castlevania community who's a big inspiration of mine and others especially for Super Castlevania IV which is a game I love. So we lost him earlier this year. You can go back into the history of GDQ and you can see that he has several runs just showcasing his amazing talent And so yeah, this run is dedicated to Furious Paul. And thank you for that reminder. And now let me pass it to my commentators just to introduce themselves. Since I'm already talking we'll just go here first. So I'm Brutal Mellow. First of all, I also just want to double up that shout out. Kensu, good luck at EVO. 90% of my commentary is based off stuff I learned from you, uba f 2023 we did this this commentary for cyphers run there but yeah you know mellow i you'll see me all over here but you can follow me on twitter trying Try to get to a thousand followers. Do that. That's it. Alright and I'm pleasantly twisted. I am on the couch watching this and being gently reminded that we've seen this at UBAF 2023. For those of you who don't know, I'm the one that actually puts together UBAF 2020, all of them, on Juneteenth We just had an event last weekend, so you should definitely check us out support us because it was a lot of fun, lots of high energy Thank you so much for the crowd behind us as well And I'm kind of here here, and I do stuff. I'm a little bit everywhere so I'm pretty sure that I am underselling myself but when we get towards the end I'll think about everything ideally My name is DE Cosmic And I am a runner in this game I mostly run individual levels I've done that on an online level My name is DE Cosmic and I am a runner of this game. I mostly run individual levels, I've done that on and off for a couple years. I love this game, I love PS2 action games so I'm really excited to be here and support Cypherain while he's showing off one of the best PS2 action games of all time. Take it away, man. Final shoutouts always to my family. My wife was like you better shout me out to my Pandora I love you. You look at see I wore the shirt I told you so also shout outs to big sister who says if you don't shout me out I'm gonna get you later. So Tracy, I love you. To my mom and dad, my big brother, my nephews always the world to me. So Eric and Zachary, I love you and hope you can always look back at this and have a reminder how much i love you both uh so yeah i will let cosmic explain the category once i get into the game but start will be when i hit new game here uh and i'll give a countdown we got kicked out because of the demo in three two one go yeah so joe musashi uh joe is the original protagonist of the shinobi series we're gonna be playing him instead of hatsumo who's the main character of this entry uh joe does not have this corrupted sword i believe it's called the akajiki so he's going to do less damage than both of the other playable characters that we would otherwise be playing he also has access to unlimited kunai throws, but unfortunately his kunai do not stun. This game is organized into a series of hallways and rooms where you're going to be either taking out enemies like Cypherin is right now or we're gonna be taking out stone pillars. We're gonna do this in order to get through these red barriers here you're gonna see Cypherin do this thing here called a tate that is when I believe I believe, four or more enemies are killed on screen in a quick succession and then a cutscene plays. The IGT or in-game time actually pauses during these cutscenes. If you kill enemies in rapid succession, your sword deals more damage so the game is very friendly to you if you're going fast which is pretty nice. Pretty nice I gotta say. If I may jump in really quick, this incentive for Joe was hit because of you, the viewers watching. Thank you so much for your donations for Doctors Without Borders, because otherwise I'd be playing a different category. Take it back Cosme. So we're going to do this cruising through here. This is actually gonna be too-too different from how the game would normally progress because Hatsuma, uh, the main character would not have his corrupt sword at this point. So we are kind of operating on, you know, like cruise control right now. Um, and we also have... I guess we'll get to the ninfo here in a little bit here, but you'll see in the bottom left corner there where the ninja symbol is with the crescent moon. That is actually going to be our health bar, so keep an eye on that when things get dicey but there's another tank down if you thought that infected uh you know military weaponry started with double may cry 2. this game was actually two months prior so here's a little bit of game history for you and we're gonna be heading into you know speaking of more demonic military weaponry we got the infected chopper I think it's just piloted by fire. Yeah and helicopters are kind of a staple in Shinobi games. Absolutely yep. Boom done. There was the fire oh, by the way. It's dead. Just two firing infos to the cockpit. So tutorial level clear? I really... If you don't know anything about Shinobi it's a lot of like cool quick kills, fancy stylish fights and then bosses that you have to line everything up if the camera works out for you well To try and get quick kills on. A lot of blind trick shots too, throwing the kunai Yeah there was another kunai shot there So this is actually going to be one of those levels where we're going to be taking down stone totems and those stone totems are going to replace the enemies as our primary objective on these sections because shinobi it effectively has 16 levels but it's only labeled as like eight but they're organized into sections of a and b here's the lightning info it's gonna give us a lot more movement speed or it's going to turn into an X briefly for like four or five seconds I'll just speed on through here Boom done Outta there. So speaking of lore items for the audiences at home and people like me who don't know Why exactly do you have infected helicopters and stuff? I don't know. Sensational, love that prize That's like the best type of lore dump I think more than anything No i'm being very serious because Shoppers are cool So there is are cool. So there is a thing with PS2 action games, and I've noticed this a lot, is that they just love helicopters as boss fights. Mm-hmm. So there's like, I mean, I could probably name like, I don't know, there's Cys was one. Shinobi is one. Devil May Cry 2. Man, I'm like blanking right now. I had a whole list ready to go and now we're just done but we're going to go into the boss fight now and this is actually Metal Gear? If Metal Gear was on PS2? Metal Gear yeah. Straight up. And then this is gonna be Moritz here today. This is a character that we would have been playing if y'all hadn't donated. He's gonna eat two fire nimpo to the back, nothing personal... and get him out of here. That was a great quick kill. Good job, Cypherin. Thank you. Yeah, you got a DAS behind him right there in that perfect moment. Generally speaking whenever you're behind somebody anything you do to them just does more damage so positioning in a lot of these fights is going to be very key To getting optimal quick kills Shoutout to the soundtrack 2A That's bumpin' It's my favorite song in the game I'm sure for Shinkensu if kinshi is watching it is as well it has uh if you listen it has entered a dragon vibes to me very nice has enter the dragon vibes to me very nice oh well you say a nice little jazz yeah as well okay eating that man's ankles up i think this is also the introduction of at least the easier dogs, right? Yes. There's multiple dogs! Yeah there are multiple dog enemy types. It's one of the few games that can say that about. There are multiple dog enemy types. And they do get progressively harder, smaller hitboxes. Okay, the smaller hitbox is not okay. That does reduce the key points by at least about five. When introducing this game to PT, PT's like oh I love dogs and you do. And I was like no not these. Not me. They're not great. I mean they got the little sashes on and they look very cute. They might just be coming up for a little bit of a heckin' good boy head pat. You never know! The only-the only good dog at sgdq is pb oh yeah you also get introduced to the uh tengu men yeah biggest normal mobs in the game on bosses yeah one of the biggest yep and they have a lot of health so typically we'll go for those last in the waves in the upper right corner of the screen once a wave spawns you'll see different symbols. And that basically just tells us how many enemies are in a wave that's currently active. As more symbols on that light up and you also see Joe's sword glow different colors it moves from blue to straight up red that will show you roughly how much attack power you have, the more purple or red it is the more people are going to die here I have to the more people are going to die quicker. I have to say, too, these cutscenes where you just kill all the enemies after shooting your sword never gets old to me. I agree, Joe. He did it again just for I agree, Joe. It's just so good. He did it again just for you. I know we said that these are the easier dogs but they're still not easy. They can jump away from here at times aside from doing a great job here. And some of the men I think are giving a little bit more trouble than some of the other things because they've been kind of spread out and just doing whatever they feel like a little bit. So I didn't get a chance to ask you, is today's Sash long enough for you? No it's not. Okay. If you know anything about Shinobi Hatsuma who was not on the docket to be played at any point because in the 2020 fall run by UltraDrainMian we play Hatsuma. So Syphrim trying to be nice, trying to give you something fresh, not picking the most stylish character uh hatsuma has like a 14 foot long red scarf i'm sorry melo i'm sorry we had to give him something new yeah yeah we have to bring him something new. Yeah, that's right. We had to bring him something fresh as well when playing as Joe. So if you didn't know Joe is the hardest character arguably the least efficient character to play and we definitely are prepared for this. I mean but he has unlimited canines so surely that should help info here did not hit them in the back unfortunately we're gonna try and get this done so he's just gotta take down at least one of them. All right, there we go. Just going to use the damage from the two guys here get him cornered nice cleanup so far. Alright, this is one of that you'll see immediately sort of a problem with Joe not having Kunai that's stunned because Hatsumaru and Moritsune would have just stunned both his bosses and just taken them out. But nothing doing, I think we're about to get out of here. Dang, the dog caught a stray, but it's fine. There's a lot of layers today All right moving into 380 Alright. Moving into 3A here, so this stage if you didn't think that the game was cool enough already now there's...oh this is 2B I'm getting ahead of myself yeah this stage are really cool so we're going to start out this stage here by doing some stone totem throws here and i believe this is... Is this the one with the blind throw on it? Yeah, that's right. So we're gonna take out that one and then Siphon's going to stay in a specific spot Then do a jump to the right and left take out both the totems moving on nothing doing easy try every time you're going to cut the corners a little bit here too to save on some movement kunai burst to take out all of the totems here and then moving forward Another kunai throw dash cancel through I do want to say that the movement in this game even though it looks a little stiff once you get used to this game, even though it looks a little stiff, like once you get used to this game, it is so fun and so fluid to play because you can dash cancel out of everything in this game. And you have like a double jump and everything just right off jump. It's so fun Yeah, it's important really to get those stone pillars earlier because as you see even after you clear them all it still takes a few moments for the walls to drop. Yep, absolutely. So I was going to ask about that next is do they have the same amount of stone pillars for every single B level or is it different per B level? Like more later on, less earlier. It seems like it's generally the same amount but I feel like this one in particular has more than some of the later levels that we're seeing because I feel like they are trying to really tutorialize and get you used to what you're supposed be doing in a general structure of the game. And then later on the focus becomes very much traversing the different platforming while getting to the different stone pillars as opposed to just the existence of the pillars themselves. And then we're seeing... Listen, you gotta use that height to your advantage. Gotta get their ankles. Ankle snatching. And then we're getting back into the chopper again. Yeah, demon-possessed helicopter. you can tell because it's red yeah and he's also got the eyes above the fire yes sauron are you there this is far looking from a distance. New deity, who is? Lord of the Rings was modern Why would you go into a tower when you can go into a helicopter That extra mobility is taking them far hey nice quick i love the slow walk at the camera very nice all right so now 3A. Yes? In case you didn't think this game was cool enough, now we're going to see armored dogs that carry like double-bladed knives in their mouth. Yeah! I think these dogs are cool and I won't be taking any questions on the commentary thank you yeah these dogs can block they just have a knife in their mouth and and they just block. My favorite part is that their animation doesn't change. They just tank like this. And they're like, nah dude, you gotta have to try again. It looks like they don't have blocking capabilities when you do the back attack though, so you've got that rolling for you. Yeah. This level 2 here is actually one of the longer levels in the game. And this is like...one of the more maze-like ones as well. Stage 3 in general is pretty maze-like and this is I think one of the tougher levels in the game to actually be consistent just because how long it is yeah what's good about i mean this is probably a pretty good level for joe just because he's good at clearing mobs with an infinite kunai yep absolutely, absolutely. But Joe... where Joe kind of struggles is like boss DPS especially compared to like Moritsune Yep definitely And I think that we actually have time for some donations here too, while we fight some mobs. We have all kinds of lovely donations coming in. EverTri4 is sent in $50 and says, we are and forever will be proud of you. I'm looking forward to watching your run this morning. Let's go! Thank you. That's my sister. Shout out family. That's my sister. Shout out family. Keep it going? Alright, Ash said hi and sent in $15 that I saw ciphering on the stage and I had to donate. Good luck! Thanks for teaching me the ways of speedrunning. Also shout out to the incredible commentators sending all my joy to you from home less than three appreciate you thank you guys i must say i'm so happy now yeah shout out the always. Yeah, good friend, good friend. Yep. I have to admit that uh... That donation came in and I fell in this scroll right here. Oh no! But it's totally fine. Uh, I'm so grateful to Ash for that donation. Thank you. Do we have time for maybe one more? Yeah, one more. We got time for it. All right. Ghost Kumo sent in $7.70 and says best of luck to Siphher on the run hope you break this game as hard as it broke several my friends controllers donation is siphon's choice also shout out to sporadic on the mic great to hear from all y'all thank you guys come on thank you guys really appreciate everybody showing up to support you know especially like such an early that then Sega hours. Yeah. We appreciate you. Alright they're down. Also noting there too the Lightning Ninpo that Cyphering used. Lightning Ninpo is a pretty versatile Ninpo in general. You'll see it used a lot for movement in levels as well as for boss kills probably i would say the strongest nympo overall although fire just has like the potential to really torch a boss's health totally. I want to take a moment to reflect on how his style poses, he has a variety of them He's got his standing one, he's got his kneeling one like he's about to hit up an album cover. Yep and the air one as well like in the air. Yeah in the air he just twists and they're just all gone and he at least has a better scarf than moritsune it's true more tuna has no scars right he has his hair his long flowing hair is it that long though? No, not really. Y'all we want to see Shinobi in more future PDQs you're if you're inspired by this like please pick up the run like it's a great great game yeah there is a discord and everything too and plenty of people that have been running the game for a very long time willing to teach people and you know show people like what's what so. And I, for one would like to see you know the first H sumo run in 13 years uh at some point soon here it could happen it's also really impressive just watching navigate through all of this because some of this looks so samey. I've seen you go up and down the same, what feels like triple to double level And I know for a fact that if this was me even casually I would be like yeah i'm not built for it if this is i can't keep up yeah the big thing with these levels is recognizing not only like where you are but also because everything looks a little samey sometimes recognizing which enemy like waves or the actual like proper ones to kill uh this level is pretty nice about it because generally speaking whoever you run into they're getting the sword to the face but there's other levels where you really just have to know exactly who to ignore. One of the first waves that we saw on 2A, Cypher just ran past him and they just deloaded so that's a nice skill to have and comes with repetition for sure Also working with the camera, because you know the camera is supposed to work for you but it's a PS2 action game. Shout out to Shinkensu, PS2 Action Camera is a thermy coin. PS2 action camera. Yeah. Term he coined. PS2 action camera. That's all we can ever say. And now, we're gonna fight this old guy who has enlisted more dogs to fight for him. Oh, we already had Old Man? Yeah, back at Old Man. It's Old Man where the fight itself, The Old Man isn't too bad but it's really the dogs that are the problem dog is the problem he's just chilling in the back he's letting them do all the work for him that's what he gets for using all those dogs for his own nefarious ways very clean very nice good job absolutely thank you thank you i wasn't going to say it, but someone caught that S Frank. Respect! Stage 3B here. So this is another Stone Totem stage This is also where the mazy stuff that I was talking about really kicks in Not to mention that, but there's also going to be spider webs on the ground so if you don't like if you mess up your movement then you just get to you know get spider web on your J's and that's just not a good look. Fun fact in this universe spiders have four legs. So you put two of them together and get a real spider. Except with too many bones and that kind of is like nightmare fuel. I don't want to think about that actually. There's games with that already, we're not going to go to those. You can even see some of the wedding on the floor too because you can look it's very noticeable but i know if you're not paying attention that is going to be a quick way to as it was noted ruin your chase deal the jays in this game stand for Joe. Knocking out some blind throws here, did we get them? Not quite... No not quite that one. Come on! Because we don't want to go down that way. Yeah. Nice! Because we don't want to go down that way. No, we do not. And then the lightning nympho again, cruisin'. Lightning is greater than web. That's true. These spiders are trying their best, but when you're missing half your legs I can understand. This is gonna be the last room, I think before the boss here. It's gonna be another blind throw. He's gonna believe right and left. Boom boom. Never doubted. Had to make sure. Right and left. Boom, boom. Never doubted. Yeah, I had to make sure. Going to grab the ninpo down there as well. Let me out. Let him out. They also prevent you from jumping, by the way, spider webs. And that's on no-brainer. So we're going to go in here and Cypher is going to be setting up to knock the boss' hp down a little bit while he waits for more enemies to spawn so they can get the quick kill on remember we said two spider heads well how about a tiger head tiger head i'm into it so there you just use the wind info that actually allows your sword to shoot projectiles uh so we just used that for some safe fitted damage on the boss. And as you can see, this boss loves to swipe at thin air as we hit it in the back of its weak spot there. So now all these little spiders will spawn, we're going to use lightning ninfo Dash on around and go up here Hitbox Oh, oh. Hit boxes? Yeah even though he has a very thick hit box it still is very deceiving But that's okay now because we're here oh see joe we're just hoping for another night there we go ice yeah yep absolutely that's uh one of the four house bond lords down there. I did not know that, thank you for that. Is it the first one or was it the... I think that is the first one or was it the i think that's the first of the first one i didn't even know that that was a part of the story i thought that like yeah there's more those guys yeah i just know that that the games like plot is like somehow who go return? We have possessed helicopters at this point anything's game it's true definitely just like how we have is it a bat is it a moth is it that mom i'm not sure but we're gonna kill it eventually oh yeah we also have a uh a batman cameo in this game y'all will see what I'm talking about. This is the lava level, these levels in general are something else there's a lot of like winding hallways and in this level in particular uh there's also gonna be a tank here that we're going to have to destroy after being like, no, no, no, no, no. Batman. What? Slytherin what do you think about this level? Because I know it's kind of a maze. The maze can be really confusing otherwise It's probably one of my least favorite levels actually But um... I think it's a good time for donations. Yeah, I was thinking so too. Donations. Wonderful. MJB Madison in $10 says, Say hi to Kay Cypherin, your fellow River City Girls 2 partner from the Juneteenth 2024 wants to wish you good luck on the run. Thank you, ma'am. I'm glad I got to catch your run. Also shout-outs to The Couch Commentary. You all are awesome! Thanks, Matt. You can keep it going. Alright I have a $10 donation here from Cage Tiger who says, hi everyone. Happy to be here with you all for the marathon. I took the week off from work just to enjoy the great runs without distractions. Here's to a great week! Good luck runners. Let's break some records both for speed and donations. I can definitely...I can get behind that. Think we have time for maybe one or two more. Oh yeah, you keep going. Alright, alright! An anonymous donor sent in $100 says I discovered GDQ the summer before starting college. It's now been seven years, I just finished law school and never missed a marathon during that time. Thanks for all the fun memories. Trans rights! Thank you, trans rights. franz writes and i got an anonymous another anonymous donor hand sent in $30 and just says, let's have a great SGDQ. Absolutely! I'm having a good one. Y'all having a good one? Woo! Yeah. Yeah. I had to remember I had on the mic. I almost almost did my full roof. That would've been bad. Yeah. I appreciate that. Thinking about my couch and everybody at home, especially headphone users... Who's trying to wake up for real? Let me hear you! headphone users trying to wake up for real i'm sorry you're not sorry that's okay do we want to uh keep the donation train going yeah we got time for two more i can do it i can do it seven dollars here from anarchy who says as a baby speedrunner cypher has been such a big inspiration for me. Shout out to both you and the camp for being some of the greatest people I've met in speedrunning thus far. Less than three. Shout out Anarchy. love to anarchy yeah you are not a baby speedrunner at all just say also shout outs to anarchy uh while we're finishing this up, for being on my event and being the one that forced me to do commentary and thus has led to the color commentary reputation that I have today. Shout-outs to Becky with the broken jaw. Alright, so now we're heading into the boss. This guy loves teleport around and has a lot of involved frames on his attacks. So we're just going to be chilling here for a little bit while he throws fireballs at us. He thought he was playing Street Fighter, but we can sidestep so We're good See that's even better just slow walking out it's fine So we are basically waiting for some additional monsters to spawn here, and then we're going to stack up to hopefully get a quick kill on him. It's gonna take a couple of slashes with Joe because again he does not have that corrupted sword to provide him additional attack power. He's just an honest hard-working ninja Killing people the appropriate way. Or, the traditional way. Almost! Yeah... I know when we were Oh, almost. Yeah. I know when we were watching this a little bit too This boss has a tendency to When he realizes that he's getting bodied too hard He likes to cheat and fall into the lava and stuff So you know that you can't get him. Yeah, man. He loves to just not be where it's convenient for you. Typical ninja bosses. Nice, you killed them. Good stuff. Thank you, thank you. Yeah so that's pretty much like...you can almost say the casual type of way of killing them. Just waiting for the enemies and getting their taunt to it. So yeah another advertisement to play this game people. This is where we clench because we're going into stage 4B, which contains the hardest skip and the most impactful skip in the game. So we're gonna give Syphon some time to focus. We want across this lava pit. We will keep retrying this over and over because it's unreal how much time to say. That I can try we take that. Very, very good. So he just walked back over a trigger there to activate this last fight because technically this is the only fight that you actually need to do to get to the boss room. We just saved like minutes of going through big winding hallways and hitting stone totems and dashing everywhere, but now we're just gonna go and fight them off. Yeah, a lot of intense platforming and line throws like but nope we done. Yeah. Cypher was practicing that a lot so I'm sure he's pretty happy. Yes. Second try, yes. We'll take it. And here we're just going to whittle her health down a little bit. Again, like every little bit of damage you can get before the big burst kill comes with Joe really just helps out. There are some strats with Hotsuma and Moritsune where you can ignore these types of things, but with Joe you do have to play a lot more patiently in general and just wait for more opportunities to get this big burst damage. So here all the bats exploring, we're gonna use lightning nympho and dash around The bat's going to cooperate. You know, they never do that old fashioned. Would you call it the action cam? Yeah, he has two action cameras. Yeah. The horns just pick up in the soundtrack. Am I hearing that right? Maybe? I feel like there's more horns in this section. Well, this is another one of the Housepawn Lords Oh! So maybe This is The Flame Moth, Beni Suzume Is that how we fly by our demon lords, is how many horns are in the song? Exactly. Sensational. You're so smart you picked on that really easily. I'm so good at this! Okay. Laying my mom down and done. Thank you, thank you. Really good 4B. Very good. So moving into 5A, the flooded districts. yeah this is a pretty dangerous uh level in general it's because the water here ebbs and flows rises and lowers. And if you fall in it, you're dead and then you have to retry the entire level. That's a nice throw I think right there. Nice! Yeah this is lots of wall running When I first commentated this game This is a lot of wall running. When I first commentated this game, I don't know if it happens on Joe too but I know at least in Hotsum when you stop. If you've noticed, oh Batman cameo. Sorry! I'm talking through just wall mechanics meanwhile Batman was on the screen Anyway, um...the Kunai are sticking out of the bracers on Joe and on Hatsume at least when he stops, he kind of just sits on the wall by sticking his arm into the wall which I always think is cool. Speaking of details this is we said 5A correct? Correct. And this one where we're hitting stone platforms which is outside of sync because we usually do those in B. Yeah that's true. Usually do those on B. Sometimes the game does like to just throw a curveball at you. I appreciate you not saying a pinaya at you. I think that sure looks good. Oh, there it goes. All right, nice. Make sure the water don't kill us. That would be very big. Yeah. I think while you're finishing this up we can sneak in maybe one or two donations i have all kinds of donations i have 25 dollars here from our known 3-3-nold33200 says good luck on the run cypherin it's great to see a sega crew person on stage shout out to sega crew thank you arnold which uh another quick shout- Grim Shins just know that we got you. Definitely thinking about you. Grimm was supposed to provide commentary as well for me, but I had to pull out unfortunately. But still thinking about you, Grim. This boss right here has a name. I don't know it. I just call him Shield Guy. He's carrying a piece of the road with him so that's what that is it's a piece of the road oh like pulls it up and he's like all right i'm ready to scrap which quite frankly if I had the ability pull up a piece of road and scrap with somebody I might just do that. Yeah, I also know like the footwear he's wearing is very traditional Japanese I can't help but comment though on how fabulous he looks well i was going to come on how you could say that he is scrapping with scrap okay oh you're going back to bed right now. What do you mean? Go back to bed. I back it, honestly. Overruled. This boss also has an interesting strat where if we can actually get him onto the like piece of geometry that's a little closer to the wall too uh star friends right okay here we go this is so good this is a good one yep he could you can just throw the kunai at his back. Yeah, that was some great bursts from Syphren. Nice. Keep the chain going. And with the infinite kunai from Joe, that's one example of a good boss. Very good boss. Yeah especially considering you got that nice little stagger there and with you not being able to stun it's like well what if we had alternative stun right forever forever forever ever ever something pretty intricate that you see cypherin do on that fight specifically was he was like killing enemies in between striking the boss so he was like salvaging some of the damage from the chain. Snake Boss, I want to point out this is one of the hardest bosses in the game. You can get a quick kill here if you time it where when the snakes spawn, you hit them all at once, but very hard to do. If we were Joe or more soon... Well, Joe. I mean, sorry sorry if we were uh thank you oh because joe doesn't have the the quick the slash for it yeah so this is also where we go a little bit out of sync as well, because for 5A We had the totems instead of having to kill stuff. 5B is when you would do the totem and they're like We are just going to move everything ahead And your just gonna have to fight bosses now And then this person's really rude with their hyper beam out of nowhere. Oh, yeah? Their special beam cannon? Yep. We were joking about that last night. These snakes can be really finicky i mean again you're dealing with a difficult camera yeah and tiny hit boxes yeah the hip boxes are only on their head so even if you like strike at the middle of them it just doesn't count. So You have to really dash around and figure out where exactly the game wants you to hit them For being on Joe though this is I don't want to curse it but it's been a really good fight so far oh wonderful that was brave work that was very brave i back it. Right when you said that, Melo, I almost got knocked off the hook. That's why I started to get real quiet. And then 6A, one of my favorite stages in the game. Second best song, if maybe not... You know, maybe the first best song, but next best song in the game. Yeah, we're going to go through some of these laser hallways and like sort of like a industrial vibe to it and it's also here's the music just kicking up so good uh the movement in this stage is so crisp you just fall down a lot of these areas and in some other cases you'll be like just slashing the stone totems here too we're gonna grab this ninpo as well cypher i feel like you've practiced this stage a lot this is my derust stage whenever i leave this game and come back to it this is the stage i play every time i've seen you do this stage it's always so clean and why am i talking why am i talking and yet i'm the one that has to go back to bed. Alright, well... I will be doing that after this one. As I have my coffee sitting in my room, I might go for it. Alright. Oh! might go for it all right oh no overshot sorry it's okay yeah just a little acid burn there we still get to see some of the best stage in the game. Yeah, for real. So like I'm not even worried. You get to hear more of the very industrial music as well. The mandatory you're on a tech stage music has that very distinct kind of like grunginess to it. But I think that's something we haven't had to talk about yet is in a classic PS2 sense, when you run out of health obviously you die die. But then in these games it's like oh life meters? Yeah we don't do those If you fell down, you fell down Go ahead and do that whole stage over That is definitely one of the more punishing aspects of running this game, while the game is pretty lenient in terms of actually routing because it is just a bunch of individual... So I died back there just so I could show that to you all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what that was. It was RNG manipulation too. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. What was it? We were talking about the punishing aspect. Yeah, so the punishing aspect. So, the punishing aspect is that while the game effectively rewards you for just being really good at individual levels stringing a lot of that together in deathless or nearly deathless scenarios is the really crucial part because some of the strats in this game are pretty hard to just whip them out and do them, because the bosses like, are just tough. And if you mess up some of them you might have to retry and do it again um if you make a mistake on movement some of the dicier movements sections especially you're gonna either lose a bunch of time or you're gonna die and then you just have to do it again so uh cypher is doing a really good job of nice couldn't i burst there so everyone's doing a really good job of just making sure that he's being clean and consistent. Kunai Bursts, and then we're good to go. Moving on... Those big red things up here? Normally we would grab them if we were hatsuma or more tsune because they restore soul joe does not have a sword that drains his soul so we don't have the big red bar in the bottom left corner of the screen and we would normally just grab those to allow us a little bit of extra survivability on the boss here but you don't need to do that. I wanted to say too, some nice precision throws you have there a couple in a row i for one am glad that we got to watch cypher and do it again because the second run was really clean absolutely here's the blind swordsman, by the way. We're going to hit him in the back. Nothing personal, kid. Might just have to retry and do it again. Yeah, let's just retry. Yep. Because this guy right here, if you're in the water at all he knows exactly where you are and if you do not get the three um ninfo like fire info here then he is quite a pain to deal with. There we go. Nice. Oh yeah, absolutely. I like how the whole thing was that he can hear you in the water, but he can't hear you on the walls. One of the coolest bosses in the game. Yeah. I feel like if I heard footsteps above my head, I would be much more alarmed. I was gonna say, if I heard footsteps and I know I'm supposed to be by myself If I were to get a headshot above my head, I would be much more alarmed. I was going to say if I heard footsteps and I knew I was supposed to be by myself it's like nope, jacked in, I have to fight. So this is another stage where we're just gonna be fighting the boss again this is I don't know what this enemy is called got zero it's a big statue with a lot of arms so this is big statue with a lot of arms boss and we're going to be waiting on more of these floating heads to spawn i'm gonna be dodging some electric orbs and then we're gonna be be activating the Lightning Nimpo once all of these enemies, once more of them spawn in. This is just a waiting game right now no matter what character you are playing It looks like we're just in a pattern here. Yep, welcome to Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Wow. That has brought me so much joy. Wait, I think we got it. Yeah! Let's go! Oh! I know this is one of Cypherin's least favorite bosses. Yeah, I was a little afraid there actually so that's why I'm not falling down. Can't believe you brought up marvel versus capcom too i'm thinking about this there's always okay there's always time to bring up marv which is calcone 2. yes it's always morally correct to break it up. And then 7A here, this is going to be a bit more of a traditional stage because again we're gonna be going through rooms taking people out if they cooperate instead of stunning us. Yeah, this is probably a good donation stage. Absolutely. Yep. Go for it. All kinds of good donations. Ryan sent $5 says greetings from Japan! Shout-outs to all the staff and runners being up in the small hours of the night so people like me have something to watch after getting home from classes. Love this event, and love all of you. Here's a couple of bucks for the Sonic P06 Easter Egg Showcase because that sounds awesome! It is gonna be awesome, we're definitely still working on that incentive. We are currently sitting at $1,177.70 out of the $12,000 we need to unlock that showcase so please do keep those donations coming in remember those incentives don't click on themselves you got to do it you have time for more? Yes. Alright, we have an anonymous donor who sent in $5 so she'll get it and she'll know if he puts new meaning to the idea of street fighter and we have a seven dollar donation from anonymous anonymous my favorite donor says a cypher in speedrun is the best way to start the day. Good morning, GDQ! Good morning. Good morning. I agree. We'll get another one in? All right, I have 25 dollars here from hompson who says thanks for the great runs and great event and good luck have fun runners are we having fun? Yeah! So normally here, We would actually use the Lightning Ninth Toe to save a little bit of time on movement but because we're playing joe and he needs a little bit extra help cypherine is going to save an info for the boss so that just has an extra resource that he can spend on her. It's gonna be the last wave as well, with three except Tengu men is their name? Yeah. Okay cool I just refer to them as the stick dude so that's great to actually have a proper game now i feel like there's proper names and then there's proper names i've learned a lot of technical terms during this round. The Stickman and the Batman The Batman Boss with a lot of arms A lot of arms boss is a classic. An old man! An old man, yeah. I really like Flame Moth. Flame Moth is great. At least that's super identifiable. Yeah. Or Benny Suzuman if you want to be specific If you wanna be correct yes So here he is gonna hit her in the back with some kunai Again we're really just dang he's going to town get her get her yeah wow and activate lightning info again here grab these kills right here and then swing on her oh she's gonna block oh i'll say unfortunate especially she got bullied earlier with all those kanai. She's like, no I am gonna fight back. She was on her guard now. Just struck right as the chain expired there. Quite unfortunate but is this the strat now positioning he was making a beat there with that i just i was about to say that and i was like hey it's the new reach miss about to say that. I was like, we're about to... Hold on! Hey! It's the new reach miss. It's gonna drop. This is what you all donated for watching Cypher and really have to put a lot of extra effort in as Joe with these boss fights? Yeah boss fights this boss fight especially uh Hatsuma and Moritsune just throw kunai at her back while like weaving in sword attacks and then she just dies to like fire an info at the end. Because, again, they're kunai stun, but Joes do not. The tradeoff is, of course, that we have unlimited of them. So Cyprian has been able to use a lot... Okay, she's dead. She's out of here. Very good! That was very good work, Sakurin. Thank you. I think it's still worth pointing out too though that with Joe in particular With no stuns you have to improvise because you're used to having it In place and then Joe has just such a weaker blade in general so it's like you're not only losing that crowd control if you can call it a crowd control but you also have to do more hits. Yeah, absolutely. And then 7B we're going to be fighting Moritsune again. This time he's got two swords so you know he's stronger. And they're glowing. And they're glowing, it's true. He is ready to party. He's mad because we are not running him? Yeah. Because the incentive was met? Yeah he's actually stronger than he normally is right now because of that he felt it through in the air it was like they donated me out really nice breathing attacks. Good dodges around. And then these enemies are gonna spawn, Sunset Herd's just gonna get in a little bit extra damage here before going to spawn. Looks like Cypher is just gonna get in a little bit of extra damage here before going after them. But looks like seahorses to me. Kind of, anyway. Alright, look. There's some damage right there. I feel like he's in the zone right now. Nice. Almost cleaned up. We'll get a couple more here, hopefully some hits on the back, fire. Gonna get a bunch of extra health here too really great. Okay. There we go. Great job, pissing him down. He was trying to give you a little bit of time there. A little bit? He was partying. I wouldn't eat with the coffee that he had this morning. He definitely got a nap in before that. Yep, now we're going to enter the Golden Palace. So 8A here. This is the last purely stone totem stage, I believe. Yeah and kind of a scary one. Yeah quite because there's all these just floating platforms you know you fall into the deep dark abyss there. That's never a good time especially when you have to hit the retry button afterwards. Also best boss in the game? Oh yeah definitely. I have to agree. Here we go... gonna go through some more hallways I think we have time for donations well I just wanted to remind everybody that our big wars are still open for the run coming up not next but after the next one. For a little limb you can donate towards Masaru Takahara's name, towards Oboromaru's name and towards Pogo's name. Now we've seen some changes here taking the lead for Masaru Takahata's name is Chiquita at $200. Akira Tee is now in second place at a hundred dollars, for Oboramaro's name Penguin is in the lead at $60. In second place we've got Yomu and for Pogo's name Cheryl has taken a healthy lead at $175. Binga still in second place at $55 so you don't have a lot more time to get your donations in for those big wars remember yes gotta click on them. I think we still have some time. Oh, we do? Well, let's talk about the other big words that we have open then! I've been wanting to for LoneFungus you can vote on the mushroom cap choice with your donation. Currently in the lead is music at $221.70. In second place, it's green cap. In third place, it's's haiku the robot cap and in last place i can't believe it it's god gamer cap oh my gosh why is that in last place all right and finally for chameleon twist you can also vote with your donation on the character choice. Davey, who's blue, is in the lead at $400. Linda in pink in second place at 280 jack in green f third place at 100 so y'all still have time to donate towards those incentives or Or sorry, big words, excuse me. And then now we're fighting a door and the doors now open. Nice! That door didn't stand a chance. Very good. Take that, a door! Scyther executing some really good blind kunai throws there. Absolutely. Some good movement there too with like the verticality instead of having to do all the platforming. And now we are on the last stage. Yeah, we've made it inside the Golden Palace! So this stage is a little bit of a change-up too because we're not only going to be hitting stone pillars or not only taking people out, we're gonna be doing both actually for this last stage of the game. So we're going to go into this room here and people are going to spawn after we just, you know, destroy the stone totem and once we get all of them it's done this stage especially is a little long so it's very crucial to just pay attention to you know what you're doing in this stage because some of the platforming and this especially is a little dicey. So having to restart at this stage is definitely like, you don't feel good about ever doing that. It's not like those boss only stages where you could restart it and then only lose 20 seconds or so. There are some jumps in this that if, you know the game eats your jump like each a double jump than you just cannot make it through some of the areas So it's tough fortunately starts off with this pretty simple section here taking all the enemies out after going into the different kunai rooms or into the different totem rooms. There is a boss in this stage too and I know Siphon has said that set is kind of like a casual killer yo yeah so might need some focus when we get there definitely this is again a good time to highlight that something that Joe has that others don't Is the fact that his health is not draining. So with this being such a windy, calm-deluded Have-to-do everything type of level If you were playing casual, that works in your favor But granted, you still have a boss that works in your favor. But granted, you still have a boss that could be your casual killer. Yeah, and generally, you can play really patiently with Joe because you're not operating on an innate timer. As I pointed out out it's like you can take your time to just notice things a little bit more and ensure like those safer strats go off better unless you're speed running that you can't take your time. True, but I mean like we could wait on some of the enemies to spawn on some of the bosses and it's no big deal. What do you mean? We can't go full speed all the time? And as you say that, platforming. Platforming. Two and I burst again here, boom takes them all out. We're gonna enter another hallway here, really important on this hallway specifically to make sure that you head to the end of it to make sure that all the enemies spawn and then backtrack a little bit to... head to the end of it to make sure that all the enemies spawn and then backtrack a little bit because they'll run whichever way they really want to. It's like, there's one guy that's just hanging back there that we tried to kill earlier but he hasn't moved and finally caught up to us. Yeah, that was really good positioning. You can see they're all lined up there. I also like it if they fell down in sync as well but like some bowling action there's these guys here too that guy's almost escaped. We're gonna also grab this free nympho scroll here. There's going to be a little bit of strange architecture coming through this area but love the wall jumps into kunai burst and then I burst again this is one of those things too, because Joe has unlimited kunai. We can just do these kunai bursts with no fear of losing stocks so it makes some shots with the stone totems that much easier okay got them cosmic what do you think we have time for any more donations before we get into the uh the of things here? Absolutely. Wonderful, I have $10 here from Le French Restream what a beautiful event We're proud to restream it in French This donation goes towards renaming... we're proud to restream it in French. This donation goes towards renaming Oborumaru Jemim Ninja in reverse. I have a $500 donation here from Zach B. He says, Here's hoping this donation helps get the hype going for more SPDQ. Y'all feeling it? Yes! Hype! Oh, so we have time for more. because I am so amped to be watching another GDQ this summer. The positive attitude that the chat and crowd bring to the event, coupled with excellent cause helped lift my spirits for the six months between GDQs. I'd like to extend my thanks to everyone who makes geq run smoothly behind the scenes keep up the good work and the immaculate vibes everyone very cute donation think we're right at the end here so we have to take out bigger stick guy. Alright, that one. I cursed that for sure. Is it really curse if you just call it what it is? It's just Bigger Stick Bro He's really cursed if you just call it for what it is. It's just bigger stick bro. And then here we go, final boss, Heruko. This is where you send Cyiphon your energy, everybody. Because this isn't a very intense fight. This boss fight is an adventure. Yeah it's long and requires a lot of focus. Yeah, so the first phase here the boss does not have a health bar. Cypher is just striking him to force him through the rest of the phase. Every time they strike him, as you can see he tends to have...or just want to teleport or go into in-ball frames and throw out an attack but we're just trying to get his health bar to appear sooner. And this is the final fight of the game? Yep. So now the health bar has appeared, this is again kind of that waiting game we've been playing. Cypherine's gonna be using the boot to the face jutsu here in order to stun the boss a little bit longer and delay the spawns of... Into the face. Face to foot style is valid. And that's just gonna buy him some time while the talismans spawn in, and those talismans are going to be the additional enemies that he strikes in order to you know like two shot the boss really good reposition here to keep it going keep them him right in the center here. Boy, we want to embrace this time while he's in the center here too because once he starts teleporting around, he can teleport literally anywhere which also includes over open areas that a reminder if you fall down that's game over nice okay the other ones might be sparring and soon it's a big laser there All right. And we're going to queue up for the first attack here. All right, Got a third, so that's totally fine. Siphon actually did hold on to all of the ninpo throughout the stage, so he has three shots with his lightning ninpo to really just put in the work on the boss. So definitely got enough resources for it my heart's pounding a little bit but because I've been on the receiving end of this boss many times and it's not fun. Let me tell you when it goes wrong, it's not a good feel. Which is nerve-wracking too. So he's just currently intangible? He's just chillin'? We have to wait for him to decide it's okay to fight again? I never understand why the bosses, if they can be intangible like well they just stay that way you're like why do you want to lose this is why you'll never be a villain because you're not willing to be irrational. So that's case in point? Yeah, I respect that. There's a possibility if he tried to dash cancel and get another slash in there, that the boss would just not be there and he would have just hit air. So, the fact that he was right there when Cypherin was able to go for him is pretty unlucky, but it's just kind of how this boss goes sometimes. And it's especially noteworthy that in this boss fight you also want to try and buy time with this because this is some of probably the worst rng we see in the entire game absolutely i would i would even venture to say it's the worst like absolutely like i think that this boss fight out of a lot of speed games that I've run is probably the most RNG heavy. He's about to do a special oh that would have been my break that one talisman is gunning for you. There's been like, one for each wave that has just like... They're the employee of the year. Shine! Always one. I was gonna say with the boss that had all the snakes, but not this run. It was pretty clean. Nice! Nice. Oh, man! But we did just discover that you know a strat to avoid the laser beams just simply be under them here we go, gonna use the kick again. This is, again, the only attack that Joe has to stun so it's really just our best bet to delay things. unfortunately it does no damage but you know you take what you can get so oh he definitely robbed you. The sword like went clean through him and that was just that I did just learn this fight You can hit him with kunai apparently. Oh, didn't know that before. Yeah, I don't think I really attempted to hit him with kunai much Just because you don't have like many when you're hot so much You say that's never happened before? Yeah just because you don't have like many when you're hot summer. You said that's never happened before? Yeah, yeah. I mean Stunstrat just dropped. Why kick when you could throw a sharp star all right here's the next wave about to come in. Again this is really all just a matter of timing and the boss landing where we want him to be when we have the sword all stacked up. Which, for this fight, he has been doing a phenomenal job of not being cooperative. He knows where he is. He's like, I'm on GDQ. I want a little more screen time. All right. So next hit, ideally we should be able to get set up. Yeah. Fortunately, we are going to get some health back as well from these enemies so we're gonna still be pretty healthy coming into this last attempt here you know potential last attempt I think even when we were watching a lot of the practice, I never saw him go up top this often. Yeah, no, he's been not fun fun he's been misbehaving a little bit Oh, but it's fine. He just won't go intangible again for a ton of time. Might even see a kunai finish i was gonna say Yeah, that's actually not too bad. That boss can go much worse. If you don't get the first kill there then it's just like hoping and praying a little bit so good stuff man awesome job thank you we breathe. Yeah finally breathed um... Oh check out your time! Came in way under estimate. Nice. Awesome. You did great. Never doubt it. awesome yeah they're great never doubted uh yeah um no thank you thank you again for everyone that donated for the incentive to be met um yeah as you saw joe uh joe takes some doing but we can get it done so i'm glad that we were able to free wall on this SGDQ. Yeah, this one I think all the GDQs I've been to has been important but just with everything happening out there in the world. Um, just as, uh, the representative at the start of the event mentioned, you know, uh, trying to provide medical care for those in need and, you know, uh, you know, uh, Palestine and Gaza know uh you know palestine and gaza ukraine everywhere haiti the sudan just this one touches my heart because i feel for all of them and just, you know, uh, just thank you for everything that you're able to contribute to support Doctors Without Borders. And thank you for watching us play games to help them. As a child, I never could have thought that me playing the game can have an effect like that. But it's because of you all watching us tuning in and just giving all your support. So we highly appreciate that. I know I highly appreciate that some quick quick shout outs again to sega crew i love sega crew uh shoutouts to rjltv shoutouts to oh man hopefully I'm not forgetting everybody my friends um my local friends decimation squad shout out to my friend Dan Corey old friend Joe in college if he happens to see this who helped. We used to play this game together 20 something years ago which is crazy to think that you know fast forward today I'm here again. So just, you know, fast forward today. I'm here again so just very grateful. Let me give time to my commentators to say what they want to say, promote themselves and share the love love so go ahead you know before we go you got one more big shout out to me oh again i love my wife thank you for letting me play my thank you Thank you. Thank you for letting me play my games. Thank you for not shooting the change blocks on me. I got you, I got you. Do y'all want to go other way this time? Sure! My name is DECosmic, and you should play Shinobi, and you should run it as well. There is a um... I won't say budding community. This is a game that I am shocked is not more popular as a speed game and like again there's you know discord and everything to talk and learn from people and there's a lot of resources as far as video footage and everything and there will be more coming soon. So you can find me at twitch.tv slash gdcosmic. And I am again Pleasantly Twisted. I wanted to give a special shout out to what i have been lovingly trying to come up with a name for so on the off-the-cuff it's like thank you so much to the gdq black block for donating towards cyphers run and always having fun exciting and enticing events and embracing me as your somehow fearless leader i can't do the stuff that we do here without your help so your love of support for each other really really means a lot to me and i'm glad y'all really pulled up for it. And thank you so much to the wine seller who probably pulled up to watch me be a clown on this as well. Please go to bed. I know that you haven't been in the bed yet. Go to sleep. That includes you too Luna. I know you're out there yet go to sleep uh that includes you too luna i know you're out there go to sleep and you can find me over at twitch.tv slash pleasantly twisted uh cypher has been solely but surely trying to convince me to hook up on a ninja game and i think if it's not this, it's going to be Hagane and it's going to happen eventually. That is to say sometime. But thank you so much for having me on your couch. Yeah, and yeah... having me on your couch yeah and uh yeah oh yeah oh thank you did you get sick no he hasn't yeah go ahead no um uh yeah i'm brutal melo uh thank you cyphering i really appreciate you have Go ahead. Yeah, I'm Brutal Mellow. Thank you Siphon. I really appreciate you having me on your couch both for this run and for AGDQ Disney's Gargoyles. Really appreciate any opportunity just to kind of do more commentary. This is, personally, my 10-year anniversary with Games Done Quick. Summer Games Done Quick. So it's... I just started doing commentary on my nine-year anniversary last year. So I appreciate all the invites. I'm also gonna be this Saturday—shout out Bobby Berm—doing commentary for Hyperbolica. Saturday also at 5 a.m. I guess i'm an early morning person too now um shout out to the gdq black crew for ubaf and juneteenth that's where cypherton and i first started uh working together in meeting same with me and p PT. Shout out Dirge of Cerberus for Cosmic! But yeah, other than that because I never get to do this on my hosting shifts once again i'm going to say follow me on Twitter. Because I'm trying to break 1K followers this event. But yeah that's all for me. Yeah please follow each of them they're all amazing. Absolutely amazing. Shout out to the UVA family. you're amazing bro i'm all right i don't usually do this i don't usually do this but i wanted to i wanted to get in there. Good morning, everyone. Hello, my name is Gulch2 and today I'm going to be taking you through Necrovision Lost Company Uh, Necrovision Lost Company is an alternate history World War I horror FBS game. Um, the alternate history bit means that it has dragons, vampires, zombies, all sorts of enemies for us to deal with. This game is also super glitchy so it has very unique movement mechanics and it also has some game breaking glitches a lot that have been discovered in the recent times. So this one is a lot...has had a lot of improvement since I originally submitted it so I'm excited to bring it to you all today. I am also super-excited to have two amazing speedrunners and commentators here with me today if you would like to introduce yourselves? Hi! I'm Schmumbler. Former world record holder of this game for about 30 minutes before Gulls took it back. Hey, I'm Astrid the Horror Girl. I speedrun this game as well and I'm the reason that these two speedrun this game also. I dragged them over to do it with me. And we love you for it, and with that we'll just get right into it so I'm going to go ahead and click new game and the time will begin once I load in so I'll tell you when. Alright, the time's gonna start in 3-2-1 go. So Necrovision Lost Company as Gulch said it's a very glitchy game one of the big pieces of movement crack is running into objects like this box here that just will accelerate you up into rules and on top of things and the other thing is the rifle skips which allows you to just fly through the air it is the rifle jump allows you to basically go forward, run, jump and melee with the rifle and it just launches you into the air. You can either go straight up or you can go straight forward even go backwards with it and that is accomplished by uh lowering the frames to around something manageable like 30 frames per second. You can do it at something higher but it's harder to land it on the precise frame that you need it to be unless it is slowed down a little bit. So it has slowed down to 30 frames per second so that Gulch can do these tricks, jumping into the out of bounds areas here and everything. Every time you see a Gulch make one of these jumps, it's a frame perfect trick. It's reliant on the specific frame of animation of the running cycle and yeah, 30 frames just makes it a lot more manageable. That said, we've done like a lot of out of bounds here like we're at the very end of the level here on top of a piece of collision that you're never actually meant to get to and the end of the level is just pulling this lever through the wall. So that's chapter one. Yeah. It's honestly really incredible when you consider that these levels are intended to be about 25 minutes long apiece, and you know, that was done in about a minute and 40 seconds or something. Yeah like this chapter here there's's a bunch of mandatory combat encounters where you're weaving in and out of all these buildings to get to the airfield. But no we just jump on top of the roof and fly over and hit the jet from the background, you can see there's holes in the ground where the area hasn't actually loaded in yet. Yeah. When you consider also that at this point we're supposed to have met an NPC friend who were supposed to be helping get onto our plane to fly us off, but we never met that NPC friend. But they will be talking to us on the next level. And those are some sort of war creature right there. If you're wondering what those flying things are, we don't know. The game will not tell us and our characters don't really comment on it either. And now we have a vehicle mission, everyone's favorite type of mission. Yeah this is like basically an auto scroller you can move the plane faster by holding W and shift because why wouldn't a plane be able to sprint? Yeah exactly. But yeah there's no like real skips on this level it's just a lot of optimization that we've all worked on to try to get the movements correct and stuff. That being said, this was just kind of like some wave-based combat in protecting this train down here. So that does give us a good opportunity for things like some donations. Absolutely, we've got donations coming in including $20 from Stripe the Historian who says oh my lord I can't believe Necrovision of all things is a GDQ. Good luck, Gulch. May the jank be with you. Thank you. And we've got a $50 donation from Rarist. Thank you so much for that. We've also got a $25 donation from Kuberu that says, Unfortunately I have to work today but that won't stop me from donating to an amazing cause. Have an amazing day, everyone. Much love. Thank you so much for that donation to MSF. And yeah, if you're watching at work, you could just have it silenced on a little tap to the side. Who's never done that? We have time for a few more donations? Yeah. You got it. How about a $25 donation from Shikari that says, Hi all big- big time fan whole family is watching and cheering all our runners on good luck and support doctors thank you so much for that and 25 dollars from takomi who says watching the for the first time SGDQ with my amazing girlfriend and she loves it. Love you Joelle and thank you SGDQ for what you do. That's right, tell your friends, tell your partners, boyfriends, girlfriends, other friends. Let everybody get some watching. Alright so we should be nearing the end here. We are gonna... yeah I can see the train is on fire So it's hard to know when it's near the end. I don't want to go too soon because we can get sucked back into a cutscene here. But now we're safe to go ahead. So we're going navigate our plane around this corner and there's a glimpse in the distance that we can't see yet but you can see where the red crosshair and we're hitting the glimpse so it's kind of the next phase in this after we reach a certain point and uh take down this blink will be taken to the next part of also you might notice sometimes the dialogue seems to be skipping forward that is gulch quick saving because quick saves just overwrite dialogue for some reason which is something that we'll be using not just here but certain points later in the game too. Those were really good audio skips there. It is pretty precise when you want to hit quicksave in order to save the most dialogue, and it's not consistent through all of them so It's a bit tricky to do. You can mess it up pretty easily and lose a solid 10 seconds which if your going for world record attempts is quite a lot. Also, you might notice our perspective has changed here we're kind of in like phase 2 of the autoscroller segment even though you're the gunner, you can still make the plane sprint for some reason. You can also crouch with the mounted machine gun and just shoot your cockpit and take your own plane down. I won't be doing that. Yeah, it's not advisable for a speed run or for casual play or for any reason whatsoever. If you also wonder why it doesn't, there's a boss health bar and there's a big old dragon for Gulch to be shooting. That dragon literally cannot be killed. So the best thing to do is just to make sure that the dragon does not kill you by shooting the fireballs. Also, we wanted to talk about one point when I found this run out there, because I just randomly found these games on the Internet and immediately wanted to be speed running them after playing them casually. There was this group called Run Invalid, they were already routing this game Run Invalid is like this group of European speedrun that were finding strats together and doing this team-based competition in segmented speed runs against each other. Whoever had the best time was like the winner and for almost seven years nobody had touched the game after them so then I showed up and was trying to get in contact with them, be like hey I want to run this game and I'm gonna drag a bunch of people kicking and screaming at this game to speedrun as well. So yeah, got in contact with them and we've been running this game ever since and everyone who has joined since all of us me, Schmumbler, Gulch, Prisoner as well. We have all continued to find more and more things in this game and it's been a blast. Yeah, huge shout out to Prisoner he's a great runner and optimized this game a lot so yeah This run is like almost unrecognizable compared to where it started So here in chapter 4 we're going start in this kind of sleeping state, you can kinda see her running at a weird angle but we can just run up the ladder anyways instead of waiting for to cutscene out. And I did a rifle jump and ran along some geometry there in order to get a boost up this hill and now i'm going to crouch against this mountain here In order to get out of bounds. This mountain section is basically what Gulch is gonna do, from the out-of-bounds zone here it's going to skyrim it up the mountain, basically. Yeah. The collision for out of bounds geometry is really weird. It will like to try to make you slide down it. But if you brush yourself against a an edge or a vertex it just launches you so we use that momentum to just throw ourselves up the mountain. Yeah, it's unclear why some of the texture throws one up the mountain and why some insists on making you slide back down but and it's also kind of variable. It feels like it's not always consistent, but Gulch got it and that was not easy to do so great job thank you thank you almost got a tree block there's a technique you can do there to climb up on those trees along this way so that we don't have to go up like this, on top of this monastery. But it's very tricky to do. I did get in my world record run. So if you want to check that out, see what that strat looks like. And I don't know if anybody's noticed. It might be a little hard to tell. We're not supposed to be here. Yeah, no. We're supposed to be going into the monastery from the front door as most people do but no there's this giant invisible barrier we're gonna jump over it grab the key. Yes! Let's head for the monastery! And uh...this next track- This next track is a And this next strategy here is something that Gulch found. You can just run over the thing to get around. You can simply do that, because why not? Usually you'd have to kill a couple enemies and that barrier would go down but for this you could apparently run over it. And this level is going to happen really fast in the beginning here. So I just want to explain this, so we're going to work all blind because while each of levels loading you're able to run, you'll see that CS do that in most of the levels, and I'm going to run and do a rifle jump in order to grab a key item through a wall, and that's gonna allow us to exit the level. It's the item we need to unlock the last door to the level. Where is that carburetor? Yeah, this is one of the ones that has changed a lot since we've been running it. Yeah, and like this was already a really fast level. And this rifle jump is very precise. It just gives you the perfect amount of height you need to get to this window, so it'll take a couple attempts here but we're good at... I'm scared we'll get it. By the way, all of the enemies down there. There's supposed to be a lot more. This game loves spawning in a lot of enemies but one of the things that taking this route does as well... Good job. Thank you, thank you! Is it doesn't let those enemies spawn. Now Gulch is just going to grab this grenade launcher. It's a special tool that we'll need for later. You could actually finish this level by just going out of bounds without grabbing the carburetor and just going right to the exit trigger but it's actually so important for us to grab that grenade launcher that it's not worth the extra time it saves to uh skip grabbing it yeah now for my favorite level so this level haunted dam starts you off driving a tank and you're supposed to kind of be doing this tank escort mission all the way to the end, and it's one of the longest levels in the game. But instead you can drive this tank up this hill, and you can't actually walk up this hill like with your own two feet but uh you can with the tank so driving this thing all the way up here you run into an invisible wall and once you get into that invisible wall then you can jump out and the tank just deposits you on the other side of the invisible wall i just need to get to the floor now it's just going to be trying to get to the uh end of the level the last thing that you need to hit so once again we have plenty of time for some donations absolutely lots of love here including $25 from Devin, he said thank you staff for all the hard work you put into these events and thank you runners for going fast. Thank you so much for that, we've got $10 from LunaMoon Says good luck to the runners Good luck on this Gulch, you are doing amazing And we have a $50 donation from anonymous, no comment but no comments needed! No names needed! If you want to just donate, you can do that by heading to gamesdonequick.com slash donate and help us support MSF. So there is a fun thing that this level kind of highlights too, if you're listening to the chatter you'll notice we are as a German soldier and we're being, going along with an American soldier. The title screen for this game when you highlight new games says join the British army on the front lines of world war one there are no british soldiers in this game for you at all yes it is unclear why on earth it says that in the main menu of the game. Well, it's because that's the text from the first game where you do play a British soldier. It's little copy and paste, never heard anyone? Yeah, you know. Vilge is just gonna fall into this hole here right into the final area of the game. And then it's gonna come across these zombie soldiers with their long red arms, and Gulcha is going to try group them together with this grenade launcher, get them all in one spot, knock them against the wall and then finish them off just like that. That was really well done. Yep. Yeah, end of the level there requires two different things to trigger which is for you to reach the door and then for all those enemies to be dead. So this level is an interesting one because you won't be able to see what's actually happening, which is quite a lot. So first Gulch is getting out of bounds with these rifle jumps but then it's going to go to the end of the level. But the interesting thing about that is you won't be able To see it because all of the visuals Of this are just gonna disappear after a certain point Gulch is going to the end of the level in this completely blind black screen looking at context clues like, uh make sure that he's in the right place so right now he's waiting for visual confirmation that he can start proceeding through this door that needs to open and once he gets there he's going to go in start proceeding through this door that needs to open. And once he gets there, he's going to go in and he's going to maneuver through this door and walk up to this last enemy on the level. And then is going to try to skip this cutscene. And then kill that enemy, just like that. Really well done. Thank you thank you. Now, that level you couldn't see because the screen went black this level You can't see because we're gonna be spending like all of our time in the void and Gulch is actually going to make some pretty scary rifle jumps into the unknown and hoping that he has a lineup good enough. Yeah, it's also really tricky to judge the lineup of these jumps because a little too high you bonk your head on the ceiling. A little too low and you don't quite make it. So Golch is going gonna start doing those jumps here and these are some of the hardest rifle jumps in the game. And that was perfect! That's a super precise trick, that one in particular so I'm super happy I got that first try And then here you don't actually have to fight the boss, you just fall to your death and that completes mission. Yep you just have to make sure the boss spawns in because it's a scripted loss and what better way to lose against that boss than to fall out of the world? Now for shenanigans. Yes, this is Chapter 9 and This is the level where it's like hey if anything does go wrong in the run It'll be here. This is the most frustrating part of the run any time you do it. Especially since its so late in this speedrun too. So these are our vampire friends by the, the vampires have recruited us to fight in our army against the demon undead and have turned us into a necromancer. In case you were missing out on the story a little bit. Oh, first try? Wow. Nice. Yeah, good job. That is mostly luck. I wish I could say it was skill but sometimes you can spend minutes there. That trick in particular is the uh run killer for most people andy it's the same kind of thing as a first chapter where just running into a corner between two physics objects can just launch you for no real reason. Right now, Gulch is trying to wedge into the... that little hole up there to yep get right on out good job and now is gonna do some more rifle jumping into the void and this is some more like you just you just know where you should be landing. This is another thing that is completely world record strat, there's that tunnel to his right he could literally jump over there and run but no but no gold has to do it the fast way yes i'm going to set up over here we used to have to uh go back inbounds here to load in this next area, but it turns out the part where we need to go is actually loaded in so we can just skip right past it as long as we land right over here with a rifle jump. It was so miserable getting over here from inbounds too because you had to get back out of bounds further in by like running up the pillar and squeezing through a tiny hole in the wall, and then you have to land on like three separate pieces of collision out of bounds that are also very small while enemies are attacking you from the other side of the wall pretty much And they would push you off out of bounds all the time. Yeah. So right now Gulch is closing in on the end level and we cross our fingers that the enemies spawned the way they are supposed to. There's one. Yep, that is a good sign. Oh I think I went in the wrong way. Let's reload this save. Okay. Because this is supposed to spawn like a whole gauntlet of enemies that you have to kill to trigger the boss but if you get lucky you can just kill two individual spawns there it is and there's our final boss our evil twin if you are wondering huh i wonder if there's more context in the story to why we're fighting this evil twin there's not actually it's just there and he appears And we have to destroy him That's it! That's how it is introduced to you normally in the game And that was the whole entire boss fight, so good job, Cole. Thank you very much. That's a decent quicksave too. Skipped a little over half of text. Yeah! Yeah I pretty much equaled out with the time that I grabbed that. But here we are going on to the last level of the game. Yep so final level with the final boss. This enemy here for a sculpt is just going to do a lot of damage with this gun right here to try to get the boss to phase two. Wow, that happened. to try and get the boss to phase two. While that happens, I think we have time for a quick couple donations. Absolutely! We've got five dollars from Radiant Rayla who says Got up early to watch my boy Gulch crush it. Good luck. Thank you, Radiant. And I've got $25 from Tim who says great run. Nice Jesus piece t-shirt, Gulch. Thank you thank you. And then $25 from anonymous that says love seeing obscure janky 2000s shooters get demolished at GDQ. Good luck to the runner. Excellent. So here it is, the final part of The run. What Gulch is going to do Here is pull these levers next to These blue towers. What that does is charge up the gauntlet fireball throw ability, which does so much damage to the boss that you kind of have to do it. Yeah, like you can see how little the health bar is going down with these shots. One fully charged fireball deals a little under 50% of the boss's HP. So we make two laps doing this while shooting between levers to try and get the health down enough where the second fireball just kills. And here we are hitting our last switch here, so I'm just gonna save for safety because these flying enemies can actually intercept it and kind of save the boss a little bit but we were were lucky there, and hit the ball. So we're going to do one more trip around. Yeah. We're basically on our victory lap here. Gulch, do you have anything you'd want to shout out? I just want to shout-, you know, the community. Shout out Prisoner, Astrid Schmumbler, as well as Havard and all the rest of the people at Run Invalid for, you know, working on this game and finding all these strats out. I've had so much fun optimizing the run with all of you, so thank you so much! Anything that you guys want to shout out? Everyone, if this looks interesting and this looks wild And you also wanna speedrun it I made a tutorial. It's great This should be the last throw right here, as long as we hit it. And we did not. A little bit too far. We're going to have to approach him a little bit. The time is coming up pretty quick as soon as the screen fades to black here after the damage gets all done, there it is that's time. And we have this epic monologue to end the game with. Zimmerman, the person we played as the entire game and this is a prequel to Necrovision so this is actually a boss who we face in that game but I'll let this play out uh but thank you guys so much only i know how to use this power the demons are winning this war and not a single human or vampire can survive without me! I must create a new army. An Army of the Undead! Warriors without doubts, without mercy, without fear! There can be only one ruler of the darkness! Now is my time beautiful so epic um but yeah that was uh necrovision lost company um i'm gulch too thank you guys so much for having me. If you want to follow me, I am a Bioshock and horror game speedrunner. Mainly do the Bioshocks series but you know, throwing games like this from time to time when Astrid tells me to speed on something. Yeah, only thing I got is another shout out for Astrid, for literally reviving this game. This game is a lot of fun to run. Well thank you both and yeah I myself speedrun a lot of games and I like to find weird bizarre games like this to speed run. And...yeah that's what I do. Thank you all so much thanks everyone thanks all right well hello summer game so So Quick 2024. Welcome to Live Alive! My name is Ram Hall V. If the people behind me want to introduce themselves as well... Sure. I'm Gooby. I am an enjoyer of Live Alive and I'm really excited to be here. This is a super cool game. Love this game playing the... since it's like the Stan translation, I'm really glad this got ported over, and glad we could show it. I'm TempestMask1000, some of you know me as Steve and I am also a live-live enjoyer technically haven't fully played the game yet but I've seen people play this remake ever since it came out and it is one of the most beautiful things alongside Octopath Traveler. Same people by the way when you think about it, so yeah Alright, so before I talk about The Run, I want to even talk a little bit about what this game even is So this is a remake of a 1994 Super Famicom RPG. It's kind of like an anthology almost... it starts out with these seven mini-scenarios So I'm going to be doing three of them today. I'm gonna be doing the Twilight of Outer Japan Present Day and Prehistory We'll start time And cut off the name for uh obramaru in uh three two one go good luck my dude i just want to talk about about the conceit behind this chapter. Okay so we're in the twilight of Edo Japan and the idea is that Oboramaru is a ninja who has been assigned to rescue a prisoner within the evil villains lair. Can we get the name? The name is Janine, J-A-N-I-N-E with $155 dollars thank you so much for that generosity I think i saw that snipe as well So that was a pretty good donation bid for that one Alright, so yeah, Janine is on a mission to rescue a prisoner from the castle Odeh and basically he has a choice between fighting and stealth, so for the donation incentive that I do believe was meant while I was sleeping we're going to be going for zero kills on these enemies here? That is correct, we did beat that. Live at Summer Games Zone Quick 2024, I failed the first encounter, Dodged in the Run Let's go! Alright, this is a good start. So if you want to hide from enemies just press square and that will do the aggro. They have no object permanence whatsoever. Can I just say that's never happened before, by the way? No, it has. I just slammed reset button one of those and you never see it. I've never seen you fail that one though. It's a lot... the first one is a lot harder than the second one. So, yeah so um... You engage in combat by running into the enemies There's also a password system where uh you have to remember what the Password is. Every now and again, a bell rings that changes from River to origin so keep on your toes there. Make sure you don't get it Wrong. I only have to enter the password two times in this one. And it's always the same each time. So we're gonna go up into the attic here. There is a couple route divergences from the normal beat-the-chapter as fast as possible and getting zero kills. One of them is that I had to get this chest here Also something bad happened just there RIP to that guy but I'm different Yeah so for those that don't know, that is one of the several Watanabe scenes where this young boy throughout the different time periods just somehow suddenly tragically loses his father. And that's one of the cases right there. So it can happen a few times. Some of them are actually optional. We'll be showcasing one of them in the present day chapter as well so you'll at least get to see one of them in full. It's that short it really doesn't make much difference. We're up here on the rooftop leaping from the rooftops. I think the shot of Obero jumping from the rooftops like that is um... they showed that a lot in promos and it was really well done. Like in the Super Famicom looked pretty good i think but yeah it's mostly just a flat overhead view of a guy running on the roof so but it was mostly just a flat overhead view of a guy running on the roof, so they really amped up the production level here. Yeah that's very cool in the remake here Absolutely and like I said its same team that worked on Octopath Travel Traveler games, so this was really squaring. Just trying to further flex their ability for 2D HD games and to think we're now going to get the same kind of treatment with the first three dragon quest games it's amazing all right so i'm gonna fall into the dungeon real quick uh it's fine because we can escape this is actually where the prisoner is uh we're not going to be rescuing the prisoner, because it just takes too long. Even though that was our mission. All I have to do here is hide for about 10 seconds and then the guy thinks that I escaped and opens the door for me. What? Is, middle gear? Pretty much actually. Shout out to Akiba Um... yeah I guess uh... I'm out of things to say so I'll throw it to the host real quick for a couple seconds. Absolutely we have one-a very clarifying donation here from Mint For $10 who says this is actually pronounced live alive Just wanted to make sure that no one gets confused Thank you so much for correcting us on that I assume that was uh, i assume that was written out and not specified So I didn't know what I was saying Good on you k Kyle. Let's go. Alright so we're gonna come up with a short grind section here. You would think that grinding is bad in the pacifist run but actually In order for the kill count to increase you have to kill humans so like there's ghosts and stuff that um are in the castle and uh like you know cyborgs those don't count they're not people. Wait what? We can murder as many ghosts as we want and um... You know but we still get into heaven. But do you realize that they're still once living people right? How the heck does that not count as a human kill? I don't know. Ask God about it. So, the goal here is that I want to hit level 5. I want to be a decent amount of experience away from level 6 as well, because level 6 is where I learn a powerful move called Jirican Barrage. As I level up, I learn more and more moves. I just learned Water Scout here which will take about one turn instead of two And then pretty soon at the next level I'll be learning Firefall which is a slightly faster animation I suppose we could quickly talk about the soundtrack for this game, so the original game was composed by the wonderful Yoko Shimomura who... This was her first project with Square Enix at that time and she's back at it with the remake as well. And it's funny because before working with Square Enix on this project I do believe you told me that she had worked on some Street Fighter stuff before. And so, that will coincidentally come into play in one of the chapters that we'll be tackling in this run. So, if you know, you know. Those ghosts don't attack you at all, so you know, you know. Yeah. Those ghosts don't attack you at all so you don't really get to see a lot of the intricacies in this game but basically it's on a grid and it's sort of like quasi-real time there is like a bar above my head that represents real-time, even though if you idle in the menus it doesn't actually advance time. So every time we do an action time will jump to the next available action so it's half and half almost. It was very ahead of its time on the SNES. Yeah, it's really funny that this came out before even Chrono Trigger. So yeah I'm gonna kill Yeah. So, yeah, I'm going to kill six of these guys. Sorry, not kill because they're ghosts, but... Ghosts don't die, right? Isn't that what... I guess. I don't know. Depends on which cannon you're trying to look into, my guy. In Super Mario 64, ghosts don't die. You're not wrong. And if we did kill someone, it would show up like a dirty meter. Like Mario would say, like there'd be a meter. Like Amar Amar would say, I've defeated one person or something like that so... So what we're looking for is at the very end I'm going to receive a weapon called the Mutsunokami as a reward for getting zero kills. So that's all that matters. Yeah. Anyway, I'm done grinding now. Ordinarily I would jump back down this tree and go inside that door but I'd have to kill those guys standing in front so um unfortunately i'm gonna have to do a lot of backtracking so this is another great time for the host to talk about some stuff if they want absolutely and you've got under 10 minutes to hit that donation incentive from Masaharu Takahara's name. So if you want to have it named something other than Takeda, You better get the donation in quick! We've got a $50 donation from Foxinaboxin who says The best part of waking up is going fast and soft. Nice impression. Man, it has been years since I heard that jingle. That needs a good clap. Oh wow, I got that guy off me completely. You can keep going. Literally it's just the same as I was just doing. Awesome, awesome. I've got $5 from Joe T who says hi from Dublin, Ireland, Europe europe represent thank you so much for those european donations coming in shout outs to europe that'll be one of my favorite continents as a part irish myself i appreciate that top seven continents all time for sure. Heck yeah, I still need to go there though. We've got a $25 donation from Marissa no comment thank you so much for that and I've got $50 from Chimmy who says, I always love when AGDQ and SGDQ roll around every year. This is my eighth year watching now and it's become a family affair. Best of luck to all the runners and let's go fast! Thank you so much for that." Speaking of going fast, Janine here has a very fast movement speed compared to other characters One of the changes they did make to the remake is there's no run button for some reason but Janine doesn't need one. What was the run button in the Super Famicom version? It was B. Oh, okay. So I'm going to fall into the dungeon again and yeah, I'll pretty much be back where I started momentarily and stuff will actually start happening again. I can't believe you still in this cell! Well, he had the right idea, I was coming back there anyway. It's like he was here, I know it. Now I'm back to where I was and I get to carry on with the game. Gonna do one more password check for this door here. As part of the zero kill run, I have to collect four items called Kobons. And one of them is in here. I think I already have two others and then there's one more coming up. It's worth mentioning we are currently playing on the English voice acting, by the way and I believe there may be like a small optimization in playing the Japanese voice acting for some of the characters. But luckily we are not doing one of those, I know Graham mentioned something along the lines Surely they let me run away from this right? I would think so. Okay good. good. Yeah, I was just gonna say Erdenhart's chapter the way the English voice actor presents some of his lines is a bit more drawn out in terms of performance as compared to the Japanese voice. And this chapter I think it saves one second to play in Japanese. The only chapter where Engler saves time is Near Future and that's also like a one-second difference. That's interesting actually. Yeah, the big one is China. So I'm in the attic again, there's several attics in this castle and most of them are booby-trapped If i just keep moving straight In a straight line I can just avoid all these trap doors. Picking up a lot of damage items because, you know, I haven't really learned any good abilities yet so those are going to be useful until and holding me over until i do speaking of the traps this whole castle is like one big puzzle so if you play this game casually you'll get to see all the intricacies of this cast. It's very cool, it's very fun You can get very lost in it and have a lot of fun playing through it Also worth mentioning that Live Alive does have quite a few secret bosses within some of the different chapters. Not all of them, of course. One case being Masaru's so... If you're very adventurous and want to just complete everything that game has to offer look closely you never know what you'll find yeah i'll talk a little bit more about secret bosses toward the end of the run shut up could you now? So yeah, this is supposed to be like an enemy gauntlet But you can just make a rope and cross it So we're coming up on the first actual boss fight This is Puppet Master Ganai Defeating this one will disable all the traps in the castle So Because I don't really have good damage right now I'm gonna take all the damage items I picked up and pretty much just dump them on this boss. Just get rid of the adds here so they're not exploding on me And then use the shrimp rice ball which is going to increase my uh my strength and my um accuracy which is uh going to lead me to get more favorable damage rolls in the next two attacks and And then I'm just going to throw two shurikens at him. This song is such a jam, by the way. It is. He can survive this and I hope he doesn't. Oh, he survived that like quite a bit that didn't even kill him surely this is fine all right I love the delivery on that line by the way isn't electricity marvelous that was really unlucky would usually when he lives it's like 10 HP. We get to see a little bit more of the demonstration, like the combat system there so... Yeah I'm trying to move out of the range of his attacks. A big part of routing fights in this game is knowing where enemies can hit you and staying um... knowing what moves they have where they can hit you and staying out of those spots. Each different move has like different ranges it could hit and different damages. So here's another puzzle I'm supposed to put three coins in that slot And then this dummy is right here. And I wake him up. And this is a clone of me. Oh, you hear shuriken barrage? It's ridiculously strong. This was why I was trying to learn it okay well something we could talk about with the combat system is that trying to turn your character around can be used to purposely waste time a little bit it doesn't do a full turn maybe a partial turn at best so uh you might see bram use that for strategic purposes. On the way out, I have to make sure not stay on That middle tile and put one more coin in the slot To change this door back to normal. And this dummy right here has exactly one purpose, and you'll see what it is immediately. That said, you do want to avoid walking on water with this thing otherwise it already goes away. This mouse is the strongest weapon in the game. And boom goes the dynamite. So yeah, in the regular run, like non-passivist you have to fight those three bucket heads and it is one of more frustrating fights in the game so thanks for donating to have me skip it This is a prisoner he got tired of waiting for me and he broke himself out of jail so I'm gonna move Janine up to the top here see this is a ghost of on the immortal wasashi he's gonna start charging up this move but I'm gonna flip him around here and that'll interrupt his charge time and I can basically still mock him like this she's going he just got to be going he just gonna be uh he's gonna be aggroing onto the prisoner and i can just stop him in his tracks anytime he does so yeah this is one a really good way to cheese enemies in this game is just repeatedly flip them over and over. You'll see that a little bit more in the present day chapter. I suppose this would be a good time to pass it on over to you, Kyle. Absolutely. We've got a $25 donation from Dancing Bear who says, What a great start to the event so far. I can't wait to watch for my home office and from the audience throughout the week. Love you all so much! Thank you for that donation, And if you're planning on or are currently watching from your home office Or THE office, donate let me know And I promise i won't tell your boss all right so the um the the biggest difference in combat from from the pacifist route is this is the only fight that's different at all so because normally after that fight I would have hit level 7 and learned a new move. I don't have level seven right now, so I did this a little bit differently gonna dump on a few more damage items on this boss here. She's weak to water and wind which is really good that's the elements I have in my position here. Damage tiles here damage tiles are a little irritating and poison ticks as well poison is really good when you're using it when they're using it. It's not so good. Uh oh... Hmm... So yeah, normally at this point I would have a move called Phantom Butterflies and that does a lot more damage because it's wind elemental, and I'll take out at least half her health. This is gonna heal her unfortunately. So yeah actually this is like the her, unfortunately. So yeah, actually I- This is like the one fight that I was really fussing over over the past week trying to make it as optimal as I can because this is like I said every other fight is just the same as normal but because i don't have the phantom butterflies um i gotta deal with it a little differently we should talk about the knockdown system just in case something goes awry. So if a character runs out of HP and live alive, they will be in the knockdown state And if I'm not mistaken any healing item should be able to revive them However, if an enemy takes an opportunity attack on a down ally then they're out of the fight for good yeah so uh this is known as incapacitation and dismissal you are incapacitated if you reach 0 HP, you're basically treated as a downed ally, you can be healed by anything I'm just repeating what Tempo said I'll just be quiet. Feel free to riff on anything I say man! I can't even talk right now... Here's the bad guy of the castle Odeh Eo What is going on? Here's the bad guy at the castle, Odeio. I'm just gonna stand here and spam pretty much. He's all the way over there. He's never gonna get near me And he can't do anything when he's all the way over there That's a bad damage roll. By the way, this is the main boss of the chapter so we will want to get ready for the next naming incentive to close. Hmm... Hmm. I should definitely pull up the voice actors for this thing, because it's been a bit... He actually might get eternal homing. Let me go ahead and uh quickly do research feel free to take over for me oh exactly 65 that's nice there we go all right so i I defeated Odee-io but this was not his final form. Oh the best part of the game bar none. Yeah, banger incoming. So Odieo turned into a giant frog snake and... Let's go oh yeah so yeah um basically if you use shuriken barrage on him you'll uh put him into dizzy state and he's not uh guaranteed to he's not guaranteed to aggro onto you if you do that, so I'm just gonna kinda... Hopefully it'll stunlock him. It will be this over and over. If I see him charge up a move, I'll have a prisoner on standby to uh take care of that but other than that i just like press one button and win who else here is a fan of this song by the way in the. Yeah, yeah. We love a good megalomania not to be confused with Undertale's Megalovania. Two different songs right here. Very clean. Nice. Alright. And that's the chapter done! So I believe our next chapter is going to be Masaru, correct? Yeah. So we're gonna wanna close The Bid War right now for that. Our next chapter is going to be Masaru, correct? Yeah. So we're gonna wanna close the Bid War right now for that. And then you'll see the verification right here that I indeed got the Mutsunokami for getting zero kills. So, totally legit run. Also the prisoner was actually Sakamoto Ryoma. I keep wanting to call him Sakamoto Ryuichi but that's the guy from YMO. I get them confused a lot. Mission complete! I don't know who that was, thank you MetroidMaster the name for Mastu is gonna come up pretty much right away. You got it. Alright here we go! Alright the name is TIKITA T I K I T A T I K I T A? That's right T I K I TA T A T A So uh...one of you want to tell me what this chapter's about? Yeah. So essentially This is Street Fighter You can see we get character selects And we're going through kind of a fight A series of fights here, starting with Seishi here. Yeah so Seishi Moribe I go to him first because he teaches me probably the most useful fight, uh, the most useful skill in this chapter is Sleep Foot Foot. This is a flipping skill. I've already gone over why those are good. Our goal is we're trying to learn various different moves, like there's the Fleet Foot, so that was good there. So the interesting thing about this grid combat is that since i take up one tile and this guy takes a two i can actually hit him um but yeah i can hit him with his own move but he can't hit me back because uh he's not standing in the right position. So I did a little bit of looking up on the voice actors and Obaru Maro is voiced by Stephen Foo, who is very prolific voice actor in this day and age for sure uh you might know him for the main protagonist of shield hero for instance uh of course taking after the late billy kometz from season two and onward and then i believe if i can just quickly get to masaru uh that said the last chapter that we will be tackling is all japanese so no matter which one you wait hang on i gotta pause for this speed of which the japanese audio for this dialogue here it's really funny i wanted to show it but i chose english voices for something else later you weren't going to show it oh Oh, well. Yeah, prehistory is gonna be all Japanese so no matter what happens... Totally original character by the way. Yeah. Oops. So yeah, this is just gonna be like me flipping him over and over and over again So, yeah. This is just going to be me flipping him over and over again. When a character is turned around he has to waste his turn assuming he can't hit you from behind. He has to waste his turn turning back around to face you, so I'm basically going to be sunlocking him until the very end of the fight where I actually want to learn a move from him. So I want to wait till he gets to like red HP, about 100 or so. Then I try to get him to a German Suplex, which is a useful move for a couple of fights later. Keep in mind that we're not really going to learn every move there is to offer. We just want to go for the more optimal ones. However, if you were to play a full game run of Live Al then masaru will eventually learn some of the other stuff through traditional level ups all right so when i hit him with gale storm it inflicts them with that like red steamy status. And for some reason... This might work out in my favor anyway. Well, here's Max Bomber. I didn't want to learn this move, but I guess... I don't have a say in the matter. Alright anyway. See ya. You hold on to Mega Man. Alright, I guess I have Mega Man now. It's a Street Fighter. We got a Capcom represent in some way. So the kind of gimmick behind this chapter is that these are each masters of different martial arts. I guess pro wrestling is a martial art now and first guy was Kokujutsu, next guys sumo wrestling. This is Jackie Elkaya, a sumo wrestler from Hawaii. I don't want to learn any of his moves... He actually has like Monster's Ultimate Move It's really hard to get him to use it But um, it's not worth the trouble at this point I'm just going to use Fleet Foot on him because he is weak to it. He has 576 HP, so what I want to be seeing is an average of 144. 168 is really good. It's probably one of the higher damage rolls you can get. That's 124, that kind of makes... undoes the high roll I did there. Oh, there we go, 171. Yeah, so I got the forehand on lock at this point. Unless I hit 112 here or something. Okay, good. How could I? She got some decent rolls there, it seemed like. Yeah that was a pretty good play. Oh! Jackie's voiced by Brett Mukai. That's pretty cool. Next up is Nam Ki-at... sorry, Nam Kiiat, the master of Muay Thai. This guy's weak to German Suplex so just gonna be a two turn fight at this point. Not much to talk about. I guess if the host wants to read anything while i'm uh taking out this trash here yeah you got it we got 15 from archer algae views who says i am absolutely obsessed with live Alive. So glad to see it here and woke up early to catch it. Good luck. Excited to see the pacifist run less than three. Thank you so much that we have been getting our pacifist on this whole run. I just rolled 255 on that last one, this guy's 256 HP One day I'll see the legendary one hit on Anakiot, I haven't seen it yet So I finally found Masaru's voice in English. Guilty Makalas? I believe that is pronounced. Sorry if I butchered it. That's pretty cool. One of the nice things about voice casting from Square Games is usually you see a lot of familiar names, and sometimes you'll see names that you probably haven't even heard of, and yet they still put out on the internet. So for the great Asa, it's very important that I stand stand right here and use his bite on me That's the Watanabe scene. That was my first time hearing that in English. So I wanted to use Frankenstein. Okay, this is the last video i did learn frankensteiner um yeah it's probably and then i'm gonna use a fleet foot on him he's also weak to it and in fact he's so weak to it that he gets scared and runs away from me when i use it so the rest of the fight is pretty simple and away he goes. That's another, that's another like... There are a lot of damage roll dependent fights in this. That guy can live on one HP if you hit him twice. But it is the next guy I really want to look out for. Also, this guy was the master of lucha libre which is distinct from pro wrestling somehow. I can't remember this last guy. It's some kind of Russian martial art. This guy is exactly one blind spot and it's directly behind him diagonally. So I want to be careful how he turned. And we hit him with Frankenstein, or his weak to that. Ideally it takes him out in two hits. 228 is good. If I fail this i'm gonna learn two new moves that i don't want to learn so yep well time for the feature-length film counter arm lock where are you going counter arm lock sound cross you hold who loves learning moves Education is fun! You gotta learn the hard way sometimes! I hope we're all taking notes. Is that 2 HP? Actually, in my PB for full game he lived at 1 HP. So that's the worst damage range to miss as you can see. And that was not Guile by the way. No no there really wasn't I mean he doesn't have a scar he's not supposed to. Alright so while I was fighting all these guys some other guy came and uh Was also fighting them but um He also killed him so that's bad don't don't kill people please uh this guy is named uh odio bright pay no attention to the fact that his name sounds like the other guy from the other chapter it's not important not at all don't worry about it all right so this fight is pretty straightforward it's basically just use whatever the best move uh to use in that particular instances i want to go all the way to his right here and flip him around so i can um force myself to be in this blind spot then he'll turn around after this and then I'll start using Frankensteiner, which is just about my strongest move. Ideally you want to use Frankensteiner when I'm behind the enemy because it's one of those moves where if you miss you damage yourself. It's one of those moves where if you miss, um... You take- You damage yourself. And, um... You're less likely to miss if you're behind an enemy. So what even is the point of him being named OdeD.O. Bright? Like, I don't understand what single part of him is bright. I dunno that's his name. That's what his parents called him Actually no, that's his family name, so maybe not. I'd like to assume that his parents were inventors and he just grew tired of it so he just up and killed them. Alright, so here he's charging up an ultimate move. I'm going to get out of the way just in case but I want to flip him around and interrupt it. That's really good. Attack animations are bad. This is a speed run. Yeah, I'm fine. Ideally he charges up again and I can get a free turn. Yeah here we go, alright. If I just move away two tiles he won't hit me even if I do fail to turn him around? That's a good delivery right there. This is in fact a fight. That's a good delivery right there. This is in fact a fight, that's a fact. It is like nothing really has been a fight at this point I've just been kicking them in the face and turning them around I get very Shadow of by Colossus vibes from this fight with how big Odeo is compared to us. Yeah, all bosses within the main portion of the chapter just have that huge physique going for them in as they're established it doesn't even help for them to be big because they take up more tiles exactly right it will be a bit more natural though for our last boss of uh we want to get ready for the cutoff for pogo yeah okay mega man you served your purpose goodbye for now well megaman what megamen goodbye for now. Mega Man? Mega Man. Alright, um... Yeah momentarily. What's the name? The name is with $175 Cheryl! And it's all caps by now. Cheryl C-H-ER-Y-L all caps. Was that a reference too? One of our overnight runs. That's a lot of Xs. That's a lot of Js. That's a lot of... Let's start! Cheryl! Alright so Pogo is a caveman. In true caveman fashion there's no dialogue in this entire chapter I went the wrong way. So actually this is the right you want to go to progress a story, but first I want to do it. I want to do a mini game in this next room over here. Uh so there's two haystacks. There are some kind of criteria that I'm going to be given to figure out which haystack is the correct one. I'm gonna skip the cutscene so it's basically a coin flip if I get right or not. So let's see... Nice first try. Ayyyy! Let's go. So um yeah that got me a bunch of materials so one of the main mechanics of the Free History chapter is you can synthesize items at the synth shop so I'm going to be making a bunch of items There's one item in particular that's going to save several minutes but while I'm at the shop i'm going to uh make some uh make some other stuff that's beneficial for me this chapter is very fun and lighthearted cool thing about this game all the different chapters have like a very distinct personality and vibe they're almost like separate games almost feels like it's it's a lot of fun yeah and because this is a time when humans did not have the fluent language system going on. All dialogue is represented by pictures and in consequence, the story is also fairly simple but an effective one at that. Alright, so I want to use... For the next synthesizer synthesis I want to use the bone but I have it equipped and I need to equip something else to get him off. Yeah, you have to basically switch a weapon with a weapon in Live Alive. There's no unequipping, unfortunately. So that's all the stuff I need now I get to actually do the game. Pogo is like a hunter's apprentice, or something to that effect. And he's going to do his daily hunt. This is kind of the introduction to how encounters work in this chapter. In most chapters in this game, encounters are not random. They're visible on the screen and you can run into them to engage in battle. The same is true with this chapter as well except that you can't see the enemies. They're invisible. But Pogo can track their scent by sniffing and that's basically how you find out where the enemies are. Although it's imperfect because he... Oops! Because he um... Okay I didn't have to sniff there that's really good oh i got a deer that's really good too oh wow uh if i can get three deer that'd be great. Ah... missed one. Alright, it's fine. He hit the tag man. Out of curiosity Gooby, what is your favorite color? My favorite color? Yes. Oh purple! Mine's green. And you can see why, that he Pogo has green hair. I'm sorry Jarrell Take my favorite...I don't think about my favorite color very much. At one point it was yellow It's not a bad choice all right where are you what's all your favorite colors at home let us know with the donation that'd be actually pretty cool i'd love to see that all right now i'm less lucky here's the uh okay folks quick uh the dogs they're gonna be okay we just need to steal their food nothing more we're just we just need to knock them out they're laughing They're laughing. They're laughing at you. Yeah, use the Laughing Mask and now they're laughing. Oh okay I missed that for a second. I just love how funny the move names are, by the way. Like Bang and Slap. In the original they were even sillier. Stuff like mmmm and ooooh! Yeah, there's random noises. You get a little bit of a better idea what the moves actually do in this, uh...in the remake. Yeah it's pretty difficult to know like what your move would do and it's just random noise. Alright we're hoping for as many deers as possible. Unlucky. I think I can hit three of them here though. Yeah, okay good. The feral pup hordes are just like more enemies to deal with whereas the deer is singular enemies to deal with, whereas the deer is like singular enemies to deal with. So more optimal that way basic speedrunner logic. Okay so that's my uh that's my quota for today I only had to hunt three, uh... beasts and now I get to go back to bed. Uh is there anything on the host wants read right now? Just not much going on for the next few minutes? Yeah sure! We've got ten dollars from forg who says now this is a donation i love it that's a very fitting donation for this run probably my favorite of this are you sure that's the donation and it is indeed a donation i've also got five dollars from FlexJerta that says, First time donator! Live Alive is my favorite RPG. I loved the original version and was ecstatic when I saw the game was being remade so allow me to put some money into a good cause. Continue the great work and don't forget to knock you down." So we should probably just briefly talk about our ally Gory. Literal gorilla? Yep. he's got a weird eyebrow like if you look at his official character art you'll see that it's kind of like a trident shape v and yet it has like an extra strand of hair right in the center I can't begin to explain that so here is kind of where we get into the main plot of um, the chapter there's there's been a there's like a tribe of uh human sacrificers cannibals something like that and they've been keeping a young woman captive and she's escaped and now she's taking refuge in our lodge here. This is like the prehistory meet queue. Yeah. So I basically have to poke around these haystacks until I find her. Uh, I know she's in this one but they won't let me uh, interact with her until I sniff so that's cool. Oh, um... Yeah. Oh! Oh, oh, I have to get the meat first. Yeah. Blanked out for a second. You're good. Even I forgot. Yeah, what do I do here? Let me look at the question mark. Question markers lie. So think she's hungry then because This chapter has a lot of leaving out of a door and immediately going back in. Anyway so we're gonna take her back to our room with us. Don't worry about Gory by the way! See? There he is! with us. Don't worry about Gory, by the way. He's fine. See? There he is! Best recovery time yet! I told you quest markers lie. Man, Gory is just resilient. It was a bit of a running gag, by the way, that somebody tends to be in front of our own room. Not really sure how they get that one confused. Yeah so we gotta find a way to sneak Beru past the sleeping guy there, so we're gonna hide her in the haystack again. Pay attention to the loading screen right now. Hey! I see what you did there. Hey. Hey Kyle, you got anything for us right now? I sure do. You asked for it and we've got $5 from Sebiel who says, my favorite color is orange. Ooh! Orange column. Who else have we got? Let's get some more donations with our favorite colors or if you have green hair donate for that too i always respect the uh the different colors people sometimes set their hairs so like seriously ordinarily what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to go out and hunt for more meat uh to give to her there but she also responds positively to the rough bands one of the items i made at the synthesis shop so i saved a lot of time by making those i don't have to go out hunting again. That was basically the whole point of the detour at the start. Very big timesave there. Huge! Bad stuff is about to happen. The cannibals are about to raid the village looking for their prey. In some Flintstone go-karts, no less. Yeah, it straight up is. Again, they're making us go back to the door I just went through. So we gotta fight some guys here. This is another source of please get good damage rolls, don't miss, etc. So this fight can go a whole number ways. Nice miss! Love it, love it, love it! it Poggers put me to sleep please what do you think who stands for anyway uh you know how in like anime where they say yeah that's probably what that is i mean it makes sense it's a very common voice acting thing to do i should know somebody that wants to get into that sort of field myself. All right, so again, I want to hit this guy from behind because I missed last... What's your favorite move from this chapter? What would you say? I'm going to go with Poop Throw. Oh, that's Gory's right. Yeah, it's a pretty good one. I'll have to go with that too. I don't like Miss. That's my least favorite move. Yeah, same. I'd say mine is fly lizard fly uh well gory's out of the picture now oh rest in peace he has returned to monkey all right well that's fine i'm not getting buried over there the thing is like if you move large distances on the field that you fill up the enemy's meter more so I'd rather just pass with Baru at this point In the meantime, you got anything for us Kyle? I sure do. I've got five dollars from Megan Rupees who says You thought it was a speed run but its me! Oh Dio! Yes! Actually isn't Dio's voice actor from the Japanese dub in this game by any chance? I finally remember hearing that. Uh, I don't think so. He's an occupant too. Oh, that'd probably do it. He plays Harvey! Harvey! Harvey! Alright, so this is the first of three fights with Zaki. This is the only one where I have any allies with me. The other ones are 1 on 1s. Zaki's like the main villain or well... Anti-hero technically. Oh here's Fly Wizard Fly. Yeah yeah this is one of the weird, see that right there? That is one of the weirdest character designs in the game because that lizard is literally the only thing he wears as clothing and yet he uses it as a move. It's so strange! Yeah, I'm glad he-I'm glad that he used it when he was facing down. Alright pretty clean Zaki actually. There isn't really much you can do about him getting a turn there since he's got so many people he can log on to but the other two Zaki fights are since they're 1v1s, are going to be a little bit more cheesed. And they're gonna have to be because I'm like stupidly underleveled for this entire thing. I'm running away from every fight. Here they kick us out of the village because we were causing a ruckus. This is the first part where we can run into encounters that we don't want to run into. Really unlucky to get one here, because it's a wide open space. The other parts are narrower pathways, but basically just a straight shot to this cave here. If I hit another one, I'm gonna sniff. You have time for a couple donations? Uh sure, sure. Cool we've got $10 from Aksani who says Well I do not have green hair I do have hair in my favorite color Purple Hey Alright And I've got $25 from Green Hair Represent That says Green is my favorite color And I have dyed my hair green. Shout out to Green Hair. Let's go! You know what? Maybe I should do a highlight one of these days. I don't know, maybe. So they went and took the girl again. We gotta fight. This guy also has one blind spot. I want to be behind him vertically but in front of him horizontally. Even if i push him away, or even if i don't push him away he doesn't have any moves that can hit me if I'm there So it's gonna be like just... It's going to loop him over and over, And make sure he never gets a move off. Because Fly Lizard fly will take out half my health And that's a death obviously if I get hit twice Keep in mind Pogo is going to remain very low level throughout the entirety of this chapter, so you're probably wondering then how are we gonna worry about the last fight of the game? Well... We'll save that for later. But just rest assured it will all work out. We promise. In the meantime, Kyle, you got anything else for us? Sure do. I've got $50 from Buzz mars who says cheryl posture check carol carol and about ten dollars from ani chibi who says didn't expect to be awake for this run So here's 10 bucks for this live a live run one of my friend loves this game But wasn't gonna be up for it so consider this five dollars from me and another five from them so he goes to the project o6 Easter Egg Showcase, and good luck on the run! Shoutout to Mother 3. Yeah, except instead of going left, you're going up. Yeah, it's Mother 3 but rotated 90 degrees. 90 degrees? You're not wrong! I can get into a fight here... and I did. We were in a dream sequence there In case you were wondering. How do those moles have shovels by the way, and glasses for that matter? Don't worry about it how else do you think they did how does pogo get green hair dye that's the question dude are you really gonna make me question anime protagonists yes yeah i love dragon ball what can i tell you because they have they have they probably have the technology to dye hair in most anime but but this is the Stone Age. Maybe he was just born with it. There's a little bit more walking here. I'm gonna talk a little about... So at this point or close to this point there's like a... you can backtrack here and ummm. There is a hidden super boss called King Mammoth. And if you could defeat this guy he has the chance to drop an item called the Cola bottle, which is the most OP garbage in this entire game. I'm gonna put out... This is probably like... This is probably the largest audience that Speedrunner's going to get so I'm gonna put on an open invitation to have someone figure out some kind of low level cheese for the king mammoth bite. If we can manage to get the cola bottle in a full game run, in like a reasonably fast amount of time then it will probably us like 20 minutes in the final chapter. So get on it! I'm too lazy to do it myself. I've tried the SNES drives, they don't work. Didn't expect my headset to shake when I was imitating Gory. Yeah, Gory ran for these chicks here so we gotta wake him up or something. You gotta talk to them three times. Every time you talk to them there's an autosave for some reason. I always find that really funny. And then the third one you can skip. We got like one more spot for a couple donations. You got it, we got $50 from Zelcy who says, The feral pup became tame. Thank you all so much for another awesome event, and featuring one of my favorite sleeper RPG hits. Thank you so much. And I've got $10 from Minch who says, fine, I'll pay the green hair tax. Thank you so much. That's right, if you're at home and you have green hair, you gotta pay the green hair tax thank you so much that's right if you're at home and you have green hair you gotta pay that green hair tax what have i done though no it's for charity it's all brought in money is what you did exactly yeah this is fine all right so if you're fine we got fire yeah we're going to the final confrontation versus another fight with zaki uh in the original game he had to hit this guy four times that would end the fight immediately here you have to get him into red health but either way you don't have to actually beat them but it's the same strategy before you. You stall for time with L1, R1 to turn around then you get him to come to you and while he is looking away you get behind him and kick I guess one more question just for our personal preferences. Favorite voice within the game? I'd personally say Beru or the Western boss. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. I like... I like Masaru in Japanese. He's voiced by Tomokazu Seki. That's really good. I didn't do it just as air. Okay, so here is the... Sorry headphones users! So here is the final boss his name is Odo Everybody in this fight except for Zaki is useless. So I'm gonna just... I'm going to use him as bait pretty much while I have a Zaki stand behind him and he's for some reason not going to notice that someone's throwing a lizard at him over and over again. And you saw right there, I mean like 200 damage from that T-Rex so... Yeah it's just over at this point if your Beru or Gory its over. It's fine they're just sleeping he's taking a nap well maybe not so much anymore my goodness he's gonna go to another dimension. You've just been sent into another dimension! I don't even know who that was, is that you? That was Pete. I'm trying to do an Ocean of Vegeta impression thank you very much. If possible I want to do my best to get the other characters out of range anyway and have him chase them into the corner because watching attack animation is a little bit slower than you know watching him move one tile so i want to optimize this as much as possible i also want to hope for very high damage rolls he can hit like 80. i think he hit up to like 120. damage ranges in this game are pretty wide actually and um i guess optimally if um if he is going to hit someone i'd rather you take him out one hit so i have to watch fewer attack animations it could be real quick what's your favorite voice from what you've heard so far my favorite voice in this game yes uh good question you know what that's fine. I'm not a voice actor, I don't know. No no it's fine! It's fine! Just anything will do. That's a good question. Wait would it be Max Morgan actually? We'll say Omar Amaro. Okay! That's a good question. Wait, would it be Max Morgan actually? We'll say Omar Amaro about that. Okay. Good pick. Time will be when the save prompt comes up or the overwrite save data prompt. So, um... yeah we beat the dinosaur and I guess nothing else really happens like this chapter is pretty light on the story because there's no dialogue So yeah what you see is pretty much what you get so and Time Nice done Bram And time. Nice job, Bram! Start when I hit start so 3-2-1 go and yeah this is Pugsy 3, 2, 1, go. And yeah this is Pugsy so... Oh boy! So this game has something wonderful called Total Object Interaction and Eon can tell you a little bit about that. So basically anything in the game can be interacted with they interact with each other so I think it's only made possible by the glass processing on the Sega Genesis. Correct. So you can see how we just used that gun to jump over that where you would normally have to build a little bit of staircase to jump up otherwise. Yeah, that's gonna be a theme is using objects in your hand to make very long big jumps. Yeah so you're going to see a lot of that and then there's just a lot of switches. There's a lot of switches in this game I don't know why but the inhabitants of this planet they just really like switches that you can use with any object. So there's no specific key or anything for a lot of things, just any object. You have to be carrying an object to interact with those switches. Yeah, that's true. There we had some tech there. It's kind of a reverse SMW regrab if Drex presses the jump button at the top of his jump he'll actually fall faster so... There will be a lot of SMW references here, so... Yes. I hope you're all here for that. Let's see... Uh, well not SMW references just y'know how this game is better than SMW. Well yeah! That's obvious. This is our first boss, PolyPirate. The cool thing about the bosses in this game is that they give you their weakness so whenever you get to a boss this boss is weak to fish so it just keeps spawning fish here so that you can throw fish at it. See, if I was one of these bosses I would simply not give Pugsy my weakness? Yeah, yeah. Fire would burn me So I don't give my enemies fire! Easy. This is one of the big first skips Fire would burn me, so I don't give my enemies fire. It's easy. This is one of the big first skips in the run, so got that for a try. Basically you just use the chest to bounce up there. Normally you'd have to use a water gun to put out the fire and then walk through there, but we just skip all that. That's slow. Yeah. That's the magic of total object interaction! And this level probably showcases the total object interaction the best There is a lot of stuff going on here, we have to hit that switch there to drop down a key and then we're gonna have to hit this other switch to turn on a fan which is gonna blow the key down here And then we need to get two objects to the far right side of the screen but that's really slow if you take two trips. So we are going to do a little trick here and we're going to just toss this key. And hopefully we should hear a click here in a second there it is so we got the lock on the other side over here so we can take the axe with us um that was pretty difficult throw yeah there's a lot of there's a lot of solving puzzles off-screen. That's a very common occurrence. Better than SNW nothing despawns off screen so you can interact with things off screen like that to just complete puzzles blind. Actually nothing despawns at all in this game. It's a perfect game I think. On this level we are going to get the swag objects that make us look really cool so we got our sunglasses here and these serve basically no purpose in the speed run other than to make you look cool um because we're going to get our other swag object on this level as well the sneakers which will make us run twice as fast and jump twice as high but the problem is if you take a single hit you lose them even if you have sunglasses. You lose your shoes before you lose your sunglasses so... Yeah, they're both excellent. The developers really thought about that one to make it just a great game where basically in a speedrun of this you're gonna do it damageless so yeah don't get hit as easy as that yep just also this is not a spoon this is a balloon we're going to inflate this balloon uh pugsy the reason that he's so white and uh you know we had to use that uh weight there is because i think he's filled with helium that says so but what what is filled with helium yeah what is filled with helium? Yeah, what IS filled with helium? The sun's last. See and now he has his Jordans and it is super cool Like just exudes cool When I put my Jordans on in the morning i suddenly jump twice as high there is going to be a lot going on here we need to get this key down to the bottom to unlock lock because basically we need a few objects down here to flip some switches and hopefully that remote comes to the right but it didn't so we're gonna do this a slow way, that's fine though. Whoops! We need this... that's fine though this is the one where you should have four things on those switches beer we're just gonna do three three because yeah we cheat and it's faster to do this so um we're just gonna wait for these guys here i don't want to lose my sneakers not this early yeah there we go. There you go. Next boss here, this is definitely a giant raccoon. It's nothing else. One raccoon. Official name, the Emperor's Old Clothes. Oh, there you go. Why? Why is it called the Emperor's old clothes oh there you go why why is it called emperors old clothes because because the new clothes he does not have any yes and i do like you just sort of out dps the boss here yeah it's not even worth it to try to avoid the hits so just face tank so we actually we skip the first cycle here so that we set up to kill the boss on the left hand side of the screen so that it transitions off the screen quicker. And yeah, basically these balls they just go on an endless cycle and the switches you stand on on the floor correspond with panels above that drop the ball down. And there's definitely not a twist when you kill this boss here. No, it's just one raccoon. Oh wait, it's three raccoons on a unicycle. I mean props to that one on the bottom riding that unicycle with you know being so top heavy lots of core strength yeah oh we saw the spaceship there it is made out of wood so as spaceships are. Yes, that is the best technology. It turns out NASA didn't need to spend all that money developing that heat shielding. They could have just used wood. Notably flammable woods. And so here we'll see item swimming, which again, just like SMW... The better. Yes. You go faster when you item swim than you do walking. Oh boy water's like syrup in this yeah it's great the water levels are great unfortunately there's only two of them though and then this one we're going to try to avoid the Unfortunately there's only two of them though. And then this one we're going to try and avoid the water at all costs, so I'm gonna toss this rubber ducky here, and we're gonna try to basically skip off the water here, onto the duck. Uh oh...this is fine. This is fine. There we go! The game wants you to build a bridge there but that's slow. We don't have time for that. This level has a raccoon that we cannot kill without dropping a trap door down, so we're going to use this object to drop the trap door down and that's going to get us our key which kind of bounced in an unfortunate position there. And then, of course, we need keys to open doors. Enemy in a bootch? That's more like smb3 isn't it yeah oh that's okay we lost our sneakers but uh the next level has so there and then this level uh has multiple exits so we're gonna do both exits on this this is also probably a really good time for a couple of donations. Absolutely, and we have a lot of donations coming in regarding Pugsy and this run. Two in a row caught my interest here. There's $25 from Sporadic Erratic that said... We have decided that Pugsy must somehow be related to Qbert. Qbert? TNG question mark. Please solve for X. Qbert plus x equals Ponzi Immediately followed by five dollars from guy guys blues here is that said his pugsy middle-aged Hubert with a dad bond There was some collective going on there where cuber was just invading the thoughts of the audience and i'm just gonna say thanks. I don't know what else to say, um... Do you want another donation? Yeah go ahead! I'm going to wait a second here. Do we need time to process? I don't- I'm fine, don't... Okay. I'm not. We got $100 here from RoyalBlueWizard that said, another awesome GDQ. Always glad to donate to support a great cause like MSF. Best of luck to the runners. Had to donate to support a great cause like msf best of luck to the runners had to donate during the pugsy run because this game has some truly impressive physics as a genesis era platformer and i love seeing it get more love thank you so much for that donation well so what we did there is we lit that uh torch on fire and we threw it down there in a way that would bounce and hit a rope uh that was holding a weight, and then it catapults the key to us. This level here is where the biggest skip in the game is found. So you used to have to take... Oh wow I got it first try. Wow! That's really fast um so usually you would have to stack up uh six of those coins there to hit a switch but what we do is we re-grab the coin to uh and real final boss do is we re-grab the coin to... Real final boss of the game, Flower Mouse. Oh my goodness, and we got fast Flower Mouse? That was actually perfect. That's a big RNG section there. The Flower Mouse can just not hit the thing to the switch. And this is just a long hitting a couple of switches so we got time for a few more donations here. Oh boy, alright. $50 here from Laker Ekarasi that says, Always enjoy watching you play this one, Drex. Best of luck and thanks so much for keeping at it over the years. $10 from our best friend Anonymous here saying, What is Pugsy? Pugsy is a giant potato. friend anonymous hearing here saying what is pugsy pugsy is a giant potato i can i can see all of these at the worst part ten dollars here from lex that says pugsy is obviously a super spy in training and master of disguise only a spy could get bosses to share their weakness and cunning cutting plan for world domination that's true yeah what about 50 here fromValentine that says good morning! I don't know what Pugsy is but he seems friend-shaped at least? Yeah. Vaguely? Yeah fair enough. Cool and then this is our next boss. Whoops! So we got a contraption here that we have to use And luckily I know the solution If you played this casually though You would have a lot of fun with this. All these switches do something up to the top gears and everything And basically you need to set this crane in a specific spot to grab the flower bags out of midair and then drop them on this badger. Those are the only switches you can interact with without holding an item? That's true. Also, my vote for what Pugsy is a sentient yam with handlebars. With the handle bars up top? Yeah. One of our favorites is that the Richard Nixon mask full of tapioca, it's another one. Sat out in the sun a little too long. Little bit too long. A little bit too long! It's too early for these, stop! Yeah so this is another level where it's just a little slow where basically when you have a an eyeball in this game you can use a remote to see uh oh okay we're good uh to see where the eyeball is and uh this raccoon mummy it just kind of walks in whatever direction pugsy is moving on the x-axis and then jumps every four seconds so it's a jumping fugu yeah this is like the weirdest escort mission of all time and yes another snw reference and we just have to hit one of these switches here. I don't know how that level works, so I just do it. This level here...we got a lot going on here. So we're gonna try get one of these balls into this little teleporter here to hit a switch which it's not it's not being kind to us there it goes and then we're gonna toss another ball up here to hit another switch. We have two raccoons here, one's gonna drop down with a gun and the other one is going to drop down with a mug We need the one with the mug to hit this switch The Gun Raccoon opens up the Bad Switch right there that releases that mummy that chases you yeah it's a really fast mommy so yeah then bad coffee good pretty classic stuff yes uh this level we're just matching. And that goes in the square hole! Triangle? That one also goes to the square hole! Then this last two here... We need to take this with us us yeah it needs to be a platform um because we got yeah we gotta reach somewhere we can't normally reach so we take this down here and jump off of it i always jump off on my d-pad the square does not go in the square ironically yeah square deep head though square hole Alright. Our next boss here... We shoot plungers at this boss for whatever reason, it's flying in this hot air balloon shaped like a raccoon i guess and this is so faro so good which is my least favorite boss name by far and uh we're setting up here to try to get the perfect two cycle uh we missed it but we can get the backup two cycle. We missed it, but we can get the backup to cycle. There's your back up two cycle. If you time it perfectly though, you can get that early hit there. Now we're going to be heading into the Dark Woods Dark Blade, no, Dark Blade Forest that's what it's called. It's very scary here though Forbidden Forest Also if you pay attention close attention here you might see a little homage to another game. And wow, we got up that really quick. Also don't look at the background in this game with the large nosed... Those trees are scary. I don't like these woods this is not my vacation destination good thing this is early in the morning so we have time we won't like have nightmares no and you might have saw the gravestones there, it's Wiz and Liz. Apparently they're dead so sorry. Sorry Wiz, sorry Liz. This level the Grim Reaper chases you and you just shoot this slingshot at things that are conveniently holding up rocks to slow him down. If you don't do that, he catches you, you lose your sneakers, it's bad time. Can you actually beat the level without sneakers? You absolutely can! The weird thing is the Grim Reaper moves slower when you don't have sneakers. Interesting that's really nice of them. Yeah. A lot of things in this game, they're nice to you. The bosses are just nice to you so... This is another level where we're going to run right so this will probably be a good spot for a couple donations instead of the Donkey Kong. It's a mine cart level so we're donkey kong now oh fantastic so pugsy is a donkey kong yes pugsy kong all right cool uh ten dollars here from apathetic wamba that says everyone asks what is pugsy but never how is pugsy i mean he's stressing out because he lost his spaceship yeah the who's it what's its there's five dollars here from Skirk Ridge EX that says, Pugsy is an Easter Island statue given sentience. The raccoons are doing the world a service taking his spaceship. What is this? That's not very nice, you know what? Why are we attacking Pugsy? Uh, we just need to grab this key from- oh my goodness. Oh boy. We're just struggling a little bit. It's fine. Maybe we'll do this one more time. Okay, apparently I'm just not... You know it's because I put this chair too far out of the way so let's move this. There we go. Easy! I was making it way more difficult, I could have just buffered my input and grabbed that but I was trying to time pressing the B button there. Basically we need some dynamite here to set up a strat. The game wants you to take three pieces of dynamite down here so that you can blow up these two lanterns that are blocking the minecart from coming down, and then it will push the last piece of dynamite to the exit here to blow a hole so Pugsy can get down, but we're just gonna... Yeah that's slow. We're just going to throw this and they are going to get out of there. Alright, we got a branching path here coming up. It's going to take us to our next boss. This level is another level where you're just kind of holding left and right here. My assumption is that there's an eyeball inside of that cauldron, and that's why you can see it. And then we're hitting these switches to guide this cauldron. We need a switch...we don't need a switch we need the cauldron to get across some fire and flames down here. Getting over it? Through some fire and flames down here getting over it through the fire and flames yeah references so how about a donation yeah one donation would be good here all righty a singular donation. Here's $50 from Xerx that says Pugsy equals prevent unwanted glare with glamorous sunglasses Yeah! We'll make it work. This level is where you will see the best face that you'll probably see in all of GDQ right here, flying down the hill. He's hogged out of his gourd right now. Oh man, no one has ever been cooler. Nobody ever. Alright so this level is going to open up our next boss fight What we're gonna do here is and we're going to get past these raccoons that are covered in snow and one of them is holding dynamite which we need to blow the snow off the top of this volcano so that we can go down the volcano. Hopefully we don't get hit there, okay cool and then we're going to hopefully get a double kill here, perfect nice. Normally the game wants you to take four objects here, They stick to the wall in certain spots, so we just kind of gotta solve it but what we're gonna do is bounce on up here and this is probably the best boss in the game. Its name is Halitosis the dragon No? We call it twinkle toes for obvious reasons uh twinkletoes is full of mr pibb by the way yeah so my theory is that that's actually how mr pibibb is made, sort of like a Slurm situation. Yeah. Thanks Twinkle Toes! That's my favorite soda! And we can get double hits on the boss by the way there was an example of that. It's a little difficult to set up but you just basically buffer your jump input at the right times and you can get two hits on the boss. Ideally, you want to get two hits on three cycles so that you can kill the boss in four cycles, but five cycles there is fine. All of his little cozies. Alright now we're gonna go the other way. Is this level? Yeah, this is the level with biggest skip in the game...oh no, never mind sorry! This is the flashlight level so there's these bricks on the wall that you want to throw these tiles onto that have letters on them and if you are playing the game casually, you can use the flashlight up at the top here to... Whoops! That was not supposed to throw that way. To find where they go. But if you know where they go then you just can throw them. These three letters are a reference to the wiz and liz creator i want to say yeah so it's mrc for m.r chudley and this one just does not want to stick does it oh no oh we lost our sneakers. So we are going to have to go grab sneakers from another level. I guess we can get extra Pugsy pogged out of his gourd, huh? We'll go back this level and open up a secret path that will give us quick sneakers. Enjoy this again. You're welcome! But slower this time because we don't have sneakers. Yeah so if we get more plogging... Yep. We can enjoy it for a lot longer. Uh, we could get another donation in too while we're going to grab sneakers. Would that not technically be like plugging? No. Okay nevermind I take that back, that's on me. $75 here from Professor Test that says... Greetings. My name is Professor Test and after running several tests on the creature named Pugsy I've developed a hypothesis that it is in fact a sentient potato sack further research is indeed needed to confirm my suspicions yeah um thanks for that i didn't know you were running tests how did you do that? Where did you get that? That was the biggest skip in the game. Yeah, that was huge. And I got a first try, so that's really nice. So what we do there is we throw the object over just down there and we jump off of it kind of like a shell jump in SMW but way harder and way cooler. Yeah better just in general. It's just a better game. Normally what you'd be doing there is solving a puzzle to make a potion that Pugsy drinks and then becomes really light so he can fly over the gap. It's actually kind of a miserable level. This is another level where Pugsy can't just get past a breeze because he's so light, So we carry this Aztec head with us to be able to move through the wind here. We need dynamite from the other side. These birds are RNG and we got a fast bird so we can go underneath it. If the bird comes down slow, then you have to kill it to get by. And hopefully we're going to hit the bird... There we go! So now we don't have to deal with it and we are gonna take these three dynamites down here and they are all cooperating with us that's really nice hopefully we hear two explosions right now nope you only got one that's fine and that didn't work there we go and then we need one of these diamonds here to get out of this level. If you go the other way, there's a secret path. This game has a ton of secret levels and everything. This was a big demo scene game so there is like a lot of little mini games essentially inside the game as well that kind Of show off what the physics engine can do. There is no rubber chicken on that pulley, I don't get it. It's kind of disappointing isn't it? And then this is going to be our longest level of the run where we're going to be alternating this object down pipes. Let's learn geometry together. We got time for probably a bunch of donations now. Oh, boy. A bunch of donations I do have here is $20 from R Krantz that says had to get up early to catch a great run by a great runner. Excited to see my pal Drex pilot a sweet potato through a world of 16 hit perils. Good luck with the run! We've also got $5 here from Okecha that said stayed up all night to catch this Pugsy Run, good luck from your friend back home 20 here here from auglin that says gotta donate for my buddy drex good luck today i think i think pugsy is an old-timey medicine ball that's been through an industrial washing machine. That sounds dangerous. We still have some time for some more? Yeah, keep going. Absolutely. $10 here from Tesseract E that says I think Pugsy is the circus peanut version of The Incredible Hulk? What? $50 here from SomeEgretz that says, hey Drex! Pugsy is definitely a carrot. Just a carrot? Just a carrot. Yep. We got time for one more here. One more. $5 from Fart Small that says, Pugsy is the gummy bear I left in a hot car so it melted. That's the most realistic one by far. So what we did there was we alternated these items down pipes to transform it into an object that has six sides To get us out the door, you know. The hint there is that you need a 6 to get out of there Obviously the circle turned into a triangle and or a heart and then a triangle in a square and then a diamond and then uh a large hex nut so yeah what we need to do here is we need to get two objects up to the, or we need to get this key up to the top because we cannot take the key with us or we'll open a trap door. So I think we should be good here, yeah. We're gonna float that up and then we're gonna kill these two... Oh no! Oh boy. Alright, we have to go back and get sneakers again so we got time for donation again couple of them oh a couple of them all righty then here's 14 from lordly hour that says pugsy is a jack-o'-lantern left out for six months after halloween some of these just feel offensive that was rough the good news about like going back to getting to get sneakers is kind of like an open world so you can kind of just go back without man you can just go back. You can also reset out of any level that you want to in this game without beating it prior, which is another thing that makes it better than SMW. No softlocks! No softlocks at all. Just a better game. Alright, so we're gonna try this again here... Ooh! Stay out of there. There we go, okay good Sometimes he just bounces in a weird way there and it just skits out of your hands So and now hopefully we're gonna meet the key at the top yep there we go nice This next level We are going to do something really cool that shows that Pugsy is better than all those strongmen who used to take cannonballs to the gut. We're going to catch a cannonball out of midair here. That's just the strength of Bugsy. He's gonna fling a match at a cannon and then get it straight out of the air. We need this cannonball to get by this fan because again common house fan is the only thing that can defeat bugsy his one weakness indestructible except for air uh this level here this is probably the worst level in the whole run. It's also getting really close to the end here. This level you... Oh wow I got a really big bounce there. So we have to get this object to the other side. There's a pedestal that matches on the other side but you cannot interact with this spiky ball in any way other than hitting it with another object. So we're just going to toss it over here and that is kind of not in a good spot. So let's get these out of the way here. And then we'll pick it up... That was nice! This is the last actual regular level of the run here. So this is just a maze, if you don't know the solution then you might wander around in here for a bit But we're gonna drop down here because you can apparently drop through stuff this is the only level that that actually happens there you go um and then we're gonna go to the door here that's going to go to our final boss open games introduce new mechanics in the last level well we got time for one donation. Alrighty, one donation, one donation. I should have had this specific one ready. Let's go with $25 here from Inko that says Pogzi looks like a California raisin that's been exposed to space radiation shout out to speed friends and sirius over chill nice so this is if looks could kill the final boss and there you can see our wooden spaceship hanging back there, the raccoons were nice enough to steal it hang it up here and fix it for us so it's actually going to be good to go, so once we get it back like Pugsy can get out of of here and then time will be coming up on the seventh hit on this boss so the last uh i'll let you all know again here but yeah you can just defeat this boss by standing right directly middle of the center of the screen and those lasers from his eyeballs they just don't hit Pugsy if he stands right there. See if I were this boss i would just simply not shoot my eye lasers straight down. Very basic stuff. All right, we are coming up on time here in the next hit... And that's time. Great run, 26 and change We were actually on both of your faces in the beginning there but I noticed that. All right so time to play the game or? I'm a little bit nervous maybe we do this again some other time. We can just quit out. Yeah. Alright, thank you! No, we saved right at the start of the game because your first shrine is actually about 30 seconds in front of Green Cap. It's a nice neat little way to skip some walking at the intro. And while we pick up our first items, I'll talk a little bit about what this category is. This is True Ending on Normal Difficulty. What True Ending means is we have to collect all ten spells in the overworld, each of which is guarded by a fearsome boss. There are many abilities you will pick up that look like spells but aren't But there are in fact 10 spells I need to pick up before ascending to the surface of the world and repopulating the earth with fungal biodiversity. It's gonna be a great time! We're playing on normal difficulty which means that instead of the 7 hp on uh explorer green cap has just five health and also the way deaths work slightly change so on explore difficulty uh deaths are forgiving. When you die, respawn at the start of your room. On normal that is still partially the case however we have a live system now so the first two times I die I will reset to the start of my room. And if I take a full three death loop, I will get kicked back to my last shrine. So for this run I will be donating $5 for every time I die and if I ever take a death loop, I will be donating $50. We do not want to see that today. With that, we've already picked up Greencap's sword. I'm just getting the other sort of basic piece of his kit, which is the parry. Parrying is huge in this game because in addition to being able to parry enemy projectiles for more damage than Greencap's sword does, you can also abuse the iframes of it to just walk right through enemies, which we're going to be doing a lot in some of the enemy choketals later on. For instance, this first boss coming up in just a second is largely a tutorial for one of the interesting mechanics of this game, namely that Greencap cannot upslash. He cap too big or he gosh darn sword! And so this first boss is going to tutorialize what to do when there's a giant flying enemy and you cannot actually swing up. Alright, so this is a warrior statue. This was the first boss. And for the most part we're just going to be trying to do lots of pogos. Pogos are very powerful in this game, there's actually a tutorial for it shoutouts to that and uh... There's spikes on the ceiling but we have a nice little spot to hang out and we're going to be trying to end the fight in the middle to pick up Mushmover Infusion. Yeah, so that will turn on all the Mushmovers in the overworld which are these little green glowing things um, that Green Cap can pogo and bounce around on. We'll be returning to that very soon. There I also did one of the only major glitches in this game, which is called the Silver Shrine exploit. You're not supposed to be able teleport from the little shrines without a late game item. However, by opening the equip screen and forcing the game put you on the map screen while your in your inventory at a shrine concludes that you're there because you wanted to teleport and lets you teleport anyway which is great because it cuts out a lot of walking around this first area which is actually hugely useful we're just going to make our way to the next boss but this would be a good first spot for any donations or messages from our lovely host don't call me stop that all right here's 2525 from Glitchy that says Don't let the jokesters on stage fool you with their japes and bits and shrooms. These are true pillars of the community That I am so proud to call my friends And watch killing this fun run. Fun run? Yes, Pride 2 only going up from here Let's go Time for another Real quick, there just want to talk about there's a quick kill on this mage statue we're going to try and get it in one cycle that's the first part and then That's the first part. And that's the second! Let's go! Perfect execution on that. Alright, yeah hit me with it Zen. Alrighty this is...let me scroll back down sorry This is a $50 donation from Upper Casserole Be prepared we're all gonna need it Let me tell you a story of an incredible speed runner one of the shanta elites the more elder of pesto the captain of the no keyboard the champic mobility of indie game speedrunning games done quack silver is an icon of portub elegance and grace may you crush room all of the bosses with fun gusto. There isn't mushroom for error, so take it to Shantary Levin." That's it. Thank you! How dare you? Thank you. How dare you offer that was beautiful yes hit me with all of your worst mushroom puns anyone who can beat that uh has my undying respect so we have this new a little ability where we're conjuring this mushroom behind us, which gives us a nice little movement. It's a spell, right? So this one is a half-spell. It's not one of the ten spells we need, but it's kind of a spell. It's also one of the most broken movement abilities in the game because you can spawn a pogo-able object. So this was technically a sequence break but everyone found it in their casual because they looked at a gap that was just barely bigger than green cap and said yeah i can definitely climb that um unfortunately our reward is a little bit of an rng check with the queen evil eye gdqQEye is in the chat. Yeah this boss was actually a really fun boss but just a lot of RNG so it makes it quite tricky on the run. Spawns adds has multiple different phases lots of projectiles. We would not want to pogo them but unfortunately we can't because of the spikes in the ceiling and just how much they move around. There's a few spots where we can sometimes get some but for the most part it's just adapting to each of the various attacks that are happening and getting our parries in. I think here is where they first add spawn. There we go. Nice! We got the double lab phase a little early so i'm just gonna go up and try and race here nope she's flying down all Alright that was a fair QE. And with that we're going to get our forward stash ability. What's forward stash? Not much! What's forward stash with you Ally? we're going to get our forwards dash ability what's far as that not much what's forward stash with you ali thank you for that thank you for the pity laugh everyone i appreciate it um with that we're going to make our way to the first real spell through the mechanical fort here. It's my favorite environmental music in the game. Shoutouts to Bosty who did all of this including the music all by himself we love solo dev indie games um and this next fight is a bit of a choreographed one ideally they're going to be bouncy balls that drop from the ceiling and the boss has way more health than you can comfortably damage without using them. So I'm gonna try and hit a specific pattern of balls here. so Alright, don't hit me here. It counts! Let's go! Quite a tricky fight. Doesn't seem like it's too bad. There is an incredibly cursed 0.5 cycle where you get in the boss' face right at the start and actually do damage with with your sword which is one seventh of the damage of the bouncy balls uh but it's a little bit marathon unsafe and i'm trying not to die here um with this we now have our first actual spell it It is the Bouncy Ball. Much like the balls in the fight, it lets Greencap summon his own that is a projectile you can swing your sword at whose damage scales with its velocity when it impacts an enemy. We're going to actually use that for a bit of cheese right away, our next boss is the Screw King. It's a boss with very little health but a lot of invulnerable phases, But the game does not actually expect you to have a 70 damage nuke in this fight. So we're going to put the bouncy ball on and aim for its weak point for massive damage here. Alright, that's good part one. 49 is a little bit unfortunate because it's got 100 health but i'm hoping the next one can do a little more nice awesome Awesome. So here there's actually a save and quit, whenever Quack ends the fight on the opposite side of the door, a saving quote will get us closer to the door. It is slightly faster RTA and substantially faster in game time because we do not have the menus timed in game time. So in an optimal case you would save quit out of every boss fight because every boss fight in this game is a hard save um but for rta we're just going to do it when we're at the far side of the arena in order to teleport back a little bit faster. So now with this we are on our way to the other most broken movement ability in the game, and here we're taking advantage of mush boosting again plus some dashes Plus there is a feature in this game where when green cap pogo's of bouncy ball he actually gets his dashes back including the updash that we just got from skrukin um remember that you can uhogo bouncy ball, it'll come up later. Here I picked up water breathing which is the ability that lets you sure enough breathe underwater we need it for exactly one pool of water in the game. There's only one that is too deep for Green Cap to ordinarily swim through. Also, I would like to shout out that log which is breakable if you pogo it 18 times for some reason we all missed this when we were originally routing this game and uh basti came into our speedrunning discord was like you know that you can just break that log, right? So here we're making our way over to......to Ground Bounce. you to ground bounce uh so ground bounce is an incredibly powerful ability because for the first you go incredibly fast using it out of a dash but also it is a little known fact that for the duration of pride month 2 walls are legally considered ground and so we're going to be using our ground bounce ability to scale sheer vertical cliffs starting almost immediately. We just have to get through some fun ice physics first. Yeah, the enemy design here is quite interesting. We got some penguins, we got some babblins, we've got some walking spikes... Alright. And now we go fast! Haphazardly fast one might say um with this i'm also going to pick up our first of two sword upgrades they're just lying out in the overworld they're all little mini exploration things i just happen to know where they are this is a flat damage boost to all forms of our sword slashes more on that a little later and there are two convenient ones in this route um with that we are on our way to our second spell bearing boss but we got time for a couple donations. Alrighty, here's $10 from Tika that says fun mushroom fact! We often talk about mushrooms absorbing nutrients from the ground But they're actually actively seeking out certain nutrients even drilling through small rocks to get them. Fun mushroom fact! We got time for more? Yeah, one more. Alrighty, $5 from Kurojizalax that says I had to drop another five so i made sure to tell you you said my name right let's go i only have one mushroom pun and it's a joke but what kind of vehicle does a mushroom drive a spores car! Alright, this boss here is the big germ. It's a very simple boss. You just have a handful of things going on in it? Yep, but we get our most important spell the bouncy spore that's going to be our damage for pretty much The entirety of the rest of the run with like one or two exceptions um mostly in combination with another ability we're going to get a little bit later but coming up is our first uh i like to think of them as megaman rooms. We've got these long, winding rooms that are very choked with enemies. I'm not good at Mega Man, I'm sorry. But at the end of this one is an upgrade for our parry. We don't come this way because there's an upgrade for our parry. We don't come this way because there's an upgrade for our parry here, it just happens to be faster and there's one literally at our feet which is super nice So there you can see an example of ground bounce scaling walls you'll see a lot more of that all over this run yeah um and here's something very important that you may have missed the start of the round is i did a little bit of menu fiddling while we were doing the bit about me saving and quitting. That is because on normal, by default your map does not update until you sit at a shrine but you can still set it to update instantly and we need it to update instantly for this route um because we're going to be walking into certain rooms to just put their teleport points on the map so we can teleport to them later. There down in the lower part of Deep Grotto was one of the first times I did that. We'll be doing it again in just a second, in the fan favorite area, the acid dungeon. Lots of Mountain Dew. Yeah, forbidden soda. I'm going to remember to equip all of my stuff. This area has got lots of spikes, lots of enemies and lots of acid everywhere. We're just trying to just you know survive Yep we are making a right so here I just put that gold shrine on my map We're gonna save quid out 1345 if that quitout is actually maybe pbable dangerous highly dangerous Uh with that we are going to make our way towards, in my opinion the best boss in the game We're going to be getting our Spin Slash So Spin, also not a spell, it is just going spinny for Pride Month 2. However it is one of the most important abilities in the game. It's a movement and combat upgrade. On our way here we're to grab our second damage upgrade. And then coming up in a second is a silenced room. There are several rooms in the game where Green Cap is not allowed to cast spells. They're usually there to incentivize some of the other ability gates, however we're going to ignore literally all of the intended abilities they ask of us. This is supposed to require crouch jump, but ground bounce does our taxes, waters our crops and lets us fly! So with that we are on to the Rogue Armadillo fan favorite boss. Um this is a bit of a dance so Ali I'll let you take this. So this is the last one we're using the bouncy ball on. It's actually a fun fight. Like lots of dynamic gameplay back and forth. Uh, it's not too difficult but it's fun. So here we're trying to get max damage which is 70 on the bouncy ball. Lots of in the 60s it's hard to get the full 70 out of it he ate all of my parries incredibly rude alright Alright. And with that, Green Cap can now go spinny! With this we're going to be climbing for about two minutes To grab a couple more shrines, we are gonna do a lot of boss clean up At the very end of the run once we have our most impressive damage source So you got about 1 minute and half or two minutes for donations and messages then. Alrighty, here's $10 from ShadowedNavi that says not only am I watching at work my boss knows when it's GDQ week and understands. We'll all be listening to donations during the workday. That is incredible. Thank you so much to you for your donation and for your boss for supporting an amazing cause like GDQ as we raise money for MSF. Thank you again. Now, we've got some amazing $25 donation here from Ratleg that's a haiku that says, Summer games done quack Ground is walls and that is law Happy Pride Month too Round is walls and that is law. Happy Pride Month too." Fantastic, thank you for that $250 donation here from Anre says good evening from Australia been an amazing year since watching my first live GDQ with my partner at SGDQ 2023 and as tradition we have y'all on the TV so we don't miss anything. You all do so much good work for Doctors Without Borders and it's wonderful to see all the runners effort in practicing for the event pay off. Good luck with the runs and Trans Rights! So true! Good luck with the runs and trans rights so true Still got some more time. Uh, yeah Let's do one more All right you $30 from Kevin of computer that says so excited to see quack running this great game at gdq good luck what does green cap say at the end of his youtube videos don't forget to click the portobello i love my community so much. With that, we are going to get into one of the most finicky skips in the game, top two. We're going to skip into the latest game area early because our most important damage upgrade is waiting there, so the astute among you in the crowd will remember that I said That you can pogo bouncy ball to get your dashes back Well, there's actually no limit To the number of times That we can do that. Okay, cool. There you have to animation cancel each bouncy ball by swapping to Mushmover and then back again so that you have enough time to get the next bouncy ball out. Feeling good about that. Unfortunately, now it's time for the hardest boss in the run. Ali, do you want to talk about Hive? Oh yeah this is a great Electro-Hive. This is a fun boss Everyone loves the hive So this is a projectile plus adds, plus lasers. There's just everything going on. We're actually gonna try to get all of the adds to spawn up top, come down and do some hits And then when they come to the bottom we're gonna try and go back up Just a nice little way to keep them a little bit less chaotic It's not too bad of a fight once you get the adds going the right way, but it can get out of hand very quickly. And we're just using the Great Spore spin. Nice! Was that damageless? Looks like it. Marathon luck, you love to see it. With that we have now gotten our spin slash upgraded into great spin slash, which can break things like trees. So now you may have noticed as we were doing that climb that my cap is now constantly changing that's because there are so many buttons in this game and i play on pro controller because reasons um that i have double bound swap spells and bounce to the same button we never use them both at the same time in the run so it's fine that's another very good silence room skip uh you're supposed to get a magnet ability, but I don't know how magnets work so we just use ground bounce instead. And now we are heading on the way to one of the first elemental lords. This is a little, a little guy just watching us. Don't worry about him he's fine! So this is the first- there are three Elemental Lords that all have fantastic names. This one a community calls Larry. Yes they did not originally have canon names and then The early Access speedrunners started giving the elemental lords rhyming names of Larry Jerry and Gary yeah um and the dev was like, yeah that's cannon now. Nice. There you also saw the great spin spore which is our final and most important damage upgrade. It turns Green Cap into a whirling dervish of mushroom damage over time. Deals over 200 damage if all of the hits connect. Electric Elemental Lord was the tankiest boss in the game. I'm going to take one heal because we're doing ice physics right now. Everyone's favorite in a platformer forever! We also have icicles and penguins that ALSO slide on the ice, so we're going to be playing carefully and also trying to parry as much as possible we take one safety death here this is the location to do it have you explained how deaths work yet, so the first ones are free. If we Deathloop recall it is $50 to Doctors Without Borders but I don't think we'll Deathloop. The run's been good so far. Uh, I'm going for this. And so yeah, of course there's just lots of parrying, lots of enemies everywhere. Spikes from the ceiling, ice physics. It's rough. Never punished. Let's go! Oh, nope, punished that hard fall. The penguin didn't hit me. I've never seen the penguin not hit me when I hard fell there we've been blessed happy pride month too all right so here's jerry this is the second of the ice elemental lords that we are going to be fighting this is a pure damage race. We could theoretically get it in three cycles, but that requires pretty much perfect RNG. It's most likely to be a four cycle. Totally fine. All of his projectiles have been... Getting them into the center of the screen and just doing our great spin great spore spin in the middle of them Yeah we don't wanna try and chance anything with the ice physics because if you sit inside like a snowflake you can get hit sometimes three times so we just wait for him to come to us, and great spin score. Going to use the Silver Shrine glitch again to go back to our shrine in Frozen Depths. We've got one more boss in this low area and now we're sort of in the the second phase of the game where we have most of the map unlocked that we need there's one more area set that we really haven't explored at all But most of the run here is going to be find boss, absolutely explode boss go to next area and repeat And try not to get hit by too many icicles while you do. So this next boss, Big Mind Demon is just a quick few spins for us so Xenadir, you have any messages for us? I absolutely do here's $ 25 from lost lemon that says not donating during loan fungus with lone fungus would be criminal good luck on the run here's 25 hours25 from Seth that says, zooming! And we also had a $5 donation here from Jackman Marcus that said, super fun to see Lone Fungus along with some of the routing and strats I helped work on at GDQq can't say that was on my bingo card thank you so much everyone all right never any doubt. So here I'm actually switching this is going to be our next boss is the one boss that we're not actually going to use Greatspin Spore for. But first we have to do the most extended silence room skip in the game, so there's an ability in the game called Acid Sandals that lets you jump off the surface of the Forbidden Gatorade with good timing. However, and sing along if you know this one, Ground Bounce is going to clear my pores, solve all my problems, everything, pores, solve all my problems. Everything and then some. So with 3 HP I think I'm going to take a heal here real quick but there's a very long hallway on the other side of this room that we're going to try and skip as much of as possible nice and then does anyone fancy a swim no see a swim not quite all right that's five that's five we'll run that back yeah this is quite a tricky one. This is like one of the biggest skips because you're supposed to have that... Sandals! There it is! Let's go. And we're on to Sheldon. Sheldon is the next-to-the-boss, the only one with a proper name before the Elemental Lords got their name. And this is where we're using the Vibrant Crystal, it has a really cool downward attack and it's going to just hit a bunch on the damage. We should be able to get one more Nice! Nice And we just got the acid hammer spell What are we going to do with that? We're going to do literally nothing With the acid hammer spell Moving right along This is the area that's supposed to teach you about the wall bounce ability but ground bounce is legally wall bounce and then an important piece of the routing I'm so so glad we got that Marcus donation just a second ago. This was their...their routing ingenuity Was, uh, I am now going through undergrounds, the last of the areas we're gonna see kind of backwards because they're those boulders that you saw me break at the exit to undergrounds. They're supposed to be broken with the berserk spell which is the spell we're going to get in just a second however the game doesn't actually look for the berserk spell in order to break them it just looks for a certain damage threshold so with great spin we can simply break it and enter through the exit. Yeah this is one of the areas too where... Oh that resisted! A lot of damage could happen here, we're gonna be taking a safety. But it's a pretty movement-heavy area just like lots of various things going on that you need to try and avoid. We love when enemies drop heals for you. That's true, this game has a really interesting system for random enemy drops. They're not super common but they can do all sorts of things for us. Give us extra health back, give us extra mana, give us... You know, extend our max mana and there's an ability that you can get in the game that is again again, legally not a spell but that opens up a ton more power-ups. Like, you can get invincible extra damage. It's just a whole bunch of stuff. This game is incredibly maximalist in its design aesthetic, and I love it! I'm gonna heal here before the ghost catches up to me... Yeah! All right, and now we hit the most important elemental lord. The Edge Lord! So this is the Lord of Darkness. This is mostly just a big health pool to take out. It's not gonna be too too much to get through. It should just be four of those. We are getting some phase two attacks. Love getting interrupted out of the greatsman! You're gonna come over to me. Nice! Perfect. That is the Berserk spell which which we're supposed to use to break things that we did before. But since it just takes so much damage, we don't need that anymore. Yup! And with this, we are officially in Boss Cleanup mode So now it's literally just go-to area with early game boss blow it up into three spin spores and then move on so zen you got about two minutes for let all of the donations and messages rip all, floodgates have been opened. $50 here from Ebon that says love seeing Lone Fungus. Good luck to the runner and to the dev working on the next game. Also got $100 here from Bread Broker said, donating during Lone Fungus because I got super into amateur mycology during the pandemic and have been finding tons of Chanterelles this summer. I just love this cute little game even when the world seems at its darkest events like this are a good reminder that there's still so much beauty and love in the world thanks to MSF, The Runner and Couch and all of the event staff and volunteers keep doing great work. And thank you so much for that donation and amazing message. I think we all need to hear that a little more in our lives. $50 from Mecca Link that says Lone Fungus is a very cool game with lots of platforming puzzles that give you infinite tries on normal and specific rooms. Good times! $25 here from Ash that says Quacksilverver you make this game look fun guy. Good luck! 25 here from Cesaris That says loving the run so far And the fun gals on the stage My ceiling gum for puns is pretty high but there wasn't mushroom left over that last donation so i had to maya talk you this one out before sending it best of luck on the rest of the run and happy pride month too 25 from alien crustacean that says an excellent run to start this morning off love this funky little mushroom if i got a few moments more here i actually want to take a moment to shout out everyone putting their donations towards that easter egg showcase for sonic project 06 not only am i watching the general total of this lovely marathon shoot up very quickly at one point i mentioned i'd love to see it reach 6 000 or 12 000 before the end of my shift and apparently i threw down a gauntlet unintentionally because we've already passed six thousand raise now it started at like 2600 when i sat down we're at 6068 raised out of the twenty thousand there are the twelve thousand needed so we're gonna make that in no time but please do not forget when you're putting your donations in to make sure you select an incentive or a bid war you're automatically entered for some of the amazing prizes we have. Like right now, there's the Turnip Boy mini-pearler keychain or for a $25 donation or more, your double electric Kirby painting. It's beautiful. I've seen it on set. I love it. But remember again, you have to select a specific incentive or big war that is not automatic Love to see you put towards the Sonic Project 06 Easter Egg Showcase once that's met we're gonna open even more things you're going to get even more GQ. It's going to be amazing. Have I filled the time yet? Absolutely. So we are in the final climb. This is the best use case for ground bounce climbing walls. What we did is, We got all 10 spells so that's off our checklist. You're supposed to talk to an NPC called the Hyperbolic Host who is supposed to open up a path to the surface that's much more convenient, but instead we're just going to fly because that animation cancel that I did earlier on the bouncy ball... You can also do it on the mush mover, and that makes it so you can gain infinite height. It's quite slow, so we use bouncing for most of this yeah you can get this with very low equipment which is actually done in any percent rounds which means you do this whole segment about two minutes with just getting infinite height. And it's very tricky, very tedious. Alright, there's the selfish ending climb. And with that we're on to the final boss! We're gonna park for a second... Surprise it's The Watcher from earlier. This is a two phase boss, and the first phase really isn't too bad. We're gonna get a root attack any second now I'm sure. It always happens. Yeah, let's see how many spinny lasers we get today. There's one attacking phase 1 that we're explicitly not hoping for which he's very kindly not giving actually. Let's see if we can get it, this is the first boss in a minute to have health actually scaled for great spin attacks Wow! A Spinny Laserless Phase 1 you love to see it. So time is going to be coming up as we get the last hit on phase two here. As soon as time is called, there's going to be a brief flashing lights warning because we're going to explode into rainbows to celebrate Pride Month, too. But this boss is going to use all of the spells that we have technically learned and then by in large abandoned over the course of this run yeah and this boss really isn't too bad uh it's just really cool when you were doing like the mirror match at the end after you've done everything else. And if only we would have used all of the spells ourselves... Yeah, I love a good mirror match boss fight! Although to celebrate that fact that we're speedrunners Dark Cap is giving us exactly no spell attacks except for spore time let's go all right salute toast for good RNG. All right. This takes place two days after the events of Turn of Boykman's tax evasion. Supposedly there was a civil war in between that game and this game but it only lasted a day. Time moves quick when you're a vegetable. Uh so in this first section we are going to start out with the tutorial basically, Dilettini, the leader of the pickle mafia gives us call and it's classic heist story I've got a job and its's going to be the last job you'll ever need. So he wants us to help him run a heist but first he has to teach us how to rob banks so we're to shake people down for cash. We can have multiple weapons. And because it's a turnip boy game, the fastest way to move is by tripping. And we can trip through lasers. That's the whole tutorial, usually over and under a minute. And then we get into the bank! Um... So yeah this is our first get into the bank. So yeah, this is our first section of the bank. This was one of our first big reset points because this is a rogue light and RNG is great so in a PB run, if I saw this gray door I would probably just reset. There are gray doors and gold doors that can spawn on these elevators during this first section and we were looking for a specific gold door to get the fastest possible time. Already, the RNG absurdity has started. Normally there are three places those pedestals, like this one, can spawn. And each of those gives us $100 and ideally we'll get three of them to get in and out as fast as possible. We only got one so RNG's doing what RNG does. But while I go back and do one more run, Jay or Eldritch, do any of y'all want to talk about kind of the pedestals and why we focus on those so much? Yeah, so the pedestal items like happy said we can shake down the vegetables within the bank however the pedestal items are worth significantly more and do not go into the uh bag that we have uh you can see underneath his items there which are below the health i'm just going to try this wrong one there is a number there that has value that does have a limit to it. So, that can only go up to 1000 without upgrades and the items we pick up from pedestals do not go into that amount. They go into our total amount after we've left the bank again, you are having the worst RNG and we knew this was going to happen. Yeah, we did. You PB during practice by nearly a minute in the practice room and we were all like well there goes the good RNG So in PB runs We should be able to get this first progression item by only going to the bank once here uh normally two is safe but because it's a marathon and we're getting marathon luck it's gonna take us three trips uh but this first progression item is a pickaxe, and that's sort of the core loop of the game. You go to an area, you get a progression item, you use the progression item to unlock the next area And then that lets you fight a boss, the boss gives you a key card to go to the next place get a progression item, fight the boss rinse and repeat. In this first area we're trying to find a pickaxe so we can break down these statues of Stinky the owner of the bank all right uh is the pedestal there great so this is the room we wanted to get the first time um because the pedestals in this area are only worth 100 and we're looking for 1500 oh i'm a little low health. Let's be safe. We're looking for 1,500 to get the pickaxe. And that pedestal is worth $1,000. I don't know why, but good news! Carson, why's that pedestal worth a thousand? Well let me tell ya...I actually don't know For a few pedestals they're between bronze and silver. And that's just one that if you're in a bronze room, it happens to be silver. I think it's just a higher chance because of the way that room is set up fair enough well it has made one try pickaxe possible and also made the first split a very bad run so thank you and also come on um i'm gonna go get a safety upgrade real quick while i've got time um so i grabbed uh the c4 there also from the dark web. We don't need that until much later, but it's easy to forget so since I had a little extra money I figured I'd just grab it while I'm thinking about it. One of y'all want to talk about the dark web? Oh, that's a really good question. I wish I had an answer for you other than the fact it is where you buy your items from and it has very normal prices for items. Very normal prices. Absolutely normal. Totally normal. Most things you would buy there are the market price. It's called Black Market just because well... black market just because well it's just because gregory runs it yeah yeah that's the only reason so we are on to our first boss fight sergeant eha um this is pretty straightforward for the rest of the fight we just wait for him to come out and then i use skills gained from maining zarya in overwatch to hold my cursor over him and then uh hopefully he dies so zen we've probably got like two donations real quick during this phase Alrighty here is $50 from Needlekind It felt fitting with the cactus They said good luck robbing that bank turn up boy And I also have a $25 donation here from LazyPrincessXO that says, A Turnip Boy run and the possibility to get a Turnip Boy plushie? Sign me up! A Turnip Boy plushie that has been infested by the spirit of a developer. It's true, you can see me there. So we got the mozzarella sniper from which is So we got the mozzarella sniper from RNG, which is exactly what we want. And then in this area there are four possible pedestals and we've got three so far, so this is going really well. That boss can drop one of two items, either the Mozzarella Sniper or the Toast Gatling. The Toast Gatling is worse because it's harder to one cycle the next boss. Sniper is basically a guaranteed 1-cycle, no matter what. So now at this point as we're going to get our second progression item, which is a cardboard box Which costs a perfectly reasonable $8000 This is what we said about the dark web Yeah. Where else are you gonna get a cardboard box? In this economy? Yeah. That's market value! Baby! Oh, so the bosses respawn after you kill them, so when we go through there he looks at us and is like look contractually i only have to fight you once but if you want to go we can go uh so as we go through this area we're just trying to get 8000 from these pedestals. Oh bad luck! Only got one there. And we are also looking for a scythe. Y'all want to talk about why the scythe is... ridiculous? Yeah so the scythe introduces a mechanic into the game along with another weapon that's the disk launcher, I think? I don't actually remember the name of the weapon. I call it Disk Launcher. It fires vials. That's okay. Um, it fires vinyls. That's okay. Yeah. It um... It's a soul sampler? Yeah, a soul sampler. Yes because it shoots records and it's from a DJ system. It is! I should remember that. So it introduces a mechanic underneath near the money value once we get it, we will be collecting souls and every time we get these souls it increases the damage value of the weapons from that particular area by a certain amount. I don't think we ever mapped out exactly what the value is per soul, but if we get around 80s, low 70s, around 80 something like that souls before fighting the next boss. We can one cycle it with just a scythe. We do not ever spend the souls we just use them to bust this buff this is our boy dj sizzle gives us shout out to dj sizzles um yeah so once the site gets up to 100 souls it's busted. We can basically... When we do the boss rush at the end of the game The bosses kind of become negligible because we have Scythes I believe the damage value is like 30 when fully upgraded with these buffs? 32.5, yeah. For context, the starting pistol is like two. Cardboard box, and let's grab some upgrades. Upgrade routing in this game is basically... Oh you have money? Get some upgrades I guess. You think we got upgrade money? Do you think we got this great upgrade money uh we do if i remember correctly we do uh focus on the trip distance one because at base value trip isn't actually faster but then once you upgrade it once, it becomes significantly faster. Yeah and there's three levels of upgrades so by the time it's fully upgraded, it's just absurd. You go so fast. I was going to say that too. just absurd you go so fast um oh it's also very good for us to get the sides before this boss because you're gonna see a type of enemy right here these little bouncy boys who when you hit them they split into multiples and each of the multiples drops souls. So it is a very fast way to get the scythe loaded up to eat a bunch of those. Like, I have 40 souls already. Happy wit from 7 to 41 with just three enemies. This is our second boss, the Candy Apple. There is speed tech in this boss but we're not going to do it until the boss rush and also it doesn't actually save boss, but we're not going to do it until the boss rush. And also it doesn't actually save time. But we are not going to do it for now because it makes some of the adds despawn and we want all the adds to spawn because we are going to farm them for souls so that our scythe is stronger. Is this what y'all expected to be seeing, by the way? Is any of this what you anticipated? Someone out there is happy about it? Yeah, thank you! Someone out there is like, I wanted to see a candy apple smushing down on a Friday night It's a Monday morning! It's a Friday night in your heart, and that's what matters. I was a little scared about the one cycle there because you can only afford to miss like two shots with the sniper and one of my shots hit the bird and so I got a little scared. But we're good! Everything's great. So now we are in the dark dock, the area where I can't see, um... And so I'm going to lean forward a little bit Everybody lean forward, L half of your power. Try not to die. We do have a safety strat through here. Hopefully I'll get all four pedestals and we can just do the safety strat. There's an item called Goop Bo boots that makes you not take damage from i know shocking um makes you not get damaged by uh but it is a little slow to get it and so i got three pedestals, which is actually like the worst possible option because now I have to make a decision between coming back here for the fast food folk separator, because I do have enough for the next progression item or being safe and going to get the goop boots. And I think I'm gonna be safe, in fact extra safe and not walk through for the rest of this area because death is very unforgiving in this game What all do we lose when we die, Wolfie? It is half of the money that you have as the liquid amount and I believe all of the hard value items so the pedestal items, all your pedestal items half of your money and you lose your weapons. And if we lose soul site it is then a not a 50-50 but it is a random chance to find DJ Sizzle again and then we have to pay, I believe it's 100 per roll to try to get the scythe which I swear has a lower chance of spawning. Yeah, this is our first question I wanted to ask. Is there a lower chance of the scythe spawning from that raffle? Because the other day in practice I got eight of the other one in a row so it is 50 50. it is genuinely 50 50 okay i promise you that means sure don't feel like it. It does not feel like it because going multiple eight times in a row is not that uncommon for us! So this was a quick safety return to grab the boots and now I'm just going to be running to go fight our next boss So until I get there Zen if you want to toss some stuff at us? Absolutely This is The Valiant Son with a $25 donation that says do we think that the sequel doesn't have anything in common because evading taxes doesn't prepare you for robbing a bank? Anyways. So so hyped to see Happy showing off this run. Shout out from Tech! Hi Tech! We love you hi tech yeah i got thirty dollars here from uh previous runner quack silver five dollars to pay my debt for the lone fungus run 25 to support the absolute speedrunning legend, Happy by 3. Good luck, Happy. Excited to see Marathon Luck punish you for your hubris with the ridiculous PB this morning. So this was earned with the ridiculous PB this morning. What else? Alright, so we are on to our third boss MechaChad. His first cycle is a little scary because he will attack and then run away. And so sometimes we'll just switch to Sniper to take care of it. His second and third phase is usually completely free. He tries to distract us after each phase by playing a slime video in the bottom third of the screen. And Carson, I noticed when we were doing some decompiling and looking at this game that... Illegal behavior? Those are not... Illegal behavior that you explicitly told us we can do in the Discord. I noticed that this is not a video file, but rather like 1000 image files. Can you walk me through the process there? So the reason is GameMaker. This game is made in Gameemaker and uh that was really just the easiest way for us because they don't let you stream multiple videos at once and we wanted the top and the bottom video to play. That's so interesting. That's such a better answer than when we looked at it and were like, is this just memeing? Are they just being the way they are? We thought you were being funny, actually. It's all about both. Did you consider did you consider that adding that would not in fact distract the player but simply make gen z players better see that's something we hadn't considered but we've realized it's actually very possible. That's my boy Kaladin. That's not his name but shout out to Brandon Sanderson. Why is he called Kaladin? Because he sells us a bridge, he's the Bridge Boy! There is someone on stream right now who got that and is so excited. And they're dying. They are loving it. Eating it up. All right, so we're going to go buy the bridge or the thing to build bridges with and then we're going to get some upgrades because we have lots of money. Let's get some of those and some of these and some of these and done. Thank you for the SpongeBob reference, and done. Thank you for the SpongeBob reference, Midrunner. We appreciate it. True icon. Alright as you can see our trip is significantly farther now that we've gotten TripDistance upgraded It's a little ridiculous. It's a little bit of a yeet now yeah i'm saying out loud i need to get a pedestal for crowbar money i do not have crowbar money at home mostly because you just spent it on, but that's not important right now. Alright. So we are on to our next boss. A little bit of a scary point, a little bit of a reset point in the run. Fourth boss out of four obviously is going to little bit of a scary point, a little bit of a reset point in the run. You know, fourth boss out of four obviously is going to be a little spooky. So hopefully everything goes all right and really quick we do have one side quest we need to do. This is the vampireire Pomegranate He's lonely because he thought brooding would get him a girlfriend but sadly no one was interested But we know someone who might be interested So he gives us a love letter and that's a special tool we'll save for later. Now, we're headed over to boss fights. What do you think your boss is going to be everybody? What do you think? Boss fight's a little scary. Is that terrifying boss fighting? I'm gonna go ahead and stand in this corner And hold mouse, and Zen if you wanna do some Donations until this guy dies feel free anything to look away from it um this is five dollars from osborne it says is that my multithon founder that i'm seeing robbing a bank live on the GDQ stage? I want to thank HappyBuy3 for helping me channel my crafts and the speedrunning community into projects and causes that mean the world to me. I wouldn't trade it for the world, and I can't wait to work more with you in the future. Without you, I don't know what I'd be doing or where I'd be. Good luck and have fun and never stop being you, your friend Oz. Aww. Love you, Oz. You. I love you, Oz. Good bastard. All proceeds from robbing banks will be donated directly to charity events throughout the year. Let's go! Alright, so yeah that is our fourth boss That fight was at one point scary I swear and then we realized again fully upgraded Scythe is just absurd. So the really scary parts of that boss's attack cycle don't happen and here's the sweet boy we donated for. Yeah! He will be joining us for the rest of the game. Every time we pet him, he comes and joins us on our journey along with this little floating bag of milk Carson you want to walk us through how the bagged milk ended up here so so i'm from canada okay um and yeah wow love that um we have bagged, we sell it in the bag and I've kind of made my brand so to speak So I knew we had to have some sort of representation in the game Fair enough. In this sewer section, we grab the big sword that we get from Rigsby. We actually move very slowly when we're holding the sword but luckily it's Counterstrike rules so you don't move based on your inventory, you move based on what you're holding. Cool. So we can just hold the small item and move fast, and then swap to the big item for the fight. And that's a big item for the fight. And that's a big item? It is, I think, the biggest and the slowest. Yeah, it's not often in a speedrun that you're like, so we're going to pick up the slowest item in the game real quick. We'll put it back down. We also need this for a quick side quest, and I have enough money to take the train now we're going to blow this up! The golden bathtub full of money is probably my favorite detail. I like the beat with pearl earring that was in that room earlier. Oh, yes! A classic. The beat with the pearl earring. We found our dad's stuff. Dang. Dang. It's my favorite button in the game, it's so funny! What a reaction to like wow this big reveal about the death of my father. Dang. All right, so now we're headed back through the sewers to go back and... I'll explain what we're buying when we get there. You got one or two donations, then? Oh boy do I! Here's $25 from Sax that says Happy Vibe 3 is my homie. Love you pal, go rob that gosh darn bank, you lovely little turnip. Love you too bud. I also had a $250 donation from Yancy Dang! I think is what you mean Dang! Yeah, and see? Dang I think is what you mean. Wow! Dang. They said, Dear Bank, here's all my savings to stash in your ultra-secure safe. Surely no one, especially feeding vegetables would be able to steal that money, right? Eye emoji. So we're gonna grab these jet boosters real quick because we've basically come to the conclusion that if we can't beat them Steal the whole bank Get in front pet the dog? Oh! Don't worry we'll go back. We need to re-pet the dog for him to join us on each trip so we're gonna go grab our friend again hi i love you hey do y'all like dogs is that what i'm hearing behind me y'all dog fans y'all hear about this Sheeva who plays baseball? Yeah! There might be something like that happening Maybe So we're back on boss rush mode now, uh, we have to go back on boss rush mode now. We have to defeat each boss because the bosses live in the four corners of the bank, and we need to plant a rocket booster in each of those corners so that sorry but um we need to plant a rocket booster in each corner so that the uh bank can be sent into space so that we can steal it. It's... I mean, it makes sense. Just don't think about too hard about it! It's not the most well thought out plan, but it sure is a plan. I mean, it's not... It's Turn of Voice' plan. It's A Plan of all time. What is this? I can't believe I get to say it, but this has never happened before. What was that? It seemed like the soul triggered pickup But we have a hundred so it had nowhere to go So it was just like... Oh and we're doing the same thing this time on rigsby's so uh zen if you got one or two yes thank you again don't want to look at that anyways fifteen dollars from kalagy Jack that says, I got an idea for a Turnip Boy title. I call it Turnip Boy Creates A Pyramid Scheme? We should start donation train of ideas for future Turnip Boy name ideas. That's dangerous. Do it. That's dangerous. I like it, do it. We got time for one more? Absolutely. $13 and 64 cents here from Mash that said less than three love you happy buy three good luck on the run bring in them big dollars! Also, couch, stay cute, thank you, and resume the robbing. Okay, so we can leave the room right after this bridge builds, but if you run over to the door that text box doesn't happen right away and it's possible to leave before the bridge is actually done and just sort of stand there twiddling your thumbs for a little bit uh so that's why we take an extra second to stand there. I'm gonna go up and check this door because I'm looking for a specific kind of door now for that very important side quest. Mm-hmm. But for now let's go deal with Chad. I don't love having three hearts going into Chad but luckily phase two and three of Chad are basically free it's just this first phase is scaly scale yeah so we should be good now you know knock on wood and don't don't threaten the game with a good time i'm not fully sure why it works maybe carson knows but uh basically on phase two and three of Chad if we just land kind of in front of him and then run back and forth he sort of follows us but never attacks You zig-and-zag on him and he just kind of lands. That's honestly probably because he never like lands on you Like the fake aim reticle Never stops on you fully Yeah, you just zag on him I actually yeah he just you just zag on him that's actually good that's good tech i was like please don't say good to know please don't change that no no Don't fix it! There's only so much I can fix without destroying runs. We appreciate you. This way... It takes me past two doors that might be the door I'm looking for so... Going this way, come on give me the right door, give me the right door. You're so mean! How hard would it be to be cool? Yeah what if you could just be cool? Have you even considered being cool? I don't think. Alright so this is the one boss fight that looks a little different late game. Like i said we do have that one little bit of tech. We're gonna to go down here and scroll the screen down. When we do this, ads on the top half of the screen just don't spawn. No way! That was discovered by Rarr. He's still the board record holder, right? Yes! Rarr has a record with an absurd 2034 or something. For context my PD this morning was 2248. And that's second place. Rar is incredible at this game. That is crazy. Crazy good find too! You did not get the mill. Crazy good find, too! Yeah I have no idea how we found that but it's... You picked up the eight? That happens sometimes where the weapon drops near where you need to press E to also open the door. And so now, normally we would go and start the final boss but you may notice that we are at 25 minutes of a 40 minute estimate rather than reducing the estimate after realizing that we can reliably play this faster uh games committee told us we can do a very valuable side quest. So... We're gonna go do a sidequest real quick. This is the door they're looking for! Oh! Excellent. And so this is our friend Cran-Cran from the first game who drew us this little beauty. Where'd it go? Oh, it's not in this one! Oh there's usually a painting over here. So this is Cran-Cran. Uh JPEG could you walk us through Cran-Cran cranes dialogue yeah this is why i'm here what's this is this a wav dissertation he's seven feet tall and has whipippering wag muscles. What a honk! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, here let me draw something it's been done this will show them that this granny is down to crown did you think you would be saying that phrase today dang um so cran-cran gives us a drawing of her and the pomegranate vampire. And so, if you're already crying is this a bad time to message-to mention what gorilla's falling down stairs? I can't believe you're throwing that context. Just don't think about that, because if you do the funny Earth is going to catch it. So we go back to the pomegranate who clearly perfectly depicted his seven foot physique. And so now they're in love and he gives us a candy ring! So now we have a candy ring and a golden ring. Mm-hmm. Wherever could these rings be going? It's actually faster to go this way, I think. Mm-hmm. Also, who knows? Maybe it is seven feet. Vegetables have small feet. Mm-hmm. You know what? That's so true. It could be seven turnip feet. It's its roots! Oh wait... Six and a half feet is under the ground. Wait that's pomegranate isn't it? Well, you know. Yes, yes it is. Okay so I'm going to go back just so that I don't have to deal with the cops. That ringing you heard is a mechanic that comes up quite a bit in the casual play through where the cops will come if you're in the bank for too long, and then you get more stars. They get more dangerous as the stars go up, kind of like the GTA heat meter or whatever it's called. I don't play GTA. Gosh, I play Turnip GTA. So we're going to go over here to our good friends from the first game The Florist and Strawberry and The Florist is like look, I should have made a move earlier with strawberry. And you know the rules. The bigger the diamonds, the more I love them. So obviously I need the biggest rock. So we give them a ring with a big rock and they give us their favorite rock. Trans Rock! Yeah! Then, we have to get the strawberry a golden ring because the strawberry also wants to propose. And once they both have their rings, we get a little proposal. Yeah, with the flag in the background. With the little trans flag at the back. I have actually never noticed a flag pack there. Yeah! You run this? Yes! We don't do this in the normal Any% Runs. So we've had Marriage%. Yeah, that was a Marriage% world record in that it's the first time anyone has run marriage percent. And it is not a real category. Let us make it a real category. So we blast off into space to steal the bank and were like, We did it! Then then this appears. Whatever this is. It's a worm? Question mark? Oh no, we don't have something. Oh, we don't have any money. Oh no. We don't have the money. Oh no! No, where's the tangerine? We don't have the dog! To be fair we did bring the dog on the boss rush. That is true. We did what we said we would do. We did not bring the dog to the wedding. You also didn't dodge the spear? I did not, and I have no money. Normally I would use the like money gatling gun to clear this debris a little faster because it's a little easier, but we have no money because I went back to avoid the cops, but whatever. Not pressed about it. All I need is my scythe and this absolute banger of a song with my favorite line, Turnip Boy. Kill the bad guys. Get that bag. Save the world. Is that what it's saying? That's the game. That's my next top favorite thing. I'll add that in script around my existing Turnip Boy Tattoo. Do you think we have a quick moment for donation here? Absolutely! Here is $5 from Selkuth Mind, who says... I'm happy! I really wanted to be there in person for your run but since I can't let me offer you some wisdom as a fellow roguelike runner. The RNG knows when you're on the GDQ stage so in order to keep it working in your favor, you need to give it Canadian bagged milk. Not an ordinary milk. RNG only drinks Canadian bagged milk. I also heard a certain turnip likes it, so give some to him too. Best of luck with the run and I will see you soon less than three. Love you thank you Sel Alright so we are coming up on time here As we talk to that um we realize we can't possibly kill this thing so dilettini makes a brave sacrifice and crashes his bus and that is time Rip to a real one, Dillatini. Or remember you fondly. Really quick shoutouts and such Carson did inform me that the credits are just a.txt, but I can, and I quote, do whatever you want with it. So I promise I didn't do anything unhinged, Carson. But just threw shoutouts in there. Shoutout obviously Wolfie and JPEG. Thank you for hanging on my couch and being generally fantastic friends and good people. Thank you, Carson, for agreeing to do this. Having dev commentary is so cool. I feel super happy to have you around. Yeah absolutely. This was a lot of fun. Thank you everyone hanging in the crowd and everyone watching online. Thanks SGDQ. And yeah. hanging in the crowd and everyone watching online thanks sgdq and uh yeah i super appreciate y'all um well these scrolls how she got anything hit me look that's what you did yeah thank you for hosting thank you the best stream tech valiant suns are really good friends and on stream tech right now all of the tech is amazing uh the turnip run speedrun community, Rarscorch, Pi, Tom, everybody else who did run the game will run the game. And if you want to run this game or pick it up, it's on sale right now because Steam Summer Sale. It's 30% off for about $10 10 50 i think it was nice yeah um there's a ton of content we didn't go through in this run so oh yeah absolutely pick it up it's worth the casual playthrough and if you want to join speedrunning discord it's the usual go to src uh speedrun.com find us click on the discord link and we'd be so stoked to teach some new people to run and get folks involved 100 yeah thank you again so much uh gdq for having us and uh yeah i can't wait to see some of you in the turnip boy discord. chameleon twist So before I get started, I'm actually gonna do a couple menuing inputs and that's hopefully you're gonna set me up for an RNG manipulation later But now we're good to go. There was a character bid war. Who won that? Let me find out for you right now. Okay, here we go. For Chameleon Twist, looks like linda is our choice all right i'm more of a fred fan but that's okay all right i think we're good to go. I'll give a quick countdown 3...2...1... Go! Alright so this is Chameleon Twist. So you might be asking why doesn't a chameleon look like a chameleon? Well in the opening cutscene it looks like a chameleon as you might expect a chameleon to look and then a suspicious rabbit passes by and goes into a magical pot. And Linda follows along into that magical pot, gets transported into jungle land and is the bipedal cute form that you see before you. And the main gimmick of this game is the B button extends the tongue so you can then use the control stick to control the tongue, hit it on a pole and spin around. So we'll use it in a lot of different ways to kind of optimize our movement, get around corners, get over gaps like Like here we'll get over this corner here. And then another thing that we can do with the tongue is you can vault which lets us get up to heights that our jump wouldn't be able to so we're going to do a vault real quick right here and then we're getting into this we're gonna get into this cave section now this cape section is actually segmented as a different area as the outside section and so if i can get in there It'll happen eventually, I swear. There we go. Yeah, so those door clips are relatively precise and the way that works is cave section segmented in a different area Than the outside section, and so When you clip into the entrance door It doesn't have anywhere to send you back To. So it instead loops around and takes you to the boss of the stage. And that was Lizard Kong who we knocked off the edge with the butterflies. So now we can head into Ant Land. So in ant land, we're going to see a few more of those door clips and hopefully they go a little bit better than last time. The way that they work is that we do one vault and that kind of sets us into position, and then our next vault will hit our head up against top of the doorframe. There we go. Hits our head up into the top of the doorframe like that and then the doorframe has some geometry that kind of overhangs it and so we send ourselves full speed into it it sends us back into the loading zone and we're able to get through the door. So this was actually the room when I talked about doing an RNG manipulation, I was hoping to do it for this room, unfortunately made some mistakes that made it so that RNG manipulation broke. Essentially if you keep your seed kind of to a set value throughout the whole run then you're able to make this room spin only once. The walls in that room are random, they can spin up to three times and then the length of that spin is random and so so, if you do everything properly, you can get it to spin once and a very short spin but it's very difficult because there are a lot of things that move the RNG scene. There is like sound effects in the music that will advance the RNG scene, so going a little bit slow will kind of take you out of the seed that you want to be in right now i'm in free cam so up to this point oh oops it's up to this point we've been in fixed camera where the camera angle is fixed and you can't really rotate it, hitting the C button just kind of moves it to the side. But if we hit the C buttons in free-camera mode it actually rotates around us and we use that a lot to get ourselves um...a nice angle for these door clips. So these doorclips are made a lot easier when you have a straight up angle like that. Those door clips, I believe they're kind of one or two frame window on the second vault so the first vault is kind of getting from a precise position you vault and then that gets you right into the door. And then we do one more vault at full speed that hits the top of the door frame and that sends you into the loading zone. We're gonna do one more door clip in this next room This one is very, very difficult so The method that we usually do for door clips isn't going to work on this door because there are a bunch of ants. So if I did two vaults, the first vault would eat an ant and then the second vault wouldn't come out. I'd just shoot the ant Let's see if i can get there. So this method of door clipping is actually frame perfect and it's pretty precise as far as its positioning goes. I don't know if I'm gonna get it before the door opens. It might die before the door opens. Oh, nice! We got it! Phew... So that door is actually only closed on the Japanese version of this game, and so for a long time people ran this category on US versions as a result. But if you do our, then it's about as fast as if it was just open. And there are a few other levels where the Japanese version will save us time and so that's why we want to be on the Japanese version. So this is Quintello, um... The gimmick of this fight is that we have to trip her with a spin around the pole, then we shoot one of the ants and she'll spin. One thing I've done a couple times is if you spin into her while she's spinning it will actually cancel her spin, don't want to do it too much because I'm getting a little scared with my health so I'm gonna take it easy just to make sure I don't get hit oh that's a little bit of an unfortunate position, I'm gonna just wait for her to come a little closer to the middle See if I can push her over there And then we're just gonna let the spin happen... See if I can get a spin canceled. Don't like that angle. I want to preserve this one ant so that i don't have to make her spawn another batch of ants. Got one more spin left... Oh, where's the ant? Oh no! Couldn't get turned around quite in time. The ant was not friendly to me, he wasn't anywhere near me. That's okay we will just play it out and make sure I don't get hit. It is actually pretty easy to get hit in this fight. She does spin pretty quickly, so I think that is the last spin. Better come to the middle. Let us spawn some more ants. Play an exosave. Where are the ants? No! Livin'? I'm chillin'. living i'm chilling i'm chilling we've got a few ants so we don't need to have her spawn again. Nice! Okay, that fight is probably the most difficult boss fight in the game. It's just very difficult to have everything go correctly with Saint every single time because there are so many moving parts with your movement, her movement and like the ants' movement that you can do the first couple hits kind of on a set pattern And that's kinda what I did in that fight But then after that it goes off the rails and you have to improvise. So we're into bomb land. The enemies on this stage are bombs that we can shoot to destroy terrain And uh...we're gonna shoot this here to blow up the lava so that we can walk here without taking damage. It's a good time for a few donations. Alrighty, well this is super cool run to watch so far by the way. First time I've seen this. I love it. Alrighty. We have a $5 donation from Dr. Goof. Fantastic name, who says SGDQ hype? Love it. Also $10 coming in from Dalimar of Tarsus who says so happy one of my favorite speedrun events is happening this week i needed the good vibes can i just say that that does not look like lava, it just looks like carpet. Yeah you're right. It's great though! This jump is a little tricky...oh! We got it this time for sure. There we go. I'll follow up with another door clip. Okay now we're locked in on the door clips they are easy now. These cannonballs are random? Okay, that was actually a very good result to only take damage there. It's pretty easy to die. There is some kind of unwinnable situations where you jump and the cannon just instantly shoots you, and makes you fall. This door clip is a little bit harder than the other ones there's just a little delay there so that was pretty good. So we're on to Bomb Snake he's a snake made of bombs and so we're on the bomb snake he's a snake made of bombs and so we're going to pick up the bombs that he spawns and shoot his kind of mid section and if we do it well we can kill him in just a couple shots. Oh, okay. Went a little wrong but that should be fine. Okay, nice. applause Okay. Thanks. All right, we have time for a couple more donations. Yeah, no problem. All right, we have ten dollars coming in from thomas patrick wx wait that's weird that sounds really familiar it's almost like they did a great pokemon run yesterday well thank you Thomas. And we have $100 from Siren Ari Thank you so much for your support We've also got $10 coming in from Box Socks 82, who says thank you for all the hours of fun watching speed runs as well as help for people in need around the world. Good luck on the run! Alright, so we're into Desert Castle and this stage is one of only a couple stages that are kind more open. The other stages, other than Jungle Land, are just kind of a sequence of rooms this one is more open and so this level actually has a global cycle it has multiple platforms that are moving on a global cycle so that platform i was just on was on a global cycle so the way you can think about it is that it's moving at all times that I'm in the level, and so if I made a few seconds of mistakes It would have ended up ballooning to a whole lot of time as a result of missing that global cycle. Gonna have a pretty tough vault coming up, this next vault after this one has just enough height to make it up there if you get the perfect vault. Very nice, and then we'll be moving on to this next section. There we go. Okay. And this section is basically an honest furlough so I have time for a couple more donations. No problem, it's like let me unmute this mic. Alrighty we do have a $5 donation coming from Lilac fishy he's saying in honor of a friend this is our first gdq without you and we're still navigating the hole your absence has left in the community we love you and we miss you you were were the corniest, let's just capitalize which I think is cute And we have $5 from KaveDox who says, Love what all of you are doing Keep up the good work We also have a We love what all of you are doing. Keep up the good work! Oh, and another $250 anonymous donation. That is awesome. Do you want another one? Yeah, I'm wanting more. A hundred dollars from Isaiah G who says here's to another SGDQ! Keep it up! Great. Okay so this next section is Desert Castle and we're just going to spin across these poles so this section we can't really move, so we have to spin across and then here I'm going to make a tongue shape that i'm going to kind of curve it around this pole. And that's so that when it hits that crown that you see on the ground, that it still lets me get across the platform since if you spin into a crown your spin will kind of break. Since this media or the crowns are not able to inhale. Then, gotta take a death warp here and motion sickness warning for this section it's a little bit weird to look at um so these carpets are going to move across the screen, we're just kind of gonna jump across them This is more or less an autoscroller so you know got a couple more. Why not? Yeah I am here for you We are here for donations and this run is awesome We have $50 coming in from Turple Gaming who says So many orbs for such a reasonable donation. How could I say no? We've also got $10 coming in from Nola who says the best skip of every SGDQ is when the doctors skip the borders i love that fifty dollars from ray as well he says glad i could catch this marathon live always a great time. Alright, so we're making our way to the boss of this level which is an armadillo The way that he works is he's going to do a big bounce and then he's going to spawn some enemies. And if we place our tongue well, we're able to inhale every single enemy and then he's going to bounce up in the air again We are gonna hit him as he lands and then should's going to bounce up in the air again. We're gonna hit him as he lands, and then should burrow underneath the ground and we can kind of loop damage until he dies. Let's see if I'm able to pull that off here... Hit him in the air like that, and then he's gonna burrow under... It's just timing. Okay, that was very late but we did hit it two more oh no we're just gonna take one more enemy. There we go. Okay, so we are moving on to Kizland which is one of the hardest stages in the game if not the hardest to do well. There are quite a few screens that have platforms that move on a global cycle. So again, they're moving as long as we are in the stage and so In order to make an optimal global cycle, we have to hit a whole lot of tricks and make no kind of big mistakes so hopefully you're able to do that there's going to be quite a few door clips as well and the doors in kids land are actually built a little bit differently than some of the other doors. So, the two vault method just does not work and so what we have to do is similar to that one we did in Ant Land, but without a bunch of ants swarming us. We are going to go into a corner and then there's going to be two frame perfect inputs so I need to walk to the right for, I think it's two frames. And then I need to face down and vault. Oh no! Face down and vault. And that's going to be frame perfect. So we're gonna see the first one in this room. Even though I made a mistake which might kind of put me off the optimal global cycle, but we'll still try to do it. A little too far. This should work. Nice. So those door clips are the same idea where we're just kind of using that geometry above the door and vaulting ourselves into it, then that sends us through the door. This room is pretty tricky. The intended way is you inhale some enemies and then you push those wafers back, but if you are able to jump just around them, then we can get there no problem. And then we're going to come up on another door flip in this room. Something I didn't mention is that earlier in the stage Oh, I forgot to rotate my camera. Here we go. Earlier in the stage I actually rotated the free camera without being in Free Camera. Let me see this... okay that's a little skewed. So the way that the free camera mode works is that if you stand still and don't hold anything then the camera will rotate the way the chameleon is facing. And so something I did earlier in stage was that even though I was in fixed camera, I stood still. Even though I was in fixed camera, I stood still and just looked upwards and that rotated my camera into the perfect position for the door clip. I ended up skewing it a little bit later and then moving it to the side. That's why I had to kind of readjust on that door clip, but... We're gonna enter the final room of Kidsland. This is a pretty tough room. It forces you into that free camera mode so we're going to rotate the camera around and see if we can get... Probably not going to make that, but we can just jump onto this. And then there is a trick at the very end of this level where there's a frame at the very end of this level. There's a frame perfect pause going into the boss. Let's see if I can hit it. Ah dang, little too late. So this boss has a cut scene you can see here, if we pause as we enter the loading zone which is frame perfect then we can skip that cutscene but that's fine. We'll just save to exit the training mode And this is going to set a value And then it's not going to get properly Properly reset until Nice, okay we got it. applause Okay, we got it. So the way that works is when you go into training mode there's a value set and then it's not properly reset, that makes it so that cutscene doesn't happen and we can move during it. And so the way that fight normally works is that there's the cut scene where the four Choco kids go into the cake and then the cake attacks and then after the attack you take out CHOCO KIDS GO INTO THE CAKE AND THEN THE CAKE ATTACKS. AFTER THE ATTACK YOU TAKE OUT ONE CHOCO KID AND THEY ATTACK AGAIN AND YOU JUST REPEAT FOUR TIMES, BUT WHEN WE DO THAT EXIT TO TRAINING MODE VALUE GET SET SO THAT CUTS But when we do that, exit the training mode value gets set so that cuts never happens. And so we can move during it vault over the cake and then inhale all of the choco kids all at once instead of having to kind of take them out one at a time, which is quite nice. This is Ghost Castle, the final area of the game. It's going to have a couple difficult rooms coming up but there's a bit of time until that. Got some time for a few donations. Perfect, because I have some for you my friend! We have $20 from UltiZeta who says shoutouts to Fred the only true chameleon choice and good luck on both Chameleon Twist and Bomberman 64 later too Lively! We've also got $25 from Legacy CF who says Lively R raccoons bomberman 64 streams have been some of the best chill vibes and I'm so excited to see him run not one but two games at the first cdq event i am fortunate enough to attend good luck lively i have a few more for you i just was totally still waking up and i'm like look at all of this love coming in for you let me know if you have some time. Quickly, so the way that this screen works is when we shoot a candle, a platform spawns and that platform spawn is random kind of within a certain range. I went for a platform skip unfortunately it didn't quite work out I was just a little late, but sometimes you can skip between the platforms You can skip a candle, but it ends up being quite precise so I missed that one But that's fine and then this next one is the same kind of room But the platforms are farther away so we can't skip any platforms We have time now for a few donations Alrighty I got you okay we have $25 from light year who says shoutouts to the chameleon twist soundtrack for still getting stuck in my head decades after I originally played it we also have fifty dollars from sigoli saying chameleon twist and its sequel were the game of my childhood that i genuinely thought i would never see at an event i'm so thrilled to be here watching this highly realistic depiction of the real animal species the chameleon content one more yeah again okay fifty dollars from audrey Got time? One more? Yeah. Okay, $50 from Audrey who says long-time watcher, long-time donator, greetings from Arizona! Got up early for Turnip Boy and oh, chameleon twist. Then Kirby 64? Might as well sit down and watch the entire event! Thank you staff and commentators and runners for making this event on my yearly watch list. So in that previous room we had a pretty difficult skip that I was able to hit That small pole you can just hit a vault just as you land on it, and that allows you to get up to the top of the screen move. So this is the final boss pile of books. The first phase is more or less set. I messed up a little bit, but we're good. The second phase is a nightmare. Time could be coming up. We'll see. Yeah, time soon... So he's going to move up to three times randomly around this room and then shoot either a curve shot or straight shot. I'm hoping for a curve...okay. I'm gonna try to track him here. Aw dang! I guessed wrong. So every time he hits the wall you can go two directions...maybe? Nice! Time! So that boss ends up becoming kind of a 50-50 a lot of the time where you shoot and he moves into the wall, and you just have to guess is it going to go left or right. So be able to pull it off second try. It's not too bad. Yeah, pretty good run. I mean we took a little bit to lock in on the door clips I blame playing Linda I play Fred all the time. Not used to it but wanted to give a big shout out to the community, probably the single best speed run community that I've ever been apart of so if this game looks cool definitely give it a shot and join on yeah thanks for gdq for having me and thanks for watching so Hello, everybody. My name is Curtis, known as Curtissimo41. Welcome to Kirby 64 100% Speed Run. I got some friends with me on the couch if you guys want to introduce yourselves hi i'm shasta i run this game sometimes i like kirby um so as in kirby uh i've also ran this game and i am grandpa and i've also run this game. Whoa! What a surprise that we're all here. Alright, so... This game was last run of this category specifically as well at SGDQ 2019 by Swordsman Kirby over on the couch. We actually were switch positions this time five years ago, but two major things have changed since then. So first of all we now play on the Switch version of the game which saves about 22.5 seconds over the previous fastest version Of Wii Virtual Console and Dream Collection And then second thing, bigger thing is that there's now a full game RNG manipulation That was found by a runner in the community named DarkRiolu Basically The point of it is that any instance in the run where Any random events happen we make it so that IS THAT ANY INSTANCE IN THE RUN WHERE ANY RANDOM EVENTS HAPPEN WE MAKE IT SO THAT WE GET THE FASTEST RESULTS FROM ALL OF THOSE RANDOM EVENTS AND THE WAY WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT IS THAT WE KNOW THE MEMORY ADDRESS WHERE the RNG value is stored. We know how to initially set it up, we know how to advance it and what different factors advance RNG And we know how to track throughout the whole run. So because of those things, were able to carry through the whole game which gets rid of all randomness basically turns into entirely a skill based run so I'm going try and carry that as far as I can today. So basically what I am gonna do, we have to reset the game then I have to quickly get through these first two screens, because RNG is constantly advancing there. Now it's got set up a new file here for the run... And then we enter... Nice little bomb effect!...and then we enter the mini game screen, so we have to look at the characters that are in second third and fourth player slots every time you shuffle through and we're looking for this one right here, Kirby Waddle Dee Kirby That'll put us on the correct value. There's two others you can use. You just have to advance it either once or twice if you're behind one value or two values. But right here we got Kirby Waddle Dee Kirby which is the value we want. So let's go ahead and get started. I'll do a quick countdown And then for a lot of early game, I'm going to leave the commentary up to my couch Just so that I can focus on sort of getting it off the ground and get them in it going. So, ready to go? 3...2...1...go! And we got the tutorial skim! Yes! Hardest trick in the run. Alright, so first things first The main movement technique that We're going to be using is single fire or something about fire canceling. With single fire, normally at the end of it you just drop down but if you start floating right at the end of it, you can float do a puff and then start another fire um it's kind of technical especially because the single fires actually get shorter the more you use it so a lot of of feel goes into doing single fire. There's going to be a few times in this run where you'll see Curtis just completely stand still for about a third of the second. That's because every time Kirby stands still, the RNG value advances by one and so it's a quick and easy way to adjust like the RNG value that we're on. It's kind of like counting cards you you know? If you're off count you want to get onto the right count. Yeah it's kind of like cheating I guess yeah. You think so. We get a fire and bomb right there. This game's whole mechanic is that you can combine powers together, and it gives us fireworks. One of my favorite powers in-game personally. That gives us the first shard of the game. Harborsen has to give all three shards at every level so that's the goal for this entire run right here. You want to see his picnic, and it looks right! I'm a little bit cursed with live events There have been a couple where I haven't even carried my NIP through 1-1, so I'm super relieved to have that. So the way we can tell they're having manipulation is the pick and get right there again. They are different patterns depending on what RNG speed you're on. We got the right one, so so far so good. That being said though, in this room we have a Sparky and depending on what they do can mess up our regime just a little bit. But we can offset it like right at the end of the level So shouldn't be too bad as long as we know what value we're on. Yeah, sometimes Sparky just likes to attack and we don't want Sparky to attack because it advances RNG. So that was good right there. A few more Sparkys is from his world too. Yeah, we think so. A few more Sparky's Distribute as well too. We want to take it out before it attacks. That one is supposed to attack but there's the one on like the bottom level that we really wanna get away from just so he doesn't do any extra advancements we don't want. Some of these stages are quite long, so Curtis is going to be looking for sometimes you have visual cues off of enemies that helps you know whether you're still on the right RNG value. We got eight advancements right here. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And we just got to make sure we stand still in between all these little small enemies that adeline's throwing at us right now if i call correctly as well too uh it's a lot of allies get a faster pattern in the background because whenever she moves her paintbrush you can take a little longer sometimes exactly yeah keeps her from wagon and brush they have no way there it's like it's a very small thing it seems like maybe a second but yeah still still accounted for it's early game after all you take as much time as you can get nice timing with the ice dragon there. Very good, very good. One... two... we got four here! Three... Four! Very quick count right there. This is Dark Matter from the previous Kirby's Dream Land games I guess? This is basically just Kirby's Dreamland four let's be honest yeah 60. we call dreamline two through four of the dark man trilogy or we're here about two three and curbs for dark matter because that that's available in all three games. Is that the right pattern? Yep, thanks. We're still on to Manip! To sort of put into context how tough it is to carry Minip through the whole game, I've only ever done it, uh...I guess kind of close to three times. Technically twice. Uh...so it's very challenging to keep it through the entire game. But you know, I'm going to try my best here. See how far we can go. One of them was during K-Star as well too, right? He just got World Rector casually during our Kirby relay. That was the first time I ever carried He just gobbled record casually during our Kirby relay. It was cool! That's the first time I ever carried it all the way through and I got a record in there, so... It was awesome. I have a question. Yep? So what happens once the manip ends? If it doesn't carry through, then what's kind of the next thing you can do? Yeah. If Manip dies we just play out Maniplist basically for the rest of the run so it's not catastrophic or anything. Our goal is to keep us through at least one three because like uh here's on my hobbit show a few weeks ago and uh he lost in acro the world 3 boss so hope get through there that's a good double coming here nice got the very well times good timing yeah just break that block out there would you all like a donation? Yes. Okay, great! We have $10 from Smash Bro Dean who says good luck to Kurtissimo and can we start a donation train of people's favorite Kirby 64 copy abilities? Mine is Bomb and Cutter, gotta love those shurikens! Putting this money to seeing Bellatro get destroyed. Um mine is the fireworks, actually. I should say probably. Yeah, firebomb it's so good! I'll put lightsaber too. Fireworks is really satisfying. I know everyone's favorite is actually fridge though it's right we did a little manipulation of king dd so they jumped upwards and enabled them to be able just hurt them a little faster. Let's see the picnic. Yep, still good. Nice! In that case, we have a complete set-in-the-stone Wispy Woods fight. that's normally a very luck based part of the run very early on yeah so at the end of every world there's this like boss that you have to fight here it was whiskey this is gonna be the majority of our time save for the RNG manipulation. So by getting the best luck we get the fastest patterns and that saves us like minutes on our time so here wispy woods is gonna throw out roots instead of throwing out apples. Which is the way that we damage him in the second phase. Also no puffs from his mouth. We'll throw apples right here, guess what can do to advance because that's how you team powerless but yeah immediately goes the roots right here and then why should be over right here nice nice good world one world won World 1. World 1. We can probably talk about Double Fire a little bit now that we're in World 2. So, Double Fire of course it's single fire but twice as good But the whole deal with it in general is that like It goes 7 out of distance but if you run before it can go a little further if you do staying still and go a little like not as far so we want to basically use it when we know we're not going to land top of the enemy or anything else that would hurt us or impede the rest of Subway. So technically speaking, single fire done absolutely perfectly is ever so slightly faster than double fire but for example for stuff like whiskey it's just way better to have double firing practice let me say we don't need any more. Goodbye! He only shows up twice throughout the whole run surprisingly. Any% uses it a lot more often. Yeah... Yeah. It's very sad, yeah. Very dejected though. And here we got 12 advancements. 1... 2... 3... 4... 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. We're also saying hello to our good friend Sandross. I don't know what the time is right now saying hello to our good friend, Sandross. I don't know what the time was but usually I shout out the time we get here as well. And if you don't know, Sandross is the face in the back of this room it looks like the boss from from uh starfox just a little bit just like a desert version yeah also we picked up stone before he came to his room in the first place between stone and uh spark on the very final room to get the foul chart level that being said it's a very risky shard to gets because unfortunately if you miss it i do the whole level over again but we got this in fact actually the sparky's on the right pattern if like so far it should be okay yeah sparky is actually accounted for uh he's supposed to jump towards us uh if we're still on the correct rng value so you can see that right here i'm not going to do the damage boost because i'm kind of low on health okay nice no problem attacks and just gets rid of your power if he doesn't which is He's right there. No problem. So basically he attacks and just gets rid of your power if he does that, which is so unfortunate but we're good! I should probably mention...we have a good majority of Japanese runners who run this game. There's actually a meme in Japan right now where there is like a kid who goes like HIKINI KUDESU! And they sing along to the song and this level level and they go don't mean again it's it literally just means it's minced meat. I will say Chad has been really excited about this song. It's great. Chats with the Japanese Caribbean community in general, they're great. Chats with the song too, also one of my favorites. You mean the whole soundtrack? Yeah! Lots to detract from it but like... I got donations for you, let me know. Uh yeah there's not too much going on at level. I guess the Sparky again is here to jump towards us so we can sort of take him out quickly. But nothing else too much to explain, so we got time for donations. Sure thing! Alrighty, we have $25 from CyberbotX who says I just wanted to let you all know good luck. We're all counting on you. Watching from my work uh from work on my second monitor best of luck to all the runners very much looking forward to kirby 64. it was such a unique kirby game and 100 is so fun to see so best of luck to curtisimo 41 on that put this to the easter egg showcase and Sonic project oh six also that is getting very close to being met we're at 93 percent eleven thousand one hundred sixty-six dollars out of 12,000 so weird it's so close that's gonna be really cool you've also got five dollars okay we have a couple of these let's see how my voice holds out for this $5 from the masters who says hi i'm doing a little bit higher but i don't know if i can that's pretty good honestly we've also got 64 from candy fable who says hi um and we have 25 from condor who says what a great donation train idea the best power is the ice skates because kirby just looks so serene and graceful while gliding through the levels. One of my all-time favorite games, love seeing it get run at GDQ. Yeah, ice gates are great. Real quickly as well uh this icenew right, they can do an attack that will also RNG so we try to get the power as fast as we can. We need also ice for the next level. I should be going back into the beginning of this level after it's done to buy a stone to get a stone to get the curling stone we'll talk about when we get there but for now RNG does not matter at all in King D&D so we can just catch you later for a bit yeah cause it doesn't actually trigger kirby's like standing animation so the rng doesn't move forward at all no upwards fire curves today did that mean you're all saying if it's is it only this version that you do this type of minute or it can work on every version we just play on the switch because it's the fastest plus uh yeah switch We just play on the Switch because it's the fastest. Plus, you know, switch save states. Yeah, make it super nice for practicing. Oh yeah. So I've thrown this a little bit in here, but it's overall worth it. It saves a lot of time over the previous fast since like power and then the next level. Should have our call card dead. Pretty sure it was found before the last session you run or something. Yeah, I believe so. Yeah, because you see a single fire here but now Chrono's unused. Alright, we have these flying skull enemies. Every time they drop from the sky, it actually advances RNG so it's pre-planned which ones we're going to freeze and which ones we're gonna allow to fall Your movement has to be precise And you have to have good cartling movement yeah so the way that curling movement works is that if you're running before you start it you get faster than running speed and then slowly starts to decelerate so you see Curtis going in off curling stone, like going through these flat sections Should note that Crowing Stone is slower than Single Fire, but we did need Stone earlier for that first charge. And you're going to see the main reason why it saves time compared to doing single fire in a couple seconds Yeah, like seeing if I was faster for movement for this whole section But like right at the very end of this level is where Curling Stone really pulls ahead of Signifier. Got a fish jump. Just a fish jump. The sound that Curling Stone makes when it hits the wall, so sass. Can you hear that coming up real quick? Yeah, so here is why it saves so much time. Curling Stone seems like a rock. It's not just the curling stone, it's a rock! This is definitely my least favorite part of the game. It's mashing as fast as you can you match really fast right here you kind of have to i guess at your level but you know the pro tip if you just hug this wall on the left side you're safe except for right here. Go in there? Yeah. Yep. And now you're good. Let's get the pitchfork picnic. Oh. Nice! Oh! Let's get the pitchfork picnic. Nice! This is one level I really wanted to get through because this next level has one of the biggest pieces of time save just movement-wise with Manip. one of the biggest pieces of time save uh just movement wise with manip all right so in manipolis we usually use uh we pick up that first bomb enemy so that we can light up a dark room up ahead that we have to use to solve a puzzle. So instead of using the light bulb to light up that room, we already know what the pattern's going to be because we're manipulating. So we just keep our curling stone and move a little faster through this room. You mean because we're cheating? Yeah. Cheating. Cheating. through this room you mean because we're cheating yeah you said it so this is one of the few kirby games where kirby actually has stamina for his floats. So after we float, certain math times, Kirby would start getting tired and start floating downwards even though we're trying to float up. And those shots that are in the wall allows us to kind of reset the float timer. We up there with that weight Oh, it's a scary part. There is always the risk of getting crushed there. We have lightbulb to tell us what pattern we have, but in this case we don't need it. We can just go over here, use throwing stone, bam! It's those three and we're good. Love to see it. That's a big time tip right there for just like Manipulus. I think it took about 10 seconds or so over Manipulus, just because of curling being so much faster than running. I also love that room because you can just skip it. They have this whole setup to go all the way around and go on these platforms, and you float up and skip all of them. And you heal yourself on the way if you really need it. Yeah. That's nice. All right, we're still good with Manit, so this is good stuff! Nice! And then picks...all we do here is just two advancements at the beginning, so one and two. And then we have to avoid the first two attacks and take a nap for a minute. There's not much going on. I saw someone had the prize for like, uh, the double spark ability that usually they put used right here but it's argumentative as you don't use it so apologies for doing that prize sorry! Still a great piece of art though I'm sorry. Still a great piece of art though. It really is, absolutely. Shout out. Yeah right here's probably gonna have for donations till we get the full boss fight. Yeah I was going to say this is like a two minute you just have to sit. Yeah. All righty we have $10 from LitPotato57 who says looking forward to seeing both elephants there are two elephants during the Kirby 64 run. Good luck, Curtis! Hope the Minip carries through the whole run. Spoilers! Okay... This is an $11.10 donation from Sailor Smitty It says dollar and ten cent donation from sailor smitty i don't know it says poyo it's in deep voice i don't you all could probably do better than i can Puyo. Beautiful, thank you. Absolutely. One more? Fire right here probably. I'll do a quick one. $50 from Kai Crowley who says, Kirby hype? Hype! Play out! So we get the best pattern from picks as well. We'll do that and fight over here. So that pattern we get right there and fights over here. Yeah, simple! So that pattern we get right there saves about 3 seconds over the pattern that we more commonly get with Manipulus so even that fight is manip to save a few seconds which is nice. So now we're going into World 3, one of my favorites because of the nice oceany watery aesthetic. I think some call it a beach but you know totally debated right there i call aqua star personally fair enough proper name i like the music here i mean junishi color really hard on this one they're really good i think all kirby soundtracks go live in different ways they all fit their games perfectly 100 okay so in this room there's these green orb enemies or uh just by being there they're advancing RNG. So we need to book it through this room. There are a few rooms like that especially where certain enemies will just advance RNG as you go through and so much of what you can do other than get through as fast as you can and hope you're good. I mean fortunately it's another one of those rooms where you just skip what you were supposed to do. What we can tell RNG Power on in the last room is actually those frog enemies on the wall, they blink at certain patterns so are we good? Yep, we're still good. Hell yeah! And also there's a sparky towards the end that we can use to gauge if we're on the value that we want as well, based on the way he jumps. Perfect. Now so we get ice and bomb right here to get a snowman bomb which you need for a shark right at the end of level. So it might seem like it's going to be a slow fight up here, but we do need that power for the shard at the end, so it's important. Okay, so right here every time the little enemies spawn in they advance RNG so we need to watch and see if you kill one or not We're good Push left. Okay They don't respond after after the mini-boss is dead so... Yeah. And we got this Sparky right here. Shorthop to the right after the attack. There we go. Still good. He's just bombing a little early here because it takes about 5 or so seconds to explode if you don't hit something Yep. Conspicuously placed blue and black block Wonder what that that for? And then, fun fact to all the people that don't like when Kirby cries at the picnic, this is the only picnic where he doesn't cry. We have to pick up a card. What's on the card here? This card will always be Canny the crab, which we'll see a few of in this next level like my least favorite enemies surprisingly large hip boxes well they know as well too, even like foreground elements like those dana lines there can advance RNG if you hit them or not so I think a few of in this first part of the stage we purposely avoid Could be wrong though first part of the stage, we purposely avoid. Could be wrong though. Most of them we still just run through. Alright so coming up is this mini-boss where Curtis is going to combine rock and fire. Every time a volcano shot comes out it advances RNG So we need to make sure that we're counting exactly 8 shots. And if we are off by one, then we need to adjust the RNG somewhere. Yeah, we can either work with 7, 8 or 9 shots so we gotta listen closely to the game and count how many i get here all right we got eight. So we should be good. Good stuff! And then based on that, uh, we have to do this river section in a very specific way in order to end up on the RNG value we want. So I'm going to do three jumps right here, and there's a whole bunch of other stuff we do which would be a lot to explain, so I think this is another good time for donations sounds good to me all right we have a hundred dollars coming in from amanda who says nice to see my boy grandpa sitting on the couch for kir and the Crystal Shards. Wishing you all the best, as always from your favorite retail worker on the East Coast. Lesson 3. We've also got $100 from Cactus who says, had to comment during my favorite Kirby game. Sometimes I mix words together. Putting this towards getting the lobster later today. Let's get that met! Oh are two thousand dollars in to the sixty five thousand dollars by the way that'll be later on today definitely put your donations in and we have twenty-five25 from Balaam who says Kirby 64 was one of my favorite childhood games, me too. And I was a fan of the ice skates despite being so bad at using them coming up here uh there's a shard on the waterfall i gotta make sure i count all three of them so i don't miss it oh one or two a three and there we go let me also two there we go and they also picked up the crab earlier we just got a here we go If it's really K-music, it's so good. A little bit more downtime, So if you have more donations this is a good time to get one or two. Yeah yeah! I feel like one of my favorite facts about this level Is when you're falling far enough I don't know if y'all mentioned Like when you fall and you have something in Kirby's mouth And it doesn't... Like you don't have the extra frames of landing did i miss that i think i was reading during it anyway. You're fine, don't worry. Okay we have $100 from Iskerao Pust who says Seeing this run has unlocked so many memories from when I was a kid Kirby 64 is such a charming, clever game. Very cool to see it being run at SEQ. Okay so I think I heard something about an elephant somewhere in this game. I don't know why would they put elephants in a Kirby game right? I don't know. Why would they put elephants in a Kirby game, right? I dunno there's no elephant power or anything but water. It doesn't sound right. What do you think Jacek? I just said my thoughts what are you talking about yeah there's no way that very strange elephant in this oh my god it's an elephant or two two potentially two elephants is it one is it made of two are they the same textures hotly debated uh contention point right now let's know donation i really feel like i missed out on something here all right we got that cat part of there that cutter enemy and we're gonna combine this a bomb here and some mentioned earlier in comments their favorite power is shuriken use it right here for one of the uh chars so you're welcome that's a great ability i actually really like this same. Exploding Shuriken too as well! It gives a bomb. That's how it works. So in the Manipulus run, this level used to be a popular point for everybody to count how many times it would take to get to Rick. The Lassif Shard, you have to combine with a stone and cutter to get uh... You'll carve out an animal friend. So it can be one of six animal friends. We need Rick the hamster to be able to scale the wall to get up to a shard, but since we're manipulating, we're going to get Rick for the first time every time. I'm doing that nice and slow and safe combo there? I actually inhaled something next to her, it was funny. Sometimes you gotta go slow to go fast! Exactly. Confucius I saw yesterday so here we get Rick and and then we get Pitch. Gonna break the wall with Pitch, and then... Who are we gonna get here I wonder? Ooh! Look at that! Oh my god! First try, Rick! What were the chances? You are so lucky. One and one. This run's got really good luck so far. I don't know what's happening. Wild. And then a special surprise newer movement here, thanks to the manip. So we actually transform into pitch again and it makes this part a little bit faster if I can do it right. Shout out to the joke Twitter account, JustPitch. Oh my god! Timing is really tight for the platforms that come in on the right side of the walls because they pretty much fall immediately after you uh you jump on them like that one right there yeah for some reason left ones take a little bit of time to start dropping for no apparent reason it's very very strange, all the while. Thankfully losing pitch there doesn't mess up my nibs so we're still good. Yeah! Nice. Thank you, thank you. So in the next room there's these boulders that fall from the ceiling. We actually have to listen in and see how many of these boulders reach the bottom of the floor. It's been quiet for this part right here let's get the fish here to go across his room yeah like really quickly there's a strat a lot of people haven't heard about until they watch their speed run that you can hold the fish and just coast all right we, let's sing in. Let's sing in. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, here based on the way they broke I have to spit the fish away because throwing the fish would advance RNG so I gotta spit the fish away, because throwing the fish would advance RNG so I gotta spit the fish away. And then in the final room i have to wait for one extra boulder to hit the wall before leaving. If you just hit like that it was very strange it's like that pokemon stadium minigame where you have to like count the that's my favorite ones. While we're swimming, you want some donations? Sure. $25 coming in from sinister 1992 i'm a simple man i see kirby i donate i agree with that also this was relevant just a minute ago 50 from Kelpmonger who says, Kirby power donations? I'm a fan of I'm a big fan of Rock Cutter because I love the animal companions and sent him to Belatra because more GDQ is best cdq it's true also speaking of more tdq we are less than 400 less than 350 away from that easter egg showcase for sonic project o6 which is coming up. So we are so close! That was 97% of the way there. Keep it up! Since you're making a cat that rocks right at the end just give an extra one like I said earlier. Every rock that hits the wall just advances luck and our energy a bit. And quick shard right here before we leave. And before we head out through the door, just have to wait for this guy right there cool and we're so good nice that's a very small thing but but RNG Manip, Akro actually will be... We defeat them when they go towards the very bottom of the screen. So it ends the fight just slightly faster at least the first phase i mean just like that how do you think they came up with the name acro i don't know it could be anything is it spelled something else backwards because it's such an acrobatic enemy no that's right you're definitely right shasta that's got to be it yeah So this is one of the few times in the manip where we can't actually get the fastest pattern. For the second phase of Acro, we're going to go for the slow pattern where acro like charges up from in the middle and so they just didn't there weren't any convenient RNG values nearby on the manipulation that we can use so unfortunate We beat the hotfix PB Let's go Carrying minute to world for us is really good. Good stuff, good stuff. Also Kirby does a different variation of his high right there after Akro because he's underwater. Fun fact. I'm not going to replicate it but... So 4-1 we like to call the butter level because of the buttery smooth powerless movement reducing you know dipping and weaving through all these if you do that go marginally faster in other rooms thank you shasta we playing that joke, I'm sorry. This level is the worst. Yeah, I don't like this one. It's pretty tricky. Especially there was some faster vine movement we do in the next room. We'll see how it goes. There's just such a high damage... I don't know, chance? It's very- it's a very high anxiety level. Yeah. Especially next room right here, Curse has a faster strat that like gets you right into the bottom like might call Blastick as as if they smash but yeah so check this out you like look at those we're going for an early vine cycle I'm gonna carry the momentum off of this spine to get to this fine early and charge through and oh hey all right yeah the death plane is immediately at the bottom of that screen. Yeah, it's super scary. May I just mention that for some of these mini bosses where chris is fighting it with single fire uh you want to actually jump into the enemy to lower the amount of recoil you get so you can run into a clicker for the next step. There's this nice little shard as well. Very well hidden! It really is! Got a nice invincibility candy here, Dance Gamers! Okay I have a donation for you. Sure. I mean I have a donation for you. Sure. I mean, I have a lot but there's a $10 one that just came in from Macho Sino who says elephants in your Kirby game more likely than you think we get started right in this level because we need to go back to 2-4 actually to using this lemme that we skipped earlier to make a stone and bomb which gives us uh diamites we need that for a short right at the end level once again four two so yeah an arctic nip in fact does actually account for going back to 2-4 like that. So we're good on that front. You gonna do the fast dynamite? Yep. That's not a run killing thing if i fail it so i'll be there all right nice we just need to keep uh bouncing over and over again on the minecraft here just so so we can keep an edge face the whole time. And this is faster in general by like a frame or something every time you do it You gotta save the frames Did you ever find out if jumping in the water autoscroller is faster? On the river it's not. On the minecart and sled it is because except for one frame you go a little bit faster. So... Right. You keep jumping, you know, you jump over like 60 times and can actually save like a full second. Yeah. Cool, okay cool. It's the river that I was curious about I wasn't sure. Also, we've got to make sure we kill all the sparkies on this track. Oh yeah, true. The river I don't know about by the way. I think certain parts are faster. I don't know. So for the river certain parts are faster i don't know yeah so yeah so for the river certain parts are faster so when you jump you preserve whatever speed you're moving at it's time. For what? Oh, it's not good? Oh the Curtis pop? Nope. I'm gonna sit ready. Yeah, I think until we get to where he's dying, but it's probably time for donations at some point. Alrighty. Well, I have some good news because we have hit the Easter egg showcase for Sonic 5 and 06. I'm so excited. I wanted to know... I know we got a little bit of info in the interview, but I just like how it says an additional secret thing after the run. After the description. I like that. I'm very excited for that. We have $50 from Mellon says, my favorite Kirby 64 power is the refrigerator. I was so anxious as a kid and I love that I could restore my own health. Love seeing one of my favorite games at GDQ. I'm glad that unironically, there is love for the fridge. Let's get that. They have a whole category just called Fridge for Sam where you just go through all the marriage it's chaos you have to go back again oh no I gotta do that so that was fast slow dynamite there's four variations fast fast fast slow slow fast and slow slow that was fast and slow yeah thankfully uh with manip still going those mini-boss enemies right there spawn in the exact same way every time. So that's one indicator we're good and then we got two advancements here And we should be good for this level. And 4-3 as well is another instance of a... Oh no! That poor guy hydraulic pressed. Oh no. Fourth, here's another instance of where the Archive is going to come into play because halfway through a level there's a certain block pattern you have to like draw kind of with like Kirby's like puffs and stuff. And the fastest one is Top Hat but it's also like Pizza and Parasol Parasol by far is slow so we don't want that. Peaks is just a little bit faster, or a little slower than top hats but barge even if we're gonna get top hat every single time so yeah.. Yeah, yeah. Now that we get a stone and needle to drill which you can use right here I think all games just want any needle power, but I forget. Maybe that one in particular. Most importantly though, we'll be getting this Ice Envy right at the end of this room, combining with a Stone Envy right at the beginning of the next room and getting curling stone once again. Use it for restless level and also for 4-4 as well. Yeah, curling stone movement can be very tricky in this level because some of these platforms can be like super narrow so you have to make sure you're really precise with your movement. That's the first thing, making sure you freeze certain enemies for argument and all that i'm sure it makes a little easy my best every time you land with curling stone, you have to run every single time. So just a quick double tap to the right in this case. Sometimes you don't have a whole lot of time to do that and it's leveled. See, at least. Just pop out there. All you got to do that it's leveled salies just pop out there all you gotta do is break uh six or seven blocks on the side and you're good i have a question while we're working on this. Sure. Well, it's not my question. It's $25 from Whiplash810 who says do you think that King Dedede snores like honk shoo or honk meemee? Either honk sh or honk me, me, me. He's a honker for sure. Honks you, yep. This is very important. Kirby's definitely a honking me, me, me. Yeah, I would... You know what? I think I would agree with that. This is K&L. Also, we have $1,000 from Blue Cheetah! Thank you so much to help Sad kirby be happy so good yeah sometimes with curling kirby will just like plant his feet on the ground. But I try to keep moving so that he doesn't do any extra advancements. Oops! What does it say right there? It says Mario. There's some weird spelling here. Alright we're still good. So this is the hardest level coming up uh with manip yeah this little's a mess there's so much going on okay so right off the bat there's these rocks that fall from the ceiling and every time they fall that's another rng advancement so we need to get through this room as fast as possible it also means though advanced rng as well for instance the bird enemies whenever they like drop something on the ground it'll also just advance rng never use uh magoos is it called the things that pop out of the lava and respond in they also enhance rg there's a lot going on. Basically everything in this stage advances RNG. Yeah, there's a Sparky as well and a few rooms from now that also advances RNG. It's wild. So we just gotta get through this whole level as fast as we can and if he did, we'd be still on track so it'll be okay He also freezes birds sometimes too to make sure they don't advance even further off screen Even King Didi here further off screen even king dd here there's some parts of this that do advance luck as well that's one of them it's the birds whoa spoiler spoiler we're on the right track these three enders will line up and have us just do one hit to them so it should be okay looks like that so far so good, everything looks good. There are certain enemy patterns that can take the note of a VAR and GIMNIP That will allow you to see if your on track still Those ZULs there is their color or one such example. Oh no not zuls it's bow! Zul's like the uh... yeah zelda enemy from... electric Zelda enemy isn't it? Yeah whenever the Magoos pop out of the lava they can do a short jump or... Sorry I didn't do that. Whenever they pop out they can do a like a tall jump out of the lava sometimes they curve to left or right but that's a good indicator for where we're at with the manipulation it's also one of the long rooms in the game right here. Again, so many things that just destroy your room possibly. There is a sparker there I mentioned for instance. One more trying to stay out of the room as well. It's a very long level. Does that have any implications? Like, good donation time? Yeah you can...time for donations. Next stream actually is one have to don't worry about her cheapen up so yeah. Okay sweet. We have $10 from Shane who says yes! I love Kirby 64! Yeah! It's like all caps lots of exclamation points. One of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time in my opinion and home to the greatest power up of all time Ninja Star Never loved that one. I'm seeing a couple repeated, actually. Like $100 from Shrambles who says Kirby 64 is one of my favorite games with great chants and the best power is fridge no question would you like another sure all right fifty dollars from matt who says Crystal Shards was my first Kirby game and Kid Me really loved the double lightsaber power. It's a great one. Are there any... Okay what power-ups are we forgetting about that were like wait this one's actually really cool nobody talks about this one? My favorite is double needle because of all the pointy bits I was gonna say double needle too yeah Ohhhh that's not a bad choice. It just feels slower but it is really cool. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. It's very novelty but it's pretty neat. But fridge is not just novelty right now. All right, we're almost out of RNG heck Let's see if we got it Fingers crossed Yes! Let's go. Wow, five advancements right here so one two three four five So one, two, three, four, five. This should give us the right Batman pattern as well. It gets firestorms. Well that's another one by the way, firestorms. We haven't mentioned that one yet. That one's cool too. But ben has three patterns we're honestly only in kate then is uh it gives you two hits three hits or four hits get the three pattern first and got the fourth parent right here, which we're good. No crash. Yeah, no crash. I've had it happen once before. Maybe just randomly crashes sometimes. Don't know why. I mean, I've had it like multiple times. Oh, no. It's scary. It really is. Right here we also get the ultimate iron for the second phase as well. Enjoy these rocks! And do that, and then double star... Bam! I'm done. Nice. A nip through World 4. That's really good. Yeah this is awesome. I'm super happy with this. In practice we... Curriculum has been up to 4-4 so actually we don't need a practice column for World 5 here. We'll be fine. We know how it works. For instance, We know how it works. Just like those firebirds, those icebergs also will advance RNG So you gotta make sure to skip through as fast as possible Unsurprisingly i love this song yeah it's great i'm a big fan of five two so i'm excited for that level coming up yep gical really went hard on that one. I'm stealing the line, sorry! Yeah normally there Kirby sort of like clips up into the platform, so I was expecting that but it's all good. So there is a sparky on the sled section coming up that once again we can use to sort of gauge what value were on and how we have to move accordingly. And then just like the minecart, we got to make sure we keep jumping for this section so we don't advance RNG an unnecessary amount of times. Now probably another good time for donations actually because not much going going on here i was about to ask 50 from shark freak who says my favorite is the rock cutter i loved turning into cute little animal friends i'm telling you seeing them seem like a number of the same here's another one fifty dollars from uh polarity who says favorite power combo was always needle and bop because floating around as a gordo amused me. That's definitely unique. We'll be seeing that. $50 from Amber, who says Are we donating for our favorite powers? It has to be electric cutter For the double-bladed lightsaber. Putting this through the Sonic Project 06 Easter Egg Showcase, which we just met, which is awesome. Oh, and I have to say, trans rights are human rights. Damn right. Let's go. Happy Pride, y'all. Happy Pride Month too! Every month. Yeah. So this room we're yeah yeah so this room we'll be using a fire underwater which has a very strange property is that like we just like lose height for every reason every time you do it let's see like jump off the ground if i recall correctly where like we'll just like gain a little bit heights it's very odd and another thing about uh just underwater in general all of your animations are cut to half speed so even single fire like in this part looks really sluggish trust me it's fast source trust me faster than regular swimming at least. Not a clean getaway. Sorry to gather, is that just getting for that Gordo honestly. Okay so there's a $25 donation from Zs. It says DDD donate! You're so right! You're so real for that. Yeah, it's real. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. I'm sorry, I had to. No understandable. How about one more? Let's check this picnic. All right, we're still good. That's important for this next level. You're just going on a picnic with your friends that way in winter clothes inside the snow area? Me too. Have you ever gone on a picnic and said, no, this doesn't look right? That's a bit more real. It's probably my favorite song in the game. True, same here. Another Jun Nishikawa banger? I mean it's just... It's butter building. Everybody loves butter building. But it's butter building but better. Better building than oil. We're going to blow up the stage here which Blaston's a little bit scary but you know right there is a shard. We're supposed to go back like backtrack a little bit for it but we can just pick up at the front as well. That's point two, and this next room we have another one of those... What are the green enemies called again? The green Orbs. Yeah, the green Orb guy, have to bring up guy yeah this guy right here i think it's z-bond oh z-bon okay i knew it was like one of the two but i forgot yeah they advanced rng if they responded on the screen so we're gonna get through it as fast as we can. But this room's usually pretty set in stone, there's not much to do with it. The next room we have to get Needle towards the end and keep that until the very... Until the very end where we're gonna... At the very end, where we're going to... At the very end of the last room there, we're getting a Sparky. Which can bind Needle and Electric, which no one said, by the way. So, yeah. And thankfully, we still have our Jibunip so the Sparky at very end is usually a big run killer but with our Jibunips you will not fall into the pit behind them, he'll not attack. He'll just allow us to immediately get the combination and we're good. Hopefully. As long as we don't mess anything up. Everything's still looking good so... Nice! We should get what we want. Everything's still looking good, so... Nice. We should get what we want. Hey question for you all on couch. And of course Kurt too. Like if you were gonna pick between Sonic Shadow and Silver for Sonic Project 06, who would you pick? Silver. I've seen the silver run before. It's ridiculous. Okay. All right. I don't know. I like Shadow. Yeah? I'll just be a contrarian and say Sonic. Just get one of each. So, I'm the tiebreaker here? I guess I would say probably shadow for me as well. All right. I want shadow too! Also, we got the sparky movement that we wanted so we're all clear here. In particular we need lighting rod here to break the thing in the middle of the room. That's actually really good too. I say that as if it were Game Rant argument. Whoa! Cool pattern! Wow! That's ridiculous! This picnic looks bright. I'm glad you're having the correct picnics with your friends. It's got to be so particular! It's my special day! You're like, hey, I don't know if I want to have a picnic today with Kurt. He's really particular. It just doesn't look good. He's too picky. Kurt is in the wrong spot. I can't eat his. Too much crying at these picnics. Big fan of these little snake enemies, by the way. Those little Muppets. They're really cute but they can be annoying if you forget or are not ready. Yeah. After he's elevated it's faster to jump right towards the center then because Kirby will walk up towards them otherwise it seems like a second or so each time chasto live with maul by the way if you know you know wasn't there a period of time when their runners like sliding into that elevator i think so, yeah. So coming up is another Adaline room where Adaline will draw three fruits on the wall and of course it's manipulated We know exactly which fruits we're going to to get it's the ones that are at the beginning of the room and we don't want the ones that are at the end of the room because then we got to backtrack to go grab the shard. Whoops! I might be wrong. Yeah, unfortunate. Oh that's fine. Oh I forgot this! I was like wait hold on. Can we get a round of applause for Curtis carrying the nip this far? Yeah! It went well. Yeah. It's red, green and orange which... Of course orange. Left or right? Oh it's orange! You still want the spoon though ideally but it's it's very easy at least one of them usually thorns though yes those bow enemies that advance too far right yeah and unfortunately like i missed the shard when i jumped up to go grab it. So they did a couple extra movements which......I can't really recover from that. Still, carrying a 5-2 is very good stuff. Yeah, I'm still happy with it! I'm still VERY happy with it. Yeah, that's what we're saying. And we got past Sparky so no worries there. To put into perspective just how hard is RNG Manip in general like there are so many little things throughout the entire run that really just affect it and you gotta know how to back it up and... oh! Somebody just can't back it up Oh I lost a drill I'll grab this health too. But like, at top level in this game I think the top four or five runners use Arn'to Nip and the rest of leaderboards does not in this case because you kinda need it just to get the extra edge like on on like for a good time and everything so the fact that crucible carry it in a marathon on stage in front of all these people like that far is sailing it's incredibly impressive i had hope but i didn't expect any of that so yeah thank you and the gas pump even more as well too with argument recently he got the first 105 in this game so very good setup. We're getting a ton more love on Kirby power-ups. Nice. So you let me know. Yeah, we got time for some donations. Oh sure. Alrighty, we have $5 from Leed who says my favorite Kirby power-up is Double Fire because of the satisfying shh sound. Thank you, Lee. $25 from Great Nation X, great song by the way, who says Kirby 64 was one of my favorite games growing up. Glad to take a trip down memory lane. I cannot, my poor little voice, it can't right now but $60 from Katzenbalken who says king ddd gives great hugs spread the news love watching every year donating to keep the good vibes going love to everyone at sgdq and shout out to my girlfriend's cats being a king duty by the way this section is the final community section of the run yeah we're going through these it's very bell which pushes backwards constantly and ideally person will get through his whole section by skipping four of these. Normally you skip three of these but we just found that he can actually skip four if you do a completely correct movement here and just don't slow down which is can I grab again the weights and next to against skip it's done correctly very tight these hip-hop sister giant these gamers so we can get this we're good you count the 6 2 dvd cutscene as a DED section? Good question. Controversial question, right? I don't know. No. But I would say no. It is an atypical DDD section because we don't ride DDanda. Hopefully we get rid of the power anyway so I can just leave that fire there. That's true. We're gonna get a lot of people's favorite coming up here we got the lightsaber for this mini boss right here heard some of the crowd just're welcome this is for you baby it's like with that cage right there essentially and a little faster track we'll keep the boss in place but just hit them over never again like that and we're good. And it's gone. Yep, and it's gone. Never be seen again for two levels! Yeah, well we'll see it for the entire endgame so... All those lightsaber fans will be satiated. And 5-4 in particular the factory here has so many sessions where they can just one day kill you. For instance of course at the end ofsession but especially this part right here with all those crushers if it occurs messes up here at all we just get crushed and that's bad no pressure putting too much pressure on me you You're fine. It's fine. No, this is scary. This whole level can be really scary. I think we don't need the power at this point so if you get crushed it's not a big deal but fire is fast. We like going fast here all right yeah i don't know i like taking it nice and slow that's not what we're here for got one shard right there this next section here let's go a bit further to the right. There are commentary talking about how the patterns of these tubes spark and disappear as well. You got long one there, then along with the hits here next we got shasta's favorite boss to describe oh boy so there's a character in jimmy neutron called boby struggling on his feet he goes slap slap slap clap clap clip you know so we're looking for the slap clap slap part here of course and we're not getting that but rockets all right if it aren't even still alive there's a class like a clap take a lap nice oh no i got that so close. Can we do another clap? Oh, never mind. Let me just do the clap. There we go. That's fine. Yeah, if we get one more then we can get all four hits. Yeah, it could be a full round here if we get good luck on Dixit though. Yeah, no, never mind. Thanks, Chasta. My bad. There it is. Five rounds, Chasta. My bad. That was a high round to take those. Not too bad. Didn't get single slapped there at all. Now face Now phase two is just six hits and we're good. Going to rise up a little bit off the ground, which is a little bit annoying. Got to shorten it up. Any drops down here want I go to the right so then I can go back a little bit back to the left bring him to the spot where he'd have to fight normally anyways. Second phase, nice! Then we can fly off after he's defeated. Alright that's Whirl 5. Hi! So 6-1 we like to call it the DLC level because it looks a lot like the first level, just with different enemies and different colors. It really is just like exact same layout. Honestly it looks better so you know what? I'm down for it. It's a reedskin. So what you're saying is, it's chill and there's time for two more games? Yeah! All right! Wow, I really interpreted that as something like the game itself was just so much fun to play with I really interpreted that was super well. All right, we have more power up love coming in $25 from Kelly Lockheed and Elahi, I think. Who says one of my favorite joke combinations in Crystal Shards is spark and fire. Oh no. Friction bird! That ones funny. Yes it is very funny. Poor Kirby. $10 from Stretch Dude who says, Kirby 64 was always one of my favorites in the series because of all the crazy power combinations but I'm ultimately a simple man who enjoys simple exploding shuriken which is always good and we have 128 dollars from curl b what a name. It says, I came from California to Minneapolis to learn how to make curling ice and stayed for GDQ. Gotta donate $128 for Curling Stone Kirby. A dollar for every rock that gets thrown in a curling stone! Good curling and hurry hard!" That's actually really cool. Yeah, it's awesome. Thank you. And back here we get Spark because he has the very first shard on next level. And also we use this to get sparked because you have for the very first chart in next level and also we use this to gets uh well lightsaber spoilers this is a six two it's got a really like crap up there yeah it's got a really eerie sounding song. It loops over and over, it is kind of boring. I would say Jun Ishikawa went hard on this one too. And then everyone's favorite power. There it is. This is the last DED section. Technically. Okay, look at all this involvement coming up. Here we go. There he goes in the background. Wait, there's a Yig coming up. Is there? No, DD doesn't throw a stick. He does not though. He just breaks the rock that was there to pad the game. Alright! Good job, DDD! He just breaks the rock that's just there to pad the game. Alright, good job DDD! Lightsaber movement is actually kind of weird. I don't like it. Yeah, I actually don't like it at all. For example you can't actually walk with lightsabers You're always moving at your running speed, you heard? And also like if you try to jump while holding it a lot of times It just kind of eats your inputs so for speedrunning It can be tricky to use and it takes a while to get used to classic n64 game eating inputs everywhere dance friends last invincibility candy. We need a lightsaber for that pillow right there, it just broke. Now it's also conveniently very good for next level. Another Jun Ishikawa banger coming up? But actually. Oh, speaking of bangers, $25 from Crimson who says So great to see this BANGER of a game from my childhood being run. Thanks to Caduceus for the nostalgia. Alright, Radjam? On The Rock with my favorite song in the game. Dino Dance? Give us some dino dances please. Give me your best dance your best dancing though how about that yeah this song actually goes hard the first and the third in the fifth room have it's charged then in this case so the second right we're going to do that there's nothing it's got a few room fast and thankfully turn on animation of lights and ratchet allows us to destroy them a little faster as well you have to go through the whole like swinging animation i've got a fun fact by the way uh let's do it after this next part just explain something so in this very next room we have uh we're gonna hit four four enemies with the lightsaber itself. Actually I think three and then give her the last one on the-on the last guy here if I recall. Just like this, bam! Then we get fire right here, get a needle, bam, gives us archery, got thing to the center get this shard give her that blam it spark goodbye right here and we got lights over there nice job thank you thank a lot of bands in there. All right, go ahead. That was cool. Okay, $25 on Cantheon. I'm sorry. You're welcome. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. That was cool. Okay, $25 on Cantheon. I'm sorry. Did you know that King Dedede is short for King Diners Striving to Die? What the fuck? I thought that was important. One more? Yeah, absolutely! Just a reminder actually by the way that we still have the character choice. That's why I was asking for your Sonic character preferences earlier because we had Silver, Sonic and Shadow. Silver has jumped in the lead by the way for the character choice. Shasta? you're welcome thank you thank you so you can keep getting donations into that there's also this spin ball choice persona project o6 between original sonic 06 sonic adventure 1 sonic adventure 2 which i would push for it um and sonic project o6 so those are some options let's go gambling all right lottery time sparker cutter Let's see what we get. Sparker Cutter! Oh, that's so good! I'm getting lucky with a couple of sparkers as well too. Are you sure about off the nip? Come on! It turns like into fire also. That's unfortunate. This is the one pattern of fire that we can't one cycle here Ideally for every single phase in Miracle Mire you want to be able to one cycle them, but now we can't because they went through just a random spot in the room and started going everywhere and for all these patterns here spark is the hardest one actually one cyclist you actually wanted down first if anything yeah And for all these patterns here, Spark is the hardest one to actually one cycle. So you actually want that on first if anything. Bomb is also up there as well. Even though bomb takes like 1 less hit than everything else. So far so good though. I got the fancy rock movement. Fire can also be really annoying Yeah, because you can't do anything but one of the patterns unfortunately Here we go, I believe. Nope. These spark pieces that come out can sort of spawn in horrible ways and some of them take really long to actually spawn in the piece that you can inhale so spark is a weird one here's again And here he is again. Oh, fourth second time was like perfect. Then we got a bomb last I think? Yep, which is also ideal too because if you want just like bump to be one of those where he can't get through it so once in time so you can't get lost because you have to worry about that oh i got the missile again just wait. I'll play it safe. Yeah... and bam! And bam! Any percent run complete. But we're not here for that. We're here for the real ending. What do you mean? I've never heard of it. Why is this 100%? What does this level have? I've never seen this place. I love discussions about Kirby bosses, though. Their designs are very interesting. about Kirby bosses though. Their designs are very interesting. This is one of the cooler ones too as well. Very spooky boss coming up. Very spooky. This is O2, the final boss of the game right here. Time to be a Sooner or Hell their health part defeats all the way but we got we have to go for the one cycle here in particular so you get 30 hits on the eye right here we got uh 12 fits on the halo and then they're to keep hitting the bomb with them as soon as it pops out. Just over and over again towards the end when its about to go back into his body we're going to go to the bottom of this screen And hopefully if everything goes correctly hit the banging on the very top of them in uh just one cycle instead two cycles then i'll just get hit the eyeball and the halo once again so let's hope for the best here now enjoy the jam Yeah, just jam. Alright you got this dude, you got this! Flip! Oh there we go! Let's go! Time is coming up on the final day And... Time! 107.22 dude, that's so good. Amazing half-year class. It's so good. Even when we lost Nid, we got a lot of really good luck along the way. That was nice. Cutter at the beginning of Miracle Matter was nice. Love to see that. super happy i was able to carry my nip uh so far especially because this is supposed to be like a showcase run for all you guys so i'm glad you got to see a lot of the time save that we got. But yeah, shout out to Kirby community and Dark Riolu for finding them a nip and figuring it all out. Shout out to my couch for doing such a great job with commentary. Shout out to my community for always supporting me and shout out to gdq crowd and everyone at home watching y'all should follow paris by the way you still go for a faster time in this game 105 4X, final goal. Anything else you guys want to add? We all good? Kirby rules! Watch us get the Vent Adventure Run on Saturday. Yeah, thank you all for watching. I appreciate it. Welcome everybody to Sonic Project 06. Who is the character that we are going to be playing today? Anybody know? Anyone? Yes, hello. Hello. I got you! Who is our story? Alright, alright... it's Sonic. Yeah! Let's go! Thank goodness. I mean, close race everybody. Yeah, yeah, good race everybody. It was within like $5. Amazing. Well you guys will not be disappointed by this This is an incredible run so before we get started there is another incentive that's going to be happening during the run at the end of almost every single stage I will ask The Amazing kung fu fruit cup which spin effect i should switch to for the next stage for you guys it is the choice and whichever one is leading as the one we'll switch to you get to either pick between the sonic adventure 2 spin ball you can pick between the default sonic project o6 pinball you can take the retail sonic 06 spin ball or the original one i believe as it is on the donation tracker. And then finally you get the Sonic Adventure 1 Spinball which is an orb! Which I know is pretty great around here. But let's pick a different one, okay? What is our first spin ball for the run? It's going to be Original Sonic 06. Alright, starting off strong. Yes sir. So let me switch the camera real quick here and also thank you to everybody for accepting or for meeting the easter egg donation incentive you're definitely going to want to see it because it's super awesome let's's do this, Sonic Project 06 in three, two, one! Let's go! So if you have never seen a Sonic project in Oro 6 before, this is a fan-made remake made from the ground up in the Unity engine by lead developer ChaosX and a whole bunch of other awesome people in the Sonic fan community that basically seeks to transform the original Sonic 06 into the Sonic Adventure 3 it was always trying to be. Starting off in Wave Ocean with our titular hedgehog here, we got a bunch of familiar moves, Sonic can jump he could do the homing attack He's got the bound attack from Sonic Adventure 2 He's got the light dash and he's got the 06 moves, the spin kick and the gems The Gems are eight colorful hunks of rock that when equipped to Sonic's shoes one at a time, are going to allow him to activate a different ability. Throughout section 1 here we've been seeing the blue gem used which gives Sonic short bursts of speed kind like the dash panel. And with the rainbow gem and unused thing from original game added back in here we can transform into Super Sonic! So throughout the run here were going to be using super sonic a couple times, but an interesting thing about this is that he's not the end-all be-all to go in Project 06. Since we are using the Rainbow Gem and not the Chaos Emeralds to transform into him, we cannot switch to the other gems freely unlike while we can when we're normal Sonic. The more extreme augmentations that each of the gems give the Sonics abilities are much more useful for the stages, or for the parts of the stages where the gems are usable. However that doesn't mean that Super Sonic isn't useful in the speedrun at all because Project 06 has a couple gimmicks including including this one. Mach speed sections which I'm going to throw it over to my five Michelin star commentator Gordon Ramsay to explain what's cooking up here. Thank you very much, Domo. Now Sonic 06 is a game of gimmicks. Scattered throughout Sonic's 10 stages, 4 of them will be ending in a Mach Speed section where you lose access to some of your standard abilities You can't homing attack, you can't spin dash You can freely swap the gems but you constantly move very, very fast Now one caveat If you were supersonic before you entered this section you get to keep that transformation for 1 attempt. And while you're super, you are completely immune to damage and move a lot faster than normal so I mean obviously in the speedrun we've got to start ratting around collecting 50 rings and transforming just before we hit the end. Now that increased speed from Super is going to be used here to do a pretty good skip... Nice! Goal! That's loop skip, and you don't actually have to hit the goal ring in marked speeds Just as a little safety net You can like run past it a little bit you know does take some pity on you we will not be seeing our next spin effect just yet because as sonic is the main character he's got a bunch of different gameplay styles in this game. This next one being Sonic and the Princess. Let's go! There we go. There's the hype. Okay, so Sonic 06 also has a lot of resource management which is not a thing you usually see in Sonic games In the bottom right hand corner of the screen You'll see the action gauge Most characters in this game have it but these specifics vary between them It's kind of like this game have it, but the specifics vary between them. It's kind of like this games magic system or special move bar. For Princess Elise, it will refill whenever you're on the ground and not using the fire shield Or if you kill enemies and collect their energy cores. And when it's active, you will be guarded from damage, you can inflict damage on contact, and you can cross sand without sinking into it, and water without drowning. As regular Sonic, it's pretty similar in how it recharges the main difference is just he expends on his gems. Some will consume a flat chunk every time they're activated others will slowly drain while they are up so just knowing what each of your gems do or not it's pretty important throughout the run this man he nails that explanation every single time all right kung fu what is our next spin effect going to be? We're still holding strong with original Sonic 06. Let's go! So far! All right, and now we got time for one donation for Crisis City's opening cutscene. All right, we have $15 from Marcy Van Dine who says good luck to Stelmo! White Acropolis is first. Perfect. So in White Acropolis we're going to be seeing the fourth of our four gameplay styles with sonic the hedgehog him riding on top a snowboard now the opening section wideacropolis is a homage to ice Cap from Sonic Adventure 1 where we're going to be able to jump off the ramps and the Project 06 dev team decided to add a kick dash which is kind of like a little burst of speed that we can use to maintain our top speed throughout this section and we're going to need it because what Acropolis is terrain is a little bumpy. Yeah, what Acropolis is just a weird stage in general most levels are no six or meant to accommodate any character's gameplay style but Wet Acropolis really only works for the snowboard and in general you can kind of see the camera clipping through it sometimes you'll get launched into the air there were a ton of holes in the collision and kill planesanes that the devs have had to patch. And while looking through the original game, we found a document with a bunch of developer comments on all the stages, and for Whatacropolis they said, hey, we haven't been able to work on the object layout, we're waiting on something like outsourced work. So, it seems that they just sent the White Acropolis terrain out to someone else. We don't know who but it kind of explains some of the jank you may see in just a second. Heading on into section two, we're going to be seeing our main method of movement with Sonic while he's got the gems and that's Blue Gem Spin Kicking The spin kick can maintain our boosted speed from the blue gem And since we are not using the Blue Gem we can refill our action gauge infinitely. What I did right there was use the Skygem and totally get that trick on the first try while the Blue Gem works like an On Demand dash panel, the SkyGem works like an On-demand dash panel. The Sky Gem works like an on demand spring which we can use against vertical surfaces to allow us to get a huge vertical boost upward and speaking of verticality, it's miles tails per hour! Time to talk about the worst, best character in the game Now going back to the action gauge like I said most characters have it. Tails uses it to fly while you hold down the A button you will rapidly deplete and slowly ascend otherwise you will slowly descend and slowly drain the gauge. There's a bit more to talk about but we're back to Sonic so we'll discuss tails later. Switching back over to Sonic we're going to be seeing a pretty cool trick here. We're going to be going straight to the goal ring and using the slope of this rock and the blue gem to get a huge blue gem slope launch upward. Not the last time we're going to be seeing that on the run. You know, I've been really appreciating you guys and all the clapping and it makes me feel really good up here. Now we got time for our next spin effect in one donation for Crisis City. Okay, I'm glad that last one was fast. Okay, it is still original Sonic 06. It's getting closer though. $100 from Cosmic Angel 233. This was right at the beginning of the run because they say I've come to make an announcement Shadow the Hedgehog will not win the bid war. But he's right there! There he is, there he is! There he is! Put this towards Sonic Story from Project O6. Thank you, Kazuk. I appreciate that, man. Starting off in Crisis City's opening section, while White Acropolis was a homage to Ice Cap from Sonic Adventure 1, Crisis City is an homage to California In the Shout out to LA So uh Thanks, Will. So in this snowboard section, this is our second and final one. And fun fact we actually got double the top speed here than we did in White Acropolis just because of sections a little bit more stretched out. But Project 06 has been pretty swag up until this point, but let's get some swag even further. Let's get the 360! Oh! But the swag doesn't end right there as we're going to jump off this platform, turn around 180 degrees and ride down the rest of Crisis City slopes backwards. Project 06 is full of stuff like this and I hope you're enjoying it so far. As we head into section two, We got one more mechanic at the gym to talk about leveling them up. Hiya! You thought the action gauge was done? No that thing is loaded. If you turn your attention to the bottom right hand corner of the screen you'll see three little tick marks, one of which is red. That is the level of your currently equipped gem. All gems start at Level 1 and can be levelled up to Level 3 by collecting energy cores from defeated enemies. Takes about three kills to get a level. When you level up a gem, it does basically whatever it already does but a little bit better. Like the blue gem consumes less meter with each activation. Nice! That is a kind of tight skip. The purple gem will grant you one additional midair jump per level which we will see put to use in just a second for pretty sick corner content. So what we're going to be doing right after this automation is I'm gonna be out running the energy cores with the blue gem and swift Switching to the purple gym in midair it's gonna level it up to level two and allow us to do two extra jumps going over this huge pit and Hitting the rails Easy peasy now as we head into section three, the hardest and hypest section of this game you guys have been great at giving some hype so far but I need to hear as much hype as possible until we go supersonic. So here we go! Keep going! Keep going! Not there yet. Not there yet. Keep it yet! Keep it up! Keep it up! Keep it up! Let's go! Thank you guys, You're all wonderful. Thank you, thank you guys you're all wonderful thank you thank you no you know you headed into our mock speed section here we're supersonic once again all right it's time to commentate over a straight line. That's about all I have to say now. There really isn't much going on in this section and we're invincible so unless we bonk on something and fly into the tornado, we're good. So let's talk about customization. Sonic Project 06 gives you a lot of customization options in the game's menu. Most of these are aesthetic, like you can change the music, you can change or remove... I mean change Sonic's shoes. But there is one that affects gameplay. You can customize the jump dash or humming attack if you touch grass. Your options are straight which does exactly what it sounds like. Curved, which... you know. And Legacy, which works how it did in Shadow of the Hedgehog and Sonic Heroes where it goes in the direction you're going. So if your traveling up and you homing attack, you keep going up. If you're travelling forward well, you go forward. And if you're going down you get down real fast. That is very useful when combined with the bound attack which in Project 06, when you activate that move or in the air it will refresh your jump dash up to one time. So if you...you can just like flick your thumb between X and A To quickly hit the ground keep all of your speed We call that a drop dash And its going to be used a ton here Kung Fu what is our next spin effect? You know Sonic Adventure 2 has jumped into the lead! Let's go! Okay so starting off in Flame Core here I was meaning to use the Blue Gem but I had to switch bit effects. Oh goodness! This is called improvisation everybody. The backups? THE BACKUPS! Let's go! Alright, so I learned this earlier today from Mr. Kuriru, who's another runner of Project 06 occasionally. We're going to use the slope of this wall to do a huge blue gem over this cliff here and get to this first combat plateau where we're going to make short work of these enemies because Sonic is the combat-centric character in Project 06. We're gonna use the bound attack, which is gonna allow us to get over these doors just a little bit quicker and into my favorite parts of my favorite stage in the run we're going to see the lava river blue gem is really cool unfortunately don't have it quite at level three but at level three it works kind of like a boost with during its duration it can barrel through enemies and objects into this second combat thing, we already have our purple gem at level 3 but if I didn't I would use the energy cores here in order to level it up because you only level up the currently equipped gem to Sonic's feet. Then what we're going to do is miss a jump there, but that's alright as we use the spin dash here full of improvisation this run is as we zoom into section two of Flame Core here. As we start in section two of flame core here as we start in section 2 we're going to be seeing the purple gem once again it's gonna give us two extra jumps to get up here this top route and grab the speed shoes the speed shoes are really cool on project 06 in that it not only increases our ground Speed cap but our air speed cap as well Combine that with a level 3 Purple gem and doing a triple jump in the Air, and you can do some pretty crazy stuff That's not the last time we're going to be seeing that in the run. Then what we're going to be doing is actually seeing another attribute of the purple gem at level three, you can go invisible with it. Pretty cool. Pretty cool! Pretty good! Okay, now we're on to Knuckles who is undoubtedly the combat-focused character in Project 06 except no substitutes but we don't actually get to see much of that right here. Instead, we're going to do a little bit of pseudo-treasure hunting. We've got five orbs to track down and light up. These are not randomized so it's pretty easy to go through but they aren't technically on the timer. Got to do it within one minute and looks like he did Yeah, thankfully I've played this game once or twice before but what we're doing is switching back to Sonic now seeing another blue gem Okay Project 06 you win this time as we use the Badnik bounce and then three purple gem jumps, corner cuts some platforming, run through these tube of fire guys and hitting the goal ring completing Flame Core in a time. What's that next spin effect for us, Kung Fu? We're still at Sonic Adventure 2 but 1 is creeping up! Keep it far away! Who put that on the, as an option? I don't know. Might have been me. I'm sorry. Gordon, I trusted you. That was your first mistake. Zooming into Radical Train, I am going to attempt to bring you guys into my brain and explain everything that's going on as it's happening we're starting off with some blue jump spin kicks hopping onto this rail we're gonna homing dash into the tracks use a skydome to go over it and use our two jump dashes to fall in the pit pretend that didn't happen. Starting at beginning of Radical Train we are going to be Blue Gems spin kicking onto this rail using the Sky Gem against these train tracks to fly over them and then use our two jump dashes to fall in the pit again! Oh my goodness. What we're going to do this time is, we are just going to take the springs instead I'm sorry, I did my best. I learned that very recently and unfortunately sometimes things just can't happen. But continuing on in Radical Train, we are going to be leveling up the Purple Gem to level 2 with those three enemies and then we're gonna be using our two jumps in order to get over to this crane. We're gonna use the blue gem to hop off of this crane and then hop off this conveyor belt, switch to the purple gem at level two, gets us two jumps there, defeat these enemies, hit this switch to open the door. Use the Sky Gem to vault over these train tracks and thankfully can make it this time as we land on top of the rail and then we're gonna switch back to the Blue Gem Spin Kick over to these Speed Shoes We're going to be seeing the Speed Shoe and Purple Gem once again. Grab that Item Capsule to get over 50 rings. I think you know where this is going. As your Blue Gem, or Rail Speed Shoe, Purple Gem jump kind of mess around a little bit and transform into Super Sonic in order to hit this lever and head on into the next mock speed section. Radical Train is such a sick stage. I think it's a great showcase of what PL6 has to offer as a speedrun. Like, Sonic games are no strangers to these massive, massive skips that just break the stages in half and PL6 does still give you that freedom but usually in Sonic speedruns that involves clipping out of bounds or some other huge exploits. In PO6 it's just very smart application of your moveset and the terrain like most of what Snowmo did there is, you know, unintentional. You're not meant to be sky jumping over the train tracks and jumping on top of cranes to skip platforming, but you can! And look at that! And we're gonna see... We're going to see another aspect of that into the next stage, Tropical Jungle. Another princess stage and one of the first ones made The developers still had hope and good gosh did they put like 50 ways to play through that stage so what we're going to be doing is just weaving in between top middle bottom rounds constantly but not really for section one it's a good time for donations all right let's's go! Okay, we have $25 from Kiona who says, very happy to see Stelma on stage on GDSGDQ. I can say words. Very happy to see you here my guy. Hope you guys will enjoy the run as much as everyone else. It's going great so far. Do you have one more? Yeah. Oh sweet. Okay. $50 from Anonymous who says I just love fan projects like Sonic project of six this is just the coolest 20 dollars from amaya sings what's up amaya he says long time watcher first time in person and i am loving this sonic run so much i agree i am too it's amazing 15 from maddie who says i love sonic game just something why use lot word when if you were Sonic game. Just Sonic game. Why use lot word when few words do trick? Few words good! Automation better, just gonna have a nice little cinematic moment as we drop Elise into the water. Nope, not quite. Not physically, so maybe next time. Just to keep you on edge? Yeah, just to keep you on edge. Oh wait! SA-1 just pulled ahead. Oh! At $6, $6 off. If it's still ahead by the time pulled ahead. Oh! Six dollars, six dollars off. If it's still ahead by the time we finish Tropical Jungle I guess we will have to see the orb! Orb? I can see the orb at long last. Okay section two this is what I was talking about. Now this is like a 20 second long section There are seven or eight alternate routes Just very fun challenge Download this game It's completely free on KSX's YouTube channel. Load into Sonic's Tropical Jungle. See how many different ways you can get to the end of this section. Like, what Stelmo's doing may look a little random, but he's jumping onto the end of a top route to hit a spring get on a grind rail and go straight into the goal ring. Yeah that's what I was doing! Very intentional! Is our Spin Effect SA-1 for Kingdom Valley? It sure is. The orbs win! It's bound to happen. By $6, I'm telling you. Incredible stuff! Well we're going to see this really cool custom cutscene at the beginning of Kingdom Valley between Sonic and Silver And of course you guys will get to see your Sonic Adventure Ball Now at the beginning of the section This was kind of the poster child for Sonic 06 and Project 06 by extension. If you thought Tropical Jungle or Radical Train had a ton of multiple routes you ain't seen nothing yet. There's basically like an entire game within a game here and we're going to be skipping a lot of it. Because, a lot of folks don't know when I show them this for the first time is that there's actually a hidden cave route at very top of this wall here. We are gonna using that and using the blue gem to get a slope launch off the exit to get all the way over this platform i'm gonna attack this guy and who needs eagles when we can just homie attack into the trigger ourselves usa usa you know what switching over to silver the USA! USA! Oh, he's gone. Switching over to Silver the Hedgehog for a cameo, Gordon, would you like to explain what he's got going on? No, I'm good. But I'm paying you for this. In what channel Channel points! Oh, okay let's not get too drastic here. Okay, you didn't know Nate before Silver so I'll keep this nice and brief. Silver is like the most complex character, uses the action gauge more than anyone else he can even use it to fly as his S rank rewinds like the most complex character, uses the action gauge more than anyone else. He can even use it to fly as his S rank reward which Stoma has active right now. It cuts action gauge consumption by 35% while in a powered up state and you know can just use that to skip past everything you'll never see silver again. Switching back over to Sonic, we're gonna use that blue gem to land on here. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! U! USA! I just love America, man. Happy 4th of July week everybody Alright so we are equipping the Rainbow Gem at the beginning of section three here because guess what? We've got our final Mach Speed section on the run coming up but first we gotta level up that rainbow gem in order to gain some new abilities for Super Sonic to perform the most iconic trick in the run, Castle Skip. Really just a gauntlet of round improvisation here. Yeah get the claps ready So normally this is like a 20 second long automated sequence which is very cool and cinematic but we're trying to go fast. So we're just going to homing attack around the enemies jump off the ropes and destroy this ancient architecture use the blue gem to get some extra distance swap to rainbow gym at level two it grants you increased jump height then at level three grant you the air of light to do castle skip using that level 3 ability the arrow of light which for the entire action gauge or the cost of the entire action gauge shoots supersonic forward at a burst of speed. Very nice stuff. We're going to be seeing it once again here to avoid some more rail automation I suppose. We also got an increased jump height from level 2 that Gordon mentioned and we're going to defeat these enemies and our boy Silver's coming back! He's gonna say hi. Now he's trying to defend us against these enemies here. I don't know if Super Sonic needs the help, but it's the thought that counts. Thanks for switching sides buddy! Zooming on into the Mach Speed section our final one I'm going to throw it over to Kung Fu Fruit Cup as we stare in awe at how beautiful this section looks. It is beautiful. Okay, I have a question for you. $25 from Looklash810 who says Does Sonic snore like Honk- or hunk me me this is also important what do you think i have no idea i've never seen him sleep before i feel like a a, I don't know, a honk shoe maybe? Tails is more of a honk me-me-me He's like a shark sleeping We also have $10 from Support Bot who says Fun fact! Sonic 06 is the first and only game to show dr eggman's eyes they're a beautiful icy blue color keeping the tradition to donate during sonic block good luck to the runners and greetings from Spain! Less than three. Hello from America. Finishing off Kingdom Valley here. Also a fun fact, I'm not even playing the game on match settings right now. I know that Beats on the Project O6 development team worked a lot with Chaos to up-res these 17 year old textures to the modern day and they look fantastic, even better on max settings. Kung Fu, what is our next spin effect? It's still Sonic Adventure 1! Oh my goodness! Who let my chat in here?! Alright, switching over to Aquatic Face while we've seen a lot of stages with multiple pathways, this is more of a finale stage so it's more of a linear gauntlet with you could say challenge. We're going to be seeing a lot of blue gem spin kicking, lots of purple gemming and we also get to see the gimmick of Aquatic Base. The magnetic poles. As we enter this next room, we're going to activate one and when we activate it, its gonna immediately defeat every enemy in a radius even lagging the game with just how powerful it is. I don't know why Eggman decided to congregate all of his mechs near these things and instantly defeat him I'm not the guy with 300 IQ though. We are going to be seeing this little preview of what's coming up. Normally we're supposed to hop on this giant magnetic orb and get over this bottomless pit, but we've got the gems so I'm gonna be using that blue gem along with this purple gem in order land on these really tiny footholds right here and make our way over to miles once again oh hey remember this guy time to talk about him i guess a little bit more so if we harken back to white acropolis i mentioned that you fly upwards by holding the A button and you slowly descend by releasing it. Now optimal flight for Tails actually involves kind of butterfly tapping or matching the button a little bit. There are different rhythms you can do if you want to gain more height, or gain more distance just a nice mix of both but honestly it's a lot less complicated than it sounds It's just like tap, tap, tap, tap. Anyways, you can also tail swipe off of enemies or objects nearby to pop them into the air a bit and pause the action gauge decay. And that is very helpful because if that kills an enemy and you collect the energy core, it can fly for a little bit longer. Tails' movement is simple but very satisfying, and it's just a shame we don't have a whole stage room. Yeah, who knows? Maybe Chaos will patch the game and we'll be seeing another bit of Tails at the end of the run here. But for now, we're switching back to Sonic entering section two where we're gonna do a little bit of bowling at the end of this hallway a couple blue gems spin kicks and then we're going to spin dash here and stirKE against these enemies to open the door. Instead of taking the automation, we are gonna Slope Launch off it instead And then we are just going to defeat these enemies head on through the rest of Section 2 and yeah its, it's going to be some pretty cool stuff. Blue Gem spin kick through this hallway here, and we're going to Blue Gem Bound Attack against these Magnetic Pulse defeat these guys, level up another gem we'll be seeing later, and switch over to Knuckles. There he is! Okay it's finally time to talk about the combat focused character of the game. Knuckles has this really cool like three hit combo attack that he can do He's got a nice homing attack in the form of the screwdriver, ground pound to stun all enemies around him or activate switches like Thank you! That was a good joke. What game were you watching? He just glides. Where'd he go? Well, we're never seeing Knuckles again. Well actually we might be with Easter eggs but regardless instead of taking the magnetic orb once again I'm going to land on this really tiny platform got it I get those five dollars we've met before the run and we are going to be zooming into the final combat section here using the green gem which initiates a giant whirlwind tornado it's going to defeat these enemies, and then we are going to use the blue gem spin kickin' once again And now I'm gonna show off the three gems we didn't see The first one is the red gem which slows everything down including Sonic so unfortunately it's not too useful for the run. The white gem upgrades our homing attack to the Homing Smash does more damage against enemies and the yellow gem initiates the Thunder Guard. While we can't double jump with this Thundershield though we might be able to later in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. That one uses the action gauge in order to... Thank you! Thank you! That one uses the action gauge in order take damage for us instead of taking our rings, and it also attracts rings which is really nice for getting S ranks but you need all of the S ranks in order to get the rainbow gem at all so pretty cool stuff. Hopping into our final stage here of the run, Tails' Wave Ocean. Hey look at that he did patch the game! Kung Fu what is going to be our last spin effect for the main part of the run? You're not gonna like it. Sonic Adventure 1 still. Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness, well that's totally fine I guess as we go ahead and go through this more epilogue stage since there is not a whole lot going on if you're here to do my shout outs right now. Firstly, I want to shout out the Games Done Quick games committee for accepting Project 06. I hope you guys in the crowd and everyone at home have enjoyed this run so far because we... Thank you! We got those Easter eggs coming, so definitely don't tune out just yet and we've got some awesome Sonic runs afterward but thank you guys so much I've been watching GDQ since 2013 and it's just incredible to actually be here on the stage uh supporting such a fantastic cause and thank all of you guys for donating for sonic's run as well as it's definitely the coolest one in the game, at least at this point. Secondly, I would like to shout out the Project 06 dev team, lead developer ChaosX of Beats, gotta play fast JeraCycloGaming and SonicFox for over the last seven years developing just an absolutely incredible sonic fan game thirdly i'd like to shout out the po6 speedrunning community mr gordon ramsay for his amazing commentary behind me the people back on the bonus couch and in the Discord as well for just being so fun and inviting to newcomers, and then giving trouble to people who should be getting better times on the leaderboards than they do. And then finally, I want to give a huge shout out to Sega themselves for allowing these passionate and talented fans to create these free fan projects with our favorite characters. Now normally what would happen is we are going to just end Tales Wave O oceans and that would be the end of the run but you guys donated for that awesome easter egg incentive and man do we have some easter eggs for you let me tell you what that, 2630 real time? That's pretty good. Yeah, 2630. That was pretty good. Pretty good. Just a few silly things in Radical Train that we won't talk about but it's fine. No, you got that first try. Oh yeah, you're right! Kung Fu with that spin effect is still going we could take a new one for the Easter eggs It's the same I'm not here to help you out apparently I wish I could. All right, so for the Easter eggs in the test stage that's available to play, if you're a fan of Dragon Ball Z, you might recognize some of this music. Sonic's Easter eggs, he's got a couple of them. So the first one we're going to see is there's a hidden portal if we come all the way over here and then blue gem ourselves up to the top and enter this portal. We're going to be seeing Knuckles again! And Knuckles is going to be doing some treasure hunting. So normally in a different Project 06 story we would be collecting these keys and the stages but Knuckles gets to kinda just go around and look for these and um... There's a bunch! There's and there's a bunch. There it is! Where is this key? Is it down here, you think? Of course it is. What? You don't know where it is? This is the best part of the game! I mean, yeah this is all I run actually. It's a... You do uh what is it the SAT runners do Knuckles Centurions? Yeah the centurion from the test stage. The Project 06 stress state centurions. Yeah, the centurion from the test stage. The Project 06 Centurion. For those who don't know, they pick a treasure hunting stage and run it like 100 times. Is that 20 sets of 5? The SA2 community is going to kill me for not knowing this. Alright, I think the last key is going to be up here at the very top of this pillar here. A cool thing to talk about with Knuckles that we don't really see is that climbing upward is actually not the fastest way to do it. The fastest way to do it is just constantly grab the wall and then just jump it. So you guys get to really see that orb as we go up this really tall place. Unfortunately, the key wasn't up there though so we're just gonna glide. We'll just get to see more knuckles So we're just gonna glide. Just glide? Right here. We'll just get to see more Knuckles. Yeah, just more Knuckles, maybe time for a donation? Maybe. Yeah absolutely! I have plenty of donations. $50 from SubNats who says, first time catching a GDQ run live. Great to see Project 06 getting on there. Shoutouts to the P06 speedrun community. Now we are in section 2 of the test stage and we're going to be heading to our second easter egg so if we go up here to this pillar there is a hidden uh stage mirror so in the original game it had hub worlds and you would enter the stages via these mirrors, but this one leads us to something a little bit different. At the TGS, that's the Tokyo Game Show 2006 demo, You actually got to play three different variations of Kingdom Valley. Of course because Sonic 1 we were going to play Sonic's rendition which isn't too different from what we saw before. It is just section one of Kingdom Valley with a little bit of a lighting difference and a couple other things change as well. Enemies are in a different spot so I'll be doing a little bit of a different route but it's not going to be anything too drastically different from what we saw in Sonic Story here, but I guess we kind of get to talk about the new thing now. A little bit? Yeah, so because ChaosX is so incredibly awesome and generous, he has given me the opportunity to showcase a little bit of the next release of Project 06, so if you've never seen Project 06 currently it is in the silver release It's in the silver release, which means we have all Sonic Shadows and Silver stages available to us, and the next release that'll be coming out at some point will contain all of the bosses and the final full-length stage that we have not gotten to play yet in Project 06, The End of the World. So I am going to go ahead real quickly. I just want to show the credits here before we switch instances. Going to show the credits here before we switch instances. Gonna show the credits here just thanks to everybody, hey look Gordon that's you! You're at the top right! That's you! Finally some recognition. Good that they got the chef on it. Yeah, legally distinct, frankly. Alright I'm going to be... Oh hello desktop! Hello We're going to be hiding this because we don't want anybody to know where the secrets are. But I'm going to showcase it to everyone on stream and that's fine. It's okay. I am going to be loading a small demo of Project 06's End of the World, which is pretty sick. We're going to be going through three different sections and I hope you guys are excited for it. So for the first time ever, Project 06's End of the World in 3, 2, 1... Let's go! So starting off we are going to be beginning in Omega's section. The end of world is a giant gauntlet stage that normally has seven different places that you can go to but we're just going to be seeing three of them doing a small little tour omega controls a lot like the mechs for sonic adventure 2 and how he did in sonic heroes got a lot of the mechs from Sonic Adventure 2 and how he did in Sonic Heroes. He's got a lot of long-range options, very easy to defeat enemies that are long range with all the different things we can do, and he's also got his melee attack for turning from Sonic Heroes. The end of the world has a little gimmick that we just saw right there So, they're these two kinds of eyes, two flavors if you will There's purple which will suck you in and if you make contact with it, it's just instant death. They have been changed a little bit from the original game, I believe, so I don't think they're quite as oppressive. The other flavor, the one that killed Stomo is the orange ones. You can see them in the distance there. They will fire off random objects, usually just what are their metal crates? And usually not too much of a threat but apparently that one can just send you to your grave Normally these eagle statues they subdue the eyes of Solaris for a very small amount of time but it looks like one got a little pot shot off before the eagle statue subdued it. The first section here with Omega is actually a little interesting because this platform, you can complete this section in 40 seconds. If you get to this platform before 40 seconds, that's the fastest you can do it because of cycle base. We're grabbing our first Chaos Emerald. We are now switching over to amy rose who has gotten the biggest blow up project06 has to offer she is night and day compared to her original game's appearance she's got the double jump working much more like a double jump she She has the hammer jump from Sonic Adventure 1, sending her a little bit more horizontally than vertically to accommodate for that double jump. She also has other moves like the spin-hammer attack she can use on the move and allow her to defeat tougher enemies a little bit easier. And then, yeah, that's pretty much all we're going to be doing. She's also got the badnik bounce like most of the other characters have. Sorry, Omega. And getting a little pot shot there. Thankfully we had rings. Oh! We also didn't talk about that the Iso Solaris, the purple ones they insta-kill. So regardless if you have rings or not... Whoa! She's missing that. Missing that box right there, but hey! There he is! So Shadow the Hedgehog is really awesome in Project 06. He controls very similarly to Sonic without the use of his gems, but here we're just going to be seeing some basic movement. He's got the Chaos Attack which is a little different than the standard homing attack. You're seeing me use the Tornado Kick here which is absolutely busted in Project 06. Another thing that's really cool here is in the next release of Project 06 Shadow will be able to activate his Chaos Boost on the move just like I showed right there it's going to add a little bit more...it's just gonna help out a little bit more uh it's just going to help out a little bit more making this section flow a little bit better but as we hit this chaos Emerald that's gonna be time for my final shout outs I want to shout out my mom, dad and brother for being a huge support here in getting Project 06-2 GDQ as well as my amazing girlfriend Haley and my dog Bonzo for always helping out back at home. I also want to thank Midnight Vesper for putting me, or pointing me in the right direction for creating a submission video for the games committee. And I'm glad that they really enjoyed it because it was super awesome to run Project 06 here. That being said, thank you all so much for watching. If you would like to see more of me, I've got my Twitch channel, Stunlin98, you've seen all. And I just released three brand new videos. The first one on my main channel, Stunlin98 that I did with a couple extra YouTubers is a collage of all my character bios where I explain all the abilities in Project 06 and if you did donate for Shadow or Silver, don't worry because Gordon and I before the event recorded two separate runs that you can go view if you want to see what those look like. But do it in a new tab because we've got an incredible run from ARCHIC with Sonic Roboblast 2 coming up next. Thank you so much, and that was Sonic Project 06! We made it over, we're here in this SGDQ in person. Let's go! I have ran many times, it's been a lot of fun but now we are here, we are ready, we are going to motor mouth this in one of my favourite fan games of all time so without further ado, I'm going to introduce or let them introduce themselves on the couch and then we are never gonna hear from them again starting on their left there hello there folks my name is tiny tim 78. it is okay my name is Bobby, I play a whole bunch of games with blue clad protagonists and that's why I'm the perfect pick to be on this couch. Woo! My name is Jinja, fairly new speedrunner. I speed run Sonic 4 Episode 1. My condolences. Waiting for the verifiers on my time. Right, without further ado let's get into this show on the road! It is Sonic Roboblast 2 in three two one let's go so we start going speedy straight from the beginning we've got son of robo blasto here we are doing sonic all emerald so we're gonna have this lovely blue guy going through we do know on the vid world that the sprites have one so we can explain these lovely wonderful sprites here there are models available so you can download this game for free and check out them all those yourselves we're using the air dash known as the thought so we're going to be talking our way through this stage here making sure we grab these tokens as these tokens are going to bring us into the special stages special stages are going to allow us to get into the emeralds and the emeralds are going to give us to get into the emeralds, and the emeralds are gonna give us the supersonic. I'm just trying to do a number of jumps just to get through this because we have those slow jumps in this game, and of course you have the first level nerves as you always did, but that's fine because they'll disappear once we get further into the run but yeah we have everything sonic needs to know here he is moving in through a three-dimensional space here but i'm playing in strength mode and straight what allows me to keep the camera behind him because it's just easier for me to control it i'm afraid of a planet like a twin stick sure but now we're going to go into one of the best bonus stages made in the world it is night bonus stages nice and dreams on these saturn here it is representative of that. I hear the cheers from the background there. I love you Knights fans as we are going to go and do the power loop that will draw in the Blues here. So, we're only at 4A but we already have 59 so we're just going to double bounce on ourselves to go get the emerald in that big cave here and a little capsule and then run our way back down towards the end of this stage we're gonna do this seven times to get all seven chaos emeralds gonna happen done by the first four levels. We're then gonna be using supersonic to newm through the rest of the stages but because we've got two tokens, we get two special stages so you get a preview of some of the levels before we get there as we head off into the toxic plateau here and we're gonna have a little bit of fun. So we're going to use our boost on the star here We are going to be grabbing 60 spheres now because 60 spheres are required We're then going to be running our way through trying to grab as many of them as we can I've got four, we come all the way through here which we just grab this bunch. Nine, and we get the Gloop. We don't need to worry about the Gloop on this one because Supersonic is pretty much immune to it in this stage so we don't worry about it too much but we will be running our way through. You see the links in the bottom there that is for if you're going for score and then beside the links on the left there that is part of your going for score and then beside the links on the left there you can see that we have a gauge that is our boost gauge our boost cage is very important because we use that to do the spins and go fast we're currently at 57 that's fine so just go 58 59 60. and it gives us a way to get through there straight away We're now going to make sure we hit the booster on this side here hopefully we'll get through the orange segments with our donkey mum which is lovely And then down onto the boosters heading towards straight to the end of the stage as we spin her way through That will be two emeralds done in only the first round towards straight to the end of the stage here we're going to spin our way through and that'll be two emeralds done in only the first stage i'm gonna do it this game when we go into green flower act 2. nice very cool sorry jump in here we will have to continue hopefully we don't need it on Nice! Very clean. So we're gonna jump in here, We will have the continues Hopefully we don't need it Orcs forgot to put live event back up on here so hopefully we don't crash but the game's pretty good so it shouldn't happen But we're going to go up and grab ourselves the most powerful shield in the game, The Whirlwind Shield. This gives Sonic a little pseudo-double jump here We'll use that with the momentum coming from the thog just to keep the speed going. So we run our way through, navigate our way straight on this stage line on that spring. Didn't get my token there, so we'll just double back on it, but that's okay, so we just grab that and then we're going to run our way through the rest. Don't want to hit any of the enemies or anything because we have no reason for them. And we'll use the werewolf chief just to stop the momentum on the spring. I'll be saying momentum a lot because this game just has movement and it's very very good when you get it going because you just go fast so we're gonna roll down the side here we're gonna jump over we're gonna use the double jump just ahead off the side of them all get the angle to keep the speed going right through, almost landing on the platform there but not quite and that's fine. We'll grab our final token on this stage on the underside of the bridge here because they've hidden them away from us but we know where they are. A little bit of a float jump up there with the lightnings over the whirlwind shield. Almost like lightning shift, but you'll see that in the next run with Sonic 3. As we run towards the end of this stage, 54.8 seconds. We're going to get two more special stages We're going to go into the deep sea and do big old power loops Once they are hit by a moth and then we'll go to the castle Eggman But while were doing that Foo please feel free to take it away Absolutely so much love is coming in right, not only for the Sonic Block but also for you and the couch right now. $50 from Tomltax who says, Sonic Block hype? Hype! Thank you. Go Argyt, go Sound Defense, go Shellwell, go MSF! We've also got... Oh my gosh there's so many here and where do I start? Um we're gonna do $50 from Carpenado who says good luck Argic with the SRVv2 run we're all cheering for you in the community discord make sure to use uh in game time this event one more yeah oh you got like two minutes. Go for it! Great! Perfect! $50 from Tojin who says Due to a combination of supply chain issues and clerical error It's SGDQ week! Good luck on the run Ar Argic. We are doing an observe. See that's just what it's creepy done. It's okay, it's love. Oh, I know torture, there is love. $50 from Fluffy Squirrel who says, good luck with the run ARK! We have $40 from Garden Hermit who says so hyped for Argec running SRB2 great running, great commentary, great charity, great event. Less than three. We have $25 from PropNES who says Wayhoo! Make Sonic go fast and don't die. Grats on getting onto the big stage, ARG. Best of luck. And okay, I won't say happy birthday streamer because it's not ARGic's birthday, I swear. No, unfortunately not. It's fast. Oh, okay. Happy belated. $5 from QRU who says this game is so much fun and it's great to see it at SGDQ being run by the Mad Lad ARG. Gotta go fast, so I hope you all are having a blast! Absolutely. Alright we're coming to the end of this bonus stage here It's gonna be our fourth Chaos Emerald Shadow, we'll be very happy because we found it. We're going to be going into our first boss stage of the game because the level progression follows Sonic 1 so two levels then into a boss stage and we are going to hopefully do this boss stage very quickly. But this game is built in the Doom Legacy engine which means we get an extra feature in this one that's really, really fun so we're just gonna go down and we're just gonna hit the boss and then go into Doom mode! Dun dun dun! We have our first person mood, we've got our crosshair. I'm just going to use that to line ourselves up here so we can get on the boss when he moves Allows us to get in there and as he goes into his desperation phase He starts smoking He'll now fire triple laser beams which is what you're gonna see now Because they are coming after me because I missed the jump there but that's fine she was gonna run her way through and then we're gonna hit the button just tell them down as we go on to our giant egg here this just looks like an egg and away we go the boss is done we're gonna head off into level two good on a technical hell this is where we are going to have some cycles we're going to be based on the steam cycle same cycle's going to allow us to get up through the level really fast and see if we can get there real quickly i'm going to get up the first cycle you're missing the very early one but that's okay. Slope jump is going to run our way through and grab our speedy shoes which allows us on it to run real fast on the ground without losing too much momentum We're gonna have the enemy with the spring on its back which will hit them and then we're gonna slow down to run jump straight over take the top rope running away through I'm gonna go in this area jump on the middle platform jump three get the enemy get two of them so that's a double kill. Run our way through on the upside here we can try and carry we choose momentum that we have. I'm using the music too. My advantage should not be out of the window. It's gonna run up. We're gonna wait, we're gonna land, we're gonna roll to keep the momentum. Jump off the ramp straight up and over through on the enemy here we've got him lined up we're gonna wave we're gonna line up we're gonna go he springs us which is wonderful jump straight through the area and then we're gonna have the steam cycles here so we're gonna have three steam cycles on this area we're not gonna be going to grab one token that is hiding down on the edge beside the third steam area here reason we only get one on this because these stages are a lot bigger than you anticipate but you don't get to see them because they are on different routes the different characters gonna take different routes you've got six characters by default to play as, with many modded characters that break the game as well. But we're going to run through it and that is the stage in one minute, which is very, very nice. As we're going to head off to the dusty wasteland here, off to the desert where we're going to see the cacti as my favourite purple orbs here but hopefully we don't hit any of the cacti because the cacti will take 5 seconds of time away from the crystal dome and we want to get ourselves that chaos emerald as we run our way through. And since we're in a bonus stage, 1CN food. Please take it away you've got time for like two donations. Alright, $25 from Tat Jude who says not many people know this but when Argic does commentary on speedruns the game actually has to go faster to keep up with him. We've also got $125 coming in from Peace Egg who says let's hit that 150k during this amazing Sonic block. Yeah, let's go! One more? Yeah one more, go for it. Okay quick one. $25 from Keevo who says I'm a simple man I see an Arctic run on the schedule, I donate. Thank you very much. All right, we are on the second half of the stage here. We're now going to dodge the cacti. Come down the elevator is on the perfect cycle there. We're going to go in the middle and then we're going to go up to the very top so we don't hit the cacti and then down into the bottom hit the booster head towards right to the end of the stage and that is ksm with number five two more to go and unfortunately we're not gonna get it in the next stage because we are going to see the gimmick in this stage. It is the purple gloop and the gloop allows us to basically go right down into the gloop and it just steals our speed. It's quite weird and annoying so we're just going to use his little lip here to then land straight down in there and that gives us just enough to get under that segment without having to worry about it, and grab another set of speedy shoes. We're then going to leg it all the way over here, making sure we grab rings because no rings and so on against them means a bad time, but we're just going to land on the goal there. You can see he's just stuck getting a little bit slow there. We're going to use the speed shoes to grab our van and do a big old jump up here to do a little skip, transforming the horizontal momentum into the vertical one there, allowing us to run our way through. We're going to grab the spring, run our way up and through down on the elevator here we'll have a laser turret that will fire lasers at us you can hear it charging but you'll never see it firing because we are too quick we are gonna go and grab those speedy shoes that was hiding in this segment as well And then were gonna leg it You see the enemy's already chasing us we're gonna jump into my favorite mine room it is a mine so we've got all the mines around here they're gonna come through and try and get but you're gonna see on there's one that runs away from that we're straight through continuing them in and i'm running the corner here we're gonna have an enemy jump out we're going to bounce off it just to keep our way through the air round the corner here i'm gonna go and keep the angles down and then jump onto this segment here there's a hidden whirlwind shield for us we're gonna be using that too our advantage the next area is gonna have this lovely little button here with the gloop we were supposed to hit it to raise the gloop up, we're gonna use the piston instead of the whirlwind shape to jump up and skip this entire room all the way over. We've got the bug there, buggy's gonna get us on the cycle off the platform here. Platform as well allows us to get a nice big boost off Hive, which I'm going to move up. I'm going to wait on that one just to be safe here so we'll probably get the 124 cycle as we're going to see them coming up and through but no tokens which means we're going to head straight on to our next boss who has a big fascination with semicircles so eggman's gonna come out here in his paint mobile i'm gonna try and paint us the pretty picture but we're gonna go interrupt him as we run our way through so stage is complete on to our boss fight so you're gonna run our way through and right now we've got a hit he's playing into semi circles he'll get faster and faster as we go along until it goes into his desperation phase and then he's gonna play with this pogo stick so we're gonna go all the way through around on this edge here he's getting faster and faster he's spinning he's in polo form three more hits two more hats we get that one there one more hat and the boss is gone onto the egg we go as we move into the deep sea zone. Breathe, Arnie. No such thing as breathing. This man doesn't breathe. No breathe, only commentate. Oh yeah, we are jumping into deep sea zone one now we're gonna have some fun with item box bounces and momentum conservation where they run our way through over here we're going to jump over land on this side but the rain boxes we're then going to jump straight over bounce off this box hopefully get a nice landing down here and oh i didn't get the bounce but that's fine because we have the whirlwind shield to take us up through this area you can skip this entire room by landing on the block there and then away we go but we have these lovely little spike platforms which just get the height there you can see him just cast it all the way over which is fine but i'm going to go down land in this area gonna go into doom mode again i'm gonna go first person view charge a five breath spin dash release it that gives us the perfect speed to get all the way through and down this section. Dodge the mines in the water here up to the air we're going to do a nice big jump over this section We'll land on the waterfall We're gonna fight the waterfall which is nice It didn't take me too badly Headed for the Red Spring All the way over The Red Springs have more oomph waterfall which is nice it didn't take me too badly but then the red spring all the way over the red springs have more oomph than the yellow springs which are good for speed but sometimes it don't have enough oomph and you get nowhere so another five reps gonna shoot the button all the way through there are three different routes to that stage that was the quickest one and then we go into deep sea number two that's spring pop bobby so we're now going to do we gotPC2. We've got the slip and slide to start with here, as long you are not under the water you have to jump out and use the thong just again all of those speed that we need to run this section We will land down in the water now You might hear the droney music Might hear the droney music but then my year there's running music depending on how ours english is but we're going to run our way through and then jump up and all the way through in this stage we will get another token on this one i'm going to come out of the first person view because we don't need it on this one but we have our mines, we have our fish and today's fish is trout a la creme. Please enjoy your meal as we're then going to run our way through down the bottom here on the side, get through over the spikes, going to do a three tap spin dash 1, 2, 3, hold the jump all the way through land on our platform section here do not mind me and then go all the way up let's see what cycle we get on this section we're going to run down the room through here going in one two three lovely right through on this section through the the spikes onto the wall. The walls come to get me but we run through the other side allows us to come down We'll see how the ceiling cycle is going to be if it's gonna seal me or if we're gonna be good perfect sealing cycle here cause we line ourselves up with the spin as. We charge it, launch our way over straight through, straight in on the checkpoint up to the spinner. Round we go and that is what we love to see on this stage. So now we're going to go round here. We're going to wait. We're going to spin dash our way on this other side spin that's one two three four don't get crushed good job when they jump up the side here we've got our springs here at the yellows and the reds we want the red up in it a little cubby hole there grabs are token first time very nice we're gonna run up the hill here as we're going to go to another slip inside section which is always good fun so we're gonna run away down this area and get jump through on the section around team that's way too far at the wall there or whatever so we're gonna hit the springs take us up onto the air. Now what we got to do in this segment is try and not hit the walls. Ceilings are fine. Walls will slow us down. So we want to make sure we are just continuing with the momentum forward as much as we can. If you get the speed around the corner nicely here, you can see staying against it quite... Not hitting them all there, which is good. There we go. So it stopped us entirely. But we just go down through in this section. Get down to the bottom. Do the fog down at the spring. Hold back back a little bit up we go straight through the lost city of atlantis and then down into the end of the stage brilliant and from here we go from the deep sea into the magma caverns. We've got Wonky Lava, ain't it no working? We love Wonky Lava. So we're going to run through here see what good cycle we get on this one. We've got 80 spheres now because the difficulty goes up as you do. Get bodied by that, that's fine. It means I'm going to get bodied by the other ones and it's going to wait so I don't. As you see, you lose the five seconds of time on that one but that's alright because we should still be fine. We're going to grab our first and only power-up on this segment, it is the Super Power Loop! So the Power Loop you've seen us use when you use the Power Loop, it will draw in some of the Blue Spheres towards you. With the Super version of the Power Loop, we're going to grab every single Blue Sphere on this part of the level and here they come! So we're going to grab every single blue sphere in this part of the level and here they come. So, we're going to run away while they're all coming towards us as they are chasing us down. We're then going to jump into the lava section here. We're going to grab as many of them as we can. Bounce off the lava. Lava no damage because wonky lava not working, which is always good. So the lava's hitboxes only end at the peak and the very base of the little wave that it's doing there. If you hit it on the corner, it just doesn't work and it's great. But we're going to run our way through so up to the top, back down to the middle, hit the booster from the middle down to the bottom back up to the middle section to get the other boosters as we're running our way through then there's a troll booster waiting for me we don't want to hit it we get to the end of the stage and boom! Six emeralds down now into our boss fight coming up here this boss fight is going to play kikaboo with us so we're gonna wait i'm gonna try and get an early head in the boss you're gonna immediately hold forward and trying to jump the good boss did not get him but that's fine. He's gonna play Kikaboo, he's gonna pop up draw it through a giant EMP field then a bunch of missiles we want to just hit them as quickly as we can. Normally there was a shadow that would reveal where he is coming out of, but in the latest update of the game The Shadow has been removed. Yep I can't believe it They've removed Shadow from a video game So we're going to go ahead and jump on this one Once he gets through his desperation phase He is going to summon his two buddies There There's going to be three of them. Only one is real, it's the only one you can hit. We're gonna run our way through here and try and get ourselves a sub 30 second boss fight, and then we'll be officially into the mid game. Getting hit here again does not matter in the slightest as long as we do not get hit by the final EMP there. That is good for us, we run our way through it. That is it! Into Castle Eggman we go. So now Castle Eggman in the midgame of the round here this where were going to have some fun with more gimmicks. I love when Liverpool are at this stage as Castle Yeet Man, because we're about to yeet ourselves through this stage something fierce as we're gonna go through now. We're going to take a little detour first, run this spike ball, we're going to jump over this area, grab ourselves our final token of the run that will give us our final Chaos Emerald and the Egg Satellite. Now we have these giant spinners. These spinners are fun! If you thought immediately when you come out with these spinners you will just launch yourself! We will be using this to skip the entire first part of this level. You're supposed to navigate around here and do a whole bunch of things, nah we ain't bothering with any of that. We are then going to combine the launch of this with the item box events that you didn't get a see in Deep Sea 1. But, this is what it looks like. You grab it continues the momentum away you go all the way around skipping those platforms we move it round. We're then gonna jump our way on this section make sure we get on the platforms here. 1-2-3 straight up! Finally on the stage all the way up and over and round don't fall down and hit the ground because I'm going to hit the spring instead takes us up and through And that is what we need but while we're doing the runs and you are watching at home on GDQ, make sure you're taking care of yourself, you know? You're going to have fun. Thank you for donating to NSF and if you need to just take easy rest easy with D&E Traveler, like get some Estus in you or in in my case, Iron Brew! But we're going to run our way through the stage now. That's the end of that little Dark Souls reference up there which is always fun as we then head towards the bridge collapse section here so a little bit of danger was coming up. I'm going to try and do a little bit of a skip here, charge my spin dash when the wall comes down before the gate we're going to jump out the side and then skip back on there. That gives us a little bit of a time save but I'm going to navigate up the bridge here. We've got enemies that will bonk us away. We've got the spikes that will hit us in the bum we're going to run our way through we're just going to have some fun and that is a good bridge escape into act one really get through our emerald stage now this is my favorite Emerald stage. I love this one to bits, it's just like oh I really want it! Let's see if it goes well. So this one is 120 spheres required We're going to run our way around we are going to go and do the loop-de-loop on this one not grab the power up because we don't need to but it sets the cycles on this upcoming section to allow me to get through without getting bodied. We're then going to make sure we go all the way around here. Going to stay towards the middle section because it's going to line up for a nice big set of ranks here, doing a horizontal parallel. But you go all the way through and then you just cross on yourself. That grab there, that's wonderful! We're gonna run now the limited edition red GameCube here as the GameCubes got the blue spheres inside them we're gonna to grab them, take them with us. But they're going to come all the way through. We've not hit this sign there. That's lovely. Run our way through with a booster on these cubes that are going to move out my way hopefully. We're going to get a set around here where then I'm going to go and grab these. 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2 1-2-3, 1-2-3, what we at? 108, 1 here we're then going to go and grab these one two three one two three one two one two three one two three what are we at 108 110 that's fine perfect and then we've got a big fan oh big fan love it to bits big fan immediately bodies me that's fine we'll call that karma we're to run our way through grab the last set that we need here we need the 120 there's the 120 in total so once we come around at the fan again it takes us to the capsule grabs our final chaos emerald of their own we have 97 seconds to get to the end of this stage, we're going up down on this segment a little bit too much speed there didn't have the booster off in time because the boost does stop your turning a little but that's fine we'll run our way through and not be hit by the boosters that will send you backwards hold the boost down as we go through and run this section all the way through got the continue noise it means we're getting in which is always nice we're gonna run our section here i'm gonna get through that one then through the playstation square button and then line up towards the bottom here get the angle angle. Did not quite get the angle that we needed. A little bit too shallow there, but that's fine because that is the final emerald obtained and now we can give it to Sonic! Sonic got them all. Yes we did! So now as long as we don't have a shield and we will jump And press the spin button in mid air, We will become Super Sonic just in time for Castle Eggman 2 So we're going to run through the stage here, it is now objective get 50 rings ASAP so the button that's going to fall down here, we're going to run through this part of the stage, hopefully not get hit, maybe be able to hit that second, I'm not going to risk it just in case we weren't going to get bodied there but we have a set of rings here once we got a few of these rings we're then just going to risk it just in case we weren't gonna get bodied there. But, we have a set of rings here once we got few these rings but then just run jump all the way over make sure we grab the remaining rings dodge the swingy things that are going to try and body me. We've got 37 that's fine this now gives us the 40 There is 52 it's Super Sonic time! Super Sonic in this game allows you to be invincible, gets higher acceleration, higher jump height and he can glide! But the best thing about him is his music theme seems like a game show. So come on down! Donate to MSF now and you can get yourself in for some really cool prizes. Sue, what prizes do we have? Oh, we have so many prizes but also I have 20 donations I want 20 donations on a region yeah go for it okay okay i'm gonna do i'm going to do the best that i can here's one ten dollars from good guy three who says shout out to argum for providing not only skillful gameplay but delightfully blazing fast commentary they would make even sonic himself say hey man slow down i was required to read it as fast as possible that was good very good yeah a hundred dollars from colin mans who, just tuned in for Sonic Block. Pumped for Robo Blast 2 best Doom Sonic game there is. Would have killed it if it came out on the Saturn. Donating as well to support Doctors Without Borders and their work in Gaza. We also have... Do we have time for a little bit more? Oh, yeah, go for it. Great. $50 from Ori Sky who says, Hey, Art, Ori here had to check in for your run. I wanted to reassure you on keeping Scotland warm for your return so this is a continuation of our Ultimate Mode race, right? Uh... Right? Anyway! Good luck on the run and looking forward to Ory Canyon AND for the people putting their donations towards supporting Doctors Without Borders incentive. Thank you very much. All right, we are in... Oray? No, no, no, they've already egged me because I didn't use the right timer. It's fine. All-in-the-mode, for those of you who are aware is a one-hit kill mode in this game. You get one hit and go back to the very start. I finished it like a week ago and I'm so happy about that but I used the wrong timer so it was invalid. Good job me! So now we're on the memory game. This boss' pattern is the same every time. It has red, then blue yellow, then red-yellow, then red-blue-yellow, and I still get it wrong every time we play it, but it's fine. So while we're going through this, you can see at the top there are the egg robos doing the foam fingers. They make the awesome home run bat noise from Smash Bros., which is absolutely amazing when they body you. The main thing here though is we want to make sure if we don't get bodied, we're running our way through the stage thing here though is we want to make sure we don't get buddy run our way through this age and as the ground is fading away and revealing the prickly roses in the ground there ready to try and get me but hopefully we won't be seeing any more of that as we head towards the final taste of the boss here. How did I land on that? Like, I just ran into that myself! Right there we go use the invincibility gap atop here let's see if we can get three big jumps that we need so there is one straight back on ourselves gonna go around and get two gonna get that one that's fine gonna go round gonna get two. We're going to get that one, that's fine. Going to go around and get three as we jump in and there we go! That is that boss complete as we now run into the Arad Canyon or as we love when you refer to it the Ori Canyon because Ori always comes in and goes they've discovered a new strategy. We're going to run then and we are gonna do it in less than a minute cause we got supersonic I will not hug the cacti we didn't hug them in the bonus stage I don't want to hug them here we do have these tornadoes. These tornadoes will take whatever momentum you have, we'll then send it in a specific direction. We're going to be using that to our advantage as we land on this segment. That's fine. We're going to use the pulley over here because I missed the jump there but that's okay. So we're going to grab the pulley and go right here. We're going to use the pulley over here because i missed the jump there but that's okay so we're gonna grab the pool in our way here we'll do a spin now one two three four five gives me up on the spring down we go grabs the rings and then supersonic is incoming so we got that do not hug the cacti until you're supersonic please superdome invincibility keeps us going but now it's a canyon we're gonna fly our way through it we're gonna make a makeshift ramp on this section here we're gonna run jump over and then jump straight up get enough height to get the glide that's gonna take us right over to this tornado here that allows me to go through towards the end of the stage skipping all of it massively so tails can even do this basically because tails can fly but we're going to run our way through around the stage now onto the segment, we've got a red spring, I i'm gonna bounce off it all the way up to the very top don't get caught by there we jump through we jump around we grab that we jump up our way through and that is the stage complete let's go less than a minute, I told you! And now we're gonna bring it down a little bit. Yeah, I know, Arggs being quiet... No, how dare we? But no this stage has a little bit of autoscrollers on it. We have the minecarts where the minecarts are- can only be terminated at the very end of their stop if you try and get off any earlier you will lose a lot i think go back to the next checkpoint so while we're running through this part of the stage you're just going to see me using the whirlwind she would just get a slight little advantage with a little bit of a shortcut around here. We're going to be talking our way through some tornadoes, so while we're doing this one Foo, you have like two and a half minutes. Please feel free. Oh my gosh, yes. I'm so excited There's so many donations. Okay, $50 from HUDS. Also, by the the way we are less than two thousand away from a hundred and fifty thousand let's go let's go by the end of the run maybe oh my god yeah go on twitch chat come on there's that all right fifty $50 from HUD 601 who says on behalf of everyone in club six so one I just wanted to say how proud we are if you are thank you for being a wonderful friend and inspiration to me and so many others less than three. You've inspired me to like... I'm just reading faster I can't help it. $25 from Gekka who says gotta have to donate for the one and only rap god RGK $50 from rob draven who says shout out to the greatest silly scottish sonic speed runner out there but you can't say that five times fast glad to see you on the sgdq stage good luck on the run arg gotta go. Gotta go fast. Thank you. Little bit more? One quick thing here. We are gonna do a little skip here called For The People and what we're going to be trying to do on this is there is a jump that we are going to do right there that will take us over to that segment but we're gonna double back on ourselves and we're gonna see if we can do it so while we're doing that for you got time for two more oh right okay here we go okay look i'll come clean this is ten dollars from ghost boy 96. okay look i'll come clean i've never been a huge Sonic fan, but what game is this? This is the best thing I've ever seen! Thank you for this amazing run. You and your wonderful energy are getting... There we go! For the people. Well done. 69 rounds, nice. Right now we are on to the worst boss fight in the game it is Fang The Butt Yes I'm calling him a bug because he's going to bounce around randomly i need to try and act no that's where he's gonna go if i try and hit him and he's above me i will take damage if i jump at him and i'm above him he'll take damage he can jump around at any point he wants you'll either throw bombs on me or he'll smack me with his cork and i don't want to be hit by the car because it's bad we're now in phase two so the walls are protecting me are no god i got a head there which is very good we're going to run over here gonna hit them there he only needs one more hit! Is this actually going to be good? Where the heck are you?! He's stuck in the wall. Oh, you kidding me! Move... Sir... Oh! Fang. Sir, sir, there you go. See the line everybody? That's never happened before! There ya' go! That's not a way I expected to lose time in that round, but there we go he is away. If he hits invincible and it hits off the side of a wall, he doesn't lose his invincibility and he has done that over ten times there and I've never seen that. But welcome to Red Volcano. This is the only single level in the game, and we're going to be using it to our advantage here at Supersonic really fast as we run our way through it. It also has the Wonky Lab on the working, but you're not going to see any of that as we're going to run over the cheese bridges here. But before the cheese bridge, we've got to jump down onto this to get an item box bounce. Didn't get the item box bounce but that's fine. I'm going to reach out at the checkpoint just so I can actually grab the item box bounce and do it because I want that ring and go up the top route. I wanna have my cake and eat it too. Nope, okay fine we're gonna play this way. I have 11 lives mate try me. So we're gonna go through it and we're gonna do it again so we're gonna bounce down on this one there you go finally that's what we wanna see. So I'm going to get a little bit of ring short because we lost the set at the start there but that's okay as we're going to go through now on the top route here because top route is best route just like in any other Sonic game that we play. It does mean I'm going to have to do a little bit of ring maintenance here by grabbing a few of these rings, you can see the ball in play, these balls are meant to be what you use to go around the lava, we're not going to be using any of them because the balls are slow and we're going to grab them on this section so we're grabbing them all the way up, we get through the rings here, 46, 47, 48, 49 give me the fact I'm going to be dangerous if you have these ones here, away we go, going to run our way through and down to the supersonic where we're now going to fly our way through the rest of the stage. Around this idea, to the left-hand side, we're gonna go all the way down on that section, not gonna touch any of the lava as we fly our way through. We've got the annoying jerkbirds there that we're hopefully not gonna get caught by when we land on the red screen. So that doesn't take us to the very top of those we're going to land on that pillar before we're gonna fall our way down here we're gonna try and get a jump off this segment we'll see if that's gonna be high enough it doesn't look like it not at all we're gonna land in on this right for the backup track to let us back through and run i said land on the swing please game there you go soon take us all the way up and round on this section allows us to run our way through up to the dog now over the fiery candles as we run our way down we're gonna have the giant pizza walls coming up soon johnny pieces are actually physical with their hit boxes so we've got to be very careful not to get crushed by them because that would result these walls are actually physical with their hit boxes. So we gotta be very careful not to get crushed by them because that would result in death. We're then gonna run our way through past the Jar of Birds and then we're going to see a last section of Wonky Lava No Worky, but because we are supersonic we don't need to touch it yet but you can run on the well slope there as we run away to the rocket heading up into space it's time for egg rock one now breathe what is brief what is brief all What is brief? All right, we're going to go into rock one now. This is gonna have some anti-gravity shenanigans. It's gonna have some really big funky jumps as well. We're gonna jump our way through here. We're gonna see if we get up these elevators using the jumps to try and get onto the platforms slightly higher before that. Yes! Skipping a Psycho Loveless. We're then going to run our way through this section, take a damage boost is fine as long as I grab one ring. Didn't grab a ring fair enough understandable have a nice day. So we are now gonna go go and do e skip here don't blink or you'll miss it this is an anti-gravity puzzle room so we're gonna go through in the section there's the ground skip like that no gravity room required they're just supposed to go back and forth on that segment there, but we are going to jump over here. We've got this snail who is going to body me. This snail took so many ultimate mode runs for me. Oh, so bad. But we're going to go through now, grab ourselves the speedy shoes as we're gonna get checkpoint. We've got a set of crushers coming up. We've got all these crushers coming down right now. Don't want to get crushed by them on that segment and then we have got here I took one small flight to America. Sonic's gonna do one giant leap for Hedgehog Kind, run the line of gravity there, straight through, straight in! Very nice get there as we head up towards the end of the level out into space where Sonic has five seconds of air remaining, unless you're in this little blue segment. So we are going to run our way through up towards the top here because we have the steel beams. But what's heavier? A kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers? You'll never know! We are gonna run our way through that 113 on the dot coming up to egg rock two the hardest level in the game in my opinion alongside some of the best bangers with the full Supersonic theme, if I do it right. So we're going to go through on this one and see if we can take it down so we're gonna flip upside-down to go right side up on the level here, we're gonna grab the 10 ring bolts down here as this will give us the beginnings of supersonic when you run our way through hit the checkpoint for safety if you want to grab that goodness there the thing is moving up that's good the enemies aren't in my wake they're obviously rings on this one back outside into space because a little gravity trying to affect as we run our way through. This gives us another 20 rings as we come through here and now it's time for supersonic from now to the end of the stage We're going to go through the Tetris wall block here as we run our way through. We're not going to try and get to the cycle of the platform that's moving around here. You see it there? We're just going to miss it, but that's okay. We're going to stay on this section, making sure we don't get caught by the enemy starting trying to come and get us. We're then going to be running away round the outside here. We should be going to the right there and we're gonna go outside to space to open the door back to our left. We're gonna make sure we don't go too fast because we don't want to bump into the wall as we flip upside down once again and then we're gonna run on the underside here, but that's fine we still make it in, that's good. Into our little hole here. That's going to open up the door and allow us to continue on through the rest of the level. We're gonna about turn round the other side here. We're gonna fall down we're gonna have a fun time with it, run our way through. Laser wall room again. You're not gonna to see any of them because we did supersonic. We just run right through. And that's right. He goes in the square hole. So we're going to take him through the square hole towards the elevator that's going to allow us to turn on the electricity to get towards the end of it. And any Mega Man fans there in this chat, I am so sorry because you're going to see things that you don't want to see again. So we're gonna run our way through Yeah Bobby's like ahhh! Bobby knows that one. So we hit the button here as we run our way through It's even a open up and then go right through and round on this segment ScrimpTank is up to a set of crushers that we're gonna have be careful for, we're gonna have enemies waiting for us as well but because we don't really have to worry about them we've got the platform coming down that's good then just going to immediately be up in this section and run our way through around this area gonna jump off we've got the squishers here comes squisher number one we've got 19 rings remaining we've got them going through we're going to see if we can hold this to the end, there's not many rings between now and then in the stage but here we come! To the Yoku Block section! But thankfully, we are supersonic so it don't matter because we can just fly all day over but imagine the noise, it's beep, beep, beep. And you're like, oh, not again! But that's fine. We get at the bottom, we activate our way through here. We're just going to stay on this section. We've got the checkpoint over there. We're now going to head towards a set of crushers that are going to be in the south so we just run around it's gonna wait for the red side the blue side will touch us and the gears all the way over and through into the game they're gonna take us to the elevator end at this stage we should just have enough rings to finish and then we're gonna head into the final three stages of the run so here we go three two one and right in there on the nose i've just exact amount of rings there love to see it as we're now going to head into our final three stages we've got black core we're gonna do a race with metasonic he's like i'm like eat my dust so he's gonna go through here we're gonna run our way through we can get 50 rings on this one we're racing them through different segments of the stages, so you can see we've got the red volcano segment on this one. Each part has about 5 rings. I want to try and grab at least 4 on each of them. That way we have enough as there's an extra set of 5 that I can use if I miss them, but I want to be making sure I don't really miss that many. So we've got our spikes, we're going to run and jump over there and make sure we don't get hit by them as we're in this section here. We've got 40, that's fine, that should give me the 45. Jump over with me, skip that, that gives me the 50. So he's going to run away and start breaking spikes because he's able to do that, and that's not fair. He's cheating. We're going to run our way through. We're going to go up to the side. It is a race to the end. If he beats us, we lose. We have to do it again, but that's fine because we can now dodge all the obstacles as we run our way through this stage here we're going to flip upside down we're going to go through and run when they skip over the giant pizza section here because a lot of just looks like cheese pizza you know and then we're gonna go through around this area i'm gonna go down them with've got these star destroyer engines or whatever battleship it is from star wars like you'll see when you see them here look at that tell me that's not from star wars and then we go through boost ourselves straight to the end of the stage there that's gonna going to be about a 103, 104 on that one and then we have two boss fights remaining Metal Sonic is not happy about beating the race here so he's going to do a number of attacks here. I just need to hit him in a wireframe state and then he'll do pinball and we'll head him out of pinball so while we've got this, Fu please take it away. Alrighty I'm gonna do the best that can. $250 from Crucio who says Argic Sonic Block and Fu time to donate. Welcome back, SUDQ. Lesson three. We have $50 from Kruthar who says this man speaks faster than I can think. How does he do it? Good luck on the run, Ard. We have... Okay, this is a bit longer. Here we go. $10 from Mike the Ferret who says Greetings gaming citizens! Mike here with some Sonic puns to make foos suffer for charity It's been awhile since I played a sonic game so this run definitely rings a bell I hope this... I hope this run is fun to watch. It would be a shame if you were feeling blue during GDQ. Hope y'all appreciate my ability to spin some puns together, I like to think that I was on a roll with these jokes. Best of luck to the runner, and I hope you all have a blast! Wow, thank you, Mike. One more? Keep going. Okay, we got $25 from Kina-chan who says stuck working today but I cancelled all my afternoon meetings just so I could enjoy Argic and his Sonic speedrun. Gotta go fast! And gotta donate for these awesome prizes. $25 from MatoyaSR who says it's always a pleasure to see Argic both perform and commentate his runs. He continues to be an inspiration. Good luck, and have fun everyone! Lesson 3...you just let me know when to stop. Yeah you go with that for like one or two more. Okay $25 from Fieldgamer who says Sonic check, Argic check. Going fast? Check. Nice work everyone. Who makes his events go fast? $25 from Captain Ock who says, gotta chat fast! I followed Argic's super speed self-commentary since the Sonic Mania run for Corona Relief Done Quick, and it's so exciting to see him on the GDQ stage. Cheers to TheArgcade and MSF! One more. Okay, cool. A thousand dollars! Duke who says happy to be able to donate to a wonderful cause and thankful to be in a position to help others. Thank you GDQ for all your do and looking forward to the Sonic 3 & Knuckles run! Absolutely Right we are on the final boss of the run now this is Brak, this is from the Sonic OVA if you've watched that years ago a blast from the past we're going to take down his shield which we've done he will then fire a number of two attacks either as either his flamethrower or he'll get me with the mounds so we want to make sure we try and get as many hits as we can before the shields comes back i want to make sure i have rings because that's really important. We're going to try and get the hits off him here, I am being really bad at aiming as he's trying to get me with that on that segment so we're going to go through it, we're going to go get him on this section. He's doing the flamethrower, the shield is about to come back, I'll probably get one more hit on that So not the greatest opening in the world but once the shields go down You will see the walls go down as well and that allows us to know we are on our final three hits So he's now activating the belly bomb which would just add even more fire To the field because he's a fire type for some reason. Oh that was nice, he did not like me saying that! Okay that's fine understandable have a nice day. So we're just gonna make sure we grab them and take them through as we go in so time is going to be coming up once we uh we got a little bit between times so it's fine i'll let you know when it is coming up but he's gonna do that we're now on the final three hits so that's gonna be last section there just need to make sure he doesn't do the mines on me because if i get into the mine he'll send me flying back and I do not have the fence. And that's the boss done! He's gonna fly away! That is going to be the end of the run here so thank you very much everybody for watching, I hope you've all enjoyed it we hit the final button on his nose and time is going to come up very very soon once the capsule comes out of this she is going to escape velocity if he's got a velocitized fast and yeah is that hydro city or hydros today time and there you go that is it that is the run complete i hope you all enjoyed sonic aeroblast 2 here. It was absolutely amazing, and had a lot of fun with it. It is great to finally be over here in person doing the run. I hope you all loved that And Twitch chat, you're all amazing. Please do keep your donations coming in. Everybody on the couch, you are amazing! Everybody down in the back and in the audience You're all amazing as well! I just want to give quick special shout outs keeping it short here. They donated earlier a big thank you to HUDS 601 and the Club 601 in The Union, again wearing a shirt right now. We got the TED Pride there so happy pride month too is what we're doing but yeah, big thank you to HUDS! Also massive shout out to Amber as well because people mentioned the Sonic Mania Corona relief run Um, first ever run I did for GDQ was a hotfix run For Sonic and the Shiny Things. It was Sonic 4, episode one. Yeah, Amber, it's your fault I learned that game. But thank you very much because we've done so much more between now than then. It's been like six years of awesomeness and I look forward to doing more and of course there's a big thank you to everybody if you liked what you saw here come and follow at twitch.tv for slash rga because my goal is to get a top 10 time in all mainline sonic games and I get distracted by fan games and indies as well. Come have fun, come check out come see the commentary, just hang out, have fun and that's going to be it for us. So Phu over to you. Fantastic work Argic. That was so... Hello! Thank you so much Mr. Gaiman-Shall. Hello Minneapolis! Hello SEDQ! I am the sound defense and I am incredibly excited to show off Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles with all 14 emeralds And right behind me I have my three commentators, Alec K., Argic and Argic again. Whoa man! Come on dude! These two are very experienced with this particular speedrun they're going to offer some very insightful commentary They're gonna experienced with this particular speedrun. They are going to offer some insightful commentary and they will be a big help. Also joining us on the couch is Kuiper Don't Care. I don't know what's about to happen. He has never done this speed run. I've never played the game. He has never played any 2D Sonic that I know of. No. Like I was practicing things earlier and he looked away to make sure he didn't see what i was doing. Correct. So, he is here for live reactions and general antagonism and other such. Thank you so much Kuiper it's great to have all three of you here. Thank you so much for having me up here. It's an honor dude it really is. So there was a bid war for this particular game to decide which of these two fine characters we're going to be playing as uh who won that big war sonic sonic sonic the winner of the bid war for the character choice with 1830 dollars is tayo yeah here we go Y'all have some good taste The three of you just scared the living daylights out of me Alright, so let's see I'm gonna give this a quick reset By the way, I am playing this on an analog Mega SG. It is like a recreation of a Sega Genesis with native HDMI. Very nice. That's why that menu exists. But yeah, let's go ahead and start counting down. Go from five... Four... Three... So yeah, let's go ahead and start counting down. Go from five... Four! Three! Two! One! Go Fast! So thanks to all your donations we actually save time because we don't get a costume for the Star of Angel Island 1 which is always good. But yeah you're going to see Tails here, Tails' abilities. You can spin dash just like Sonic can. You can also fly for a low duration which is always good but because we are going for the emeralds we're're gonna see the big rings! Now the big rings just like the other games you saw Get blue spheres. You're gonna get The blue spheres but you're gonna see some devants Do these in really strange orders Cause you're supposed to have them all explode just like that. If you go around the outside perimeter of them, anything caught on the inside will turn into rings and count as collected. However Sound Defense has figured out how the triggers of this actually work, and oh my god they are amazing! So you're going to see them as just political math. It gets better but you saw there basically he did the outside of it in such a way that the game left a gap and then, the way it processes is it goes everything outside of that. So if you collect the smears in a certain way, it just becomes like oh everything in that contiguous group of blue spheres is collected. That's the blue sphere glitch. Thank you to Jujimoy at Tasser for analyzing exactly how that worked and putting all of these special stage routes together. You're welcome. I didn't do it, I just wanted to take credit for you that's all. It is absolutely amazing to see like some of these stages they are going to get wild and you will see them when they come through But we are running though this stage here of course we are going to have our buddy Tails who's going to get the cutscene with the boss on this one. We're gonna be seeing a lot of glitches now You think the game is okay right now? Don't get used to it! You're gonna see a lot of functionality and I guess Alex is going to explain a lot of how of the have them are going to work they are very precise a lot of them may result in a few soft locks but tails there being small enough that he can just run under spikes. He literally has a one square by one square pixel high hitbox, which is very, very nice and you can just run through a lot of the stuff there. I was going to say so far like this hasn't looked it hasn't looked overly like glitchy or something like that. Yeah, it's level one. It must be nice to have a speedrun where you don't have a bunch of super scary stuff at the very beginning. Obviously there's a lot of movement and a lot of tech that Sound Defense is doing that takes years of practice to get used to but it's nice to see like you kind of just go through the level for the most part. You go fast. Unfortunately when do we get to the last level i'm very excited oh absolutely oh yeah we got the bubble shield there so wow wow i'm gonna get our wow i'm sorry no we didn't rehearse that part. No no you're on... we didn't rehearse any of this as well! You're right, we didn't! We just know. I was so scared. Yeah. So we got our blue spheres here on this one we're gonna just have relatively normal blue spheres on these ones you see the long length there you've got three sets of five pretty much so 15 every time you go through on it just turn them into and then you get your jumps oh we don't like those danger drops if you hit a red sphere at any point in time you are ejected from the special stage. You will have to collect them again. That is not supposed to happen! Why does that happen? So those are not as hard as you might think because red spheres have smaller hitboxes than blue spheres, and especially the bumpers. They have big hitboxes but that doesn't mean it's easy so The way Sound Defense does that is he essentially has a cue on where he is in the grid, and uses that to tell when he needs to jump. Yep. There are those two. How much smaller are those red spheres? They're drastically smaller. Yes, drastically. Doesn't mean it isn't scary or easy to fail. I was sweating. I'm drenched now. You were scared now! I was sweating. I'm drenched now. I was so scared. You're scared now? I am easily frightened, okay? Get back to me one special stage from now and tell me how you are feeling. If I remember which one the next one is, yeah we might have to. Don't say what's going to happen. Nope, they will find out. But yeah, those were Tails. We're gonna take a different route through this stage here. We're gonna take the top route because Tails' ability to fly allows him to take some other routes that other characters are unable to go. Of course, the trade-off for this is that Tails cannot use any of the active abilities of the shield so no bubble bounce, no fire dash and no lightning double jump. However, the flight is very good. You almost got squished there but that was lucky. That's okay. Tails are actually too short to get squished. Oh! Lucky! And it is this one. Alright you're in for a treat then. So yeah we've got plenty of this blue sphere glitch I'm going to be jumping through some red spheres and then at the end We have a special treat that i am not going to spoil I don't think we have time for... We have time for one really quick donation. One really quick donation, I got you here with $5 from Luther's Sonic Says Trans Rights! Absolutely. Alright, now it is time for everyone to be quiet while I do something very scary. I'm like, there's no way right? Yeah. Like there is no shot. I have not failed that in years. Oh my god! And of course, this is where it happens. It's fine you got this buddy we know you got this. So the good news is there are plenty of big rings in the game and Sound Events knows exactly how to back them up so we are not by any means in any trouble on this one. What you were seeing there, and you will see when we go back into that stage backwards completion! And if you struggle with blue spheres normally, how the... I went off there. I'm too powerful for the mics. We're going into the lovely battleship here so I'm gonna speak battleship. Oh, I have too many rings. Sorry, Tails. Aw! Oh my God! He had too many rings. The reason he did that is because there is a score in the ring countdown at the end of every level, and uh... he would have lost time to having that many rings. Because the ring counter would have cost him a few frames. I believe he's going to be getting a time bonus of 10,000 points? No less. It should be 5 I think. Yeah five and it changes from game to game. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Nice bounces into the flight up to the capsule as the capsule will appear from the top. Flight doesn't... There you go. Almost. Game robbers there. You can hit that off screen but There you go. Keep him Robloxed there, you can hit that offscreen but there you go, you get a time bonus of 5,000 because we're over a minute and a half there You get the ring bonus of 1, it cancels itself out because the time bonus is still going and that is why I'm defensive with the damage How hard is it to stay on top of that The time bonus is still going and that is why I started defense with the damage. How hard is it to stay on top of that boss like that? Oh very, if you fail at it you're straight down. Right right. But now we are in a Hydro City zone, if you want to fight me donate for it! It is Hydro City, I agree. It is Hydro City Zone, if you want to fight me donate for it. It is Hydro City I agree. It's Hydro City. I will fight Argic personally for you. I'm here if you want to donate for that. They exist. We're going to see some swag strats here you're seeing sound events at the top of the level right now going to land down off the box hitting the spring that is in the wall as well flying above the level right now. We're then going to head straight towards where the boss is and it's just completely skipping over the entirety of the level there. Look how smooth that is. As we then... I'm going to go down we were going to try an about turn there for the special stage but we got camera locked so not happening this time. With the invincibility though which is gonna fire up with the boss as we're gonna just stand in his head box gonna get enough hits before the invincibility runs off and the boss is done. was hydro city one wow okay yeah and you might be wondering how did he fly above this stage well he didn't start flying until he was up all of the stages yep that way the character isn't locked to being on the camera yeah so caper how well are you following this running able to follow as as well? Alright, so far I've seen you... Oh! That's normal. That's a cutscene. Oh that's normal. I was like oh, you're just through the floor now. If you were following along, you are about to not. Alec I'll let you take this one. Things are about to go off the rails. Oh yes! Alright, you took a crush death, okay? So doing a flight there... What? And he got in the wall that zipped him down and now he's actually beyond the end of the level. There is an integer underflow for your coordinate. And then he ends up in a garbage area, but because the boss camera is here, he's able to get Tails to stop at this point. It's amazing that Devs put a slingshot down in the stage itself, that you could fall into and shoot you to the end. Yeah, did notice that uh he had to do an off-screen spin dash with somewhat precise ish timing and then a jump in order to actually get up to this height so there is some maneuvering in what we call the loopback areas that has to be done for these level wraps to work. Yeah, I'm trying to manipulate the camera into passing over the boss arena because if it does you will snap tails into the boss arena. And if I miss it, then I'm sort of stuck in the garbage area at the end of the level. Well, it's not a softlock here, because I drown. But it is time loss and it is a reset on the level so now we're in marble garden we're gonna have some fun here we're going to be taking a ride that's going to give us quite a few of the big rings which is nice we've got two pretty much back-to-back here we're going to grab that miss bill let's spin this into the stage here so we're going to go and do the next stage as we go through because if you feel a stage it's got to cycle through all the stages beforehand uh this one is very interesting especially on the pledge that you're gonna see on this one we're gonna go around the glitch that you're going to see on this one. We're going to go around the outside first. We're going to grab these sets of nine with the two on either side here but in the middle of the level there is a massive stack of like 60 plus Just wait and see how sound defences stack of like 60 plus. It's a lot. Just wait and see how Sound Defense is going to take these ones out. It takes probably about 12 seconds to go around the entire perimeter, if not more. That's just me ballparking it. It takes a moment. Yeah, that's way too slow so I do something much better. Hold on. Oh my god! Oh gosh, we're aborting that. Fair enough, that's fine! We're going round the outside but that is a recovery there knowing something went wrong and you have to about turn to then go do it normally That is reacting on the fly, always know your backups. Great job Sound Defense. Backups, they're useful in marathons and races. Remember your backups. Absolutely. The idea that you can do those backwards is nuts, that's crazy! The idea that sound effects could be... Oh well I assumed everybody here could do it. I'm not brave enough. I think like two other people I'm not brave enough. Okay, alright. I think like two other people have learned more than one of the backwards Blue Fear stages and One of them plays a different version Oh! You are like touching those. That is insane to me Oh yeah, there were... I am using special jump techniques that let's me jump as soon as I hit the ground. That is insane! It's the piano roll, never say that music training doesn't come in handy We love the piano roll, that is why the Mega Drive Genesis controller is one of the best controllers for this game. Just mash it up, come over it, piano roll gives you the most precise... Or overhand like I do. Oh, that jump's terrifying. So get down! It should be five but it's four. That's fine we got plenty more to go. I'm thinking my backup is going to be in Launch Base 1. Yep. Ready to start? Yep. Yep, that's fair. But yeah no, we've got these emeralds here. We have to get seven in the Sonic 3 portion of the game then we have to get the others in the Sonic & Knuckles portion of the game ideally but we'll see if we go down through the rest of Visagia. Thank you loop for not looping as it does. So, what happened there was when you run around the loops there is a trigger that allows you to go into the background of the loop or pull you into the foreground depending on how the loop is working. Just a little bit too early in the jump there, missed the loop but it's fine. Now we're going to have some fun and do vertical wrapping here. Oh my god! So the camera is going to have some fun, Edd's gonna go around and do complete shenanigans, and yeah we just skipped a massive chunk of level but that's not even half of it. Alec? Alright so in this particular level the camera wraps vertically. After this boss he's going to do some more stuff. It is actually possible as other characters to be Act 2 and Act 1 by getting into the loopback area and spawning the boss there, but Tails doesn't have a way to finish the level after that. Yeah, Tails is too short. Unfortunately. So, so... Tills has another way of getting through Act 2 but basically you just go above the camera in an area like that by panning the camera down, and then the camera tries to catch up but goes the long way around. And so you have some time where sprite objects, like that flame box that he used to go into the wall and through it I love this skybox! That's great. Yep. What Skybox? Yeah exactly! And yeah there it was just doing a spin dash on that slope which is harder than it looks. Easier for Tails... Man someone worked so hard to make that level. Now he's fighting Knuckles. This is Knuckle's version of the boss. He doesn't feel bad at all. Yeah, he had to do some slightly more annoying maneuvering in the loopback area to get to this boss but again it's getting the camera to stop tails here instead of going on into an area where you're basically just stuck. That was Knuckles' boss fight, which is much faster than the alternative and getting a two cycle there is really difficult and takes some precise spin dashing and damage boosting. But you nailed it! Alright, so next up are you ready to break the game even more? Oh yes! Can we?! Is that possible? Yep. Oh, my God! Nobody explain how this works for a minute. I want to test Kuyper's knowledge of what is going on. I will do my best to try to explain to the audience at home what is happening all right we're bouncing on some balloons and now you are falling you are upside down i'm assuming there's some sort of like gravity mechanics here to where you're on the ceiling. Give me one second here... Okay, here we go. Uh okay, I don't... What are you doing?! What is happening? Piper's tapping out. Someone explain the wheelbarrows. Alright. I tried so hard and then, ok, level's over now. So you can walk around those wheels right? The way they do it... the way they work is that by basically setting whichever direction between your character and to the center of the wheel is down. So basically gravity is towards the surface you're on. Okay. And he got in a very precise movement, which is actually a pretty easy setup to hit the wheel and get cancelled out of it by one ring boxes on basically the next frame. So he got the wheel mechanics while not on a wheel, then used that and then basically pushing up against those spikes that he missed the first time gives you a setup where your subpixels, very minute positioning is such that he would go around the next curve instead of just kind of launching off it. And once off the curve he was falling towards the level boundary fast enough that he was on one side on one frame and on the other entirely at the next frame. That's how a Level Wrap works And, uh, the position coordinate went from basically very small to a very large number, and now since he still has the real mechanics, um, he used them to get into the wall there. Uh, there are some particularities about what you can do that doesn't lose it and, um, sometimes act normally. After going across the top of the stage there, he got to a precise position there and managed to get into Knuckles' path? No, it's Sonic's path at the end. And now he is at the boss and that's the end. And now he's like the boss and that's the level. I definitely thought you just flew off screen and that was the end. Like it says okay, you're done, it's over. There's only one thing more powerful than Tails in this game and that is the boss room camera lock. The boss room camera lock saves Tails so many times in this run. Something else needs to be stated on this one. If at any point in time sound defense jumped you lose real glitch so doing that entirely without jumping half a press is eager heart out all right on the ice cap now yeah so so I'd say you have time for one quick donation then we're gonna get another reaction I'm pretty sure. Absolutely! I have $25 here from Nora. Hey it's Uncle TSD! Oh hi Nora. Yo... So yeah turning around here this is the hardest one to navigate but if you follow the set pattern every time, Sound Defense has a route through it and that works. Very intuitive, right? It annoys me because you leave things uncovered. I was about to say that! It was bothering me that you were leaving ones behind I know he's going back and get them but do em all! Yeah so the thing The way this works and the reason why this is routed in the way it is It is simply minimizing the amount of times you need to turn Is what we're doing here. Because the less turns you need to do, the faster your character is moving and the quicker you are getting the blue spheres. Combining that with the blue sphere glitch that we were seeing here gets the animals in the fastest possible way and allows you get the to super just goal it's an awful lot of like micromanaging every turn like maybe you only lose i'm just arbitrarily guessing here you this is a half a second every turn. Oh yeah! Every time you don't turn two times, you're saving a second. Yeah. So it's all planned out. Right. It's so good to see the lay-in. It's amazing. I'd say you can get in another donation before the next special stage all right let's see what we got here um let's take a 100 donation here from Claire. As TSDs little sister, I can attest that I taught him everything he knows. Get it big bro! This citation needed. Is this true? Citation needed. Be aware of who is watching, they will know if you're lying. Indeed. Claire is the best, my entire family is the best, a lot of them are watching right now. Thank you for watching I love you all. That's awesome! This one relatively okay which is good just bouncing off some of the bumper ones there as we go through again, minimizing turns and making it dangerous by going over the red ones! And then we run our way through. You've got a set of four on this side. This stage is pretty good because it's like pretty much mirrored so you can see you can just jump immediately to the next set of four there. That's going to leave us set up as we go back on this side here You're gonna have another nice big set of ten in that one And bam! That's the stage done That is our Emerald complete How many of those are there? Total? There are seven in each game. We're doing both games, so 14! So we have one remaining which we're going to get later on Launch Base 1 We should've had this by now unfortunately Unfortunately you couldn't move through the level backwards. I usually can! I know, that's crazy! There is a stack of Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles in the console over there. What? Yep. and knuckles in the console over there what yes yep just wait hold on oh the game is so angry no it's not it tried to like what is he doing doing? Navigating the level. Oh my God. Okay, well I did not show exactly where I wanted to go but I can still make this work. We're going to go from Sonic Ride. Welcome to Act 2. This is all of Act 2? This is Act 2, so now we're in Act 2 but we are still in Act 1! I really like that loop-de-loop. Lovely. That was really well made. And this is the boss arena once again saved by the camera trigger and now we're going to finish the boss of Act 2 in Act 1. So that was actually two level wraps in that right there The first one he got what is we call slope glitch because it basically just lets you continue on whatever slope you were just on and that is caused by being honest bright sprite object as it is removed from memory. So he did that, he went off the slope there and was able to do a precise way of going through the stage such that he got to the end of it without getting crushed which is pretty likely outcome or getting stopped somewhere. And then because the Act 1 boss is in Act 2 in terms of its coordinates, he was able to just go right past that with another level wrap, using that to get into the slope glitch kit to get into the floor. And now I'm going to be quiet again because in just a few seconds he's going to be going backwards again. Yeah, I think it's better we take this one super safe considering what happened last time. This here is not the terrible part I mean there's goofy stuff happening obviously but i mean you all saw what i was trying to do oh yeah let me see the backwards it is quiet time now I'm not sure why this is so hard to get, but it's a pretty good idea. It's also very easy to do, and you can just jump on the platform and go through the Okay, that is what we're supposed to have. Let's go! And if you think that looks hard, that's because it is. I was actually going to say that looked free! That looked so easy! I'll boot this up in the practice room later. That looks so free. So Tails has all of the versions here and a bit of weirdness, he can't transform. There's no multiple transformations for tails. That death is intentional, by the way. He's resetting the level because that's a backup emerald location. Now he's going to lure this flybot over to that first space right here, using specific timing and now looking up to pan the camera up because there are spikes down there but they're not loaded until he's already inside them and then you can just level around. So, are the spikes warping him? Nope. Is that what's happening? Nope. They're clipping him into the wall. Okay, I see. So the reason you are seeing all these... What we're seeing with these level wraps and zips is when characters in geometry they aren't supposed to be in The game really doesn't like it. So the error effects to try and get out of that is if you tap left it'll send you flying to the right If you tap right it will send you flying to the left As long as you are still in collision while that is happening, you just maintain this high speed and then again because we've got Knuckles' boss stage here, the camera saves us by locking us into the zone and now Sound Events has to do the boss fight here by making sure tails goes up to the top here which makes it slightly easier and we're deliberately doing a damage boost with these rings here to constantly grab the ring, because your final ring in a Sonic game will always bounce to the left. So I just defeated a boss enemy in Act 1 and the game says oh you defeated a boss in Act 1 I guess Act 1 is over And so it brings up the score screen, even though I've got this guy come up right here. So In Act 2, I'm just gonna jump up and kill him and the game says, oh you defeated a boss enemy in Act 2! I guess Act 2 is over! Yup sorry the bubbles that are coming up yeah there's no water now that's like square textures zero minutes and zero seconds but we still have a problem because we are nowhere near the loading zone for Mushroom Hill. But, the thing about my save file is as soon as Act 2 Score Counter finishes counting down My save file is going to take over to the next level So I just reset the game, and go back to my save and here's Mushroom Hill! Welcome to Sonic & Nuggets everybody! That's one game done we're on to the second half of it! Alright so that glitch is an absolute miracle. It's like three to four different mechanics all coming together to make something happen that should not be possible, but it somehow is. Yep! And it gets even better. But first we're going to jump into Hidden Palace. We've got a little bit of cutscene here before we go in the special stage here. This is showing you have the Chaos Emeralds with the power of the Master Realm and we are gonna turn them into the Super Emeralds So Game & Shout, you've got time for couple donations Excellent! You have time for a couple of donations. Excellent! You have time for one donation. One donation? Let's do $325 from the Wrecking Crew server. Thank you! Shout out to The Sound Defense displaying his mad skills for a great cause. Respected crew leader, awesome skilled player, treasured OG community member We are so proud of you! Good luck with your run, we love you! The Wrecking Crew Community Server Thank you so much your run we love you the wrecking crew community server thank you so much now the rest of us are going to shut up yes everyone has to be quiet right now it was the last stage you saw this is going to be more difficult than that. Oh my god! I did this four times in the practice room. This is just very tough, what I'm trying to do here. Now, this time we actually have some built in backup rings so this is okay. It's not okay for my estimate. My estimates crying right now but... That like jump scared me when you actually made contact with the red one. Yeah, I turned like one grid square to two grids scared me when you actually made contact with the red one. Yeah, I turned like 1 grid square too early for that unfortunately. Mushroom Hill though thankfully is filled with a massive amount of big rings to the point where you can get all the bigger rings in this stage if you are... Oh wow. In fact, that is what we're going to do. Yeah! I was about to say, that sounds like the optimal thing right? If you just get them all at once, right? Would that be the case here? mean just that's sort of how the route works out that all of the big rings are so close together and they're all just on the way so it is in fact fastest to there's actually a skip that will let you skip almost all of Mushroom Hill 1 and 2, but like this glitch the route is so powerful it's easier not to skip Mushroom Hill and just get all of these. Anyway, this is... Actually give me one second to be silly. Okay. So now you have time for a donation. Excellent. let's take a $250 donation from Play-Doh2876 Awesome Sonic Runs Love the fan games on The Big Stage and Awesome Runners Also we have a Love the fan games on the big stage and awesome runners. Also have a $50 donation from Amy Percent, I love Bellatro! And I do want to update on that we're now over $12,000 towards the $65,000 that we need. Please keep those donations coming one more a 25 donation from jt glad i got in to catch the last leg of sonic block it was great meeting up with some of the awesome Sonic community and to welcome Argic on behalf of the Twin Cities. And it's Hydrocity as in Velocity unless someone can outbid me. Why are you someone can outbid me. Why is everyone cheering? I know, right? They all cheer. They know what they did. You seem to be severely outnumbered. Why are you cheering me? You're wrong. As per T-Lopes, who composed the Mania soundtrack... Hydrocity is not a word. Not. Not a word. Alright we got our next big ring up here. One of the things you get to do with the Hidden Palace one as well is that you select the bonus stages that you want to go in. Sound events are selecting these stages in the order he's used to because muscle memory is a powerful thing so we'll get the backup emerald later on on that one uh this one i have no idea why they remember this color scheme with the green with the purple like that. Especially that lime green on there. It's like Barney and Baby Bob if you're sick. Yeah. Let's start back to the 90s. All right, but the path in this one is pretty straightforward. We got time for another donation I'd say. Fantastic! Let's take a $150 donation from Yuechi. I was gonna space out my donations, but I have to donate for Argic's Quick Speak which might be the only thing faster than Super Sonic. This goes towards Bellatro I have too many friends who love this game and need to not make it happen. I was going to say, let's get that Bellatro run met. Oh absolutely! We want more. Super excited for that. More GDQ, we want more for NSF absolutely More GDQ is more better This is math pretty sure Yep smooth math That's what my English teacher told me. More is more. Why were you learning math from your English teacher? Don't ask me that! I don't need to think about that right now. You should have stopped it, I don't need to think. I just jumped through the ground, nothing to worry about. Nope! That was... I just ignored that you jumped through the ground given like the other stuff you've been doing. Yeah we seem to go through walls and stuff The ground does nothing at this point. This is another one of my favorite special stages, because it's the shortest one. If I do this right, I will get all of the spheres before the music speeds up. Give me just a minute here. 60... 59, 58... Shut up! This is how sound defense treats me in real life. Okay, you can talk again. Deserved, as I want Deserved! I got really nervous there and wasn't going to be able to say anything. And right there the music sped up for the first time. Alright so I've got four more of these to go. Should be three, but... We've got plenty left! It's fine. We've got mushroom too, silicon. Yeah, I can fail this like three times and still do better than I did in practice. Not that I will fail three times. I'm not speaking that into the universe. You won't fail a single time, and if you do I will make fun of you. I know you will. This is the relationship Kuiper and I have with each other. It's true. Alright we got the boss here it's gonna be nice and civil We're going to use his tail as a stairs to go ahead got the boss here. It's gonna be nice and simple. We're going to use his tails to go ahead hit the boss while he's trying to get down in the logs. There you go! Damage was just fine because we were just going to use the invincibility to go after the boss instead of him. I don't want that many rings anyway because of the aforementioned time bonus stuff we were talking about. My guy just had an axe! He's a robot with an axe! We've got industry to make here. Mistakes done in the trade. Lotten, done. We've got industry to make here. That is what Eggman's doing. We always ask him how he manages to like afford all these things. He never tells us. Have you guys seen this red guy before? Never heard of him. Yeah I don't remember him at all in the first half of the game. Wait was he in the first half? I don't think he was. I didn't see him. This is a video game? No this is real life. Oh my god! Stop with the existential stuff! That's Mario no not Matthew mentioned I have a question what is your question I'm just referencing the Mario existential thing. Okay, I'm like half checked into your guys' conversation here. No. You're playing a... you're doing a speed run. You're killing it. You just... you keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, we got more special stages there. We got more Blue Sphere we've got more blue sphere shenanigans coming through this one's relatively not too bad to do on this right i don't like when you jump it's fine it's fine yeah well i know but i still don't like it he was doing that backwards it's i'm not I know, but I still don't like it. He was doing that backwards, Argan. Yeah? It's... I'm not even... I was sweating earlier. I am... I'm calm now. But yeah, seriously. These things are nothing. Knuckles is the best character down at me. Oh, there you go. Some Nuxgang fans here. Who thinks knuckles Is the best character? Alright you know what People at home please donate and tell us what your favorite Sonic character is. There ya go great. Yeah go for it And or tell us what your favorite sonic character there you go great yeah go for it yep and or tell us what your favorite sonic song is oh too many there are too many all right there we go another one down on this when we get the cutscene at the end of it again and we should be coming up very soon. What have we got? Was it three more left? Three more left. Yeah, three more left on this one. So two on the left hand side, one on the right here. Yeah I gotta go for my backup ring after the next one that I usually avoid but unfortunately I'm bad at video games so I got to go for the back up Nah! He said he was bad. That's funny. No, no bad. No bad? Only half a little accidents. Alright so... Argic what do you call this particular stage? Hyperactive Zeal! Oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink This is probably a good time for a donation. Yep. Someone please donate that noise so that I can make that too. I was going to ask if he could repeat that. Because I didn't quite get it, so... Please a donation. I really want to hear Shout do that! Make it happen. Let's start with this $250 donation from Jonic. Had to donate during Sonic Block and one of my favorite games of all time too. I also felt that I kind of had to donate just for that backwards special stage strat. Really enjoying the run, hope everyone has a great GDQ! Gotta go fast! Please donate for Shout to go out-out-out... STOP DRIPPING OVERLOAD!!! Make me! I can, I'm a nice guy But yeah no that is my favourite stage there just because the best thing about it when it speeds up as well It starts driving them faster, so it's like and you're like oh my god! So why were you making a seal noise? Because it sounds like a seal do- But they've all been making that noise! No but those are so many in a row okay i see yeah i got you also i'm a child i mean here but yeah we're gonna go and jump out we've got two left we've got the very first one which is the green one and then of course we have our backup that we are going to get. I am learning... Oh no! I know where you're gonna end up. Different way around that part of the stage there actually which is nice. So this is gonna take us up through the top side and it's gonna give us the big ring in here question in my mind is which one is uh okay yeah going for this one there's a reason for this and i'll say it very quickly before it gets to the hard bit that is that uh there is an animation when you get the last emerald, and it has to pan the camera to the center of Hidden Palace in order for that to be faster. You do the middle one last. like the old mega man thing where you try to land right where the cut scene yes and now we shut up oh That's what you want to see. Oh, that is excellent. Completely backwards. Why? That has never not been terrifying. Oh my God. Thank you. Would you believe me if I said that was the easier strat? No. I would not believe you, I would not believe you. There is another one where I have to make three jumps and lose at most three frames across all three of those jumps. It's very scary, I don't do it for marathons or ever for the sake of my heart. You need that! This is a fair bit into the run don't forget. Indeed. Alright final one right here all emeralds potentially in the first stage of Sonic & Nuggles! That's cool that they let you do that now. Yeah, it's really nice. Easier as Knuckles because he keeps his rings coming out of his back stages. You're just saying that because he is your favorite. No, it's actually true. It's true. I don't know why but it makes it much easier. I know. For me in this particular stage, I always get lost and lose either a set of four or a set of nine. They don't move but I still get lost! And I'm like why? So this stage is routed in a really particular way so I can make these really sharp turns when I'm jumping out of those 2x2s. For some reason, how sharp you turn depends on which direction your previous turn was. I don't know why. Also, there is all 14 emeralds! Here we go! Here comes our buddy! We do at least get to see our buddy right? Heck yeah! The Flicky Army of Death! I am really hoping for some good luck broken flickies coming out of here. What was it again? The Flicky Army of Death. Flicky Arm of Death. The Flicky Army. Can we get a donation from the Flicky Army of Death? Oh, they might be here already. Yeah, someone here called Flicky. There they are! Let's go! Hello birdies! We did not get the broken flickies. That's okay. No, but if you thought Cream and Sonic Advance was overpowered uh eat your heart out advanced fans because we got four of them so these buddies they will literally just go and eat eggman but that is it they would just go get him him and get any enemies there in your way They are amazing we love them to bits. And then they just go off on their merry way And yes don't ask me why Super Tails is like the hyper form of both Knuckles and Sonic, and having an extra ability. I don't know. I just wanted to come back. Sega, please bring him back. It's so cool. But yeah, resetting again. We reset at the end of the level because once the score counter has completed, that the save file is updated. That then allows us to immediately go into this next stage without having to watch any other cutscenes. Now for as intended... We've been seeing a lot of messy stuff recently but this level is done as intended. By design! And invented. I don't believe you! I believe you... As the seconds tick by, I believe you as the seconds tick by, I believe you less. Oh, just wait. So we named this glitch the As Intended Glitch for obvious reasons. Totally as intended. All the way through, through the wall there. I'm just imitating Tails. This is what Tails looks like. Oh, just wait because now we've got Mr. Tickle so this is Mr. Tickle. Who? Mr. Tickle! Yeah, I mean yeah. He's's gonna take all you except from he's gonna he's gonna have himself why are you hating yourself that is the boss and we need to carry this glitch through to the next stage now because mr. tickle is a sprite object and we touched him, it means that we've lost slope glitch so you can see Tails isn't interacting with the ground normally even though he doesn't look like he's normal right now until you get hit like that but Sound Defense has done that because when they used to use Tails' Wobble Sprite, now Evil Expose and we have Slow Pledge again because Mr. Tickle no longer exists and we get Slow Pledge as we go into Act 2. And Act 2 is going to get even more fun, because we're gonna do even more shenanigans with the level. And if you're wondering why he was able to go through walls that's because Slope Glitch and another glitch were activated at the same time, putting tails on the wrong layer of the stage because there's like a foreground and background layer. That's how loops work. There are path swappers that swap you between them. Now this one is just timing...that looks good, excellent. I'm actually going to ask for quiet while I ascend the moving staircase as it were. It's not terribly difficult, but it is scary. Going far enough right there to get this moving. One... Two... One, two, three. Okay now we're good. Nice, safe. So it's not gonna erase the wall but we've got a moving wall here so what has happened is we have skipped over the entire level So we're still gonna erase the wall, but we've got a moving wall here. What's happened is that we skipped over the entire level We have skipped over the laser boss fight where Eggman is using his laser to destroy the inside of a ship because he's weird that way We made it where the moving stairs, there's the level there. That is part of the top of the level there. So we're not going to just wait for that to go all the way up because we are gonna catch it basically. Some beautiful clouds in the background too. We love our clouds. Lovely weather we have here. Those are normal clouds. Yeah! Totally. And then we have our boss fight so we're gonna get the hit here and jump out. Nice straight jump to jump out there that was totally on purpose too does this have a nickname as well like what mr tickles no it's just eggman oh okay yeah so the straight jump is when you you release the D-pad one frame after your last jump input in a spin dash. It's kind of annoying. They're very annoying! That was probably only one occasion where it actually makes a little bit of sense to do it if you don't want to lose the rings. Some defense normally would spin Nash right into the hand and just take damage but that's fine. But enough about that because we are going to the Sando and we're gonna skip Sandopolis 1 which is really fun. Say hello and say goodbye to Sandopolis 1. Goodbye Sandopolis 1. So we are gonna go all the way up the top here We're gonna get ourselves lined up on a little glitch here we're gonna launch ourselves from this part of the geometry did not get lined up on the sub pixels there which is fine but we're gonna do what we did in the previous levels there we're gonna pass the level boundary on the left hand side the game doesn't like being at minus numbers it's gonna send us all the way to 255. but what are we gonna do we're gonna get locked into the boss room and ta-da! We are zipping our way through this stage. Is there some sort of obviously you haven't done this for every stage, in I guess theoretical terms would there be a way to actively warp to the end of every stage? Most of them have that. Most of them have it yeah because we're getting the emeralds we have to take a different route Okay Because we are also tails, tails have a different route. Oh, okay. I see. Because we're also Tails... Tails has a different route. Something that is really cool here is Soundify's had a bit war between Sonic and Tails. They are two entirely different routes in terms of the glitches and the tricks they do. Also, I lied there is a boss hasn't it and tails has been kind of disappeared there yeah we're taking our rock for a walk yes this is a good time for donation while we wait for the boss to catch up. Sorry, yes donations! Okay cool. I have a five dollar donation from Disposable Hero Hello! Loving this Sonic block. My favorite character is SVO. Love all the Chaotix, though. My favorite... There you go. My favorite song is, of course, Escape from the City. Also, Mr. Gaming Shout shout here's your cue yes yes can i get in one more yeah one more a thousand dollar donation from millie t fox did you know in the original japanese manual of sonic 3 they print all the stage names in both english and with katakana and for hydro city the katakana prints the name using the RO character not the RA character. Did you also know in the European version it prints the name in multiple languages and includes things like Hydroseudad Spanish, which means hydro city or Swedish with Vattenstadden meaning water city or Dutch with Waterstadd meaning water city. Just saying! Also Tails is the best. Yeah you we can we finally put this to bed thank you no no it's not going to pay a thousand dollars we gotta stop arguing forever no and it'll be forever. Just like our runs. We're here forever. Easy to skip in the game here by the way. Full jump. And then just hold against the wall. Yep. Straight against the wall. Yep, straight through the ground. I forgot to roll! I should have rolled... It's okay though. It's fine. There was a small chance that I would've clipped through the floor and that would've been a pain. Oh an unintentional clip through the floor? Yeah! Those exist! There's plenty of them here. In fact if we were doing this as Sonic there is a significant difference in the route on this one which thankfully we don't have to do as Tails. Because Tails can just fly in and not worry about using the sand mechanic here because the sand will rise up you're going to land on the sand then push it and go all the way through. Nah, Tails just flies he cool! But we are gonna see some more vertical shenanigans eventually where we'll just bring the camera down, jump the camera gets confused, we then go through sprite objects because if a sprite object isn't on the screen, it don't exist. Just don't be in a sprite object when it comes back onscreen or it will crush you. So I've been analyzing my rings really carefully... Oh Mike!...so I can do that. I can do that. I can transform at that very specific moment and just clip my way through most of that pyramid. Yeah! And now he's going up here, and this, if all goes well is going to give us a little treat at the end of the stage as well. There is a certain glitch that will save me a tiny amount of time but it looks really cool if I don't screw it up. And swag is time neutral so it's fine. There is one special stage where I used to lose about a half a second where I would land directly on a red sphere and not die. And it was absolutely worth it, but I haven't done that in awhile. Oh yeah because you just love giving us hard knocks. It's time to bust it out right now, right? Well we can, we've got all the emeralds. Sad. Well, we can. We've got all the emeralds. I ran out of special stages. Sad. All right, here we go. We can start over. Anyway. Hey! The boss just sort of forgets to show up. So we don't have a boss and then we get the girl who's like, hmm, skybox, you good? And those ghosts look extra angry. They do. Extra angry. This is why I call it the blood dose glitch. No one else seems to call this, I don't know why. On to their favorite stage, it's lava reef! Lava beef you mean? I love the beef. Lava beef. Well this is the stage where runs are, okay, literally every stage is where runs are made or broken but this is especially the stage where runs are made or broken. Oh yeah, we got massive glitch coming up on this stage. Again gonna be zipping through to the bosses on it but first that's a little cool one you line up right there under the spring you do a little zip through the lava through the bog and then skips a nice bit chunk of the stage there. And now we're going to go down onto these spinny platforms, and this is where the fun begins because... Ouch! I ran into a wall. Ouch. I ran into a wall. Bonk! Yeah, so in a moment here he's going to be able to transform. So this is super annoying sometimes like you will mess up your spin dash and get a straight jump instead. And if you're Sonic you just jump but if you're Tails you usually start flying and that's very annoying. Also check out these double rings watch my ring counter. Wait what why? It forms two rings I don't know why. Today I learned......I don't like this. It's fine, it's fine. How are you- okay. No those were meant to crush you! I like double-taked when you landed in lava and weren't... Yeah, lava's fine! Like we're invincible that's okay but crushers can still crush you so like when your Super form here You are invincible to most things, except from crushing and falling off into a kill plate. And that crusher should have killed you. Instead Sound Defense did a cool little trick there that allowed us to get clipped between the ground and the crusher and just fall right through it, pop right down. And now this boss is great because the Fliggies are going to come out and there's two bosses so some of us are gonna hit one and then the Fluggies are gonna hit the other It's like yeah! job flickies give us a high five four five i was going to run up and hide by this screen i'm not sure if i was allowed to do that no two three i'm not allowed to do that no two three four thank you for cutting me off alright, I'm gonna do a thing give me a second this is good. Cool! Wait, I'm in the floor. Did the sign push him through the floor? The item box that came from the sign did yeah oh so okay what he did there he's waiting for uh items to be in this particular position later in the level before he does the lever up but what he did there was it got under the box, which is easier to do as Tails and then stopped. And that clipped him into the fan. Alright now I am going to do the hardest trick in the game. This is so hard that I might have to bail out. Very fair. I'm gonna try this for one minute, and if I can't get it, I'm just going to face the boss. So what he's doing here is... Please, just uh... Yeah. Okay. Never mind! Yes! Let's go! First try. I was fully prepared to give up on that and I got it first try. I'm so happy. That's an object phase, if you're going at full spin dash speed or faster, um, you can do two quick spin dashes the first one is going to manipulate the camera to go back and then the second one during a very precise timing that item will be off screen so Tails you actually have to fly back a little bit to set the camera farther back to even have that be possible oh no oh i was gonna say oh no oh no oh no but it is a hard trick in the best of times oh yeah yeah like sound events just made that look absolutely ridiculous there but it's the same as what you saw on launch base there where you looked up you despawned the spikes you despawn those blocks and then you do two quick spin dashes. One to despawn the box one to get through it. If either of those spin dashes are off you do not get through it or worse you can get stuck in between them. And if you get stuck in between them, that's a soft lock like you've been getting out there. I didn't know that! I could have soft locked? I've done it once. That's actually really hard to do. It's harder to do than get up. The real trick is getting a fast enough spin dash at the start where you have to do exactly six taps with really good precision timing. Alright, so now we probably have time for like a donation or two. Oh fantastic because we have just crossed $160,000! $10,000 during this run alone y'all are slaying it up there being helped along with donations like this one from the yeti for 5 000 hey all yeti here has anyone ever tried the Ann Knuckles, Ann Knuckles, Ann Knuckles triple stack version of this run? In all seriousness, this run is incredible with amazing commentary. With this donation our total is quickly climbing to over $15,000 raised from orders of our official SGDQ 2024 merch. Get yours today! Every order directly benefits MSF and the essential work they undertake. Alright, right here with one of the easiest tricks in the game... I screwed it up! Alright hold on, I swear this is an easy trick. There you go. Alright. So I just despawned a kill plane and then I flew this way at the end of the stage. This is another vertically wrapping stage, but there are killplanes to make it seem like it's not in an extra way. So despawning that killplane makes that possible to get to the very end of a level. So this right here is the only instance of RNG in the game? This is the only thing that's really random? I mean, it's not as random as say DK64randomizer.com Wait! As an example Hold on, wait a minute DK64randomizer.com? Yeah DK64randomizer.com. I've never heard of it. As an example of things that can be random and really fun. By the way to the donation from The Yeti, has The Yeti ever done a shirt That just says hey y'all, Yeti here? Ooh, that's a good question. Has that ever happened? Because if not... You heard it here first. I think that would be great. The fact that you still have these great ideas with how much you've been losing your mind during this run is incredible. I'm never thinking, Shout. So just like things that came through the building. No one else picked it up. It found my brain and out of my mouth it came. So I'm still thinking about DK64randomizer.com. I can't believe that's- DK64randomizer.com? Anyway Sonic. Have you ever had a word lose all meaning? Yes. But not DK64randomizer.com. No, not at all! even once 64 maybe okay anyway uh anyway i i regret to inform you that we just talked all the way through the best song in the game don't add me you know i'm right. There's been a couple points where the music here is like... This is one of the best OSTs ever made. This was the first OST by Jun Senoue, The Goat greatest of all time wow absolutely but yeah my personal favorite is death egg act one i know my onion rings i'm not hungry they're on me and right i'm not hungry. That's fair. You will see some more onion rings later. We might see onion rings. Can we get a donation to get Argic some onion rings? No, that's fine! Speaking of which have you had your tacos yet? No, no Taco Tuesday. You're welcome to join. Alright, I probably will. I've never had a taco they are rectifying this. This is Red Eye He's a bully. This is Red Eye. He's a bully. Why is he called Red Eye? Because he's got a red eye. Oh! Okay. He's a bully for Weird Super Tales. So we're the bully. It's great. It's so good. The best way to play these games is Super, because that boss doesn't get a chance anymore. That boss... If you're not Super Tails or Hypersonic or whatever, it's a nightmare. Incredibly difficult. Here, it's a joke. I mean, I have a setup for it, so as long as I have rings for the first section, I'm good pretty much. So are we glitching on this one? We're not. I do not want to softlock the game. Thank God! There is a glitch that you can do on this one that's very similar to what we've seen where you will level wrap to the boss arena and get straight into the boss fight from this segment here basically,, it is ridiculously tight and the Sunday things just alluded to there. You can softlock if you do it incorrectly and if you softlocked in an Act 2 you are all the way back to Act 1 and we have an estimate that we're trying to stick to. Yeah I've already lost enough time, I do not need to restart Death Egg on top of it. Nah you are fine, like you are all good on your ass man, that is totally fine. And wouldn't you say that rap is harder as Tails than as Sonic? Because I think I would. I don't do that rap as Tails. Tails has a different trick that he does. Oh no, he's got it worse. He does. Yeah, I thought Tails had it worse oh no he's got a worse he does that i was gonna say his head at first okay yeah yeah it does have it worse at the very least because he might softlock with sonic you can just sort of die your way out of it. Anyway, this is just a victory lap through Death Egg Act 2 so this is a great time for some donations. I have you covered! Let's take a $25 donation here from SalmonBuffalo. My favorite Sonic characters are Big the Cat and Blaze the Clat. Feline Supremacy. Yes! Big the Cat. Speaking of cats, we have $10 from Beef McCat. I know that it's probably Hydro City but Hydrocity is just a lot of fun to say. True! I mean yes, but you're wrong. And $25 in from Augen. I love Bellatro! Let's get that incentive met to see a run of the world's most addicting game and yes we are flying on that! We are now over $14600 towards the 65k that we need there Please keep it coming Keep going. Alright, $30 here from Grinj. Here's one dollar for every year that I tried to beat this adventure. Could you please go super slow on Sandopolis so I can learn how to get out of the pyramid. Thanks in advance, and good luck on the run. So right here we have the boss Uuball. If you've ever had trouble with this boss as a kid, try doing this. It's way easier. Yeah let's not just... completely ignore the mechanic. Just do THIS! No no literally, just spin dash upside down. That's all you need to do. You don't even need a particular speed to Spindash. And then if you jump up against the pillar on the opposite side, you will fall back down and be in a perfect position to Spindash. Shout out to the Flickies who are trying their best right now yeah they just get pumped that is one of the most satisfying sounds in the game. Why am I not... Okay, that- One of the things must have been like exploded early or something. Anyway hold on, one more glitch for the road here. Oh you- Nice. Well that's dangerous yep i broke the floor yep so way over on the right side of the stage it looks like there's floor there's no flow the floor is currently over to the left-hand side! There was a good reason I did this though, and you'll see why in the second phase of this boss. Yes here are his malicious fingers. That is his actual name Yep that's the name of the boss. It has malicious fingers. If they crush you, you're in trouble. Yeah, spin dashing on them getting three hits on each of their fingers, take them down. Oh there! Bring it back because we don't know where the end of the level actually is there because that ain't where you think it is. But now the level's going to start moving towards the right. You'd be thinking, but there's no level there! Like, you've already got rid of it! The game wraps, it changes, we're not going to get a bunch of heads down just spin dash and then you know we have ground where there's no ground and that was phase two complete we're now gonna go into phase three we're coming up to the end of the run time is going to be when the screen fades out fully to white. We've got eight final hits on The Boss here. One, two, three... Oh my! Four. It's okay there was floor. Yep. Five. Six. And time is on fade to white. Seven, eight and wait for it...time! Time. Oh, boy! Let's go! GG Gamer Oh. GG, gamer. That's what you love to see. Sub over 58-12. I was really worried about that estimate after what happened in the practice room. Thank goodness, most everything went off without a hitch. A couple special stages got screwed up but I can take that first try ofLava Reef to my grave. I am happy with that. Hmm, my goodness. And yeah, so if this was Sonic and Sonic had won the bid war and had've been just utterly obliterated by all you tails fans out there we would be seeing the doomsday zone right now and that would be an extra two minutes of the run unfortunately we do not not have time to squeeze that in but I don't know. Maybe you could follow me on Twitch and you'll see me do it there at some point. Just saying, you know? But yeah, I think. Oh yeah, here we go. This is the best ending that you get for collecting all 14 emeralds. We see Tails flying off and Knuckles standing there realizing his deep unrealized feelings for the two. And now we get our dolphins! You got dolphins? No no you get the animals. I guess there are some birds too but mostly the dolphins are what's important here. Yeah, I think that's the run right? Anything else? Kuiper, this is your first time ever seeing this. What did you think? I thought it was lame. I am not impressed at all. No, that was incredible. Thank you so much dude for bringing me up here. This is my first time ever being on a stage in general. GDQ I've been watching forever and this this was fantastic it's an honor to be up here i'm very impressed that was completely not what i thought it was gonna be oh yeah he's gonna like go real fast and you know maybe clip through a couple things the fact that i just got desensitized to you flying to the end of a level after i was like wow this is just like how you play this game now so thank you so much for letting me come up here man absolutely one of the main things that stops him actually is in a lot of stages he can't get to a camera lock position there are places in a lot of stages that you can do a level wrap, but you just die immediately or you can't get to the boss. You could do a couple of those now right? Yeah, no problem. No I don't think we have time. We got time. So yeah, Argic, Allocay any last words? Make sure you go follow the sound defense on Twitch.tv The Sound Defense if you want to see some high tier Sonic 3 and Knuckles gameplay And other games as well Yeah I'll be learning more Sonic games Sonic 3, Knuckles gameplay and other games as well. Yeah I'll be learning some more Sonic games I will learn Sonic Adventure 2 at some point I know I've been promising that for a thousand years But now I said it on the mic so I have to do it Going back to sonic 2. Please follow Alec Kay for his great Sonic, Argic for his great Sonic and commentary And Kuiper for DK64Randomizer.com I don't... Thank you for the shout out, I don't play Sonic games, I play DK64 that's what i do so uh, if you want to watch that......that's me! That's what I do. Yeah, thank you for the shoutout for the rando community. I think that is going to be it for us then. Thank you so much, everybody and have a great time. Seafire now. Everyone have a great STDQ. That's cool. Hello everyone my name is Shovel Claws. I'm so excited for this run. This is Pepper Grinder. We'll talk a little bit about the game first. But first, I have to introduce my amazing couch if you'd like to both introduce yourselves? Yeah. Hey, I'm Bobby Byrne, happy to be here still to be supporting Shubble here it's gonna be awesome I'm a runner of the game mod for the Discord for the speedrunning community for this game not as good as you at the game because your'e the GOAT but we're excited. Are we excited for this run? And next to me on the couch... Hi, I'm Talia. I play Celeste, but this game is so cool. Similar, same facts. We're Rise of Space speedrunners here This game is absolutely fantastic I'm so excited to show you it It's um... how I like to describe it is kind of like Echo the Dolphin rest in peace Um and It's really really fun. I am so stoked to be able to show it Um, so we're gonna go ahead and just get into it Uh usually there's a cut scene at the start of the run here that we skip because time starts when we create a new file but uh we're going to show it off to show up some story and uh just like the file there says her countdown from five so time will begin in five four three two one go good luck homie. Thank you, thank you. You guys are so supportive it's wow my heart. Really obsessed with you. So in this game it is the age of piracy and we have washed ashore on this deserted island. Unfortunately, it's not actually deserted because our treasures come along with us and when there is treasure, there are gnarlings these little narwhal goblin things they're led in battle by mint ignore that she has pink hair and we have mint here it's look um don't think about it but we are going to give chase we play as pepper and a pepper can't be complete without their grinder, so we're gonna need something to cash up to them and take back our treasure. We're gonna use Grinder, a high power drill that will allow us a whole host of movement options that we'll see once we get into the actual movement, each movement of this game. You can see the pet- uh, the, uh, drill down below us We're gonna grab it as we fall in to the first stage Lost Claim. The movement in this game is super, super simple In order to rev up our drill, we will hold the right trigger when you come to dirt like this, we can drill through it and we can dash through in order to gain speed every time we dash. We want to be coming out of dirt. We can also dash while in there, but it only speeds us up a little bit so we want to space out our dashes properly to get that boost out of the dirt We can additionally do a move called a drill crusher here. The drill crusher will allow us to spike ourselves downward in order to redirect our momentum. We're going to use that a lot for some bonus movement options in the game and for a major trick later on. Additionally, we can use the drill in order to power up these machines it is high powered after all and these machines are going to be all throughout the game this game relies pretty heavily on stage gimmicks to spice up the formula, which is honestly great because otherwise, I mean drilling is fun and all but it'd get pretty stealthy pretty fast and I think the extra mechanics help a lot. Good cycle there with the enemies. And quick kill here, we're gonna hit the roof That was so good! Nice job. Yeah thank you. We're going to hit these ceilings as we dive up and rev up our drill twice in order to wipe them out. Wait a minute! Shine Get, huh? Shine Gets?! I didn't think this was a Mario game but you know what that's fine. Nintendo! Oh, I love Mario. Um...I wanna see those shine gets in chat! But we're gonna hop into the next stage, Wellspring Canyon where Talia you would like to explain the major glitch of this run? Yep so you saw Shovel do it a couple times in 1-1 but if he used the downwards drill pressure move next to a wall, he can sometimes get an extra kind of wall jump. We call that a wall bounce, but if you time a jumper after getting wall bounce, you can get into this weird state where you can just jump infinitely. And it lets you go over a lot of obstacles. Intended. Very intended. We call this the Mary Poppins glitch because, you know, the drill kind of looks like an umbrella and you jump through the air. It's cute. I love it. Most people just call it poppin', though. I think poppin' sounds really cool, like a skateboard trick. So I really like poppin for the culture before yeah we have so much culture in this game um but uh the pop here saves about 30 seconds this stage wants you to go down and then back up and defeat some enemies. Instead, we're just gonna jump over it all and shine it easy peasy! Super clean! Yeah that stage is awesome I love that pop in specific And now we are coming into the most technical stage of the run, so I'm going to focus up here and let Fahkir take it away. Yeah no problem! So 1-3 definitely one of the most technical levels again a lot of quick skips here. That was such a good angle, too. It just looked really good. Many of these rooms are very tight precise platforming and also we're going to have a lot of micro-movements with popping that you can see here. So each individual room has its own kind of unique trick that we're going to see here in a second. There we go. Really nice, yeah. So you'll see in each room like these little platforms that were gonna move back and forth or were gonna hit to make our way through the levels. Anything you'd add um yeah i mean we skip all these puzzles i just barely missed it but i want to do this yeah this level has such a nice when this level goes really clean, it's really fun. I spent like hours in this level alone. Yeah. One other thing I'll mention in this game, we do have coins in this game that are five of them at each level and they're going to be collected. Our goal is to get ten of the coins across the game before we get to the bonus level. It'll save a bunch of time later on, so you'll note that we're going to grab as many coins quickly as possible throughout the game. Yeah, there are ten really, REALLY fast coins in this game so we're gonna grab those throughout the route in order to speed up The Last World. Interestingly, we're going to use Pop here like Bobby said for these kind of micro skips. Not everything in this game is just jumping over the entire stage thankfully otherwise that'd be a real Lauren speedgame so thankfully I've also kept enough HP in order to just damage boost through these last few screens, which is very quick and very nice. Love this level it looks so cool. Taking damages really fast, you're gonna see a ton of damage boosting later on in the run Nice job! Super clean! Honestly at 130 there I probably wouldn't reset that but we are going to get from the hardest stage into the hardest boss. Get ready everyone, this one's a tough one! Yeah, this is Beetle Rider. We're gonna pop up to the arena in order to speed up some movement. What's happening here? The arena just looks like this don't't worry. But there's a really difficult two cycle. The boss is coming up right here and we're gonna... Oh wait! Yo wait I got the ward side! Let's go! Every level in this game has these kind of ending goalposts even the boss fights Even though they're supposed to just finish after you defeat the boss So using the Merry Poppins glitch here we can just like fly up through the The goal post in the boss level and completely skip the boss. Yeah. Funnily enough you don't always need to pop for that so I'm taking so much damage I'm gonna die at this checkpoint. But you don't even have to pop for everything So You're going to get to see how wild this game can get We are in world 2 now, this is the lava world and we're going to get through some really tight cycles here I'm gonna just take a death here so I get my health refilled because this part is pretty scary if you would like to talk about it some. Yeah, so a lot of the levels in this world have these kind of global cycles and this level its these platforms but later on there's going to be something else And yeah, if Shovel Claws makes any mistakes it's pretty much going to have to just improv mode for the rest of the level and also health management is super important so these levels are just tough in their own engine. Really nice. Nice job. Nice pop here to get past the lava ball and then on through the end of the level there's some really satisfying movement at the end here but we're going to talk about the next stage sum because because Andrew just is a pretty pivotal mechanic. Pivot, haha get it? Into grapple hooks if Bobby would like to talk about that. Yeah of course nice job. Upcoming here we're going to have some grapples. So grappling and rotating is a huge part of this game Upcoming here we're going to have some grapples. Grappling and rotating is a huge part of this game, you'll be able to maintain a ton of momentum throughout many of these levels as you see here we are swinging very often moving very rapidly through the levels do you want to mention speed boosting with their grapples? Yeah, so the thing about these grappling hooks is that when you right when you latch onto the grappling hooks it gives you a tiny boost of speed that kind of dissipates over time but Shellclaws is going to do this thing called a re-hook where it's just gonna try to double hook onto the same grappling hook to get double that speed. What does this look like? It's not quite double, but a lot of speed. It's really cool. Yeah you can tell when I re-hooked because all I kinda Nice. A lot of speed. It's really cool. Yeah, you can tell when I re-hook because I'll kind of stall in the air a little bit. It looks a bit strange but ultimately it gives us a little bit faster movement because you don't get the full speed from it immediately. Yeah, these grappling hooks can be really nice! Nice! That skip is so much harder than it looks. These grappling hooks can be really brutal because you can move so fast while rocking around them that if you let go a couple frames too early or too late, you can just get really terrible trajectories and lose a ton of time. The end of the stage is pretty simple. It's just more grapple hook movement, so Shao if you'd like to give us a quick donation or two that would be awesome. Absolutely! Let's take our five dollar donation here from Yamza. Let's go Shovel! Let's go Bingo! That's my queen of JSRF. I've also got $5 from SlyDante. Peppergrinder at SGDQ? Heck yes! This is one of those games that was made for speedrunning. So good luck to Shovel Claws, and let's get more money for MSF going. Additionally at the end of this stage there There's a coin where you can fall really fast to get it but it's kind of risky and I don't want to take any backup coins because that would be mean to the restreamers who I didn't provide no backup points for. So I'm going to just make sure I get it real safe. Now we're into Giant's Kitchen, Bobby take it away please! Yeah, we are gonna be popping basically as much as we can in this level. We are trying to maintain our air as much as we can so we are gonna grab that really clean. We also grabbed our gun and we're going to be shooting basically as much as we can to remove a lot of these enemies that are appearing on the right hand side of the screen. So you'll notice this is we're just taking out as many enemies as we can right here. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Throughout the level, we're gonna... Nice! I wanted to take that slow because that platform can be really tricky. Alright, keeping the poppy as nice. We've been seeing these vegetables throughout the game uh these kind of white and purple vegetables uh we've had a bit of a debate over what they are i'm on team turnip by the way yeah okay my commentators are both against me i think they're a big contrarian because i think their radish is cause i think they're a bit contrarian because I think they're radishes, cause I think they're kinda cool. I dropped the pop there? That's wild. I've never done that before. That is kinda what I get. But these turnips... These radishes as I think anyways are pretty cool-ish. There are enemies that give you a bunch of gold that kind of look like radishes so they're kinda cool I guess. Let us not what you think in the nations. Yeah. We also had a turnip run earlier today so... I mean yeah that's true. I mean Happy by Three is literally on my back couch right now so. Just Happy By Three. Runner for that run I personally think Radish's are a little bit cooler though um quick little fight uh room here we're going to pop and rev up our engine in each of those nests Nice! Awesome! And it only takes... We are going to be in the hitbox there and mash our drill In order to get through them in just three hits As opposed to the guns like seven or eight I don't know The drill is so much more profitable than the gun Yeah, it's true Talia, if you'd like to explain some more jump based tech there is a lot of that in this game. Yeah, this level is really tough It has got this massive global cycle with gear slash saws throughout the entire level and this level also like the first major use of double jumps so most 2d platformers implement this mechanic called periodic time where if you walk off of a ledge you have a couple extra frames to get a jump off set the player doesn't really feel bad that their jump was uh eaten uh in this game it's all janky because even if you just jump off of flat ground you get a couple coyote frames so shovel is going to try try to kinda get a jump and then right away try to jump again, you get sort of double-jumped. Yeah the kind of explanation for it is that um...the Coyote Time is a frame too long. A literal frame, one frame. It's a frame perfect trick and so you can I should be above him here there that's fine. I'm gonna take another intentional death to get my health back because the ending of this level is scary. But the coyote time is one frame too long, so if you frame perfectly jump right after... I have to focus there. You can get a second jump and Pepper will just jump up again and we use that there to skip some really annoying sprinklers, there's sprinklers throughout this stage that turn the lava into obsidian and that allows us to skip that it's pretty slow to do it otherwise we're into the second boss now magma worm this is probably my favorite boss in the game very fun everyone say hi to magma worm bad news we never see this boss in any of the speed runs because we don't even need to pop to take care of him. You can literally just bonk, wall bounce twice and get out of bounds, and the flag is just over these crates, which is very convenient. There's a glitchless run of this game called No Poppin', which is removing the pops and fortunately... Did I get the maps off lock? You did! Everyone welcome to SGDQ2! Woah! This one has been going so well so far. Alright. Shoutouts gotta get into the third world now which is the Snow World. It features these cannons which you can launch out of and they rotate slowly until they get to their natural position. Ask your runner if they want to their natural position. As Fiorina, if you want to try to go as fast as possible obviously so, you can actually exit out of the cannons. That was funny by the way. You can just barely reach the cannon hitbox inside the icebox. Tropa's going gonna sometimes try to like cancel the cannons early To get a better and faster trajectory Which is sometimes really risky because if you get A slightly off trajectory again it will just send you in a completely wrong direction lose a ton of time yeah cannons are some of my favorite mechanics they feel so clean to use they're awesome this cannon uh in specific is really nice cause you just instantly grapple straight down into it and it launches you. Nice! You know how your parents always told me not to eat the yellow snow? Same applies with the blue snow here, so... Okay, that's so true. yellow snow same applies to the blue snow here so okay um i will say the end of this stage pretty simple it's a bunch of movement there's one more global cycle that we have to hit and uh otherwise it's pretty straightforward so shout if you'd like to throw some more donations i'd love to hear people's opinions on this turn up rash debate absolutely well i'm gonna i'm gonna take the slightly different way but i think you're going to be okay with it. I want to start with a $10 donation we've got from Sinear. I am so proud of you! You are killing it! Much love from Sinear. Thank you. love you buddy um one more yeah one more is fine i've also got a donation here from fangamer for ten hey everybody, Fangamer here. It's great to be back as a sponsor for Summer Games Done Quick! We have a fresh new selection of official GDQ merch where 100% of the profits from sales directly supports MSF humanitarian mission. Check out our Y2K-inspired SGDQ 2024 collection with new shirts and more! Plus returning favorites like the finale game pin and virtual attendee badge at fangamer.com gdq heck yeah at the start of this stage there is an anime the sort of every stage there's an animation cancel we can do. I intentionally didn't do it on this stage because, well it breaks the music for some reason and I want you to be able to hear this bang in tune It's so good. This entire soundtrack is really good. Shout out to XC who made it. Otherwise, we can get one more donation. Brittle Glacier is a pretty straightforward level until the end. So one or two... One more, and one more. One more! Let's take a five dollar donation from Osmorn Let's go Claws! Thank you for everything you do in this speedrunning community. I can't wait to see what you do next and what games will you have let be demolished by the claw itself! Good luck, have fun, and keep being YOU. Your friend Oz. Love you buddy. Shout out to Nolikon! So Brittle Glacier introduces these icicle tiles that kind of look like Catan tiles. Um... They will melt away when you go through them and we have to be careful because if we make any mistakes they can melt right behind us and we don't really a nice way to back it up. We have another snowmobile here but the end of this stage is pretty tough, it's a big segment where we can't die or get sent back so I'm gonna try my best not to die. Uh we will do a quick death abuse here to get warped forward to the next checkpoint after this snowmobile Drill Crusher straight down and teleport forward otherwise This uh-this last section is notorious because the time trial in the full game release was incorrectly made without this last section in mind. If we get a below 158, which i think we're on pace to do um then i want a big cheer from the crowd because that's the gold time trial medal we'll see yeah wow so uh Oh! I crushed it. Not even close. Let's go, wow. Wow. So... Wow. Yeah. Every casual struggled with that for like a day. It took speed runners like a day to get it. Wow. Very nice. All right. get it well upcoming here we have some water strafing here uh you'll notice that with our drill if we go completely horizontally we can actually just skim across oh wow that's so much harder than you'd imagine. It's so much harder than you'd imagine. You can use it in any water level in the game but this is the main one because it's so fast. Yeah, this is a huge ocean as like sharks underwater and everything. Unfortunately, we won't get to say hi to any of our buddies because if we're going to pop over it Going under water unfortunately really slow As you can imagine It's not too bad in this game actually but it is still slower So we're gonna pop right over and get a coin on the submarine you can see if you could hi friend hi buddy goodbye bye um but yeah water skimming in this game is awesome movement shout out out to everyone who, like, day one was like, yo, has anyone found this? It's really cool. Me included. Talia did this as well. I'm one of the brave few who didn't Um, I wanted to hide it No, I'm kidding It's okay, I think Friday night The ending on stage is pretty simple, we're gonna do one pop. The next stage unfortunately is a lot of popping because it introduces the Rocky Nozzle Turns out this game IS a Mario game You can see why we chose to do shine git now at the end of everything. That's not in the vanilla game, by the way, in case you were curious. I didn't do that animation skip. I had my hands up. But you're going to pop over most of these because these rocket nozzles that you can see are intended to do, to break the ice blocks that you see. And those are really slow cause it takes a few seconds to charge up, it's a slow movement and I'm just gonna jump over it really is celeste oh my god the other rooms it's like kind of a tape and we're actually stuck in there fighting the boss uh we're going to notice that there's going to have that blue snow at the bottom of the level. Intentionally, the intended route to do that is actually go in the snow and kind of just keep popping up and hitting the boss. However what we just do is we don't move basically a whole lot. We just stand there and keep hitting Mint as many times as we can while also avoiding other attacks. Notably this is the only boss in the game where poppin' doesn't help you at all. Additionally, none of the attacks are RNGs so depending on how this fight goes I have to actively react to how much damage I can deal to Mint So I'm gonna let this tense fight speak for itself Hopefully I don't die we'll see um but otherwise i'm going to need some focus time for this one i'm going to lock in enjoy the music it's very good it's very good in this fight, yeah. Alright. Probably could've donation here. Alright, I've got $50 from ZZ. You're going so fast I can't hear the music I wrote. Thanks for running Pepper Grinder and great work! Well, you can hear it here... And... That was such a cleat! Let's go! That was so good. That was actually super good, that was almost close to like the perfect cycle I missed one or two hits but 132 is actually so good there. Oh, my gosh! Since I did that so good, I do want to show off one thing. We're going to enter back into the level. So unfortunately, there is a flagpole in this stage that theoretically we could use to skip the fight. It's literally right above us, but the dev is mean and puts it into this little box. If you can find a way to skip this, that'd be great! We also would break the game wide open. We need to make make a new category. Please, suck away for eternity. Unfortunately. But we're into World 4 now. This is the final world. I did not check how many coins I had. I meant to do that. It's fine. I don't think I'm missing anything. I think you've gotten all the ones. You're probably fine. I should be good. This is The Last World. We're going to, in the next stage, sacrifice our coins. I don't know the name of the Silent Hill protagonist but I think he'd like this movement coming up here... and never mind! I fell into the water! I was gonna uppercut that Pyramid Head but I guess he wins again? Damn. Unlucky, but that's fine That jump is actually so much harder than it looks um i am i'm gonna take an intentional death again because i am pretty low on health that's fair the pyramid heads also just killed me again. Awesome. Bang notably super fast in this game. Yeah, it's really fast especially if you get a checkpoint. Controller please thank you. Let's go. So here we're going to pop over a big underwater section again uh this underwater section takes us through this little ship and notably this takes us through the true pacifist route uh everyone say bye to the gnarlings and also ignore how many I've killed so far. Thank you! We're gonna grab this coin on the way up, And then come on down to the finale here. This level is pretty cool because we get to use water skimming again. And it's really fun, I got sniped out of the air there! Oh my gosh! Water levels in this game are super cool. Yeah they're so good. It's so satisfying. They feel so visceral. I better be seeing shine gets every single time that we're finishing these levels by the way in the chat when I go back. Yeah. So everyone, uh... We are going to sacrifice our coins in the Curiosity Shop here for the Gold Key. Talia if you'd like to explain what this does? Yeah so every single world here has a bonus level that you can basically buy access to with 10 coins and that's why we've been collecting coins throughout this entire run because the bonus level in this one is just way faster than the intended level and beating the bonus level unlock the next level this saves this route saves like a minute, and it also lets us see this really cool level. Yeah, this is probably one of my favorite levels in the entire game. This is Witchfire Bob. We have kind of a magic swampy theme going on with the goo monsters that are on a global cycle again. And also, the big jelly blocks that will pull you back if you don't drill into a dirt block after coming out. So, you'll see here kind of tethered to it and then If I hit the dirt... That was really clean! Wow! If I hit the dirt, I'll be able to escape. Yeah as we were mentioning those purple jellies are very angle specific so we want to make sure that we exit at the perfect angle. At the end of this stage stage i want one more donation real fast because we're about to get into uh terminal depths and there's a bit there 58 is pretty good all right i've got $25 from Totally Normal Podcast plus Piner. Hello from Back Couch. We love you, Shovel. Thank you. Man. All right, I'm going to focus up for this stage because it's pretty difficult. Talia or Bobby if you'd like to take this away either one of you. Yeah so this level is pretty notable in that This is usually one of the levels where most runners just kind of use the Poppin' Glitch and just Just skip the entire level by going on top of it But because Travel Cogs is so cool It's gonna try to showcase this alternate route where you go through the level while keeping Poppin State. I died! That's unlucky. This is so hard by the way. Yeah, people don't do this for a reason. They say it's one second and it's like significantly harder but I don't want to be popping over the entire stage for like a full minute that's so- It's only two minutes actually That's pretty boring um so i'm gonna i'm gonna do this and no matter how many tries it takes that's fine the kind of hard thing is with these bomb enemies uh it's fun if i drop a cop here i think um is they will aggro on you if they see or if you shoot them so we have to very specifically time our shots and um.. Here we have the train auto uh.. autoswirler Uh.. I wanna see a $10 in the memory of those coins that we grabbed and sacrificed to the um last stage since we're on the train now so i wanna to see those uh ten dollar donations in honor of the coins uh otherwise i mean the ending of this stage is pretty simple you're gonna get a taste of the kind of out-of-bound strat that we do um at the end so i think we can fit in some more donations shall wonder or i think we can do two or three all right let's take a ten dollar donation from very lukely what's poppin', gamers? Extremely glad to see this hidden gem get shown off at GDQ. More frenetic 2D platformers with a cool gimmick, please! I adore Peppergrinder, and as a wannabe game dev with little actual coding scale the fact that it was made in construct 3 is very inspiring bring home the gold shovel claws thank you thank you. One more? Yes! I've got $25 from Satan herself. Hey, Claws! You're going so fast! It's clear that you know the drill. Thank you for putting up with me in your chat i know sometimes i can grind your gears but this game rocks and you look absolutely dashing love from the back couch um i hope Love from the back couch. I hope that the rocks part of that was also an intentional pun, otherwise I will be disappointed. It totally was. Was it in all caps? Uh, yeah. Okay perfect. Um we're into Deep Rot City now. Deep Rot City is the final stage before the final boss. This stage has a few riskier straps that I could do to save a few seconds but i'm just gonna keep the pop at the very start and keep it all the way until here because there's a pretty particularly nasty global cycle with these really slow moving platforms that is I can just damage boost through. I don't want to risk taking too much damage here. I'm going to go to my options real fast and turn the volume all the way down for the sound effects because this robot won't shut up. Bobby, you want to tell us why? Yeah so we can basically just fly through this entire section by holding jump and we can also keep hitting the turbo button. And by doing that, basically don't have the animation that would normally take two or three seconds in between each of these orange turbos so were able to just keep spamming and running on through here. If you hold the neutral stick, I'm just pressing buttons. You can go super fast and it's very convenient At the end here we're going to do a pop at the start after getting off that robot because there are some really long elevators that are pretty annoying with these uh fire cycles here these flamethrower cycles i'm on one each piece that's scary that sounds good you get another one here coming up? Yeah, I'm gonna grab this gun for some safety so I don't get destroyed by the... Oh my god. Good call. Okay, we're good. So additionally we have this really long auto-scroller Okay, very good. Alright. Um... So additionally we have this really long autoscroller which is the sole reason I don't run no poppin' because you have to sit through this entire thing and it's really difficult. If you die you go all the way back to the start of like the inside building and everyone say hi to God's abomination. I'm terrified. Oh God, what is that? Look away. Oh God! Anyway. Okay. I mean, that's the other thing. No poppin' scares me too much specifically because of that enemy But we're gonna come into the final boss and the final boss. And, the final boss is pretty cool! Um... The final boss, Emperor Nero turns out Mint isn't behind all this gnarling nonsense. It's this guy Emperor Nero he will will he has two phases also get ready on time for whoever needs it um emperor narrow has two phases the first phase he's in this big humanoid state um and the second phase will kind of transform into the second scariest enemy after that city guy. So we have to pop, or what we're going to do is we're going to hit him once in the first phase go to the left, or to the right I know my directions. And pop and then go gambling because I mean Bellatro, right? A bonus game. We're gonna go gambling and spin to win in order to defeat the boss. We're going to become Beyblade. Also notoriously this boss is pretty bare bones wouldn't you say? Womp womp! I'm sorry. Come on! Come on! I'm trying. You're doing your best, and I appreciate that. But we're going to just constantly move the drill in and out of the hitbox here in order to uh constantly rack up damage um so first phase done the second phase is a little bit harder because i'm going gonna do some alternative strats i'm going to take one point of damage here to take an intentional death just real fast music too yeah this entire soundtrack so good oh this boss is very, very difficult casually. Yeah it took me like a good hour. It's pretty tough. I wanted to get five there but I only got four, I think. Bounce on over, go to the right again and pop off this wall... I didn't hit it for some reason. There we go! While he charges up this little skull attack. I totally didn't take an intentional death, so I like... Did- I just made this harder on myself for no reason. It's fine. But we're gonna do the same exact thing. He's gonna come on down here and... Nice! Time is coming up in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Time! Oh my gosh. The last part was with one HP by the way, since that was an accident. Easy. What a run! And that is EmperorNero defeated. That is our treasure obtained and we have uh it seemed that's we just had the chest there i don't know how this other gold got here but hey i'll take it um mint on our side as well, ambushes the boss in order to defeat him. I want to thank everyone who developed this game especially Publisher Devolver Digital some amazing games and also Riv who has helped a ton with uh specifically this run i reached out to them the other week because i wanted a beta branch for speed running this game we do play on the original launch version of the game. Poppin got patched out in the final version. Hey, Shovel. Real quick, you mentioned Riz. They just donated $100 by the way. Oh, wow! Wanted to say a huge resounding thank you to Shove-A-Plaz for working so hard to showcase the game for such a fantastic cause. Heck yeah! Hell yeah. So, yeah, thank you Riv for also the donation, very generous. Thank you to everyone who developed this game as well the soundtrack producer XC like I said this song is-this entire soundtrack is so bangin' it has such a wide variety of songs it's awesome additionally I want to shout out all of the pepper grinders who play this game, especially Bowden, who is currently on the German restream. Thank you so much! And Ragd, who is second place. Bowden is a world record holder by by the way. He's really good. Um... Only 25 holders so far. Uh... We'll see if that changes. I don't know if I'm gonna go for it but we'll see. Um... But yeah, thank you everyone who produced this game and was involved. Um... Additionally, I want to give a big shout-out to the Games Committee for allowing me to do this run. Originally, this got accepted as part of the second submission period on backup and unfortunately Echo the Dolphin got dropped from the schedule. Rest in peace because that run is so cool. Go check it out honestly. But I got to replace it and I want to thank The Games Committee for allowing me this opportunity. Otherwise do either of you have any shout outs? Yeah no thank you for having us both I really appreciate it um i am excited for the Talos 2 principal run on Wednesday I'll be commentating for as well as my Hyperbolica run on Saturday morning so yeah very excited! Um but yeah that's it for me. run on Saturday morning. So yeah, it's going to be awesome. Very excited. Yeah that's it for me. The only thing I have to shout out is the Monica's D-Sides run That's gonna be later today I'm so excited for that one too This is basically a Celeste game I'm sure this will get made into a mod someday but otherwise you can find me everywhere shovel claws i've recently been streaming four days a week on twitch.tv slash shovel clause if you search it up and i'm not there i'm probably not there for good uh but otherwise thank you so so much to everyone on the back couch and everyone who watched me donated you are also supportive this is the genuinely the most heartwarming community i've ever been in i have so much to owe all of you and i hope i get to continue being a part of it and uh being a part these amazing events. That's all from me, thank you so much everyone for watching! I'll see you next time hopefully. Goodbye! Enjoy SGDQ! Thank you. 100% today. It's going to be a good old comfy time, so I think we are good to go. Give it a countdown real quick. 3, two, one, go! Okay so first thing to cover is what does 100% mean? and it means collecting all the gold cards and costumes in the game. And so there are 5 golden cards per stage adding up to 120 gold cards at the end of the run. And then in non-boss levels, there are two costume pieces per run and there are also costumes that you unlock by completing certain kind of secret objectives. And the most important one is that there's a gold armor that is unlocked by completing the true ending of the game, getting all 120 cards on hard difficulty in less than three hours in-game time and so that is the reason that we play this category on hard difficulty which has quite a few consequences one big one mentioned right away is that this screen right here has wind, the wind is actually made even stronger in the 100% or sorry, in the hard difficulty of the game. It has a lot of other changes such as enemies have more health bosses have more health, bosses move quicker, enemies move quicker and quite a few other changes. So at the start of this run, you're going to see why we start in White Glacier. There's actually four worlds and we have a choice of which one we want to start in and we start our runs in White Glacier as a result of this. This is some luck at the very start of the run, let's see if I can do this... Not quite so bad. So looking for a remote bomb spawn, and that will allow us to blow up our bombs by hitting Z rather than them going off on a timer because normally they just go off on a three second timer. You know what? We'll just do without remote bombs It's a little bit scarier I don't want to spend too much time So there is 6 Noshrox up there. There is a Nobomb upgrade in one of them, which is random which one it is. So I knocked down three and didn't quite get it unfortunately. It is in one of the other three. I could spend a couple more minutes farming. We'll just try to do it without the remotes push through the wind here and we're going to come up on, I believe this is a gold card. So the gold cards in the stages, so there's five per stage three of them are just scattered around the level. So we'll go over here and blow up this tree and it will spawn the gold card we'll take that out so there's one uh yeah one uh that is for killing 30 enemies so the 30th enemy that we kill on a level will drop a gold card, and then there's one for completing the stage in under the target time. And so the target time. So, the target time is stage dependent it's just the time that we have to play the level under and we get a gold card if you look in the top left you'll see that the timer is red. That means we've actually gone over the target time... Oh! That's unfortunate. I was hoping for a snowman to appear on the roof here So enemy spawns are not really random so there are set locations that enemies can spawn and as long as there is enough space on the screen so that there isn't too many enemies or anything else, That enemy will spawn. But unfortunately it maybe just didn't kill an enemy and that made it so that the snowman didn't end up spawning because there wasn't enough space on the screen i'm gonna kill this bunny and take the heart um and then go onto this next screen here i'm hoping to get a red bomb upgrade from this tree. Good? Yep! So the red bomb... Oh no! Oh no! So, the red bomb oh no so the red bomb makes it so our bombs deal double damage and normally we deal one damage with a small bond and we can pump it up to deal two damage, but with red bombs the normal bombs deal 2 damage and the pumped-up bombs do 3 damage. So that allows us to kill these snowboarders. As I said earlier, there is a gold card for killing 30 enemies. And so what we're going to do in this stage, there is this house that will just infinitely spawn enemies. So we're just going to kick bombs at the snowboarders until we get 29. Right there I paused and when I pause, the enemy count will appear on screen it was 19 there so now we're at 21. let another one go that's a very quick pause hard to catch up with yeah yeah if you're not looking for it then you might miss Very quick pause, hard to catch up with her. Yeah if you're not looking for it then you might miss the enemy count. A little too late on that one... 25 26 too late on that one. 25... 26, 27 Being rude today Yeah The uh so this is kind of a consequence of earlier I didn't get that remote bomb spawn, it's harder to kill those enemies without remote bombs. If I had remote bombs, I could just blow up my bombs with Z when it gets near the snowboarder, but The lack of remote bombs makes it so I have to be pretty precise in my bomb tricks That was my fault. I thought the wind had worn off off but it did not okay all right there's a bit of an audio cue but it's there's still a little bit uh going on afterwards yeah it's a bit weird the uh the audio queue actually ends up i think it's partially because of the game lags so much. Because in an N64 game um the audio cue stops and the wind is still going just for like another half second or so. You can see it there, the wind was still kind of pushing me. If I was on normal difficulty then I could just kinda run across this screen and the wind wouldn't really push me but in hard difficulty you have to kind of be anchored against something or else the wind will push you all the way down to the bottom of the screen so now we've collected two of the three gold cards that are scattered throughout the stage, and then we've collected the one gold card for killing 30 enemies. and we're just going to end the stage here. And as a result of that gold card where we have to complete the level in under the target time, we actually ended up playing most stages twice. Which makes the 100% category kind of interesting because the second playthrough of the level most of the time you're just completing it as quickly as possible. So by learning any percent, you've kind of learned... or rather if you learn 100%, you've kind of learned any percent along the way. And so we're going to make our way back there and then there is a gold card that I missed as a result of that snowman not swarming so we're going to get that during the time card but making our way back to where we were before good time for a few donations. Got you covered, let's start with $64 from SVW. Good luck lively! Also Spider Babies get your bets in. Actually running the bet in your chat. Also $100 from Doge Didago Hi Lively! Just wanted to start off the Donos with a BOOM! And thank you for showcasing one of my favorite N64 games of all time. Best of luck with the run, you got this! Show Altair and all those baddies who's the bomb also we have just now passed 22 000 towards the 65 we need from bellatro please keep those donations coming! Alright, so here...we're going to see the snowman this time. There he is. He was absent for the first playthrough of this stage but that's okay so we're going to try and do a bomb jump off of the snowman. This is a little bit tough without remote bombs, I need to wiggle this stick very hard to get out of the stun as quickly as possible. Very nice! So we'll collect that gold card and then we're just going to make our way back up To the top of this screen. We are actually very close to not completing The level in under the target time, The target time for this level is 100 seconds, you can see that the timer's at 93 right now so hopefully I'm on time and we're good! So now... Moving on to the first mini-boss of the run. The mini bosses have some stuff in common, so there are 5 gold cards that you have to get for the mini-bosses have some stuff in common. There are five gold cards that you have to get for the mini-bosses, and four of them are the same for every boss. We need to hit them on the head with a big bomb, hit them with the explosion of a big bomb, kill them without throwing them off the edge and then the time card. And then each mini boss has their own kind of mini-boss specific card for Regulus it's interrupting his attack so I hit him on the head with the big bomb interrupted his attack hit him on the head with a big bomb, interrupted his attack. Hit him with the explosion of the big bomb and now I just need to kill him without throwing him off the edge...and we should get...oh! He escaped! That's okay. Just kind of walk back oh he's fighting back oh he's getting spicy there we go So that's one area where this run differs a whole lot from like an 80% run. A lot of the time in an 80% run you'll just throw a boss right off the edge. But we have to kind of complete all those objectives before we can actually kill the boss there. Now we're into White Glacier 3 at this stage is a little bit of A nightmare. It is very slippery, as you might imagine And On the hard difficulty of the game Which again we have to play on The ice is even more slippery than the normal mode and so be quite careful here oh you're good we're good scare me there, man. Let's see if I can kill this snowman or snowflake rather. I'm not going to kill the snowman because he is too tanky. We'll kill this penguin as well and hopefully this should clear up the space for the split enemy. There he is! So these enemies are very important for White Glacier 3 if you want to do it quickly, if I could kick a bomb. There we go! So the main body gets killed by an explosion and then splits into two, so effectively that is three enemy kills in one, so we're getting 1 tenth of our total needed enemy kills from one enemy which is quite nice. For this screen you might be asking why did I do this to my camera, but that was not me. The game actually forces you to use this camera once you kind of step onto the screen. I'm not really sure why. I guess they wanted to show off their transparent ice effect. Taking this very slow, because that walkway is extremely difficult to do quickly because you're just slipping and sliding all over the place We are going to take it slow, get on back there... One thing to mention is that I am playing this game on the English version There's some kind of funny lore Originally when I started running this game in 2013, the community thought there was no difference between the two versions, the US and Japanese versions. I thought they were the same as far as time goes because there's no difference as far as text boxes but I had discovered that I was losing time when I was running on the us version because i was losing time on the first split to people who were playing on the japanese version and then i discovered that the game actually starts up a little bit slower, and so you lose a little bit of time at the start. And I concluded that the Japanese version was fastest and then several years later it was found that the US version actually loads faster and ends up saving time across the whole category. That's a pretty recent thing right? I think Foot Big Mike did a bit of research on that. Yeah. On the loading screens. Yes. Two or three years ago maybe but it's relatively recent for VARM N64. Right, right, right. Okay so on this screen there's three things that we had to do and usually the kind of intended way is that you would have to go around the screen multiple times or go around the screen multiple times, or go around the level multiple times. So there is the gold card that's on the left, there is the costume piece that is on the right, and then there is that button that we just hit. And those three things, if you're doing everything intended And then there is that button we just hit. Those three things, if you're doing everything intended Then you would have to loop through the stage 3 times To deal with them all But we skip those loops once by taking a death warp which i did a little bit earlier and then we skip another loop by doing that glitch off of sirius so serious that's our friend over there that we were just running up against um if we run up against him on the ice, it starts building us momentum in the other direction and so we just build momentum for about 10 seconds and then once we kind of get off of him it sends us up the slope. Okay We got 30 enemy kills, a little dicey this guy being the thirtieth It's gonna be scary Okay, I'll to sneak right past there and then We have four of the five gold cards and both of the costume pieces from this stage So we are able to go to the end level trigger and then once again we'll have to play this stage one more time quickly to get the gold card for completing the stage and under the target time. So while we're doing the target time run, got time for a few donations. Fantastic! And just a quick update y'all, we have just passed $180,000 raised so far for Doctors Without Borders. We're barely over a day in y'all. 200k is so close! You're gonna get it and I'm going to be here for it. Alright, donations that are getting us there I've got $25 dollars from LavosCloud. So excited to see Lively Raccoon doing Bomberman 64 100%. I've been an avid watcher of his stream for a long time now, and very much enjoyed seeing the intense grind that is this game. Here's hoping Harvester and Spe maker play nice today thank you we're open also the 200 donation here from balagod please make velatro happen and yes we are at twenty two and a half thousand dollars make Bellatro happen. And yes, we are at $22,500 there. A little over a third of the way. Please keep those donations coming. I also have a $50 donation from Sunset Coyote. This donation is to match how much money I paid renting this game as a kid from Hollywood Video. Only made it to Rainbow Palace once. Good luck on the run and I did it! Yeah, definitely as a kid I didn't even know Rainbow Palace existed. You get to the end of game and Sirius tells you he's disappointed in you. I never understood why. Oh, the penguin. Okay we're good. We're living! So now we are making our way towards the first main boss of The Run. Um...so this is Mantis, sometimes referred to as Spider and he's an entomologist. Feel free to weigh away in a donation comment. So there's a web at the bottom but it doesn't have eight legs so that's confusing. The things we need to do to get gold cards are we need to burn the left claw burn the right claw burn his oh there's this fighter babies as mentioned yeah it was a little unlucky to give us attack it's pretty annoying to deal with it getting on the wall like this. It's not coming off! Something I didn't mention that I'm doing right now is when I pump up a bomb that is, I hold the bomb in my hand and then I mash A. And if that pumps it up, it allows me to deal an extra hit of damage. Ooh, nice! Give me that. I'm worried about these spider babies. Spider babies, man. If they...I touch the spider babies then I will die so I want to make sure that I am not getting hit. Okay we got it! So we burned his right claw- He's going back! That's crazy! Oh my god! Um... So he burned its right claw and we need to burn his left claw and we need to burn his left claw and we also already burned his face mask which is another gold card look at this guy so fast okay we're good okay so we burned both claws, We burnt his face mask, now we're just going to deal damage to it Until... Are you? What the fuck! That's gotta be a record man. I don't know if i've ever seen three wall climbs in one fight, that is pretty incredible. Okay and then the last gold card there is for breaking the ice... Break down the ice? There we go, and we're good. Normally that fight goes a bit differently but... I've not seen him get on the wall that many times. Yeah, usually what Mantis will do is it'll kind of slash at you with one of its claws and so he'll just throw a big bomb at the claw as it comes out but that time decided to get a little crazy and attached to the wall a few times now we're on to green garden so for people who have played this game before you might think of this as the first area but in this game as I mentioned earlier we are able to go see the first four worlds and any order that we want to. And so earlier, we went to White Glacier first and the reason we do that in attempts is because of that remote bomb upgrade I didn't get a lot of of the time we'll just kind of go up the slope and try to get that remote bomb upgrade. And then if we don't in my Glacier then we just reset. So that early reset point is why we start there instead of Green Garden. I'm gonna do a little trick to get the remote bomb upgrade so there's a pot at the top of that so blow that up now we have remote bombs and so remote bombs make it so that my bombs are no longer on a timer, so they won't explode unless I hit z which makes killing enemies so much easier because we don't have to like, kick a bomb straight into the enemy. We can just kick a bomb into the area of the enemy and then blow it up And that will get us in the uh... The enemy kill. We're going to do our first bomb jump here so, the way these work is we put down a bomb then pick up a bomb go up against a wall throw that bomb onto our head. And that stuns us and sends us back into the first bomb that we put down, which then sends us forwards and upwards onto the stack of bombs that we play or that we threw up against the wall it brings us up just gonna jump there we go Very nice behavior from that bird. Sometimes the bird just swoops down after trying to climb the stairs there and ends up killing you, but luckily it was not mean there. And then we picked up red bombs. Once again, red bombs make it so my bombs deal double damage So these enemies before, it was taking two bombs to kill them Ooh, this guy guys very far out um so now it only takes one bomb to kill them it also makes destroying some of those structures a bit faster as well instead of having to pump up a ball and you can just kick one at them and they'll blow up yeah exactly and there are some structures later in the game that uh won't flow up unless you have red bombs i think those are exactly one of them. Oh yeah, you're right! I was just thinking about the Red Mountain structure... Oh yeah! Okay so we're gonna get our gold card here and then we're going to make our way over here. So there's a costume piece that is at the top of this screen here. And so we're just going to stack a bunch of bombs. We can probably get one more just for safety, and then we'll catch the costume piece as it falls down So another thing that's really nice about red bombs is that the big bomb explosion becomes ginormous, so we can use it there at the top of a bomb tower and that kind of hits that block that is just floating at the top of the screen. You can see that block from up here, and I think that's the intended way you're supposed to get it. So one thing that's been happening through this stage is I've been stepping on these switches, there are four switches and once I step on all four, that force field will get destroyed and then I can make it to the crystal which is the end level trigger. Um...want to get a gold card over here, check my enemy count. Okay 20 is pretty good because totem and then make our way to the next part of the screen. So this category is kind of an interesting routing puzzle of trying to go through the stage and collect all of the costume pieces and gold cards that we need while also routing in enemy kills so then we end up having 30 enemies towards the end of the stage. This is a very cool little staircase palm jump there to get up to the teleportant. Looks very nice. So, I needed to get in here to get this costume piece, and now we have two of two costume pieces. So we're just going to pump up a red bomb. So pumping up a red bomb does even more damage so if you remember our normal bond does there we go yeah so our normal bomb does one damage a normal red bomb does 2 damage and a pumped up red bomb does 4 no, it does 3 I think it's 3 so for a lot of those enemies, it's pretty nice to have because that bird I think is pretty difficult to kill without it so makes it pretty convenient. And now we've stepped on all four of the buttons, the force field goes down and crystal comes out so we can make our way towards the end of the stage but before we do that we need to kill a few more enemies To get towards 30 I forgot 28, okay Better safe than sorry The way the 30 enemy build card works is that the 30th enemy will drop it and then if you were to miss it because after a few seconds it disappears. If you were to miss it you cannot get it to spawn until another multiple of 30. So you'd have to kill 30 more enemies or repeat the whole stage so You want to make sure that you know when that's going to spawn So you can pick it up and not miss it. One funny quirk of the enemy kill card is that if you had 29 enemy kills and then an enemy walked off the edge, which is possible in a few places. The enemy kills are actually enemies that die while you're on the screen, so if an enemy were to jump off the edge at 29 the gold card would then spawn off the edge and you'd have to kill 30 war enemies. So hopefully that doesn't happen at any point. There's only a few places where enemies can run off the edge so we are generally very cautious about having 29 enemy kills kind of going into that. So the time card for this level is pretty straightforward, just gonna get to all these four buttons, and then get to the end. Good time for a few donations. Yeah excellent I got you covered! Including one from our previous runner or an earlier runner rather $ fifty dollars in from the sound defense congrats lively on getting into sgdq your bomberman streams are some of my favorites and i always try to tune in where i can good luck and let's get this gunzo i also had 64 dollars in from svw spider babies 5k in the bank okay lively i forgot i can't pay out if I participate so uh if you get a minute and also 25 dollars here from jacks one draws hoping to learn something from this bellatro run i just looks like 10 runs in a row and could use some help uh thank you for your help in getting that run added to the marathon we are over 23 000 that. Please keep the donations coming! Alright, so making our way to the end of the level and we're going to get into another mini boss fight. This time we're fighting Sirius, our friend. So he's just going to test us and make sure that we know how to fight and stuff. So this is supposed to be kind of the first fight that you have and again as all mini bosses he has four cards in common with the other many bosses means you hit him on the head with a big bomb hit him explosion with big bomb kill him without throwing off the edge and then the time card so i'm gonna pump up a mom at the start and then i'm going to try to get him to get hit by that perfect i don't know why i picked up a ball in my hands. Yeah, I believe his fifth one is just if you can hit him within a certain time frame, yeah? Yeah, it's a very strange gold card because of, you know, most of the time they are like mini-boss specific cards so they're like interrupt this guy's attack or something like that. That's how the regular gold card worked But for Sirius it just hit him So yeah, it's pretty easy to get that one. Very kind for a tutorial. Okay so we're making our way into Green Garden 3. This is a stage with a very big glitch in it hopefully I am able to get it whereas the glitch that saves three minutes It is frame perfect but that makes it sound maybe a little bit harder than it really is unless I miss it in which case it's extremely hard. So we're just going to make our way through and kill some enemies along the way, uh...and get this remote bomb upgrade over here. But first we are just kinda moving this crystal around so the way that this level works is you get to the crystal which is supposed to be the end-level trigger, and then this little guy takes it away and moves it somewhere else. We're going to do that a few times to get in in the position that we want. And so, in this level hopefully if I get it, the glitch will freeze the end game timer and it will make it so that we're actually able to complete everything in this level and just one playthrough rather than having to play through twice. And this level is quite long to play through, so that does end up saving a few minutes but in the meantime we got to make sure that we get everything along the way. So, we get this gold card over here and then we're just going to kind of make our way back. Those kind of bomb jumps are very easy because it's just kind of kicking a bomb, and they're very intended I think with that the kind of geometry built around the idea of you jumping on your bones. One more here... Okay, so the target time for this level is 100 seconds so i have to make sure that I stay under that before I do this glitch. It's very tight You could make it a little bit easier on yourself if you just didn't kill some of these enemies, but then you kind of end up feeling the effects that later with having to kinda make up that time. Let's work at it... Here we go. Set up a few bombs over here. Woo! We got it! Yeah! Okay, so we triggered two cutscenes on the same frame and that makes things a little weird. We gain control of Bomberman during the cutscene, so we're able to take a death. When you die in this game, the endgame timer freezes but what normally happens is that Bomberman revives and then the game kind of plays like a little jingle, and then it starts back up at the timer. Because I took a death during a cutscene, the in-game timer does stop but it never has a chance to start back up. So if you look at the top left... If you look at the top left, you'll see that it's frozen at 90 seconds and so as long as i don't die um the timer cannot start back up again and so we're gonna make our way towards another costume piece. In doing this, we blew up that bridge... No! Well, we'll have another shot if you guys accept those. So we blew up that bridge, which is kind of the intended way to get towards that teleporter and that's across the river that I fell into. and so we have to jump into that teleporter unfortunately ended up jumping into the river instead but we did game over which you know is which is good and bad. It might be a little strange that we game over because we had one life at the start of this stage, and then seemingly I only died once but it does strip a life when you do the time stop glitch since if you die it does bring you down to zero and then we game over so make our way back um a good time for a few donations yeah always let's see i a $50 donation here from Nick O. Bomberman 64 multiplayer is as much fun as you can have with three friends. So many excellent memories tied to this game. Fellow bombheads, what's your favorite stage? I gotta rep Pyramid. Tossing my friends off the side never stopped being funny. Pyramid's good. I like greedy traps. Also $15 from Beat'em Morph. Hey, Lively! Hey, SCDQ! Good luck on your second run. The Raccoon Den is rooting for you and are confident that you'll smash this Bomberman 64 speedrun. Also, while we're at it, hi from Germany! And real quick $25 from Ozzy saying BALATRO!!! And yes, we are now over 24 almost to $25,000 of the 65 thousand that we need to get that added to the marathon. Keep it coming Okay, so we're gonna run it back Again, We are just kind of inflating our enemy count so that we can get closer to 30 by the time we get towards the end of this stage and then we're going to get over here kill the red guy once again do this setup once again say i think this timesk skip is also a fairly recent one, relatively speaking. Got it again! It's pretty good. Easy every time. I think it was, what, 2020 or something like that? Or is that when we first started routing it in? Yeah, I think that's about right. I forget who discovered it. It was a Japanese runner I believe. Yeah. But yeah, it had long been known that you could trigger the two cutscenes at the same time I think I had a video doing it in like 2014 but I just never thought to try and die during it so So that ended up coming quite a bit later, so always good to experiment with different ideas when you do stuff like that. All right let's run it back and see if I can do this jump without falling into the river. So we're gonna get rid of those enemies, bomb jump up to this box. These boxes are somewhat random but the important ones for this kicker always here that's gonna work eventually well we're good. Just about as far as I could be though, hopefully that works Real slow... I think that's okay Hey! There is a boulder setup, you can go up there from the top and just get off of a big bomb but it's a little bit slower Right, and we blew up the bridge We did So that kind of presents a problem There is another bomb jump set up to get up to here and then instead of crossing the bridge we can do that instead but that is yeah as you said a little bit uh slower as a result of kind of having to go back and then forth. So now at this point again the timer is frozen, and hopefully it will stay that way we're just going to buff up our enemy count once, pausing there to check how many enemies I have. I have 25 and 26 And so we are going to get the rest of this stuff Once again, we have to be pretty careful, there's a few enemies or really one enemy in particular that can present threats on his screen so I'm gonna have to watch out for him over here got a gold card over there and then we can get another one over here and then hopefully we should get a couple enemy spawns you lost one enemies uh despawning on the elevator yeah it's a good thing to mention is that um when you go up lifts, there's kind of protection that the game has so that you don't instantly get stunned upon going up. And that is if the enemy is too close it will just respawn So that's what happened when you saw that red guy just disappear earlier okay this is the scary part where he is? He's not here! Love that. Okay So, end of the stage there There we go. We got all the gold cards and all the costume pieces. Okay. Made it eventful, but we got there! So now we are into Dragon. So Dragon has gold cards. One for each of his wings destroying each of his wings destroying each of his wings blowing up his head and burning his tail so let's see what attack he does it's gonna do fire i think so on fire we're just going to deal a hit to the wing as opposed to uh normal mode on hard mode the fire will actually track you instead of just being in one spot so it makes it a little bit tougher yeah exactly there's spots in Normal Mode where depending on the angle that he does fire you can actually hit the tail But in Hard Mode because he tracks you it's just impossible to hit the tail We did hit the tail once on his bite attack where he kind of charges straight at us and just throw a bomb and hit his tail in his head you're going to try to do that again very good okay so gold cards there for burning his head and burning his tail, now I believe we have one hit left on each wing so there is the double for the mountain so there is he don't cry for burning at the left wing and there's the other one very nice very nice didn't fly under once that was not too bad. Yeah, so there was one attack that Dragon has that we actually didn't see there which is as mentioned where he flies under also called the swoop. And that is a 1 out of 11 chance when you attack so for any percent getting the swoop is terrible um because it's very slow but for 100% it's actually not that bad, because you can set up bombs and hit both of the wings and the head and the tail, which ends up actually being pretty convenient. Yeah, he flies basically right through the explosion Right, exactly So we're into Blue Resort. This is my favorite track in the game. This game has very good music and this is my personal favorite. Kill that enemy... Hopefully we get remote bombs. So this is, uh, here we go. That is a 75% chance so it's very likely that we'd get remote bombs there but there is a chance that we'd have to reload the screen which would have been pretty unfortunate i've had to reload the screen multiple times before which is a pretty insane kind of it's in terms of lung. It's like our 1 in 1000 or something like that, but didn't have anything like that this time which is very nice and now we have remote bombs once again and again that makes it so that our bombs no longer blow up on a fuse they only blow up if we where is this cool guy he's not here okay uh they only blow up if we hit the Z button, which makes killing enemies a lot easier and also makes some bomb jumps easier. I got surprised earlier because there was a blue guy that I was expecting to spawn who didn't spawn. Oh, we just got an extra continue! Wow. So... You might see the gems in the top right corner If we get 50 of them, we get an extra continue so that makes it so when we game over three times we have an extra continue so we don't have to get booted to the main menu which ends up being basically useless but it is one that now one question that I get basically every single time that I stream this game is are the bomb jumps that we do intended? And so, one thing I would say on that is that I would say that the bomb jumps are generally intended because this game is kind of... It very much encourages you to experiment with bombs and bomb jump. When you're trying to get 100%, its actually necessary to jump on bombs in some way. It doesn't have to look exactly the way that we do it, but it is just kind of a sandbox type game so even if developers didn't have the method of bomb jumps that we do in mind when they made the game, I don't think they would be that surprised seeing a lot of them. This game really doesn't have glitches other than the uh finger in three times stop and not to mention you just skipped getting that bridge from the other side with a really nice bomb throw normally i believe that's intended. You know, go around the stage and then lower it. Right. Oh, okay. I miscounted. I thought I was on 29, but now I'm on 29. Gonna do a bomb jump over here, and then we're going to get red bombs. Even though we are at the very end of this stage it does end up working out because we can destroy this bridge a little bit quicker and kill this enemy. There we go, that's 30. And then this section right here can only be blown up if you have red bombs so that is really the main reason why we collect the red bombs, so that's really the main reason we collect the red bombs there to be able to get straight in there. And then when you get on the switch it will open the level exit and at this point we have the three gold cards that are scattered throughout the stage, the 30 enemy gold card and then the two costume pieces so we are good to end the stage And we're going to do it one more time. We've got time for a couple donations. Fantastic! Let's take a $50 donation from Stumpy Root Yippee! Bom bomberman 64. good luck to my favorite bald guy on twitch thank you i've also got 25 here from reiki hi lively i'm so happy i could catch a run i may not know a lot about bomber man but this has been such a delight to watch already good luck with the rest of your run. Thank you. And $5 here from Kyle, let's try and get the hit game Joker Poker online this evening? Okay, well anyway Bellatro's now over $25,000 worth getting added to the schedule so please keep those donations coming. Alright, so, Blue Resort one-time card is super quick, just two bomb jumps as we discussed earlier. We put down a bomb, pick up a bomb, throw that against the wall. And that kind of propels us back onto our original bomb which propels us forwards onto the bomb we threw on our head and puts us up onto a ledge that we wouldn't be able to reach because this game doesn't have a jump button. So now, we are on to Artemis. Artemis, again, we have those mini-boss cards that are in common with every single mini-boss, so hit her with the explosion of a big bomb. Hit her on the head with a big bomb hopefully use both of those right here. Hit her on the head with a big bomb. We also get the gold card for interrupting her attack. Hit her with the explosion on the big bomb. And now we just need to kill her without throwing her off the edge. Nice, that was very good. Very clean. So the Artemis fight I would say generally kind of goes one of two ways, which is like it goes just like that where it's 20 seconds easy no problem and then it could be a complete disaster. Once she kind of breaks the cycle, is very difficult to hit her with the explosion of the big bomb I kind have like a specific positioning that I get into there That should manipulate her to do the attack Kind of relatively close to me so i'm able to get that But sometimes that goes a bit awry and can lead to a whole lot of stress. So now we're into Blue Resort 3, this stage does not have a remote bomb upgrade. It's just not present at all in this level, and so you have to do the whole stage with normal bombs or what? Normal red bombs Makes this stage one of normal red bombs. Alright, so... One of the more difficult ones just because we have to be a lot more precise in the way that we kick and throw bombs. Very nice got a fish kill there. Gonna move to the next screen and then we should kill this enemy right here There we go And I'm gonna take a bong over here There should be a butterfly that spawns And then I kill the butterfly before it is able to fly above the bomb so again the enemy kills are like set in that we know where enemies can spawn, and it's just kind of a matter Of walking out the range of that enemy. And then making sure there's enough space on the screen. And once we walk back, then we should see that enemy spawn so it can be pretty easy to kind of start to get a handle of the enemy spawns but it is one of those things that you just get a feel for as you um play the category more Like if I kill this enemy then this enemy will appear but if I skip that enemy than this enemy isn't going to appear and it can kind of cascade on itself where if you miss an enemy kill then you'll miss an enemies spawn and I can keep going as long as you follow your enemy route okay this fish here check my enemy count i have 21 which should be in a decent place get this costume piece here at 22. this red guy and then butterfly should be over here. And there should be this guy, I can't count while I talk so I already forgot 25 Okay, 25 is a little bit on the low side but we should be able to get this which is fine so we kill this red guy and then we're going to set this up again for that butterfly that's going to spawn right there and then you take out the bridge and we're going to take out that green guy take this a little bit slow make sure sure I get this costume piece. That should be 29... And then... It'll get him! Oh it's going to be right on the edge Huh Oh, no! Huh. Okay. You know? I don't know if I have a great strategy for this. Just gonna end the stage I guess. Hold on. That was so strange. We were talking about that earlier too, as a possibility but uh... Yeah yeah I certainly wasn't hoping it would come true when I was talking about that as a possibility You spoke it into existence I'm very surprised the gold card went off the edge so the way that the gold card spawn works when you kill the 30th enemy is that it should move towards you and it moved off the edge which we were I guess maybe a little too low or something but yeah they've all got an 8-dimensional movement lock so yeah I guess just towards us ended up being right towards the edge I guess that's something I didn't explicitly mention at any point in this run despite it being a 3D game on the N64, it is only 8 directions so we can only move in 8 directions and the enemies only move in 8 directions. This is a bit of an odd situation where all I need is the enemy gold card and I need the time card. We're not going to be able to do this all in one. We might be able show off a cool trick with that but isn't normally shown in this category I think of the best way to farm enemy kills so it's kind of a new situation. I don't know if that's ever been put in. Oh, we didn't get the butterfly to spawn. That's interesting. You know what? I think we're just gonna go back to the first screen. We're gonna keep on killing enemies until we get eventually to 30. good time for a few donations sounds good i have a 64 donation here Sounds good. I have a $64 donation here from Nivity So proud to see the Bomberman 64 100% run at SGDQ There's no one better to represent the game than Lively so best of luck! And don't forget about the Blue Resort 1 skip. $50 in from Jade and Hinga... SGDQ is THE BOMB! fifty dollars in from jade and hinga sgdq is the bomb can't wait for this bomberman 64 run a long lost favorite from my childhood and ten dollars in from Ossagator. What a classic! Best of luck to the Raccoon on Bomberman 64, and much thanks to all the GDQ staff. staff we are closing in on 30 now so we're at 22 slowly make our way there. 23, 24... 25, 26... This is the next evolution of commentary. We can get the crowd in on it, but... Yeah I actually already got 27 28 Oh, 28. All right. Whatever man they're not into it. This guy's gonna throw us off. Oh my so good's so good! The juice man! The mini boss AI is this good? That's crazy! 29... Okay I'm to do a trick. Hey! So that's a trick that normally doesn't have any use in 100%. It is only used in the category called 120 cards. But, the way it works is if you exit out as you're about to collect a gold card, there's a little bit of time between when you select Exit Stage and when you actually exit. And so you are able to get the gold card without completing the level because normally if you collected a gold card then you exit it doesn't count you have to finish the level but that makes it so we don't have to finish the level, but that makes it so we don't have to finish the level and are able to get the gold. Cool guy! We got to show that off! Not cool that we had to...but it's neat to see! Not cool that we had to. It was neat to see. Now, moving on to Fish. The gold cards for Fish are that we have to blow up his club on its face and then you have to blow up this tail, we have to reduce our rafts to one long and we have the throw a bomb in it's mouth so at the start of the fight I'm just gonna start damaging my club should hit it a few times we did at least two before it goes under. We're in a good place, let's see what attack he decides to do. This is the most likely attack so I'm going to throw... Throw a Bomb in his mouth, that's one gold card and then I'm gonna deal another hit to the club. This should blow up the club, that's another gold card Now hopefully he does this attack if i want. Okay. That's good! And so now, he is going to do these bubbles and we are going to hit the tail. That's one of them tails, two, four HP. He can sometimes sneak in another one. Okay, we got three. That's pretty good. So we need that attack one more time. Let's see what attack he does here if he does cutter okay he's doing cutter that's fine yeah sure still reach probably yeah you should be able to reach it just a little bit risky this way So I'm going to reduce my wrath to one log so that gives me another gold card. And now he is gonna come back and I am going to damage him. Okay, now hopefully he does bubbles because that is bubbles. Alright. Try to hit the tail without dying Nice! tail without dying. Nice, guys! It can get a little spooky there when you reduce your raft to one log and still have to hit the tail since the bubbles are random, And he's going to be able to send out at least like 1 bubble before the bomb actually hits him so you're just hoping that that bubble doesn't hit you because you don't really have enough time to pick up a pumped-up bomb to shield yourself okay so now we're on to Red Mountain. This area can be a little bit scary because we are surrounded by lava So it's very easy to fall off the edge and die And the Red Mountain area really don't have access to any hearts, so earlier I picked up a heart that makes it so if I get, then I won't immediately die. This level as well as Red Mountain 3, there aren't really any hearts that we can access There are just those spike enemies you might have seen it poke its head out and shoot fire on this okay um and those enemies do drop a heart but they have I forget exactly it's like eight maybe or I think it's more I think it might yeah 18 health Wow so if you have a minute to continually kick bombs at them, you can eventually get a heart. But it's not really something that we want to do in a speedrun. So we go into that cave and just wanted the costume piece again this is another use of red bombs which we picked up which make our bomb steal more damage and also make our bombs able to blow up those metal grates that was kind of protecting the cave. And that's necessary to get that gold card, or get that costume piece- Ooh! Hello! Necessary to get that costume piece and necessary to get a gold card in a bit. If we're on the very edge of that slope, the fireballs there cannot hit us so I took a little bit extra time to set that up So we're gonna blow up the maelor grate here and then here's a jump that I don't really know why it works but it kinda bonks you out there. And so now we're in the cave section again. The enemies in this cave section are actually very convenient Just like those split-enem enemies we saw in White Glacier 3, The main body is one enemy kill and then it splits into two and then we're able to get 2 more so again it like three enemy kills in one and it allows us to get our enemy kill count up super quickly. So that was one of the caves and there's another cave section but along the way I'm just gonna lower that bridge that will be useful for later, get this gold card here But along the way I'm just gonna go over that bridge, That will be useful for later. Get this gold card here And then there's a cave right down here There is also sometimes a... Blue enemy Okay he's chill we're good Checked my enemy count. I had 19... Now we are at 22... 25... And then... 26 25, and 28. Okay! So we just need a couple more This is another thing that's a little scary so this screen has these fireballs that will drop down from the sky. You see one right there and so what can happen is that can kill an enemy and if you have 29 enemy kills and the enemy gets killed by that fireball then it will spawn a 30 enemy gold card And you wouldn't want to miss the 30 enemy gold card. That would be embarrassing if that ever happened um thankfully it never happens yeah so and it's kind of important to just get the 30th enemy out of the way so that you don't like run away and then the 30th enemy card spawns behind played it safer on those fireballs can we get this last gold card. Whoops. That's okay. We're still out of life. Yeah. Now we just need to do it all again. Oh, not all... This guy And then if I'm on the- I'm getting scared now Okay Wait for the fireballs. I'm gonna wait again. Okay, good. We're going to blow up this and we are going to take this movement ultra slow there you go okay all right thank you that's pretty perfect okay and then at the end of the stage there's just these three levers that we need to drop them down that triggers the level exit and we're able to get on out of there. So now, we have the three gold cards that are scattered throughout the stage, The 30 enemy gold card and the two costume pieces. So now we're just playing the stage once again to complete the level and under the target time for the fifth gold card. Target time for this stage is 80 seconds i should be well under that so we're just gonna kind of make our way back good time for a few donations absolutely let's take a $10 donation here from Game That Tune. I used to rent this game from Blockbuster all the time! It was a blast! I also had a hundred dollar donation come in for me was a blast. I also had $100 donation come in from Liam Sonic and Bomberman all in one day? Way past cool! Thanks for another great event. And again, we are still trying to get Bellatro added to the marathon a little bit later today We're getting some help with folks like Ages Pang With a $50 donation saying let's get that Bellatro run did I just say Bellatio and the lot so I did donate to me to teach me how to pronounce it we are almost at $26,000 towards the 65. We need to get that met so please gamesdonequick.com slash donate keep it coming! Alright, so we're getting into the mini-boss of Red Mountain, which is Orion. We have those same four gold cards and for Orion his specific gold card is getting hit by his green attack which will stun us which is a very interesting goal card that attack right there will stun us and there's a gold card attached so gold card there for hitting him on the head with a big bomb then another for hitting the explosion with a big bomb, and another for hitting him with the explosion of a big bomb. I'm going to let him... Okay. Oh my! He's so good. He's one of the hardest mini-bosses that we get to deal with. Of the bombers, I'd say. Yeah, I would agree. Normally, I don't know if he perfectly kicks a cooked bomb like that but you know? I guess he's feeling feisty today. Get to run it back. So again we're gonna pump up the bomb at the start of the fight and walk down And hit him on the head with a big bond. That's one gold card I It's a little spooky. Hit him with the explosion of the big bomb for another gold card. Okay, don't die before you do the other... There we go! We're good. Getting out of stun in this game when your stunned is done by wiggling the joystick, so you see me kind of going crazy on the joystick there just to make sure that I don't get thrown off yet throw it off the edge before this one should be Okay, there we go. I feel like Orion with the others has a tendency to throw the player off the edge with as many stun mechanics as he can pull. Yeah, for sure. Once he hits you with that green attack and just makes a B-line straight for you and he's going straight for the edge if he can make it there. Okay. So now we're on to Red Mountain 3. We are going to throw a big bomb at guy, and that should kill his minecart enemy And deal damage to the pickaxe enemy Then we're going over here, bomb the pickaxe enemy And then pick up remote bombs Now our bombs only blow up if we hit the Z button. And we're going to watch out for this guy, there you go. And then on his next screen hopefully can get another enemy kill offscreen I don't even remember what enemy this is Hopefully we can get another enemy kill off screen. I don't even remember what enemy this is, I think it's a bat? Yeah there you go! That spawns on the screen as we walk away and so were able to time our explosion just like get it as it spawns in. These rocks are random but if you kind of wait for the first two, then just kinda go, you should make it through no problem. We hit all these switches and eventually we get a glass switch here And that will activate this button which will let us drop these spikes down, get the gold card and jump back across the gap. There is a costume piece that we're going to go for on this next screen, it's always a little bit scary because we kind of have to get ourselves slightly off the edge as you'll see here in a second this floating barrel so there we go It's not particularly precise or anything you just have to be slightly off the edge So it can be scary if you're just not quite far enough, and then the custom piece just drops into the lava. It's very disappointing. Jump across here, and then we can do this gold card over here. And then we'll make our way back, and we can get red bombs which will again make our bomb deal double damage and also make it so that metal grate over there we can destroy. So you bomb jump up, pick a bomb over there and then we get into these caves and once again they're filled with these enemies that are three enemy kills in one, and so super easy to kind of get our enemy count up. We gotta be very careful though unlike other enemies where if you kick a bomb into them they'll get stunned. These enemies are an active hitbox and so, if you pick a bomb in to them it will just explode. So as they're too, you want to make sure that you're not kicking that bomb into them. I'm a little high on the enemy count I think it was 26 maybe? Don't want those pickaxe enemies to run wild because they go very fast. It's another change that is made on the hard difficulty of the game, it's that the enemies move super duper fast and so it's very hard to react once they start okay i'm on 29. okay so just one more enemy kill here which one we'll just wait until the track section so we need to go on this track to get another gold card and there will be these minecart enemies going alongside it. stuff. Get the gold card and now we can make our way towards end of level, once again now we have three cards that are scattered throughout the level, The 30 enemy card and the two costume pieces. So we have everything other than the timecard And we're way past the target time so so we're just going to kind of finish the level. Another nice thing about the red bombs is that it makes it so that we can actually kill these minecart enemies So I can put down some bombs and be protected. In this last section there are these four pillars we're gonna blow up all 4 pillars that drops the section down of the track And then we can finish the level. It would be pretty nice if you could skip that though i feel this on the way there existed yeah i mean if something like that existed a strat like that, it would probably be kind of any percent exclusive because it would probably be too difficult. We wouldn't want to go for anything like that right now. No, no! So in this time card run I'm going go for a really hard skip um and it is normally something that i do not do in 100, because it saves about 12 seconds. It's very difficult and normally during a 100% run if everything has gone optimally to this point you have zero lives. And so's very scary but it also looks cool so we're gonna do it so we just avoid this guy and we're just going to avoid this guy and make our way over to the end. We are gonna do a bomb jump but it's gonna look a little bit different. Here we go. Oh, I walked too far. Okay now what's the time? Okay. 90 seconds. We should be able to make it under that. It's gonna be a little close actually. Gotta make sure we make it before 90 seconds You know one way to make sure you get there in under 90 seconds is just hit the trick so let's go ahead and try it again oh i'm scared actually you guys close i can hear him wait for him oh dang it all right i had to go for at least once yeah so So... The unfortunate consequence of that is we were actually too slow. We're 86 seconds in and the timecard is 90 seconds. And so if we did the level, uh, If we ended the level We wouldn't be under the target time So... Had to exit the stage Then we'll have to try again. Should I try it again? How you feeling? How y'all feelin'? Yeah, I mean surely I got it this time the reason this is hard is because normally bomb jumps we have some setup time. And this has no set up time at all cause there's a minecart enemy right behind you and you have to do it very quickly. Let's see maybe yeah Very good. So there's a lot of kind of moving pieces with that bomb jump. Normally we would just like throw a bomb up against the wall, and then it would do the jump. But we have to throw it against the pillar, and then we have to move a distance that changes based on where we placed our first bomb in order to actually be able to jump across. So it's pretty difficult and very hard game but I was able to get a first try here easily And so, move on to Hades For Hades the gold cards are hitting both of his hands or blowing up both of his hands. Each one has 1 gold card attached to them. Done quite a bit of damage to him. One hit there, and she'll get the hands out of the way which is a little unfortunate I was hoping for a spin but he did not spin Oh, I hit the hat but this is scary. That attack is pretty terrifying to deal with. He just kind of has an onslaught of lasers that keep on going for seemingly forever. Wasn't quite able to dodge him, there we go! That's what we're looking for. Just when we need it it so now we can take care of his hat instantly so that's one gold card for blowing up the house then we're going to work on his hands. Use the laser and then come back over here, try to hit him and the hand... That wasn't the hand I was aiming for, but it worked. We're gonna punch down on this guy. Just need to dodge to the side and then we can blow off the... Then we can blow up the... Then we can blow up the other hand. There we go! Now, he should go under the lava here It's the only attack he has left after we blew up all that stuff. And now, throw a bomb in the hatch and that's the last gold card and then you just need to kill him. I've got time for a few donations. Fantastic! Let's go with a $100 donation I've got here from FootBigMike. Bomberman64 is cool, Lively is cool, TheSpeedrun is cool! You know who's not cool? Orion. to see 100 of gdq and we pray that the rest of the bosses play nice also want to give thanks to everybody out there who's helping me with this pronunciation. I had $25 come in from anonymous with a comment, shout it's obviously... Thank you for that. Also had $25 in from Conrad, It's so much fun seeing a game I barely managed to reach the final stage as a kid get absolutely demolished in a speedrun. You can do what with the bombs? Greetings from Germany! So now we are into black fortress one and this is a pretty unique stage for a couple of reasons that's a relatively short stage um and as a, and as a result of something we'll talk about later there is actually only one costume piece in this level rather than two And that helps make it so that it is one of the only stages that we are able to get all the gold cards and costume pieces without having to play the level twice. So, we're going to get the constra beast here this is one of the scarier parts of a level i need to wiggle out of the stun after this bond jump super quickly. That looks good. Oh, yeah. We beat the boss by a lot. Alright, we're good. And so now, we got the costume piece, and we got the gold cards. We're just going to make our way towards the last section of the level. We need to kill a whole lot of enemies and we are gonna do that by using the mini-boss at this stage for picking up red bombs and remote bombs. One thing I haven't mentioned is our explosions are capped at a firepower of 2 firepower with normal bombs, but when you collect red bombs You're actually able to collect an additional I think 3 more to make your explosion even bigger. So after I got red bombs, I also got a couple more fire upgrades that's going to make my explosion big enough that it will hit all the compartments of this mini boss so this mini boss has kind of three parts to it. That first hit I only hit the left and right parts and for the rest of the fight, i'm gonna try to and hit all three. So there's kind of 3 instances of those 3 parts so here comes the next instance And one thing you might be noticing is that the middle component Is constantly spawning blue enemies So thats why I damage the left and right components a little bit more Than the middle component Because at the end of the fight what i want is there to only be the middle component left and then it will infinitely spawn enemy kills and so we can just use it to farm so right now we probably have like seven or so enemy kills and we're just gonna keep on taking bombs until we make it to 30. the target time for this level is 180 seconds. We should make it just before, and so we are able to get all the gold cards and caution pieces all in one go. And check the enemy count, 23... 24... 25... 26... 27... 28... 29... 28 29 30 And then we killed the mini-boss at the same time, we moved towards the gold card. Collected the gold card before this cutscene and then we just need to end the stage. We're going to make it with plenty of time because everything So that's only two stages where you can get everything without a glitch. Alright, we're going into Harvester this is one of the worst parts of the run and with that-without a heart the chance of me dying is pretty high so...the gold cards for Harvester are blowing up his left arm, blowing up his right arm, blowing up his faceplate and then blowing up this orb that he can spawn so I'm just going to try to do damage to all the components. This is the attack that i don't want but it's most likely attack the missiles that home onto you and you kind of have to stop what you're doing and hit the missiles. Those drones, they just kinda fly around and then eventually they create a big pillar of fire on the ground Here's the orb that I was talking about, so we're gonna avoid those and then hit the orb That's one gold card Destroyed the right arm that's another gold card and we'll destroy the right arm soon enough whoa relax man oh Oh, the I.M. Wow! Okay. Worst boss. I'm surprised that hit me. Usually if you just keep moving, then that attack where he targets you and then shoots doesn't hit you. But I got a little too close so I didn't have enough room to avoid that. It's okay. To be expected with Harvester. It's difficult this fight. It's kind of to be expected with Harvester, it's difficult this fight there are just so many hit boxes on the screen and it's hard to hit him at times because again we can only move in eight directions and he just kind of moves all over the place um so sometimes we have to reposition quite a bit and really likes the missiles it is his most likely attack despite it being the most hated attack of speedrunners in this game so there's the orb again we're going to destroy it for a gold card here's the attack that i'd like to see that uh is one of his least likely attacks, those high arcing rockets. I'm able to sneak in a big bomb to deal damage to him and some other components Gonna try just hit the components for a bit, make sure that I destroy them all before I kill him. Watch out! Oh! What is he doing? Cool. There you go. Okay, there goes the faceplate. Just need to blow up the left component and now just hit him one more time And he's dead, right? Doing that with only one death, honestly, is not too bad. One thing you didn't see that I'm always very scared of in the Harvester fight Is after you blow up all three components if he he does those missiles, instead of four, he does six and they move extremely quickly and it ends up being super difficult to evade those without taking damage. Luckily we just didn't see it once all the components were destroyed, he actually did the high arcing rockets which is exactly what I was going for. So here we're gonna get remote, which again makes it so that our bombs don't blow up on a timer. It only blows up if we hit Z and so makes it easier to do a lot of bomb jumps And kill enemies and And we're gonna make getting red bombs over here makes it so our bombs deal more damage, So now we can kill enemies super quickly! This would usually take... this enemy would usually take like three normal bombs and he dies in one big red bomb. And on the next screen there's a couple drone enemies that should group up with this purple enemy so this stage is the biggest stage and longest stage in the game by a decent margin. And as a result, and as a result of what I was talking about in Black Forest 1... nice little jump there... they actually put three Nice. We'll jump in. They actually put three costume pieces in this stage rather than two, so there's one in Blackworks 1 and then three in this stage. So a little bit of extra stuff to collect in this stage. So a little bit of extra stuff to collect in the stage, as part of the stages like kind of elaborate there is a lot of these screens that have these platforms and elevators, and they all kind of look the same. So it's very easy to get lost here though. Luckily we know what we're doing so we can navigate every easily good time for a few donations. Got you covered. I have a $15 donation from Lemon Carrots. Oh, Bomberman64! This game was the background of my childhood. I thought the bosses were just so incredibly cool when I was 10 years old! Shoutout to Sirius, who is always my favorite. Good luck on the run!" Sirius is a nice guy, I sure hope nothing bad happens with him Yeah and he's our friend, he's been guiding us along this whole time so surely nothing bad will happen So there I set myself up so that I could get that bomb jump. One thing is a lot of the bomb jumps in this game probably look harder than they actually are, a lot of it's just kind of setting setting up in the right position and then it's just muscle memory from that point, and this game is built on a grid system you can see these squares right here you can see how Barman's shadow kind of like perfectly fits in there so like the side length of one of those squares is the diameter of barman's shadow and so the bomb jump spacing is three Bomberman shadows away from a wall. And there's a lot of geometry and boxes that are placed that far away, so you can just brush up against the box. We did that a few times in Lake View Resort 1 and then it kind of puts you in the perfect position for a bomb jump And from there its doing the execution which is the same every time. So, not too hard to actually pick up the Bomb Jumps though. If you think they look cool I recommend trying them out. This section we're gonna make our way back... I don't recommend trying them out. So this section, we're gonna make our way back... Oh no! Just kidding. Make our way to this elevator and that gets us outta this kinda labyrinth section and back into the sections we were in before. We need to activate this switch which will activate the elevator at the end of the screen, I'm gonna check my enemy count here... 23? Probably okay. If you're offering, I guess I'll kill this guy. Sometimes it's good to kind of check your enemy count earlier than like 29 just to make sure you're on pace for a decent kind of enemy route. We should be good, kill this guy and hit this two switch that activates this bridge here I also walked backwards there after i killed the purple guy because there was space on the screen and so i just needed to get out of the range and then come back in to allow that green guy to spawn. I'm gonna use this gold card here, jump up and then...oh this is one of the most easily forgotten costume pieces right there and not a lot of them've already forgotten, 27, 28... 29. We're gonna hit this 3 switch which will activate a bridge a little bit later. We'll just take this 3-hit enemy, just to be safe. I'm gonna kick a bomb here in case another enemy spawns. Yeah there he is! Didn't want him blocking the way. And when you got red bombs then you can kill them pretty easily with a big bomb hit just real quick. So we're going to make our way towards the third custom piece of the stage which is right on the left here in a box and then we'll just kind of make our way towards the end of the stage and got a few uh time-threatening divisions fantastic let's take a 64 break your donations. Fantastic! Let's take a $64 donation here from Cycris. $64 for Bomberman 64. I loved this game as a kid, but never really could 100% it. Rainbow Palace was a bit too hard for young me. Love the Multiplayer though would play at every chance I could get other people to play. My favorite stage was Seasick. The rocking of the boat was chaotic and fun also 25 in from shredberg donating so we can get the balatro more gdq by adding that bonus game to the marathon. Oba-Alautro, that's what they meant! Pronunciation for real. We're almost at $27000 on it though so please keep those donations coming. And a hundred dollars so please keep those donations coming. And $100 in from Rix, donating because the glitch in Blue Resort was an absolute baller move! Mistakes happen but following up with that was absolutely awesome. Thanks for letting me relive a favorite childhood game with full knowledge of everything my friends and I had missed when we were kids." Alright so now we're into the time card run of this stage. So once again, um, the first run of the level, we collect 4 of the 5 gold cards and both of the costume pieces, And then we need to go back so we can complete a level in under the target time. You saw on this screen I actually just held straight up And walked straight back down, and I was at the perfect bomb jump spacing. Kind of going back to what I said earlier, a lot of time you're just set up naturally after a lot of those bomb jumps basing so you don't even have to make too big of a fuss about it. On this screen I am going to do something a little bit different um, gonna start off the same way we hit the 2 switch activate that bridge, see if I can get around this purple enemy. You could get around him when he's out in the middle like that, but it is very, very scary. This time we're going to try and go through the lasers. This is actually a little bit faster as long as the lasers behave. I think we are good, nice! Alright, and the enemies behaved on their way down, very good. And then we just want to bomb jump up And the enemies behaved on the way back very good. We're just going to bomb jump up and make our way back to the end of the level I've got time for like one donation Got you covered, let's take a 64 donation from picano bomberman64 raccoons my wife thought that i was ditching work and secretly performing this run bring on the bomb stairs! Alright, so this next screen gonna see a cool little skip or a cool little trick to blow up a big bomb earlier. So we're gonna kick a bomb, pump off a big bomb by mashing and then throw that into the explosion of uh...the normal bomb And that just makes it so that the big bomb explodes the wall a little bit faster than if we just like pumped it up and threw it at the walls. So neat little trick to save a second there, and then we're going to make our way to the end of LoL. And so now, we can get to the final boss! It's pretty crazy where are you at the final boss? I know right? Seems like we're already at the final boss. I know, right? Seems like we are way under us now. Doing very well. That's pretty scary. So this is Altair, the final boss. He has two phases. The first phase only has a time card so it only has a gold card for completing him in under a certain amount of time and so we can just click kill him. We do actually, yes. Gonna walk over to the left and then I'm gonna walk over to the left, and then we're going to pick a bomb and you should just die. Very nice. That's kind of a preview of what 80% mini boss fights look like. A lot of them would basically exactly like that. Then the second phase actually has the mini boss gold cards that we talked about before. So at the start of the fight I'm going to kick a bomb into him and try to hit him with the explosion or big bomb. The thing about Altair Phase 2 is that he gets stunned for a very long amount of time when you kick a bomb into him, and as a result in turn he will not really get hit by an explosion unless he is stunned. I'm going to wait for him to come down. He's dancing a little bit. Okay. Really liking that dance. You're gonna come down and shoot a beam and then i'm going to hit him on the head with a big bomb he'll come eventually there it is okay so hit them on the head of the big bomb for another gold card and now we just need to kill them without throwing them off the edge What? Okay. Make sure he's all for it. Uh oh, he's good. Okay. Should the explosion time- okay, good. Gonna hit him one more time, very nice All right. So we've called time by now? Hmm, maybe i forgot what's happening what's this there goes regulus our friend sirius is here to help us. Hmm, could have been an evil laugh for our friend though. Oh he's coming to final boss for us. A little brutal, eh? Bomberman is a little bit more sophisticated than that. Oh, his Porsche's different too! I doubt the V8 than that oh it's porsche's different too oh hmm i doubt living my youth usefulness huh all right maybe that guy is not our friend after all oh someone was like him we just wanted something from us. That is very strange. So in the lore of this game I think there are some hints that... I didn't go over the lore, I'm so sorry. In the lore of the game, The Omni Cube that he just took to destroy Altair is this all-powerful cube that Altair was using to suck the energy out of planet bomber and Bomberman didn't want that And he was accompanied by his friend Sirius who seemingly had a You know common goal to take down Altair and get the Omni-Cube. But it's hinted in a couple spots that Sirius was actually the original holder of the Omni-Q. And he says something like, you know, Altair just doesn't know how to use it right. So turns out that the whole time he wanted the Omni-Q so he could be powerful and take over the world. But as a result of getting all 100 gold cards we get to see that secret, this secret level This is Rainbow Palace and people may know it as being very difficult, there's a lot of required bomb jumps so figuring out this level in Rainbow Palace 3 as well is kind of a puzzle in and of itself. You can have a couple interesting bomb jump techniques to get to the stage pretty quickly. But first, again we need to be killing enemies along the way. We don't want to collect everything else and then end up with 12 enemy kills or something like that. Then we'd have to scramble for enemies. So there I killed an enemy and then I kind of walked back out of the enemy's range so another spawn would happen, and then we came back. So now, we're gonna go over here to this enemy And we are going to make our way towards a gold card So we are going to bomb jump onto this pillar. We throw that bomb over there first so it is the first bomb that explodes when we hit the Z button. We just set up some bombs over here to do a jump, so since that bomb was first, it blows up without blowing up any of the rest of the stuff and then we're able to jump back eventually. There we go. Is that the first section and now gonna make our way back again kill that enemy walk back and then make sure you get another one of those green guy spawns just kind of bolstering your enemy count there. Take out him and then take out this guy but now comes the fun part. So if we line ourselves up at a specific position within a bomb when we try to pick up a bomb it ends up just putting a bomb on top of that original bomb and allows us to bomb jump without a wall so normally when we're doing bomb jumps, we're doing it up against the wall but this section we don't have any walls so you just do that. That gold card is always a little scary but I'll put one there and one more to get back across That gold card is always a little scary. One more to get back across. Nice, that was very clean. Casually there's a very difficult series of bombs you need to lay down just to get across that and be able to skip past a good amount of that. So now we are going for the one jump up towards the top of that. So now, we are going to bomb jump up to the switch and that's going to activate the end of the level trigger. You can actually get to that end of the level trigger without hitting the button but if you go there then you end up softlocking in again so we hit that one 26 enemy kills seven I'm gonna walk a little bit farther just to try to get more enemies. Oh, what? 27? 28... 29... No enemy there, that's fine I'll just put this guy here and then just one more little bomb jump across here and there it is very nice Very nice! Okay, so now again we've collected most of the stuff we just need to play level one more time very quickly so you get the time card a good time for a few donations gotcha covered 64 dollars here here from Fresh Pancakes! I didn't realize how formative the Bomberman 64 sound effect was until this run. Thank him! $10 in from Alex, Childhood Memory Unlocked unlocked i forgot all about the bomberman games and how much i loved them as a kid good luck have fun and fifty dollars from moon blaze wolf knowing sixa i think that And $50 from Moon Blaze Wolf. Knowing Sixa, I think the correct pronunciation is Bull Astro. Here's some more moolah towards getting the run added to the marathon. Thank you and again we're over 27 000 towards that please keep those donations coming okay so now we're making our way to spell makermaker. Would you say this is better or worse than the Harvester? It's better as far as risk of death goes, but worse as far as luck goes. So, at the start of this fight Spellmaker has three attacks and as we damage him he gets more attacks And one of those three attacks I need for a gold card so I'm not going to damage him I'm just gonna wait until one of those three attacks I need for a gold card. And so, I'm not gonna damage him I'm just going to wait until he does the hand. Oh! First try. Very nice. Okay, so we put a bomb in his hand that's one gold card now you need them to stop doing all that. Okay, he did it again. That's fine. Just gotta wait it out. That's what I wanted. We're gonna try and get him underneath And now we need to burn his cape and his head it's very difficult hopefully he moves into this moved away yeah you kind of you try to corner him with a bomb so that he really doesn't have many other choices other than to move into your explosion but often time it gets away okay we got the cape yeah we got the cape and not the head that's pretty typical the head is the more difficult one to blow up and even though like stay still basically Still didn't get it that's fine you can just keep on doing this Put him under And then move them again hopefully we're trying to stand with him there now we just need to kill him which can be difficult i've seen games more attacks there are a few attacks that are pretty annoying This is a boot, I can't really move during it or like...I have to just keep on moving during it I can't really throw any bombs or else I get stomped That might hit him okay there's the panic the frame rate is not very kind but we did kill them and okay nice very, very good. Very good fight! The reason I kind of waited a second before I said it was a good fight is because at the very end of the fight, A lot of time he ends up doing one more attack even though he's already dead. Luckily he just kinda died in peace there so So able to move on to Rainbow Palace 3. So Rainbow Palace 3 is the other stage that we can collect all the gold cards and costume pieces in one playthrough. This one, again, doesn't require any glitches we just have very fast methods to do the bomb jumps that are intended and so we end of getting it below the time card. We've got a remote bombs there, and then you can get over here There's like a caution piece AND a gold card And now we're just gonna make our way back to the inside section. A couple more bomb jumps... And now we're into this inside section. So this is just a pretty confined room that has a bunch of enemy spawns and then there are these four buttons and once we hit all four buttons then the end level trigger is open. These enemies are pretty important, so they take forever to kill. It's five hits. There is a chance that they drop red bombs, and red bombs speed up this level considerably. Neither of them gave it or give me at this time but we'll be killing more i'm sorry there are no chances so you see how these enemies are taking two bombs to kill if I had red bombs they'd only take one. We're gonna have another one here in a second...there we go! Can we get it? Nope. Unfortunate. It's not necessary as far as completing the level and under-the-target time, but it does shave off quite a bit of time to get red bombs early. These are just kind of simple triple bomb jumps, so we just get on the edge and then same as before they're able to jump up and hit the switch. Hopefully red bombs here. Yeah! Okay, so now these enemies are only going to take one hit. This one will only take two compared to three before. The way that this level ends up going is that the traverse kind of went towards one direction of the screen, kill all the enemies we can, make our way back and then there should be enemy spawns on the other side And once you run out of enemy spawns, the other side and then once we kind of run out of enemy spawns, we hit the button which then kind of refreshes the enemies. So now that I hit the button these guys are back and I can kill them again for three more enemy kills. And then kill this guy and the other two here, and then i'm just gonna hit the switch There we go. And we're just going to repeat that until we get to 30 enemy kills basically. Got time for a few donations fantastic i have a 25 donation here from lemon carrots anybody else remember the commercial jingle yeah commercial jingle to the tune of the Spider-Man theme song? Bomberman, bomber man. Mass destruction across the land. Makes a bomb any size and he's yours to customize i do remember that i know exactly where was that in my brain also 25 dollars here from the Mogminer. Bomberman 64 brings back so many great memories of my middle school years. Thank you for everything you do for MSF and PCF From this former Helldivers 2 developer. Let's spread managed democracy by donating everything we can for Super Earth. And $50 from Hey I Like That Game Ball on Roll! All right, I like that game. Ball on roll! Alright, so killed the 30th enemy there and now we can exit the screen and we're good. Okay. Okay, so now we're making our way on to the actual final boss. No jokes this time, which is Sirius. Sirius has two phases. One of them there is only a Time card so we only need to kill him within a certain amount of time No other gold cards cards so sometimes we can get like a three second quick kill let's see if he kind of lets that happen this time yeah Nice. So that has a lot of luck factor into it, sometimes he just kind of flies off right away and you're not able to get that. That's quite good. So at the start of the second phase, it has all the typical mini-boss cards but it also has Regulus Can't Die. He's our friend there. I'm going to move up left and he should shoot a laser down left. Okay, he didn't. Well, he shot a laser at left so that is relatively close. Going to try to hit him with the explosion of a big bomb uh regulus is already taking damage it's still a little off okay hit them with dv on the head with a big bomb i need to hit him with the explosion of a big bomb regul Regulus is confused as to who he's fighting. It's okay. So now we just need to kill them without Regulus dying. Time should be coming up unless Regulus dies, which is more possible when he does more of the lasers. Oh my gosh! It's Freakulous' special attack, because he just keeps on putting down bombs like that i think the series has one hit i don't know how many six is okay. It came a little close there with Regulus. He probably had one hit left, and yeah, if he ends up dying then we don't get the gold card and we have to do this fight all over again which can be pretty unfortunate. Well pretty unfortunate. It was very, uh...very smooth there at the end. Yeah! So I'm just gonna check that we actually got 100%. And while I'm just going to check that we actually got 100%. And while I'm doing that, I wanted to give a big shout out to Kiwi. Thanks for joining me on commentary. Thank you for having me. It was fun time. Yeah, Lively is a very good commentator even while running so I'm just here adding little bits as I can but Thank you and we did get 100%. There you go, the gold armor is ours. What cooler costumes you can get. Yeah. Just wanted to give a shout out to the Barman 64 community. They're great. We have tutorials for both the any% and 100% categories. I even have an any% tutorial that's like 10 minutes long, just covering the basics. Run looks cool and I promise it's pretty easy to pick up and difficult to master. It is very fun so encourage you to try. And wanted to give a huge shout-out to Flipping Mike. He is the kind of original, the OG Ballroom N64 runner who kind of helped me learn the game when I was just learning in 2013. And he is like, he revolutionized basically the whole 100% category and without him I don't know if I would really be speedrunning now. So big shout-outs to Flipping Mike. And yeah, that's it. Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Thank you all for having us! Dig back in, incredible! I think it's a little silly... There we go! We did it! We made it! We have survived technical difficulties We did it! We have survived technical difficulties. Hello, everybody. I'm super excited. My name is Hec Teak and I am joined today by Cloyce and Hob Tor on the couch helping me out with commentary. We're going to be doing Spelunky my first time at GDQ, not Spelunky's first time at GDQ. However, all journal entries? That's a new one. We're going to be doing everything that this game has to offer. Every single item, every single enemy, every single trap, every area. You're going to see pretty much the whole game throughout this run Now of course I need to get a really important thing out of the way first. Let's do a little bit of a trade I am offering you a really, really cool Spelunky run and in return my one humble honest request is that you fill up that Bellatro donation goal because Cloyce back there is waiting with baited breath to do commentary for that segment, too. It would be a travesty not get Bellatro on the GDQ stage this year. I think we're ready to go. You two ready? Yeah. Bid war? Oh, true! The bid war. Y'all did me a huge favor. Here's the thing. We had a bid war for the damsel selection and we have in advance prepared for for the damsel selection, and we have in advance prepared for you the Damsel In Distress The Pugzle. Our cute little guy. I do not promise to be rescuing him. I know that it was mentioned in the bid war that there's a possibility this round may start with me blowing up the dog but don't worry about that we'll get to that later um of course you know at some point there might be a damsel but uh there was also a sloth, and it was really concerning because that sloth makes a horrifying noise on almost every single level if you had chosen it. So you dodged the bullet there. All right. Let's go ahead and get ready and then timer is going to start when I start climbing down this rope, and that's gonna be in five four three two one let go! So first things first we have to learn Let's go. So first things first, we have to learn how to play Spelunky but before we learn how to play Spelunky We're going to break Spelunky I'm gonna go to the menus trying to figure out how to play the game and you might notice something will change about this lobby, of course it's going to completely disappear. Now you might think that was just a little gag, a fun thing to do but mysteriously for whatever reason that is going to give me bombs and ropes in this tutorial we are gonna be doing which I'm not normally supposed To have. Now, this is a great opportunity To explain exactly how all journal entries In spelunky operates because there's A whole lot to do, and this Is a game that's randomly generated at different levels each time. How are you supposed to get everything in the game? Well, the best option we have for doing that is of course to do two major runs, and the reason why there are two major runs is because two of these particular journal entries are mutually exclusive in a way um there is the lava journal entry which i will be happily jumping into lava and dying later in the run. And there is another journal entry for an item called Vlad's Amulet, which makes you notably immune to lava? Bit of a problem if you want to die to lava. We're going to do one run through the secret ending of the game, The Hell Ending which is super exciting. And then an additional round directly into a pool of lava followed by a cleanup portion after that and with the tutorial done the door's gonna open and we're going to be into Open Season. So one of the big things about deciding the route... We might do the Hell Run first. We might not do the hell run first. Biggest thing is that in this run you're going to see shops that have a series of items in them and I'm going to rob them blind every single time And depending upon what items I get That'll sort of inform the decision making for the run every single time. And depending upon what items I get, that'll sort of inform the decision making for the run whether or not you decide to go to the hell rat or if I'm like hmmm think I could dip in some lava. So there is almost always a shop that spawns on the second level of the game. When I say almost always a shop that spawns on the second level of the game. When I say almost always, I mean not this time because Derek is watching and he has his finger on the troll pole so we'll be skipping the shop for this particular run and might do a little reset to make sure that we can get it since at the end of every single area will be doing deliveries that allow us to obtain progress towards shortcuts that the game allows you to utilize to start a little bit further in, progress-wise than you would normally do. And that's huge for a run like this where you're not necessarily going to be able to get everything the first try through. Yeah so there are a lot of different level feelings in this game and various other rare entries. Wow, that's a really good job! Yeah, now we're in the money! Unfortunately, we did pick up an item called The Climbing Gloves which help us by making a stick to walls so we can climb up them faster. Notably this is a bad thing which would be very useful if we needed to go upwards and we didn't have some other extremely powerful item that allowed us to do that on our back. So, we're probably going to be a little bit hampered by those but the jetpack teleporter is kind of THE build in this game. This is the premiere build, this is how we run Any% I'm not going to be running it too aggressively here for hopefully obvious reasons Although hopefully we can show off a unique out-of-bounds glitch with the teleporter in a little bit Yeah that'll be fun! That'd be fun! Why don't you guys explain um...the shopkeepers that will be on every single level for the rest of the game now that I've committed crimes? Yeah so the shopkeeper is basically THE most like ridiculous and unpredictable enemy in the entire Spelunky series In this specific installment of Spelunky they are incredibly fast They have sort-of randomness to their movement they jump around like crazy um the shotgun in this game has some recoil mechanics which can also like compound on their really high jumps and cause them to just go like, you know, somewhere between one and nine tiles in the air depending on the weather that day. Oh yeah. So they're really influenced by the weather. I would say like, what would you say? Like at least 30% to 40% of all runs ever die to a shopkeeper anymore. Oh so many of my runs. If I have items the premier death is to these guys they just do stop and they are not interested in whatever you are doing they will happily shoot you in the face which just kills you. You just die We did mention a little cute thing that you were going to see. You might have noticed this weird pink blob and I've thrown a dog onto it and nothing weird is gonna happen to Ori but ignore the gigantic worm that just ate me alive. It's fine! You didn't teleport around behind the level? What the heck? You know what? We only can give them so much nonsense. Now normally when you play the level you would be playing the level but I'm going to do something that's a little bit different than playing the level, which once these enemies get out of the way, I can just sort of leave, go out of bounds for a little bit. And we're going to come right back in because there's an item here that I'm really interested in. It's a super good item, and it makes me kill stuff really quickly. And then of course we're going to get back to our out-of-bounds adventures right after... Not quite! yeah and then make sure that we get oh not quite they were good out of bad adventures though you might be like really worried about that oh no the speedrunner died but uh in a game like spelunky deaths are kind of A part of the process It's better generally to not die But we're not perfect in the Spelunky community None of us are no matter how good we get And there's always a new way to die in this game I'm sure that at least two things will happen that I've never seen before. Especially trying to do Worm Out of Bounds with the climbing gloves. Yeah, with the climbing gloves! So quickly explain what's going on there. Most levels in the game you'll notice are about 40 tiles wide but the worm is like narrow and really tall. And so they just kind of forgot that because the level is skinnier, there's more level over there that's kind of blocked off. And they've locked it off with some bedrock, which you for the most part can't break. For the most part. Nice bin border! But obviously with a teleporter It's not thick enough to prevent you from teleporting outside of the level. So it's just a very fun little trick that you can do. Doesn't usually come up in all journal entries but we thought we'd take the time to showcase it there. Yeah and since we've died in Return To The M Mines We can get some early donations read as well Absolutely. How does $100 from Momtique sound? It sounds great. Perfect. We also have $25 from Dynomite saying let's go, HecTeeth! It is so cool seeing Spelunky back at GDQ. Also, let us get Bellatro on the marathon. Can I get a hype? Hype. I think you can get a hype. All right, $10 from Ariel Haymarket who says, I think rock puns are nice and I would like to point out that is G-N-E-i-s-s so yeah got time for one more oh absolutely i've got time for any rock puns. Oh, don't worry. Those are a pin, D. We have $50 from username equals pants. It's important not to take Chad's generosity for granted but also it would be really nice again to meet Bellatro during this run just as an update we are actually at fifty thousand dollars of the sixty five thousand needed y'all are making this happen! That's fantastic. Y'all are getting me really emotional. You could say that I'm getting sentimental over it. Oh, devastating. Oh god. I really like the hand to the shovel over to Hexheek that was fantastic. Weirdly there aren't any shovels in this game actually. There's a pit-tack. Wait... Actually he has a painting of a shovel. Talk about sentimental. Yeah very attached to that shovel. So this one we did get a few shops but honestly they were little... You know I'm not too critical of local businesses But they weren't the best set of items So I've gone ahead and just kind of rocked it item list for the time being And given that information Ooh! That's really good find That is good. That was a rare item knocked off the list, thank goodness. Given the fact that we're fairly itemless, we're not going to do the secret ending yet. We're going to save that for later. It's going to be a big special occasion. But I'm going to be on my way to hopefully a pool of lava. As always, you know, one of my special interests diving into lava. Very important. That's a lot of spikes. Oh wow. Ooh, I changed my mind! Actually, I'm gonna go to this little secret door here. You might not have even known that there was a door there. Yeah, it's... There is no way you could possibly have told without the blinking Ujad Eye there. Oh yeah! Like, I obviously used the item that lets you find The Black Market. I didn't find it by looking at the leaves of the background door. They're really bright green leaves poking out inconspicuously from the wall. Definitely not... So we've discussed the fact that shopkeepers are a little bit of a problem, A little bit of a mess. They're a little scary. This level features not too many. There's just eight I have to deal with so wish me luck it's probably fine There were only seven since you didn't have aggro into the market that's true there's only seven well then it's easy peasy yeah it should be super free only seven of these guys i mean you know you got 40 bombs oh my god that's like that's like over five per shopkeeper i promise all right That's like that's like over five per shopkeeper. Oh, I milk it 5 each. I promise. All right. I really want to get back. Yeah helps a lot so the black market is really good because it has roughly like five different shot pools in which helps us with making sure because we do have to collect every single different item in this run. Yeah, that's really important. So the pitcher's mitt for example there is one that we just got, which makes our bombs go straight forward as though you were pitching them, I guess. Yeah! Like a baseball. Yeah, like a baseball. Ignore the fact that it's a catcher's mitt. Yeah, ignore the fact that... It's fine. Don't think about it too hard. That's not what this game is for. Obviously. So there are two items It's fine. Don't think about it too hard. Yeah, that's not what this game is for. It's obviously a good game. Yeah, so there are two items left that you can find in crates at this point. Yeah. Sorry, shopkeeper. Got business to attend to. Unfortunately, we didn't get the paste bomb item in this particular room, which is really nice to have for the Hell Run but...we can make magic work anyway. What's gonna happen? Very shortly we are going to go to the most dangerous level in the run, arguably. It's a little purple ship that's going to spawn The sort of synopsis of that area is what if everything exploded? What if every single thing that existed would explode the moment that you interacted with that. That's essentially the mothership now of course I just made a horrible mistake and i fell into the abyss but oh my goodness is it a funny hat just for me could be a crucial item to the hell round? So we lost track of this A little bit, but we got the eye which totally definitely helped us find the black market Which contains the ankh which gives us a second life Which we'd love to just be able to burn for marathon safety but we do have to die in that particular level to gain access to the Hedjet A very funny hat and if we learn anything from The Pope it's that as long as you're wearing a very funny and fancy looking hat you can have all the power in the world oh yeah and that power will be revealed in two or three more levels so now we are in the ultra danger zone worst place to be my least favorite level in this game. Yeah. There's like a few explosions going on right now. Just a few. It gets a little bit explodey and very, very slow moving elevators as well which keeps you around for as long as possible. Just trying to keep you around for as long as possible. Awesome for speedrunning! Really glad they move at that speed. I have been greeted of course by four UFOs which in case you were wondering, they explode. That was part of the deal with visiting this level is that everything explodes. I'm going to throw a bomb at them, which also explodes because, you know, I like to abide by the customs of wherever I'm visiting Of course. And I need to be extra careful around these big old blasties because they will instantly kill me as it turns out. Not gonna lie, I was very nervous there. Oh, I aim to make everyone nervous that's watching the rules. Yeah? You do? I succeed to make everyone nervous that's watching the rules yeah i succeed to make everyone nervous watching the runs i'm gonna use a big gun i'm going to blow up another alien now we have successfully dealt with all the journal entries and we need to escape which is its own ordeal because as if everything in this area wasn't bad enough there is a shopkeeper waiting for us and the one upside to shopkeepers generally speaking is that you at least get to drop down onto them. But in this area, that gets changed. Thankfully I have a huge gun that the shopkeepers are extremely susceptible too. They tend to die when they get hit by it. As does everything else. that different deserves applause we're out of the we're out of a disaster level and uh we only have more difficult things ahead of us because this game's like hard yeah this is a little not easy. And to talk about this a little bit, he didn't just have to get in. Most speedruns you just get in there and you get out of there as soon as you possibly can but he has to kill the alien queen, pick up the plasma cannon, make sure he gets targeted by a turret, kill the alien queen, pick up the plasma cannon make sure he gets targeted by a turret kill the alien lord, blow up a force field kill an alien tank and I think I got all of them? Did I get everything? I'm gonna say that you got everything but sometimes I forget myself so I'm not a good resource on there. Yeah, there's 114 different goals in this run and keeping track of all of them can be difficult. This is Anubis. He's the Egyptian god of the dead. That was Anubis. And he is now the god of the dead in a different way, because he is dead. He's the god of the very dead. Although... The only way he could get more dead is if we killed him again later, which, I mean, that would be crazy, wouldn't it? That'd be weird. Wouldn't it be crazy if we had a better idea later on? Oh! Bouncy scepter. Your sceptor should be bouncy now since it has been dipped in lava. It's not wrong. It's a bouncy sceptor. You didn't show it off?! I'm sorry! I saw a door! I like doors! You do like doors you can go in them to become invincible and advance into the next level. Anyway if you have been scratching your head at something maybe the part where I died to pick up hat that seemingly does nothing um well i've got great news it does do something yeah that's something is allows me to open the door to a special area called the city of gold now some of the clever people in the audience might think that that is a city made entirely of gold. Now, some of the clever people in the audience might think that is a city made entirely of gold and I've got really good news here, you're exactly correct! But first, I would really like to remove this guy from existence except he's really good at moving out of the way so So I'm just going to cut my losses and go. Fair. Those guys are very tough to kill, and we do need to kill one, get killed by one, or do a secret third thing. And I need to get this scarab over here. He's made of loads like, loads of money, but I'm more interested in writing about him in my funny little journal, my little diary. He is made of tons of very fragile money and he will die to anything and if he does then it's going to be kind of a nightmare to get another one. Yeah, this is like the only time that we can reliably get this without a problem. Hey, look, it's Anubis, the god of dying! If you were very eagle-eyed, you may have noticed that he has the little same ankh for eternal life around his neck and that's why he's able to revive. But only once just like us so he is now definitely really gone. Yeah I'm gonna miss him. I feel like he was a real standing presence in this run yeah here is the normal boss of olmec if you've watched previous runs of spelunky maybe all shortcuts you've seen this guy he stops the ground he instantly crushes things i'm sure the cavemen will be fine 66 of them are fine it's good so we're gonna move him out of the way because we don't want anything to do with this guy for a time yeah although you know? Let's get the attic! Oh yeah we're missing parachutes so some items are particularly common at spawning in crates especially the very useless parachute so normally we're not very excited to see that in a crate but we haven't found one yet it is that easy it is that easy it is just that easy we'd love to find some spectacles here camera's good though the camera as it turns out enemies in the secret area of this game are a little bit shy and susceptible to light. Me too honestly! The camera actually not very good in most of the game but gonna be one of the best items And this is the best place to get it here. So Olmec is a bit of a fool. He doesn't chase you around and you have the ability to create this chute and you might be wondering what's the big deal? You're going to kill him. How are you going to go to the secret area? It seems like you're not really doing that but the thing is the secret area is suspended over a pool of lava and the only platform we have available, Asterisk, is Olmec! Definitely the only platform. No other way. There may be platforms, definitely the only platform. There may be no other platforms, definitely. And you definitely need to do all that stuff to get this door open? No other way to do that either? Yeah we certainly didn't discover a way to avoid doing that over ten years after the release of the game without a chance. So, in Hell, Hell is also a very important part of the run here just because it's so hard to get here and there's a lot of unique enemies, many of which like to get themselves killed. Like Vlad. Like Vlad. However, he is very camera shy. He does not like having his picture taken. He likes it so little that he instantly disappears And of course we're going to upgrade here to this cape that gives us a very nice double jump as one of the best items in Spelunky 2. Interesting! Hey, you forgot it's up there. I mean, you touched it for the journal entry but... Oh, sorry, there's a fancy cape that's red? What if maybe, just maybe, this one special unique cape was worse than the capes that there are currently five on the screen of? That I could use instead? What if those were better? Surely not! Yeah surely they wouldn't just forget how to program the double jump correctly. And so it doesn't work. It's really bad. It's SO bad! For people who run Spelunky 2 that might seem like insane because it's a fantastic item in the sequel. But in this game, it is literally a downgrade. Hot take? I actually use it sometimes. Do you die? Sometimes. For me,? Mmm, sometimes. For me it's all the time. You might be confused why I'm carrying this little pot around and you might think well that must be a journal entry I got bad news there is no cauldron of lava as a journal entry however there is a journal entry. However, there is a journal entry for crushing it and getting a Magma Man And you might have noticed I also crushed a dog And I really hope you didn't notice it because... Succubus is top right on this level by the way Yeah, I think I'm gonna go for a different one okay so this is very scary because like the scarab it has one health and dies very easily and there's only one of them per level. Goodbye, shopkeeper. Yeah, these dogs that we've been so nice to throughout this entire run, half of them in hell are out to get us. They're going to try to jump on our back and steal our health. Yeah, and I've done nothing wrong to any dog on this run so far, so I really feel persecuted about it. And you know what? My record's going to remain clean. I would not shoot a dog assuming that it was the enemy and then getting it wrong. Well, that means the other one on this level is the enemy, right? Yeah! It was important. It was necessary. Never has process of elimination carried so much meaning. And there we go, that's the succubus and that just leaves Spikeball as our checklist for hell Just gonna hit a Spikeball and then we have the final boss, the secret boss of Spelunky, Yama to contend with after that. But first I'm going to let this guy... Maybe he's running all general entries. Maybe he wants to jump in some lava. Does he? Wow! He does! Well, he's on a pretty good run bet because that's an important entry to get ah you might have missed the yama entry though it was pretty close but not to kill llama yeah that's a that's a rookie mistake. One I really hope I don't make but if I do the good news is that I get to show up cool things. So after dealing with our best friend Anubis the Egyptian god of the dead we are now heading on to some Chinese mythology very consistent with our next system. Are you going to use the spike ball here? Absolutely yeah. So the spike ball there are two ways to get the spike ball.? Absolutely. So the spike ball, there are two ways to get the spike ball. The first is of course to get hit by it but that would currently do a thing called killing me which is not helpful for the goal of this run. Instead I'm going to throw one bomb at a time until he dies and then I'm going to throw one bomb at a time at this man until he dies, and then I'm gonna use the bomb to unearth his spike ball and immediately bail. And the reason why is because it turns into a projectile that will instantly kill you if it touches you which is not very helpful. Rather than now where it does 2 damage out of your two health, which would... Also kill me! He has a point. Anyway this is Yama. He's the secret final boss of Spelunky, a really rude guy Of course I really wish I had pace bombs right now but there are options available for me to perform To be able to kill him without pace bombs and i'm gonna utilize this little gun um you might have seen that olmec was pretty frightening like you can't really just shoot olmec and kill him so yama must be similar right yama must not be able to be killed with a simple gun that would be strange yeah i mean he's the final boss of the whole game it will be weird if you were just like super susceptible and like nobody in the community ever like to learn any of his super complicated patterns. Yama died to the shotgun. Oh, what happened? You died on spikes! Oh oops that was bad. You know what I just was really feeling attached to them and maybe there was a journal entry to get spikes and maybe there's no journal entry for beating the game. That's right. There's going to be a Spelunky run at GDQ where I do not beat the game. I mean, you know... You should have died in lava though I mean rookie mistake I mean you could get it both done at the same time We talked about this The good viewers who are watching this are clever enough to see through your lies Kloys Yes We talked about this. The good viewers who are watching this are clever enough to see through your lies, Cloyze. I'm sorry. There is a test at the end so... Yeah you're going to write these things down and I'm not gonna take any of that. So we're on to as I mentioned before every time we complete an area there's a little bit of you probably saw it. I delivered some items to a guy. 10k by the way. Yeah, exactly. We'll be getting $10,000 for him which seems like a lot of money to make a tunnel but that's fine. And by doing that we'll have access to the first shortcut which takes us to the jungle, the green area of the game that is immediately after the mines and it was cool. As a result, we'll be using that shortcut towards the end of the run to grind for what's called level feelings which so far we've seen shockingly little of. Yeah, we've seen like none. That was a nice pyramid dupe by the way. Thank you I got twice the money. So what's unique about Spelunky is that of course every level is randomly generated. I have never seen any of these levels before. These are completely new to me, I've seen some of their features but I don't know exactly how it's built. Look at that! Marathon luck coming in clutch here with another jetpack We would have liked that on the Hell Run, but that's okay. I'm saying anything. The game... Derrick is listening. You never know what he might do. And in the meantime actually since we are just kind of trekking back to the late-game at this point, we can do some donations because it has been a little bit. Oh absolutely! I have so many there is so much love for you guys late game at this point we can do some donations because it's been a little bit oh absolutely i have so many there is so much love coming in for this game it is unbelievable okay so we have 25 from just mike saying had to donate for hectic and the awesome game of spelunky really excited to see him run it at sgdq ten dollars from bumper oyster saying beach mouse suit beat your beach and mouses good luck hacking good luck couch we also have have $100 from Necrotal saying the walls are shifting. Time to go spelunking. Maybe we can get to Bellatro. And you do have to do the worm again. Yeah, I noticed. Oh yep! So speaking of level feelings we actually got two at the same time which is very nice. Really exciting. The jungle's got a lot of level feeling so... We killed a very large bee there and i consumed some royal gelatin as a result and uh there's an even bigger fish this guy is huge he's the size of a truck and there's no exaggeration to that of course going to shoot him with a gun because it seems to work on a lot of things in this game This guy has tied for the most hp of anything in the game With you guessed it, King Yama. So as before the shotgun is the solution I can't believe he survived for that long and you got to chomp me for 4 hp it's okay he's dead i got revenge it was an even trade you gained four hp from the royal jelly and lost four hp from the big fish so we could pretend that nothing ever happened yeah it pretty much worked out. So of course, we did the secret hell run and now our primary objective is to get back to the fourth area of the game, The Temple. That's where we encountered Olmec and we're just going to jump in lava. We're going to look for a couple of things before that, but primarily we're going to jump in lava. It's going to be really cool, really awesome. Going to be really warm. And along the way we will be looking for a few of the remaining entries. We do have a tracker on screen that I'm sure you've been noticing, A few of the key notes that you'll want to take from the entries that are missing. Bottom middle there's a big Yeti his name is Yetik King. He can randomly appear in a level feeling in the ice caves You'll notice that nearby lava there's a little crocodile and a weird pokey block. That's the croc man and the ceiling trap. Those two are pretty important, they're found at the temple. And then over on the right we've got spectacles, which are found in a variety of shops, and then the kapala, which is rewarded for sacrificing enemies alive or dead to the blood god Kali. Ooh, nice. Check it out! We just got that secret level feeling I was talking about and that big Yeti is going to have a meeting with me and we're gonna discuss the possibility of him getting shot with a gun i mean that's not a very nice way to treat one of our key sponsors at gdq oh my god you're right please i'm so sorry uh yeti is fine, he's just napping. Yeah, he's taking a little nap maybe thinking about helping us meet that Velotro incentive We're currently need another $12,000. We're hoping to get that so that I can spend another hour yapping. You wouldn't want to make poor Cloyce not commentate twice in a row. That's like who does that? Who commentates two segments in a row? Probably a lot of people. But Cloyce could be one of them. Hey, speaking of Bellatro really quick, I do have $15 from Sarah Caesar with a very, very important thing to say. A challenger approaches. How about a $5 train to get Bellatro? Here's five from me and two others who are unable to donate. So y'all, can we see that $5 donut train going? Let's go! Let's go. Ooh, this could be good for... Yeah I got a bunch of bodies and Kali is gonna be mighty happy with me. Yeah now we have the black goddess of uh Of the-I believe these are- this is from Hinduism? I think so. Yeah, and again like And you got the spectacles! That's very lucky. This whole game is just too easy. That's very lucky. There's about a one in six there. This whole game is just too easy. Yeah, and they actually expand upon that in the sequel Spelunky 2 you get some ancient Mesopotamian mythology as well. It's one of the coolest things about this Spelunky series is just that it's a huge melting pot of just a variety of interesting cultures. Yeah, I love just how much there is going on with the war but just yeah, the various mythologies that get featured. Anyway, so we got the Kapala there by sacrificing Takali and she also hooked us up with the specs that we needed because she is totally on board with Theron apparently. Yeah, big fan. So we do have Lava available to us but like I mentioned We do want to check for a couple of entries We wanna see a little crocodile man He teleports We're gonna teleport him into the wall We wanna see a trap that activates exclusively in the temple For the golden idol And if neither of those things happen i'm still gonna jump in lava it'll be really funny and we did see our friend anubis there again so he's so good at being alive. Yeah. And also dying. Ooh nice. And that's the ceiling trap. Got it! So that's really nice we got the wet for Yeti King and the Ceiling Trap there which are kind of the two big late game RNG checks in this run. Because, you know, the further in the game something is, the harder it is to get back there if you happen to get unlucky and not receive it. So as long as we can get the crocodile here, we would not have to ever go anywhere past the jungle again which would make this a relatively fast run. Here's our crocodile please oh I did not get the entry too. You didn't get credit for that? No I didn't't somebody got it he's running hey look a crocodile oh what good news we can't let this crush trap kill him however so we're gonna take that and do that i would love this guy with turn around for me it'll be let's just make my day pictures may come in clutch yeah sending things very far and then we want to get this guy to the left, it's like kind of a Puzzle getting this guys journal entry It's a bit of disaster generally speaking In the sequel they Made his behavior a little less Erratic, a little more playable. Excellent. Was there any lava here? Yeah. That's lava to me! We're going in! Nice. This is going really well. I don't mean to Yeah. Nice. This is going really well! This is very good, yeah. I don't mean to talk myself out of it but this is going surprisingly well. And you have a big spider. I forgot to kill the big spider. I have to come back to them. It's a little embarrassing but that's okay. They're like all over here. Yeah we actually passed through a nest with four of them earlier and you just didn't kill any. I was not gonna bring that up. I was going to let that slide. There's a very special level feeling that has four of them. Which is very fun but... Isn't it three when there's a coffin? It might be only three I don't know. That's a good question. Notably there's more than one so... But they do also spawn randomly throughout the levels and they're a very good way to get paced which is very useful for our hell run that you know we would love to have that it makes everything so much easier would have been really nice. Oh, that hurt. Don't do that. I am noticing that there are no giant spiders in this vines which Yeah. Really killing the vibe there Derek if you could hook us up with some giant spiders In the meantime while we're looking for them I think we could take a few more donations. Oh you bet you! I have so much love coming in for this. We have $15 from Xanagear saying Hey HecTeak! Congratulations on finally getting the best speed game into GDQ. You are an inspiration and the community wouldn't be the same without you. Now, I curse your run to never have a camera! You know what? It's okay. You fool! We got a camera like two minutes in we got the multiple cameras in here, your curse has failed. Okay, we do have $25 from my like all the gochi that says hi hack sorry i couldn't make it in person for The event but i'll make it up by watching your amazing run And 50 from anonymous saying shout out to hectic. I love the passion and knowledge He always shares in his streams. And $75 from Jeremy Hay, saying I heard the shopkeeper gives great hugs. Can you confirm? Oh, uh, you know what? They're a hug that... Maybe the last hug you'll ever need in your life. I mean, it's just to die for. Oh yeah. Do we have time for a couple more? Absolutely. All right. We have $100 from Charo. Thank you so much saying had to donate for hectic smoke lunky run good luck and i hope we don't have to wait too long here some smooth jazz we got there we got nice jazz the yeti king he brings a saxophone. And we also do have a two for here. I'm loving this one because it's some interesting puns. This is going to get you. Alright. TGKJ sends in $25 and says this Spelunky run is going to ace this. Put your spade to work and pick up all those golden diamonds. Don't get clubbed by enemies and your heart will take you the distance. Did I get out of the card suits? Did I do it good? Anyway, let's get Bellatro fully donated! And hey we have less than 10 000 to go until Bellatro. You all are so close! Let's make it happen. Yeah, and that run is coming up very soon so get your donations in as soon as you can. Yeah, rapido, rapido. We may be at the end of this run. I don't mean to alarm you. And you'll notice that we had to take a second visit to the worm. Our little teleporter accident earlier meant that we were going a little bit too fast and didn't stop to smell the roses or in this case, the writhing sack of worm babies which maybe wouldn't smell as good. No I don't think so. Yeah, so now we're looking for the haunted castle. The haunted castles unique because it has a level feeling called the Dead or Restless that shows up in the jungle, hence why we're resetting here to try and get that level feeling. And of course then it's unique because it's not just a level feeling where you just spawn in. You actually look for a structure within the Dead or Restless level, The Grave of a Long-Lost King and then bomb your way through to be able To enter a special area which I have some things to say about. In fact, I'm going to say them right now because we have some time. You might notice that if you squint your eyes a little bit at the tracker, there's a green knight there and he's got armor. And you're probably thinking, well, that's interesting. What's the armor mechanic? Well of course, Green Knights can't be whipped or stomped. You'll notice that the whip and stomp works on pretty much every enemy in the game but the Green Knight establishes the idea that armor impenetrable cannot be winter stopped. And then of course, right below him is the Black Knight with his own unique armor and a super cool shield. And I need you to keep that in mind because rightfully that sounds very dangerous if he has this unique special armor and a unique item to protect him. So you're going to see a very interesting method for me defeating that Black Knight. Oh, I missed it! It's okay, you can just wait two and a half minutes. Yeah that's fine. So we need to find something to chuck at a green knight. I happen to have a bomb just for him I wrote his name on it. Now of course We needed to deal with that black knight another heavily armored enemy super dangerous His shield can crush you. It probably protects him pretty well So he's going to be at the top of this castle and pay close attention to the strategy that I implement to be able to kill this guy, because it's really special. Alright? So what we're going to do is we're going to whip him and then crush him. Don't ask me why his armor doesn't work. I couldn't tell you! I made a little blunder, I got too caught up in my angry rant about the inconsistency of armor in this game and I forgot to get the last entry which is the ghost now i could wait for two minutes and 30 seconds at the end of any level to be able to spawn the goats but i could also find a special little item that spawns on better restless levels to be able to spawn the ghost even faster but if it takes more than two and a half minutes i will be embarrassed all right come on derek oh i got really good news better be ready on time better be ready on time. Better be ready on time! Yeah, times coming up in 10 seconds. 3-2-1 TIME! Very nice. I think it went alright! Give the ghost a hug, thank you for helping us end the run She is a her, respect the ghost pronouns of course. That was really good. That was significantly underestimated but that's kind of how it goes with a game like Spelunky. You can get a run that is super duper fast or you can get a run that takes way longer than you would really hope for. But, that was super cool I'm glad that I got to showcase this and I was so excited because all journal entries is such a cool run that shows off so much of this game hold very near and dear to my heart. I'd like to give some thanks before we send this off to what should be Bellatra, get your donations in! I'd like to thank my family, I'd like to thank my mom who is watching live and donated to the event I'd like to thank my mom who is watching live and donated to the event, I'd like to thank my dad who's playing Dungeons & Dragons instead and didn't donate. Um...I'd like to thank my sister who might be watching, I'm not sure hopefully she is. And of course, my community of people who sent some very nice donations. My poor little heart can't handle it. And the Spelunky community at large. Very supportive. I'm always super excited to get a cool run and then have a bunch of people be like wow that was a cool run but that's all it takes really for me so Really appreciate all of you. I know you guys have some shout outs you'd like to do as well? Do you want to go first? Sure, I would like to shout out the Spelunky Fight Club I know I'm breaking the first rule by talking about it but shoutouts to them and I'd like to shout out my partner spider plant love you honey all right um heck mentioned a little bit about how great the spelunky community is i want to take some time to shout out our own personal speedrunning website, mossranking.com M-O-S-S ranking Yeah If you've been around speedrun.com You'll know it's not what it used to be But we have our own special website Which is really, really nice. And it's managed formerly by Saturnin55 who really got the ball rolling on that. Did some excellent, excellent work for the community. Now managed by GareBear who is... We affectionately refer to him as the father of the spelunky community or mr moss ranking i mean he really puts hours and hours in developing tools for us he helped do some updates to that tracker that you saw when spelunky surprise got an update in 2021 it's gonna be ported into the switch brutal and yeah i mean boss ranking is kind of the hub for spelunky speed runs we have hundreds and hundreds of different categories on there, and some people are trying to complete every single one, which is a rather difficult task. A little bit. Gearbear is awesome. I also got a shout out bumper oyster you've seen that hectic and i here have matching shirts with the uh twitter slash discord cat emoji on them and also little accessories representing the characters that we play. And Bumper Oyster was the guy who got that all set up, shipped him to our house last week. You also heard his name earlier when he donated. He's a really great guy. He makes a lot of the art assets for Spelunky and for our own Spelunky community events. So yeah, really great guy shout out to Gary Mumo and MossRanking. Awesome well I think that does it for us thank you everybody for giving me the opportunity to showcase this thank you to the audience you you guys were great. I can't hear you that well with the headset but it still came through It was very, very nice. That's Spelunky for you, all journal entries done pretty quick. Thank you so much. Let's do it! Okay! That looks a little funny. Keep going. Anyway, hi! there we go okay yeah hi i'm i'm sixa and i am overwhelmed by everyone's support for this. Thank you so much for letting me do this tonight. We're going to do three-deck random seed, skipless. We'll get into that in a minute. I'm going to introduce my couch behind me. Hi, I'm Amarlyn. I'm going to introduce my couch. Behind me, I have... Hi, I'm Amarlyn. Um, I am by far the worst player at this game on this couch. I'm Monkeyman. I'm in between these two. I'm here for jokes but also to explain a little bit. Uh, hi, I'm Cloyce. Did you miss me? I was here like 20 minutes ago. Hope you didn't forget. Yeah, I know how to play this game too so yeah that's good. Anyway I have a lot of things to do at the beginning of each of these decks. So I'm probably going to be quiet for a little bit and let my couch take care of a lot of talking. They're gonna be funny. Laugh at them. And we'll figure out what's going on. So anyway, we do have a couple mods in play. You will see some weird cards. I don't know if you noticed something already. Yeah thanks to both Chris and Acadial for setting us up with what we have tonight. So let's go ahead and get started I'm gonna count us down in five, four, three, two, one. Go! All right. So we're starting off with the Plasma deck. The fundamental concept of Bellatro is that the hand you play and the jokers you have affect your chips and your multiplier. So...that's the bare bounds of it. The plasma deck kind of throws it on its head and just makes them both the same number, so it's by far the easiest deck just in terms of you get something to make one of them really big another one really big and then it just makes it all crazy. Yeah and in general that means so you'll notice that the if you look 10 times two the blue number on the left which is the chips is generally going to be a lot higher or easier to make big than the red number on the right, which is Molt. So in general, 6a here's going to be looking at this particular deck for jokers and enhancements that increase the chip count. Because just, if you think about like same tier of Joker gives about 30 chips this gives about 4 mult so yeah that's kind of going to be the main way we're trying to score here because jokers are generally considered the fastest way to score in this game especially if we get certain more powerful jokers easy part of cards yes as we um as we get into their own you'll see about every third blind as they're called. Which is just each round. We are going to reset here. Didn't get a good joker to start us off unfortunately. Just a little bit of orange in it. Yeah. Let's get into the next one. You see that Queen of Hearts that got burned? That definitely for sure means this is a great run. Queen of Hearts, what a good card. Yeah, for sure. Definitely. And yeah, you'll see that balancing effect like it starts out when it's on fire that means it's enough to one shot basically We should talk about the rest of the concepts in the game Yeah I dropped a ball on that one So the premise is there are eight levels of Antiques. It's small blind, big blind, boss blind. Boss blind usually just has some kind of jerk effect like you can't use this one suit or The last one was when you play a card or anything You discard two cards so it's harder to set up your next hand. As he goes through, every time he finishes a blind, he gets access to a shop. But you don't want to spend too much up front so you get the interest. It's a pretty big juggling game yeah i was gonna say did we talk about interest i was zoning out just watching the cards fly to be honest no you didn't have interest oh okay so he's got $13 right now. At the end you get one dollar per every five dollars. Yeah. So 13 divided by 5 is? Plus 1 plus 2, that was quick mouse. Yep. So you get two extra dollars. Yeah, and you'll notice that what's nice about the Plasma deck is often when you have... Like, you're a little bit ahead on scoring with these chips, you'll see he's able to just play the high card which is obviously only has to score one card so it's going to be the fastest way to beat a blind. And that's why the Plasma deck is used in speedruns. So we've got a couple of foil jokers right now which each of those just add 50 chips as an enhancement for free on top of everything, which is really, really good because it means that we just get 50 chips. Oh! Get it in one? Are you kidding me? I'm sick with it. Hilariously, we would have preferred foil. Which is the most common outcome there. Well, the most common outcome is nothing. To elaborate that was one of the 22 I think tarot cards in the game? Yeah. That one is Wheel of fortune it's a one and four chance to take one your jokers and add a modifier a one-in-four chance allegedly that's what it says on the card. It says 1 in 4. Even the guy who doesn't play was like, Whoa! Mind blown. I saw the Wheel of Fortune and I was like this card is sick I'm gonna play all the time I think I have 50 plays a bit You can track how many you've played in two broads. Yeah, like one or two. So we got I would say probably the second best Joker in the game for this run which is the banner. That's that little flag on the right. Unfortunately has not been modded to fly the trans colors I've seen that mod. I need the Jokers in particular to be like something that I can see. Yeah, because it's such an important Joker and you just recognize him a certain way. But yeah, that's going to pop 90 chips onto all of our runs as long as we don't discard any cards which are hoping not to do if we're playing just a random high card anyway yeah this is a really interesting build actually higher that's good we're looking for some stuff yeah the shop certainly not being too kind right now i guess he's crushing these early ones because they're not like too high necessarily but if we roll unfortunate luck like you did on the hotfix the other day and get what's the one violet violet yeah oh yeah gigantic blind at the end of uh anti-eight then we have problems and just due to the math of how plasma works like violet is just super, super bad for Plasma in particular. So we're kind of just hoping to not roll the 1 and 5 there. There's a few ways it can be negated. There's like, if there's a voucher in the store that lets you re-roll it, there are some jokers that do so it's not the worst but it's pretty close to michael no what the michael the banana oh i'm not we're not buying him this time yeah bro i have need it. I have bad news about the banana. We'll come back to it, don't worry. It's a common. It will come around later but the problem is that it does say mult on it and we want things that say chips on them. It gives me red points and red points are bad right now yeah we want the blue ones so to elaborate on the gross michael uh it's a banana that's plus 15 molt which isn't terrible especially like early game very other very good early game but it also has a wonderful chance to go extinct where it just wipes itself out of your hand better i bet it lets you find the what's the ball form uh the cavendish is a... Super Michael. Yeah. The Golden Banana. And that one is just a three times molt-molt where it actually multiplies your multiplier. Yeah so it's just times 3 on top of everything else which is extremely powerful. But it does have a one in 1,000 chance to go extinct every time you finish a blind. And it is waiting for you to be having a bad day and play this game. Yeah, that has never happened to me, it has happened to one of my friends though. That's wild, you gotta set the game down like after that after that yeah yeah yes he played a uh a card then i'm not gonna pretend to remember what the name was but it burns two cards out of your deck the hanging man yeah yes he wants to discard all the really low cost they're low scoring cards out of here and uh that'll get him you can roll my card and one thing that's kind of a little bit marathon safety here. Ooh! That's huge. It's okay, I'm not super... Yeah so I was actually conveniently just about to explain hand levels, so he just leveled up his high card every time you level up high card, You're basically gonna see like the amount of base chips there Like it says 75 times 8. When we started out it only said 5 times 1 but There's a couple ways ways the burnt joker is one of them and planets are another one to just keep stacking the amount of chips that each hand gives you by default which is really really useful um just because it doesn't take up a joker slot we only have five of, you'll notice that he's been that Sixa has been making some decisions throughout this run Oh I gotta get rid of this to get this and that's one of the big management aspects of this game is figuring out how to get the most out of your four Joker slots that you have. Or five Joker slots that you have, sorry. So right now he's facing one of those decisions with the Death Card which in my opinion is one of the strongest tarots next to Hangman. What it does is let you take 1 card and just turn into another card. Every modifier, color, everything... It's a perfect clone. So yeah, you get 1 card upgraded with plus molt, plus chips all of sudden that's 2 two yes it works towards like straights uh not straight full house five kind four yeah anything that you want multiple the same card to play yeah five of a kind is not a real poker hand but it isn't this game neither is flush five yeah we got a couple of illegal hands usually those are yeah i'm applauding because getting past some of these Antis is going to start getting really hard. Yeah, for sure. He's gonna be mulliganing through the shop a bunch looking for very specific stuff. Not really what we were looking for no not at all so lucky cards which he's about to play right now have a one in five of plus 20 molt and then a 1 and 15 money 1 and 15 for money which is what we'd really be looking for here to help us find better jokers But much like the Wheel of Fortune, the numbers are all a lie Hey lucky cards come through sometimes That's not fine enough, so it's... Oh no repeat hand type. So yeah this is like one of those bosses so Sixa has leveled up a couple hands here notably the high card and two pair but because of this boss that says no repeat hands um you can sell the tribute or here if you're really scared yeah does that give you the hand back no uh i actually don't, but we'll find out. This is probably just the jack-high last. It should be good. That happens. The estimate for this is particularly high just because sometimes that happens, you get scammed out right at the end of a run. Yeah it's really tough when your trying to go fast and don't have time to build up the level of scaling in you would want in a typical bellacho run i was going to make the joke about rng manip again yeah this is actually so once you get to anti-6 you actually unlock the super secret RNG manipulating factor. Every time you play a different hand, actually definitely right? You got to trust me on this one. Yeah. You know arbitrary code execution? This isn't that belated. Think of it like that. It's This isn't that, but you could think of it like that. Oh! Alright. I gotta repeat that from the audience. We have arbitrary card execution. Very good pun. It has to be heard by everybody. We use the Ankh there which gives us a second life... Wait that's the wrong game. That gives us a second Joker of the same. Unfortunately not the Joker we were hoping to duplicate. This one's like okay but it's not going to help us out too much later on. So this is the walkie talkie or something like that and it's an upvote on 10-4 yeah your tens and fours plus ten chips plus for molt did he not yeah no okay a lot of people don't realize that it's like not not the most obvious pun a lot there's a lot of stuff like that the jokers in this game are very flavorful it's weird to say the writing in this game is really good when it's a poker sim but the writing is really good at this game oh man yeah not drawing the tenss and 4s that we need there. The game is being very mean tonight. It's okay this one will be rough and the remaining ones are going to crush it. No, not worth it. Now...hold on! not worth it now very funny we don't need it you guys like shiny things that's fine yeah yeah brain is activated by shiny things. Why did I play the tent? I needed that. Do we have time for a little bit of love coming in, and your donations? Absolutely! Yeah! We are retreading ground here. So we have $100 from the FaeWhisker saying hi Sixa your run is going to be spectacular and you are gonna do great thanks for everything you do and for being a great friend rotating you in our minds i don't know you were talking about uh some rng manipulation earlier hey y'all just so you know there is another opportunity to manipulate some marathon RNG because we have opened a new incentive for Celeste that is the collect the epilogue moonberry. So that is $ 15 000 to make sure we do that and if we meet that carerium will collect the epilog moon berry after the run and that features a puzzle that's full of these really precise dashless techniques coreash mechanics and map breaking skips. Y'all you don't want to miss that. Carry is absolutely incredible and we'd love to see it. It really wanted me to buy it. Yeah double castle. you ever seen three of the same joker i've seen that sometimes i've seen it a couple times yeah or like you'll sell a joker that's like not helping you and then in the next shop you see the same joker like four more yeah yeah come back to haunchu yeah we did just get like 45 in tarot cards which is really nice so that's gonna help us hopefully yeah there's something i guess i said banner was second best and if I'm going to commit to that, I have to claim this one's the third best yeah it's about right this one's really all purpose for everything so yeah so close i know what that does and you know what that does before the you know what that does. But for the audience... So, what that card does is for every card left in your deck it gives you two chips, which is 52 cards in the deck. We draw like 8 of them so you're going to get about 88 chips from this. However, if you start discarding cards and try to find a good hand, then it starts to get lower and lower amounts of chips. So Derek gave us 82 because we had to discard a couple of times. But in general similar to the banner as long as you're not discarding that's going to be giving us full power And because we don't like discarding cause its slow It tends to be a pretty good joker for speed running especially because it gives us chips for plasma so the seed money i think that gives more yeah interest but we're going to double our interest which is good i need that in this level, just keep going. Yeah so always nice when we can get a high-level hand in our opening hand here since we're relying on the Blue Joker. There's a lot of decisions that go into this similar to spelunky earlier obviously this is a roguelike so you know we're getting different jokers every time and have to be able to adapt that is a more typical outcome for that. One for three tonight, not bad so far. That's better than the list of probability of one and four. You're right! Now we see how it's for the content you have to roll another one when we get it oh no don't worry we're rolling all of them yeah um i'll be donating about five dollars or nope so that's 15. And we'll see what happens at the end. This is Needle Sixer. Yeah, we're okay against Needle here. You should be fine. Your pair is fine. So the reason I point that out, this is one of the meanest blinds, especially if you're, like were saying earlier kind of ran off playing. Danilo says it's got a much reduced chip requirement but you get 1 hand. Yeah so if your not paying attention and play a hand that doesn't help you out then it can be a problem Yeah, if you burn your discards and you're like, nope Aw dangit Meme is... Okay. Games, why not? Yeah that's not a pair of the same number actually yeah they are totally not the same number you're right 10 for over and it should be for the walkies i wish it worked that way just get um splash splashes yeah so you got no things don't really want to see that guy ever hey he can know something there's there are hands that work with them yeah money money on sale as they say scary face this is probably better. While you're riding the bus, though? The bus doesn't... The bus says foil. It's a little bit shiny. We like the shiny part. We don't care about the bus, unfortunately this is not the deck on which we support public transit at this moment. Yeah, we'll get to that guy! We'll get to them! He can be very useful later on the other decks once we care about the red number but right now we don't care about it. Hey look a banana! He's got plenty of money now. Just be rolling through stuff There is the banner, perfect I'm still not super comfortable with what they are giving me right now Really looking for the bull ball really looking for stuntman yeah um see what happens this boss has a very funny effect because what it does yeah very easy very easy boss. Well done. So what this boss does is whenever you draw whenever you like play a hand or discard you only draw three cards back so if you're playing a lot of cards it's bad but the gimmick with it is that if you play one card you still draw three cards so you just have like an over full hand. So it's like kind of like above some of the time depending on what you're doing which is kind of funny. It's just like a meme within the community that like, oh I got this serpent easy game. What does he ox do? That's the blind for this one. My highest hand if I play it loses me all of my cash, which we will just not be playing it. Yeah because $51 is a good amount of money to have. We've seed money and there are a lot of reasons that i don't want to go below 15 or 50. yeah video games that's a lot of red numbers video game please so two pair we don't want to play so just keep playing yeah yeah perfect perfect you can play a three of the kind if we really need to or a full house later paraking should do it with scary face right yeah yeah should be enough oh yeah you'll notice yeah all right no pilotet, fingers crossed. Yeah, we're still anti-seven. Oh my gosh. Where are any of the Jokers? Water should be fine. Water can be really, really tough. It's going to turn our banner off which is not great. Oh, right. But i think we can make it work yeah i forgot about the banner it's been a while since i speed ran this but banner water is a really common issue so you don't want to get the flag wet, it doesn't fly anymore. That's true! So, to elaborate the Waterblind no discards, it's really hard especially if you're building for one specific thing and you need your discards to get to it, that just says nope what you got is what you got. You either have to waste hands discarding or hope you have something Reset the bus oh no my boss i don't know scary face and and ride the bus i think that's a pretty good combo play face card to get chips resets when you play face cards is what those two do. Very good combo. This is getting a little spooky. Yeah... You're right. let's speak now i was scared but it's not great that's okay stop me in here for sure bro if this is real... Yeah we're not beating the water with our current setup. Oh Seltzer will help. We can get Seltzer here. And Chad. No Chad. So we sell this and take this Uh... Oh, no chat. No chat. So we still have this. We take this and then this should get us far enough. Yeah. So Seltzer is kind of an unintuitive mechanic to a new player but basically it's going to re-trigger our cards so if we can get some face cards with also that buff from the tarot card that we got then that will give us a whole stack of chips and where are the face cards? Wow! That is not good. It's too scary out there. i don't want to use but here are fentanyl these non-face guards yeah not really what we're hoping to do oh my god oh that's rough. Yeah so you see the tarot cards? One of the big things that tarot cards do is like deck manipulation yeah that's not going to cut it bro oh man man come on this is the one thing i was really scared of on stage yeah y'all know that's that the RNG. I saw this in practice my entire safety shift. I PB'd in the practice room yesterday and then I nearly missed it by like 30 seconds this morning. So we're due for something fun, but not tonight. Are you due for a couple of donations? Absolutely. Please, please, please. All right. I have... This one's amazing. $ please, please. Yeah! All right I have... This one's amazing. $1,111.11 from Asmo saying, Wow. Wow. Yeah. "...I had to donate six ones because that's your average fireball damage roll whenever we're trying to survive a fight in D&D. But then you're better at setting Bellatro scores on fire than anything else! Laryn will remember that don't worry. So, yeah. I think that's a good thing. Yeah, and then you can see that the matchup scores on fire than anything else. Laren will remember that. Don't worry. Wow! That's high enough? Yeah. whatever. Yeah, so the lower cards in the game you saw Sixo use fours there instead of jacks and the four gives four chips the jack gives ten like in Blackjack and that usually doesn't matter that much because it's early And we don't have any other scoring engine. Playing those higher face cards And aces and stuff does matter a little bit But thankfully we've got some popcorn, you know we've got some snacks in the back Just playing everything but unfortunately somebody ate the popcorn it's four molt less powerful now so does it actually like get smaller unfortunately the there's another card in the game that i wish did that as well but the sprite is constant maybe a future patch somebody somebody tell local funk hey you got to make that popcorn actually get eaten It's unrealistic our poker simulator needs to be used to have more realism and it just becomes extinct I ran into that I was booming with the other one at the black being if you want a really slow safe run square joker is your guy who is now square as it's newest patch can we get an applause for the square joker yeah so what the square joker does is every time we play four of four card hand because you know that's a square number. He gains for chips because you know that's a square number and he's very square to score little guy and like said We like Chips who like the blue number That number can get very big although it takes a long time to do so So not our favorite for speedrunning but We're not getting any of our favorites tonight unfortunately The stuntman has been uh uh mia missed that guy i missed that guy real bad right now maybe one of his stunts went a little wrong a friend wow a friend wow i can definitely click tonight that's not four cards three actually isn't a square number unfortunately either is five yeah we'll get there though i'm just trying to get through it yeah it is legal to play straights again it is july 1st Dang it. Oh... Are we just doing that? Oh no! Wait, man I am Just throwing Throwing, throwing, throwing It's okay you were st and you didn't need it. Did not! And popcorn is gone. Somebody ate it all. Banana? I'll buy it for you all. Take it to the content! You're on Needle by the way. With Blue we are fine. You got us straight from Queen down no we just did something nice should have played four but or i'm not planning to keep that guy right now yeah hopefully we can get something better than the square. Hey look it's Matador The Joker that does something sometimes? Maybe? What does Matador do? It gives you $ dollars when played hand triggers the boss blind. Oh, that seems bad! It is. Ooh, double faces! Yeah, unfortunately the wrong one uh goodbye not down with the square hey we're too hip to be square i guess or squirming that's tough man it's like animal crossing people just kicking people off they want to throw an animal yeah it's like man it's the opposite of your outfit bro you gotta chill out man six said he wanted a gay count. The banana is safe, it's one in six to destroy itself. Hey look he's back this guy nothing nothing nothing still not oh nothing oh wow Even better flavor than our two-a-do. Okay we actually have to think about this one. Probably not getting the money and that's not great but... That's okay. Banana will get us through this Yeah I believe We believe in the banana The power of the Michael The gross Michael Eights and sevens probably Oh that's fine Yeah Ooh bonus eight Extra money It would be so messed up Probably. Oh, that's fine. Ooh! Bonus 8. Extra money. It would be so messed up if the banana extincted itself during a hand exchange. Like you play a hand and it just goes away? That would be the worst change for that card. Oh man, come on... Why am I still playing four cards? The square is getting you! he's always with us the square got to your head bro oh i've seen some great posts of people being like three points short Of a 300 thousand chip line Yeah, I had two fears running into this What's happening currently? And that... Yeah. So as with many other roguelikes, money is what we're using to reroll the shop That hourglass joker on the right is going to give us some extra money as long as we don't use our discards, which like I said, we don't like doing. We may have to here. Oh, straight. High straight will work. Yeah, you can do a straight this one. Yes. Yeah, we can do this straight. We can just trade. That's fine. Those extra face cards... We got the spooky face again. You'll see a lot of the same recurring characters on Plasma. Spade Slush should get you there. Many on the other decks like I said Plasma, Spade's Flush should get you there. Many on the other decks like I said we only care about the blue number for the most part and there's not that many jokers in the game as you can see that care about that blue number which is what makes plasma deck pretty rough unfortunately and so you're going to see a lot of the same recurring cast of characters as we uh brute force our way through the plasma deck here so you'll notice the blue jokers come back, the scary face. We've seen a lot of these guys again. The sly joker on the left that one's giving us 50 chips for repair That one I want to be playing but we have to do it. Yeah... not exactly what we're looking for. Um... think we just got to burn at this card unfortunately. Yeah, we gotta dig for the faces here. Ah, that's the wrong button man i am do you have a minute for me to share some more love absolutely all right enigma enigma requiem from uh sends in 25 dollars and says good luck from the back couch i know you've got this spin the wheel of fortune for me me and fifty dollars from ivan saying congrats my man win the gambas and you can have all the PIs you want next raid. That's the incentive, man! Very shiny. So shiny we can't afford it unfortunately. We don't even wanna...we don't want any of this. This is the worst. Have time for a couple more? Yeah, keep going! Okay, Captain Spam sends in $50 and says, it's pronounced bell-atrocity right? That's what we're trying to get to. And then we have a special donation. This is $50 from MomBot. Great to see such an important charity chosen. Super enthusiasm by all involved. Enjoy the rest of GDQ Summer 2024. MomBot XOXO, aka MomChloe. summer 2024 mom bot xoxo aka mom clovis yeah that's my mom hi mom i'm on TV again, again. Keep them coming. We're trying. Oh, don't worry. I got you then. Okay. So Churor sends in $25 says hey 6f everyone from sons of figaro are so proud of you and know that you will crush this run much love from your goober world of warcraft friends and a hundred dollars from the merchant your goober World of Warcraft friends. And $100 from the merchant, HelloSixa. This message comes to you straight from the Joker's mouth. Since you have a full house watching and I'm flush with cash. Why don't you prove you have a pair and let me up the ante with a one-of-a-kind gamble? If you set a new record, I'll give you and your friends a hand with a free feat in our upcoming D&D game. Good luck! There was a feel-alike man! And then Pink Batman, I just love that name sends in $15 saying the stakes are high. We're trying our best impression of Joker list right now. Yeah, the infamous jokerless challenge. Rudy sends in $10 and says, let's go Murphy. Love QRT. Appreciate it guys. Those are my homies. Lots of love to see that. Now there's the splash. Nothing. Literally nothing. I even gave it three extra shots. I have to move on past applause. There's one more and then... Recommend that we uh... Move on to the... Yeah, let's not do the plasma deck anymore. The plasma deck is silly. Very fickle tonight, notoriously. Now we can actually explain the real game. Yeah. Let's do that. How does that one sound? Yeah. Okay. Let's play poker. Let's play poker. Yeah. So the real way this game works is the blue number and the red number are supposed to be multiple yeah so the real way this game works is the blue number and the red number are supposed to be multiplied together so now we get to care about both of them which means there are going to be more cards that we actually care about like constellation so constellations a kind of very good example of a scaling joker, something that gets more powerful over time. And what's doing it is that times mult. That's again just a times multiplier on anything. It's doing only 1.1 right now but every time we get a planet card which we will be getting a lot of that'll go up by 0.1 and that gets it times 2 x 3 starts to really help you score a lot more points I can't buy that yet way, that's fine. You got our one ship card that we wanted and it is hearts. Oh yeah, so to explain what this card does because it's actually really important you'll have noticed the diamonds and clubs are a little bit shy at this point. We're now playing the checkered deck, which only has two suits in it, which is really useful if you're trying to make a flush and play all the same suit. And the other thing that's really useful about that is this card, The Castle picks a random suit in your deck and so if you discard that You get more chips. And when there are only two to choose from instead of four, that joker becomes a lot more powerful Unfortunately it also has one of the slowest animations in the game but you take what you can get. That is very slow. I wish he went the same speed as the rest of the cards. Yeah, like Ramen is so fast and it's like the same exact thing. It does something on discard but for whatever reason the castle You know it's a big structure doesn't exactly move around so fast It's at all I mean you ever tried very slow animation. I can do that too money slow animation i can't do that too my money would go yeah and although like i said we do have the ability to play flushes very easily on this deck obviously high card's always the fastest because you only have to score one card. But as I've said, you take what you can get. So we're discarding spades this time as chosen spades for us and... Just want to get that as high as we can. Preferably searching for like the 100 range? Yeah. We'll see what happens. You get a discard on spades. Yeah, we can do that. Absolutely. I'm learning how to play this game. Very proud of you. Someone's gotta teach me! Yeah so in the early game in this case suddenly blue number whatever it's the same as a red number. Wow! What are useful... It-it's got edge cases right? Like oh maybe Well all it does is if the boss says diamonds or debuff that means your hearts are also debuffed. It's really good actually. It's so powerful. Very strong. Yeah, so that joker makes hearts and diamonds be the same and spades and clubs be the same which you might notice is maybe not all that useful to us right now. The game being a little bit fickle right now... One has won. Yeah, the flint on ANSI 2 is so brutal because the flint is going to basically cut in down to one fourth of your typical scoring on your hand so if you don't have any jokers that score yet you'll see we're scoring a lot lower numbers than we were before i think yeah that's those really pesky boss blinds yeah you gotta discard to get more points on the castle there that one is just so tough because it's before you have though I always see that one early Ooh popcorn There we go, so yeah Popcorn. Just by popcorn, yeah. Move it to the right? Yep, yep, yep. There we go! So you always are looking for a plus mult at the start of the game typically just because like your multiplier starts really low so if you have four multipliers to start and you have that popcorn that gives you plus 20 until somebody eats it, then that's basically five times more powerful. And you see now we're one-shotting with these now that we got the popcorn there. And we got Jimbo, our favorite little guy, John Bellatro himself. The creator of Bellatro. So one mechanic that came up just recently was moving the jokers around yeah because there is a processing order that's why the molt malt is at the end yeah we're back out of it dang to john laudro bro that's i mean he literally created bellatra you got to be nice to that guy do i maybe not after today right now yeah i don't know about it right now yes all right now we're off to the races we We got the castle that's getting bigger That constellation is also getting bigger over time We have the driver's license which does nothing Now maybe we are looking for some bus centric infrastructure. We're not looking to pick up a driver's license today, we want to be able to get around without that. Yeah let's go public transit! Public transit? I took the train 7 hours to get here. So yeah gotta rep the public transit What do I want? Yeah, not what we're looking for. Four of a Kind is very hard to make. Jupiter helps that increases our flush because it's a red planet I guess like flushes? I don't know you figure it out. But it also increases our constellation which you know constellations I thought were made of stars but apparently in this game they're made of planets. So the more planets we get the more powerful our constellation becomes which is very nice we're gonna be buying every planet we see and if popcorn's all gone hey guys, you know just we need that it helps us i score for some of these names the guy just threw a dart at a dashboard he was like okay that's what it does. Yeah. Very nice artwork though you love to see that Can we get some claps for the uh artwork on the jokers made by LocoFunk himself It's a very great variety of jokers in this game yeah we don't have any of those if only we had the smared joker you never know what what combo of jokers is going to show up in this game you got to be prepared for anything i want to get the constellation like two and a half yeah um and then we'll probably start less worried about it i'm looking for flat multiplier right now um yeah we have the droll joker right now which gives us 10 when we play a flush, which were usually doing and The cloud 9 which give this money in which we need to find more jokers Yeah, do you have time for a couple more donations Why not? Yeah. Do we have time for a couple more donations? Please do, yeah. Okay! So I am noticing an interesting pattern in here so we have $104 from Zebogo that says manifesting some stuntman and bananas for you, Sixa. Please do. You got this. And then, you know, related to that, Crimson sent in $10 and says, I must share some banana lore. The Gros Michel went extinct IRL and was replaced with the less flavorful Cavendish, hence the names for the Balotrme mechanics and the reason that banana candy doesn't taste like the bananas you can buy in store good luck have fun to sixa may the rng be in your favor it's worth it right invisible i mean we could get a castle or a constellation yeah he copies the number from the castle right i think it does oh yeah they'll take the number on either though so yeah that's gonna be really good and here comes the plant uh who is an issue in endless runs speedruns don't really care about him too much but yeah shout out to the plant for ruining many many people's uh endless runs in this game okay so i get the needle speaking of endless we could have gone for it. Well, now the plant's gone! The Baron must be such a good joker now. Oh that's really good. It's good but like... That's super good. Sorry Popcorn. He's gonna get gone anyway. let me just get rid of him. Yeah. Hey look, I was lucky! I didn't even look. Yeah we knew that said hearts it was RNG manipulation. We already-we didn't have to check, it saves time. That means like 90% of the round is quit before they hit them. This is a very powerful Joker, what this does is it's going to duplicate a random joker. That's pretty good. It's not bad. I. Pretty good. It's not bad, I kinda want the ramen but i'm discarding... Well yeah we're discarding for castle right? Yeah yeah yeah Oh there is a flower pot come back smear joker We miss you That one says play 1 of every suit so smear joker we miss you that one says play one of every suit so smear joker which makes there be less suits is helpful for them problem is is that we have a lot of chip count but we don't have a lot of yeah supplier and this is going to take forever 800 chips though that's a lot of chips castle might honestly be the next one to go if we don't need it anymore depends right we'll see oh i wanna i want us so bad one type i wonder which one I will be playing... Any ideas? Any ideas, guys? Shout out any hand! Just what should we be playing on this run? Straight flood? should we be playing on this run? Straight flush. I don't think that works. Sounds like Zodia. That's five cards. It is five cards. You know what? You're true. Wait no that's still a hand though. I don't know why I'm arguing. Why am I getting all the plasma cards now? This is not fair. Oh, you could have made a flush house there. Would have been so cool. Sixo's playing a game that was literally designed to beat you? Yeah. The luck is... this is abnormally bad luck from like we've seen him practice a bunch yeah and he's this is abnormal dad so like the fact that he's persevering through this is sick. So Plasma Dex is just... Yeah, if you don't- yeah. Let's get some Plat for 6 if we're sticking through this! Isn't that why we do plasma first? Yeah, that's why you do plasma first when you're going for pv because it's just so inconsistent yeah plasma can be four minutes it can be 12 minutes it can be don't you don't win happens yeah we have our vessel insurance right we got the directors cut voucher so yes we do just in case yeah um We gotta buy him, right? Alright, alright. Oh our clubs are debuffed! Oh no! Shoot shoot oh dang it all right nice a lot of bananas i don't know why i said that in such a low and slow voice this morning yeah all right let's see what we got here more planets yeah that's good that's what we're looking for the constellation constellations at 2.6, very good. So here's some crazy stuff. I've played like 100 hours of this game. I just realized across the top of the Celestial cards, the planet on it is highlighted. What? No, I'll show you crazy like notes in my brain, it's sick Okay Uh, yeah. Okay. Yo hold up! Show me the celestial pack. Yeah let's get a Celestial Pack? No not here. You see how it it's the fourth dot is lit up? The fourth dot is white across the top. Wait... Oh, it is! What?! How did you notice that before me? I'm telling you these are How did you notice that before me? I'm telling you, the art in this game has a lot of detail. That's insane! There's like references... Like if you look at some of the cards that have text on them there's a lot of references like we got Josephoseph j joker on the business card oh boy wow hey we got burning for the first time that's great love that we've seen it a couple times. The first two Antis of Plasma don't count. What's in it? Nothing. 20 bucks. $20 button! You like my... $20 button. Click the $20 button. You love the $20 button. No. Yeah, so the spectral cards are basically high risk and high reward. Aw dang it! Okay let's... Mike? Aw dang it. Aw dang it. Okay, let's... Michael! The source of all our power. Not the end of the world. We're okay. Yeah as long as he doesn't hit Constellation. Okay. We're good. We're fine. Uh... We're just gonna do this. We haven't seen any illegal hands yet. You think you can make a flush house happen with that death card? Eh, not quite Not quite Yeah so this game has the standard 9 poker hands for the 9 planets but there's a couple of secrets Now the hard one for me again. We'll see what happens. And now as you all remember, we have beaten two of our three decks. We're on to the third one, right guys? Totally, totally, totally 2-3. 100%. If you add up all the Antis we went through in Plasma we beat it like five times. True. You're not wrong! Yo, John Bellatro. We got both of them let's go so this deck is the ancient book it yeah it doesn't have any face cards yeah that's it this is the public transit deck yeah because the bus says don't play face cards we don't have any are you gonna ask why it's called the abandoned duck yeah cause little faces. Yeah, everybody's gone. All the royalty left. So? What you mean so? What's actually really good about this deck is because all the faces are gone it's a 40 card deck instead of a 52 card deck. And if you know anything about deck builders you know thin to win is the motto and so this deck's already thin for us which is really nice and that means that it's easier for us, which is really nice. That means it's easier to make things like straights and full houses As you can see we drew one! Perfect timing Right on time! We're looking for a chip multiplier or flat-chip count guy right now that would be money uh like that one we'll take them for now and my my it's a little hot on stage i don't know it's definitely melting everywhere so to elaborate on that, the food items... I think it's all the food items. It's like popcorn, there's a bean, and then there's ice cream. And they all give you some kind of bonus but it sips away over time? Yeah. Bananas. Can't forget that guy. Well, bananas don't go away over time yeah bananas you know can't forget that guy well bananas don't go away over time they just suddenly leave you they suddenly uh that's why you're about to say bananas aren't a food item yeah they're actually not legally considered food or comedy prop yeah not legally considered food or a comedy prop yeah well it's you know for tax reasons they kind of got around that way it's like how i think to like people always debate about whether tomatoes are vegetables are fruits. Pizza? I'm trying! Oh, we're fine. I'm just kidding. Ha ha! Got it in one. Yay! You know MBD. Yeah, I have those every time. So what the game wants you to do is use those planets to help you get more chips which is why there's less jokers that have chips. The planets unfortunately have a pretty slow animation so we like to avoid using them where we can. But just for some safety, we do pick up a lot of planets here even though we don't have the constellation. Time to ride the bus baby! Ride the bus! Yeah. Y'all are crazy. I don't even know what it does, to be honest. You gotta really careful that you don't accidentally play any face cards, because if you do then the number will go all the way back down to zero. And the way this works is that number just goes up by one every time he plays a hand and yeah... Whoa! That's wild for this deck! Yeah! No no! Whoa, that's wild for this deck. He finally gets it! Abstractor respect. I don't know if I need these guys hey look we got the gambling oh good thing oh dang it uh cut some more how's that all right 38 cards left just don't get down to zero then you instantly lose the game yeah that! That can happen. It's real. When you can't play cards, turns out you lose... See I feel like I'm really bad at deckbuilding games because I always like to put more in, in case someone tries to mill me so i play like you know 200 card decks once the constellation is your favorite kid right yeah no we don't need them. Okay! What does a red card do? To like stop stuff? We've got a pretty solid set of jokers. The ones that I'm comfortable playing. Isn't that the booster pack one? The red card says when you skip a booster pack, you get plus three molts so it's like Ride the Bus where it's just a molt number that goes up over time as you play the game which is very useful because the number you need to make also goes up over time but yeah, it's not considered to be very useful because the number you need to make also goes up over time. But yeah, it's not considered to be very good cause generally when you're opening a pack you want to actually get something from the pack and not press the skip button but I'm actually am a fan of the red card. Red card's really great when you get it early enough or that I remember to take it. It's the same thing with gift cards. I like gift cards a lot whenever I see them but I don't usually get it whenever I have slush buckler, which is the thing that I was actually hoping for. A lot of cards in this game as it turns out. I think it's like 250? 150 jokers and then 22 tarots, 18 spectrals i think 12 planets i think the collection is like 360 big they look apparent yeah there's some rule about like you have to do runs on a fully unlocked file yeah because otherwise yeah but otherwise i should actually get it right because stuntman's a rare card so if you like do a fresh profile that doesn't have very many other rare cards unlocked then whenever you get a rare card it's more likely to be Stuntman who is MIA today. He was basically the single best joker for speedrunning. We just haven't seen him all day. That's still great. Even when he got bumped to rare, he actually becomes... Well not for skip lists but when you skip, you can get a rare joker and then... time all are welcome we actually want we do want it to turn the big guy so maybe yeah we want to keep this guy around hope it extincts on us so he can find the cavendish later the cavendish is just the same thing but with a lower chance of so it's um times three to everything which is just a very powerful effect that's the multi-multi yeah you know so constellation if you want to get times three you have to buy 20 planets but cavendish just gives it to you right away off the bat there's like five planets right there right yeah i think we could have all of them i wish we could he's making so much easier oh no my spades that we can do i can totally think what i'm doing just make sure you don't play a face card just remember that yeah i think i can handle that one ride that bus what's our bus say right now it says 14. almost as strong as the banana we're trying to get there we're getting to the banana bus now it hits 15 to bus extinct itself shout outs to the banana boss wasn't that just speed no I'm Why? Are you gonna tell me I'm wrong? No, I'm not. Son of a- I don't even understand! I don't know where to go from there. Back on the bus? The movie with Matthew Perry or something right? End of the Game for Friends? Yes? Question mark? I've never seen speed. Okay, on that note... Thank you! Please! Speaking of friends do you have time for some donations from your friends? Absolutely! Okay so... Speaking of friends, do you have time for some donations from your friends? Absolutely. Okay so we have $50 from Fuzzy saying this is the full Bellagio experience please understand Please Mr Joker, please give the good RNG We're all rooting for you Sixa And then we have $10 from Joker as a fellow Joker I approve of this run Much love Sixa We are all so proud of you Let's go No banana No banana So proud of you. Let's go. No banana, no banana, it's going to be in here right now. Ah. Not quite. Right here. Stuntman though? Got it. Got it. Got it. We'll take it for now don't lie to me game i know what i'm about well let's get these out of our hands for now. Starting to want to buy other things. Yeah, so as I mentioned earlier, tarot cards one of the big things they do is they enhance and build your deck so you saw we had a terror card that removes we had a terra card there that basically says these cards now give four molt which is useful and then there's some other ones that do various effects. Nice! Two to go! Two lefts. That's not bad. It's definitely worth going down below 25 for though yeah i was gonna ask you by grabber because that's one of my favorites grabber is like the best we almost never get it's it's so good that, depending on your money, I can skip an ante like one or two maybe? But even then you just make your run so much more consistent. Yeah, it says play an extra hand every round which not only so one thing we didn't explain is like when you have leftover hands at the end of each round that basically gives you an extra dollar so if you're doing fine it's an extra dollar per round but if you're struggling then it's like here's an extra hand to help you get through the score which is good that vampire is pretty good right vampires good it used to be it got nerfed we don't have any enhancements that are really worthwhile or a lot of them at least make it worthwhile. Yeah. But in general yeah because it's one of the multi-multis. I talked about earlier. Okay. I'm not going to pretend I remember, I'm gonna be honest. So a blue joker we mentioned earlier... Nice! And a triple two? Yeah, we made an extra five earlier that's coming to help us out. Added an extra 5 to the deck. Oh! There we go. It's this right? Constellation is your best copy here. Absolutely. I have to do quick math and it's your best copy here. Absolutely. I have to do quick math and it's not easy right now. So Blueprint is nuts because it says what's your best joker? You have two now. And yeah you can see we're scoring basically over 2 1⁄ times as much i think yeah constellation says 2.3 all right big money no vessel no that's the most awesome oh we got luchador though hold on you have the boss yes safety what do we got Luchador though. Hold on. Check the boss. You have safety. Check the boss. What do we got? Okay, it's not that long. Cerulean, we're fine. Time save bell. Yeah, I guess we don't really need him so we're just going to keep going. Do you know why I call a time save bell? Because it saves time? Yeah, because it selects a card for you you don't even have to let your guard one less input its makes the game so much easier I don't know why they made it a boss that split. Bro, you got the bull here. Where was he earlier? If you know, you know. Yeah. Bull is the... I said Banner was the second best. I'm stupid. Bull is the second. That guy! Or it can be the best actually sometimes if you have a lot of money. It basically says your money times two added to your chips and we like lots of chips on plasma, we like lots of chips in general. And so that's gonna help us get through the rest of this scoring here, we should be good. I think we're just going. Yeah. Send it baby, send it. Send it. And for those keeping track at home The bus says 33. 33 passengers on that bus. Love to see it. Straight. This should do it. And time's coming up in 3, 2, 1, now. Let's go. Let's go! I've watched Six practice this game a ton. Like, I've watched him practice for the last month or so. I'm not going to pretend I remember anything, obviously. I'm dumb as hell. But that's the first time that I've ever seen Plasma playing that hard but he absolutely shredded the other decks so again like everybody please huge if i remember correctly that was a seven minute abandon. Which is absolutely crazy. Yeah, I think you started at like 44 or something. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to the bus! Bus carried. So anyway thank you all so much for letting me do this on stage. It means so much to me and everyone else. Thank you for raising $65,000 for this. That's incredible. Just incredible for everything that you guys have put forth for it. So I don't have anything else to say so do y'all have anything to shout out? shout out to math is fun who makes a lot of the tooling for this game thank you including the timer that uh the timing like we didn't get it's all built in the game, you don't have to run LiveSplit or anything we use it. It's really good I just didn't want to set up on stage. And let's head out to SpeedFrog who runs a lot of different roguelike games very prolific speedrunner broglices and was one of the people to popularize this game and get me into speedrunning for sure for sure yep shout out to chris hannel and acadial mods for the decks okay shout out to you, Sixer. Thank you so much. You crushed it, man. I appreciate it. That's Bellatro, I guess. Thanks? Yeah. so Oh my god! JPEG, thank you so much. Hello everybody! Hello SGDQ 2024! My name is Kerrarium also known as Kerry, also known as Kerrykerrarium any one of those three is great and I'm so excited to be showing you Monica's decides Denny percent this is a category that I have been doing for the last year it is one of my favorite categories, I happen doing this one my favorite map packs of all time. Behind me, I have two wonderful, wonderful people to bring you the vibes, the good vibes and also to actually explain what we're doing. So gentlemen? You want to go first? Hi, my name is Elm Jacks or Jax for short. I'm a Celeste speedrunner and community event organizer. And I am average imposter. I make silly Celestes tutorials on YouTube. Alright, well I'm really excited to showcase this run This map pack has gone through an incredible journey over the last six years You're gonna see some incredible Kaizo Celeste. I would love to see, in honor of Monica of Celestisides, I would love to see a $5.23 donation train in honor of Monica 5-23, her gamer tag. That would be awesome if I could see that throughout the run. But before we even start the run, JPEG, what is the winning name of this file? Hey, guess what? It's Trans Rights, baby! Whoa! Thank y'all so much, that was $500 for Trans Rights. Wow! Trans Rights! Awesome. Alright I am very excited to show this off Let's get that locked and loaded, we're good there. All right timer is going to start once I press begin so everybody ready? All right, Twitch chat. If you're already as well then we are going to start in 3, 2, 1 go! All right so very first I'm going to go left because there is an intro car here and we're gonna smooch it for good luck. Mwah, I love you intro car. And right here we are going to do a really fun strat at the beginning called multi-boost and I am just going to flame myself across this room. So in Prolog, generally you don't have any dashes so every bunny hop here saves two frames but that's a funny little hop that uh jax what did i do there yeah moving blocks in celeste can give you momentum and carrie was able to use its moment it's movement to jump off of it multiple times, getting lots of speed there. And here we're almost at the end of the prologue already! Wahoo! And starting right away in the next level city, you will see a lot of Monika's general game design. So there is going to be a lot of precision gameplay A lot of forced setups Well...forced. You'll see some of them used Some! Some of them used. So just like Vanilla Celeste, I'm sure you're familiar with your jump, grab and dash but Monika decides to up the difficulty a little bit by including a lot of precise setups that you'll need to nail here in order to progress through the level. Alright, here I'm not gonna do this room very intended. Gonna grab that block over there and skip most of that entire setup, And here we're gonna try my best to not grab any walls didn't need to grab a single one slight bump there but that is totally fine we're just going to skip one little zip mover right here there you saw carrie do wall bounce that's a combination of a vertical dash and a jump. Madeline's basic toolkit, as mentioned, was crab, dash and jump, and those can be combined in lots of ways to keep speed and make the levels go faster. Alright, here is unironically the hardest part for the first 15 minutes of the run. First try! Yes! Oh my god, that is such a difficult wall bounce. Like unironically, that is really hard to get Yeah because of the zipper mover it makes the wall bounce a little bit variable so it makes it a lot harder to actually try and land it. Alright, Jax was talking about some moving entities. We're gonna do something similar in this room right here. I'm going to land on this block. Whoop! And whoop! And you don't have to do that room at all. Gotta love momentum. Gotta love it. All right, we're going to be entering the final room of chapter one already. Let's see if I can get a lot of good speed into this room. Yes? At the end of each level here, you'll see a cassette block room. These are cycle-based and you already saw Carrie jump off of one as it appeared. That will be coming up in a few of the chapters. Clean! Awesome! And then a buffer dash off that hard to avoid all the spikes welcome to monica's d sides that actually went unreasonably well. This map pack was released in 2018, but got a really big 4.0 patch in 2022 that involved a lot of redesigns and difficulty smoothing to make the overall map pack just a little bit easier for casual players. So you're going to see that we just saw postcard about stamina and that's gonna become very important. We are probably going to be in red for quite a few of these rooms, and that will also be the last time you see a postcard in Monika's Deedsides. And a mechanic that was explained right at the start of this chapter is a Dream Piper. When chapter is a dream hyper. When you exit a Dream Block in this game, it treats you as standing on the ground so that you can actually do most of Madeline's jumps from them including a Hyper Dash and that will be used throughout this chapter and appear again later in the run that was a little bit of sub pixel nonsense let's see if i don't get it about time here carrie is setting up for a large skip where you can go back down through this room while bouncing up to the transition. And that's it! 20 seconds of going to the loud. So much time. So much time. The entire left side of that room is all stamina management, but by returning to the previous room you get a lot of forward momentum off the wall bounce and yeah basically just momentum off the wall bounce. And yeah, basically just skips most of that room. All right we're gonna do a little bit of movement here. And then this room might be haunted, we'll see. Nice. Yes! Oh my god, everything's coming up Milhouse right now. I love this. So coming up we are going to see another interesting thing about Celeste. Yeah, I don't want to do that room. I've decided I don't. By going back into that room and pausing on the very first frame possible basically the game magically goes okay, then puts Madeline at the end of the room instead. Little bit of difficulty there to our lovely host if you have a few donations I'd love to hear them at this point. Oh, you bet I do! In fact, I have a very special one. One hundred and eleven dollars and ten cents from Sam! Terry, you are my fastest girlfriend. Thank you, Sam. And then a little heart. P.S., I love you. Break a leg! I love you! That is my incredible, incredible partner Sam. We have been together for 17 years and I love her very much. Can we get some cheers for love, please? Excellent. All right. A little bit of struggling in that last room but we're done with 2D A fun thing about those rooms, every final room has a heart for the collection so that you can move on to the next chapter and those chapters have those blue and pink cassette blocks I would call them cassette blocks because in Vanilla they would be in the rooms where the cassettes are. And when you are in a cassette block it does not respawn immediately but if you exit it, it does so it can become a wall that you can kick off of and that's how I kind of did that entire room. Alright coming up is chapter 3. This room got a massive redesign with the 4.0 update and also has just the biggest jam in the entire pack so twitch chat if i could get your best fancy emotes that would be awesome so in typical resort fashion you can see that we've got our best friends and lovely cycles to get through. I love cycles! What are you talking about? Oh? Oh okay, I knew that a little bit early. Gonna jump over this... Ever since I started de-russing after I heard that this map pack got accepted, I have basically died in this room every single attempt. So a little bit frustrating but it's not a big deal. We're going to keep moving very shortly. There we go. Nice. You were saying? Yeah, so quick important detail about these cycles. In Celeste you have an entry room cycle and then you have a death cycle. So sometimes when you take a death it can be a little bit of a problem unless you've practiced them which Carrie's great at this game. So I have full faith in her. All right we are about to praise the wall hole everybody be ready to praise. So there was a hole in that wall. It did not work as intended, but That hole if I had been able to consistently Do that room it would have saved one dust bunny cycle Um i did not know that existed until a couple months ago I DM'd Monica about it and said hey was this always a thing? And she said yeah I just assumed you speedrunners thought It was slow because no one was ever doing it. I'm like, No! We never knew about it. Alright we're just gonna try to get a much better cycle there I never doubted for a second. This checkpoint is so good, it has so many great variations of Dust Bunny Cycles and how you can design Dust Bunny Cycles. Oh, okay. Yeah. So Madeline's crouch hitbox happens to be 4 pixels tall And you can use that to dash through a lot of hazards as hazards when placed on grid are also four pixels apart. So that's technically pixel perfect but Kerry has a consistent setup for it. We'll be seeing that come back throughout the run. Definitely. And I just called it Demo Dash. Shout out to Demo Jameson. All right. All right, we got a couple more rooms that are pretty much the same big layered versions of Just Funny Cycles. So JPEG, if you have a couple of donations I would love to hear a few of those. Oh, you bet I do! Frozen Flygon sends in $25 saying, Hi Carrie! So proud to see you on the big stage. We'll never forget our runs at Fleet Fatales together. You are going to crush this. Savadra sends in $25 saying let's go, Carrie. Have fun. Go gamer. I'm believing so hard today. So good luck. Hello from the camp backpack rat pack voice chat watch party. There's a watch party going on in there? Of course there's a watch party. Of course there's a watch party going on in there very glad i got to tell you that by the way 250 from chris saying more celeste please please absolutely yeah y'all you do want to see that moonberry incentive i swear that is not a commonly ran thing i put probably a few thousand attempts into that. And it involves, at the very beginning of the run, It involved subpixel nonsense where I have to be on the correct Subpixel on two different axes. So if you want to see something really wild going on, you definitely want to see that. Speaking of that as an update, we are at $7,368.42 out of the 15,000 you need. We are just about halfway there, y'all. You have this. I believe in you. I'm believing so hard. I believe in you i'm believing so hard i believe i believe in you more than i've ever believed in anything all right so we are entering the final checkpoint of 3d uh here the bird's gonna teach us that we can dash into Oshiro. Monica put that there, to actually teach like the casual players that you don't have to just try and jump onto Oshiro You could also dash into Oshiro to get your dash refreshed which I think it's really neat Just a little thing some people might not even think about in casual play. And you may notice that the design of these rooms is a pretty significant departure from Vanilla Celeste in that you actually have to use Oshiro's here and constantly close proximity to him and interacting with him as opposed to just running away. Oh, that was weird. Am I... This should still work. Oh yeah, I never doubted it. There we go. T-E Oh, this smells like a hotel! Oh, that's cute! So that room is actually a direct... Oh, that's cute. So that room is actually a direct reference to the overworld in this particular map pack just spelling hotel at the very end. All right here's a big of this room right here. And once you're gonna bonk on Oshiro, dash into here. Boom! Nice. That strat, that cheese has been there forever. It's a great strategy Boom. Nice. That strat, that cheese has been there forever in every variation of Resort D-Side. Monica's never decheesed it and I thank you for that immensely. If you do that room as fast as you can, or at least as fast as I can when I labbed a backup to it, doing that still saves 11 seconds over the room in general so just getting that at, and you can only try it once so first try is the only try. Ridge! It's time for ridge and you'll see a lot of that really close-knit gameplay that we've been seeing throughout a lot of these levels. Lots of spikes and lots of uncomfy positions that Monika likes to put you in. And introduced already are green bubbles or boosters and they essentially act as a dash, you can send them into any of eight directions and then they return you to normal gameplay Then we've got two types of clouds, the pink ones disappear after you leave them and the blue ones sort of stick around Alright coming up with the next room is a frame perfect demo that everyone hates that I do but I swear it's fine, it's fiiiine... It saves like.8 or something This is not fine I swear, it's fine. I'm not coping. Well, you saw me do it. You know what's pretty fine to me actually? What? We are over halfway to that vlog! Let's go! $8,600. Love that. Thank you so much, everybody. All right. So yeah, I basically dash against that cloud and it resets my position to a certain value that basically makes it so that I have a consistent one frame to go through those spikes. It's you can understand why people yell at me for doing that. You can kind of get by it. And yeah, now this will be the next few rooms. Yeah, do not adjust your television sets! Everything is fine, everything is fine. I promise, you're bitrate is okay. We promised Carrie's gamering, she's doing the best she can and there was a lot of complicated stuff happening here I'm gonna be so honest, I didn't know where Madeline was there I'm going to be so honest, I didn't know where madeline was there i'm gonna be so honest i didn't know what i was doing all right and this should end all of the really wacky wind now would be a good time for the nation to do again. Oh, I might be able to do that for you. Absolutely. I have some love coming in from Chibi Carrera. $50 saying, Carrie, I wanted to take this moment to say that you are a light in everyone's lives and you are so incredibly smart, funny, and kind on top of being an absolute god tier celeste runner you're also a god tier social media lead i'm so proud of you and ecstatic for your dny percent run at gq keep being awesome keeping you i love you very, very much. I love you! I'm getting bullied. This is so unfair. I don't know that this is bullying, Carrie, but if that's your definition, I love you. I love you. All right, $25 from 3Pup saying let's go carrie you got this and fifty dollars from trainer anade saying carry good luck have fun and get that belly get the belly we're gonna get that belly i I'm so excited. Alright, let's get this one jump here. Yay! Alright, so coming up in a few rooms from now is a strap that I discovered through sheer determination um so there's a room that has us introduces snowballs oh i also should do this trap first um okay we should be good. There's a room that introduces snowballs but there's also wind and it's really hard so I'm going to try to do this and I'm gonna just swing in a miss That was a little bit more on the nose, but that was a little too literal about it Okay, so I'm going to go into what is actually going on. There is a secret room on the other side of that wall. I am not getting the movement that I want. There we go. Secret room. We're going to leave the secret room, and then I'm going to do that death warp like I did in chapter two. Unironically, the hardest part of that strat is just getting to the room. But that is the room that contains the four dark cassette. The dark sides are like the B-sides of the D-sides. They all have very fun little mechanics to them, but yeah when you exit that room the game thinks that your closer to the other side so it respawns you to the other side. But I have to be against the wall. If I'm not against the wall when I re-enter then I would actually just get warped back to the beginning of the room. Saves about four seconds by doing that death warp. Got some more windy gameplay here. Super windy. I love springs. Springs are great. Springs are so good! Springs are not going to hurt me today. Not sure if that room looked uh familiar to any other uh room in a specific level that we won't be seeing today but we will not we will not be seeing that level he's talking about farewell well yeah we're fine it's fine everything's fine i think you were actually inside the spikes there but you're holding left so the game thought you were moving i was cranking left on my analog stick there all right we're gonna do something that doesn't look very fast because this room because it's not a troller can basically just get me to the end of the room at the same speed every single time but as much more for safety and let's try this room here Cool. Take a breather. We're going to skip this block, land here. That looks good to me. We're up, good! We're gaming! Nice. Yeah! Let's go! Carry on? What?! Mom, I Oh my god. What? That's me! Mom, I'm on the screen! So basically what happened there was when I was in the cassette block I did a reverse dash jump and that refreshed my dash so I could just fall down that little crevice. What?! There's no way! Yeah, 15 thousand meds for that Moonberry. Thank you so much everybody. Oh my god what? I'm losing my mind. Thank you so much. You're going to love it. I promise. I might even have a little secret at the end of all this for all of you. Things will be very normal here by the way Yeah, everything is really normal Don't worry about it. Don't don't don't be concerned Funny enough this is a Celeste entity There are invisible walls that are used in the game. And Monica said, hey what if we just threw it into Temple? Why not? I believe everything used in this map pack is in the vanilla game. That's correct yes there's like a few custom entities made by people like RubyDragon or Monika themselves but for the most part everything you see in here is just pure vanilla Celeste entity If your familiar with Celeste's Mirror Temple B-Side, a key section like this may seem familiar and also the fact that we are skipping half of it may also seem familiar. We still will be. You gotta get nice and close to the screen transition, and then you gotta do that. Nice. Excellent. The right side of this main hall is... Hold on, let me do the Seidei strat. I love Seidei. Yeah, there we go. Seidei strat never fails. I don't know why I was trying to do my own thing there. Shout outs to Seidei who's a great Celeste speedrunner. What was I saying? The right side of that main hall is all it has there is a bubble that it's intended to take you to that door so that you can leave that way. We don't want to do that, but we can just go around. Oh, dang. All right so I hate to tell everybody this but if I get the key in the bottom door the run's dead. If it had gone into top door it would be world record pace. So that's just some classic RNG right there. It's not actually dead. Please do not... Please do not be mad at me for that joke. The run will continue until morale improves i'm gonna have a lot of these long bubble rooms here for a minute if you wanted to read a couple donations sure thing speaking of improving morale, we have $5,000 from Baba is You! Oh my god! Good luck with the run, Kerry! Thanks to everyone there for the event as well thank you so much baba is you baba is great i love baba oh great all right you can do another donation after that okay i have five dollars from bart Small saying Celeste Bubbles are a kind of smart ball if you think about it. Ooh! I like where your head's at actually. And $5 from Pyrock saying Hirie good luck on the d sides can you get me some pancakes no yeah sure when we meet up i'll make some pancakes. Make a pretty good pancake. Alright, I love this elevator. Easy. Easy every time. So this leads us to the fourth jackpot. I thought I could save that, That would have been so cool! It wouldn't look so cool for everybody. This is a bit of secret gameplay if anyone wants so cool for everybody. So this is a bit of Seeker gameplay, if any one of you gentlemen wants to talk about Seeker game play. Seekers are technically deterministic but as a Taster I don't believe that. Ooh, that hurts! Alright. They're very sensitive to Madeline's movements and timings of inputs, so you'll see Carrie attempting to do manips here, and hopefully hitting them. They're very tricky though tricky little guys there we go that just puts the seeker in approximately the same position each time so i can kind of get the little boosts in the same position. Owned. It's a little funky. Owned. Owned. Owned. Owned. Free them! What's going on? All right, shout out to Amberlovesarchie. This strat is great. I'm supposed to go over the seeker. I'm not gonna do that. Just go under it. And then bounce right off of it with bubble. Classic. Alright we got a little bit of swap block gameplay here these swap blocks move every single time i dash if you haven't caught that up by now uh that's on me honestly um but yeah we have a little bit of room here. JPEG if you have a quick donation? Sure thing! How about $10 from Matthew Rotator Cone X Long time viewer, first-time donater The Madeline plush is super cute I agree Since i'm donating for it I'm going to go with the moon berry. The first time donator, the Madeline flush is super cute since I am donating for it may as well put it towards an incentive in the celestial run which we did meet Woo! It's the temple D-side with ya boy. Yep, if we had... If we considered the Seeker the first favorite entity of us as players then we have a second one here with Theo So we get some good fun Theo gameplay out Gonna manipulate the Seeker to aggrimy less, that is very good and then... You've seen Cary do it a couple times here already but you can- Hey, it looked cool. But now we can all go, whoa. I've never seen that before. Can we get some donations that just say, whoa? That would be great. Because that was beautiful. Thank you. Are you sure about this trans rights? I am always certain about trans rights. Alright couple more questions. All right. A couple little fun little bits of Theo mixed with Swap Block gameplay. You're going to see some real fun stuff over the next couple rooms here nice nice completely completely blind all right this is supposed to be a puzzle room and i missed the frame um there's supposed to be a puzzle room no no just no oh how beautiful beautiful. Yes! Okay, that room is very, very complicated. I use what's called ungrab tech in that. It's too long to explain, but basically I press... Sir? There we go! I press un-grab as I hit a bumper, and I get a lot of speed holding Theo but not holding grab. Shout-outs to Pinball Purgatory from Strawberry Jam for teaching me that. Wait, where're good? Okay, we're good. Alright coming up on the last room here, We have a very intricate strat that Karad needs to focus on. Whoa! It was slightly late. It's alright. All good, it's all good. So yeah, you notice that there are shadows here and it's for Oh my god, I cannot land. What's going on? Theo... you're kind of being annoying here. I blame Theo. When is he not though? Okay let's try this again.... Let's try this again. Nine, okay I got it. Good. Not dead? Not dead. Still not dead. Wee! Okay, nice. So yeah that is a really complicated puzzle. You're supposed to watch Theo move down that room between the swap blocks and the pink and blue cassette blocks. And if Theo runs into those blocks while on a swap block, well, I'm one of the slot blocks, he'll just fall and die you go to the beginning of the room. Chalice to Ruby Dragon, there's a very specific setup to start off where you do nine dashes once right before that blue cassette block starts. And then, you just kind of listen for visual audio clues and then maybe it works if you're lucky. Now we're getting into the real level. Yeah, so that was about 40% of the run The next 60% is right now So Reflection decides a chapter that when I first started labbing this, the world record was 14 minutes long. And when I was done with it, it was 11 minutes long. So hopefully I can show off a lot of the really cool movement that we now have in this level. Yep, so you're be familiar with these fireballs but not in this level in particular so they just make cycles a little bit more something to keep in mind while you're trying manage these bumper cycles on top of them. And it can make gameplay a little bit complicated. A warning sign of things to come. There is also... Ooh that was a good bumper boost right there. Uh, there's no death plane to the bottom of any of these rooms so very uh getting over it style if I fall uh to the bottom of the room I just ugh you need to not do that thank you uh if i just fall to the bottom of the room i go into the next room or the previous room and have to dash back up. Yeah, there's a little bit of spot there that...that's not the... Okay, that's what I thought. So there's That's not the... Yeah, okay. That's what I thought. So there's like not... That's where the beginning of the checkpoint actually is on that left side. But if you grab that particular part of the wall, it can put you into the second half of that room and skip a few screen transitions. The problem is you have to get to a very specific spot To then unlock the new respawn point So I just missed Alright, some more bumper gameplay here Leading into the feather. I love feathers. I definitely don't have an emote about my love for feathers. JPEG? I would love to hear your voice what's going on over there you would love to hear my voice oh my goodness wow okay so we have five dollars and 23 cents so that donation train you mentioned y'all remember? That translates to donation train. That is from Serenalink saying hi from the watch party. Good luck with the run and everybody pray for 6D and 7D. Please. Also $25 from Itzy, more Celeste please and $15 from Marker saying I love Carrie I love Monica, I love Celeste Here's $5.23 for each! Aw, thank you so much Markers! Alright this room could be haunted, we're gonna find out The bumpers in this room are so precise. You can see them moving slightly on a cycle, and Kari gets it first try. Very nice. Excellent! Not haunted. I look at very specific spots visually on those bumpers to find out where I need to hit them. And because they're just moving, it can be more hassle than it's worth. Yeah the speed you get from bumpers is really variable depending on where exactly you hit them. And the fact that they move does not help with that. Alright so we have entered the descent checkpoint. This is very similar to the falling section in most reflection chapters in vanilla. So we do be fallen though, we're going to be fallen for a while. We do go down. She do go down so JPEG, the floor is yours. Oh, we're falling? Is there a floor? Okay, so we have $25 from Broseph saying she's climbing that gosh darn mountain again. Good luck, Carrie Carrarium. I am so proud of you. Thank you for us, Seth. $5.23 from WorldWaker2 saying, Fun Carrie fact, she has passed the National Sicko Certification exam multiple years running. I'm going to do a little safety there and by safety i mean i forgot so i improv the bat that's safety that's safe that's safety yeah all right we have plenty more That's safety. That's safe, that's safety. Yeah. All right we have plenty more time for donations. Oh and we have plenty more donations for you $100 from non binary code saying Carrie Caroline last name Carreriam I wish you every good luck and at least I'm going to read a little bit of the text here. This is from Carrie, last name Carreriam. I wish you every good luck and at least six maybe even seven have funds. as trans rights. Do it for Big B. Thank you. All right, and Faley sends in $25 and says, Celeste calls Carrarium. Certainly completing custom courses could count. Can Carrie collect crimson crops? Careful, because C-sides can't... Wait! D-Sides?! Carrie! My carefully crafted contribution crushed! Congrats!" Wow! That was unreal. Can I get an applause for that one nice time reading that too yeah and nice down with ash kerry thank you thank you uh yeah so we did not do that room as intended in any way shape or form during all of that. You're supposed to get a feather on the left side but there's actually a really big gap there to do a demo dash and I pause buffer it just to make sure that I definitely get it because the way all the time to – all the way up to that dash is long. It's a lot of time. We don't have much time. Here we got to go out of the room, come back in and now that coin block is out of the way so we can continue. We are going to soon be entering the battle and fight The battle and fight is a two part checkpoint really and it is easily my favorite part of Monica's D-Sides, It is an incredible example of taking Vanilla Celeste concepts and really putting a very unique spin on it. I really do think that the battle in section is a triumph, but I hope that I triumph over it. There's good. I wanted to do that actually. Gonna do a little loopy loop here excellent all right time for the battle and fight everybody get your hey oz out yeah so this battling fight's going to look pretty normal at least for now. Later in the chapter we're gonna run into some interesting instances that Monica found to incorporate this battle and gameplay. Hopefully I can get this room... No, but Nice! Perfect backup, love that. That room is so hard. Who loves Tohu? Anybody like bullet hex? Me! Yeah...uh yeah. I'm stuck. That is I'm stuck. That is very largely, okay let's do it again! Love that. This room is the start of the really creative design aspects of 6D and Monica Seaside's just really putting Madeline in a position where it's like, yeah, no you have to deal with the fight. Except here, where no. Do not the battle in. Do not talk to the battle in. I think you found that Jack's if I'm not mistaken that while working on the test for this level and then tested in every other room it didn't work anywhere else yeah basically did not work anywhere else and now it's just like wait can I do that and the answer was yes all right we're gonna climb up this wall here so that i can skip getting to that feather at the bottom to get up to this platform it's a little bit of time save there all right so the next room actually is a major update that happened kind of randomly in a 4.0 patch update, I don't even know what it was. This room used to be way harder, Monica updated it and is now much smoother and really fun to do fast. You might be able to see that Adam didn't just get an eye on the really fun to do fast. And you might be able to see that Badum didn't just get an upgrade to her orbs, but also her lasers and when they both come out at the same time I think it's pretty interesting as well. All right, we're going gonna have a little bit of a trust moment here Trust 90 reference nope that was on me I actually got bumper boost and I didn't expect to. To our lovely hostess, can we get some couple of donations while I get out of this room? Sure thing! Comet 625 sends $100 saying let go carrie you are gonna be great let's go comment i comment real sub uh alexa sending in ten dollars saying let's go carry laundry basket laundry basket laundry oh God! I didn't even think about that. My community posts laundry baskets as a way to root for me. I forget why. I think it was because we just thought laundry basket was really funny and an emote so... Chad if I could get your a lot of laundry baskets in chat, that would be excellent. We also do have $120 from Crystal saying my life would be nothing without girl go dash jump. So true. Honestly understandable. I get it. I really do. Oh! We're fine. We're so fine. everything's so fine i've never doubted okay that room is so yeah absolutely let's get some hype for that that room is so unbelievably difficult to work with. We're going to just hold on here for a second, take a breather after that. I love this room so much. It's so good! Tatalin being like the little twin turrets. Uh...I did one cycle too many but i was able to work around that all right breather we have a breather what's going on in this room dave what's going on in this room? Gabe, what's going on in this room? It looks like you may be figured out there. That's okay. You're gonna make up for it. Yeah, have faith. So yeah, so there are a lot uh precision climbs that you can see here with the feather and the interesting thing about the feather is that it does have 360 movement uh unlike the dashes that uh madeline does So sometimes if you're using analog, it could be a little bit tricky to finesse through those smaller daps. Got another feather right here let Let's see how that goes. Good. All right, now we're going to enter this room and the music gets a little bit quiet so that means everything is gonna be good, right? We're in a good spot. Oh yeah. Psyche! So uh...yeah. There's a lot of battle ends here a lot if you listen closely you can hear the audio kind of struggle to figure out what's going on i definitely have a cycle for each of these rooms. You just got to be really careful with your positioning there. Oh my gosh, I didn't doubt for a second i did okay just gonna wait for that to happen and then this room is really really neat. Yeah, these rooms really take the boss fight aspect of that line up to 11. All right, first try on that room. Trans rights? Stop! Trans rights will never stop, am I right gamers? All right. Stop my right gamers. Alright, so this is fluidity This is the very last checkpoint in the chapter and it's part of a story where we actually drag ourselves down into core very early. But there is a big skip coming up. Jack, do you want to explain the big skip that's coming up? Yeah sure. With Core Mechanics, there are states. Normally you only see two fire and a cold mode but There's actually a secret third state where if you skip the trigger to go into core mode Things will be weird. Carrie is going to go and avoid BattleLyme here, and also avoid the trigger that turns us into Core Mode. And she is now avoiding invisible triggers at the start of each room. Additionally if she dies in any room here She will be respawned onto a trigger That turns it back into core hot mode so she's going to go over trigger here and there's supposed to be a lot of love oh that was so bad there's the lava yeah There's the lava. There's the lava. You know what? You know what? I want to show this off. Hold on a second. I actually want to show this off. It's actually a really cool spot. We're going to try that one more time. If I don't get it that time, I will just accept my fate. It is not that long to get there and that was not a very long part in the checkpoint. Yeah, this entire sequence saves almost 20 seconds if you avoid activating the lava. And a lot of that comes in the later rooms and you'll see why FK can get there In core mode zero Core mode zero Oh I get it because there's nothing there. I guess. I actually have no idea. Okay we have started again. Okay. do not the battle in oh okay there's that buffer into the feather to try to pick it up. Alright so far so good. Usually there is a lot of lava which might why this might look a little strange to you uh it doesn't look like that much of a challenge but uh when the lava's here it definitely tends to stall you nice floating campfires by the way. All right, good and clean movement. Nice! Yes I think if we have a donation or two, then we might have a little bit of time here. Yeah, we're gonna take this part really safe because the next room is the one that's really... it's a big time save. Okay, absolutely. How does $50 from Stag of Artemis sound? Saying shout out to all the frame Fatals. Thank you for the thoroughly encouraging community you have created. Fatales take over baby, love you! I am now training for a glitchless portal speedrun because of all the inspiration I've gotten in the discord thank you so much and yeah shout out to the Fatales. The Fatales is how I met Carrie, So I just want to shout that out. Second try! We got the whole thing! Let's go! Nice job, Carrie. Oh no, the lava's been turned on. You can actually avoid the core trigger in this room but it doesn't do anything. It doesn't save any time. And here we've got a really cool boss fight. Carrie may be doing some of it. Nope? Okay. There we go. Oh, that old camera close to here at the end never doubted not even close so yes that that was totally worth the retry i'm like i wasn't sure if i wanted to, but I was like you know what? I think we can actually get it done. That...it was with the TAS or Molly found that to be possible in the TAS and it saves 25 seconds if you do it deathless. It's really, really funny but really good. Alright we're on to the last chapter, Summit! This is the final ride. And boy is it once. Oh my gosh is it. Just like in Vanilla Celeste the summit here will be a reprise of every chapter we've seen so far and so we'll be getting into the city shortly after a few rooms that look like reflection. Yep, we're gonna start with a little bit of Kaizo gameplay. Lots of tight little spaces that you have to kind of navigate around and not a lot of room for time save besides obviously just playing through the level and trying not to die do we have some time for someone that's coming in first area when we do this absolutely oh yeah yes time for some love that's coming in for Sherry when we do this? Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Yes. Alright. $25 from the strawberry that got away. Can't wait to see these amazing levels get shredded. I hope you've been enjoying yourself. $100 from World Maker 2 saying, woo, Celeste! Hi, Carrie! Hi! We have $5 and 23 cents from Logie Bear on that donation train saying, choo-choo, Trans Rights Train! Heck yeah! That Trans Rights Train is absolutely rolling. $5.23 from Desiree BLG saying, 523 train. I can do that so hyped for this Celeste run and 15 23 from creep crafting 56 saying hi Jax Hi Dave love y'all but Kerry Carrie Carrarium is my goat. Trans rights and long live Archie! Long live Archie! All right, we're going to try a really silly demo dash here. Once Madeline is untrimmed, you can just go through the spinners. Fix your posture out there. Alright now we've made it to city. Yep, very familiar to city but a lot more spikes and thankfully a lot of them are just a little bit for show. So we can just kind of ignore a lot of the gameplay there Little reverse there grab that... alright this is a funny little skip right here. Remember that stuff about being in the right position? Yeah! You can YOLO it a little bit! Imagine using the setups given to you? No! That saves three seconds, I want those. What about this one? Uh that ones-that ones a lot harder to do. Alright... to do. Alright, we'll give you a couple more donations. Sure thing! $25.30 from Thorn Carrie, you are so incredibly talented. Watching you rock Celeste demonstrates the art in speed running. You are an inspiration. Let's give Kerry some hype! Hype. Hype. Thank you so much. $5 from Doodleplex saying, to the coolest speed runner I know and that's not just because you're climbing a mountain You're rocking it Kerry less than three Thank you so much Doodleplex And Sprinkle Theory sends in $25. Hi, Carrie! Glad we are getting more Celeste. You are doing great. Thank you, Sprinkle. I agree with that. Ooh, did not get a grab there so we're in a thousand meters this is where you really start to see the like uptick in uh room length as well as room difficulty in summit d side yeah so back to these dream blocks you saw that she was performing a couple more dream hypers uh interesting little fact there there are two ways to execute a dream hyper one that is significantly easier to do than the other uh and i'll let you take the guess at which way care decides to do them all right i need to defend myself here so when i first started speedrunning celeste i only had it on the Nintendo Switch and it was before the 1.4 patch where you were able to bind anything to anything in the game, so I did not have access to crouch dashing um...and thus uh uh the only way for me to do dream hypers when i was practicing speed running on the switch was to do it kind of the manual way which is to hold down right out of the dream block haven't messed anything up yet though not yet another thing about dream hop uh dream blocks giving you coyote time is that you can double jump out of them i'm not sure if we've seen any of that here, but you can jump once as you leave and then again in the next few frames after you leave for more speed. We're actually going to do a double-jump right here to set up this little bit of movement and then on the left side there I don't need to do that you're one of few times we actually get to skip a little part of a room. Let's go! That section is so, so scary because it's a big stamina management section. So that area can be a lot of time lost if you mess it up. And we're back to Cycle, so if we have a couple more donations to go through, this would be a good time. Oh, you betcha! People are loving this run and loving you, Carrie! $10 from Bree12am saying, hi Carrie. So proud of you. You're killing it! Thanks, Brie. $50 from Gray and Argenta saying Celeste is such a mesmerizing run And $50 from Tons of mike saying awesome celestron carerium is awesome and this run is super fun to watch i agree with that and comfy panda sending in fifty dollars saying had to donate during Celeste as it is my favorite game and one that has provided me with so much emotional support over the years. Take a deep breath. You can do this. Terry I believe you. You can do this. What? Cary, I believe in you. You can do this. You saw Cary reset the cycle on that last room. Like how fast the cycles move in these rooms and how tight they are it's often better to just take the L on the screen transitions and reset it. Get into known territory. Woo! All right, so... I'm going to try to avoid getting the funny ending though uh there is still more to that room. We're gonna just pop back and try that again. Time for a couple more donations? Absolutely. All right, $52 and 30 cents so that is the five dollar donation train times ten from Crystal Ship saying no way! Carrie Carrarium's making this look easy. Long live Archie. Long live Archie. Someone should explain what Archie is. Archie is the bird of a Celeste community member and is now a mascot of the community. We love Archie. This is kinda bad... Toad tries to charm that's good i'm gonna wait that's better. Alright, we're out dude. So you can be on a bad cycle there and that dust bunny still keeps moving while you are doing the battle and throw animation, And you will hit the dust bunny and you will curse Monika's name when it happens. That is what I was trying to avoid at the end. Alright now we have some more bubble gameplay here and you'll see that carrie just phases through some of them um no reason to obey the spikes at all no spikes truly are a suggestion. They truly, truly are. All right. So the next room I'm actually going to do backwards. If you know, you know. That joke has made me funny to a hundred people, Gary! If fifty people laughed then it was worth it. Coincidentally that is my philosophy with being on the social media team. Alright we are pretty good right now. Okay got my two dashes. We're good. We are good. We're good? We're good! Alright that room is really hard. That was a lot of stamina conservation. Sorry, didn't mean to jump the gun there. Alright I'm gonna try to skip a snowball cycle here Nice oh, I didn't know I know exactly what happened man. That was totally my bad. I could have done one more dash. Hey, don't do that! I don't want that. I don't wanna be doing that live in front of people. There's a small but very easy thing to miss right here, you can see that Carrie kind of does a jump against the spikes because the wind is pushing her against the spike, but there's a small window where you can actually press jump and still keep away from them. Boink! Alright, that save is going underneath that section which is really hard to do. Just don't get owned by this snowball here, and we are good. So what I tried to do was I tried to get a dash jump off of the... Or I think Jack said it was a dash cancel i basically tried to get some shmoove movement off of a snowball and it would send me far enough to the right that i could skip an entire snowball cycle. I was trying to talk, that was a bad idea! Yeah much like Theo, snowballs can cancel your dash they don't give you any more speed, but it allows you to preserve the speed from the dash. Let's try this again. I forgot what my... There we go. Here we just gotta put a little block and put it over where Madeline's going to be because when you throw a battle in she needs to throw you into the block. Good! That is exactly what I wanted to do, I love being in this room longer than expected. Yeah you can see that there aren't too many checkpoints in the end here, in the last rooms of a lot of the checkpoints in Summit. So that'll be especially tough to make sure not to die and for the next couple of checkpoints. Oops! Do we have time for a couple donations? Actually, hold on. I got a really complex set of inputs right here. Okay yep you still left that in the bag. Yep we got it! Okay, yep. Yep, we got it. I held that. Whoa. Congratulations. Listen, it's hard to do two things at once. Yes, we have time for donations. Sure thing. All Alright, $523 from an anonymous saying I love Celeste and it has left a huge positive impact on my life Shoutouts to Cararium, The Couch, Monica the incredible community and of course the incredible team behind one of my favorite games of all time and forty dollars from black silver who actually ran lone fungus earlier today saying you are impossibly inspirational both on the sticks and in every community space you enter. Good luck in the good-luck room and trans rights forever! Trans rights forever. Happy Pride Month to everybody. Alright, so a couple more Redbubble gameplay here. Take this spot just a little safe because the rooms just keep getting longer. Okay, cool. So yeah this room does a little bit of swap block gameplay where you in one situation you act like I forgot my own advice there and one position you actually need to dash, in another position you don't. Yeah. The good luck room that Quack brings up is a room two rooms from now. It's the final room of the 2500 meter checkpoint. It is arduous, to say the least. So when I get into that room, I will say what I'm getting in the good luck room on Twitch chat and to the audience behind me if I could get a big good luck when that happens, that would be excellent! I will let you know when we do that. In the meantime, JPEG, you can do another quick donation Sure thing. This is from Talia, $20 and it actually has just two emojis. It is a strawberry and a goat. Is that quick? That is quick. You can keep going. I'm currently doing a little bit of a death loop right now so I need to get myself out of it. Okay absolutely $25 from Kate Latte saying Carrie wins! Both at Celeste gaming and community building. Aw, thank you so much. All right we're going to try this again. We are out of that room. So we have one more room to go and then it's a big good luck. I'm going to try to set myself up on a swap block in a very specific spot, aka right here. That's going to fling me there. Ha ha! And... Shout out to Nins. That demo saves.5 seconds and you can guess how much time it loses if I fail it. Now, can I get a good luck? Good luck! Thank you. Surely nothing could go wrong in this room. Surely... Alright, so I'm supposed to wait for that swap block? I'm not. And that saves.2? Huge. Huge! I'm not. And that saves 0.2. Huge. Huge. Big in a 54 minute plus speed run. Alright, let's go. Let's go All right, we're good. We're good. One more wall bounce, and we're out. There we go. Incredible, Harry! Oh my gosh. So the thing about that room is that it fakes you out and there's actually more bubble gameplay that you have to do in that position, I don't think the camera would've caught that but to make sure that I'm actually doing the directions in the directions that I want them, I put my hands off of my D-pad and put them on Waz keys for the keyboard so that I basically could definitely go up or left or right or down and all that, and all that fun jazz. Are we counting flags? We sure are. So if we could talk about 3K. Yeah, much like vanilla 7A or 7B, the 3000,000 meters here has three sections. Downwind and upland And a neutral wind or no wind You see a lot of the same ideas used in those vanilla flags rep reprise here much harder with many more spikes but lots of similar ideas if you've played 7b you'll see some similar things i was just a little bit late there i I'm going to hit that wall real quick. So we're gonna be moving up to Upwind, our movement is now very floaty But the next couple of flags are pretty simple. So JPEG, we can throw a couple donations in there if you'd like. Sure thing! I actually do want to tell everybody that we have a new incentive open, which is the Do The Dance Incentive for Alan Wake 2. All right so normally we would be skipping a dance in the uh section of Alan Wake. We would not do that if we get this incentive and 25 from the herald of darkness saying fatales mentioned the celestron is amazing but i want even more fatals so my donation goes towards making the dance in Alan Wake 2 happen, because I happened to know that there are a lot of Fatales in that. Oooh! That's mysterious. I'd love to see that. Alright we're doing a little bit of grabless gameplay. Astute viewers might know this is basically just like Flag 10 in 7B It's a couple notches harder, I'd say. We're gonna fix this. We're gonna fix this! See if we can do... There we go! So you have to grab the side of that. You have to grab the side of that crumble block because that, uh, that gap is one tile large and the girl is one tile large so you can do the math there okay so Okay, so flag 14 has a really silly demo in here that saves a couple seconds. I'm gonna go for it. I don't know what's going to happen. I believe. I need the two dashes here There we go! Beautiful. And that, we can just slow fall all the way to flag 13. That spinner gap is so wide you could actually do that without doing the crouch dash. It's that big. Alright, now we're on to no wind! She didn't hit it! Come on guys. Owned. Yay! Alright, in this section a couple of strats developed by myself yeah i'm gonna do a little stamina management right here try excellent that section used to be way tighter before the 4.0 update and it is now significantly easier um thank you, Monica. I appreciate you. We're going to not do this flag intended This is actually slower but for me it's way more consistent and in a very kaizo uh style of gameplay consistency is just as important as speed yeah so we can see that this flag looks a little bit scary especially with these spikes that are underneath the clouds but if you buffer jumps off of these clouds then you can actually avoid uh landing on them when the cloud sinks below All right. We have a couple more cloud jumps here. Jpeg, you can do your thing for a little bit? Oh sure thing. JPEG, you can do your thing for a little bit. Oh sure thing! How about $25 from Ojai saying Bellatro and Celeste back to back? The perfect block! Petitioned for a Stwobo-ie Joker in Bellatro. Good luck, Carrie! You'll smash it! Thank you, O-Hey! Go ahead. $100 from Joe Frangles. Donating $100 to make Madeline eat a weird berry she found. Thank you so much, we are gonna be eating that weird berry. It is very weird. And $500! Wow, that was quite the timing. So happy to see Carrie on the big stage from Cheesy Pie. Good luck and shout out to The Couch. Oh, and trans rights now. Now? Now. So we're skipping a lot of gameplay on flag six and flag five. Hey, you weren't supposed to do that. Why would they? You didn't read the script. We skipped a lot of gameplay on 6, 5 and 4 and we are going to collect flag 3 I'm sorry to say everybody I am not going to collect flag 2 maybe well we'll see. This is the scariest strat in the D-Sides pack. There's a strat I can do here. I should go left to collect the flag. I'm not going to because it saves 3 seconds if i die towards the end of this section this could lose me up to 50 seconds so i'm going to need to focus up a little bit here so Oh, that's so devastating. Should I give it one more shot? Should I give that one more shot? Let's do one more shot. That was good. That felt good. That actually felt good. We're're gonna give it one more shot there yeah it is a very, very, very scary spot just because of the lack of obviously the lack of checkpoints. But we're kind of in midair. So what checkpoints are you really going to put here? But yeah, just skipping an entire flag's worth of safety is very difficult and not for the faint apart. Yeah this flag is a monster if you're familiar with 7c from the base game, this is almost twice as long as that I think. I think it's twice as long and plenty harder than 7C which definitely doesn't make it any easier to navigate through i think i spent about an hour on my let's go God, that's one! All right. So we are at flag 1. This is the final climb to the final room where the 7D heart is located. Got to do a little bit more stamina management. The music's getting quieter. All it is just you and the sound of your little taps against the wall we're gonna do a little bit movement there and then there and then. I am sorry raccoon gal, I did not do your new flag one movement please forgive me, I will do it some other time. Alright! We are into the heart room which does not have any checkpoints either. And I completely labbed all by myself to save a lot of time on it. So hopefully I get this first try. The key to this is numerous cycle skips. This is a massive cassette block based room uh lots of springs that you need to stall on but carrie's not doing a lot of stalling here we are going to be skipping some sections that you'll see coming up after that part. Alright, this is skip number one. Just a really brave corner kick there. I like this! We're fine, we've never been so fine. There's a lot of coins here, Cary. You gonna get these? No. I'm going to do this instead. And a trick is coming up here where you can just stand inside of a cassette block and then corner kick off it when it reappears. Okay, I have messed up somewhere but there's a good safety strat right here. Okay, I was not on the cycle that Okay. I was not on the cycle that I wanted, and so I had to basically just jump over there to activate some lights so I could see where all of the blocks were And we have one little bit of movement before the heart when I collect the Heart and it says, Love that is time on Denny for a second. Nice! Nice. And time! Wow, god...... God. Amazing job, Carrie. What a monster of a map pack. 36 deaths is actually still pretty good for that level, all things considered. So I see 106 for RTA... 1 hour for IGT is actually not that bad. My world record's a 52, this is a very, very good run. About six months ago, this would have been a minute and half off of the world records so it just goes to show how far this particular map pack has come. Thank you for the journey through The Forbidden Trail, everybody! That was great! That was a wonderful time! We are going to get into epilogue. For epilogue, I need to hop in a different file real quick because we have to go through core but thankfully I have a little thing right here. So there is...I'm gonna show show you what Epilogue's all about for just a brief summary and then we're gonna show you how to do it. Every level in the Monika's D-sides map pack has a moonberry. It is one that goes wow when you collect it. In epilogue, it is hidden in a particular room. In epilogue, you have no dashes. You do not have any dashes. The moonberry is located in this particular room right here which is behind this room right here which has two key doors, two doors that you have to break and this door that could be activated when you hit the switch. So the problem is that this room has core mechanics which will remove your dash once you use it. So, once I hit this switch, I have no dashes Which means that I need to have two keys and two dashes to get to the other room because anytime I leave this room those two breakable walls come back so how do you do that well I'm obviously going to start off by doing a double sub pixel uh strap right here. Wow, first try. First try and then kick up there and get this key. This saves 50 seconds. You are supposed to go all the way To the normal part of the gameplay And collect a dash crystal A double-dash crystal Which gives you a perma one dash So by getting this key early I save going back to get it with the dash which is approximately like 50 40 possibly like a minute long so it's a huge time save all right time save. Alright, oopsie! And kind of like Kerry mentioned before now we're navigating to the other side of the map too uh...we still need that double dash crystal to kinda give us one dash back but first wait what are you doing so that heart can't be collected because we don't have a dash which is sad but we'll get there soon. Alright so up here we take all these zip movers and we use their momentum to fling us through these rooms. This is the largely intended path to progress your way to the dashed crystal that I was talking about. Do a couple of super wall jumps there with the momentum of the zip mover. I'm going to get into this feather, To get into this feather, To get into THIS feather Because that third feather can't get you all the way over here So basically just skipping a feather saves time thanks first job now the second key is this little shiny spot right here behind this wall i'm gonna grab this...this used to be way harder to collect. It is much easier now, thank you Monica! So now I have my two keys Excellent. We're gonna do a little cycle skip on these platforms that just saves them going left to right one time now up here we're going to see the dash. But I don't need the two dashes yet. So now we go into the room No, we don't. There we go. So now we go into this room and we activate this but I have blue hair so I can't do anything else right now so I'm gonna go this way. So what do we do? Well, I'm glad you asked. We we're gonna go into this room which has a breakable wall behind it and we're going to activate this coin now this coin would get us all the way back to that room where, uh, the breakable walls are We don't need them yet though because we don't have two dashes. So now I have to get the two dashes but play dashless because it's not a perma-two dash. So anytime I dash or die, I will go back to having only one dash. So Monica is really just like dangling a carrot in front of me and being like, hmm you want to dash so bad. And there I saw that I had very little stamina so just kind of take the L and jump into the previous room. Now we grab this and activate this key coin again. And now we are in the room with our two keys and our two dashes. One, two, and now we can enter the room. And the reward for getting the berry, other than it going, wow! Is that you get a Permit dash. So, that would be time on collecting said Moonberry if we had done it timer. But yeah, thank you so much to everybody for watching. I'm going to not collect this heart because it has absolutely nothing to do with the Moonberry, I'm gonna do a little bit of traveling. Guys if you want to do some shoutouts now is a great time. You can start. I'd like to shout out just Celeste's community in general. There have been a lot of people that I've talked to and interacted with who have been super helpful in my speedrunning journey, and then it has helped me kind of translate into being able to make videos and help others so uh definitely shout out to them and to cheesy pie who you know came in with 500 donation absolutely a huge huge and one of my best friends. So appreciate them and all of my friends kind of at home watching And my girlfriend, of course Alicia. Love you I wanted to give a shout out to the Celeste Community Events Twitch page We run bingo events and task showcases and lots of other cool Celeste things and also our annual charity marathon Archie-thon is a lot of fun, definitely hang out for that. Long live Archie! Long live Archie! Aside from that i stream occasionally at twitch ftv slash on jacks oh yeah where we find you oh you can find me at twitch.tv average imposter or on youtube subscribe to that guy's poster subscribe to that guy. He's really, really important in the Celeste community. I want thank my partner Sam who has supported me for so many years through content creation and what I do. She has no idea how to explain this to people, but she thinks it's really cool and I really appreciate her. Mom, dad, Ashley if you're watching at home I love you all thank you all for your support as well uh shout out to the backpack rat pack my community for supporting me every step of the way you're the best community i could ever ask for even when you drive me absolutely up a wall um you're the best uh shout out to the audience behind me. Oh, my God! There's so many of you over here. Akko, FrozenFlyGone, and so many of the Fatales team. To the social media team I love you Conception, Elena And all our wonderful volunteers You're all incredible And you really do make my job completely worth it. It is so much fun. And shout out to everyone behind the scenes here who's putting on such a great event. But most importantly I really want to thank Monica for making one of the best map packs that i've ever had the honor of playing. And putting me on her memorial thanking her for helping her on her journey. Monica this map pack really does mean so much to me. I'm just helping her on her journey. Monica, this map pack really does mean so much to me as a person and content creator but most importantly as a person. Thank you for all that you do. Thank you for creating that you do, thank you for creating such an incredible experience with this map pack everybody should give it a shot and truly believe that and just honored able to put on the main stage my first time ever on the main stage. I don't know how I convinced the games committee to make me do this, but I'm really proud and happy to have shown this off for all of you tonight. It's really overwhelming. So that's going to be it for us over here on the Forbidden Trail with Monica's D-sides to everyone out there. Just remember that perfection is not necessary. You can do anything that you set your mind to. I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself as well. Now's the time to do it. No one's going to care. Now's the time to try. You owe it to yourself to be gentle with yourself because you deserve to be loved by both yourself and others. Thank you everybody, let's have a great event! Let's have a great night! And yeah, let's keep this hype! Let's raise some money for MSF! Hey. What's up, everyone? Mike food. Crunchylex, professional commentary ruiner. How's it going? So gonna be doing Metroid Fusion 100%. We're gonna jump right in. We got some texts so we'll start on go. 3...2...1...Go! Alright now you can see Three, two, one, go. All right now before we get started I think I want to answer the question that's on everybody's minds right now what does the SMB and MonkeySMB stand for? Now you might be forgiven for thinking Super Mario Bros. obvious answer? No no get that out of here! He will tell you it is Super Monkey Ball because he does play that game No no no no no no It stands for Supreme Metroid Baller Because we are about to see some top notch fusion gameplay Here today starting with this room right here the hardest thing in the game lock-in true final boss oh no oh enough we'll take that that is no that isn'tironically the hardest move in the entire game. Actually, probably top 10 hardest room. Half of your runs you're just gone right there? Yep. Very big reset point. Alright so start off The game has a lot of text. Text is pretty interesting in this game You can't just mash it Some people do And that's not very fast And some people just have hands made of stronger stuff than my hands. Yeah, but basically for every text box I'll be timing the advancing of the text box as well as speeding it up by holding down a different button. So I pretty much have every text box in the game memorized at this point, so hopefully it goes pretty okay! Yeah and that's the other thing about text is Hopefully it goes pretty okay. Yeah, and that's the other thing about text is much like in a lot of speedruns in Metroid Fusion we play on the Japanese version because we save something akin to two-and-a half minutes throughout the course of this run just on length of text alone. Unfortunately, this means you don't get to see some cool out-of-bounds tricks but speed is king. Yeah so starting out here I mean we just have some basic movement. You know wall jumps, ledge grabs, ledge hops all of that stuff it's pretty intuitive. We're just heading up to the missiles upgrade so that we can actually get started playing the game. And I think the only one there that might be a little bit unclear is alleged grabs, which you see Monkey basically shooting to pop out of a spin right before he lands. Samus' hitbox while spinning is smaller, so if he shoots, Samus lands just a little tiny bit faster which is faster! The problem is, of course, that you miss um a ledge grab you're losing so much lead grabs worth of time save there it's but we do it every time because by golly it just looks cool and swag is the real reason we play this game. Yep, that's actually true. What? I'm like,k is the one who forgot, I didn't... What did I forget? I was not let in on this conversation. This is not the time guys. We gotta lock in! It's a very serious run. No really, what? Yes we can download a missile Yep, uh...in case for all you missed the lore on Metroid Fusion, Samus' Nappart Metroid was infected by X-Parasites can no longer pick up Chozo statues now has to download everything off future Napster so here we are and now we need to go investigate more things did you Metroid fusion does not run off the slightly nonlinear type of gameplay that Metroid series is known for, it's actually pretty linear. It uses a bunch of event flags to decide what you need to do next so we'll just do what the computer tells us. Actually we're coming up on the toughest boss in the game here shortly. The Eidolur. Ooh! Yeah I was gonna say, we should probably explain the whole donation train. True final boss. Um... Mike? One dollar every beam yeah we could i mean every every outdoor is a nine and sixteen chance you get a beam here that's one dollar that's two dollars that's three oh boy okay yeah all right i don't get to eat breakfast tomorrow. That's very cool. Everyone in the audience agreed that Matt was right. So Mike and I are going to each donate a dollar for each I-Beam throughout the course of the run, and we invite anyone out there to do the same because after all this is for Dr. Thap Mulder's an incredibly good cause without question and so We also encourage everyone in the crowd to count along with us We're at a count of four right now, so we're off to it I encourage everyone in the crowd to count along with us. We're at a count of four right now, so we're off to a pretty hot start. It's Arachnus! Metro 2 reference. Ohhhh, the good luck! Yellow bomb. Yeah! One down. This is of course the other way Samus gets powers by absorbing core X's. Roller she goes! Just moving through tunnels here, see all kinds of little movement optimizations wall jumps here while it's there morphing and un-morphing you'll see monkeys sometimes morph right before landing that's because sam bounces if she lands in ball form you don't want that that slow morphing in the air is also generally faster than morphing on the ground so yeah we'll want to do that as much as possible. Also moving horizontally you will see Monkey trying to jump only as much as necessary because horizontal movement is slower in the air A lot of little optimizations Because again since this game does not really have sequence breaks you just have to find time where you can in this case it means clean clean movement it's also worth mentioning we're doing 100 we're getting every item in the game there are a hundred of them of the capacity upgrades energy tanks missile tanks and power bomb expansions this is the first time this category has been showcased at a GDQ event in 11 years pretty much to the date. So this will be a pretty big improvement we're gonna take a quick selfie here in his cutscene if I can figure out how to turn it. You got to lean in. It works! Come on, everyone! Alright! There we go! No, Stacks, you don't get to be in the selfie because your rude guest. Exactly it's our selfie now. Also shout out to the saddest elevators in the metroid series listen to how sadness sound they're so sad and they're so slow and there's so many there's so much downtime at some of the some of the parts this run sometimes uptime because the elevators go up too come on man whatever bro all right actually keep them coming all right into the first sector srx which is the doritos hot mustard sector yeah yeah we'll go with that it's supposed to be like this the surface of the planet sr388, the Metroid homeworld which this station is in orbit around. Except that now the problem is the X-Parasites have invaded. They have been touching a thermostat. We have to go around to all the HVAC units and fix them using missiles just like real HVAC technicians. Way too young! You don't have to call me out on it! Okay so there was an attempt at a door fix. You'll see me randomly jumping through doors sometimes. Hang on, I gotta actually look at the game. Alright, we're good. Okay, maybe I'm in Rocket. So yeah, you'll see me randomly jumping through doors. Usually that's an attempt to make them scroll less in between room transitions which will end up saving 25 seconds or so over the course of the run. So it's a pretty big time save for something that's really easy. Yeah, adjusting the camera ourselves before a door is a lot faster than the game do it itself. Like yep It takes a second like oh my god, just the door Okay, let's go Right now just moving through sector one big big thing here is Monkey making use of missiles Making sure not to waste them anywhere he doesn't have to There's a lot of enemies that can only be killed by missiles And if he doesn't get green Xs he could be in a bit of a bind But he seems to do an ammo count right now we should be fine yeah we can probably throw on uh a couple quick donations here i'd be happy to help with that I want you to know I've never met your community I don't know your community but I love your community these donations are great we love them too $25 from from RedXParasite, A red x parasite here for all your health and ammo restoring needs! Excited for the Metroid Fusion run And may the doors be ever in your favor $10 from Tissout, who says, Fusion? Ha! And $100 from Hercules Benchpress. Monkey I remember when you joined the fusion community many years ago you're a fantastic runner okay put this game to its absolute limits one in 1024 by the way get that red x amazing, keep going? No not at all! Please pop off. I'm glad you're here representing our community and showing off this category. Get all the tricks first try including the one in 1024 once. Crunchy, it's always a treat when I get to listen to your fantastic commentary work. I wish I could be there with you and The Fusion Crew. Oh, hi, Mike Food. Smile emoji. Money goes to runner's choice. Thank you miss your man got zero beams there by the way actually just carried don't don't update the counter oh man all right hold on hold on we're locked in we're locked in No, no, no, no, no, no, hang on. Hang on. What are you doing? No, it's fine monkey why are you panicking we're feeling i'm not panicked exactly We're fine. I'm not panicking! Exactly, see why it's got my back? We're chillin'. We're having a good time here. Monkey was trying to do the- he was trying to hit double missiles... Yeah, it wasn't going too well. So there took- we did the casual it took four missiles you're doing doubles get it just done in two cycles didn't really go well oh whoa the deep dark secret about those corexes is that even though they're round their hit boxeses are square. So if you can get them to fly sideways into two missiles you fired vertically They both hit on the same frame which means you get to skip an entire cycle of multiple seconds of invincibility frames and we are all about skipping cycles. Very smooth climb. Here we are at the last HVAC room. Soon you will have fixed everything... I think? Yeah. That's the last one! Alright cool! We can just dip way under the rest of it then i guess now we're done with sector 1 as it turns out this uh this station is six sectors so as you might imagine have a bit more work to do. Guess on the way out, we can get a couple more pretty much until we get into sector two here. So the second elevator. Yeah, my pleasure. You cut me off when we get there cool $50 from Keenan I love video games speedrunners and charity keep up the amazing work everyone ten dollars from Gulo. Metroid and donating to save lives abroad? Talk about a great fusion. $5 from Logosoba. Who would win in a fight, Metroid Fusion or Monkey SMB? Me. Good luck, Biffin. Every day of the week. No hesitation. $5 from Flash Frost. Bang! Cut the lead down to 42 against the Scott AWs. Of course, thank you Flash. Thanks a lot. And Ronald Rage sent in $20 to Doctors Without Borders Hey monkey good luck and I know you'll do great. I'm so proud of the work and practice you've put in The amount of skill and dedication you have put into Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed is a treat to watch and a motivation to be a better speedrunner Less than three Thank you Ronald Love you too Soinks should be a better speedrunner. Less than three. Thank you, Ronald. Love you too. Soings. We can throw in one more. Like, you got it, dude! $100 from Blue. I can't believe GDQ got the two goats at Scooby Doo on this Metroid Fusion run! I heard the shock waves of their historic tap up all the way down here in North Carolina! Good luck, Monkey! I know you'll be great with such a soulful young man on the couch. Thank you, Blue. Hi, Blue! In case you don't know, me and Mike Food number one in two in Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance Pretty fire game game check it out also check out metroid fusion that games all right too yeah i don't play that game i don't play that a scooby-doo game at all and um i don't feel like i'm missing much of them perfectly honest be perfectly honest. Man, what? You haven't watched the test. You just don't know. You just don't know. Give me a convert by the end of this event. Hey everybody, welcome to uh sector two this is tropical vacation the tropical vacation had spiky enemies that want you dead these are zorros um we're not killing them if you don't have to because they have this fun trick where they just reform exactly in your way, so we don't want that. They also do a lot of damage, yes. A LOT of damage. You got the evenings for it. Well yeah! Yeah, but no, if Sector 1 is missile management this area's health management It's very easy to start getting knocked around by Zoras and just outright die And we don't want that. We do want our unlocking blue doors I honestly have no idea how they expect normal employees of this place to wall jump up there and open that door. I mean, you don't have to wall jump up there, it's just slow. We're not... What? We're not slow! I dunno if you know this? We're not slow. I don't know if you know this, we're pretty fast. I mean... Have you seen me run like in real life? Okay no. But it's okay neither of us. Like in real life? I'm not fast. But it's okay, neither am I. We don't talk about that! It's all good, we're fine. That's what we are here for. We're here for Metroid Fusion. These sound like the words of someone who's not properly well jump certified I think you should see your local union rep about that one yeah look i'm on the waiting list for the class okay it's just it's several months long speaking of several months long these bombs they're so bad it's so bad i don't actually know how many frames this uses but it's definitely somewhere between really long some between I don't actually know how many frames the fuse is, but it's definitely... It's somewhere between 1 and 5 thousand. Do you like bomb jumping? These aren't the bombs for you! Yeah there are no typical infinite bomb jumping you would see in super zero mission uh any of those games there will be a couple of bomb jumps that we're gonna do not really super intended. It's about the biggest sequence break we have and they saved two seconds between the two of them. So yeah, we'll see those later. Tiny blast radius extra long fuse just... They have a use and that use is not really movement like it is in a lot of other metroids now let's just make our way through sector 2 right now, heading on our way to the next boss. The next Eidor, the next dollars exiting my wallet for a good cause! He was going to get carried again, got zero last time. Well the thing is though this time there's fewer chances because now we have the charge beam. The charge beam is one of the most magical things in this entire game. Alright, while we're on the subject I've got $50 from Jed to Doctors Without Borders that says over under on 50 beams? Okay, I do want to clarify that's not not really possible the maximum amount is 48 on each round you can get uh up to four beams so if we see four like we did on the first round of the very first eye door that's pretty unlucky. It's about a 50-50 chance to get a beam on any given round. It's 7 and 16 to not get one. Trust me they actually just arbitrarily picked that value. We have the code. I mean assuming you don't tink any missiles... Yep! The average amount of beans per run is about 10 to 11 so we'll see how this goes okay all right still at four the crowd isn't isn't even involved they got to get them counting where's my beams speaking of county we can always count the jumps because here it comes. All right. We got to lock in for a free jump? Lock into three. It's just over man. It's over. So this boss is just a straight up binomial distribution. Uh, there... Oh my god! You can get anywhere of four- alright, there we go. You can get anywhere from three to twelve jumps here extra and it's just 64. uh okay there's a lot of okay i'm trying to think about what i'm saying it's not really working too well maybe I shouldn't do that but um it's just there's actually Really good yeah there's just uh 64 different outcomes Average one is about seven or eight oh yeah double doubles double double should also probably explain yeah Yeah, go ahead. Sweet spot? So each core kind of spawns at a specific xy coordinate within the room so ideally we're gonna kill each of the core fights at that specific coordinate and a power-up will immediately become available for pickup uh by the way lock in we're just gonna we're just gonna run we're just gonna tank it and maybe there's something in our way, I don't know. Starting a tradition of clowning on the SAX here. Ah we're fine. We're chillin', we're fine! Don't even worry about it we'll pretend like that one is the party horn it's fine i think we skipped the heal. We will absolutely not be skipping the heal! Okay, okay... Okay. We're not gonna die! I'm sorry to burst your guys' bubble here, I don't wanna... I-I'm just as relieved as you are that I'm not gonna die. Do you think I want you to die come on now i'm supported people want worse out of me man so we're just going to take the refill here obviously that wasn't as intended we're supposed to get through that uh perfectly fine i messed up the timing on the very beginning there but we're through it just the same just moving on more text yeah get ready for a lot of that. How about more donations? Go for it! Alrighty. $25 to MSF from Legoman6000 Had to do my first ever donation during my favorite metroid game everyone remember to turn your volume up for ridley squeak really is not here true that 15.2 msf from dustbusters True that. out to monkey smb the metroid c-l-e-a-n clean station champ oh check out my speedrun.com page metroid clean station wonderful hack that i played for about five minutes ago record that's the way to do it! Exactly. Fusion record coming soon, yeah? Very! We'll get that. Hi Scotty! Hey Scotty! So this is Scotty. Hey, Scotty. So this is Sector 4. It's a cool ranch sector, aquatic. We've been sent here because apparently there's a giant water lizard that is causing trouble. We have to find it and take care of it the only way we know how with violence. So coming on the left? Yeah, only one true only one I've you can't tell you how many times this week I've not been paying attention and messing up which way I'm going. It happens to all of us. Yeah. You did not save the four frames there? Sorry. I'm just not built like you. Oh, we don't even do it! Don't worry. That's alright. As it turns out... You know what? I don't know as far as it turns out. I lost that thought go ahead okay good talk yeah glad we had this conversation yep uh going to pick up a pretty out of the way e-tank right now you can actually see this from where we're gonna go but it's completely inaccessible so we got to take this long big old detour I don't even know how long it takes probably at least 30 seconds if i had to guess didn't go back through the door good job that's true that is it is so easy you guys have no idea it's so easy to miss picking up that e-tank and just land it as run straight through that door again it is so easy i've done it so many times we are going to see a lot of the really cool uh tech involving the charge being here though you get to see pseudo screw attack where monkey ulti charged and just somersaults into enemies getting two release shots using the r trigger and also we're gonna get to see even more cool charge beam tech on the next boss it's actually genuinely one of the most useful items in the game oh yeah this chart team is the best in the series. It's unbelievably broken. We already got to see on the stabilizers, even the eye doors, we're able to just one-shot them completely. Yep. Yeah. It actually does damage with three parts. The beam is actually two parts, and also the flash around Samus' arm also does damage. So if you're just right up in there, you're doing major damage. More damage than misses at this point, which is very important for the eye doors and also for this upcoming boss. That room went way cleaner than it did in practice. Yes, it did. That room was really hard. Rest of the run... restaurant hey get off my case man trying to cook have you tried turning on the stove no we're about to cook up three beans right here. That would fix me. Still at four... Five! And we bonkered all right it's time for uh it's time for edm the next boss hey buddy So this is serious, takes five missiles or two well-placed card shots. It seems like he can nail it! Yes! By the two shot. Five missile course, two doubles and a single so you can get that sweet spot. So far, so good. Oh! All good, all good. Sweet spot? Yeah! You are so buns. I'll clap that one. You're getting the claps. That's all we need! You will take my emotional support and you'll like it, Monkey! No morph? No, of course not. Morph. Come on now. We get a very good gift from that though. We get the speed booster which here's your fun language back to the day in French the speed booster is called the accelerator pardon my pronunciation but shoutouts to the french restream our man destructor great fusion runner awesome dude and shouts to all the streamers all over the world putting in time to talk about these runs in their languages wouldn't be able to do without you thank you so much everybody absolutely thank you round of applause for all of our restraints german french japanese and more you. Round of applause for all our restreams, German, French, Japanese and more. Special destructor, we love you buddy. Thank you for getting up at four in the morning calling off work just to commentate this. You are built different. Better man than I am. Yep, that's definitely true. Come on. Savage. Alright, trying to drop the water level so you can figure out who dropped the toaster in there. Yeah we could throw out some more donations real quick. I've got donations for you. $50 from NuxTenma who says, Metroid! Also we need the musical which is an excellent reference to our Do The Dance incentive from Alan Wake 2, currently cruising at just over 28% of the way towards that $20,000 goal. If you want to see us groove, if you want to see us move, if you want to see a little something extra that I have in store, get us to that $20,000 goal. Go to gamesdonequick.com slash donate. $25 from Amanda B., who says good luck monkey! Lock in my dude. Thank you, Amanda. One more? Yeah go for it. $50 from Kovar. You go download those missiles and save the world. Uh, I can look to live by. We could actually just keep going. Sure! $10 from Dacer12. Hi, Monkey! Hi, Mike! Dacer12 here watching along with my two kittens, Varia and Gravity. Did you know there are five major items in Metroid Fusion without an E in their name? I'll donate ten more dollars if you can name them all. Make sure to save those animals. Shout out to Mike's three dogs, Will, Ted and Rose. Good luck on the Run Monkey and hit that nightmare space boost. Of course. Hi Dasser. Hi Blue. Five items of that game. Hi Dazzer. More fall various suit, gravity suit. High jump? Yup. You got it. Bombs! Bombs there we go. That's all fine with me. What about spring ball?'s hijab that's part of high jump for being wrong sure yo tesser so here's the other fun metro fusion fact of the day. The numbers in the background there will actually glow to tell you where we need to go next, don't ask me how many years it took me to realize that. Don't ask me how many times I have no idea where I'm going and those are the only things that save me. I still go down the wrong elevator sometimes. Me too. Right of passage, counting is hard. No number 20 would be math in my speedrunning. Hey it's sector three um it's hot here yep yup that's it i mean there's nothing else here, there is nothing else here bro. There really isn't anything else here yet. At least until we open the doors which point becomes more interesting but right now it's just hot and very red. Very, very red. You've just not noticed that? very red very clear how it is right just don't notice that okay it's like more read on the screen uh... location or i mean ready for the color of the beans traditionally means three things. Hot, danger, pizza sauce. I'll back that up! Alright, time to unlock some green doors. That's the other big thing in this game as far as impeding processes. You have four different colors of door. As Samus goes along she unlocks them by sticking her arm into this thing. Yeah! Great explanation. How else would you describe that? You saw it happen! I did, I did. Guess I should have thought about this. There's a... I'm sorry Scotty in advance. There is a really hard trick there it has like seven frames of leeway you have to do four jumps with seven frames of air and pull off a pretty difficult spike. Shine Spark just to skip this item coming up. I could lay the bomb. Hang on. Hi Bob! Just this guy. This guy is pretty much unskippable without doing that or going out of bounds, which we can't do on this version. So that is the only way past that missile on the Japanese version. It is kind of interesting that Fusion is one of the few games I can think of where the Japanese version is actually the revised version instead of the US version being revised. Yeah Monkey! What's up bro? No good jump. No good jump Sorry, I'm not going for the the 50 50 frame perfect that's just slower but are you going hi barry before the data spark comfortably yes so easy all right so uh... What we actually haven't been telling you is that We've been breaking and entering into these sectors The X don't like that very much So they're about to send security after us. They are sending the most incorrectly named security robot of all time, they call it a box and as you will soon find is not shaped like a box at all. I don't know where they got that. It's not even close. Hitbox isn't even a box, like what are we doing here? Failing to secure things I guess it just running into the wall when we run get in the room. Yeah this fight is pretty difficult so surely I get this you better get this up comfortably Oh Oh my god. I missed the 9th missile, it takes 10. You can two round in there. It's really hard. No it is! Come on you can't sell me out to everyone like this. It's not cool, bro. Do you know how much more run there is for him to sell you out? There is a lot more run. Just look at the board. Okay, that is true true i am second place way above you come on yourself your fifth you're the dog you are two minutes behind me little bro cannot hear you from down there that's fair that's fair all i know is that my head cannon says the roasting now so that there can be a redemption arc later because we still got an hour bad news mike food has no redemption we've been there done that not happening oh we learned some actual tech. I'm not done with him yet. So... As you can see from the menu, we're going to target. But first, we need to be betrayed by a man in a suit just like... A little too real-to-life if I'm honest. True. Never trust a man in a suit. That's true. That's one of the Ferengi rules of acquisition. Never trust a man in a suit nicer than your own. I learned that from Toontown. Sometimes I forget how young you are, Monkey. I'm not that young! I was born six months before this game came out. Come on... This game came out when I was a senior in high school. That's not my problem! My bones hurt, and then they hurt again. We could throw in a quick donation here. Excellent because speaking of people in suits I have one from somebody who's probably in a suit $25 to Doctors Without Borders From Crunchylex's former boss I have seen Crunchylex run. I can also confirm he is not wall jump certified, but he IS forklift-certified! Let's go MonkeyFMV! Wait that's actually sick. Anyone have a forklift? They better not have one inside the venue, please and thank you. There's plenty of room outside. I immediately knew who that was, like oh god no what is he going to say? So a fun thing about Sector 6. If you play this on the original non-backlit Game Boy Advance it is actually very dark although honestly so is the entire game but on anything else for being an nocturnal sector this is not starting it's pretty bright it's very bright it's also very purple which makes it the makes it my favorite sector second four clears but I respect your decision. Six-4 does have very good music though. It's time for the free energy tank. Nice hole in one! That was close. Alright, we gotta lock-in here. Actually tough sacs? Actually a little bit of serious time would be wonderful for a few reasons here. He's pretty scared of Saxx Yeah it's actually really scary Why does the Saxx wear tap shoes. Bang! Nicely done. Ballin'. Got that! Love that! I didn't even realize there was a thing you could do until, uh... like about two hours ago. So I'm learning new tech today! This room is awful. This is the bottom three rooms in the game. We call this wine cellar and it might be the worst room in the game. It's really annoying. Please let me through. True final boss. Alright, we got another ride over here? Three beams. What are we at? Five. Six. Deserved. Bang! This is so boring, where are my beads? Where are the dollars? All in practice. Alright that's time for the American Core-X. Very big. I did it with four full charge shots There is one... This might be five. What? There we go. Okay. It was four. I guess you just have to do the best possible thing. It was four. We're fine. I didn't see anything. And a sweet spot and a double doubles. Triple double. I am so good at counting. That's why a sweet spot and the double doubles. Triple-double. I am so good at counting. That's what an acceptable tolerance is. I'm not a mathematician, I'm an engineer. It's a big difference. Yes! The triple-double after the double-double. Your stat line is out of control. Clearly, I'm trapped in the RUV this season. Oh! I'm just the best. Saved one second. That saves one second, baby. And you miss it once and you lose time. Yes, sir. 100% not worth it. See, I just already lost that one second. We're fine. Got the cool thing that's all that matters doing it for the swag doing it for the people crumble jump no frame perfect crumble jump ah let's just run over man I just lost half a second give up oh boy poppers good pattern though yeah so this segment is pretty notorious. Escaping sector six here for being pretty difficult. There's a lot of gnarly enemy patterns, a lot of flow charts that we have practiced especially in this room oh no excel my one weakness yeah there we go that was a pretty favorable pattern it's pretty easy to execute we got another one coming up here in this big room you might have noticed I laid a bomb randomly coming in, I'm gonna do it again here. I promise it's important you'll find out why later. Actually just found out it opens a hole. But we're not gonna do something really it's just there no yeah we're going to use it yeah we're never going to use it we'll never be back trust with six sectors were only coming here one time ap piece monkey no spark no spark no sparks save seven frames and tasks we will not be doing that spark but that's seven frames i'm not attached no that. No, that attitude! Okay you're right. Hang on we gotta lock in? We lost so much time over this text it's all good? I'm just not a TAS, it's over over we're doing such a good job of helping stay focused for his tech matching time for a couple quick donations go for it yeah keeper skunk sends in 50 and says what do you get when an xite plays smooth jazz to your ship's computer? An SAXophone. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you... I'm sucking up those booze. Thank you very much for your donation, I will take all the scorn. Five dollars from The True King of Space to Dr. DeLaportus! Question for MonkeySMD! Who would win in a fight? Samus or Ultra Instinct Shaggy? I personally think it depends what suit Samus has and the equipment loadout. I don't think it matters. Ultra Instinct Shaggy, that guy's just built a little different. I'm gonna have to keep it real. Everyone is built different. That's true, that's why Samus wins. There you go. I'm here first. Hey, it's Sector 5. This is the cold sector. So one unfortunate side effect of Samus nabbing part Metroid is she don't like the cold very much. Cold is a lot like hot rooms have been in past Metroids, so we need various... Oh hey look you already have it! How nice. That was easily resolved. Yeah, you can come here before then but there's no point. You just take damage and die that's not really fast. Yeah. Unfortunate thing is this visit is not for the greatest reasons. So that amazing, incredible, delightful super missile that has the greatest kaboom, the earth-shaking shaking just the damage just so good we're about to uh downgrade it to ice missiles. Here we go we can enjoy it yes Oh, this sounds just so crunchy. It's so good man. Check this out? Yes. It pleases me greatly. Sector 5 is actually one of the sectors we visit most, there's actually a well-known issue where sometimes this is kind of one on one those fusion run or rites of passage where you forget which visit your honor you end up either leaving early or going to the day during when you're not supposed to. Hi, Scotty! Hey, Scotty! Stop! Any chance I could take to take a win over him, man? He's been holding me down too long. We'll never beat him, Monkies. Don't worry about it. For context, by the way, I don't think we ever explained this. Scotty's the record holder in this game. He's like really good at everything. He's also one of my best buds. Shout out, Scotty. We love you. Yeah, straight up. Scotty is one of the nicest people on Men's Viewer. And year he's just a real good dude i just really like to flame him it's the only way i can take a win and we're losing super goodbye forever cool missiles well hello forever cool missiles. Goodbye forever, cool missiles. Well, hello forever, cool missiles. Goodbye forever, super missiles. You could have chosen a better answer. Yeah. It was a good try. No! Okay, fine. It was a really bad try. Hey it's time for some puzzles! You like puzzles right? No. Shout out Baria he loves this room. True. This... out barrier he loves this room true uh this it'll be fine having the x's to other enemies that was just probably good, no biggie. Train perfect in the 15 FPS game, baby. No! Come on, I gotta buff myself somehow. So says Monkey I'm the best SMB. I am! Are you questioning that? Hello? We can... Unless you have something to say We can throw out the donations real quick Oh yeah, we can do that Go for it I've gotcha $10 to Doctors Without B from metroid master greetings from the back couch and huge squats from ridley best of luck monkey and may yakuza open his mouth fast i hope so thank you-4, don't worry. Alright we can get one more quick one in. Quick one from Destructor with $10 Monkey, I got Gordon on the line! He wants you on MasterChef now! Thank you, destructor. Everything seems to be going pretty well. Like there's nothing that could possibly go wrong. No... Guys? go wrong no oh guys that's what happened did you leave the stove on monkey now I promise. Maybe? Sorry, that was me. Oh dang it! Why would I ever lie?! I don't lie! Me when I lie. Did your friends teach you that word all right it's actually just oh i'm so good to Just save ten frames! I did just save 10 frames, actually I can't wait to lose them on the way down Oh he will Monkey we stopped on the pad for one time Nooo Thank you for telling me Can we stop on the pad for the one time? No. Thank you for telling me. We will not be doing that. So, it's time for the emergency. There is something wrong down at the boiler because in the future we still have boilers i don't get it either so there's a timer um i don't like that something to turn it off if that's okay with everyone? Not on the stream, just on the game. It's also really bright and I can't really see so... We're just going to fix that up real quick. Nothing else is happening. It is really bright on the screen. It is really bright on the screen. It is. It's fine, though. I can see. Maybe for now. For now. Oh my lord! Oh god! Okay, okay, okay. We're fine. We're fine. It's fine. Nothing... Everything is fine. It will be once you finish this section, Monkey. Not even until then. We're fine right now. There's nothing wrong. And why is there a timer in the corner? Because speedrunning... Next question. Why did I agree to be on this couch? Why did you agree because we're all good friends and having a wonderful, good and happy time in this not collapsing ship. Dang it, when he's right, he's right. When he's right, he's right. Three beams. Oh! Look at me. Joe Reed. You're just the best orangey manip is unreal but no money No money that's true. More RNG minute sign. It's all good. Oh, look at that! The fun thing about these theme cores is unlike the other ones you have to actually get them to open their eyes so it's a little bit hard to get the doubles but Monkey's still out here doing it. 436 yeah too shabby not too shabby considering i missed a beam or uh double we'll take that yeah we missed well we did miss him at the door you lost time to just bad luck. It's just an extra dollar. Dang, I think I'm gonna need to donate two dollars for a beam with the way you're going. I have horrible news. The four beams are in You just jinxed this up horribly bad happy to help We did actually just see a few extra dollars from someone who donated earlier. Do you want to hear about it? Sixteen dollars from Dastard12. Hey, guys. Dastard12 here. Bang! You got them all. Looks like I'll have to update the code for Spring Ball. Six more dollars for The Incorrect Fact. By the way, did you know that Bob has six crumble block friends near him? Yep, in a 15 by 15 area. That's some new knowledge unlocked. And they said video games don't teach you anything. So true. I un-unlockedly actually really love this climb, when you do it smoothly freezing the stretch and just going up. It's just so good. See we followed that up with just a little delay Just some extra time to enjoy red. We weren't joking about how bad the explosion radius is on these bombs, it's They are pretty rough. Well SMs Explosion radius is pretty bad too. But this game it is definitely rough. It's definitely a skill to know where you're going. Fusion has so many quality of life improvements and just cool extra things they add over Super Metroid, but just one step forward, one step back. Perhaps a twist to the side clipping through the floor. Not on this version, we do not know. See, this is what happens when I forget to have my coffee... My brain is just... Monkey, what are we gonna go do now? What are we going to do? i i really don't want to do i actually like really regretting it it's canon though we have to save the animals like i'm really i really hate that we're doing this and that it's required. I even asked before this, runner's choice, please put it to kill the animals. No! Boom! Sadly, it's not open yet. Chat, boo this man! No, no, no, this man no no no no you guys just don't get it you don't get it you've never gotten it we got to kill the animals but we're saving them so it doesn't really matter in the end anyways but this whole long detour is just for some stupid five little critters that i would love to just leave behind. They save us! Yeah, you would die at the end if they didn't- That's fine... honestly Like, just leave me here As long as I can leave them here This strat is impossible Literally impossi- LITERALLY impossible I'm not this shot is impossible. Oh, I miss literally it's awesome. Literally impossible We're cooking we're cooking that was a new strat that was actually called the possible strata Cooking possible strat yeah we're cooking that's a wide view moment i've ever seen one am i even gonna get this oh yeah oh yeah comfortable why not even question that i'm just the best too good i'm just built different see if i've got mike on my side nothing else matters damn you brother whatever this is that is so bad that was terrible that's fine i'm i was talking about you know what do you mean i don't want to touch that hand what's he got on it yeah you own it don't worry about it. I definitely don't want to touch your hand. You can't. We're just asking for a friend. Toss it over! Thank you Tree. Speaking of which... Toss it over! Thank you Tree. Speaking of which... Hey! Shout out to you, Tree. We can throw it over to some donations real quick. Got it! $25 in from Vicarious Vice The Doctors Without Borders, I have a genuine question for the runner and their couch. Do you think Samus would own an air fryer? What would she cook it, dude? Clearly. She has an arm can. She doesn't need an air fryer. No, no, no, no, no. I'm very passionate about this subject. We have an air fryer at home oh it is wonderful i cook everything in my house so good they're unreal if you don't own an airfryer buy an airfryer i'm missing out but samus in the future they probably have something better it doesn't matter if samus is an armed candidate nothing beats an air fryer just buy an airfryer put it in the ship we can fry the animals later what no monkey what No monkey, what? Bring him in. I need more. It just fuels me to be better My god My God. That was pretty clean. I'm thinking we're back. We never started. You want some other spicy opinions? Let's for it. Let us hear it. $15 into MSF from Social Justice Wheeljack. I need to break my silence. The neon green and magenta various suit absolutely slaps, and I'm tired of pretending i'm tired we were talking about this earlier i don't disagree i don't hate it everyone hates it except for mike it's fine it's fine. It's fine. It's not good. It's fine. It's not great either. It's actually just fine. It's pretty bad in Prime. Oh, it is? No. Or on Prime. Very bad. Speaking of which always use various or fusion suit fusion scene prime it's just better yep it is you cannot deny it it's true absolutely can't it's just better it's just better. How can you go from being so right to being so wrong? Who said I was wrong? He is right, he is cooking! I'm always right. That's why I am the best. Hey Scotty Hi Scotty cooking i'm just always right that's why i'm the best hey scotty hi scotty i did not quite hear that. I hope one of you two did. That sounded very passionate. You gotta repeat yourself. As I said, you might want to repeat that. He's at the officer! uh it's okay we're not gonna be able to hear much of anything here in a second we just got power bombs we got power bombs it's an air fryer we just got an airfryer yes absolutely we also just got thank you love the enthusiasm Hold on just a minute. We also just got over the $7,000 mark for the Do The Dancing Center for Alan Wake 2 that's 35% of the way there You absolutely want to see that! Okay, now you can continue heckling. Okay, run it by me one more time? Wait, hold on. We have Saxaks encounter. Oh yeah, uh... Somewhere. There it is! Bye! That room finally went away. not care. Oh, hey! That room finally went well. Wow. Okay, this room is really hard. Nice. There we go. Alright, very good replacement. So yeah, fun thing, like we said before this game has a whole lot of items and um... What are you gonna do with 74 power bombs? You find the rest of them! It's so true. It's so hard to find the rest of all zero of them that are left there's so many power bombs yeah you get a you start with ten you get two per you end up with 74. We don't know why. 90%, you just get the main. Yeah, and any percent you finish with 10, you don't get a single one. Oh, that should be good. I love the movement in that previous room, Oh it's so wonderful! Shoutouts to Kadum Yeah I don't know if Kadum is seeing this but we love you Kadum Come home please We're begging. It's been like a decade. Please. I got bad news. What? Don't tell me. I won't. Thank you. Tell me and I'll hear it. I don't think it's coming out. Just piss me off. Sorry, Mike. Well, you shouldn't have been listening! What else am I supposed to do? Play the game! What do you think I'm doing?! Then why are you listening? I don't know. It's fun. Okay, fine. Believe it or not, you guys might be a little funny. Thanks, Monkey. Yeah no problem man. Still own you. That's true. That's true. Catching Zim at least. We do not care. Fair enough. Wrong game, buddy. Yeah I mean Scooby though. Wrong game, buddy. Yeah I mean Scooby though. Well I'd clear you and Scooby by a minute. Oh it's not even close! It's not close! You better catch up, buddy. You are eating my dust. I wouldn't my dust. I wouldn't eat dust, it's probably unsanitary. That's his problem not mine. We can throw it over for a quick one. Please. You got it, I've got a couple of quick ones for you including one from someone who was mentioned earlier in the run $100 from CScottyW Yes! Oh Scotty! Hi Scotty Who says yeah Super Metroid Ball roll as she goes So true Can we get a so true from the crowd oh there he is that's just what i needed thank you scotty we love you and metal band solid with 40 cents to doctors without borders one value of e for each e-tank for the run rounded still love this game monkey you got this hi from the back couch hello glenn thank you how are you doing the math? So true. You could have just said nothing! Okay, how many beams are we at? We're at seven? Six. Six? Yes. Are you sure? Absolutely. Okay, I trust you. I wasn't counting so... We are coming up to another Eidor here another decently sized RNG boss. We can get anywhere from one to four rounds here the four round yakuza one two five actually okay well if you're bad um i mean excuse me i believe this bus is now called LikeADragonX. I wasn't listening. So true! Monkey! No JRP jump! No, I'm not doing the JRP jump! No wonder why you're two minutes behind, you keep telling me to do stupid strats it saves just for the same time and it's awesome stop we cannot hear you from down there you hear me loud and clear okay. You hear me loud and clear? Okay, I do hear you loud and clear. These microphones are really good. They are really good. I can hear myself loud and clear. I can hear myself that's unfortunate but it happens. Monkey! What's up man? We're in the 4-4 here. Oh comfortably. Feeling a four beam, four round. I've been too good so far. Or 0-1 we could do that too. Nah. Oh sorry, my bad. We won't talk again. Here's the energy tank that kills many a low percent run... Eeeeee! run oh you found the block that time i did find the block oh i didn't well i didn't find the hole that time. Not touching it! Not cool guys. You know what is cool? Go Nations. Man, he's good! He's gotta focus up. It's a hard part. Oh, you're so caring! Zero beams still. Oh my god. $25 in from bardic feline to msf obviously the answer for why the space station is set up the way that it is is that it's a requirement for all workers to be proficient and hardcore as to why everything is keyed to be opened by missiles uh i don't know it is a mystery give us some devils monkey do it do it No doubles, monkey. Do it! Do it! Please? Good fight! Okay, okay, we're just going to kill it. No doubles there. Give us some ice doubles. Yeah! Ice double. Let's go. Yes! Give us a sweet spot! Oh, yes! I'm so good, guys. You guys have no idea how good I am. Trust me. Oh, no, it's space jump! It's not that bad in this game yes it is it's not great it's not good better than super and no it is better no yep this game clears super in every way, actually. That's true. Yep. Alright, Chet. Underwater space jump. Chet, here's what I want in your donations. I want your hottest Metroid series takes. Oh, give them to me. I want everyone in the room and at home to be groaning nuclear tanks bring him on games done quick dot com forward slash donate give us some air fryer takes that's a. You literally don't know one. Oh, it's time for the biggest clown on Saks right here. Hey guys! on Saks right here. Hey guys! Hi Saks! Hi Saks. It's not even trying, it just kind of meandering after you. Oh that's so sad. It's like you running. Can't keep up oh my bad ouch I can't even keep a straight face for that long. That was just rough. Savage. This is not important, by the way. We'll never use that again. No. God, power bombs are so loud though. They are. You know who else is loud? You. Me. That's true. That's also true! We heard you loud and clear. Nah, we love Crunchy. Everyone give a round of applause for Crunchy. We love Crunchy. What about me Monkey? Hey guys! Hey Monkey. Hey, guys. Hey, Monkey. Another Eidor. Seven! You're so carried. We might have to up it to two per. This is Netterie. You just hit me. Yeah, I'm not pressing anything else. Alright, never mind. We've been told this legally constitutes a boss, but we're having our doubts. Another beam core? I actually kind of hate this beam core it's a little bit sketchy to get doubled on sometimes. Yeah, better than wide. Please die. Oh, almost clean! Don't take that literally, sorry. What? It was not meant for you, I'm sorry. But folks, let me tell you about the plaza being this game though it is exceptionally good it's it's beam damage just strictly speaking lower than the wide beam but it has a very cool party trick it passes through enemies enemies, and when it's inside an enemy hitbox is doing damage for every frame that's in there So uh, remember I talked about things like square hit boxes? You do a little bit of geometry, through the hypotenuse and you are doing a world of hurt to pretty much everything including some bosses you'll get to see that later that's true i do look very much like that about fusion though. Your health is full and you're getting the pure green X's so... It's not gonna just drop your energy when you really need ammo, and vice versa. Yeah if one of your resources is full and the other isn't you will always get the other drop which is wonderful um when both are full it doesn't matter so oh yeah it's pretty big i don't know if in fact those little little dudes with the uh three three needles on their head they're called ouches ouchies ouch those are called key hunters, and I see them in my nightmares. Fun fact, their singers do 137 damage on one hit. It hurts. A lot of damage. And any percent at this point, you usually only have three low percent you're just dead yeah low percent you just die i can't do all things to carry over without any quality life improvements from super metroid they decide you know we're gonna make the key hunters every bit as bad as they were in SM Infusion. Perfect. You did it. Thanks. Alright, we can get one more quick donation here. We got something we gotta lock in. It's almost serious time. All right, lock in for this $100 donation from Hyperbola Zero. Doing $1 for every item this run. Hope you get those Red X, formerly known as Twitter parasites. So true! That's a different kind of controversial from what we wanted but thank you for your generosity. God that one hurt. Alright. You guys gotta explain this. I've got to lock in. He's gonna do Nightmare Space Goose so he's going to space goose through a bunch of doors Now on this game with broken doors if you have any downward momentum at all it just snaps you right to the floor you could be as high up as you can if you're going down and all you're boost is just dead. This is the hardest trick in the game. It's not close. It's really not. And space boosting by the way is jumping while speed boosting. all right it is serious time I'm the GOATS! I'M THE GOATS! Oh my god. You ruined it early! I'm the best, It doesn't matter. Touch around and carry. Oh, you're busy playing game. Okay, come on! Yes! Oh, that is so great. That was so good. That trick is no joke. I went 4 for 5 today on that Yesterday, I went 0 for 5 That is by far the hardest trick in the run Soundtex, I'm so sorry me jumping up and down this stage to pick them up on the next- It doesn't matter man. That was too good of a moment. Look whatever y'all have to do to lock in we understand. That wasn't locking was coming up right there for a moment oh okay have i had those backwards this whole time sorry um no comment oh i'm actually so relieved i cannot believe that i got that this is an adrenaline rush right now yeah more serious you're telling me my heart is pounding out of my chest i do have more a little more seriously we've, we got to be him right here Yes, so true you up my bad sorry guys come on man. Oh We just say frame perfect four frames no like point for No actual see we do actually have to lock in here didn't look left for the one time of course not shout out gary one off One off. That's one. Maybe not if you go up there. Okay, that was close. It was good enough. You can kill it before it even flies away. That's a strat I found. It's so sick. I just totally missed that because I was talking. It doesn't matter though, I got Nightmare Space Boost. That's literally all I could have asked for. He's getting these doubles too. That's true. A two or three? Woo! Sweet spot! Don't doubt me, just don't doubt me man. I've had enough. My bad my bad. Now it's time for this most stylish suit. My own! and now it's time for this most stylish suit my eyes my eyes show some respect no but no just this is one of my favorite gravity suits in the series. The purple with teal combination is just so good. While we're on suit conversation, especially considering what we just heard out there in the audience. $50 from Bash Prime who says Fusion Varia or like, very bad. What? Okay, I was going to say thank you, Bash. We love you. We love you, Bash. Thank you. Come on. It's killed your mood for the worst room. So true, this is the worst room in the game. Oh no it's the interviewer's house. Can you see why? There is no good way to handle this. this is just bad react these get pelted by pastries yep that wasn't too bad well that's fine we'll take that my room is tough. Yeah, for sure. Nice little pixel boost there. Freezing that fish on a slope pushed me forward one pixel and saved one frame. Now let's see the underwater sector four here. I actually just really love this section. It's got the great ambient music and it also wants you dead which is always a fun time! Yep! It is really easy to take a lot of damage down here You've just got Gravity Suit And you're like, wow, a defense upgrade It is really easy to take a lot of damage down here. You just got Gravity Suit and you're like, wow, a defense upgrade! Bad news. You are going to die. Yeah that's one definite downside to fusion being with the flags in the event system is that even though you are unquestionably stronger, and if you go to earlier areas, you will be overpowered. Another Red X? 1 in 124 by the way? That's 4 out of 5 right? Yeah, Four out of five runs I've had a red X in that room It's not too shabby I love being carried. So wonderful Don't check my leaderboard, they're not carried. Mmm... I won't lie. Mine aren't. Yours are. I'm gonna lie. You're carried. Whoa! Oh, new location. I've never once been in there. We can throw out some quick donations. You got it! We've got $100 from Frolic who says, Love y'all and this is supportive community $25 from a glorified convection oven, which states I'm an air fryer and I agree that fusion prime suit Fusion Suit Prime is good! Okay so hang on. Why do you have a name like that and you say that? That's just wrong. What are we doing here? Are we picking sides? It's not allowed. You have to agree with me. I don't think that's how it works, I don't care. But wait there is more. Okay An Onyx mouse with $25 dollars to MSF My Metroid hot take is that Metroid Prime 4 shouldn't be allowed because four isn't a prime number that's true facts that's actually true that's why it took so long well neither is one that's fine because there's no one in the title! It's just Prime. Now we got the Fun Trick and Come Home. Ohhhhhhhhhh Oh! This Kager Shinespark sucks. Another red X. That is really hard. That Shinespark is very nerve-wracking in that Toron, I guess. Especially if you do it fast. Hey, Monkeyzone's ready to get the final missile upgrade. Nice door fix. Thanks! Welcome back. How about you come play the game? I'm sure you'd do a lot better. Give me the controller! You stand no chance. You can't hop on and then just be like, No. I totally can't. Show him up! It's funny. What? I can't hop in and then just be like, no. I totally can't. Show him up! It's funny. What? Shoutouts to Shmaid. I don't understand the humor he used. Hi Shmaid. understand the human made seriously check out fusion on twitch uh go to all the speeder.com pages follow all the top runners except for scotty don't follow that guy um just follow me actually don't follow anyone else or just go there and stream fusion the runners will find you that is also true we're always willing to uh to teach to backseat sorry um no we just really love helping people in the game. Let's lock in and get this real quick. Wait I missed the pop-up. Never mind. Okay that was supposed to be cool. It happens. But no seriously shout outs to the fusion community we love you shout outs to the guys in scooby cord some of my best friends yes its name for skippy dvd monsters unleashed also check that out uh watch my tasks and my pb no love for scooby-doo cyber chase nope just monsters unleashed dang i'm trying to remember what's going on here. Oh, yeah! The box is back. Yeah. So this time it's Xbox? Which is appropriate because we do have that Doritos sponsorship now. And we're gonna kill him so wait that's what wait what what huh were you expecting something different we are talking about metroid here yeah yeah you're right Why would we not kill Xbox? They have no games anyways just like the PS5. Come on man! My god...my god... Oh my god. My God! I just want you to know there's a PS5 run in like two games. No, there isn't. It's the only game on it. Just not real. It's a PS4 run. What? I also want you all to know that we are just under $8,000 or 40% of the way towards that Do The Dance incentive. You want to see this hours of planning and preparation have gone into what the team has cooked up for you. Get your way over to gamesdonequick.com forward slash donate and put in for that incentive when ya do. Actually, this song is gonna be pretty darn good. By the way these are what these holes are for uh in case you were wondering that spring ball is the hardest trick in the game it's unreal it is a two frame window you choose the weirdest words sometimes. That's fine. It's your, you're the one that's making it weird, man. Great pattern. Pattern is awful. This is awful. Puppers are just so bad in this game. They are the worst enemy in this game. They're so annoying to deal with. You want to hear some other intensely weird words? I would like nothing better. I don't like that lead-in but sure. $25 to MSF from Ahab! Don't like that lead-in, but sure. $25 to MS up from Ahab! I'd be taking a break from hunting the white whale to watch this speedrun of Metroid Fusion. The way SAX hunts Samus is much like the way I relentlessly hunt Moby Dick across the seas. Please take these 25 pieces of gold so that we might see the author, Mr. Wake, dance wildly in the darkness might my fruit after a haul the doubloons i did not enjoy that voice but i do enjoy 101 yeah absolutely thank you so much am Absolutely. Thank you so much, Ahab. That's weird. It was a little too far right there but it's fine. We can back it up. Come on. Eventually. There we go. It'll work. Trust. Don't let this console kick you around like that. There we go. Stupid Xbox. You have no good games. Lock in? Yeah, we gotta go again! That was not even close. Not even close. All right all good. You can double this core. It's exceptionally difficult. Thank you. It's really difficult it's the only core in the run that like we don't expect to double every time um so yeah it's a very low ceiling beam core also worth mentioning because you haven't mentioned yet with every missile upgrade your cooldown uh the amount of frames between each missile increases by a pretty significant amount um and then also the missiles just fly faster, making doubles more difficult. So that combined with the low ceiling there makes them really hard on that core. Yeah. Doubles with the fusion missiles are very, very challenging and... Oh my gosh! There's Metroids. In a Metroid game. Why? Because I'm pretty sure it was some sort of contractual obligation. That's stupid. Oh look, it's Sax! Who invited Sax to this house party? Bye! Later. Pretty tough escape right here. Oh my lord! That was a 56 times! But no defusion! For what it's worth, a 56 there. Probably only done by four people ever. Not me? Yeah, not you. That's for sure. We know. No, that is very good. Why is everything going so Good in this run? Except for like the things that aren't Except for just actually playing the game Yeah You guys think I'm here to play the game? No Yes! I'm here to do the cool things good isn't that playing the game now so i'm pretty sure that's literally playing the game you're wrong oh hey is that how it works yep'm right, you're wrong. Fair enough. Citation needed. I have to play the game. Oh! You are playing the game then? No, I am not. Not even looking. This is text. You don't have to look. It's fine. That was pretty tough. You held A. That's true. I did hold A. Oh, fun thing you did right there. Uhiffusion missiles take what? Nine seconds of charge? No idea because it's not useful. It's very long but for the few occasions where we want to use them we actually charge them through the door because charged beam and diffusions if you charge them through a door they always come out the other side fully charged which is exceptionally useful I'm not going to go for it. There's a strat here, there's kind of a hidden property with power bombs in this game where they'll actually draw X into the center when enemies are killed. We can use it there to spawn that gold pirate a little faster with a certain setup for that crab, but that crab gave me the wrong pattern which is really sad because it's a very cool strat that saves about a second. I do actually want to take a quick moment and talk about the gold pies. This is one of my favorite tricks in the game. You're actually just need... The game wants you to shoot them in the back but since the in order but in order to uh the way that the game checks that is that you're facing the same direction because it reasonably suspects that if you shoot him in the back they'll be facing the same direction so if you shoot and very quickly turn around it'll still hit them even though you shoot them in the front by the way last night or the runner monkey turn up your speakers oh of course seven beams it up. Seven beams. Seven beams. That's definitely below average. You know what? I'm going to donate seven squared then. That's it. Seven squares! Seven squared. Oh god! Hi Ridley. He's really loud in this game. I hope everyone brought their hearing protection. I did not sign up for this. Yes you did! No, I did not. Absolutely did. My god that was a really good fight! Oh my god defusing double! It was a good try. Getting a triple-double there is so hard, it's so difficult. Let's get this one though. Oh well. Happens to the best of us. You got double sweet spot and you got a very good riddley. We take those. we take those. All right, good news everyone. If you like text or elevators, goodbye. Turn the stream off. Yeah it's over, we're. Yeah, it's over. We're done because now it's time for genuinely the best part of 100%. Yes sir. Everybody grab your brooms and dustpan is time for clean up! Now I know that sounds extremely boring but no this is where all the good movement tech all the really exciting stuff happens because now with the screw attack we have access to all the shortcuts that connect the sectors together. Like Monkey said, no more elevators just using tunnels so all things you could not get before now were getting them and there are puzzle rooms there are all kinds of things and he's gonna do them all one after the other rapid fire it's going to be good stuff yeah so this is by far the hardest segment of the run. It's 20 minutes almost of non-stop movement. I'm just playing the game, as I don't like to admit. We're just moving. We're picking up items. There's a ton of items that we left throughout the run. This crunch you already explained, it's faster to get them now or they are more accessible with some better items. There is a lot of hard stuff in here, a lot of very difficult speed booster trucks in particular. If you fail them you gotta retry them losing a couple seconds here and there. We can throw out for a quick donation here. Awesome, I was just going to ask when there might be time to clean up some donations. $5 from Vicious Delicious who is unfortunately disappointed to have donated $5 preemptively for five more beams. Oh, well that was a good try. That happens. $25 from Day, my favorite game mixed with the hilarious runner and couch let's go let's go ten dollars from friday monkey monkey monkey hi friday greetings from the german restream hello hey friday ten dollars from bz archer get that couch some coffee stack please please five dollars from ny gamer listen air fried beast will take us all by storm it's olive oil, salt, pepper garlic rosemary 15 minutes 400 degrees flip 15 minutes more you'll enjoy a good meal. I didn't hear a single word of that. That's fine Wow I mean I could just you couldn't mentally substitute e for that donation oh okay the generosity from my gamers the important thing thank you so need a couple more here. Okay, Angel of Aether with $5 to Doctors Without Borders. The commentary is so funny and entertaining. The Zingers! $5 from Foxer13, Metroid games are the worst metroidvania games in the genre. Okay we've gotten back to the spicy take three. I have a hot take here go as a what go go oh i thought someone told me to cope and i'm like what what am i coping for that remains to be seen please say it no it's not it won't be i am not a big fan of metroidvania games that are not metroid i don't think they're interesting i think metroid is just let go by the way lock in vr shot to get that door open oh my lord okay that was actually frame perfect that was not intentional all good though so real quick that's a fun little trick there so if Samus has a charge while space jumping you press the R button which is what you use to activate missiles and power bombs You actually release that shot without popping out of a spoon since you open doors while keeping the space boost. It's pretty darn cool when you pull it off in spots like that. Yeah we'll see a lot more coming up here in the rest to clean up. can throw it back over for some donuts all righty chloe alyana with five dollars to doctors without borders i recently discovered how to cook a steak in an air fryer it's so good best of luck on the run and as always trans rights ten dollars from racima doctors without borders air fryers are like any percent sure it looks finished but the middle is underdone it's not true this is not true i love eating tires give me that super well done. That explains so much. I also don't like steak. Cartridge Blower standing in $25, So happy to see Metroid Fusion being run here at GDQ! This was the first Metroid I ever put time into even if i never finished it this run rules shadow sweet tea tree and this donation goes towards his choice and now a haiku bounty hunting samus should retire someday and marry Ripley. Why? What to think about? That doesn't make any sense! We just killed Ridley. As if he's never coming back. Same thing. oh it is why are you being so uncultured monkey we didn't even what is that even from is it for mother m we need to talk after this run, Monkey. What? Oh my god. Sorry for not being researched on the Metroid lore. I just play the game fast. It's okay, it's okay... Don't play other end by the way. What? What? Speedrun is great! Scotty has a record on that too. That's great. Hi, Scotty. Scotty has a record in that too. That's true. Fist got it. You know this donation came in before you said about Metroidvanias versus Metroid games? $5 from the True King of Space! My Metroid hot take is that the best metro game is castlevania symphony of the night you're just wrong who would win in a fight alucard or samus samus and it's not close like alakar is just like a guy. Just some dude. So disclaimer, I don't know anything about that game so That might just be wrong! I actually really like satin but nah 30 to doctors without borders from big oma now i have to get back to my fusion grind you're killing it monkey keep it up thank you um we miss you my hot take hunters is goaded i've never played Hunters. I have no opinion. I've heard good things, but I have not. Oh okay. Big ohm that's a major resistance. So true... I'm glad nobody else got that. Because that was bad! It happens. A quick update as we're at the roughly 60 minute mark left to meet our allenway 2 do the dance we're at just over 42 percent 8 500 with the help of people like tinge sending in 25 dollars doctors without borders you know you want to do the dance let's make it happen chat absolutely ten dollars five dollars two dollars every little bit at games on quick.com forward slash donate makes a huge difference yeah i know i'm i know i'm putting my uh my beam donation towards that one so shout out to Jagger for that one. Alright, so we got one more little short stop here into Sector 5. We gotta grab... What? Three items, I think. Four. No four. Um, takes about a minute but then after that we're hopping in right into the hardest part of the run and we got sectors six, four, and two for cleanup it's gonna be a little rough yeah um definitely the hardest segments they're running in particular is the hardest part of the game yep we can get one more quick one in. I just want to use the opportunity to thank the foreign restreamers and commentators that used their time for this event. Hallo, guten Morgen, Freddy! Hope you're doing well, less than three. I rate the German a 10 out of 10 as a known german speaker from one german speaker to another very good even when i just lie what do you mean why it took four years of german just for friday just for fr Friday actually it was just for my degree. You majored in the Friday next all right like i said heading into sector six here don't really need serious time because it's gonna be the entire split here but it is definitely a little rough keep your eyes peeled for some sick space boosts yes now center six is widely considered the most challenging part of cleanup the funny thing is there's the tricks some of these tricks you can do there are definitely easier ways of doing them but the fastest ways are not. Here we go and and got it! Not done yet. This one's free. Alright. That seems free. There you go. All right. Good news! That's like one of four done. Yeah. Not out of the bag yet. And that's probably the easiest one. Oh, whoa. the easiest one well we're on the way to number two spectre with five dollars into meson san frontier are metroid hot takes still being taken if yes yes, Prime 2 Echoes is the best of the trilogy. And yes, absolutely, hot takes are still on the table. That's not a bad take. I don't think that's a hot take. I know plenty of people that would agree and would't think that's a hot take okay no that's just good i know plenty of people that would agree and it would even say that prime 2 is the best metroid game i don't agree because i think prime is better but echoes is pretty darn good yeah By all means, impress me, aggress me, agitate and duress me. Whatever you got to do, just get over to GameStunQuick.com slash donate and tell us how you really feel about Metroid. Let me get one more quick one in here? Absolutely! Dr Dedruski has also matched that Beam donation, simply saying 7 squared Beam Door Doll dollars and that's a 49 dollar donation from them thank you so much thank you let's get that $7 train going oh yeah that's good point everyone's got to get in on that i mean i'm doing seven square you can just get seven dollars in that's tremendous let's see if we can get a seven dollar train going for all the beams monkey got in this run oh time for this silly trick. I still can't believe there's a way it doesn't involve doing the silly crumble jump. So the old strat was to just get a crumble jump and hope and pray And it's just a frame perfect trickfect trick. If you miss it, you just lose like seven seconds until you get it. Thankfully, Scotty found a much better strat there. Hi, Scotty. Hi, Scotty. Yeah, I mean, I think that strat is cooler cooler you can still go for it on the way out this is a stride like right here yes! Not over yet. That's pretty good. Alright. There we go. Don't worry, long doors really can't hurt you. See in that room you're supposed to bomb specific spots I think you're supposed to find through trial and error. It's pretty miserable. There we take advantage of a pretty precise setup with some wave beam shots to avoid hitting bad pillars, Because if you bomb the wrong spots or shoot the wrong spots, pillars will come up and block your way for getting speed. And if that happens, you just have to reset the room. But using some precise wave beam shots, a couple of bombs on the way we can get in and out of that room pretty quick that sector six was really sick by the way yeah there was nothing else that is the hardest segment in the run done almost perfect but we do have some serious time come up yes oh yeah it's very serious yeah way to lock in here hardest sector in the room for real Hardest sector in the run. For real. Looks pretty good. Hold, okay? We're good. All right we got it! Got it! Through. So sector four we already finished at the very beginning well now we have one two which is actually hard sector two we're right back in again this is this is not a fun segment. Very difficult. Starting off with Crumble City you gotta be really good at space jumping. Yeah I fall in this room a lot. A lot of people do. Including me! What we can't see is that practically everything in this room Is made of crumble blocks The last one That is the last tea tank all 20 Yeah Unfortunately we're not going to be able to see If we have everything, everything until The last corex grab i'll have it everything i haven't missed an item in this run in so long that's not even jinxing it it's not possible we've all well we've also been watching you haven't missed any items but okay sure go off. He's just built different! His swag is too strong! Exactly! Someone has got my back! The chair! That's the backup I needed. The chair does not... the backup I needed. The chair does not... Well, actually it does have my back. It's pretty nice. Another Redix? I'm not cheating, I promise. Oh that's fine. Yes this is an item we left behind in Sector 1 cleanup. It's the last one here. Just fast you can grab it through this tunnel. Yeah that's actually one of the ones we used to grab In Sector 1 back when we were still using the end game timer. Yep! What do you say if we got a minute or soda clear to through as many remaining spicy takes as we can go for it oh boy let's go $250 from gap Eric friars are two cooking with speed running is to video games. $10 from Problem Patcher, air fryers or toaster ovens with extra steps change my mind. $250 from Cookie Mom. I am here for watching Alan Wake 2, a game that is definitely on the PS5. No. $25 from Wind Slash. Okay, Air Cryer resides I don't know. $25 from Wind Slash! Okay, air fryer aside, serious follow-up question from before... Would Samus own a waffle iron? Um... I'd leave me to ask. I would say so, I feel like Samus is a cultured woman who enjoys some waffles Waffles are better than everything else by the way There's the hot take we were looking for thank you graceful shutdown sending in ten dollars to msf metroid hot takes you say prime three was my favorite of the 3d metroids even with motion controls's just being wrong on purpose. I liked Prime 3. It's alright. Prime 3 is not bad. It's definitely not better than two of the greatest games ever released, but that's fine. Between myself sending in $25 to let you all know non-metroid metro venues aren't interesting if you're going to badmouth 2009 shadow complex for the xbox 360 i'm gonna have to donate to voice my disapproval. Shame! I mean, that is true. I did very much enjoy, I think it was two years ago's Delit and Wonder Labyrinth That was an exceptionally good Metroidvania So here's the moment where I reveal I like haven't played any metro videos that aren't metroid i played like i tried hall of knight you played ori didn't really feel it okay i do love horny already 1 and 2 are wonderful. It was pretty good, but I didn't think it was the world of theater that everyone else seemed to think it was. I feel the same way about Hollow Knight. Still more hot takes! He gave up after 30 minutes that's not true okay that's a hot take i played for like two hours no i didn't honestly you know we both gave up okay so you have my back and i didn't even know it yeah Wow $25 doctors that borders from Vixie Metroid hot take the 3d games are not true Metroids side-scroll only hmm I heard one clap out there. I can't say I agree, but I understand the viewpoint. Simpy Steiner with $25. MetroidVadeon hot take. Ridley doesn't need to be in as many games... Yes!...as he is. And the hottest take, $7 from Mint. Federation Force is my favorite Metroid game. Okay. You're just laughing at me. I'm not laughing at you. I'm just trying to get a little bit of fun out of this. I don't know what's going on here. I think we should go back and play some more games Federation Force is my favorite Metroid game. Okay, you're just lying it's fine. Another Red X by the way? Five or six. You're using up all your luck for the rest of your life on this run today? I did everything I set out to do with this run. I don't know if it conveys considering I've just been talking and yapping up here this entire time. And playing the game, don't forget that! Oh, that's also true. I really am glad to be able to be here and showcase this wonderful game One of my favorite games ever one of the games I put the most amount of time into It's just so wonderful Please play it! There is a 100% tournament that will be going on here in a couple weeks Join join up learn the game open to everybody and yeah we're on our way to pick up the last item right now it's a powerbomb on main deck shocker look you should be not only glad to be here but proud because this has been fantastic. Thank you. Not just the energy, not just the execution, everything about it. Thank you everyone. That means a lot. In all seriousness we we've been razzing on a monkey but this guy has been playing this game for as long as I've been in the community longer than I've been in the community. He's always just been constantly improving and improving and just been a killer so So I mean of all people i could think of to play this game, I'm hard for us to think of someone who's more qualified than Monk he's just a tremendous guy in the community so good on you man, Good on you. Thank you. And with that we passed the 50% mark $10,159.57 towards that dance number during Alan Wake 2. We've only got a little while left to go, so if you want to boogie on over to gamesdonequick.com slash donate and show us your best moves moves we would love to see that come on i mean we have to do something during this This is the longest text in the game. Yeah, this is the last one though! Please jump. Open the pod bay doors Hal. Audience I love you don't ever change there's also get the big reveal that the computer is actually the brain of Adam Malkovich in The Computer and... I can't read it. I would have that if you didn't spoil for me. Well, it makes you feel any better. He's the teacher right before he even cut to us so... I'm pretty sure Statue of Limitations ran out though. This game came out 22 years ago? Almost, yeah. Yep it sure did. But now its time for the true final boss The SAX For Realsies. thankfully we got some quick kill strats we're going to freeze it in place you have to hit it with ice missiles immediately followed by the diagonal charge shot because if it's not frozen we're not getting that damage per frame and perfect it was not perfect i got this trap that's what happened it was close enough now we get two shots here they'll jump up into it more frames and oh the tube. What's up man? I am Rosti133. Welcome to my tutorial. Good start. Strong start. Oh, double-double! Can we get the triple? Wait a minute... Shut this person, Arizona! Double, double. Can we get the triple? Oh no! He missed one! I did miss the first one, yeah. So good fight. So the context there... Rasu123, love him to death made a classic tutorial telling people how to do that fight. I said that once a few days ago on a PB attempt and I proceeded to miss all three doubles in Choke It Away, which was pretty funny. But no, seriously seriously we love ross you know we have like we have so many good people in the community i love like this almost keeps me coming back here we are home stretch get get the heck off this place yeah so just have one more fight making an escape sequence to verify a hundred percent will be able an escape sequence to verify 100%. We'll be able to see, we already see I have 20 E-tanks. We'll get a refill here at the very end if I have 250 missiles and 74 power bombs, then we are good to go. And I don't think I missed anything. If I missed anything, I'd be incredibly shocked and maybe the game glitched so... Oh sure blame the game glitched so oh sure blame the game yeah that's a frame perfect spark it was a little too late on it all right now it's time for really important strats here time for the Omega. Oh, no! No, that is so hard. There's a funny glitch there where you can space jump over and make him bounce up and down it's really funny i couldn't show that off but i hope i can make pogo work how hard could it be okay it's really hard for me okay okay um here we are a mega metroid true final boss check the numbers we're good we're good get them get him send him packing monkey time will be coming up here shortly it'll be when I face forward under the ship here. And time! I killed that, man. That was awesome. That's the dap up of a lifetime.... so so Thank you. so so so so so so so so so so so so so so Thanks for watching! Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Games Done Quick channel. Unfortunately we are not Summer Games Done Quick, this is the Games Done Quick Hotfix. This is our daily content that we have throughout the year. We've got plenty of shows going every day for you. Today is not gonna be our normal show, because a lot people are still traveling because of Summer Games Done Quick. So we're going to do these things every so often when our normal shows can't run. Tonight, we're going to be showcasing some Mario games for you. Before we get into it just a few reminders or some new things if you're new to the channel. You can join the official Games Done Quick Discord and add the hotfix role where you keep tabs on upcoming events, talk with our staff and showrunners and more! Use!Discord in Twitch chat for more information. Also, we will be replaying all of our SGDQ runs after our live shows this week, so if you want to watch something after our show tonight, you can hang around and watch some of that. And we have our next speedrunning event! It's GDQ's next all-women and femme speedrunning event. Flame Fatales is returning August 18th through 25th. The volunteer applications for that are open now until July 10th, you can use!ff in Twitch chat to check out the schedule and let us know what you're looking forward to the most. With all of that said, we have our first game tonight, Princess Peach Showtime! I will hand it over to our runner commentary and let everybody introduce themselves. Hi, I am Menace Manns. Typically just go by Mann's and tonight we are going to be running a Princess Peach Showtime. This is going to be the Any% category with no death abuse, and I am joined here today by a fellow Fattel, Citi. Hi! I'm Ciddlyte Ash. Also, Ciddy is fine. I've run a handful of individual levels of this game and also ran a percent that's not officially on the board. But, yeah. And I'm also joined by my fiancé Python. Hello! I'm Python. I have not run this game myself but I've watched countless hours of it so uh feel pretty confident in my ability to give some commentary here So... umtime is actually going to begin right after we clear through this text box with Toad. So I'll give a countdown in 3, two, one. So the story behind this game since we skipped all of the cutscenes beforehand, is that Peach is secretly a theater kid and wanted to drag all the Toads here to watch some theater performances. But oh no! The evil Madam Grape has taken over with her little sour minions, and now we have to save the day. And so...we are about to get into that real quick um there are a lot of loading screens in this game um and you might see some buffering that That is the game. You do not need to check your stream. But yeah, so this is the first tutorial level. This is probably what was most recognized from the Peach trailer and all of the cover art. We are going to become the Swordsmaster Peach, which is very exciting. And yeah so this is just going to be a bit of tutorial right now peach may look a little different because she doesn't have her crown I have it though don't worry i'm keeping it for safekeeping. And this is our new character Stella who is here to help us take down the Sowers and help these little guys, which are the residents of the theater, appropriately named Feats. And we're going to use the power of Sparkle, which I guess is in the form of a ponytail. We are going save the day with our magical ponytail! For the day with our magical ponytail. For those of you not familiar with the game, Sparkle is the good magic and I just want Chat to think what do you think the opposite of Sparkle is? What do you think the evil people use that isn't Sparkle? Like, what do you think the game came up with? Because I think it's pretty funny. Python,, if you didn't know what it was What would you guess? I don't know, come to think of it You actually don't know what the opposite of sparkle is? Darkness? Evil? Smudges? So, the opposite of sparkle is darkle which I think is very clever dev teams. Darkle is what we're going to be fighting against to save the day and, as you can see here these are little sour minions. We're just jumping over them to get these lovers and since this is a tutorial... You don't actually have to kill these guys. No! All you needed to do here was just turn on the spotlights in order to progress. Most of these guys, you don't actually have to kill in order to progress. This is our first Sparkle Gem. Sparkle Gems are like stars a la Mario, you need them in order to unlock boss battles there are four boss battles on each floor, plus the final boss battle. And you need a certain amount of sparkle gems in order to unlock them. So we're only going to try and get the minimum amount that we need, which you can pretty easily just by playing through the level. There are some hidden ones or ones for doing special tasks. It really reminds me of Dan Salvato's All Melons run from Yoshi Story. It is a very similar concept, and I recently did try to do an all Sparkled Gems run of this game, And it is not for the week. It's like a four and a half... Yeah, it's like a four and a half hour run if I believe? I didn't even get to submit it to the board because i didn't get a chance to finish it, it's so long. Uh pause? Uh, Paz? Looks like we're having a little bit of technical difficulties here everybody. Sorry about that that we're going to take a quick break while we get everything fixed here for y'all be back in just a moment here. so so so so so so so so. so so so so so so uh uh. Hello everybody, welcome back to the games on QuickHotFix. Sorry about that brief technical difficulties but we should be all set so whenever you're ready if you just want to give a quick three two one and then we can restart. All right three two one... And this is just little cutscene anyway where Peach becomes the sword fighter. Gorgeous, you didn't get to see the magical girl transformation but trust me it happened and I just love the design of this game like as you can see like the thorns here like are all made out of like cardboard and stuff because you know theater um so i just like, everything in the background The set designs. Everything is made to put you In a universe of...you're in a play So I always found that to be really cool So this is like the first trick that's coming up. We're gonna try and hit these two at the same time but I didn't manage to do that um you still have another one though um we have this guy with a spear where he can dodge so we're gonna hit and he didn't do what i needed him to do this has not happened to me before which so these enemies uh they always spawn in the same pattern. And the way Swordfighter works when you hit the dodge roll, it kind of works as a parry and you get a very large hit out of it. Normally there's setups here that let you hit all three enemies at once. I don't know what happened there, that was very strange. Yeah, the setup seemed to be correct so not really sure why they didn't do what i wanted them to but that's always how it works um not a huge time loss not a big deal. Yeah, most of the stuff in this game is set. There's not a ton of RNG. There we go. The hitbox worked there. They have pretty wide hitbox so i was able to pick up that's what it would have looked like before had had it gone the way we expected yeah um but yeah there's only like a i would say two or three levels in this entire game that has any sort of RNG element to it. I would say that is part of the reason why this run is so long. But like, this whole segment...everything here is the same every time, so if you just run in your straight line you shouldn't hit anything. You should be able to jump over everything And just like that. That was very clean. So this is one of my favorite bosses, when I saw this for the first time I got really excited because I am also a theater kid just like Miss Peach here and this just reminds me of Little Shop of Horrors. We have Audrey 2 show up here and we gotta take them down. And, we found some really cool things with this boss battle. We will be going after this first vine here, but once the second one comes up we only need to hit the far left one or in some cases far right depending on where it spawns but there's going to be two vines that show up essentially and we only need to hit one of them in order to beat the box like, and the other one just disappears. And then you just smush this. I believe the community is still divided on whether that's RNG or not? Yes, so in that second phase, the vines can either spawn on the right or the left. And I think right now we think it's RNG but I feel like some people also believe that it depends on where you stand where they spawn. So if your more on the left, its gonna spawn on the right because if you do happen to be standing right where they spawn You can just do a one hit hit instead of I think it typically takes two or three hits in order to take it down. But yeah there is a little bit of time saved there not a lot maybe like a second or two but not a ton But that was our first level Each floor has four rooms with a different costume, a different theme. There's five floors plus a basement. The basement is a little bit different because the basement has ten rooms one that represents each playable costume and that's also where we will be doing the final boss battle um so right now we're on floor one, and this is our second theme. It's a ninja theme which the ninja levels are the hardest in this game, specifically to speedrun because of certain techniques that you have to do. So Ninja's probably the most technical of Feejah's costumes. There is a bit of movement tech involved, it moves the fastest I believe, and these levels also tend to have some more skips than other levels. Yeah, like you can jump over things where in another Peach level you don't really have the ability to jump One thing that's interesting is the enemies have those spotlights and what that will do is once they spot you, they just teleport back to a specific spot, but they don't deal any damage to you. Because in this game, yes, Peach can take damage, but only in certain situations. It's very specific what type of damage she takes. It's very specific what type of damage she takes. It's interesting, and that's how when we do a death abuse run you have to route all that out because I initially thought you could possibly death abuse this ninja level, but you can't. Because the enemies don't deal any damage to you. The only way to take damage as a ninja is fall damage. Maybe we could talk about death abuse and what this category is? What do you mean, like the death abuse category or... Like the difference of the 80% NDA. With death abuse, basically you get a heart charm which you get from one of the feats in the main floor. That basically turns the game into easy mode and it allows you to skip levels if you die too many times It also gives you some bonus hearts as well which actually makes dying a little bit harder. Nice tree jump there. That was a total skip to skip over some enemies. But yeah, so you have to pick specific levels to skip and you just have to kill yourself twice like as Peach over and over in different levels. But yeah that's not the- even though that's one of the shortest categories that we have. People don't typically like playing it because you're not really playing any of the levels and just waiting to die multiple times and that's not very fun Yeah, despite the fact that Death Abuse is faster than playing the levels, it's not exactly fast. You do have to stand there take damage, wait for your iframes. Do that five... no it's more because you get more hearts with the Heart Charm. So I think it's what? Do you get like seven HP? Uh yeah. And you can do that twice before it gives you the option to skip a level. There are actually some levels that are just faster to play, but it also makes your Sparkle Gem routing a lot tighter In this route, Sparkle Gem routing is very loose. You need a certain number of Sparkle Gems to enter boss fights, and you tend to just get enough by playing the game normally. We don't really go out of our way for that many Sparkle Gems in this category. It's pretty rare that you're ever going to end up in a situation where you don't have enough. There are backups if that happens though. Yeah, I mean since I've done the all Sparkle Gem route like if I'm ever low on Sparkle Gems to enter a boss battle um... I know where to find them. But yeah this is just an auto-scroller section I'm not controlling anything here she's just vibing. We don't take any damage like i said so we're just waiting until we get to the end of the level... And we've got to take this guy down and there you go! I just realized that we didn't even talk about the dashing I was doing. True. Can you explain what that dash I was doing was? Now that we're out of the ninja level, this is the worst time to talk about it. There's a bit of movement tech with Ninja. Ninja can jump, also has forward dash and you can do the forward dash in the air as well It's pretty laggy just dashing on the ground is quite a bit slower than running. However the Air Dash has very little lag at the end of it. The only lag is the distance you fall after the dash. So if you jump and then cancel your jump with a dash for a small distance off the ground, it's essentially lagless and you can just continue dashing over and over. It's very difficult Yeah there is a tutorial on YouTube for it if anyone is interested where someone actually broke down all of the different uh movements that ninja can do and which one is the fastest, the slowest like the one that's in the meat and like in the middle. Like there's I think three or four different types of movement you can do. Ninja Peach is very cool. So cool. Yeah. I kind of want a whole game with just Ninja Peach. Ninja Peach is really cool. There's a lot I wish they also added to this game, like different types of peach... Like I think like a wizard peach would be really cool. C City, is there any theme that you wish was in this game that wasn't added? I feel like they nailed it. Really? Yeah. There's enough diversity with all of the gameplay and the different plays that she has. So, I don't know, I'm pretty satisfied with it. I can't think of anything though, but lizard does sound cool. That would be neat. And one thing that's also really nice that they added to this game is in the settings screen you can actually get like 360 of the costumes to help out cosplayers like get a full idea of what her costumes are which I think was really cool and I know I really appreciate that. More cosplays from this game in City. I better see some cosplays from this game for Mew. Definitely. This is Cowgirl Peach. I think a lot of people like Cowgirl Peach because you'll see her costume is pretty cool. This is another cool thing in this level, is that you only need to light one of the lamps and then that's it for some reason. There's three lamps in there, you only need to light one in order to progress and specifically that one yes specifically that one i think it's because we're headed this way um and then we give these guys some sparkle give them energy to push these barrels out of the way. And then we get to do our magical girl transformation to become Cowgirl Peach. Now what's nice is you only have the transformation sequence in the first variation of each level, so once we get to the other levels uh we won't have that. Because each costume has three levels-so there's cowgirl one, cowgirl two and cowgirl three. You'll hear us refer to levels as such And then here is the boss battles. So, there is technically time save here where we would save a couple seconds by not saving the beast but I prefer to get the Sparkle Gem. Because that's always the give and take with this run in particular is you either save time or you get a Sparkle Gem for a boss battle So I always like to... That's something that's very cool about speedrunning this game, is there are a lot of decisions you can make in your routing so everyone can kind of have their own personal route of which Sparkle Gems they go for and which ones they skip. Yeah, I mean the time saves haven't been calculated yet since this game is so new but yet since this game is so new. But... The other thing with this game is that we haven't really found any useful glitches either, that's why we don't have a glitch list or glitch category in this run because there are no glitches that we found that would help us progress further in the game. there are some glitches which you can see in the discord we have a glitch channel um but they're mainly just like peach sometimes gets stuck in a door um they're not, like, helpful. There are only things that actually hinder you. Nothing that actually helps you yet. Exactly. So this is another little auto-scroller. I can't really go any faster than I already am, but it's always nice to collect these gems. These autoscrollers are very good places to get your sparkle gems because they don't cost any time you're in the autoscroller anyway right might as well pick them up um so yeah i mean i think a lot of people are huge fans of this costume in particular. Uh, I think it's just because we've never really seen Peach in an outfit like this before Because... Like, in other outfits they're kind of similar to some Mario spin-off games. We have Ice Skating Peach which I think we've seen in the Winter Olympic Games. Just a slightly different variant. But Calgary and just slightly different variant. But, cowgirl Peach is really unique so that's pretty cool. I also like the horse is made out of wood and on strings. That's so epic. Theatrics in this game are really interesting, very reminiscent of games like Paper Mario, Thousand Year Door... Yeah I'm gonna focus on this fight for a second because it's timing based. Alright that was one. Nice first hit! I'm gonna keep quiet here and we'll explain after. Like most Mario games... well this part is pretty simple. It's a three- hit mechanic on the bosses very nice so while he's dashing here, the way this boss works is that he'll fire some bullets at you and then shoot a barrel which you can lasso. You have to lasso the barrel and hit him immediately before he fires another bullet. It's very tight. Yeah, there it is. Very nice fight. Very nice. So normally I think you're supposed to hold onto the barrel until he's done firing and then he kind of takes a breather and that's think you're supposed to hold on to the barrel until he's done firing and then he kind of takes a breather, and that's where you're intended to throw it. But yeah we do it a little faster. His gun gets jammed or something And that's when you're typically supposed to hit, but we don't have time for that. We've all got to go fast. So that was the first cowgirl level. And we already have 16 sparkle gems, which is pretty good. The way that it works is in each level so like in all of the one variants there are 10 sparkle gems to find. In two levels There are seven and then in the third level there's five. And on each floor the boss battles keep costing more and more so the first one on this level is gonna be 10 and then it goes 15 20 25 and then the final boss is 30. This is a fan favorite I think How do you pronounce it? We call it Baker They tried to be all We call it Baker. Yeah, Baker Peach. They tried to be all fancy with it but we like to just call it Baker Peach and Baker Peach is really fun because there's not a whole lot of time save in the other levels, but this one in particular... They cut us some slack for the speedrunners. Which we'll see when we get to cake decorating section But, for the rest of this We're just gonna be chillin' and makin' cookies we're just gonna be chilling and making cookies, and uh... We gotta wait for the cutscene here. So this is kind of like base form of Peach that we see in all of the first levels of each costume. Um I believe this is just called Sparkle Peach, if I'm not mistaken. And her ability is that she can cure depression. Unfortunately, we don't see this too often outside of the one stages and also boss fights where she cures depression by usually smacking things back into the bosses. Yeah... So... bosses. Yeah. So, yeah, and she uses her ribbon, her magical ponytail um and so as you can see here we got some sad chefs. No more! No sad. We're here to bake guys. Let's do this. I wasn't kidding. That is literally what she does. But Peach makes everyone happy, so here... It's a pep talk and a ribbon. Okay that was good wheat. And then strawberries. Let me just grab that right there. Why not? I'm still gotta wait for the gate to open. Feats are notoriously slow at opening doors. Yeah, and they like to yap. They're the kings of yapping. Very yappy. Um but yeah so now we get to do our magical girl transformation. I really like the animation they put in to all of this, and I recommend you guys play it casually because the cutscene for when she becomes each character is really well put together and looks very pretty. This game is very visually appealing I think this is a perfect game to play casually and if you want to speedrun it, I'm all for it. I want people to find glitches because while I love this run i think we could definitely get it down from where it's at right now. I think the current world record is like 3 hours 20 something? It could stand to be a bit shorter. Just a little bit. It's a bit of a marathon. It's a cozy, it's a long cozy speedrun. Just get a snack. Stay hydrated. Gotta stay hydrated the whole time. Stay hydrated. Yep, gotta stay hydrated the whole time. So yeah that was our first batch of cookies so we have different levels of cookie baking here so we have like like, the tan one which is only going to give you four cookies and the rainbow one is going to give you eight and when you pair up with the feets I think this gives you twelve plus the little with the feats. I think this gives you 12, plus the little ribbon cookie which will contribute to getting you more sparkle gems. As you can see there's a bar behind me. The three up at the top are what you get when you bake with the feets and the other bar is just by how many cookies you've completed. And what we want to do is just make a bunch of cookies and not bake with any more feats, because if we do then we'll get a cutscene for an extra Sparkle Gem and you don't want that. We don't even need that Sparkle Gem. That's going to be a trend in this run where we kind of avoid specific Sparkle Gems because they'll have a little cutscene or a little slowdown effect. And there are Sparkle Gems we can pick up that do not do that and are much faster to grab. And even if I don't make it here... Oh my goodness. That's fine. You did not want those cookies! I didn't want my cookies, that's fine. But you know I ran this during GDQ as like a practice run and I also didn't get those cookies. That second or third sparkle gem and I ended the run with nine extra sparkle gems so i think we're gonna be fine the main one is the fourth floor boss battle um because you don't have a ton of time to get all the Sparkle Gems you need, so you need to be careful. So we're about to go in- oh, you go ahead? Sorry I didn't mean to cut you off. The fourth battle is if you're going to be short on Sparkle Gems that's where it's going to be. Fortunately the basement levels are a number of them are open by that point which lets you go down there to get the extra gems that you need and then cut back on some of the levels you have to do later yeah um but it's just tedious going back and forth on floors now this is the cake decorating portion where the developers helped speedrunners. Where you don't need to actually complete all of these cakes, which is really nice. The game is only looking for a certain amount of frosting droplets, and you only need to complete 3 out of the 5. So we are just going to flop that around. It's very funny at the end when they show you all your cakes and none of them look good. No, yeah. They're like depending on us to help save the day and we're like i mean i tried but maybe not really um the best time I've seen someone complete this in is uh with 86 seconds left to spare which is really impressive. I'm trying to just play it safe right now um, just because hotfix. But my best time, I think, was like 82 seconds. Yeah, the thing is here if you don't- You want to hit the minimum amount of decorating required but if you're even one dollop too short, you have to redo the entire section. It's very tedious. Yeah look at our cake! Much better to be on the safe side for this one Yeah they looked great. 10 out of 10 They did so good guys They couldn't have done it without us! I know. We made such wonderful cakes. Alright, so... now they're yappin'. And what's funny is at this last scene um, scene they show all of the cakes we were supposed to have made. Assuming that we actually did it correctly but... We didn't so I think it's- Yeah so these- All these cakes look look perfect they're complete just how you made them right oh look how cute your peaches yep that's that's definitely the cakes you just made they They look great. Look at those cakes! I mean... I can take credit for the cookies but I did not do those cakes. I have seen someone do a cosplay of this and actually make the giant cookies, And it's just so cool. I love cosplays. Y'all are doing great work. It is so cool to see, especially for this game because there's so much different versions of Peach now. Alright, the threads on the floor are going to disappear which means we have unlocked our first boss fight Which is unfortunately mine have unlocked our first boss fight, which is unfortunately my least favorite. It should be the easiest, right? It's on the first floor. Should be. I don't like this one either. I always struggle with it because it's mainly the third phase of the fight. It's a timing thing So there is kind of a quick kill sort-of in the last phase. The main issue with all bosses in this game is that if you hit them with multiple projectiles at the same time, it counts as a single hit. So you have to stagger your hits, and that can be difficult depending on how the fight works. Yeah, so this is really cool and something you'll see as a continuing theme is that all the bosses are based off of theater equipment. So this is, as you can see, a disco ball and it's a bird so it is called Disco Wing. And that big purple orb you see, that is the Darkle so the bird is made of darkle He's screaming at me. But yeah so once we get to the third phase of the fight I just have to time it out right? This costs 10 Sparkle Gems to enter this room and we had like over 20 so we're doing really good. And we'll have plenty for the next floor. This is everybody's favorite Super Mario Maker mechanic, Upside Down. Everybody knows it's really fun and intuitive. We love upside down. Yeah this gives me like... I don't know, IT vibes. Like Stephen King's IT with the balloons in the background. Alright so we're on to the third hit here. So he's gonna drop the disco balls a bit closer together, and there are also some enemies spawning here that can kind of mess you up. We want to ideally hit the disco balls one at a time in very quick succession without getting hit by the enemies. First he is going to do some show, where he's going to throw these at us we're going to go back upside down One thing that is really impressive though is someone in the community actually did all of the boss fights blindfolded, which I was really excited to see that you could actually do blindfolded runs within this game. I did not think that would be possible because I don't really think...I mean, I don't think you could do the whole game because like I said there's some RNG levels Here's Exile Man instead of really quick kill on those two enemies now we get to the school balls here We hit both of them. Let's go That was really good Yeah, you just have to like you have to run back like so quickly after Like the first kill that you do and the game just doesn't give you a ton of time Peach can't dash or anything. Not to mention it's upside down? Yeah, she just has her graceful walk which I respect but it's not easy during a boss battle. So yeah that was boss number one. This is unskippable so we just get to see the beautiful visuals of the theater coming back together and now We've unlocked the second floor. You can see there's a little outfit shop behind us If you played this game casually you could actually unlock outfits for Peach to wear, but only in the overworld and in the boss battles. It only changes the pattern of her classic peach dress And... Citi do you want to explain how you get outfits in this game? Yeah it's just with the coins and then there is The Ribbon Thief which is the only category that I've run is called Mr. Monopoly percent where there's this one feat in the game that he's always in a situation where you need to rescue him. And when you rescue him, he gives you a ribbon. Sometimes it's for Peach, sometimes it's for Stella so you can customize her ribbon as well but in both any percent runs that we do, we just completely ignore him entirely. And my opinion, he is precious and always needs to be saved. So yeah, that's he is precious and always needs to be saved. So, yeah, it's a fun little category that's not official yet where you just go into a level, you save him, and then you exit out immediately. And yeah, you just run through the whole game, just saving him in every level. And that one's actually not bad. I did not a... I call it a speed walk i did a speedwalk of that one and it came out to like an hour 20. so um yeah it's significantly more doable than in some of the longer categories. Yeah, unfortunately that's probably like the most approachable way to run this game. Even the fastest full-game run, which is any% with Death abuse. I believe it's just sub 3 hours if I'm not mistaken? That's correct It is 2.33 is the record for that, and then MENZ has number 2 on that board with 240. So that is also not a short run. No. But the routing of that was really fun. Because I think on the leaderboard there's at least three or four different routes On that leader board so and all of our times are pretty close So that was really cool. I'm just gonna grab this one since we have to wait for him to yap a little bit, alright? Then we just go through the door whenever he's done. So this level, we get to become The Dashing Thief which is one of my favorite favorite Peach costumes and levels to play. I think this was such a clever idea for like, a few years ago. This costume is very cool. A lot of fun to play. Also, like Ninja, this is going to come with some really fun movement and a good number of skips as well. Yeah so I'll try to point those out when we get to them it'll be really, this level goes by really quick. There's only one other character I think that really has any viable movement for skips, which we'll get to really late into the game. Alright so this first one... We are going to go down to the very last part of this zip line. Then we want to make sure we jump down to the bottom here so that we can skip the lasers and then go into the hideout and then there's gonna be something here i want to try and get in front of those boxes so that it doesn't hold me up but i need to time my jump off of the pole just right. Ugh, yeah. If you hold onto the pole for like like a second too long, then you can't get in front of the box. Which is a shame. Here we can jump here... Then we'll jump over this guy. And...we're out of the room. So even when there's no grapple points you can still use the Grapple to kind of stall your airtime a little bit. Here we are just going to damage boost through these lasers, no need to actually figure out how to turn them off. Nope! Who needs that? Some lasers it won't let you go through, but in that case the lasers were nice enough to let us pass through. Others will just have an invisible wall and just hit you back. Is this the room with the skip here? Yeah. Yes, so there is a very tough skip in this room you get one shot at it I'm gonna let Mance try it. All right Let's see if i can do it. Very nice! Oh that's so clean. That is really hard. Probably one of the hardest tricks in the run. You have to time adjust right to... Because otherwise you have to wait for the cycle To go through in order to get To the grapple and Get past the wall But we didn't have to do that Because Peach is super cool So yeah, the lasers kind of bump you just left of the grapple point. Like a few pixels left so if you grapple at just the right time you can grapple while you're invincible and go through the lasers Not easy at all Very tight window Yeah It took me a couple tries to get in but once you have the rhythm for it like it's really easy to pick up Yeah, that was clean too. Got a sparkle gem... And then I really like this mechanic is the and then i really like this mechanic um is that this game has a glider um where you just get to glide through the night sky and if you really like this mechanic they actually have a post-game mini game where this is all you do. And you can get I think an extra outfit for completing the challenge. Each floor has its own mini-game challenge based off of one of the rooms, so there's a barrel challenge for the cowgirl, a gliding challenge for the thief thief and you just get bonus costumes for 100%ing the mini game. I think that's really cool. They have a lot of post-game content in this game which is why it's really cool to play casually as well as speedrun. It didn't take me that long to 100% the game. I started playing when it was released and it took me six days to 100% and that was just playing casually. So, now I can just finish the game in a couple hours which is crazy to think about but I think the current... It's crazy to think about. But I think the current 100% record is like 7-8 hours or something? It's an all day thing if you want to speedrun 100% of this game. The current 100% record I have the board up here is 8 and a half hours. Yep, that's a long time. There are three people on that leaderboard, so it's not very popular. I wonder why. Yeah. 100% is not just running through the game once, it's essentially running through the game twice. And then doing extra post-game stuff on top of that. That's why 100% Sparkle Gems is a happy medium because it's only a little bit longer than any percent. It's an extra hour. Yeah for all Sparkle Gems you only have to defeat the bosses a second time. Correct. Yes because again with post-game content you get to do mini game challenges for the bosses most of which is just complete the boss don't take damage collect a sparkle gem yeah just don't get hit like it's mostly all of the challenges. But each boss has three extra Sparkle Gems to get post-game and that is included in 100% Sparkle Gems. So I really like this level because it is a spooky haunted castle and i like spooky stuff, i like spooky levels, though. It's pretty cool and it goes by pretty fast There's a lot of cool hits that you can get in this level to try and get more than one. So I'm gonna try it here with this guy, see if i can get two... yep! You can see how huge that hitbox is after the parry, like it's... She puts an invisible wall in front of her that just kills everything. And then we have to wait for these bats to fly through. Can't really skip that, and then the gate's gonna open once they're done. Yeah, I like the knights levels because there's three different bosses. Whereas I think with all of the other levels it's almost like the same boss every time so I think it's really cool that there was like diversity in the night levels or the sword fighter see i just gotta jump over these guys. This is all just like......to the end of a level at this point. Just avoiding some things. I think we're gonna see Mr Monop- There he is! He's stuck in a place are you gonna nope no no goodbye he just gets the remaining he doesn't get saved until the mods add Monopoly% to the board. Exactly. Whoops, got stuck there a little bit... Yeah, even though their hitboxes are wide it can also hit you from pretty far away as well. Alright so this is the boss fight. After this level, the game will take us through another tutorial to introduce us to the basement since it basement is where we actually get to save the real stars of the show. The lore is that we are just replacing this sword fighter actor. The real one is trapped in the basement, and so we have to go save them. And they'll show us that after this boss fight, and then when we come back to the basement We'll have to save all of the other stars of the show as well. One for each costume That's always really cool because you get to work together with the AI. Make friends... It's not ALWAYS cool. Sometimes they misbehave a little bit. Oh! That's true. The baking one can never decide what bowl she wants to go to but... We'll get there when we get there. The depth perception in this level can be kind of tricky. I have to stand in the middle of the room so that he doesn't cycle throughout all the walls because if you're moving around the room he's gonna track you and that takes time. But if we just wait here he figures, okay we're right in front of him He'll charge I missed it I'm surprised that didn't give you the counter there. There we go, I feel like that was the same as F1 but the depth...you can't really tell. Front facing camera is a bit hard to tell how close you are. And there is no way to adjust the camera angle. This game has fixed cameras. We're going sidetrack and go to the basement, And then we'll have to climb back up to... The second floor. Thank you very much! Yeah, we kinda touched on this before but But the way that Basement works is that after You beat the second play of a given costume, uh, that costume's basement level will open. That's the third level. So now we're gonna- We just finished Sword 2. The game is gonna say, hey! A door just opened in the basement. And that's going to be sword three. It's going to force us into the level. However, stairs in this game are really slow. Look at this loading screen. Takes forever. So we're not going to be re-entering the basement until the end of the run. Unless we need sparkle gems, which you know, fingers crossed. We won't need it. So yeah, we'll have cutscenes here You will see us go into the basement, but you'll see that none of the other doors are unlocked because this is the first second level that we've done. And yeah, this is us going into the level. And it's really short. The ones in the basement are probably the shortest levels out of all of the levels. Which is really nice. And it has this whole story that it's the place It has this whole story of like that it's the plays, so it's all the knight and sword fighter plays but everything is corrupted and messed up. Just jump over these guys there's only like one set of knights that we actually have to kill because they'll put a curtain in our way. So it's this group whoops, I'm gonna hit you these guys this group them and these guys group them into these guys all right and then we can progress and then we just have the boss. Yeah, this- The night levels have most of the lore of the game... But we get to talk to...yeah, they call the stars sparklas. So that's the swordfighter Sparkla because they have like the and heart of the play. Here we are introduced to another boss for the sword fighter. Who I think is really cool. Again, he's being held up by strings that you can see. Yeah, most of this fight is just doing different types of dodges. So jump-dodges, parries... You do have to hit these in between dodges as well. If you don't, his attack sequence will just reset So you do have to hit multiple dodges in a row in order to get your hit in This one's fun because he's going to come at us from this way, and then he's going to come at us from this way, and then he's going to try and psych us out I love how his sword goes straight through you. He has great hitboxes. I also really enjoy the voice acting in this game. I think this is one of my favorite Nintendo games that have been voice acted. Like, I think they all just did a really good job for their characters. Like, The bosses all sound really good. Peach sounds great. Special shout out to the skater guy who we'll encounter pretty soon I do like the voice acting yeah Yeah Yeah. And just the visuals as well, I think this is a very visually appealing game. There's so many bright colors, the bosses all look really cool... But another reason why I really enjoy playing this game, both casually and speedrunning is the diversity that each level has because you're always doing something different. There's a different goal, and I think that's really creative. It's like it's not all just the platformer. It's like you gotta be the swordfighter and dodge and strategize. Or, you know, in the baking level you have to do precise timing with like the baking and the cake decorating. So I think it's really cool. And we'll get to a very different level pretty soon, the detective levels are kind of interesting. Not great from a speedrunning perspective but... I will put a spoiler warning once we get to the first one because if you do want to play this game casually and you haven't already, I recommend you not watching The Detective level because it's just gonna spoil it. The answers are going to be there and I think it's a lot of fun to play the level going in blind, using the game's mechanics as intended because I had a lot of fun with it. You get to investigate clues and stuff. These lulls aren't super replayable once you know the answers. It's kind of like if you watch someone play Outer Wilds you kind of can't play it yourself anymore. Here's the ice skating level that we were just talking about. Cool! Who wants to talk about RNG? Oh yeah! This is one of the few levels in the game that does have RNG and it's only the boss fight everything else is on rails, because we'll have to do some ice skating moves and all of those are always the same. So I know where to stand on the ice but when it comes to the boss battle that is where runs come to die. He giveth and he taketh away. Yeah, he's one of the funniest and greatest boss characters in this whole game. But uh...the RNG is run-killer. And we do encounter him three times. No, twice. Oh the third time is not random right? No, the third time's not random but we do encounter him three times But he was nice enough to make the last one not RNG. But yeah, the ice is very slippery. They did a really good job at making ice mechanics in this game. Whether that's for good or for bad. Alright, so we just come in here and walk right through them fine Oh no! They're ice skating in the Ice Skating Rink. How dare they? Somebody stop them. How dare they? We've gotta do something... There's a lot of screaming in this game. God, the screams' voice lines are so funny. Yeah. So, the ice skating music I think is some of my favorite in the whole game It IS my favorite in the whole game. The song is a bop once we get to it. Yeah, it's gonna be in the later section but it reminds me of an anime opening. It's really good. But yeah, we didn't have to touch the sours, We just had to free the girlies And now we get to become an ice skater. Which, I think a lot of people really like this costume too and I don't blame them it's very gorgeous. Yes we will! Sparkle time! I do appreciate that they let us skip cutscenes. Because......I know, I was trying to do a replay of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, And you're like can I skip cutscenes please? And they were like oh for sure! and there's only like a couple of cut scenes that they actually skip and then the rest just play out yeah why is that even in the settings? I don't know! I swear it doesn't do anything. At least this game lets you skip like 90% of the cutscenes if not more. Alright so all of this is um...the same every time you play As long as you're standing in the same spot it's not bad but these are cool all ice skating peach can do is spin and jump. All Ice Skater Peach can do is spin and jump, eat hot chip and lie. I don't know. I think Princess Peach could handle a hot chip. Don't think that, personally? You don't? I mean, I always thought like in the promotional artwork for cowgirl peach she's holding a bottle of hot sauce or something. Is that what they drink out in the wild west? Hot sauce? I don't think they drink it, but they probably add it to everything. It's like barbecue. I know later in the game the cowgirl offers to get some milk with Peach. I guess that's what cow girls drink? I mean, I guess it makes sense. They have Cow in the name okay this last one and then you gotta wait for the girlies. With them to join our little gang... So, fair-skate patterns here were fixed, in this part coming up they are not. And that is where the problem comes in. Alright time for Big Boss. I hope people can hear the audio of this because it's amazing. Hi! Hi! Hi. Nintendo really cooked with this guy. They did, they knew what they were doing. Alright, this is the bop. I love this. Yeah, this part is pretty easy. We just have to avoid the I guess ornaments? Oh, by Mr. Monopoly, sorry. There he is! Our little guy... And we're not even gonna bother with getting the gems... Yeah, this is one of those gems that does the slowdown effect when you get it which loses time. We don't need a cutscene. Yeah, it literally just puts you in slow-mo. Alright, RNG time! So one cycle would be like insanely good. Two cycle is pretty average. Three cycle is annoying and four cycle is like run over. So he's always gonna come over here... which is fine but now where the girls end up is random. That's a pretty good pattern. That's a very good pattern. Oh, almost! You got two. So close. This should be a good 2-cycle. That was great, though. Yes, but if they end up going in different directions that's when it'll become a problem. It is possible to one cycle this, it's really, really difficult even if you get good RNG. This is an easy two-cycle, yeah. Two cycles is expected. Yeah. And now we circle, we put him in a circle. Silly circle time. He was pretty nice to us here. Hopefully in Skater 2 he's just as nice. Yeah, that was really good. We appreciate that. Thank you Mr. Skater Man. Alright... I think the tech device is working! man all right i think detective level is next so i would recommend if you don't want spoilers... I mean, it's up to you. I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life but I'm just saying there's going to be spoilers. Yeah, if you would like to play this game casually and you haven't yet maybe look away for 8 minutes or so? This level is 8 minutes long. most levels are seven to eight minutes if you're not canceling out of them like in death abuse these levels are charming going into them for the first time if you don't know the answers. It's really cool to solve these puzzles, talk to all the characters and find the information. In a speedrun, it's a bit of slow movement dragging your feet. Yeah, I mean what's annoying about Detective 1 specifically is that knowing the answer Is painful because they don't let you solve it immediately It forces you to play the whole level before you can tell them the answer. There's one exception to that, the very last kind of puzzle of this level You can actually just skip it if you know the answer. Yeah, it won't let you do until the very end and I think that's just a coding thing because certain characters need to be in the room for it to play the final cutscene. Alright... So we just have some dialogue here. Oh no the museum is closed! I guess we get to learn about the story of this level though since it is a very dialogue-heavy level. So we have Junior here who's the junior detective but the detective is missing and so we need to come in and help save the day So we come over here and we're gonna cheer so we need to come in and help save the day. So, we come over here, and we're gonna cheer up Junior with our little... Here's depression real quick. And then he's gonna show us to the detective and then he's gonna show us the detective's house and we'll solve a really hard clue in order to get to the detective changing area. Hmm. Hmm. If only the answer was plastered on the wall somewhere. I know. That'd be so easy. Um, I keep forgetting Um... I keep forgetting this is a kids game. And I'm like, why's it so easy? But yeah, now we get to become the detective. Which our power is just point at things and accuse people. That's all Detective Peach does. She...is not like the thief. There's no exciting movement. She's just pointing at things. Her outfit is great, though. I love her outfit! The white tights and the white coat. It's so good. And I love that in all of her costumes she she still has the elements of her original. The earrings and blue gem on her dress is is in all of her outfits. So I think that was a really cool detail to include This level is hilarious in any percent, uh normal any percent that allows death abuse? Actually no, in this level- Oh no, this one? Yeah it's not this one, it's the second one. The second one... You just accuse a door over and over again in order to take damage because when you accuse something incorrectly is when Peach takes damage. And so you have to incorrectly accuse something 16 times in order to death abuse. In this level, there were some sours at the beginning and you can just run into them a bunch of times and they'll just kill you. Try it in real life! Warning at a door 16x will save you time! Yeah... And then in the third one, when I did my run the first time, I think I accused a bird statue which a lot of people like to do when they're doing their death abuse run is go after the bird statue it's very suspicious it's so suspicious i mean just look at it yeah the detective levels not only do they take long because you can't really skip anything but you also have to hold down the button in order to investigate something. So just have to wait through all that and if accidentally let go it starts all over again so that's fun So here we come in The plot of this is that a mural has been stolen by the Sowers, and we need to find them in order to figure out where it went. We just figured out some masks were just stolen as well, that can make them in disguise. So they are hidden somewhere in this room and we have to interrogate all the characters to figure out which ones are the imposters. There's only two imposters. The first one is this one, and you would find that out because you would find a policeman whose outfit was stolen, and the camera guy back there, his camera was stolen. As you can see, there's one missing and so you find the guy who has the police outfit in the camera. He's suspicious, and now we have to wait for this little scene. They just slowly walk away. We just can't- So slow. And then the other one is that these were a statue of two playwrights, but there's three and someone's popcorn was stolen. So this is the odd one out. But yeah, going around and interrogating the people and getting clues it was really fun to do this the first time casually. Because it really puts... you get to interact with characters in the universe, so that's really nice. And so... We have this little cutscene where they're interrogating the guys and if you did this correctly, um basically when you were talking to everyone in the museum You would have found out that one of the guys could feel like a draft from a window Another one had a stool. So you take The stool, go up to the window, open it. A breeze would come in and you would see that the wall behind us was a fake wall and it was just a curtain. And then you would go up and interrogate it. And it turns out the mural was here the whole time. But we couldn't interrogate it at the beginning of the level because they wanted us to play it. who would have thought that game developers want us to play their games i do find it interesting that you can skip all the stuff with the window you cannot skip the room before this. Yeah... Like I said, I think it's just because they- you need the sours in front of you tied up so like you can't do that in the beginning of a level because you have to catch them first. But then, you're forced into the next room. That's my guess at least. So...that's the end of floor two, and then we just have our floor two boss. This boss is so cool. One of the coolest things in the entire run. It's perfectly made for speedrunners who like to go fast. Do you want to take a break before the boss, or do you want to take a break after the boss? We'll take the break right now and get everyone hyped up for the boss. It's really worth coming back to see. Great! So we can just pause right now. During these longer runs on the hotfix Great. So, we can just pause right now. Yep! During these longer runs on the Hotfix, we like to take breaks every about hour so somebody get up stretched and get some water or anything y'all need to do. We are going to take a quick break and move back with more learning... so. ¶¶ so... ¶¶ so. ¶¶ so so ¶¶ so so so so.... so... so.. so........ so so so ¶¶ so Hello everybody and welcome back to The Game's Done Quick Hot Fix. We are in the middle of a run, a Princess Peach Showtime run. I'll hand it right over to y'all whenever you're ready. Alright let's get back into it it in 3... 2... 1. So this is the second boss because we're on floor two so second boss and again keeping with the theme of theater stuff this is going to be based off of I think what is it like they're not spotlights because that's a different one but it's some sort of theater lighting um is what this next boss is based off of if someone who's into theater knows like the technical term you'll see what I mean. But this is Lightfang and the point of this boss is to just run fast so that's what we're gonna do. So if he sees you for too long, you see how the screen flashes there? He's going to send you back in time to the last checkpoint that you were at. This is really just a platforming level more so than a boss It's super cool, you're gonna see some really cool kind of speed strats here they give you a lot of places to stop and let... behind the wall, so you can let Lightfang kinda look past you and then continue on. We're going to completely ignore most of look past you and then you can continue on. We're going to completely ignore most of those, as you're going to see right here. There's a couple triggers where the tail will spawn and break down a wall. That's kind of like baiting you to stand behind it and then get hit. Again, just ignoring that. In fact, if you get seen and then that happens, he will unsee you. This coil here we can hit from below save some time. This is very clean so far. I think this was one of the first ILs that people really started grinding. Yeah, it's because it's so much fun. I think someone got this down to like two minutes something, maybe even less than that. Moving on here we've got these spinning cogs that are going to try and slow us down. Avoid the gaze there, get another tail trigger. that are going to try to slow us down. Avoid the gaze there, we get another tail trigger here where he stops looking for you. That's just time we can spend running forward. No, that's not what I meant! Oh, that was weird, yeah. Okay glitched out there. Oh that was weird yeah. Okay still made it. No problem. That actually benefited me a little bit. So these little coils here you can hit them to make him stop looking for you but we're going so fast that we don't need it. A lot of tail triggers here so he's not looking at all and then we just hit the coil. And that's Lightbang. That was so good! That was really clean. Thank you. Mwah, chef kiss. Someone in chat says it looks like a spotlight to them, so I think it's safe to say we just have two spotlight bosses in the game. Yeah because there is literally on the fourth floor... The boss is called Spot Lion you can take a guess as to what that's going to look like. So I know that for sure is a spotlight, and then this is Light Fang. So maybe the two of them together... Oh! I ship it because it's spot and light. Spot Lion and Lightfang are spotlight together. Aww! I get it. I ship it. Alrighty, so now we get to go into Floor 3... I think the cat lovers are gonna end up liking the Floor 3 boss. That's all I'm gonna say about that. We have a little time until we get there, but we are gonna beat up a cat. But in the meantime, we're gonna be another cowgirl. yeehaw! I don't know why Cowgirl Peach is just so inherently funny, just ying and hawing everywhere. I don't know, but this is going to be like the classic western train chase so this looks frame chase. So, this level is like 90% auto-scroller. But we get to use our lasso which is fun. Now autoscrollers in this game um oftentimes even though you can't save time, you can lose time. There are certain like objectives you have to do at certain points in the autooscrollers that if you take too long on them, You're losing time. The autoscroller won't advance until you complete them. Yeah just don't hit things. We also have the horse- I'm sad that they canonically did not give this horse a name so i would love to hear if people have names for this course i um have named her nelly in my heart because like the saying of like whoa Nellie um so that is my name for the horse So I would love other suggestions as well but just so- I mean they use she her pronouns for the horse throughout the whole game so they cared enough to give it a gender give it a name. Alright, I just grabbed that just in case. I'm not entirely sure if going on the above path is faster or the below path, but I like going below just to get as far as I can. And then we'll get a free one here. We have a couple horse names in chat. One chatter says Silver, so I can yell Hi ho silver that's uh one chatterer says since it's a prop horse I'm thinking rocking or rocking horse oh that's cute and then i like this one uh this chatter says clearly you're riding through the desert on a horse with no name. Aww! That's a sad... That's a sad fate for that horse. Alright, now we get to walk on top of a train. One thing that I'm very impressed with is this horse can run just as fast as a train, and one of my friends was like, it's either like, a really fast horse or that train is going at 1 horsepower. Exactly 1 horsepower! horsepower like and i exactly one horsepower it goes one horsepower So... Get some dialogue here. I like to do this trick where I'm just going to flip through the door, even though it doesn't really do anything because we still have to wait for the next scene to load. It's always funny people think that. Again, it's like little things here and there that we can do but doesn't actually save time unfortunately all right we're gonna skip all this this would be be a way to get Sparkle Gems... but we don't need it. We don't need it! In all Sparkle Gems that one is really annoying. You run out of barrels and you gotta reset the level. Yeah entirely I prefer to just jump off the train and then it'll reset me back at the beginning of the train part which is good but yeah i've had to reset that a couple of times ah the horse he's back! That is such, like, an old force sound and I know that is just, like, a force sound effect that's been used forever because it's also in Kelly Club Pet Parade. I recognize it so well. Also, I will be- also that has got to be the most obscure reference I've ever heard well, I wanted to mention it because I will be showcasing my speedrun of Kelly Club Pep Parade at Barbethon on August 10th and 11th on Barbethon Twitch channel. So that's exciting. It's going to be a charity event i'm gonna have some famous barbie gamers there try to either chat yeah be their Barbie thong all the cool people are going to be there, Chad. Yeah, be there. Barbie-thon. All the cool people are going to be there. It's gonna be a great August speedrunning month for the girlies and fems because we got Blaine Patels and Barbie-n in August. I'd love to see it. So that wraps up our autoscroller level here? Yep! We just had to throw a barrel at a train, and that was enough to knock it over apparently. But we were very close on that. I only had one heart, so if I ran into a rock... Thank you!...I would've died. But that's okay because I didn't. So yeah the next boss battle is going to end up costing us 20 Sparkle Gems. You know what the count is at? We're at 23 right now. Perfect. Yeah, so we just gotta store some more so that we'll have enough for floor four! That was a lot of rhymes. And I didn't even try. Alright, so there's like the little like, ooh we unlocked the thing in the basement. That's a little cue for that. Aw heck yeah! It's time to save the world from aliens. This is my personal favorite costume it's it's just too cool if you like big hero six then you're gonna like this costume they really peaked with this design but we get to fight off some aliens as a superhero. Superhero Peach... I think it's called Hero Peach, I mean that's what we refer to it as. Sometimes it's seen as space Peach but I think overall this is big hero Peach. I believe in the game it's called Mighty Peach. Ah, it is Mighty Peach, yeah. Which I don't think is very descriptive at all but I think that just as a translation thing......I had to guess. Oh yeah you can see Mr Monopoly back there. Poor guy hanging on to some debris. Aww. And that's where he will stay! Yep, goodbye! We're literally leaving them hanging. Look! I love that the Sowers are just in really bad alien costumes. It just warms my heart. See, now this is a real fire because before we saw like fake fire and now this is real fire so this is a problem. We need to put that out immediately. That's right that what osha hazard is that what it's called like the well i don't think the sours are here to put on a show. I don't know. I feel like that would be a lawsuit if our actors got hurt. Okay we've got Mr Onionhead scientist, I think they just stole that design from luigi's mansion he's a little reminiscent of you guys a little bit but he's here to make us Iron Man, basically. We're like... I guess Iron Man and Batman where we don't actually have superpowers, we just have technology. When i started watching the new Marvel stuff, my heart was broken to find out that The new Spider-Man doesn't actually shoot webs from his hand like in the 2001 Spider-Man. Like he just has a device that shoots out web. His powers does not include shooting web and i'm like but he's spider-man but apparently the toby mcguire version is the only one where he shoots webs from his hand apparently and people didn't like that because it wasn't canonically accurate That's my hot take on Marvel. I have no other takes, I've never watched another Marvel movie I was gonna say yeah, like I have a lot to add to this conversation So Peach is really strong now. Yeah, we can like lift things... Oh wait they have dialogue at the stand in a certain spot They're really chatty Yeah they will literally pull you from where you are to have more dialogue with you so it's better to just figure out where they want you to stand so that you don't get pulled too far because it takes time. Also bummed out that you can't hit all three there, it was proven that you can only hit a maximum of two at a time, but... Almost. Almost. But... Ah, almost. Almost. You can hit all four there. I'm just bad. Um... Hooray! Look at all the things Hooray! The theme of this character is throwing very large objects. It's so sick, I love it. Yeah we're about to pick up a bus look at this yeah peach is so cool the fake fire is also very aesthetic and then we have the real fire over here But yeah, something that we're not utilizing in this specific category are the hidden spots. If you play casually or do another category that requires to get more sparkle gems, there are hidden spotlight areas where you have to do like a special pose and you will go into like a behind the scenes area Where um You can either get like coins or a sparkle gem, You just have to know which ones are which. And I think that's really cool. But those are like, little special secret areas. There we go. I love that guy. He's so funny. This guy takes like a- he takes so many hits. Only THAT one, I think. There's other ones that only take three but for some reason like half take three and half take double Like six? I don't know why why oh they're all safe guys we saved them they made it to their dome home all right i guess that's our job done. Uh oh! Oh nooo! Who could have predicted this? Well they shouldn't have moved... Who could have predicted this? I do like that their house, like their lab is actually a circle That just goes underground They shouldn't have made their house so easy to pick up Wah! to pick up. Alright, we got a special invention! That's a jetpack! Peach flies now. Thank you, professor. So in case there weren't enough genres already in the game, now it's like kind of a shmup? Yeah. But this is an autoscroller portion again yet again. It is better to hit things as soon as possible, because the sooner they're off the screen the next segment can start. Might as well just select these while I'm here. He likes the punch. Yay! And for saving everyone you get a Sparkle Gem too, so if you missed anyone you wouldn't get that. And this is a pretty easy boss fight because you don't actually fight the big thing, but you get the small one you get the little guy and just spin them around this is so ridiculous i love this so much yeah i don't think we take any damage here if we get hit by any of these things either so you just so you just mash. She looks way too cool. She is cool! This is why this game isn't important because it makes Peach look cool. Yeah she's been boss babe this whole game. She's been a quarter-boss babe. I think the second stage of this costume has an even cooler finale, personally. Yeah. I'm glad that she was able to redeem herself from Super Princess Peach because I feel like that game gets such a bad rap and this game just made it look so cool. That's the DS one, yeah? Yes. One of the games and they really made a great comeback with this one. I've been looking forward to this game since it was announced on the Direct and when it came out, I just spent like all day playing it. It's so good. So what's this one? Aha! We have our first mermaid level. So again with this one is... She doesn't have... I don't think Peach technically does anything as a mermaid. Her skill is that she sings so well that she makes fish do things for her. Kind of like a Disney princess So that's gonna just be the main thing in this level is controlling fish with our voice, which... pretty cool. But Peach herself can't really do anything. Can't like, do any jumps or like the other levels her movement is is not uh super interesting in the mermaid form you can move um freely x and y axis because you're like underwater you know but predominantly you're just kind of solving puzzles with the singing Puzzles can be a little finicky too They're not always I don't know, programmed that well There's only one that is like kind of a problem I don't know, programmed that well? There's only one that is kind of a problem. It's because we're working with cardboard and wood here Yeah, it doesn't do well in the water you know. But they've got that accurate. They made this stuff very flimsy to work with. Look how happy this turtle is i love the turtle design in this level he is so precious has to be saved and protected so cute i left a little turtle look at him go but yeah right now we're just chilling i'm gonna get a free sparkle gem here just by going like this once you hit all the seashells, not only do you decoy, but also rescue pigeons. Again very similar to Yoshi's story where it says do this do this very specific task that has no indication and you will get the item you need to complete a level. Alright so they're all upset because the singer is missing. So guess who has to fill in? This is basically Princess Peach The substitute teacher game. Yeah I hope she's getting paid overtime for all this. She's just the understudy, it's fine. Shoutout to all of the understudies out there and all the swings. They're the real heroes of theater production. Like, Mermaid Peach like really just says trans rights. She has the prettiest pink and blue outfit with the white pearls to match. So pretty. For sure. I just wanted you to know as you go into the levels with each costume, am dropping your corresponding emotes in the chat. Yeah, I got those emot- This has a lot of peach emotes. Yeah, I got those emotes. This has a lot of peach emotes. Yeah, I was able to get those from an artist on Etsy They are listed in my About section On my Twitch page So shout out to them. Yeah, they're super cute it's like they made a peach from every costume there was also a Stella one I think that one's on my Discord, though. Oh no! We'll have to cancel the concert. No worries. I'm here to save the day! The eels, oh I love the eels too. They're so goofy looking. There's no goof boys. Alright, we'll skip all this. Just women. And so this is the first kind of finicky uh challenge we have in the mermaid section are these clam shells you need We need more fish in order to open the big clam shell, so we need to gather those guys up. If there's a clam shell nearby, sometimes they just want to automatically gravitate towards that one. So the one on the right down there had a sparkle gem in it and I've had runs where i want to avoid that and just go up but they are like magnetized to the wall yeah the fish are pretty janky uh everybody say hi to the eels. Hello, eels! They're adorable. Alright, this is the other one. This is the janky one. Ugh. So you have to move the kelp in a specific order You know, the one that's on top But they kind of again just magnetized to the wrong thing constantly. This seems like it went pretty well. This one was pretty good. We got a little stuck at the beginning there, but it was okay. I guess I just need to sting better so the fish act right. Yeah maybe you have to be on key. Alright this one's fun because we get save the turtle with these popperfish It makes a cool sound They're like angels! I just love the animation. It's so dramatic. The slowdown effect, and they're you know, just throwing it up like it's great. Alright, Mr. Turtle like, it's great. Alright Mr Turtle... Aww! We get to ride on the turtle! I just love how intricate it is. Like, you can see all the inside bits of like mechanisms. So cool. Aw, the eels! The fish have huge lips. Like... it's so distracting. Cause like distracting because like i feel like it doesn't really line up right with their mouth but i don't know crabs are cute too but now this part is kind of like a rhythm game, every mermaid level ends with this rhythm game portion where you have to aim your singing notes at fish and some fish last longer than others like, some represent quarter notes half notes stuff like that but yeah we're just vibing with the music you have this aura. Yes, this one's a long boy. He's so long! Long... Long... Yay! Look at all the fishes. That's nice, the end of Mermaid 1. Yep. This singing mechanic will return. Yeah for all the mermaid levels. In case there weren't enough genres already in this game how about rhythm game? It's a Really good variety just all throughout. So when do we get the first person shooter, Peach? Yeah, that would be cool. Just like army Peach. She's in the trenches. cool. Just like Army Peach. He's like, she's in the trenches. That's going to bring us up To Baker 2 You want to talk about this one before we get in there? Yeah so When I get to the hard part I'm gonna have Python and Citi kind of explain what I'm doing. Because I'm going to really focus. This is probably... I would say When I was playing it casually I had to do this level over like three times because the baking level with the cookies... Like they just made it incredibly difficult. For no good reason. I know, I was just saying like, oh it's a kid's game and so easy! And then all of the sudden they throw this out of left field. But first of all, I want to talk about the aesthetic. Adorable. I need everything that is in this level. It's so cute! But yeah...so the theme of this is they eat some bad cookies and become zombies, and they desire sweets. Um...so we need to make good sweets in order turn them back to normal. So the first level this time is going to be the cake decorating instead of the cookies and, uh, the cake decorating this time is not as forgiving as the first round. We have to actually complete it all the way through, but again, we can skip two of them as long as we don't mess up three cakes we're fine but we can skip two cakes and for the guide of this run there are two specific cakes that we skip because those are the most complicated ones to decorate. We only do the easy ones to decorate. This one's just a line otherwise do the easy ones to decorate. This one's just a line, other ones are just going to be like dots, but ones that get a bit more complicated we're gonna skip. So these kind of zombie fleets that appear on the sides, more will appear over time if you're too slow. And if you take to long, the gates will overflow and break and you'll be spawned by them It will restart this section. Yeah so that's like the main challenge in the cookie decorating level because You have to bake the cookie at a specific pace. That was intentional, everyone. Again we're allowed two misses here. Which unfortunately is the funniest one to Slylyface. Oh I love making a wonky star face with that one. Yes! A wonky star face is always the best. It reminds me of Mario Odyssey, those minigames where you have to put parts of Mario's face down and it comes out looking really cursed kind of like that or like the mario party mini game when you're stretching yeah like that too yeah it always turns out so long all, so this is the next level I'm going to focus a little bit yeah, so in every baking level it's always like a cookie portion and a cake decorating portion. So the next portion is cookie, and basically we need to feed the horde before they break through, but there's a certain pattern to do it in the most efficient way possible and i've kind of gotten that down, but I just need to pay attention to what I'm doing to make sure that we don't have any breakthroughs because if any break through then we have to start the whole cookie portion over again and it's like a whole, it's seconds so. It's long and these zombie guys pile up very fast casually this is potentially the hardest level in the game i would say yeah because i had to do it over like three times before i got a rhythm down all right i'm gonna get started here. So as Mance is making the cookies there's kind of a few stages to how dough rises. Once it turns yellow you can stop and get four cookies If it turns rainbow which is a little bit tighter window You have to wait a little longer you get double cookies so you get eight Which is good it will feed two rows of the zombies instead of just one cooking with a feets like that gives you a ton of cookies and will disperse all of them so as a little strategy here based on how much time should you spend actually mixing the dough to get the amount of cookies that you need. You can see how fast they're piling up, it's crazy. If you are fast enough you can actually finish this with time left on clock so we'll see if we're able to get that here. You can see when these gates are flashing like that, that means time is running out. So we have to get these cookies over there as fast as we can. Oh, that was so tight! Six seconds left on the clock is really good. That's really good. And I missed up a little, so that was really crazy. That was, yeah. And I missed that one too! So that was really crazy. That was so close. Girl, I didn't even see it like... On the very last one, I want to say you had maybe a half second until that gate broke. I know, I know. Yeah, I messed up on one of the feats where I didn't get rainbow. Because the thing is if you press too much your cookies will explode. So you can't mash. You have to time it exactly right so that you're in the rainbow part because once you go too far you have to start all over again. The feats will get exploded and it's really annoying. Yeah, you lose that batch of cookies and you lose a lot of time If that happens at all during the Horde section It's pretty much over. It's over, yeah because you're on the timer... I mean you can actually finish when the timer ends with zombies still left. I've had that happen but its like really rare but you can still win that way you just won't get the third sparkle gem this one is no danger so it's a freebie. Perfect relap at the end. Yeah, just curing whoever's left... with yummy cookies. I wish cookies could cure all of my ailments, that would be really nice. It seems like chat is with you that this level took them many tries on their casual playthrough a number of people saying that this is very difficult. Yeah, having 6 seconds left is like... I think my PB. I don't think I've gotten anything better than that. Which is crazy because like I said, I messed up multiple times in that round and I'm very fortunate we didn't have any zombies break through. Yeah, that room can be a run killer Like I said, that gate was very close to breaking and if it did you just lost like a minute or two. Yeah. It's probably close to 2 minutes because the first round is 60 seconds and then the second round is 60 seconds as well. You have to complete both. I have The Baker in my soul. Alright. Kitty cat lovers baker in my soul. Alright, kitty cat lovers, it's time we... So this boss coming up is Projector Cat which is a really cool boss design-wise. It's slow but it's still pretty fun. There is a bit of speed tech to it as we're gonna see here. Yeah, you just have to hit the pause as fast as possible as POSSIBLE ahahaha yeah so I always Yeah. So I always really liked this boss because it gives me Beetlejuice vibes with all the neon green and stuff, like the swirls so...I really like that. But basically all you gotta do here is wait for him to go into projector mode then hit him with the bomb and with all of the boss fights three stages So this was stage one. It's very simple, straightforward. I love the way this boss looks. He's a projector. A purr-jector. Purr-jector. The purr-jector, yeah. He's so cute! And he'll try to hit you with his tail and he'll try to hit you with the paws...yeah there's the tail The tail doesn't do damage, but the paws can. The only thing with the tail is that it's knocking you out of the way so you can't protect... Sorry, protect the bone. Yeah, it's just wasting speedrunner time. Yep. Yeah, it's just wasting speedrunner time. The paws you want to ideally get to them as fast as possible because they're the only thing you can really control in this fight. Being able to hit up is really nice. The goal is you just want to get the bomb in the little cat shape on the floor and as long as it's in there it should hit him him when the Smet slams down like that. Yeah, his paws don't hurt you because they're just a projection so you can stand where the paws land and you just can't be on the ground when the paws land. that's what will deal damage which i think is weird but on the way down the pause can't hurt you yeah this is last phase. It's really funny the positions his paws end up in because they're trying- it's an AI that's tracking where the bomb is um but if you like move it around a lot it gets really confused Alright, that should have been the last one. That pattern is always the same as well. There's no RNG to this. The boss fight patterns are all the same. Really nice job. Yep, that was boss number three bye bye kitty meow meow I mean technically we have another cat on floor four technically spot lion so a bit of a danger cat though danger cat I don't know wasn't there like a story of like a family that like took in like a lion as a pet there like a story of, like, a family that took in like a lion as a pet? As like a cub and then raised it. That was cute. I don't know if that was just like a made-up movie or if it was based on a true story but i remember seeing ads for that all the time as a kid I always wanted like, a wild pet after that It's so cool Alright So cool. Alright, floor four... Okay we get another Dashing Thief level which is really cool. We're gonna do a lot of swinging in this level to go fast. Yeah, it's a very satisfying level to go fast. Yeah, it's a very satisfying level to play. Yeah these Yeah, these loading screens......are killer. Well that was one thing we discovered is that loading is shortest on the digital version as long as you make sure it's not on your SD card. Yeah, turns out if you just load the game on your SD card It's pretty comparable to physical? I believe. In terms of load times. I think they found that within every loading screen it saves like 5 or 6 seconds. It can move from console to SD. Yeah, that adds up a lot. I want to say the difference is greater than five minutes just from playing on digital. So I had to buy this game twice. Totally worth it though. Gotta save those frames. But now I have a beautiful physical version, because I pre-ordered it and got a cute little standee from Best Buy. Oh, I thought about doing that preorder but then i was like do i need any more physical games because i'm looking at my face always yes there's a physical media supremacy just buy another shelf. Yeah, we are a physical media household for sure But I know Target, I think their pre-order was that you got a water bottle and a scrunchie, which I think they knew the people buying this game. So, but I like the standee because that's something I can just have out. And I recently got a bunch of Doki Doki Literature Club standees too so it's like a little collection now. The acrylic is also really nice. I feel like acrylic. This you don't have to unlock the door, you just need to not die now. Yeah a lot of these stages just grapple around stuff and don't engage with it. I'd really appreciate a heart right around now. I think i can get a heart over here Yeah, I see one. Just don't take damage. Oh my gosh! Thank you! It's so easy. The thing is when I do a lot of my speedruns I mostly do Barbie speedruns on easy mode So it doesn't matter how much damage you take So this is very... I don't even know why they have that one on there. That one's like the most not useful grapple to go from side to side they have specific ones that move on the x-axis. That was the one time the game crashed right here after you broke through the window and it just softlocked and Peach was staring at the camera forever. Yeah that only happened to me once I had a soft lock there in a casual playthrough i think it was practicing actually all right this move is really cool like the thing is about to come up. There we go. Because before there used to be the intended method was that you wait and grapple then jump onto top of it. But who has time for that? You know what's coming! Just jump baby! Jump- It's like a trust jump is what I like to call it. Alright, this next part is really really cool visually so the whole blimp is exploding so we need to get out as fast as possible so we get to do a lot of cool grapples so... Hopefully it works this time oh yeah now this is a fun second yeah i mean there we go that one for some reason sometimes the grapple will just like magnifies to the one on the bottom yeah it's weird even though we want the one on the top god she's so cool love her this game is so cinematic look at this look in the distance, we made it out. There she goes. Yes Yes! You can take it. Thank you. So by the end of this floor, we need to have 25 Sparkle Gems. Which right now we have 19 so I think we're pretty good floor that introduces a character as well, which I think is one of mine and Python's favorites. I do believe you're right. Alright, Ninja 2. This is like hard. I think everyone in the speedrunning community for this game can agree like, this is the hardest level to speedrun because this is like, the only level that has a lot of tech in it. Yeah, there's a good number of skips in here as well as the constant dash canceling that has to be done. Casually, Baker 2 is probably the hardest but for a speedrun it's gotta be this one. So right off the bat here we're gonna sneak past this guy and then... Well, we have to listen to his feet really quick. Again, very chatty, they love to stop you. We have to hear him out! Might have something important to say. Yeah, so basically we found this because this is where they would teleport you on that cherry blossom tree if you got caught but you can just jump up there yourself and just skip all of the guards. Yep, that little platform is always there. There is something you can do here to speed it up, but it's pretty inconsistent. So I'm just going to do it up, but it's pretty inconsistent. Yeah I don't think anyone besides one person can do it is that without- you don't have to hit like the little chimes. You could actually drop down right in the middle of the two guards and hit them both at the same time but that is like i think like a frame perfect yeah you have to like land perfectly in between their line of sight it's very very difficult yeah because if they catch you then you get it's just like light fang where it would send you back to like a certain checkpoint so you see all these flipping walls and stuff here um we're not going to engage with this puzzle. This is a very precise jump that Mance is lining up. It's not easy at all. So you have to be on the absolute edge of the... There we go! That's really clean, third try. You have to be on the absolute edge of the wall and jump Wall Jump at the absolute peak of your jump and then Dash at the absolute peak of your jump, and then dash at the absolute peak of your double jump and land on the absolute edge of the slanted ceiling. A lot can go wrong there so good on MAM for getting it so quick. There's like an invisible wall there... I think i just accidentally lined up with the railing. All right that was a very good ninja too That was solid yeah Thank you guys for the commentary. You did it so fast, I had to explain at light speed. Yay! A speedrunner going fast? Who would've thought thought unheard of all right this is kind of auto scrollery but you can still view your dash which is really nice So we're just gonna zoom through here, and then there's gonna be one final skip in the level... Because we don't need this last Sparkle Gem, I'm just going to get the ones that they're forcing me to get. Then I'll go down here and bounce off the wall. Nice! So yeah, you wanna skip those gem fragments because that's another one that slows you down when you grab it. Yeah. Instead of doing the wall jump they want you do we just do the opposite of that. Go behind the little wall jump section. And part of me feels like it was somewhat intended? Like if you overshot and didn't realize you had to jump up, you could still recover. But I don't know. Very cool of Drew. Yeah this part visually gorgeous but all you gotta do is mash. You literally can just go back and forth, but... It's very easy. You can't really lose your game time here either. There might be some frame differences based on how many things you hit, but yeah, it's a really cool looking auto-scroller. You just mash one button. And that was Ninja 2! We got over the biggest hurdle of the run, so... That was really nice. Ninja 3 is okay. I actually timed it earlier when I was in practice, because there's like a skip at the very beginning of the level. And you can go one of two ways and everyone that I've seen in the Peach community, they always go right and then jump over a wall um, and like Python had actually introduced me to another method where you go left and basically just go around a different way. And Python's method is five seconds faster. I didn't know that and I'm taking it right now. I'm calling it Python Skip. Yeah, one was 20 seconds, the other was 25. And the other one, Python's one that he showed me is actually more consistent for me personally to get than the other ones so I'm really glad that it's actually faster. Oh this is another detective level! Oh boy... avert your eyes for spoilers um this one has probably one of my favorite end-of-level cutscenes. It's really funny. This level is a little bit unhinged. Yeah? So, we're looking for anyone who's suspicious guys. Let me know if you guys see anyone. I just love the newspaper disguise. Oh my god! Be careful! It's because I'm purple. I mean, just look at him! Yeah you can't get too close or else it'll make you go backwards because apparently we can't be too close to him. And so you have to hide. Sneak and sneak. And then he'll turn around. And then this is the only thing that I think is a fun...I don't even think it was intentional. Maybe it is. It's like a glitch where your hat gets stuck on the sign, so it just moves Peach for you. So I so it just moves Peach for you. I've never seen that! So, I wasn't touching the controller at all there. Like they just pushed me. How have I never seen that? Did you just learn that like today? No, I've always been doing that. So funny. But I think it's funny that you can just clip on it or get attached to it but I think it just shows that like, it picks up Peach's either hat or shoe as a physical tangible object i don't know... That it can be interacted with? I think that is interesting. That's my favorite piece of tech in the game now. Signed tech. I love that it keeps you concealed. It's actually functional tech, because isn't it further ahead than the spot you would normally hide in? I think so. That's actually helpful too! The thing is, that's the place you're intended to hide but instead of having move your controller yourself and risking going too far past the sign it keeps you on pace with the sign because the sign is pulling you. Yeah, but that one, you have to knock over that sign because it's supposed to be psyching you out and then you have to hide behind those boxes. You gotta panic and figure out where to hide. This is always this door, you would figure that out. This is where their hideout is, and you would figure that out uh this is where their hideout is and we'd figure that out by talking to the other residents of the neighborhood it's like well i live in the flower door ah so and if you open up the wrong door they get mad at you. Yeah another case of a little missed opportunity in this game, I think. Could have had those procedurally done. Oh, the bomb's ready, by the way! Oh, it's a bomb! Yeah, they just casually have a bomb. And so in this room, you're supposed to figure out what building in the city they plan on bombing and you would figure that out by looking through the telescope and they have their eye on the clock tower, so you investigate that little model here of the clock tower. And then we're like, That's what they want to blow up! Let's go there!...and stop them. Um... I liked a little flammable sign on the crate in the corner. That's a good touch. Alright, so we're off to the clock tower. We got the police by our side, they're gonna help us out. Are they? I mean, they tie people up! Oh no, they're getting away and they messed up all of the number signs with keys. How will we know which key to use? Well luckily in my education I know that 9 is also a 6. So, that's how we know that that is the sixth key. Nice! Okay. This is how elevators work in real life, they just put a bunch of keys around the room labeled with numbers and that's you go to the floor you want. That's kind of what it was like at GDQ. Those elevators were like a GDQ. Those elevators were rough. I think I waited at one point for five minutes for it to come to the third floor, and it just never did. So I just had to to come to the third floor and it just never did so i just had to go down to the lobby and then back up it was just so broken Alright, so the cops come in and tie him up. But we still need to find the bomb. He doesn't have it, so... This level is like a little bit of puzzle solving? So we have three floors to the clock tower and each one has a different puzzle on it. The thing is, in order to get the elevator to the next floor we need to put gears into that little model over there, so we find them throughout this floor. And then the last one is the one with the handprint on it. Then we put them all in here and then we're able to go up to the next one. Then, the next one kind of throws you a red herring, which I think is interesting. Is that there's a broken gear like right in front of you and you think that's what you need to use but you actually need to take the one that's on the left and put it on the one on the right and get the key for an accelerator man it's a good it's a good thing at this particular time oh yeah it wasn't this time. Oh, yeah. It wasn't this time when we got here, but it is now. Because you can verify that in the beginning cutscene when we come to the clock tower it's like a completely different time. I don't know why they didn't just leave it like that? Like i feel like there'd be less work and just leave it at the same time but... We see there's a bunch of footprints. I wonder what's in the bell? Oh my god! It's a bomb! Uh, what do we do? Alright so this is an unskippable dialogue cutscene. I want everyone to remember This cutscene for when we do Detective 3 later because I have a conspiracy theory about this game. Oh yeah? I do too, I think it's the same conspiracy. Pay close attention here and there will be a test later. Take notes. Wait, I just noticed that in these freeze frames Peach is moving. Peach's model is actually like moving side to side like she's breathing Yeah I didn't notice, I'll have to look back on that later I never noticed that before So to save the town we just threw the bomb somewhere else that later. I never noticed that before. Yeah, so to save the town we just threw the bomb somewhere else and it exploded. We were like, you know what? We'll just throw it in the river as if there's not life in the river. Like, come on! Whatever, problem solved! Hooray! there's not life in the river. Like, come on! Whatever, problem solved! Hooray! The bomb didn't explode in my face, so... Yes, don't read into it! Next level. Alright, time for a very, very fun character to play. And our last new costume. I mean, unless you count the final costume as its own thing. Maybe? There is a transformation sequence that we skip. But this is Kung Fu Peach... And the moveset in this is just really fun. You swing on a lot of poles, hit things with your feet, you do a lot of flips. If you've ever played Dynasty Warriors, this should kind of scratch that itch. You can just mow down hundreds of enemies at once. Yeah, you can kick enemies into each other like dominoes. It's really fun.... Another scream. Oh, screams at this level? Yeah. So funny. Props to the voice actor who did these screens, they were feeling it. I also really like this boss as well. I liked his little yarn facial hair, think that was a nice touch. Alright so we'll just skip all this... Actually in order to move on, This is the only level that we actually have to hit some sours because the feets won't come and move this boulder if the fates are- if the sours are in the way. So you actually have to get rid of them, in order for them to come over and help you. Because they'll be too distracted with the enemies. Oh no! Alright. Again again in a situation like this would really like-like a glitch so I could get around this invisible wall. If only. i mean props to the developers for making a pretty rock solid game yeah i'm impressed all right we just hit the gong three times and then we become Kung Fu Peach. I also really like Kung Fu Peach's makeup. I think it has one of the best makeup looks in the game. It is super pretty, yeah. Like, peach and red are always one of my favorites. Like that's why for a long time, like, flame flower peach was my favorite. Alright, we can just avoid those guys. Jump over these... Whoops! Ah, okay. Interesting. There's like a wall there, an invisible wall I got stuck on. That's the only thing this game has a lot of invisible walls that you either bonk off of or get stuck on that's like the only thing, it's like a glitch but it's inconvenient. But again here we just knock them out with dominoes. Yeah paging glitch hunters this game really needs glitch hunters. There has to be ways around or on top of both invisible walls in this game. It's just that Peach doesn't have a lot of movement, which is the downside. The only movement she has is in Kung Fu Thief and Ninja. Maybe a little bit more maybe. There is a really tight trick in what is it mermaid three are you gonna be going for that no i tried it earlier it's just so hard um basically there's like a one cycle you can do There's a really good guide for it on the speedrun.com page that someone put together but I have not been able to nail it. It's very tight. I think it's like the tightest move in the game. We can talk more about it when we're in that level. Knocking enemies into enemies and just taking down a ton at once is so satisfying. You see this really conspicuous pole in the middle here? We're just gonna, they're all going to run right into it. Fancy footwork! Got that right. This level was like built for speedrunners. Very nice. Just gonna avoid these guys. Goodbye! And then this guy, he's so intimidating. This is my favorite enemy in the game. Bye bye! Everybody say goodbye! I don't even know why they put him there... Cause the ones with The poles are even harder than The knights With spears because With the spear Ones at least you had that like jump dodge where you could jump on their heads and disorient them to hit them. With these guys, you really just have to wait until their dodge animation is over and they're trying to attack you because you can't hit them otherwise. They will just keep dodging you. If I try to hit it, yeah see they dodge the stick. Yeah these guys are kind of a speedrunner's bane they're very annoying all right these ones are easy dominoes. Then we'll get on the pole here... What's annoying is that the next, um fleet won't come until you've defeated every last one from the previous one. It's like, I don't have to be that patient guys. Alright. Our Kung Fu Master. But yeah, you can see her blue gemstone is in the chopstick that's in her hair. I think that's really neat. Love the costume. Oh! So this guy's not too hard, his windows to hit these are pretty forgiving. You have to hit enough of them to stun him and then you get your hit in. Pretty much scripted, I don't think he has any RNG to him right? No all this is the same. All of the boss fights are all structured. Even the final. Animation 4. The animation part is so fun. It is, I love the flip. So we're gonna be seeing that guy two more times and we caught a nice 2 Sparkle Gems in this level. I wasn't even counting how many Sparkle Gems we have. Uh-oh. I think we're fine. I hope so. Yeah, we're good. We got 27. What do you need for Spotlight? 25. Oh, okay. I thought it was a lot more than that. No. You get to take a break now? Yeah, we can take a break right before the next boss fight, Spotlion, which is really cool. We have some good tech in that, so stick around. So like I tech in that. So stick around. Yep. So like I said earlier, during these longer runs we like to take breaks every hour or so so everybody can get up, stretch, get some water, anything y'all need to do. So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be back in just a few minutes here. Thank you.. so so so so so so so uh so. so so so so foreign oh um is She was a baby in the air Made your time so late me is I'm falling for you. so so so foreign oh I'm sorry. oh so so so so so hello everybody welcome back to the games donefix. Tonight we are showing off some Mario games. We are in the middle of a run of Princess Peach, so time I'll hand it right back over to y'all whenever you're ready if you just want to give a quick 3-2-1 countdown. Alright! We are going to start in 3, 2, 1... And we're coming right back to another boss. This is the floor 4 boss, and we barely just scraped by with the amount of Sparkle Gems we needed. Had 2 to spare which is typical with my PB. It just shows how nice the game is in that you can complete levels and get enough Sparkle Gems. You don't have to go out of your way for the special ones in order to complete any percent NDA. So here we need to hit the lion three times, and you use the orbs. Everyone loves a good orb, and we do so with Sparkle. This is the only really tough trick in this level um we need to hit the orb while it's still in his mouth and you just have to time that just right. There we go! So he'll continually kind of change the background to this mirror thing, and then he'll send the orbs bouncing around it. I don't know how much of that we'll actually get to see. No, because waiting for the orbs to reflect back just takes too long so we're going to be hitting them back immediately. Okay. long so we're gonna be hitting them back like immediately so there's one two and then i think he's going gonna go to this little laser part, right? Yeah. This is all scripted so I stand right here in this little pocket where the laser's not going to hit I mean, I could take damage but why would I? And then after he's doing the lasers we'll get another orb. Alright... and then we'll go into Alright. And then we'll go into the final phase, which is probably the easiest. And unfortunately, like Python was mentioning earlier, um... We can do a trick here where we can hit two orbs at once but the game only counts it as one so I'm only going to go after one. Then we'll get the final 2 over here it's a shame that you can't couldn't have them count as two but i guess the game just isn't programmed that way he's just gonna shoot down at us. We'll just shoot him right back. You can see on the other line how they are meant to actually bounce around and stuff, but we don't have time for that. And that was Spotlion! And the next boss we see will be the final one. I do find it kind of funny how invalidated this boss is in the speedrun compared to like how much you struggled with it casually. Yes, I could not figure out what it wanted me to do. I didn't understand that it wanted me to ping pong it back for some reason, and I didn't understand the mirror mechanic at all but it is so much easier now that I fully understand it. And I actually began to understand it more when i did the post-game mini game, which is interesting It just made more sense in the post- with, like, the challenges it wanted me to do. And now we're going on to the fifth floor, which is the last floor of normal levels before we go back to the basement. Fortunately, once we finish all of the rooms on this floor, The game is nice enough to give us an elevator! So we don't have to take the stairs all the way back down to the basement. We can just take the elevator down. That is amongst a few reasons, that's the main reason why we don't do any basement levels until the end. Yeah, because loading screens between floors is a pain. Yes! And thankfully we can just elevator straight from the fifth floor to the basement. Yep! Now there's no boss on this floor so... No. It's gonna be a while until we see a boss again. The next boss is the final boss. Yeah they just decided not to put a boss on the fifth floor which I'm fine with but we do get two back-to-back Kung Fu levels, so that's always fun because you're already in the mindset for Kung Fu. So it makes it a lot easier to get So it makes it a lot easier to skip over those guys. Who needs them? Alright, I'm gonna try something here... I wanna- I actually don't know what that is all right i'm gonna try something here i wanna actually it's not this room yet um there is a part where i need to skip a pole, but it's really hard because they don't give me a lot of space. There are a lot of enemies here. Yeah, and it's hard to rip onto that. We don't need you guys. Pardon me. They're doing their job very effectively by letting you walk past them. What's nice is these guys that are capturing the women's feats, they only need one hit as opposed to all of the other Sours that require three, so... That's handy. You actually can mess this up if you don't time it right. You have to do the whole battle segment over again. He'll do a defense and there's like a puff of smoke that comes out and he goes like You kind of see that in the Kung Fu 3 level because when the AI hits him he automatically does that, it's like a scripted thing. He defends from the AI Lots of swings. Lots of flips. Yeah, these Kung Fu levels have some really satisfying platforming in them. Not really a lot of skips per se, but a lot of ways to go fast and just fluid movement. Alright this is the part where I don't want to swing down the pole because it's going to take too long so I'm gonna try... and fall. It-it's pretty hard to get off the pole without flinging yourself across the screen. Yeah... Well, I'm just gonna let that cook because we have to kill him anyway and I need hearts. Please give me hearts! I don't know if our little Chun-Li got up... It is very reminiscent of Chun-Li's Chun-Li Now, I've been in this situation before where i'm at one heart and i charge towards the end of the level and i miss the kick on this guy and i just die so that was awkward. But luckily... I remember that! Luckily it puts you right back at the chase scene for this bit, so it's not like it puts you back too far but I would still like to avoid that and I did. So... Oh, this is sick music. All right, he's back again. Third time's a charm. But this time he has orbs! The orbs are back! Orbs? Orbs... I miss having the GDQ audience behind me yelling orbs. I just missed GDQ as a whole. It was such a fun week. Always is. So we need to accumulate 30 Sparkle Gems before the final boss fight and that shouldn't be too bad. I'm pretty sure you're already there oh we need 30 additional right yeah I forgot because earlier when you said 27 I was like that was a while ago it must be at 30 and no you spent 25 of them. Yeah the economy took them away. That's the Peach Economy. We have a lot of levels until the final boss, though. So that's not really a concern. Yeah but there are less Sparkle Gems in these levels. Which is what makes it interesting and we're not going for a lot of them so but most of them do just hand them to you all right we got mighty peach number two oh yeah i remember what the power-up is in this now. It's gonna be really exciting to get to the end of this level. Mhm. Sometimes the 2 and 3s kind of merge in my head, I kinda forget which one's which. Alright, another auto-scroller... Look at the spaceships! They're on strings! That's how they actually work in space, in real life. This is another one of those auto-scrollers but hit things as fast as possible. But in this situation there's going to be a Mr. Monopoly right in our line of sight which we don't want to hit it's going to be really hard to avoid him but we don't want to save him because then we'll get a mini cutscene at the end of the level being like hey you got an outfit and we don't see that. Citi look away. No, it's fine Citi, look away. No... It's fine. Only for the 80%. I don't know how he's surviving in space anyway? Cause he's like hanging on the outside of a spaceship. I feel like he's not in a good position either way. Because when you save him, he just floats off into the abyss of space. But he's happy! But he's happy, that's true. Mr. Monopoly alien confirmed? At least these guys have helmets. I don't know if he has a spin helmet or not. I dunno if they were smart enough to do that. I think he's about to show up soon... Cause he's like right in between where we need to be at various. Yeah, he doesn't have a helmet. He's just out in space. All of the other feats are prepared for space but he is not. I just think it's so funny how it's faster to save everybody except him. The thing is you have to save him in order to get the sparkle gem which I think is really annoying. Because he's counted for some reason as one of the Thieves that need to be saved when, like... In literally every other level you don't need to save him. Yeah this is very similar to the first level. So the difference here is instead of being in like the feet territory we're actually going to like the aliens is. I feel like it's kind of mean to invade their planet and just beat them up, but... I guess they did it first yeah they started it they started it all right let's search the surface i think they might have kidnapped some guys. I think that might actually be the lore is that we needed to come to this planet because they kidnapped some of our little guys. Also look at this! They are not doing any damage! They do not help at all. They got literal lightsabers. They look exactly like the beam sword from Smash Bros. So in reality there there i shouldn't have picked up the van yet i needed to throw it at the big group but i wasn't paying attention to where i was and i was just mashing the hit button So with this typically if you want to do a good job and get the sparkle gem, you would be throwing the little vehicles at the machine to protect the little feets. So what's going to happen in the background, you'll see them fall into the ground because we don't want to waste time picking up trucks but they'll end up being okay and just teleport so this area all we need to do is close this main one so there's one and the other two yeah yeah, there they come. They were abducted but they-they were saved it's fine. Alright, yeah those are the kidnapped ones. They're like little scientists. You just gotta fight some dudes to get them free. Oh fuck! I don't know why they're pulling out their swords. You guys, you're not gonna do anything. They're doing their best. They're doing their best. They're trying. Alright, and then... Take down those guys. Yeah, see this one only had three hits. It just- I don't know. Half of them have more? Alright so they're free But with the power of all these scientists i feel like something major is going to happen oh my god who could have predicted it something big think, is about to happen. Hmm. You might be right. It's got fists. But don't worry, we've got a plan. The danger of this situation is growing. Oooh! growing. Oh! Alright, quit yapping. Let's do it. Big Peach! She's big. Look at the little tiny props. You'll see the little tiny spaceships on the side behind me, like made out of cardboard. It's so cute! She's huge! We are big Peach. This is just my personal favorite part of the game. It's so cool We have a huge Godzilla battle here Peach vs. Giant Robot with this Boink. Did we get a star! Yay! Let's do the little dancey-dance. Shoutout to the Barbiethon Twitch account, which is in chat. Ah! BarbieThon! I gave you guys a shout out earlier. Remember August 10th and 11th on the Barbethon Twitch channel. It's a two day event. I'll be on Day 2, I think. And I'm running two games. Known GDQ runner and commentator Sharif will also be a host, I think. We also got a race planned which is really exciting. A hundred percent, no less. Alright so this is Mermaid 2. This one... Mermaid 2. This one is... You only get 1 fish this time We had to cut our budget on fish, there were too many last time so now you only get one fish. And... Because it's all scripted there are certain places where you need to have him be ready for attacks and stuff. Like, ATTACKS! He spins around... So... Yeah, you just have to put him in the right spot. Save time. So here's our one fish He's gonna be our little buddy for the level Until he's not. We'll abandon him later. So, we don't need to save anybody. Just move. Yeah, they'll be fine. I saw that highlight there, that was the spotlight That's like one of the hidden spotlights that we're gonna skip over So our main thing here is that we are following that pirate ship, because you know pirate ships typically are under the water. And we need to save the people that are on board. There's like fellow mermaids on board, and they're chucking rocks at us so we have to avoid the rocks. If this was death abuse we would just be running into those rocks the whole time. That would be the level. But...we need to finish this level! Eventually a couple of the Sowers are gonna come out and we'll have to fight them for a little bit but right now just in this auto scroller until we can interact going as fast as I can with my little fishy little fish bro the pirate ship does look really cool so I'm just gonna be under here until let me usually I better yeah the hitboxes of the rocks are like and usually I'd better argue for that. It's being really neat there. The hitboxes of the rocks are like REALLY big, but this one is really easy you just go into this bottom corner instead of having a circle, the guy's just gonna line them up. So that I can sneak right in here... Yeah it's nice. Sorry, but that's a nice little cycle skip there. It is! And then we're gonna have one that spawns around here and you can get right into that It's just annoying because the other one takes on the extra rocks We're able to get through there so it's fine I Do like the way this shit looks really cool Then it's gonna come towards us, come to me Ship and then we're going on board And I think the fish stays... yeah he doesn't come with us. And so a little puzzle here We need to free the eel when the eel is is gonna free everyone else. I have had it softlock there as well, weirdly enough. But again, only happened once. Where what happened was like, the eel wouldn't move forward, like there was an invisible wall in between like the cage and the eel and so it wouldn't break through It's so weird. I don't remember that one. I think it was either me playing casually or when I was practicing.... Because then it made me feel like, did I not do this puzzle correctly? So I think it was my first time playing because I felt like I did the puzzle wrong. And then I had to look it up, And I was like, no! That was right! The game just didn't work! Okay we get to do another little singing song. Where's all my clone Hero peeps at? Peach and Clone Hero win. I mean this is basically the same thing right? Oh yeah! Shoutout to Clone Hero! Yeah, we love the Clone Hero community. If you have a plastic guitar... Come join us. What's Mario in Super Princess Peach? I know Mario is not in this game. I feel like we were trying to save Mario in Super Princess Peach. I believe that is the plot of that game, I don't really remember. I can't say that game was super memorable. I mean, say that game was super memorable. All I remember was the mechanic of the emotions and the umbrella, and that's about it. Also, sorry if the way I say umbrella offends anyone my thumb teases me about it apparently I put too much emphasis on the um you do it's an umbrella yeah it's an umbrella Yeah it's an umbrella I blame the Rihanna song Because that's how it's said in That song She says insurance like that too So I always ask her if she has an umbrella policy. Insurance... yeah. Alright, so now we're entering Skate 2. Yeah the other RNG level but-yeah the first part, the parade part is scripted but then just like in Skate 1 when we do the boss fight it'll be the same thing where the skaters are all going gonna be dispersed and we have to get them before Mr. Skate Guy does. I wish that enemies also had names, like... I don't even know if it's canon that The little evil guys are called Sowers I would assume so because it's Madame Grape and these guys You don't know that? I've just been following your lead. I think I read dialogue either in-game or in a review they were called Sours, but I can't remember now where i got that from i feel like it came to me in a dream at this point it's been so long since i played this game i mean since i started playing game. It's like everything just blends together. Whoops! No they boop you really far away. They do. The thing is- I don't think when they twirl they deal damage. They just send you flying. Yeah, that took longer than I wanted but that's okay. There is a way where if you can get in between enemies, You can get both at once. So the main goal here is we need to fill up The bar in the back by doing moves. As you can see, it keeps getting bigger and bigger but the sours are going to show up and the longer they stay on screen um The more they're going to taint the lights in the background, and if they completely wipe it then you lose the level. So we actually have to be paying attention our status back there. Like, they can't stick around. I'm not gonna lie I had no idea that's how this level worked because I've never seen you or anyone lose it Yeah... I actually have lost it once because I was like, what happens if I just don't bother with them? And I lost and had to restart the parade. I didn't realize they were affecting the lights in the background. Alright, and then... In order to get all sparkle gems here I think you also have to hit like all of the little squirrels. Oh there he is he's scared and you're just gonna leave him hanging literally i always leave it literally they'll be fine, probably. At least he's not in space this time! I mean... There could be worse places if you left. Apparently I missed one. Don't know which one it was... Oh, I think I do that's true! I think it was right before I did the jump for the star. did the jump for the star all right it's time for the finale so surely nothing could go wrong here right oh oh no it's purple Oh No it's him I just love listening to his dialogue. He's so funny. Let's teach him a lesson Yeah, by ice skating around Him So dangerous We're gonna teach him such A lesson when we draw a circle around him later. He needs to learn his shapes, that's the lesson. Alright! Fingers crossed for some good rng here again he's got some buddies guarding him this time and they're a little all over the place but they're kind kind of grouped up. I think we can do okay here. He's going to grab those two probably. No worries. That's a pretty good first cycle. I think the more girls I have in my party the slower I am which also makes this hard. Whoops! Accidentally twirled me out of the way. What a jerk! No worries, we're just waiting for him to spin again. Yeah it's another cycle unfortunately. There you go. a little bit harder to get in on him this time okay perfect should be no problem here nice two cycle all right double two cycle that's that's pretty good especially for you know a marathonish run yeah thank you for not embarrassing me, Mr. Skater Man. Good man in PB attempts? He is mean! I've seen the 3 cycle, the 4 cycle even... Awful. Yeah, if you get bad disbursements it's not good. Beautiful! Thank you so much! And I think that was the last level on the fifth floor, so now we get to head to the basement. The mysterious basement. So we have nine levels to do in the basement. There are ten, but we were forced to do one earlier. We did sword three. Yeah. Um so we're just gonna be running through a of shorter level for each of the costumes in the game there are 10 total yeah the cut scene there's funny because we're like okay where's the door and then nothing happens and they're like oh okay anyway the elevator is back in service yeah thank god they need to have accessibility in this theater. Alright, so we're going to start off here with the Dashing Thief number 3! So again, paging glitch hunters. There is stuff in this level that has been found but it hasn't been made useful yet. Yeah there's like an insane jump you can do, but I think it sends you out of bounds, but not in a useful way. Yeah, so you can kind of... This level's kind of divided into rooms that you can, there's ways you can jump past the walls in strange ways. But so far there hasn't been a use for it. This is probably where I would say the most potential is for some glitchy shenanigans at this level. I think this just looks really neat. He's just trapped in a laser orb. All right, these levels are pretty straightforward you just just zip along, hit buttons, go through doors... Don't be like me and go left because that can be kind of misleading when you're playing for the first time i did that wrong yeah i was gonna make a comment like oh we have this really difficult puzzle here but now I can't. It's not difficult! I just pressed the wrong button. I'm worse than PB. PB knows how to press buttons. I don't even know how to press button. I don't even know how to press button. That run was also one of my highlights of GDQ. The baseball. Very fun time. It was so good. So this level is just a little bit basic platforming, the grapple points get you from point to point there's some cycles here that we want to catch, but overall it's not too tight. Yeah, that was good. So in this level you have to go through all four of the kind of quadrants of this section to release all four locks on the sparkler here. Yeah. This is one of those lasers where you can't just like damage through, like would just bounce off and not make it through, which is really annoying. Unlike some of the lasers we're going to be seeing very shortly here, which you can completely disregard. Yeah it's like half of them- I think it's in the next room. Yeah i think so Yep, so in this room there's a lot of lasers here. We're just gonna walk through them. No big deal we don't mind taking a little bit of damage yep whatever these are puzzles uh they have solutions i think yeah yeah we're just gonna do that though. Easy peasy. Now how come he can't do that with these lasers? A skill issue? He's only got one health. He's so small, he can only have one health. He only has 1 heart but it's really big. Because he is so sweet. I'm gonna go get him! So sweet. He doesn't even use the grapples! Yeah, he just jumps. He like turns into a gymnast alright for a speedrunner this is also like the worst part so again we can't go through these lasers. We have to wait for him and then luckily we have control this time but then we have this part... And then you're gonna switch it up. Uh oh! How the turns have tabled. And then this one we have to press at the same time with the AI. Can't just run through the lasers, it's very important. Again, really good voice acting on this guy. Now, at that part it is possible if you get it frame perfect to not have to wait for the lasers to go out of the way, but it's really hard. I've talked with like a top runner of this game about it and it's even challenging for him so i don't even bother trying it because it's not worth dying and starting over It's not worth dying and starting over. Now we're just gonna fall And glide! What is also really nice is if you get every sparkle gem in a level, You actually get like a little picture of the scenic part of the level. So that part where we were gliding and she was waving at us the like scenic part of the level so like that part where we were gliding and she's winking like if we got all the sparkle gems in this level we have like a little photo album in the settings and you get to see the picture and that's the same for all of the levels. That is how you prove that you completed 100% Sparkle Gems, go through the photo album to prove that you probably one of the longer basement levels. This and like Baker are probably the longest. Baker is the longest. Baker 3 probably the longest. Baker 3 is so long. Yeah, it's probably close to a 10 minute level. I think Mermaid 3 is the shortest. This is Mighty 3, which is fun. I like the basement levels because of all the corrupted stuff, everything's falling apart. Looks really cool. Yeah, visually these levels are very cool to look at. This is another auto-roller, we just have to make sure that our little spacecraft doesn't fall apart. They're gonna be throwing meteors at us so we have to make sure we survive until we reach the other side. I just like to run running circles. Oh no, they captured the professor! But he's the source of all our powers! Yeah, it's not good for us. Time to crush your ride. I think not. Well, there he is again! He's doomed! again. I'm gonna leave him. He's doomed! He looks pretty doomed to me. Yeah, the way that we were supposed to do that if we wanted to save him is throw the meteors at the aliens and then he'd be saved but he's still trapped on like a hunk of junk you know in the middle of this falling sky so he was doomed either way Did we ever truly save him? I mean, he starts dancing! That's true, you can go out dancing at least. Now this is a timing thing. I want to keep him over on this side. Oh, okay there's a little bit of time loss there Not a huge deal No... But yeah you can keep them on the right and prevent him from doing that big jump. Yeah because we're heading towards the right anyway so we want to keep them over in this section. Usually I time it really well where I hit him on the right and then while he's moving left, I can turn around and hit him but i just-I think I hit too early while he was still in his recovery phase. So then I wasn't able to recover my face. Yeah with this we need to take down all the aliens and meteors as fast as possible while he is unlocking the machine. So getting double things like that are really good, because that means he can do his job faster. Because every phase is him waiting on me. At first I thought it would be faster to just let the aliens attack him because you do get like a sparkle gem cutscene but I think it's faster to just They take forever to walk over and then you can stand there and they really think about punching the professor like yeah a little sparkle gem cutscene at the end is much faster than trying to avoid it. Yeah, this is that. I just like how fast the explosion happens. From, like, Yay! We got a sparkle gem! Boink! all right and then we'll go to another auto scrollroller in the sky. But this time we have a friend. Look how angry he is. His nose is red. I gotta say, He doesn't pull off the costume quite as well as Peach does. I agree. Peach definitely looks way better. He looks a little goofy. Yeah it looks like when a kid dresses up as a superhero for Halloween. Awwww... It's like he's cosplaying Peach. When in reality, Peach is cosplaying him. Yep, yeah. If you think about it. That IS what Peach is doing. She's cosplaying the sparklers. Alright... look at this we throw him! He is our weapon. We throw him into meteors in flying debris all right you good how's your sparkle gym count by the way oh we'll see at the end of the level i should be fine though i'm sure like i said in my practice run i had less nine I practiced when I had plus 9. So, I got 3 from there... I'm gonna get 4 from Mermaid 2... Mermaid 3, I mean. Oh yeah, not Mermaid 2. We're going to be so far over. Yeah and we're not even trying. All Sparkle Gems is so stressful because you have to like perfect everything, I missed a meteor there so I didn't get the sparkle gem. If that happened to me in all sparkle gems the run is over and it's almost done so it would really hurt. Yeah. That run is very stressful. Alright, time for Mermaid. Also, someone figured out that the load time from like entering the room, like the door opening sometimes takes longer depending on where you stand and it's really annoying because sometimes it can take up to 30 seconds to go into a room if you just happen to be standing in the wrong position. And I think that just happened to me there in Mermaid where I was standing at a bad spot and it took a really long time for the door to open. So this is what Python was talking about earlier This section that's coming up you can physically get in a one cycle, but I am not going to because it's really, really tight on timing. There's a really cool guide that was posted. Like I said. It's on the guides section of the speedrun.com page Totally recommend checking it out But it's really really hard Oh yeah Mr Monopoly's in that show. Goodbye. Yeah, KillerDragon is in the chat. He said yo, one cycle real? I'm sorry, KillerDragon! You are the best at it and I cannot compete. I will try someday but not today because I tried earlier in practice and I just can't do it. I think one day I tried over 20 times in a row and I just never got it once. But in reality, you're supposed to like, just slightly tap In reality, you're supposed to like just slightly tap the first shell to slow it down so that all of the shells are in one place. Quickly unlock them with the fish, but you only have like... I don't even know. Like a few seconds to do all of that and it's just really hard. Because once it goes off the screen then you have to wait for it to loop back around again and you're slowing it down already by tapping the first shell to slow it down so it's like, it wastes time if you don't get it. So it's better to just not try if you can't do it successfully. We get a pink turtle. Look at these turtles! They're all decked out in decorations and stuff, they're so cute. I love them. and stuff. They're so cute! I love the pink pearls. We got the crystal fish And we get to sing away tornadoes. What more could you want in a video game? It is kind of annoying. I don't think the turtles are bouncing on heat. Why would you say that? Now I have to know! Right... Now I have to know. Why would you burden me with knowledge? It just seems off so I have actually lost this once. I don't know how it was possible, but I did. I-I should distinctly remember what you're talking about, and I do not understand why you lost if he did everything correctly. Yeah, if too many fish break through your singing aura that's how you lose. But like... I felt like I was hitting them Like it was weird. Just chalking that one up to a cosmic ray or something and moving on. It was the alien. Alright, 25. The magic number is 30. Ah, ah, ah. Alright. I don't know how she's winning on air. So that's what, 4 out of 10 basement stages? Yeah. She's swimming in the air. I don't like it. It is a little unnerving. I don't know why, it is kung fu time yeah i believe this is the longest split in the run typically um takes about an hour to get through basement and final boss Yes All of the main floors are about 25-30 minutes And then the basement is close to an hour To complete in their entirety to an hour to complete in their entirety. And then the final, that doesn't even include the final boss which is about six minutes.... minutes. I don't know, do you think the sparkle is over there with those clouds and those weird purple sigils coming out of it? Beats me! Oh, another Kung Fu level. Sorry, go on. I was just saying how I have to beat all these guys in order to progress. I'm really surprised you didn't fall. Me too. I'm just that good. I don't know how... Okay, guess I just aimed wrong. What were you going to say? I don't remember. Valid! Nothing that important, apparently. There we go. Nice clean section there. That was pretty good, could have been better. This one is just orb time it's like well I guess it's not fully orbs. It's partial orb time. He gets to duplicate himself with this new power apparently? Yeah... now there's three of them. I have gotten softlocked here too! Like, I accidentally pointed in a direction when the game was trying to force me into a different one, and it just had...the orbs hit me I had no control over the character. As you can see, it's like flipping me back and forth. And I was pointing in a direction while it was in the middle of that animation The game just got confused orb this guy must be a big kind of gq In case there weren't enough genres in this game, how about fighting games? Aw heck yeah. Just add on to the list of genres that this game dips its toes into. I mean technically Peach is already in multiple fighting games. That's true. Orbs... Fuuuurds. I do now want a Mario traditional fighter, I feel like that would be really funny. What about Street Fighter 6? i feel like that would be really really funny oh it likes street fighter six yeah this kind of 2d fighting that would be really cool. Come on Nintendo, get on it! And now that's finally the end of that guy. We'll surely never see him again. Oh, what's that? I love how creepy this is with like the strings and pulling them up it's like one of my favorite animations in the whole game so yeah that was him defending Hmm. And he just breaks to pieces. One of the most... one of the more morbid deaths in this game. Yeah. I mean, we fought him like six times or something? He wasn't taking the hit. No. Would that be a good time for the last curriculum? Sure. Sure! We just... yeah, we'll just get through this cutscene. Yeah, whenever you're ready. He's just gonna say his little- say his peace. Alright and now we're good. Perfect yeah so during these longer runs we like to take breaks every hour or so somebody get up stretch get some water anything they need do uh we will be back in a few minutes with the rest of this run so we'll see you all in just a few minutes everyone. so so. I'm going to go ahead and do it. so so so so so so so so so so so so so. so so. so so so so so so so so so so so so Hello? Hello everybody and welcome back to the Gamescom Quick Hotfix. We are in the middle of a Princess Peach Showtime run. We're actually nearing the final little bit of the game here, so whenever y'all are ready if you want to just give a quick 3-2-1 countdown. We're going to get back to this in three, two, one and this is going to be the third and final detective level again for those who want to play casually I recommend looking away turn away your gaze but yeah again these levels are really not replayable once you know the solutions yeah um yeah it's all very scripted. But at least this one goes by a bit faster than the other detective level. There's not a lot of puzzles to do, so we have to talk to this guy because invisible wall......to get through the door. And then we're gonna get a puzzle here where a note is going to fly through the door. It's basically from Detective Sparkola saying in order to get through the door you need to find the artifacts that have something in common and then do them in order. And so we're gonna do that. So starting off here with one gotta hold And then it'll glow by the way that bird in the glass case right there that is the suspicious bird he's very suspicious and if you watch an Any% run that allows death abuse we will be accusing that bird 16 times. 17 times the charm, of course. That's when people will understand. This is two... Just pink crystal. It's a crystal, nothing more. I think that's from the Labyrinth. Have to watch that. I like David Bowie. This one is a puzzle where you get them all facing forward, and that's where we will get the third one. He's not happy. When you past the little guy, he's like WHAT DID YOU DO? I like how all of the artifacts are based in real life but all have the feet name shoved somewhere in them. And then we just have the fourth one which is back in the main room. Right here, the pota! And then the door's gonna open. Now, for anyone who was here earlier in the stream, you remember during Detective 2 there was a cutscene that I said, remember said remember there's gonna be a test later test is coming up here okay so oh my gosh it's junior detective how did he get here? Strange. We are now in a room with various detective sparklers, and we have to figure out which one is the real one. You would typically investigate them but um......we know that it's this one Just slide there. It's really funny. Alright, and then we leave... And this is another one of those Alright, and then we leave. And this is another one of those levels that I wish I could just go to the solution immediately because I know what it is. So here we're gonna be trapped in a room and we're like, okay well I guess we can't get out let's go back. But oh no it's the same exact room but there is something that's different And so if you were playing this casually what what he's gonna do is take a picture and you can basically just play spot the difference. But I already know what the difference is but even if you investigate it in the other room It won't unlock the next scene. So you have to investigate both rooms and wait for him take a picture, hang up I wish this was like the 3DS where he could take a picture of you. That would be funny. Yeah, this is the only thing that wasn't in the other room. So we just point at it and then that reveals our exit. Let's make our way to the exit. I mean, we're almost out of here. Nothing can go wrong right? Surely! Oh who's that? Junior. Oh hey it's Junior! What is he doing here? I wonder why we got here before us... Hmm... So he says the exit is that way but... Hmm. So he says the exit is that way, but... It doesn't look very safe. The detective- He's gonna ask him a few questions. Purple would be nice. He likes purple. Interesting. He doesn't like getting to places early, and he refers to Madam Grape as her full legal name. That's kind of interesting. Why don't we ask him a few questions ourselves? He was a sour the whole time. See, I think... No you first please, by all means. Yeah, I genuinely think it would be interesting if he was in disguise from the beginning when we met him in Detective 1. So my tinfoil hat conspiracy theory is that he was, the entire time, he was a sour. He was always undercover, and my proof of that is the bomb cutscene at the end of Detective 2 where he goes...he grabs the bomb Junior, and he goes to throw it, and he trips and falls, and Peach has to catch the bomb mid-air and then throw it off the clock tower. He was doing it on purpose I also think it's kind of sus because when we meet him in Detective 1 he's hiding behind a billboard until Peach approaches and then that's when he starts to be interactive. He was waiting for us the whole time. All along, he was a plant. I think he's a plant. All along, he was a plant. I think he's a plant. Alright, so that's like a little thing that Stella says, that once you reach 100 Sparkle Gems, she's like, oh oh you unlocked a special dress at the shop and I only just realized recently that that happens when you reach exactly a Sparkle Gems. Because for a while I was like, it seems pretty random when she says it until I started doing the all-Sparkle Gem run and...it was coming up consistently. So we just reached our 30th Sparkle Gem, so we're safe for like the rest of the game. We could go the whole rest of the game without getting another Sparkle Gem but we're kind of going to be forced into it, so... That kinda goes to show how loose the Sparkle Gem routing is in this category. You didn't really go for any that lost time, you only took ones handed to you by the game and are still significantly over. That's not the case for other categories, like Any% where you have to pick up very specific Sparkle Gems to have the exact number that you need. Since we do all of the levels here, we don't skip anything it's pretty easy to just pick up the ones as you go. Yep! Got my horse. Is this the Old Town Road, do you think? THE Old Town Road. It's THE Old Town Road. Could be! the old town road it's the old town could be auto stroller they love doing that for the cowgirl. It definitely works well with the horse, though. It does but it makes us go as fast as a train or the train has to go as slow as the horse which I think is really funny. This is when our cowgirl, Barclay asks us on a date to get milk. I ship it. Let's find a way out of here! I'll treat you to a glass of milk when we get back. Oh, that's a helluva pickup line. Take notes guys. Hmm... I think it's interesting that the cowgirl peach model is constantly swinging The lasso. She's never at rest. Her wrist muscles must be going crazy.... Again, weird invisible wall. Then we're back to auto-scrolling until the end of the level. Oh, why not? Yeah, you just can't be on the back ones. Because then they're gonna disappear. But even if you were standing on them it would just throw you to this front one. I don't think you actually have any consequences. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right. This game doesn't have a ton of consequences. You can kind of just coast your way through most of the levels. You could also fall in a pit there like that, which is really cool. Just like that too! What? Just happened... I had to say it. Why did you say that? It's right when you said it too. Yeah, I was right with this one! You-you... You put that in the universe! Well somehow- Alright, I shouldn't have spoken into existence. It teleported me forward so it's not a bad trade-off because it's only worse if it teleports me backwards train is sideways now i hope you guys like sideways train. Did they just Yoshi the horse? No, the horse was right there! Fine. The horse never leaves us the horses is the most consistent thing in this game it's always there for you when you need it all right after this we'll be going into our last three basement levels which is really nice. So, this doesn't save time or anything because this is just again auto scrolling. This will end whenever we reach the end but in order to get a sparkle gem here, um... You need to not have any of the little f***s' break off. I just thought it would be cool to show you that because I did NOT realize that's how you got the sparkle gem there and and it took me forever to find it when I was playing casually. So now you guys know! Just a little tutorial... Do you still get the slowdown effect if you don't get the sparkle gem though? Yes. You slow down either way so doesn't... I'd- Yeah, doesn't matter Might as well get it if you have to slow down anyway They slow down for dramatic effect Instead of the sparkle gem They slow down for dramatic effect. Instead of the sparkle gem animation, it will instead just play the animation of putting an X on the sparkle gem while it slows down. Ah, thank you! Alright, last- Yeah I'm gonna get that glass of milk. Yeah, gimme that milk. This is Ninja 3 and this will be doing the Python skip! The Python skip. Yeah, because like I said most people you'll see what I mean when we approach the main path is like you can either go right or left and i have been going left because of python's advice and it based on my timing it's faster. Just a five second difference in a three and a half hour run. It's up to you. It does add up over time. Alright, so we go left here and there and then... So you could go around the right here and jump over but instead we're going to go up on this left platform and hop over the wall and take this guy from behind. Yeah, like the thing is, what's dangerous about coming from the right is that there is another guard there, and if he catches you then you just get moved back which is really annoying so coming from the left his spotlight isn't far enough to reach you, so you're able to hit the guard from behind instead of from the right side. And so I just feel like it's more consistent and safe and apparently it's also faster, so Where did she go? I think it's because there's like one less jump that you have to do so yeah in similar fashion at the other levels um this level you can use the ninja dash canceling as well. I think that's what it's called, I don't really have a better name for it. I'm gonna try and do it here to get that one spikes. Yeah if you don't do it perfectly in that room the spikes will catch up to you and you will die i have to reset that room oh they're pushing me back all the way that's rough see that's what happens when you get caught in these levels. You cannot take damage but you can get set back pretty far And then fun tip here is a bunch of ones are going to spawn around us. You only need to hit the two on the right in order for the gate to open. Fun fact! And then, the rest of this level is another auto scroller and cutscenes of course because what's a level without now this one, I don't think you can do the dash tech, right? You can. It's just there's a lot of people die trying to do it in the beginning. I've seen a lot of people die trying to do it in the beginning. I've seen a lot of people like overshoot it and just fall into the pit so you can't do it, You just have to be careful when you do it. yeah There's not a whole lot of space to actually get your dash cancels off here. You're constantly going to be jumping around all the falling platforms and stuff. You can't go too fast on these, because if you jump off them too quickly, they don't raise up high enough, and you don't make the jump. Yeah, this is all... Like it's moving for me. I'm not doing anything right now. We're just gonna running for me, it moves me back because it was going too fast. It's like I wasn't even doing anything. The game can't even do its own calculation right. Alright, so we got two more left. We got skating and we got baking and like python said earlier baking is the longest basement level it's like 10 minutes um because there is a lot of dialogue. Well we have to get the real deep Baker lore. Yeah, the baker enemy is really funny as well. He's another one of my favorite bosses. So we end with two really good bosses here, and then the final boss, which I think will be everyone's first time seeing Madam Grave because we've skipped all of her cutscenes. I don't even know if the audience knows what she looks like. You're supposed to see this boss every cutscene that a boss is introduced in, she's there and she picks the boss on you. But we skipped all that, so... She's a big purple lady with a mask. That's the vibe. Yeah, that's about it. It's all I need to know. Alright so this one does not have RNG in it. Yay! It's mainly just doing the skating moves as like a platformer Yeah, thankfully they were like alright we're gonna do something different with this guy for Skater 3. We're not going to subject you to the RNG anymore. There he is! There he is. Ta-da! Hello Alright, he has to do three spins before he gets dizzy. He does the same little thing, but this time instead of rescuing the ice skating girls we just do some moves and we are clearing out the gems from the cage that the sparkla is trapped in with every move that we do. But you have to do them really quickly because you are on a timer. They will start to flicker out as you can see there so he's going to try and come at you so that it slows you down but we did not let him. And then again, we have to teach them his shapes this is a circle! Your grace has touched my soul... What a great parting line. Her lashes are like seven feet long so good all right and then we'll get the banger music back as well Yeah, while the world is falling apart around us. Just jamming out. Yeah, don't do what I do. Don't do that! Because if you are twirling Boo soon before a jump she won't make it to the jump in time and you need her as well so you will just fall off the cliff which i've done too many times more times than you should admit yep we don't want these guys because that will actually do a slowdown scene. It is very funny when it happens though, Peach kind of just sails past the sparkler just falls into the abyss yeah and she's waiting up there like all right i'm ready now yeah it's like i got into position. Where you at girl? Alright! Time to do some baking. I think I'm gonna end up with plus 10 on this run Time for Faker 3. This level is something. Yeah, just like Baker 2 we cannot skip out on frosting or anything like that so we have to Oh look how long that was! anything like that. So we have to... Oh, look how long that was! I guess the game didn't like the way I was standing. But yeah, so we have to ice the cakes completely in this level and then there is a little bit of RNG with the AI for the cookie baking. Which can be a little annoying. Yeah we can talk about that a little closer to when we get to it but essentially we're gonna be relying on the Sparkle AI to not waste a ton of time. Yeah, because just like when you bake with the other Thetes, she is there to assist you to make more cookies, but the enemy, the baker in the background he is there to prevent us from making cookies and will sit on us. So what the AI is trying to do, is figure out the best bowl to be at so that you won't get sat on but it takes a long time to think about it and it wastes a lot of time just waiting around for the sparkler to make up her mind But in this case, not only are we icing the cake fully but we have to do it fast because we're racing against um the evil sparkler here You can see in the top left there, the blue side of the cake is the progress bar for Mans and then the pink one is the progress bar for the evil sparkler. Good enough. You can over-ice your cake. It doesn't have to be exact to the picture. You just have to make sure that the decorations pop up. So I could like scribble all over it if i wanted to as long as the pictures show up then its fine. Yeah you can just sign your name. Yeah, I mean... As long as it's close enough it'll autofill. Okay! It'll auto-fill. I love autocorrect and autofill, I don't know what I'd do without it. Alright, got eyeballs. And then get the little dude in a hat. It's a very cute cake. It is such a cute cake, I wanna make this cake. But I don't know how they get the nose to stay put. It's like gravity-defying nose cake. Yeah, I think if you were to actually try to make this cake that would just fall off. I don't know what you could possibly do. Maybe like a cake pop? You could do a case pop. Or, yeah just put a stick through it to balance it out in some way I still feel like It's so big it would be really heavy It's very rotund. I've always liked Mario slash Nintendo, like strawberry design They're always so shiny and smooth i wish strawberries were real i do too So now we're going to move on to the cookie portion. She gives us so many hearts, and I have Um... She gives you so many hearts, and I have no idea why because You never take damage in baking levels. So, I don't know why the game gives you three hearts it's very excessive um so basically the goal is here is that we need to bake more cookies than the evil baker. Um and yeah, it's a race again, just like the last one but this time with cookies. There he he is look at him he likes to jiggle his belly i like that they put in jiggle animations for the stomach that's it's like a ghost stomach it's not there you're like how does he eat how does he digest he's just an orb in his chef's costume no! Don't start that. What do you mean? You can't combine memes like that. It's too powerful. Yes, Chef Orb. Orb Chef. Yay! orb chef yay for a little yays so whenever you cook with the sparkles each goes yay but yeah you can see she's like panicking in the background with the sparkles, and she goes, yay! But yeah, you can see she's panicking in the background there because she doesn't know which bowl to go for. So her AI is dependent on what the evil chef is doing. If he's stomping, she will try to avoid places where she's going to get stomped and she can kind of just pace around for a while And sometimes her AI will just kinda break and she does-she just does this for awhile so it's faster to just bake without her yeah look she took so long and i was able to make a set of rainbow cookies you want to bake with her when possible you get so many cookies when you do yay um but if she's not cooperating you just have to do what you got to do yes i don't know why she picked their ai see the a.i just breaks sometimes he doesn't know what to do it takes forever to find a place to cook and then she gets sat on. Yay! So yeah, she could be a little... This split depends a lot on how nice the sparkler plays. Yeah. It's like who are we actually battling against here? The Evil Chef or the Sparkla? Alright and then the last thing here is that he's like, um, you can bake fast but it doesn't mean they taste good. And we're like, um... We'll watch this. And we end up making him the best cookie of all time. And this is another one of those freebies. Look, he's going to enjoy this so much... He just... disintegrates. The cookie was so good, he just disintegrates. That was honestly me eating McDonald's after getting off the flight yesterday. Mmm, 11pm McDonalds after GDQ? So good. Alright now we're going into the final boss battle. Yeah, he had plus 10 so that was a very successful Sparkle Gem git. And yeah, this boss battle is only like six minutes. So there's only about six minutes left in the run. Time will be when the final orb explodes I will point it out. It'll be after like the laser section. Yeah, so this is a two-phase boss? It is two phases, yes. So we have a cutscene where the door is gonna form and then... The first phase it's like we're fighting her on a railroad track? And she has all these little minions around her. Then the second phase is that we are just fighting her mask and that boss fight is so cool looking. It's really cinematic. There's like five cutscenes here just to prepare her for this boss fight, so you know it's intense. We basically become rosalina um but um yeah peach just becomes rosalina. That's her final form, apparently. But she has no legs I don't think? Uh...I think yeah another cutscene. Alright so this is phase one of two. And this is what I like to call the button mashing phase. We just mash as much as possible and her health bar is the feathers behind her. So every time one of those disappears, we're taking away her health. That's how you know she has left. So the challenge, like the post-game challenge for this is pretty hard because one of the challenges Is to not destroy any of her little minions in front of her, which as you can see I'm doing pretty frequently. Yeah they kind of just get in the way. I mean I get that that's their job they're defending her but come on dragon in the chat says wait the feathers um by the. The feathers behind her is her health bar they're supposed to be like peacock feathers kind of yeah they like disappear as she takes damage oh i, killer dragon... It's funny the things you just like don't pick up on. Aw here comes a train! It's the Polar Express! Tom Hanks is driving it. And he's also every passenger. That's a weird movie. Yeah, he's every character. But it's weirder because... Oh yeah, this is the last part of the first phase. It's weirder because that was back in 3D animation where they were taking models of their face and putting them on the characters. So all of the characters have his face. Oh yeah, we're in a good spot. We have so much health! Just keep mashing. Yeah, you can damage boost a lot of this fight to speed it up which is really nice especially if you're doing uh standard any percent you have the heart charm to get those extra hearts um this fight goes really fast come on Come on. I'm so close, I can feel it! There we are. Alright, phase one down. So we go, alright. Phase 1 down! So we're gonna do a little-a few Kamehameha shots. Yep. And she's gonna quote unquote die. Yeah, we're gonna have a bunch of cutscenes yet again. And we're not gonna watch any of that and... It's very sad though I'm not going to watch any of that. It's very sad, though. Pretend that this is a sad emotional moment. Okay. Yeah, look at her. She's sad. Alright this is the final final boss fight and like I said time will be once her final orb explodes. In the official rules, I think it's called a Darkle Orb? Yeah if you look at the category rules, it says that time is when the Dark Hole explodes. So instead of mashing A we're holding down A to shoot this laser beam into the mask. Like there's places you can just position yourself. I don't believe that there's any randomness to this. No, it's all the same. It's always the same so as long as you know where the hands are going to be you can always work around them. All boss fights are scripted. Oh, that was nice! I got it right before the next phase. This- this boss gives me big Kirby vibes like we all know where kirby games always end up and this is like that to me if that was my first impression of this this is the last phase already. This was a really quick boss fight. Yeah, this was good. This whole run was really good. I just meant This whole run was really good. Yeah. I just meant in general, like, this boss fight just goes by so fast. Yep, there he goes. And then we just have to do another couple Kami-Has? Look how epic Peachy looks! Even with no legs! Yeah, this is an amazing transformation. I love this one for her. Time's gonna be coming up here soon. And... Time! Awesome run. Great job. Thank you! See, now she just disintegrates into space and I mean that's it. It just plays out and everyone is all happy and Peach gets to see the Toads again they give her back her crown but I'm going to hold on to mine because I paid a lot of money for it. So onto mine because I paid a lot of money for it. So, that's it from me! I know we have a great run coming up next from another Peach Runner so that'll be fun even though he's not playing Peach but it'll still be great. And you can catch me at my Twitch Menace Mans and hopefully you guys can come check us out at Barbie-thon August 10th and 11th and it'll be for a good cause. And yeah, I mean that's it for me would any of the commentators like to say anything before we close out here nope this Any of the commentators like to say anything before we close it out here? Nope, this is her run. Follow twitch.tv slash menismans Great streamer. Absolutely, 100%. Y'all should give Mans a follow. Yeah this was very enjoyable run I didn't know what to expect when I saw this, but I was like, I know I need to have this on. So yeah, this looks like a great game and you did a fantastic job running it. So thank you so much for being on. Thank you for having me. And like you did mention earlier, we do have one more game coming up for you tonight everybody We do have Super Mario Odyssey Talk at 2% coming up. So we are going to take a quick break for that and we'll be back with that. So we'll see you in a few minutes everyone. And thanks again everyone for being on and running and talking about this game. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. Thank you. ¶¶ so so.. so so so so so so so from your grave.............................................. so so so so so so okay so so so so so so so rise so Never give up. so so so so We'll be right back. so So so so so The darkest night, these hopeless days Still we are waiting To touch the sources me me is is everything so The end of time has drawn us, brought us with you. is so Hello everybody and welcome back to the Game Zone Quick Hotfix. Tonight on the hotfix we've been showcasing some Super Mario games, before we get into our second run of the night, just a few quick reminders uh your subs Prime Gaming Subs, gift subs and bits shared on the GDG Twitch channel do help support the games on Quick Hotfix so if you enjoyed watching any of our speed runs, any of these hot fixes, or any of our speedruns, any of these hotfixes, any of our showcases, it does really help support the channel and us doing these kinds of things. Also, If you have missed out on any of our shows or events anything like that You can go check up about theODs over at youtube.com slash gamesdonequick. All of our cheeky VODs are already up there you can go check them out and we do have GDQ going to PAX West! The schedule is going to be released on the 14th and you can use exclamation packs in Twitch chat for more information. With all of that said, we have SuperMarioOdysseyTalk at 2%. I'll hand it over to our runner commentary here. Let everybody introduce themselves. Sounds good! Hi everyone my name is KingJ0444 and yeah this is Super Mario Odyssey Talk 2%. It's basically the most randomizer you can get in Mario Odyssey, and we'll get into what Talk 2% means once we get to Cascade. But it's basically an in-game version of a randomizer where we're only going to get to pick up certain moons in order to progress. Also, I'm going to quickly right now apologize for two things. One, my voice is a little messed up because I was at SGDQ and I was very loud in the audience so that is why And then also...and also cause I was commentating for a few runs. But the other thing too is that I haven't practiced for this run because it was at SGDQ so my movement might be not the best but that's okay. We're just here for a fun time so yeah if my commentator would like to introduce himself as well go ahead. Hi there! So my name is Awesome Aggron You're still much better than this. Definitely. Hi there. So my name is Awesome Aggron. You're so much better than this. Commentating. Listen, you know, we are so back. We're so back. This is our joke. We're so back yeah, so by the way you may notice that this is in English, this is not faster but just because no it is high and I will definitely be explaining what the community has done to get around being able to play in Chinese. Yeah we usually use a translator which was made by wonderful people but because of the fact that it won't be able to be shown on uh on the gdq channel if i do that instead i'm just going to be using english text just for the ease of the viewers so So yeah, if we're good to go we'll go ahead and start off in 3 2 1 Go! Alright, I'm going to drop this lore on us what's happening right now? Let's go! Of course, of course. So obviously we can read that in the skies above Peach's Castle Mario has gotten into a scuffle with Bowser but we're just going gonna skip the movie as they say in English. Mario got an absolute body, that's all you need to know. And now we're in Cap Kingdom, okay? Yeah, basically Mario got absolutely owned you you know. Game over in Smash. Look at him! He's dead on the ground. That's it. And he's up? Okay, never mind. He's not dead on the ground anymore. He's alive. It's kind of funny, you know? When I first played this game, I was like, is Cap Kingdom like the afterlife? Like, what happened? Mario actually dies! Mario actually died. No, but yeah, as Joey mentioned before movement-wise with this game we're doing a lot of rolling as you can see You know, you can't really see what Joey is doing with his controller and his hands right now. He is shaking very vigorously to make sure that he's timing these rolls so he can be moving quick. When we were setting up I had to test the audio by saying things and I was like this is my arm workout for the day because I'm gonna be shaking 24-7 Yes sir So yeah, we've 24-7. Yes, sir. So yeah, movement wise once you get Cappy you can definitely do more stuff You can tap throw You can tap bounce with aerial movement you can do a couple of other fancy things like vaults spin pounds and roll cancels listen we'll get there we'll go there look at that i mean we already saw some spin pounds in the beginning and stuff like that absolutely no doubt so we are taking the right side i can't skip cutscenes because i'm good at it. So, this is Hopper, one of four Brutals that we will see in the game and he's down! Wow That was fast fast it's almost like we're speed runners um so uh yeah this uh my pb of this category is a one to two flat i think and you may be wondering why is the estimate so high if it's that uh like we said rng uh we'll get into that after we beat our first boss fight coming up here um but basically the way that talk to works there's gonna be this bird that we have to talk to, that bird that I hate and his name is Taka-2 and he gives you moon names three moon names of moons that are in the kingdom that are accessible at the time that you can collect, and the way that Talk to 2% works is every single moon that we need to leave the kingdom with... That we're going to get to leave the kingdom with or that we're going to get to leave the kingdom needs to be given by Talkatoo. Either that, or story moons, because Talkatoo doesn't give story moons. So that's a way they kind of wrote in those moons is to let them count. So yeah. Absolutely. For Talk2 Any% anyway, you know, there are other variants of this category. Yeah, there's... Masochistic enough to run talking percent with story moons and multi-moons not being allowed towards you total. That is called the hardcore any percents which I have done before I did it once, yeah never again that's not fun there's also talk to world peace which is just you do world piece and then the rest of the moons are done by talk to uh and then there's one that's not even on the leaderboard because no one wants to run it i've done it three times and it's called taka two wall moons where you get every moon and has to be given by talking to you it's about 13 hours so don't do it. Technically there is also a Takatu Dark side and a Takatu Darker side... All that fun stuff. Basically you can take any category in Super Mario Odyssey and throw Takatune into the mix. Also that's a nice little skip right there. Yeah! Dino Skip look at that! No DSS from me I'm sorry. Listen... No DSS from me, I'm sorry. Dino Skip Skip is perfectly reasonable to not be doing here today. Doesn't save too much time, does work cool. Yeah, so this is all like regular Any% stuff you have probably seen hundreds of times before but don't worry we're soon gonna get to the-stuff that I don't even know what I'm going to be doing until five minutes from now. So, yeah. That's the boss. We did it. Wow, crazy. So we're gonna end up here at four moons. We need five to leave Cascade so we're going to start with just a little bit of a taste of what this category is going to be like because we get three roles we talk to, uh... We get a choice basically of what we want to do. Uh... There are sub-areas and we probably would prefer not to go to them. Um... But we'll see what we get. Who knows? It's all up in the air it's not up to me it's up to this stupid bird. Yeah. Or a nice bird. Let's just pray for no 3-sub area meetings. Yeah... That's pretty much what you're hoping for here in Cascade. That would be rough, that'd be a very bad beginning. Behind the waterfall isn't great either but i would say it's at least possible all right what's up boyo talk to me that's not a... Oh, no! Good work out of Toad. I'll take it. I don't care. All right, Toad? Toad is not a sub-area and it's not behind the waterfall. That was very worrying because the other two that we got were sub-area moons, so that was almost a very dark beginning. But we're good. Another thing you're probably asking yourself, or I don't know, maybe you're not, but like I'm gonna bring it up anyway. When we're getting moons from Taka 2, you're probably wondering, well, you don't have to get three every time. If I roll two and I don't want to do the third one because it doesn't synergize with whatever moon I'm doing with the other ones then yeah you can wait and just do other moons and that's part of the strategy with the category, even though there is RNG involved, you're gonna realize that a lot of it is just doing like mini routing puzzles in a sense Yeah, there's a lot that goes into routing for this that's the main thing you're gonna see yeah so you're either going to get three moons that you can like route immediately or you might get two that you can do and then you're gonna have to come back and try and get better mutants to synergize with your third one. Yeah the other thing we should mention too is some people may be asking oh is there like a reason that um... or is there like a reason that um or is there like a penalty for getting the wrong moon if you get the wrong mood it doesn't count towards the moon counts uh so let's say i need 20 moons to leave the kingdom if i get a wrong moon that Taka2 didn't give me, like maybe I forget the name of a moon and I grab the wrong one then that means that I'm going to have to leave with 21 moons because 20 of them need to be correct yep that's true so basically if king j were to get a moon incorrect, he would have to roll another moon from Takatu and leave with one extra moon. Yeah. Alright, so we're going to start off by hitting this checkpoint because that's going to be very helpful for later. And we're gonna go crazy! Welcome to Sand. Overlooking the desert town, that's a great start! Perfect. That's one of the best things you can do. Taking no shot. That's a great start. Perfect. Taking no shot. That's good, too. Hidden room in the inverted pyramid. That is not as good. All right. We have to bring peace. Or not peace. Well, we might have to bring peace! Or not peace, we might have to fight... uh here he is. Ice Cave Treasure? Alright that's fine I think I'm gonna get Ice Cave Treasure first. Ice Cave Treasure is nice and then what was your other one? Taking notes, jumping on the palm? Yeah, jumping on the palm. That's also not too bad. I'm gonna try to get another Oasis Moon though if I can. Yeah, I mean what you could do is since you're getting Ice Cave, you can do Ice Cave which- Oh and then get the Jax. Like Jackie! since you're getting Ice Cave, you can do Ice Cave. Oh, then get the Jax. Like Jackie and then take Jax even if it's like this. You know, you're very smart sometimes, Agon. Sometimes is a key word. Anyways, moving on. Let's talk about the other Anyways, moving on. Like, Spirigrath and I are friends we've been to many speedrun events together I can make fun of him I'm also gonna do myself a favor and grab some coins here. This is not faster, it's just what I plan to do. I mean, to be fair, I would definitely hope I know basic routing in this category. I do have a 139 12. So... Yeah. There's some nice coins up here so we're gonna grab these. There you go! That nice spin throw action, my controller that I'm using for this run is not the best so I'm going to hope that most controls work at a believable speed, it's completely fine! So there we go, that is one of the moons we need and like Aggron said we are going to unlock Jaxi you need 30 coins to unlock Jaxi. And that's going to be very good for traversing later, so we're going to go ahead and talk to him here, purchase him, and now we're going to go over to the Oasis. Correct. And Joey, there was definitely a reason Correct. And, um... Joey! There was definitely a reason why you grabbed those coins. You maybe like to fill us in on that? Just in case? I sure would. you know, just like a just in case. Backup. There's these wonderful moons from the shop and there are 100 coins each that's why we're grabbing those is, uh, those, uh, coins whenever we can. We should be good for a decent amount now. We usually don't get too, too many, um, but of those moons. But just in case we do, we gotta make sure that we are prepared for those. I mean, the top two are definitely important to prepare for, but that was not the moon that I was referring to. I know you're trying to go into words and I want to pretend like it doesn't exist, okay? Trencher made from coins I wanna pretend doesn't exist in my life. Ooh bird! Hello bird. This is Bird 650 everybody. 650. There we go. Bird 650. We just got bird 650. Thank you for the moon. He was also at XTD queue that I hung out with. On the statue's tail... Okay, actually, that works out pretty well. I'll go do the... We already have hidden room in the inverted pyramid so you might as well go to the pyramid. Yeah! So now that we have two Pyramid Moons this actually worked out really well. This is what i wanted to wait for uh was- I wanted to wait to get at least um another Pyramid Moon so that it was worth going up. I already got two, so that is not as bad as it could be. And I'm also gonna pair this with the Multi-Moon as well to you know just add to that. So now we're gonna do a nice little out-of-bounds clip. Ooh! Second try. We'll take that. I think Harriet is definitely something that we can do. Um. It's probably not faster overall but it's definitely safer than maybe gambling your life with three more minions. Yeah. So... Do you want to quickly explain what that was and how I got in here, Aggron? Oh yeah yeah of course. So it's actually really funny because since we're playing in English... It was inverted moon right? Yes. Yeah hidden room? Uh, yeah, hidden room and the inverted pyramid. Alright. Um, uh, yeah, if Joey took long enough we would've seen Cappy pop up with the text you can't brute force that You can't tell me what to do Obviously we can Oh, what the heck What the heck You can't tell me what to do. Obviously we can! What the heck? What the heck, Cappy? This is one of those clips that Nintendo tried to patch which they didn't do a good job because I just did it so but yeah, so... Yeah. So that was a rule cancel clip And the way that works is basically you have to press like ground bound and then press X, Y, B all within a few frames of each other. And it confuses the game into thinking that you're rolling, jumping, and cat-throwing on the same frame? Are you kidding me? I mean, being fair there are multiple button combinations that you can do with it. That's what I'd do at least. Of course of course, I mean that should be the way everybody does it but apparently some people do XYA. Which I'm just like what? That's weird. Are you sure? Like I've literally heard people say they do XYA and I'm like You might wanna rethink your life choices. Whoa! It's all good though. We're fighting Harriet who is another one of the rules. Don't just breeze past that! I will breeze past that. Yeah, this is Harriet, this is a boss fight we're gonna be doing, and again, we're gonna get a multi-moon from this so that's three quick moons that were going to grab from here. So, we got five moons from the strip so honestly it ended up working out. It sucks one of the first ones I rolled was like one of the four moons that was in the inverted pyramid, but whatever. There's only three moons in the inverted pyramid. Well, like... You know what? You get it. I knew what you meant! My numbers may be off, but you get the sentiment. Well actually technically I'm wrong too because on the statue's tail it was not in the pyramid. Yeah true. Someone asked like when is X1A4? Again, that's for role cancelling. That's basically how you clip through walls. There's multiple walls you can clip through using this. The main ones we use in speedruns is here and then in snow to skip a bunch of story moons for world peace. Hopefully, we don't have to use that! We better not in snow! Hopefully, we do not! We'll get to that, when we get to that. Of course! Gee, we sure will get to that. Alright so now it's night time. I love nights. I love knights. I love night sand. I also like knights. Yeah, sometimes you don't see night sand so... No, of course not. Alright, so now we have to worry about these mummies that are gonna be popping out. So believe it or not they actually do have a name, they're called Chinchos. I didn't know that. Now you know! On top of the stone actually that's good that's a great thing goomba tower assembly that's not as good i mean it's fine driver I mean we got to use Jackson's driver right? yeah the other one is Jassy's driver yeah yeah I mean what you could do is you could go reroll or you could just go grab the three I think I'm gonna grab Jaxi first. Just because I don't really think we're going to get Jaxi driving, and I'd rather have multiple rolls. You say that now! It is true, but I will hold off on Goomba because I want to see if we get the Ice Chest possibly? That would be good. Treasure of the Underground Chest I think it's called. Yeah! Um... So that would be cool if we could get two of those moons instead of just one. It's not a bad moon for Goomba Tower Assembly but it's not the best one. It's not too late to turn this into a World Peace run, is it? No, I'm kidding. But no, we're not going to. Actually, no, the funny thing about when you're grinding attempts for this category is people will actively switch between any% and world peace based off of how their Sand Kingdom looks like, just to have more flexibility with resetting. That is fair. It's incredibly obnoxious to roll inverted pyramid beams and have to reset over and over and over again. Alright, so I'm going to see what we roll here and we'll go from there. Sand Quiz Wonderful is pretty good. Ooh! Inverted Mirror? Ooh mirror. Wait that's... Oh, that's an inverted mural! Okay nevermind this is not a ooh moment but what I will do is go over here and get the story moon We're gonna get three moons out of this. I'm going to go here and get the story moon Then we are going to get Sand Quiz Wonderful And then Ice Cave Goomba stacking. Goombatower Assembly, yes sir. You know what I mean. I know you meant but you're wrong! I need to correct you! I know what you meant, but you're wrong. I need to correct you! Do they get it? Crash, do you get it? Anyhow, so we we have to do here... Thank you! So what we have to do here is answer some questions about the lore. I definitely know the lore but also just know that the answers are going to be in the same area each time. So it's 2-1-4-4 for the last four questions. There we go! You studied for the tests? I did study—this will be on the test at the end, by the way. Keep reading the text chat while you still can. Speaking of that, do you want to explain the translator and how it works? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. So using the power of basically projecting characters on the screen essentially what the translator does is, it's basically programmed so that way whenever you talk to Takatu It's picking up the characters of the chinese alphabet and it's translating it into english so we can immediately be able to see the name in english. And this saves a lot of time because Chinese for any percent simplified Chinese is already 11 seconds faster And that's without the concept of having to talk to Talkin' every time. We don't exactly know how much it saves, but we estimate that it saves roughly a second and a half to two seconds per talk of two three rolls. Oh my god you called it! What? I got Jokesy's... I got Jyxie Sundriving. Oh, I'm so sorry. You actually called it! Well, I can't- I actually can't believe that. Okay but Jyxi Stunt Driving is the shorter of the two. It takes a while to get over to Bullet Bill Maze so I will I'll get Jaxi Stunt Driving and maybe roll for another Overworld Moon I think I'd rather risk it. I feel like Talkaty's favorite thing to do is you get one of the sub area moons and then you go back and he's like nah i want you to get this one as well no you're gonna do both and you're gonna look at your whole thing you're gonna like it. You're gonna do both and you're gonna like it! Exactly! Anyways, this is the other room we didn't get here Look, talk to was like The audience really likes that sub area they wanna see it again. Do it again! Do it again? I wasn't looking. Literally, we are doing it again because you weren't looking. We gotcha covered here. This is also where being an all-moons runner is very important, because of the fact that I know all the sub areas and how to do them. So this is something that's a good's a good in-between of any percent but also gets you acquainted with the other moons so it's a fun category. I would say generally it's prepping me more for, like, dark side and darker side. Alright, Transparent Maze? I think I'd rather do because the skull sign is really quick. So... We're gonna do that really quick. I'll find us pretty quick. Are you gonna to take the bullet bill to get over here? Yeah, if I remember to jump off the right side. There we go! So we can actually use this bullet bill here To make it across the gap. And yeah, there we are. Hello! Yeah so notice how Joey let go of Y when he's dealing with the bullet bill there. For some reason, when you let go of why when you're boosting with the bullet bill there. For some reason, when you let go of why, you extend the amount that the bullet bill goes distance-wise. It's kind of one of those weird quirks that was figured out early on. Yeah, Ice and Moon is way easier! You know it's definitely useful in several sections of the run Going to Leaning Pillar and Any% going to Skull Sign in several different instances. But there you go, that was Sand and now you can kind of see the gist of how this run is going to work Um, and how this Whole talk-a-to thing works But yeah Now we're gonna move on to lake Uh, you can do wooded or lake, it doesn't really matter. I'm gonna go with lake because wooded is horrible in talk 2. Well eventually you gotta do both anyway. That's the other thing too, it doesn't matter. In any percent and talk to 2%, they're same thing you have to do all of the kingdoms, all 14 of them so yeah. Yes sir. I haven't read the text in a while, I forgot this lore! We're gonna go get a dress now! It's okay, I think Tappy is telling us how to like ground pound or something listen it's not that important we already know how to do it yeah so right here this is a skip that the devs actually intended uh cappy will say nice little jump yes he'll give you a nice jump wait he didn't see it oh i feel scared it's because the other text is still on screen oh joey you did too fast all right so right here we're going to grab these... I'm sorry, I'm a speedrunner. I wanted to see Cappy congratulate us. So we're going to grab all these checkpoints by the way because they're all here. And here's Talkatoo. There he is! Great, starting with a sub-Arianna. Jump, grab, clinging climb... Sub to moonshards! Moonshard! Our secret little room! Thanks for one good one, I really appreciate you. So the way that lake is gonna work, the boss fight is so quick in this That we are going to do five and then do the boss fight We only need eight moons, so yeah. Yep. Also, also it's probably obvious but do the boss fight last. I mention this because there was one time I did the boss fight early, and then I rolled Planting the Lake Seed which is absurdly slow It's horrible Yep And that's definitely one of the things to note actually since we're on that topic, um... Depending on what state in the kingdom you are in it kinda depends depends on what moons will roll. Yeah so nothing from the host game will be rolled because we don't have access to it which is nice! I mean, you know, it's definitely good that Nintendo thought about that. I'm not sure if they expected us to make a whole bunch of meme speedruns using the inferred butt. Alright, so we now have two separate subarea moons but this one's the fastest so i'm gonna do the super secret zipper she's like zippers pretty quick and where's the zipper well it's over here obviously yeah you know just yeah you know we'll just take a little bit of faith it's okay, we know where we're going we're gonna take a little bit of a detour we're also gonna warp up to the plateau so we can start getting more of these shards I'd rather just get the shards moon over with, it's not that bad. No. So yeah. It's weird doing this though because I'm going to grab this one here and then go get a cheap sheep. But yeah, there's a lot of different routing that you have to kind of do on the fly, and that's what makes this category really cool. Pretty cool see uh what people do differently depending on their play style yeah i mean it's basically like playing bingo but you're not playing bingo so it's basically like doing this thing but you're not doing this thing i'm glad we're on the same page yeah you're welcome just destroyed that cheap chief anyways did not deserve that. I really didn't! You did NOT deserve it! We have one more moon that I want to grab, and we have two more rolls to get a good one. Dory Backrider's a very good one, but I'm going to... Oh, so the back rider is perfect? And now you give me the other one whatever talk to i thought we had something but obviously i was wrong oh yeah right over there yeah he rolled again for the content. No other reason. And I don't know if this is faster or not but I'm just gonna warp back up there. Mmm... debatable but that's already doing it. It's probably not faster, but I'm lazy. Like, I just got back from SGDQ. I don't want to move! Come on. Anyways, this is Rango. He's such a difficult boss. Look at how hard this is! It's very difficult. I honestly don't even know if I'm gonna be able to beat him. It's super hard and anyways he's done! So there you go. Yay! Yay we did it! He stood still for the entire fight! Hooray! Hooray. Hoo-ray. Can I get a hooray? Hooray! I wanna see the chat filled up with hooray. Please and thanks. Anyways, so now we have... Wooden. Honestly, the biggest reset point of this category. Would you like to explain why, Agron? Well there's a couple reasons actually. The difference between Deepwoods and not Deepwoods let's go with that I mean, Deepwoods in itself isn't exactly the problem. Like there are good Deepwoods games and then there aren't. It's a problem still. More so the problem is that you're going to be rolling a lot of moons that you really do not want to see. One of them is a beautiful moon called Treasure Made From Coins. If you look up any YouTube video that ranks every moon in this game, and yes it's real content people have made all of them rank this at the bottom so... I mean... Because you have to deposit 500 coins into a little plant, it's horrible. I mean, why would I want to sit here and vigorously shake my controller to grow a small sprout into a maybe beautiful sprout. Into a maybe beautiful sprout. I'm gonna go ahead and open this, it's not usually... This is one that you normally never open in any speedrun but i'm going to open it here because it's a fast way to get over to Taka-To. For Taka-To percent, it's great! Because we just need to get to Taka-To. There is no other reason why we would be doing that. The, um... the other reason is there are two different areas over Blindspot? Cool, that's not accessible right now. Going in the deep woods? Listen, listen, technically elevator blind spot. We've already got two deep woods moons! Let's go! Deep woods, here we come. And they're glowing- Okay so glowing is a weird one You may think glowing is like One of the ground pound spots in The deep woods or something like that No! Glowing is the timer challenge. For some reason it's the timer challenge and it's not named in. I don't know. I think it's the only timer challenge in the entire game that is not named timer challenge oh wait no never mind sorry incorrect um pushing through the crowd is another timer challenge that does not have a name for the timer challenge. That's true, but it's not like one of the scarecrow timer challenges. I mean... It's a lever! Yeah, but it's not it's close though i guess all right sure you know what by that logic i'm correct but yeah so the way that wooden works... Like as you just saw I was actually kind of happy that I got a Batmourn book in Deepwoods because of the fact it's another Deepwoods one. Deepwoods is a completely different loading zone So if you get a Deepwoods is a completely different loading zone. So if you get a deep woods moon, it does actually kinda suck for you because you have to go down to the... All the way around while Arya break his legs. Climb back up! So resurfacing actually does have a couple of quirks like this is gonna resurface us by where the Odyssey is, but there's actually another resurfacing spot that takes you directly right next to Dockery. So we could've done that. I always take that same one though, so I never know where the other ones at. Listen, that's completely fair. I think in that particular instance, that was probably still your fastest way. Yeah. Exploring for treasure, that is the purple coin one. That is... And fire in a cave, that's over there. Alright well I can get some sweet purple coin action right here so that actually works out for us. Do you maybe want to start completing the story since uh, you have elevator blind spot figured? Yeah I probably should and then also get some purple points from there too yeah like maybe what you could do is you could do fire in the Cave and then work your way up to the story moon. Yeah that's a good- That IS a good plan. And this is why I have Aggron on here. Aggron's very good at routing in this category so... Nah, I'm just good at routing in general., so... Yeah I'm just good at routing in general. I got just kinda that guy honestly. It's that guy that uh your girl tells you not to be afraid of. Anyways, moving into the next episode! Very nice, very nice. Don't say very nice to me! Can I get my hand please. Okay, thank you. Maybe... Hi Mario. Mario? Oh, Mario. Okay there you are. Alright so now we're gonna go ahead and do some of the story... Wait dude that camera was really weird Yeah I know! It really was. So this plant, by the way, you need to get this story moon in order for Spewer to unlock, so yeah. It's funny because you can go up there and the cutscene just won't activate at all. You could do a similar thing in Cascade with Madden Brood. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yep, yep. Alright, so we're gonna go over here and we're gonna do something that you don't normally see in any percent work. You can skip going into the tower. So, yep! And there we are. Where are you going Mario? I'm actually gonna go ahead over here... Okay nevermind, I was gonna go over to there and get the purple coins but I think I have better purple coins anyways that I can grab so yeah. Yeah you're probably fine. i'm gonna hope i'm gonna roll again and hope that we get a uh better maybe another deep woods moon that can go into exploring for treasure or something like that. I would say buy the outfit once you spawn back by the Odyssey, but you don't have enough purple coins. I know where they are. You could, you could. Like uh...I-I can get the three because I'm at nine right now? Yep so yeah So you can grab the three behind the tree trunk and the three inside. Yeah, exactly. We're all good! Routing, yeah! Thank you to Mine2001 for telling me where purple coins are but I also speed-run this game. Shoutouts to mine. He's a homie of mine. Yeah. Shoutouts to the people in the chat where purple coins, Art. Backseat gaming from the chat coming in here. Whoops, where am I going? Maybe I needed that backseat gaming. It's over... Which, oh yeah. I was supposed to say which tree is it? Maybe I need that in Xe Gaming. And then uh... I have to remember where things are. You normally never go here with this camera angle like ever but we're good. Yeah, good enough. Alright. We still made it! We're all here. We found them! That's what matters. We're so bad. We're so bad cause it's gonna be a thing we say a lot It's really funny to be an aggro but no one else is gonna care about it. Hey man, listen a couple of other people thought it was really funny. Oh really? Perfect! Then we're not alone. We're going to hope for a Deepwoods Moon If not I actually kinda hope I get the other elevator one cause with that elevator blind spot it'd be nice to get the other one too I mean elevator blind spots are the fast ones. It is. Or at least one up a mountain, I mean. Yeah. Something like Nut That Grew on the Tall Fence. Beneath the rocks of the moving tree... Oh, that's good, that's good. So we're good. We got two from down there. And this actually works out because what you could do is you're going to get the tree you're gonna get the outfit and then you're going to spawn by where you can go to the upper level of wooded. Exactly, yeah. This actually works out really well for us. And we can also grab some checkpoints up there as well too. Now you're probably wondering why could we not go to the upper layer of Wooded before? Well, we could but there's no checkpoints that spawn there before you beat Spirits. So there's really a reason for doing that're looking for longevity to be able to travel back up there later. I forget exactly how to maneuver this area when I'm not doing the moon route in all moons. Awesome. That's good, we made it! Once again, we're so near right now. We're so bad? We're so bad. I mean... To be honest, if you got lost you could've just fallen in the water. If we got lost, we would be two kingdoms from now. So, that'd be great, actually. Mario? Okay. Jump off this, really fast. Yo if we were in Lost Kingdom right now this would be world record pace. Chet's just like, we're so here! Thank you Chet. We are so here. You're-you're so here too! Thank you Chff for being here you guys are the best and if you want to be more here you can check me out on Twitch. Joey, thank you not to grab that moon. Thank you. I would have totally grabbed the moon if you didn't tell me to. I grabbed that checkpoint for later, and I also grabbed that hint art just so that we're definitely... We are 100% good on coins now for the rest of the run. Oh, 100%. I was kind of wondering why you captured the Sherb in the first place because you could have just scaled the wall without the Sherb. True, that requires me to be good at the game. So... Anyways, moving on. Listen, bear it up! Don't say fucking enough, you're my friend! Okay, so... Yes, I'm your friend, which means that can make fun of you. Fair enough! Alright, so I'll continue to be straight. What are we doing? Deep was tre- I hate you! Stretching your legs? I can't even go in there anymore. Not hidden in the fog? Oh my god, I hate you. I mean... You CAN go into the tower. Can you? Do you clip? No, it's open. It's not open! It's just open man. Oh, it's-it's not! I've done talkatoo all moves on Mooseball where it's not. The tower is open. Is this open from the top or bottom? It's not open, I will go over there to prove this to you! I promise you the tower is open. Wait, is it actually?! I promise you the tower is open. Stretching your legs is available. Wait, is it actually? Yes! I will go over and prove you wrong. I will go over there just to prove you wrong. Yeah, because you're wrong! You're gonna be proving yourself wrong! I swear this isn't a thing! Maybe I'm just misremembering things. Stretching your legs is in the tower which is available in all states of the Wooden Kingdom. I actually didn't know that! For some reason my brain... what am I thinking of then that gets covered? Hmm... maybe in a- Oh, oh, there it goes again! Hmm. Maybe in a... Oh, the P-Switch gets covered! So you can't get over there super easily but you can get over there. Yeah, we're gamers though. Look, I'm gonna roll one more time. I haven't done this jump in a hot minute. I mean, to be fair, if you really don't want to do the jump like from the tower section, like from the flower red section. You could just go up to the top and just jump from where the Torque Drift Arena is. That is true that is a thing. You know what? We're gonna do that because I don't trust myself with the jump. Hang on, Cod Hopping is right over here that's a very easy one that I wish we got much earlier. Cod Hopping in the forest, yes did. We caught him. Actually... yeah so we're gonna warp here and get some more checkpoints then go up to there cause I- Matt! Okay. Now we need to know if it's open or closed? Yo, I got you. Look, this is also for my own benefit because this is something I didn't know. This is something that I assume is not the case. You... This is something that I assume is not the case. Yeah, I forgot you can just go up here and this is very easy. That's gonna make it right, okay. It is open! Oh my god. Bro you just blew my mind. For some reason- Now I need to explain something. So the reason why... I think I just have like the most vivid imagination or misimagination misremembering things of me doing an all moves takatu run and going here and something was blocked off. Now I'm remembering that it the P-Switch That was blocked off Because basically, the P-Switch that we used After the story moon To make the flower road Spawn That's what gets blocked off So I think I just remembered that And I thought that meant everything gets blocked off. So I think I just remembered that, and I thought that meant everything was blocked off. But hey, we're all here. The end of the dead end, that's fine. Not planted in a tower? Sick! Wait, wait chat is the Tower open? Guys I don't know if it's Open actually uh guys I think its's blocked off. Guys, I think the run might be cooked. Look we're here to have fun and I think me being stupid is fun, okay? Look right there. That's the point I was thinking of, okay? Alright so we're gonna get nut to the dead end and then we're gonna get nut planted in the tower. Yeah you know what? I'll try for the trick since I'm already here yeah go for it also there's so many nut moons yet to remember which one's which that's the other hard thing i mean most of them are pretty self-explanatory. There's a few where i'd be like yeah you know you could definitely confuse that like I feel like somebody would have definitely confused nut at the dead end for nut around the corner No! It almost faded. It's okay, I'll just do the top again because the top is way easier and I'm gonna have to climb up anyways And the warp by the way uh that's at there currently is not there. The warp where the story moon was it's taken away once you get to this variation of the kingdom. Now, they aren't necessarily missable... Whoops! Why? Actually you know what this actually works out I think I'll do this and so I don't have to go back to talk to anymore. I'm gonna get this story moon And then I'm going to um... to talk to anymore. I'm gonna get this story moon and then I'm going to get the nut, and then we're done This has been not the best wooded considering I had to go to deep woods literally three times, but whatever At least you didn't roll treasure making points that is true that's the only one we did no there's there's two others but that's like one of the only ones we didn't roll that was in default so you didn't roll treasure made from coins we didn't roll that was in Deepwoods. So you didn't roll Treasure Made from Coins, you didn't roll Past the Pilear Pipes, you didn't roll um, The Shiny Rock, and you didn't roll Hard Rock in the Deepwoods. Yeah. So you got five Deepwoods woods. Yeah. So you got five deep woods means? Yeah, but still that's normally... You hope for none. Alright, but I do have a... this is the actual faster one in the tower. Because I can just jump down. Which it's- oh! Okay that's fine. I'm not used to getting this without the uproot. There we go! And that planted in the tower. We're all done! Technically if we were absolutely insane at the game we could get stretching your legs to fat the uproot But that is a very difficult jump Yeah, i'll pass You know fun fact If you guys were watching the SMLTA at pace, Psionic killed his run in Wooded and then just sat there and just did that vertical for like 15 minutes. Shouts to Psionic. Alright, so we're gonna go now. I unfortunately did not have Killing Your Run in Wooded and doing the Stretching Your Legs Vertical on my bingo card. I did not have that the stretching your legs vertically. I did not have that on my bingo card. Alright guys, so coming up next is Metro. Metro is really annoying. It has a really first off we have a really weird RNG thing where we could possibly be sent to two other kingdoms. It never happens though so we're all good. It happened! Oh no! This never happens! Guys, they're unlucky. This never happens. It's definitely not part of the story. I'm so unlucky. The run's good. Talking to you back at it again. Anyways. Also, this run is added... Let's put it simply. Not great RNG. So thank God this estimate is the way it is. I don't think the RNG has been super unfair. It's not been worse. I say it's been slightly below average. Sums up my speed rankings I say it's been slightly below average, so... Sums up my speedrunning skill. Hey! How was it? You're joking me, I promise. I can't say that when I've literally done like three hotfixes. This is probably my third hotfix run in the last two months or so. I mean Joey, the thing is you are considered a jack of all trades master of none. That is so sad! This is Bowser, we're punching him. No it's great because you're up like 20 different games. That is true. It's so funny when I submit to GDQs and stuff like that, and hotfixes, because I submit, like, 50 different games or something like that. Yeah, exactly. You're bound to get something in. Uh... I'm sorry? Sir! Come back here mister. I'm not done with you. Well maybe- That was me just rejecting you. It's alright. It's alright, not the first time. It's not the first time. Bowser rejected me a minute before. We will not accept no for an answer, Bowser. We will be back. Yeah, we actually will be back. We're so back. So now is Lost. Someone was asking earlier if we were going to get captured by the bird. I assume they meant this? We are constantly captured by Togatoo for this run. But yeah, Klepto. So first of all we have to do this very high. I mean, we definitely have workarounds. Right now, we're going to do this thing called Meme Tree. Oh, we're doing Triple Jump. And that's how I do it. Now, there you go! We don't have to worry about... What's up, dude? Come here and talk to me. Twisting Charm Treasure! Sick! That's a crazy thing. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, Joey, do you know how to do Twisted Treasure? I do. I'm gonna do it. We're gonna do the dram. Let's go. And I also got Enjoying the Views so this works out really well because I can go up here and I can get the moon up here. Yeah, I mean... I would say that might be a situation where you could ignore Twisting Turnip Treasure for now. You'd get enjoying... you can get peeking under the bridge No I'm doing it, this is cool, this is for the fans. So this is a really hard strat. Do it for the content. I do it from the top, this is a really cool one way of doing this so let's see if I get it. Oh you do this variant? Oh man I died. I didn't even slide on the wall. Yes I do this variant. Oh my. This is how I normally do it, too. I just prefer it this way. It's way easier. I haven't seen this variant since 2018, bro. This is a... Yeah, I mean that's probably why I learned this variant. It's just easier for me. i prefer this way of doing it completely fair you do you hey i think i got it bold that looks like it worked nice Nice, and there you go! So there you go, you're supposed to use regular... You're supposed to use... Listen, first try, whatever... Basically first try. Whatever happened before doesn't count. So that was Twisting Throne of Treasure, you're supposed to use a Wiggler to get that but by using Glideon and homing into him you can teleport Mario back up to them so yeah, cage gold, that's fine. That goes into the bridge pretty quick. Top of the pillar pillar, that's also pretty fine. Nice. Pretty good moons. Pretty good moons and the main thing you have to worry about... Oh look, that was basically first try before anybody gets on my nerves The death didn't count from before, okay? Lost Kingdom is probably one of my favorite kingdoms in this category. There's not a lot of bad moons at all. Yeah, and they're all pretty fun. Yeah, exactly. I feel like the routing specifically for this kingdom is very neat because the moons are so within close proximity. There's so many different things that you can do. Also, fun fact, I had Comsob for this split for two years. Nice! Sick! Yeah, I had the first sub 4 loss and then people popped off in late 2023 and got like a 345. I'm like, well, not getting that back! Aw, moon shards! Sorry, that's fine. I don't want to do moon shards. A butterfly's treasure? That's an easy one, it's just right over here. Joey if we waited we could have paired TNT with soaring! I didn't know... hello sir goodbye. I didn't know! Dad, I'm sorry. Your dad now? Okay. I mean, I think I called you Father Aggron before. Over the butt that houses above the swamp, that's also fine. It's just right on over here. Right down this way. Nice. Apparently most of the people that run this game are way younger than me so just as to what is happening we do give off that vibe. I'm sorry. Don't be too much fun. Listen, we're gaming. That's what's happening. I don't know if you just mean like what is this game or what is this category but just mean like what is this game or where's his category, but I just I just like what is happening. Think I'd give off that vibe pretty well We're so bad. Look, I'm here to just have fun and make a fun run for you guys and I hope they have a good time. Captain Toad Cave Gardening sure Yeah, I'm happy. Good time. Captain Toad... We're having a good time. Cave gardening? Sure. Cave gardening's great! It's right there. Captain toad can cave garden- that is completely fine with me. Honestly, I think we'll just do cave gardening and re-roll again. I mean, I guess we can. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Honestly, I don't know if this game has any of the same things as the one before. I mean, I guess we can. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Honestly, I don't really want to talk to Toad. Okay. We're already talking a lot to Bird right now, so... Exactly. Let's go on the mountain bird. We're doing Toad! Aw, avoiding Fuzzy since I don't know why I opened the map but my brain was like, alright Toad let's warp there In order to make sure that Klepto doesn't catch us we do have to basically go up to him right there and say hi. This is not good... Okay, we're good. Nice save. There we are! We're so... Okay, I'm gonna. Nice save. There we go! We're so... I was almost supposed to say we were so bad. God dang it. I can't. We were completely fine. I had complete faith that Joey would save us. I had complete faith that I wouldn't mess up and by complete it's a synonym for no, so... Perfect. But I still made it And we're good! Alright, so that was a nice little detour. Again this is a very short kingdom So now we move on to a very long kingdom Yeah Metro is usually the longest with the run i would say yeah starting off we have a nighttime metro which normally in any percent you would get up like around 5 moons from. We're only beginning the multi-moon, because again, if we grab those, they don't count towards our total. So yeah. You might be wondering why aren't we talking to Talkatu in some of the kingdoms? That's because Talkatu is not here yet. Talkatu only appears in Day Metro. It's the same thing with Cascade earlier, like why didn't we just get five moons from Takatu before Madam Brutal? Because Takatu didn't exist. Well actually there's two reasons for that um, there's not five moons that even exist, at least for Nintendo intended moons in that phase of passing. There we go, nice. We're gonna do some nice little skips here. Very nice. Oh, so that's what they mean by climbing buildings. Yeah! Nice. Oh, so that's what they need by climbing buildings. Yeah! Nice. Alright and now we're gonna go up here. We're going to grab some checkpoints though because the check points are very nice obviously. Yeah, the heliport is a pretty underrated one to get to. For one reason and one reason only there's a pull that spawns there. And I actually spent like probably couple hours just utilizing that full and coming up with strats where you just warp to the heliport. Just launch yourself in random directions. Alright, that guy was just gaming. Alright we're good though. Now the main thing that is rough for me is remembering not to grab this moon it's so in my nature but I'm gonna make sure not to grab this moon uh but i'm i'm gonna make sure not to grab it there we go it's in that chest there and then we're going to do a nice little wow you didn't even open the chess what a gamer so insane uh and then that jump right there will kill you a lot when you're new to this game. Yeah, fun fact about that chest pain. Oh, I would like that. Fun fact about that chest pain, that was the origin of moon clipping. You will not be seeing any moon clippings here, why? Just what you think! No I'm kidding. My insane routing's just unmatched, actually. This is Mecha Wiggler. Everybody hates this boss because it is RNG for the second phase of what pattern he's going to give us we're going to try really hard to get a two cycle uh if we miss it then we lose about 20 or 30 seconds so yeah 25 seconds usually 20 if you're fast. Yeah, but what we're basically going to be doing is in order to maximize the time that he's on this wall- some people don't know this it helps out a lot to get two cycle We're gonna not destroy all the fireballs because he'll only start leaving the area once all the fireballs are gone so yeah and this looks like a good pattern. Very good pattern, I just need to hit that last one and we're good! Very nice! I'll take it! So actually what starts the vulnerability phase of Mecha Wiggler is one of the fireballs hitting the ground or taking damage. Yeah. You know, so like the fireballs can still be there but as soon as one touches the ground or mario when he leaves the area. But yeah, there we go. That is Dark Metro. Also I do know we need to take a break at the one hour mark so I think we'll probably do it after Metro if that's all good. Sounds good. Whatever works for you. Sounds good. That'll be probably around the hour to hour ten mark and we'll take a break. Alright, now it's time for the fun part. Talk to me, man. We'll be really good at that. Yeah, so Metro Kingdom is not exactly known for having the fastest moons. Obviously in any percent you get very fast moons but there are a lot of moons in this kingdom that take forever. Because 14 of Metro's moons that are accessible to us right now are in sub-areas. It's very likely that we're going to get those. Alright, sewer treasure that's fine. I can pair that at the end. Uh, we also got the moon that I said I didn't want to grab. So, that actually worked out well. And then what was the first one I missed? Bullet building. Bullet building. I don't know how to play this area backwards. So, I'm just going gonna play this nice and safe. Yeah you're good... Honestly that's a pretty decent way to approach this. And nice bonk for good luck, alright. Alright. Uh and the other thing too is you can get the jump rope boons. I suck so bad at jumprope that if we get jump rope genius, I'm not going to do it. I'm just gonna tell you this right now. Valid honestly? When I do jump rope in all moons, I use the letter glitch. So... That was interesting. Mario just hugged that flag there. Mario wanted to show affection for that flag. The other thing too is there's a lot of girder moons in this kingdom, and there's also a lot of trash moons so you have to remember which one's which. I got a valu dive, let's go! I got another one, let's go i got another one so since we're on that topic a valley dive is when you throw cappy but mario dives in not the direction that Cappy is going. Yeah, it's either called Valoo Dive or Chaos Dive It's basically whatever you want to make fun of and shoutouts to Valoo! So that's actually incorrect. A chaos dive is when you miss the ground pound input and Mario falls a little bit. Oh, I thought those were the same thing. My bad. They are different all right so uh we need to get up there you can still make fun of either so we need to get up to how many moons in order to do the four guys? And both, the sewer and the thing. The four guys?! How did they take out the trash? Guys, unfortunately They did not have a fifth guy So five guys is There's no five guys There's only four guys It's so sad! It's so bad... You're gonna be so sick of this joke by the time we're off this stream. I don't know how it started, we were just at pace and me and Aggron just kept or specifically me to Aggron I just kept saying, we're so back. I believe it started when you first entered the hotel room and you literally opened with that. And i'm just like, alright... Oh yeah because we hadn't been back to pace in a while so I was like, Yeah, I remember. We're SO back! Every time we went somewhere, We were just like, We're so back. Anyhow here's how they take out the trash Again knowing the trash moon names Just like the nutnames in what it is very important. We're also going to go down here and start the wonderful side quests from The Legend of Zelda and talk to you... Wonderful side quests from the Legend of Zelda Yeah, of course, find the four guys that's my favorite side quest in Zelda Find the four guys So these are story moons and then there's also one in a sewer which we have to go to anyways for sewer treasure and then at that point honestly i think we're just gonna do the festival because it's a fan favorite and it's three moons so yeah and we have to we have to literally do everything anyways aside from the festival right now. So I might as well do that as well. It actually looks like your mean count is going to line up pretty nicely for doing that as well. MOONSHARDS! I hate it! Once you do all the musicians, Super Treasure plus Super Story and Festival, that's nine moons. Oh, that's perfect then we'll get these two and then see if I can get a better one than hanging on high rise. Yeah. I mean, you're only going to need like more real estate it's wait hold up i had to remember this moon are you good nope i forgot that it's on there okay now we're good you know it's actually funny i forgot that the intended way to do that is to shoot the block. I always just hop throw to get it. That's fair. Alright, and we're gonna go over here... And I was supposed to shoot this but I'll wait for the guy. Can you tell I'm not used to doing this without The Secret Moon? Fun fact if you didn't want to destroy property, you could have actually just threw Pappy at a swipe. Oh my god! Like, flip him in to collect that ring shard. The one on the inside of the taxi. There we go, that's how you get up there! See, that property damage is gonna add up. Look it doesn't matter because I'm not staying here for that long. I'm gonna see you later! Mario's a felon okay? Yeah, Mario is a criminal we already know We already knew this This is known... This is known... This is known information. THIS IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE! This is common- Mario's a criminal. We're rewriting war right now! To be honest, to be honest it's not even ward because he was literally framed in mark that is true he already has a record exactly okay and there's a moon i don't want to do. So we're gonna-we're gonna go do... It was hanging on high rise right? Yes. Not vaulting? Granted when he got framed in sunshine it WAS based off of foreign affairs so maybe... So maybe that I needed to do this. So maybe it has nothing to do with the Mushroom Kingdom, so... Yeah, so Hang on a High Rise is thankfully the faster one. We're gonna get to do a nice little skip that you normally don't get to see. Where we can just jump to the very end of this sub area. Yep. Are you going to triple-jump, vault? I'm gonna do triple-jump. Nice. But yeah so here's the beginning of......the sub area? There's the bottom of the sub! No Joey! try my best man did i say that i didn't practice yet i didn't practice you're good anyhow there's the top of this all right now let's let's get the rest of these musicians here's the beginning of the area look Look, it was- It's funny alright? It's funny we're all good. Wasn't it once funny? I'm here to make this entertaining for you and all your family including your mother. And I'm hoping I'm doing... I'm sorry. What did you say about my mother? Also, we didn't get to hear it because I was talking over it but this is the Otep guy. The Otep guy. He was very memed upon at the beginning of uh......the uh......history of this game. So yeah, he still is. Let's be honest. That is true. Some jokes just never die. You know, some jokes just never die. Like naming every trick in the game Dram. Yeah shout out to Dram55 who didn't find 90% of the drams. Who didn't want any tricks named after him! We found a- Dram found a trick in sand and he said, please don't name this trick after me. The community called it Dramstrat and then just kept finding stuff and then they kept finding stuff and they kept calling it Dram so there's a lot of things in here called with the name Dram and I'm pretty sure none of them had anything to do with meals on vacation of them Graham had anything to do with. Crick jumps, meals on vacation... Also I think you were wrong with your counting because there's five moons that we're gonna get now from the rest, so I gotta do some quick math here. I still find it incredibly sad that there are not five guys. You're never gonna let me live this down. Okay, so we need two more moons to get here So if we get another seed that might actually be fine Yeah yeah, you're going to get sewer treasure, you're gonna get the story main, you're gonna get three fruit festivals, so you just need two more. Yeah. Big jump escape? I mean, that's fine. You know what I'm actually gonna do? It was rooftop? Uh... Rooftop planner rooftop planner yeah rooftop is the one over there i'm just going to go ahead and build do this now yeah you can show how seeds work yeah why not i hope i'm doing the right one. Yeah, you are. I get these ones confused, rooftop and building because they're both structures. I mean this is the slowest seed moon of the three but that's okay. So seeds, you normally have to wait about 20 minutes for them to grow, but we can do something called not waiting. It's a wonderful trick that we're going to show off. Back in early 2018, the primitive days before we figured out that you can advance the time clock. There was a thing with the talk to categories where you could be seed locked. Yeah, that is true. Very fun. All right. So let me just make sure it is true. Very fun. Alright, so let me just make sure that's growing. Alright, cool. I changed it from 12am to 1am, so I wanted to make sure that works. We're good. Alright, So now that is going to grow and we can go ahead and get Big Jump Escape which that is... Is that the secret one? Big Jump Escape Yeah, it's a secret one big jump yeah it's a secret one yet yeah big jump escape is gonna be the first one yay i had to remember which one it was sometimes uh the hint for which one it is, is at the beginning. Sometimes it's at the end and you have to remember which ones which. There we go! Nice! And now we'll go ahead and warp back and we can get that moon that now grew from the seed. So yeah, that's how we do seeds in Takatu before we knew that we could do that um we basic where am i going i gotta turn around i don't know i'm just here um before we do that, you can... 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Okay, that's what I get but before that was known uh this made the category a whole what of a wife I didn't uh i didn't mean to do that no yeah rooftop planter and now we're good we did it now we're gonna go to the series. Yeah, because Pauline's basically like, yo, become a plumber like you're supposed to be, so we're gonna go do that. Alright, so, that was the Alright, so... That was uh... Um... Before that was known to be a thing where we could adjust the clock and stuff like that So it would save a lot of time They made this category so much more annoying and I basically coined the term seed locks, uh, and if you got seed locks that sucks and i'm sorry because that's a easily a way that your run can die in Seaside or Metro. Dude, forget Seaside! I'd be resetting in sand. Or sand, that is true. Well we didn't get any in Xan. You know... you know just another reason to never San Kingdom when playing this category. But yeah here we are. That is our story moon and we're going to do the festival. You're not getting too much of it because we skipped cutscenes but yeah. Someone said to post SGDQ run shenanigans? Look, I'm still in that goofy like SGDQ mood. I commentated three times during SGDQ. Uh, I would highly suggest watching those runs because they were very entertaining. Um, no bias. But the runs I commentated was Splatoon 3 Side Order, Penny's Big Breakaway and Celeste 64. Both Splatoon and Penny, I was like the jokester of. So if you like funny... Just funny, that's me. If you like just funny. As you can tell. When I'm in marathon runs or runs for GDQ, dude my energy just spikes up. I get the adrenaline so here we are! Being at SGDQ was great, It was the best week of my life hands down and I've been to other Spearman events but this one topped it And I can't wait to go to other GDQs in general! And its really funny that Im here, one day after I got home. So, hello. Anyhow... You never left! Shoutouts to Church who a few days before I left for GDQ just said and I quote Would you like to run anything around 2 hours for hotfix? That's Mario really. What?! Mario, really. What? It left a lot up to me and it was nice. Somebody runs a lot of Mario and you just need something yeah i did a previous mario hot tricks where i ran two other mario games i've been 3d land and 3d world so i am mario. And you chose bird portrait somewhere. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, Bird650. It's not you, I promise. It's me. Oh my goodness. Yeah, so... That one was you apparently. He's gone though. And there we go, we did it. Thank you for the dance emotes. Something like a reference And there we go, we did it. Thank you for the dance emotes. I appreciate it. I don't know something like... It's a reference to Lord Pauline or something. Something about Jumpman? It's probably not important. Something origin story Mario or um, alright moving on Okay and I will go ahead and tell you when to pause the timer so we can take a little bit of a break. We're going to pause right now. There we go. The break time! And there's a pause on the timer. Or, on the actual screen. So during these longer runs on the Hotfix we like to take breaks every hour so somebody can get up, stretch, get some water anything y'all need to do. So I'm going to take a quick break and be back with the rest of the run. See you in just a few minutes. so. so so so so so.. so so so so so so so. ¶¶ so... so............. so. We'll be right back. so ¶¶ I'm not sure if you can see it, but the game is a bit more complex than the original. The first two levels are pretty much identical in that they're all very similar. so.. so.. so.. so so I'm not sure if you can see this, but the game is still in its early stages. The first few games were a bit of an overkill for me to get used to, and then I had to go back and play it again.. so so I'm not sure if that's the right word, but it does seem like a good idea. There are some other things to do in this area as well. so Swinging in the breeze, the palm trees caress the sky. See the world. I see you all sing the song of life. Fresh on the shore, though it's cold. is This is where I come from As long as I remember, we lived in a lazy and peace. Time ebbs and flows at the tide time What could there be another reality? Another world of um so so so so I'll cross the sea of games Dreaming of another shore Somehow I feel the risk Of heading to the other world Is this where angels lose their way? What lies before them? me should i I'm not sure if that's the right word, but it does sound like a good idea. I guess we'll have to wait for the next one..... so Thanks for watching! Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Games on Quick Hot Fix. Sorry about that. We have a little bit of technical difficulties on our end but we're back and we're in the middle of a Super Mario Odyssey talk-a-toy run whenever you're ready if you just want to give a quick 3-2-1 countdown. Sounds good! Welcome back to Mario Talks Through a Bird Because He's Delusional. Let's continue in 3, 2, 1... Go! So when we last left off on the last episode of Talk 2%, Mario Edition, The Only Edition. We did the festival. Yeah, we did a festival and we also finished off Metro. So, we are at 75 out of the 124 power moons that we need. We have a few more kingdoms to go so yeah. Oh yeah, the timer didn't stop. Well, subtract 10 minutes, the timer didn't stop. Well, subtract 10 minutes from the timer. Guys, it's okay. The timer was paused at like a 1-0-8 so... Alright, so uh welcome to snow kingdom otherwise as um you might get outfit locked yeah we're gonna grab purple coins on purpose here um this is a very annoying uh kingdom for us to deal with so we're going to hope that we don't get outfit lost. So basically, there are 13 moons that you can roll and three of them are moons that are bad, essentially. Two of them are the outfit, and one of them is the hint art. So we're basically aiming to roll anything that's not those three moons. And we're chilling. We'll also have story moons to back us up which is good. There's four story moons one in each of these little hallways Captain Toad is fine Captain Toad is not too bad. Treasure in the Ice Wall, that's fine. That's very good. Moon Shards in the Cold Room, that's less fine. Alright, that's strike one. Wait, Treasure in the Ice Wall's up this night. Treasure in the air swallows up this way. Okay. Um... Treasure in the ice wall? Wait that's boss! Where are you going Joey?! I was going to do it at 1, I forgot. I have to remember which one is which. One second. You're good. It's been a while since I did talk to you, so don't worry about it. But while we're here, I will grab some purples. Yeah, there's definitely some past purples you yeah there's definitely some past purple people in this area a couple up throws uh this is also interesting because in the old moons um which is a category that i primarily run uh we normally don't have to grab these um shards but if we're gonna have to grab them here in order to spawn this so yeah yeah there we go also thank you tech for fixing the timer appreciate it all right and there we, and here's the moon that we got from Taka too. There we go. I don't know how that's treasure in the ice wall cause this is not an ice wall. There is ice. I guess it's a wall that's mostly ice. Yeah. I see it. I see the vision. I don't agree with that. And then we're gonna go ahead and warp out of this area and get Captain Town. I feel like a better moon name for that would be Treasure on the Snowy Wall. Yeah, it's definitely less space. Ow! Mario, we have things to do! Alright there you go I'm gonna grab those so now we only need five I'm going to hope for a different story moon area So that we can get more purples, then I likely will end up having to do the uh the outfit room, yeah One thing I will note is we were talking about earlier how Takatu is only going to give us moves that Nintendo intended us to be able to collect during the phase of the kingdom that we're in. As most of you are probably aware, there is a way to collect the Painting Moon and Snow early. However, Takatu will not roll back as it is considered not a moon that Nintendo intended us to get. Yeah, it is not Nintended if you will. It is NOT intended. Exactly. In fact, the Nintendo doesn't expect you to get that until the post-game. Oh, sick! We got snow art... Oh, that's striking. That's fine. We're getting there! We're getting to possibly having... We're getting to the point where we might possibly only have uh, the hint art and the two outfit moves the hint art and the two outfit moons. The hint art and the two outfit moons in which case you just gotta do the outfit moon. Yeah, but again I would like to roll something else first so I can have enough and not have to lose time going for purple. It's really sad when you get a run that is really good up through Metro and then you get outfit locked. It's, like, the saddest thing. Yeah. Alright. That's pretty good movement there. We're gonna go ahead and do the Ice-Dodging Goomba Stack And then also the Story Moon here There are purples but they're pretty out of the way So I think we're just going to gamble a little bit And not go for them Yeah yeah the purples in this room are definitely not on the way yeah okay i'm going to take this nice and safe and go around this way. Oh wow, you really think it's safe? Yeah well, I could go a little bit riskier, but I don't want to die. Well actually the really safe way would be to go all the way up to the top... You're not doing that!...and drop the- We're gonna go for pipes. We're going go for a pipe slip here. I didn't get it, alright. I tried to. Oh! Okay, give him nice bounce for good luck? You know, I would say you suck if you're not getting the pipe sucked but that'd be mean. You've already said it! It's okay. You're saying it's okay to yourself or to me? Both. Okay, that's okay. It's okay! Alright there is a sole chance we don't have to go to either though. Or to the outfit room. There's a Varian treasure chest that's good. A Varian treasure chest is great! Let's keep going! I actually don't know how... Okay, sick. Vile Lua dive for the fans! Haven't seen that yet. Totally. Alright if we get piled on snow and then one of the other two um piled on snow you're hanging in the snow town you know what i mean the other one okay fine we'll get them both. I'm just gonna go ahead and grab the... I'm just gonna grab the purple coins from in here. Technically we do have enough to lead. We just get both of the story names. Can you fight Rango? I'd rather not, though. I think it's faster not to do that. I'm not sure. I think it would be close. Mainly because I just don't want to fight Rango. That's valid. R on ice isn't like rainbow on ice is not exactly the show you were expecting oh uh okay oh my goodness all right we Oh, uh... okay. Oh my goodness. Alright and we get to do a nice little thingy- Okay well nevermind we don't get to do it. We'll die and go back there! Look close your eyes! Whoa what a cool skip! That's crazy. Oh my god. Wow, we're so back? So back actually. I'm so good at this game guys, you don't even understand. The best part about Takatube 2 is because it's a lot of routing and on the fly thinking You don't have to be the best at any percent or any other category, to be fair to be good at Final 2. So yeah. Anyhow, now we're nice snowy Mario. That's not the name but... Also shoutouts to the Cheverians, I love them. What is this? The ski outfit? I think so... I actually don't know the name. We literally just saw it. Yeah, I don't know the official name of this outfit i didn't read i can't read all right but now we can just do this uh the way that uh shigeru mi Miyamoto intended. So we're just gonna chill over here, wait for these guys... Oh, oh, there we go! There we go! Shoutouts to Jump Farming! If you know, you know. If you don't keep it that way your arms will thank you. And there we go. That's the slip behind the ice. And then the other one is this one. You know what? I'll show off a little bit of jump farming right here. This is what you do in All Moons, and it destroys your arms. For like four minutes. And your ears! There we go. Yeah, it's literally like four minutes of doing that. Alright, but there we go! Cool now we have everything we need to leave. Four minutes... I actually don't know because I'm not- I mean it. Like the faster you get, the more jumps you have to farm so Well, I mean there's that and there's also them like implementing more jumps throughout the run so they have to do less jump farming. True. Alright, so now we have Seaside. Seaside, we're also going to be bringing Pace to it just because it's so much faster than continuously talking to Takatu. Doing the boss... Like, C-Zap has so many easy story moons and the boss is not that bad either So we're only going to grab three from Takatu Fighting the bosses get to grab three from Takatu. So, fighting the boss in Seaside is definitely the much safer route because otherwise you'd have to get ten runes from Takatu instead of three. However it actually is faster to try and get the best rolls from Takatu. Yeah, but because this is like a no reset, I'm gonna play it safe. Oh, 100%. I don't blame you. I pretty much only go no-brigadier-mole-esque lands here, not fan of double aim. You're saying full name? Yeah, think you were saying his full name. Yeah, he had me actually roll off his name. Um... yeah, I pretty much only do that if I'm on a bad run and I have nothing to lose so I just try to kill for a column saw at the time. Basically. Alright, we're gonna go ahead and get the... Oh god. I need this. Thank you. I normally don't go that way to do this. Where are you going, Mario? Okay, whatever. We're gonna get these two story moons first. I literally did not pay attention to what... Looking back in the dark waterway, a stretch on the side path and the underwater maze hidden room... I'd rather not do underwater maze hidden room. I'd rather not do underwater maze hidden room if i can, but we'll see So you could- oh whoops I should probably hit the button. That'd be a good thing. I need to get up there now. Yeah, you need to hit the buttons in order to spawn the boss. So that is important. No! Sir? It's okay, whatever it's fine. But this is another skip that Nintendo intended. Because if we go up here... We're gonna see... Amazing! All of that without a refill! Crazy! But yeah, there we go. So there's four seals that we need to find and then hit and then there's the boss. We're gonna hit this......switches. Basically, you're breaking the corks off of the fountain and it's making Brigadier Molas flancered off Anub'Ablain incredibly angry Brigadier Molas Flancered off Anub'Ablane. Incredibly angry, increasingly angry each time you do it. I feel like you're running out of breath each time you say it. I'm not, I promise. Anyhow, um... I think what we'll do is grab this. I'm gonna go back to Takatu and see if we can get a better roll for our third one. I'm okay with stretching on the side path, but I would prefer not to have the underwater mace. It's kind of slow. Actually, I technically didn't say the full name both times because I forgot the third. Okay, level on the seaside is completely fine by me honestly it's not that much faster but this will lead into our seal i mean it's not terrible because it leads you right to the Canyon Seal. Exactly! So it works out pretty well, I'll take it. So...you do this, you do Canyon Seal, Hot Spring Seal and then you need one more. Um oh it'll be the stretch on the side path. Oh we're doing that? Yeah I mean it's not that slow. Why not? I'll get the checkpoint first. I guess we're relatively on our way. Yeah. It's right below where we need to go. Not the best seaside, it's kind of like or the hot spring yeah not the best seaside it's kind of like a slow sea side but it's fine yeah we're probably with that like eight and a half nine minute seaside all right there we go. I usually never go to the seal like that, I usually just gush it up there but this works. Either gush up there or climb the side of the wall. Yeah. Because for some reason there are parts of the wall that you can just stand on... It's pretty easy to get up there all right and you know you know if you know we're just okay no okay okay i'm dropping in No! Okay. Okay, I'm dropping inputs. Love that. Thank you. Mario Odyssey is a perfect game with no flaws. Joey, that Goomba almost got you. It did? I almost got God, that was insane. But instead we got him. So true. So I'm gonna go up here and uh... I'm gonna go ahead and get this first. And then we're gonna get the checkpoint go back down get the moon in the sub area warp to the checkpoint hit the button destroy the boss and everyone's gonna love me maybe not the last part but you know Roy the boss and everyone's gonna love me. Maybe not the last part, but you know... You already love me. What are you talking about? That was sweet. I mean... The only nice thing you said to me. What? That's not true. I'm joking, probably. Probably. Probably! Yeah, Stratford-Side 5ath is not that slow. It's the shortest of the two so... it's all good. I mean to be fair I don't think Brigadier Moleskine is a fan of playing the 3-1-0. I'm gonna keep laughing at this and I don't know why still. Bro, we're taking away his ability to drink the sparkling water that's the one. Not that! I mean, you saying the full thing! No, we know that! I was explaining the words since we're playing in English. Yeah, I know. Anyhow, here's the boss in English. I know, I thought you meant... Why? Anyhow, here's the boss. What's the boss' name again? I actually forgot. Bring it to your boss and ask him how he can't above playing the 30s. There we go, thank you. You're welcome. Oh, if only they uh... Yeah, that's a full name. That's the actual full name that they give him? Imagine like, you have a child and you're like what's his name gonna be? Jimmy? Timothy? No it's... It's this's whatever this is haha to repair he does look at like a his name is I i remember like you do your up the software on walk You have this opportunity to unlock. Anyways, moving on... This is the boss. THE BOSS of all time. To be honest, he's probably the best boss in the boss of all time. To be honest, this is probably the best boss in the game in terms of utilizing your bat ease. It really is. And also you can manipulate him so that he... Oh nice, he went around front, thank you. So that he uh... Oh nice, you went around front. Thank you! So that he uh You know, you fight him as quick as possible I mean if we really want to manipulate him That is true I'm not the best at that... so...I don't do that. And we made him drink so much water that his brain blasted! Don't you just hate when that happens? He literally watched too much jimmy neutron chad this is why you should drink enough water that your body needs make sure to drink some water stay hydrated i promise you your brain won't explode maybe. Drink some water just don't drink too much water Just don't drink the entire ocean and if you don't have a fat plumber stomp on your brain that might do it too Oh my goodness. Alright, so, that was Seaside. We only have one more kingdom that heavily revolves around Takatu. We do have to get some moons in Bowser's as well, but it's not as much as Seaside. Seaside is the main last one we have to worry about. I mean, think of Bowser's as like basically Cascade 2 in terms of how the category functions I promise you your brain won't explode maybe. See that should go on the GDQ wall of fame of quotes. Honestly if somebody put that on a shirt I'd probably buy it. I would too! bias absolutely we were talking about this uh in intermission but um the next stream that i have planned for my own channel, at SGDQ, the group that I was mainly hanging out with. And it's a big group. There's like 100 people in this group. We had our own Discord server where we talked about what we were doing each day and stuff like that. In that server we talked about what we were doing each day and stuff like that. And in that server, we had a quotes channel where we quoted out of context things that we said at SGDQ. And some of them were really crazy and made zero uh and some of them were really crazy uh and made zero sense unless you were there uh and so a stream idea that i thought would be really funny if you want to watch this make sure to drop me a follow and show up tomorrow. We're going to go through all the quotes and we're going to make a tier list out of them. Oh wow. Some of them are not for the faint of heart. Some of them are not for the faint of heart. So, some of them probably shouldn't see the light of day ever again and have no explanation. Wait, wait, wait. Just one question. Is the tier list based off of with or without contest? Without contest. I think that's incredibly important. Without contest. To contest, context. It is a contest. Also, another thing here this is our first story moon of Luncheon. Talk to will not spawn unless you do the spin. So, yep. Anyways, so now so yeah anyways so now being stupid is a requirement for this category yeah so now that we do this uh there is um another story moon that's really easy to get and a multi-moon. So we need 18, but we're only probably going to get up to 14 And then we are gonna get those too, because those are super simple. Alright talk to- what do you got for me? Atop the Drudging Crag? That is a good one! An Extreme Simmer? Not so good! Magma Narrowpath? That's not bad at all. Dream Simmer? Not so good. Magma Narrowpath? That's fine. That's not bad. Alright, we're gonna go over here... What is Magma Narrowpath? I know that's in the goop area, but which magma is it? Magna Narrowpath is the main moon of the magmas. Oh yeah it is! Yeah you're right. Okayyyy... That was awesome! We'll just do it this way I guess... This is a Chop the Top of the Jelly Crag One of the most like weird moon names that i've ever heard for jumping craig yeah all right we're gonna go ahead and capture this guy leave us in the story mode we'll go get the Magma one. Maxi from Team Magnus. I agree. Anyhow. With that, here's another moon. And we're also gonna get some purples here because there are three purples right next to the goop door. So we might as well grab those. Yeah... appreciate it. Again just like thinking ahead of routing especially with purple coins and stuff like that this actually works out really well because if worst comes to shove and I get both of the uh moons from the outfit room. It works out to the point where there's enough in the town area, enough purple coins where I'll be perfectly fine to be able to have enough to go over there. I mean, there should 15 in the town straight up. Oh, we're good! Okay! Okay! There's just 15 in the town, straight up. Oh we're good! Okay... We're fine! It loses a little bit of time because you have to watch that animation Of Mario getting his health back and... Honestly, I thought it would be really funny if we had a Mario game Where every time you take damage You have to watch a 30 minute cutscene Of Mario going through the hospital Thankfully that's not this game. Alright, Lunch in Kingdom Timer Challenge 1, that's pretty quick! Beneath the Rolling Vegetables, also quick. We'll do... we'll go do Timer Challenge 1 first. I would not say Beneath the Rolling Vegetables is quick. It's pretty bad. It's not quick, but it's fine. I usually only do it if I absolutely have to, or if I roll all the cracks are fixed or spinning athletics. That's true. I might try to roll one other one first before I go over there. Wait, there's one more moon that you can pair with it. The Magma Notes. Gotcha. Yeah, that is true. Picking notes on the magma path, I believe is the name. Yeah, that's true. Picking notes on the magma path I believe is the name. Yeah. Especially because we haven't gone over there yet. I would like to pair it with something that's closer. Okay, nice. Thanks for the value dive. That's like the fifth one today. Fork flicking Nice, thanks for the value dive. That's like your fifth one today! Fork flicking to the summit... uh that's not that great but it's fine. I mean Forks is generally pretty fast. Okay, I'm gonna go back here though and I'm gonna grab these purples. They're on the other side because I think we've established that I'm definitely going to have to get the costume room one. Can you get up there, Mario? These turnips defy the laws of physics. They really do. Alright, and we're gonna go over here like that. Fork is really quick though, and I'm going to get three purples here as well. Sure. Oh! I- Mario! Ma- Mario! Thank you! MARIO!!! I- Mario. Mar- Mario! Thank you. Listen, if you yell at him... He'll do the thing. Oh wait that whoop, hold up. 8% brain took over. Alright we're good. My brain was like FORKS LET'S DO IT! Good save. Almost grabbed the wrong moon there. Almost, but we're good. We went back Mario had to pick up his car keys and then came right back. Listen, we haven't yet The run's not over. Yeah, we haven't missed one yet. That is true. Shopping! Hey, that works out really well! I can go shopping and get my costume. That's fantastic. I think after shopping, I'll still roll one more time to see if I can get the other costume room. It's very unlikely. Yeah, you roll Strong Simmery and you are so chilling. Also there is not really a reason to like NOT reroll since Talkatyr is just right here. Yeah exactly. Also we have 8 coins! We're mad chillin' right now. Yeah... it was never an issue. Alright, there we go... Nice! But yeah, lunching can be good but also very mean. So far it's been okay. I'd say in terms of like the difficulty scale of kingdoms and talk a 2%, I'd say this is probably the third most difficult kingdom. That's fair. Alright, Powell on salt is fine. I think I'm just going to go ahead and do this now. I don't really want to only have one slot, I'd rather have more so I'd rather just get this over with With Wooded and Metro obviously being above it Oh, Wooded definitely Metro is just a lot Yeah. Oh, wooded definitely. Metro is just... a lot. Ummm.... Cool. Cool! I'm a huge fan of that, actually. I don't know how that happened but sure... We're gonna get this, we're gonna get Power of Unsolved because Power of Unsolved is really quick at the very beginning of The Kingdom I think when you made the Magmado go splat Mario slightly touched the ground yeah all right nice by the way those enemies are called macmanus that's also something i didn't know. You're welcome. The more you know, you know too much about this game sometimes. I know so much useless information. We need to go back to the bub lane The third something The big squid guy Look I play Splatoon And I know a squid when I see him. That is definitely A-Squid......but I don't know the name! Oh my goodness. Alright, two more rolls. I'm gonna hope for one that's on that island over there That I have to go to anyways so... That'd be nice Yeah ideally we're rolling something That allows us to pair beneath the vegetables Corner of the Magma swamp, it's not there but it's very short. Before I fucking detour this one I almost grabbed earlier I need you to long jump Mario Mario! We- It's right there all right thank you this is what i mean by this was very short are you ready to see this he literally just ran down the mountain there you are that's it either way by way, I would not recommend running down a map. Thank you! I needed that......I needed that warning. Yeah, I know. That's why you said it. Alright, I don't know why I did this, but you know what? We're gonna do this. Because it'll look cool. I don't think you quite anticipated how big this gap was. We're good, we made it. Barely had enough, good job! I did anticipate-I knew you could do that. I mean, to be fair, at first, I didn't know that you intended that, like, you wanted to take the damage. Yeah, no, I didn't want to take the damage yet. We're good. Honestly, Fort's sub-area is probably the one that's like the shortest to do both of the moons in so I'm fine with this but I would prefer not to. I mean, Fort was just pretty fast I prefer not to. But we still need four more... Pretty fast, like... Yeah. We need four more moons and then the multi-moon, so again, it would be nice if we got another island moon? Either an island or just keep rolling plaza means. Yeah Like, you still haven't gotten slots. That's the worst part. You're coming down and overlooking. Okay well there is overlooking. Oh okay, there you go. Um... wait so You rolled golden turnip three right? It was two. Oh! Three's the worst. Yeah, but I still don't like that one. I would prefer not to do that one. I mean we do two in Darker Side, it's not that bad. That is true. It's just a lot of trouble to be here it's literally only fast because we compare it with the top the jutted krig yeah oh there's one that's fast oh that one is very fast. Here's this one. It's just right there? There we go! How did they miss it? Okay at least we're ending off luncheon with some quick ones. That's nice. Usually you want to get these, like all of these but we didn't see them for a bit. Pending Athletics end goal. That's rough. It's not that bad! Well, we can do... I'll do that yeah. Wait why did I warp there? You can warp to... Look, not the one I meant to. My brain farted for a second there. Before you go to the island, make sure you grab Neat Plateau Check checkpoint so we can just warp straight out of beneath the rolling vegetables to me oh that is a good idea if you are right that's why i'm here good for ideas. Alright, so we're gonna go up here... And then what you can do is something that I don't know about the- oh! You have to vault your way over to spinning athletics. Another thing that you learn from doing all moons is you can do this by vectoring You wanna explain vectoring? We never did. Oh! Yeah. So basically vectoring is when you essentially move within a 45 degree angle It basically makes sense that way we're moving a bunch more distance. Guys, I'm good at this game. Oh, you didn't vector! That's why you died. That's totally why. Vectoring saves all your troubles. Vectoring truly was definitely the reason. That fun fact, that's actually why some people's flights got delayed. Their pilots didn't know how to vector. That was crazy. Their pilots didn't know how to vector? That was actually insane, by the way, that I lived there. I kind of did some wall running like Mirror's Edge over again. Dude, I'm actually dead the pilots didn't know what that's what kills you that's what you weren't prepared for i've said way weirder things during this run, but okay. Look, we're here for the silly vibes here. You guys like where you're watching? Let us know. I just like need more vegetables. There we go! And now, we'll do the most difficult multi-moon of all time. We have to become meat. Yeah, it's hard. You know, honestly, I think Arby's got some competition because at Arby's they have the meats. Here we became the meat. That's what I want from my food places. I want to become the food. Alright, with that... New meta for restaurants! You just become the food. That's wild. Let's leave this area with that note. Yeah, the reason why we do that multi-moon last. One, it swarps us right back to the Odyssey, but two it's way harder to get back to Fakatu because the checkpoint is taken away. Oh, that's a good thing we're closing it on rbm that is true so for the most part the rest of this is basically any percent uh We do have to do two Taka 2 moons in Bowser's, but that's it. It's usually not a problem. Quote-unquote usual. Usually? There are very few moons that can trip you up but they definitely will if they appear through uh so now we're gonna take a nice breather uh if we could change the game title to spyro the dragon that would be nice or dark souls your pick actually skyrim this is such an off-putting place. Like, when people get here on their first playthrough it's very jarring It's like why are we here? I mean I mean personally some of the coolest kingdoms in this game are just glorified boss arenas which is very disappointing yeah but like if you want a depiction of things that don't fit in Mario games, hello! Look no further. Mario fighting the Lord of Lightning. You know I was not expecting Spyro's souls but I agreed. Spyro's souls... I actually met a bunch of the souls speedrunners at SGDQ. All very awesome people. I could not do that, but hey, I respect them. I actually found out... So, small story time because we have nothing really going on. You damaged Bristleclaw on top of this boss fight, right? I'm gonna call out this story because I thought this was a really cool experience and such a wild, like, small world coincidence at SGDQ. At a room... A hotel room party at SGDQ I found someone familiar and i thought she looked familiar um but i didn't say anything and then hopefully just randomly she shook my hand and she was like you don't remember me do you we went to middle school together and i was like remember me do you we went to middle school together and i was like wow it's you so like and it turns out she's a very popular streamer she speedruns soulsborne games uh her name is parkin harbour and yeah we went to middle school together hadn I hadn't seen her in 8 years And of all places I saw her at SGDQ So yeah, very small world Just wanted to point that out it's such a really cool thing That I never expected to happen, so there you go. Yeah, I mean, that's honestly pretty incredible when you just meet old-time acquaintances just randomly like like, acquaintances. Just, like, randomly like, you know you just wouldn't expect it at all. Yeah, it's not even like It's also the fact that she still lives in the same area that I live in and she never left i thought she did uh and also she's um with um little aggie who's a soulsborne speedrunner and he also lives here. So they're like ten minutes away from me, and I never knew. That's crazy. Yeah, it was a small world, and just goes to show you never know who your going to meet if you go to GDQs in person. Also, I mentioned this before, Sgdq was a great time highly suggest it. It's my first time going to a GDQ in person, and I would definitely recommend anybody who's interested to do so as well. It's a very good experience. For sure, for sure. You guys want to hear about Mario don't you? And with that we're moving on to the final kingdom. Now that we're out of our trolling there are no other kingdoms happening. Now that we're out of Dark Souls land, we can talk about Mario again and not Dark Souls. It's literally Bowser's kingdom guys like there's no other kingdom happening exactly this is the end so the way that this the way of this world works is um there is we need eight moons to leave uh this uh to lead this kingdom but we're only gonna get six, but Takatu does not spawn until you get the multi-moon. Whoops. Missed that. I believe this is also the only instance where the moon outline does not show during the main game. That is true. You don't know how many moons you need until after. So right now I'm just gonna rush story and then by the time we get there... I would like to assume that the reason why they did this is because They wanted to bring suspense and be like, Is this the final showdown? Yeah, sure. Spoiler! No. Otherwise I'd have no idea why they refused to do that. Someone just said, Honestly I'm to tell you this right now. If you go to SGDQ and you don't know anyone or anything like that or you're not in the Spearman community, trust me, you will find people. That's the best part is that everybody vibes really well there The vibes were really good There are people I met at SgDQ that I had never like talked to ever before and we became really good friends from there, so... Again, it's really up to whether or not you can manage it financially, of course. But if you have the chance to go, I say give it a shot because it's a completely different experience from watching it at home than being in there in person. It's just pretty surreal, too. Alright, so that was our second moon and then we're gonna have quick refights with both Harriet and......and Topper. This name's Topper. Thank you! Yeah, that's it. Man I I always forget that name. It's not like King Crusader the Bub-Lane Master III Whatever his name is that guy's name just rolls off the tongue actually all right are we harriet or topper first i am a harriet first enjoyer and if you're uh if you enjoy doing topper first don't worry we all have opinions and yours is just wrong yeah for some reason um ever since this game was released the speedrunning community has just had a giant debate on which bunny to do first. And the real answer? It doesn't matter. At least, let's see what you would think. I must be a bad speedrunner who does this. Wait, wait, wait. I mean, that's what you would think but they actually did measure the pixel difference between these two arenas and Harriet is exactly one pixel closer. That's actually funny.'ve always done harriet first a lot of time there because i accidentally hit those bombs back if you want to save not even a frame you do do Harry at first. Hey we're speedrunners! We're gonna save all the time we can. I didn't even know that but now that i know that i'm vindicated so... For some reason what- I mean to be fair, I actually do know the reason. So you know those boxes off to the side of each of the arenas? Yeah, does that make the arena have to be slightly bigger or something? Yeah, so apparently... The boxes on the topper side are slightly further away than the ones up there. That's insane. I mean, it's not noticeable unless if you actually like measure the pixels within the code room so Yeah, that was uh it was three fights and is usually that's the only time in a percent you see Harriet but we actually saw her in this run because We went up to uh... The Inverted Pyramid. I mean, in any percent, the only time You see any of the Brutals assuming You're doing the top level routes is tap and here. That is true. Yeah we cut out the rest of them Also I hear some sick movement. I always love that movement. Nice little insta-capture there. And we are going to make sure we get the top checkpoint for later because Fakatu is going to be up there. Definitely important. Yeah, I avoid the other ones so it's easier to select that checkpoint. Absolutely. Yeah, there's Beneath the Keep and now it's time for everybody's least favorite boss to spear when you start off running this game. This is the brutal mech. I do this a safer way, I don't do birdless mech just because I prefer not to. But... Yeah, but we'll or not to. But, yeah. What we're gonna do is there are all the Brutals that are on this mech in little bubbles and you have to either poke them with the Pokeo or ground pound them. And we're going to try our best to stay on top of the mech after... I don't know why I did that. Okay, so I didn't hit the button. That's fine. What we can do instead of the backup, I guess. That was really unfortunate. You're not supposed to do that, but thankfully Nintendo did this. There we go. Alright, there we go. Yeah, think I fat fingered it maybe? I don't know. Now that we're up hopefully he will stay up That's fine I think Should be good. Yeah you're good! Nevermind. This might be the worst I've done on this fight in a very long time. That's really unfortunate, actually. I think if you rainbushed then he probably would have... I tried! I was hitting the buttons. That was really unfortunate. Oh well. Alright, now we have to do the same thing again but this time I gotta wait for a Poke-O We also gotta avoid the onion rings of death. That is what they're called, canonically actually. I actually have no idea what they are called for once. I do not know. I like eating the onion rings of death honestly honestly. So I'm gonna stick with that. Listen, I'm perfectly down to call them the Onion Ring of Death. Okay good at least I got back on that one. That was a pretty rough one. I normally don't fall off there and then I fat fingered... But it's fine! Whatever we're good. It happens. We'll move on. whatever we're good it happens it happens to the best moving on and so now we have to do talk too so we're not done just yet i don't think we're going to be able to sub two hours that's completely fine a low 2-h's completely fine uh a low two hours completely fine by me as long as we hit go under the estimate so i put up the estimate high um because of the fact that this is very rng dependent and we haven't been getting the best RNG because of course not. It's marathon work. I felt like our RNG outside of Metro and Snow were actually pretty good. Yeah, that is true. It could have been a lot worse. Like your RNG was probably slightly below average, but it's playable RNG and that's what you're looking for. Yeah. At the end of the day, I had a fun time. I know Chad did too. And if you would want to run this category or any category, uh, for a matter of fact, feel free to join the Mario Odyssey Discord server. There's a bunch... This is on category extensions. There's a bunch of different category extensions and main categories to keep you busy if you enjoy playing this game. Hoking your nose in a plaster wall, that's fine! Jizzo in the hidden room? That's fine... Dashing into all of the clouds- that's the Jizo secret room, right? I think. Which one? The Jizo in the Hidden Room. Um...Jizo in the Hidden Roof. Wait...I think it is is she's on that yeah i i think you're right because there's shuo all in a row and then Jizo beneath... There's Shizuo all in a row under the ground. And then there was this other one- No, no, I'm thinking correctly. You're good, you're good. It's just this one here. The reason why it tripped me up is because you could sort of think that the other one is hidden room but then it wouldn't make sense for that one to not be named Underground Jizo. Yeah. So yeah, we did. then what's the plaster wall oh wait i know which one it is it's uh it's this one it's the uh it's the one behind here. We're gonna have to do a nice little cheeky jump here. Oh, oh wait! This is the one you get in Darker Side in Bowser 2? Yeah. I do remember this one. Is this the one you get in Darker's side In Bowser's 2? Yeah I do remember which one it is There's two of them, there's two of these holes That you can find The other one is called the turret wall I'll be honest My Bowser moon knowledge is pretty lacking this is like the one that i have the least amount of knowledge on so i've only got ones remembered yeah there we go. For sure. Alright, there we go. And that is all the moons that we need for the run! Yeah, that is it for Talkatoo. Goodnight, sweet prince. I need art of that! I need someone to make art of Goodnight Sweet Prince with Talkatu on there. With Taka too, I mean. Is GDQ over? Or GDQ Live over? Yes, SGDQ is over but Flame Fatales is soon which it's sooner than I expect But, Flame Fatales is soon. It's sooner than I expected. I forgot how soon it was. I don't have the dates anymore. Why don't I have the dates? There, August 18th to 23rd. In this particular case I would say I want to kill the animals because Talk 2 is very infuriating. Okay, it continues true. Anyway! Anyway? It's August 18th through 25th. Volunteer applications are actually open right now until July 10th, so if you are a Fatal and you would like to volunteer for the event now until tomorrow. It's like, two days from now! Alright Mario let's not have moments like that please. Joey just finish the run, please. I'm trying my best. In all seriousness... In all seriousness, I'm happy with how this run has gone considering I did zero practicing and haven't played Mario Odyssey in months. I mean, I practiced so hard for this run and it all went according to plan. This has gone very well so alright so this is moonskip and i got moon skip nice there you go And I got moonskip. Nice! There you go. Fun fact, that trick is actually patched totally All the comments on my moonskip tutorial That are no longer available because my YouTube channel got deleted when it got hacked. But I uploaded a moonskip tutorial, which is where a lot of people learn how to do moonskip, which is what most people know me in the Mario Odyssey community for. Instructions unclear. Brigadier Milosk lancered off and a bubbling III was up there instead. Anyways, uh... There were comments on that video being like I can't do it. It's patched I try for five minutes and it's patched So anytime I do that trick I always say that it's bad shit. I mean, to be fair, his galactic offspring are in the moon kingdom. They're called astral lancers. Bro, you're having a conversation with yourself right now. What is going on? That's true, you have work tomorrow but your still here I am! You didn't have to commentate. No! You could've said no. No, honestly. That's fair. Like I said that's fair. That's fair. You feel like I said that's fair and not, no, like, that's good? No, that's fair. Of course. So yeah this is Bowser. We're doing the same thing we did before where we put up our boxing gloves and just absolutely did a TKO. I told him we'd be back, he didn't believe it. It's true. Aggron... We're so back why do we actually got people in chat saying it too earlier people are just probably saying yeah I was like it's catching on! Let's go. That's huge, dude. You gotta patent that shit. That is true. I must patent it. Anytime someone says we're so bad they have to pay me $10. $10? Well, it's Canadian dollars so they have to pay 10 cents in US. Oh yeah. Don't remind me about our conversion rate. There was so many god dang Canadian jokes at STQ you don't understand! I'm so glad to be back here of my kind. Guys, we are escaping the clutches of... That is true. We have about two minutes left So our time here was nice. Assuming nothing horrible happens. You don't say it like that. Look, I promise... Actually, this is a good time to explain my history with this category. When I was trying to grind for sub 2 Uh...I actually had a very good pace Like a 1-58 pace But I died at the end of escape which made me start over from The beginning of the Bowser section. And of course right after that happened and I was feeling really defeated because I wouldn't get the PB, Spike Vegeta raided me with a party of 289! So it was a party of 289 so it was a mix of notions that i had pretty huge honestly so shout out to spike for making that moment not as sad not completely terrible it Not completely terrible. It was still terrible, but not completely terrible. Exactly. Anyhow... Listen, there was a silver lining to this. Time for the most unfitting music in any Mario game. There is a brighter side... This! I call this split anime, uh, for a good reason. Anyhow we're gonna go ahead and do this and time is going to be coming up pretty soon in like a minute. I did not hit those. Hold up, we're gonna go back. We're so bad. This is Pillar Room otherwise known as Mr. Shot Room. Yeah, I honestly thought I would hit at least more than one of them but whatever it's fine. This room is infamous for killing many sub-hours. Yep, unfortunately that is very true. No like literally back in the day when you had so many different runners try to compete to get the first sub-hour. So many sub-hours were killed by them. All right, so get ready on time. It's looking like a 2-0- 201 which honestly with the RNG we had I'll have to take it and also you know Not that like my rusty movement And Time movement. And... Time! There you go! There it is. I'll take a 201, again my PBs are 151, uh We compared in the break to what my PB was at at the end of Metro. My PB was 8 minutes ahead. So being about 10 minutes off PBs eight minutes ahead. So, being like about ten minutes off PB in a very RNG heavy run I'll happily take that. But yeah, that was Taka 2%. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you feel like you don't want to run any percent, you want a bit of extra flair and on-the-fly routing, definitely try this out. It's probably the most popular... Aside from a category that... I had to preface this. This is an actual category called Nipple Percent. This is probably the most popular... This is probably the most popular category extension to run. So, yeah like I said check out the SMO discord if you want to get into spearing this game, or learn more about any category that's going on, uh... Or, like, that you're interested in. And, uh, if you want to check out me, if you liked our funny shenanigans and you-you like how goofy I am, check me out at twitch.tv slash kingjo444 It's not a zero, it's an O, just so people know. And I run a bunch of games I run all the 3D Mario games, I'll be participating in the 3D Mario 602 in like five days from now. And then I run other stuff like Splatoon and Celeste indie games and whatever so whatever I feel like basically. Hi Brad, where can they find you? And yeah guys, if you enjoyed my antics and thumbtacks about this game. You can find me at awesome underscore aggron, and while I'm not actively speedrunning, I am a competitive Settlers of Tom so you can catch me covering those games, you can catch me playing those games and yeah, it's a lot of fun. Maybe one day I'll pick up speedrunning. If you want to follow the only person who knows the actual Seaside boss name from Hearts, check them out! I'm very sure I'm not the only person but I'm probably one of very few. You're the only one in my mind that I can think of. But yeah, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it. I always like running Mario on Hotfix, so glad I could bring this to the screen. Yeah, for sure. Great job. Oh no, I don't have anything. sorry go ahead oh no i don't have anything this is thank you both thank you both for being on really appreciate y'all coming on uh definitely give both of these two a follow here and again yeah thank you so much for being on right after SGEQ. Appreciate it. This is all we have for you tonight. For those of you who are looking to watch some more SDQ stuff right after the show. We're going to be replaying some of our SGDQ runs on the channel, and we do have more Hotfix stuff for you tomorrow, so for anybody who's new to the GDQ Hotfix, tomorrow at 7pm we have As Seen on TV followed by Express Lane. So that starts at 7pm Eastern. As Seen on TV is games based off of TV shows or cartoons, stuff like that. Express Lane is speedruns under an hour. It'll be a blast. Hope to see you all there. Have a great night. you........ you on Hi, hello. Also don't worry about her she's taking a sunbath. Yeah welcome to the Horror Block. I'm Nerd. I like to run a lot of indie horror games. Join me is Slayton. You're seeing him running My Friendly Neighborhood later in the marathon. In fact, you might have seen on the GDQ Twitter we did a Runners React together. It was pretty fun. Yeah, I'll be doing Poppy Playtime Chapter 3. Just Chapter 3 because this game has an episodic release format going on with its chapters kind of like bendy and the machine or walking dead or something and as they're saying during the intermission i'm doing any percent out of bounds unrestricted uh many percent pretty straightforward uh out of balance refers to the glitch check i'm allowed to use and without a bounce anything goes. And unrestricted basically means I'm allowed to cap the frame rate below 60 which is helpful for a couple of tricks early on I'll also be doing a lot or a bit of counting at the start just to line up some global cycles so we're going uh start the intro. This game starts off directly where Chapter 2 ends off. Basically, in this series, we're in this factory filled with a whole bunch of haunted toys and at the end of Chapter 2, we tried taking a train to get out of here but it crashed so we're gonna get thrown down the trash chute by Catnap who's kind of the main villain of this chapter. And I'll be doing a bit of counting. Normally we do a 3-2-1 countdown with these runs, but we're going to do a countdown from 6 this time because I need to count to 7 for this. So time because i need to count the seven for this so six five four three two one go yeah Go. Yeah. So you might be wondering, hey why did you just wait at the start? There's a good reason for that. Because there are some pistons I'll be running on right over there those pistons run on a global cycle which begins as soon as the intro cutscene starts and by waiting for a little bit there it lines up the pistons so I don't have to wait for them to move. Good couple seconds or so save at the start And you're supposed to go over here and do a tutorial, but instead I'm going to attack that checkpoint and run back because tutorials are slow. So we're gonna do our first prop fly cause that's something you'll be seeing a lot so I'll just grab this chair real quick and try to hover with it. Hovering on props is very volatile because, as you can see, they like to flail around a lot so this might take a little bit to get working in case you were wondering this is the correct way to use a ladder actually yeah Yeah, exactly. Alright so we got out of bounds with the chair but that's only part one. We're about to do part two and this is the unrestricted part because I'm going to persist for myself pretty precisely on that chair go to okay accidentally change the resolution one second there we go uh Resolutions set aside, We'll go to 15 FPS and off we go! I'm gonna walk backwards and jump off the chair They'll give me a ton of height So just swing ourselves over there And we're going to hit checkpoint right here So we'll just swing ourselves over there, and we're gonna hit a checkpoint right here. I need to change the FGS back to 60 so that the game isn't super choppy And we're back in bounds! Yeah Thank goodness Yeah. Thank goodness, I think I could smell the frames from in there. Yeah but it's not over yet because we're about to do another one after we do this quick puzzle uh because normally there's around the two minute cut scene here where you ride a tram and the game gives you like exposition about why you're here and where you're headed, which is called the play care. It's kind of the main hub of the game. And so I'm gonna activate those two levers that activates a load trigger and then going to try to hover up at this chair which again is very volatile so hopefully it behaves all right cool that was actually pretty fast that was good so i hit that low trigger while on top of the tram so that I'm on top of the tram when the next map loads. Because similarly to that first big prop flight I did with the chair, we're gonna do another one in this tunnel. And like I said, the profiles are very volatile. The chair will any profit especially the chair just likes to jostle around where you're trying to fly with it and it's particularly rough on this one because you have to get up pretty far with this next one. It also likes to do that, just like to bounce around on the lip of the concrete in the tunnel. All right cool so we'll set ourselves up again. The positioning of the cursor isn't super precise but you still have to be kind of exact with it and just like before, we're gonna go and fly. Gonna walk backwards off the chair and jump. They'll rock me up in the sky. Change the FPS back to 60 so the game isn't super choppy again. And the entire reason we're doing this is to skip that tram ride I was talking about. It also avoids some minor puzzling you'd have to do once you get to the plague here. And as I'm falling down here, I'm going to try to line myself up because I need to line myself up with that gray dot right there in order to hit a load trigger. There we go. Because that way there's no visible wall right here when I try to jump this corner and we're in the first area now. That was amazing. Yeah, like an 80% run doesn't do it justice but there's a lot of really cool stuff you can do in this game. I highly recommend looking at some of the longer categories like hundo for example mind if i break in real quick with two other really amazing things yeah sure first we are past two- thirds of the way there on that incentive. Thirteen thousand six hundred and six dollars. And second, we have raised over two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for Doctors Without Borders. Thank you all so much! Good job everybody. Alright, so normally you're supposed to do again more tutorial stuff. We want to go up to the final boss. Yeah I know a bit of a jump but we are suppose to take the elevator to get there but it's kind of broken right now, so we're going to take the express route which as you might have guessed is with another prop fly. Like I said these prop flies are very volatile and they can move around a lot So whenever I'm doing these prop flies, whether it's with the barrel, the chair or as you'll see later, a gas can, I'm doing a little bit of camera manipulation to try to steer the prop to go to where I want it but even then sometimes it just decides to be a jerk That actually was pretty clean, holy crap So by climbing up there that barrel and touching that door I've touched a load trigger which loads me into the final boss just like that we just get 90% the game uh you're supposed to go to like four to five different yeah you're supposed to go like four to five different areas but we just skipped that completely. And this final boss I like to call Playtime Co-Tower Defense because what this is it's a three minute timed survival section Catnap, the big cat I was talking about before he is going to attack us as well as several fake versions of Catnap from these four lanes you can see me checking occasionally and I have to defend myself by springing some traps like this little smoke column right there and every 45 seconds while this three minute timer is going. I have to put in a battery in that central terminal because eventually we're gonna defeat Catnap by electrocuting him. And it's random where Catnap goes, so I have to kind of react where he is. So yeah there's the first battery. There are two in terminal already, so we have two more to go. And it's pretty straightforward besides that although there is a cycle I'm hopefully...or a pattern I am hopefully going to get, because again it's random which trap or lane he goes to. So we're hoping for a good pattern here although sometimes i can get a pattern where he is just very passive and loops around the arena and doesn't ever go towards me. And it looks like he might have gotten that, but we'll see. Yeah, I think we're getting the pattern where he's passive so you can probably read a few donations while we're waiting here you've got it we've got $ 500 from swag peanut saying uh oh oh no and i'm pretty sure that went towards our allen Wake 2 Do The Dance incentive. Thank you so much, Swap Peanut. Yeah. Watch Alan Wake 2 by the way it's gonna be super sick. $10 from Dark Triangle Coffee! You are not coffee try the coffee do the dance fifty dollars from shibuya Gato. It's been a rough day today, but CDQ is doing a lot to bring it back around. You know what would really lift my spirits though? Seeing Alan Wake do that funny little dance. And Mr. Gibb, good boy sending in $10 to MSF saying keeping my eyes open Looney Tunes style stay awake for Poppy's playtime. Let's go we say it's time for one more yeah you have like 45 seconds or so for more donations got it cat sending in 250 saying i woke up at 6 a.m for this and the dance would be a great way to start my day just under 14 000 out of $20,000. You are all doing amazing. Please keep it up. You've got about 30 minutes and that's being a little generous. $50 from Luna Mora. The Alan Wake dance fills me with determination i think that run might be later in the week but i appreciate the sentiment thank you so much. $25 from a Rosev there they are Albert faces of stone that is that is a quote from David Lynch, according to the donation. So I hope I got that read right for you. Thank you so much. $50 from Scott and Pam. Show me the champion of light. I'll show you a $50 donation doing our small part to get one of the greatest and most unexpected moments of allenway 2 shown at gdp oh yeah this guy seems very loud by the way because it turns out he's electric or allergic to fire. It's okay little buddy you're okay yeah it's okay he's gonna be very not okay in a second. You didn't hear that. Yep, there it goes. Also I don't know if you noticed but the little arm there that was bringing him up, because of the lighting I used to be able to see Catnap during this fight. You can see the edge of his arm and it's just floating in midair. It looks so goofy. That's a final boss pretty much done. But it is not over yet, we have one more skip to do still because after we defeat that boss, there's supposed to be like a four minute unskippable cutscene where you get a huge lore dump at the end of the game I'm going to do another fly, this time with a very thin gas can to trigger the ending early and I'll go into it more depth when it actually happens because it happens pretty quickly So I'm gonna grab the gas can at 75 FPS this time not 60 And then grab that barrel cuz one basically going to try to do here is stretch out the hands or the arms of the grab pack, which are these little hands right here to the maximum length they can possibly go uh...to try and get some weird physics glitch with this gas can. So is there a reason you go up in FPS for this one compared to the other tricks where you went down? Props behave differently at different FPS, and for the gas can, 75 FPS is best. I think I got it. So you can see how what the gas game is falling there it's very floaty I'm basically going to do this fly below this elevator because the trigger that causes the ending to happen is just below this elevator. So I have to fly below the elevator, to get around some invisible walls and then fly up to hit the trigger. So I'm gonna do just that right now And it's as precarious as it looks, rest assured. OK. That's a little weird but managed to save it. And what's scary about this is that the entire time at the bottom there's a death trigger. So if I fall at all during this it's all over, but looks like we're safe. Just have to fly up and hit the trigger. Just kidding, I'm gonna bail. Once you hit that trigger it doesn't matter what you do as long as you're alive when the ending happens uh...you're all good. Also time is in a little bit by the way when the screen cuts to black time All right. Time! Amazing job. Yeah, that was actually pretty clean. I saw in the layout that it was 11 and a half minutes which is super freaking clean Like to give a point of perspective with how risky this run can get, past that skip i did where i did that big prop fly next to the tram the checkpoints don't work so if i had to reload at all like if i failed that last trick it would have had to load a back-up auto safe. But we didn't have to do that, so yay! So yeah. That was a wild run, my gosh. You think the crowd liked it, yeah? Yeah! See, while we're into credits, I want to give a few shout-outs. First of all, Slayton for couching. Again, watches my friendly neighborhood run later it's gonna be great i also want to shout out some people from the poppy community in particular one want to shout out OnTrigger Loman or LA and Noki because they did a lot of lich hunting for this chapter when it first came out and in general like speaking generally i want to shout out slighten again and uh quincy who i know is probably watching because they've been very supportive my my speedrunning efforts, Poppy or otherwise. And also I just want to shout out GDQ for letting me run Poppy again. It's my first time running in person like six years and it's with pop and this was poppy of all games it's i when i ran chapter two a while ago was already an honor so it's just an honor to run again amazing yeah did all Amazing. Did all of you enjoy seeing Nerd in person here? Amazing run. We had a catnap on the couch by the way, I don't know if i mentioned that. Shout out to Catnap for being such a good sport. Yeah, you helped me get a good run thanks. Yeah, that's uh... I think that's about it for me. Stay tuned for the rest of the horror block, we have a lot of sick runs coming up. Especially on week two. Watch it. Donate to make them do the dance! Yeah. so Hi. Thank you for that, teachery. I am Swah Peanut. You may call me Rai as that is my name but swapping it's also acceptable behind the couch we have the lovely sweet peeps hello and astrid the horror girl hello'm Master of the Horror Girl and uh...I am ready to get this case solved. Alright thank you. So just real quick about Alan Percent. What we are doing here is showcasing Alan Wake's half of the game, as you may know the game divided between Alan Wake's story, Initiation, Saga Anderson's story, Return. We're going to bypass using Chapter Select the introduction to Saga Anderson and jump right into Alan Wake's tale. And we'll be mostly Alan until the end, until then. We good? You ready to count us down? Alright, in three two one, go! Now over the next hour we are going to attempt to answer the following question. Is Alan Wake a good writer? No. Don't shout out the answer just yet if you have any supporting, please do not hesitate to donate and let us know. Alright here we find Alan exactly where we left him. Well Alan was in the dark place at the end of Alan Wake 1. I guess he's in a dark place now? He doesn't seem to know. We'll just assume that he is. But he appears to be in the green room of a talk show studio. So our first objective is going to be escaping from here. Pete, tell us what we're seeing here. That's right. Alan Wake 2 continues the signature remedy trend of combining live action and gameplay creating a very immersive story. That's right. We're just going gonna dive into a tv as you do uh wake up from a weird interview don't worry about that play the game you're going to love it uh run down this hallway to our first obstacle uh It's going to be a keypad...Peebs what was the code for that? 665. The neighbor of the beast? Neighbor of the Beast The number of the donation train let's keep that going i'd love to hear this very interesting you know so alan finds himself here trying to escape the dark place. And where he finds himself is in a bit of a loop. And we'll see our first example right here. I was just going to touch this door. Oh no, Alan got eaten by the devil. Just kidding. He's awake. He's here in his writer's room where he's been the whole time. That's right. The writer's room is actually a physical location in the dark place, the nightmare dimension found beneath Cauldron Lake and from there he sort of astral projects out into the dark place as he writes each of these drafts of initiation in an attempt to escape back to his lovely and beautiful wife Alice. Mm-hmm, and here we are again at the start of another loop. What does that mean? We're in The Green Room again. We gotta escape once again. We get to see the talented David Harewin here as Mr. Dooler. Until we get to next obstacle teacher he gave us a quick one. Absolutely a very special quick one. $100 from Pam Kerrigan! Oh my God. Shearing on Swamp Peanut. That's my mama. Aww. Thanks, Mom. Thanks for dog-sitting for me while I'm out here doing this. All right, Alan's going to run the corner again. What was that code one more time? 665. Oh, you'd think it's 565. Huh. Fooled ya. So you're saying that as he progresses through the spiral, each of these loops, he tries something different and gets a little further each time? It does appear that way. Oh! We'll see how that affects when we try to go through this door, whether or not we get eaten by the devil once again here in The Dark Place, a nightmare dimension where things become reality underneath Cauldron Lake. We all know this of course uh we're gonna run through here oh who is that it's otty the janitor shout out to you after the janitor from control always a friendly face, here to help yet another Remedy protagonist. I'm just going to walk away from Aki real quick. Sorry buddy, we've got to interrupt your dialogue. We still love you though. Love you Aki. So Aki's gonna give us a little entrance here. I don't really speak Finnish idioms but I do pick up that he's trying to give me a gift he left in the basement. I'm always happy to receive a present. So let's take the key, head down to the basement. Teacher, give me a quick and while I round the corner here. Certainly, I was going to read the agreed-upon questions for our interview but they all appear to have been mysteriously replaced by comments from our viewers and watchers including $166.50 from Vamp. our viewers and watchers including 166 dollars and 50 cents from vamp i all vent from the remedy entertainment discord server here so stoked to see alan wake too when i wake up in the morning all my love to our amazing community and show me the champion of light well we'll see it'll either be that or a different thing uh first i gotta come in this room kick a stool shove shove a chair. And we'll find out in half an hour what that was for. I promise it will be relevant. But we're going to pick up the angel lamp. Eve, tell me about it. Yes, the angel lamp is one of Alan's main mechanics in the game. Using the lamp you will see plenty of examples of this on the run don't worry but using the lamp either pulling light from or adding light to various light sources. As you can see here, it changes the environment allowing him to progress through each level That's right and chat every time we pull out a lamp I would love to see some GDQ lamp emotes in the chat if you got them. For example right now let's see those lamps and that's the chapter. T3 how about one or two? Absolutely in a quick update on the incentive overall just under 90%. We have just $2,000 left to go and just a few minutes left to get there. Nick sends in $50 asking to show me the champion of light Sam wise with five dollars to MSF Alan wake up it's Pride Month too yeah all right well first thing we do when we escape at talkshow studio as you might expect. We talked on the phone to a handsome stranger The man tells us to go to subway station but we know in order to get down there we're going to have to collect a charge for our angel lamp. Because we played this game before and we know where to get it, we'll run down this alleyway and see the light down at the end of it. Pick it up. How interesting. Interesting, interesting. The case is coming together. Sorry, I interrupted. Who's... Who's this guy in the corner? Max Payne?! No, that is not Max Payne. That is Detective Alex Casey. He loves ketchup. He does love ketchup, this is the fictional character Alan has been writing his six book series on for the majority of his literary career well hold on we gotta let him stage die first yeah there we go okay and now he's left a gun and a flashlight here. We're just going to clean up a little bit take this with us First thing we are gonna do, grab the light here. Let's see those lamps. Don't worry about these shadowy men. They're not real. they can't hurt you we'll just run on past them caveat some of them can actually hurt you we just stop we just run right by him and a note here even though alan picks up the gun in the flashlight the flashlight he will use the gun there are no quick interruption we do have an orb here if anybody cares. If anybody cares! There are no mandatory encounters as Alan, even in the Glitchless run there is one maybe sort of encounter. It's all movement and out-of-bounds tech. maybe sort of encounter. It's all movement and out-of-bounds tech. And we'll get to see that very shortly. I'm starting to think the lamp might be a metaphor. It does sound like that. A man who uses the power of light and darkness to change his environment in positive ways? I'm gonna call it... It's a Metaphor. That's a metaphor gamers! It's a metaphor... Look, I've known many writers who use subtext Subtext in my day And they're all cowards. Alright, we're about to be introduced to the first group. Don't be distracted. Alan just wants to climb ladders a little bit differently you know what else hits a little bit differently we just met that 20 000 thank you so much everyone. And now back to your regular schedule glitch explanation. So let me explain this real quick. If Alan does a melee and then grabs the ladder at the same time, not quite the same time, Alan don't embarrass me... He'll cancel the grab animation and just start climbing in place. This is the main glitch that we use to get around out of bounds. We'll see it right here, Just gonna dive on down to this second light charge And pick it up and be on our way interesting we call this falling with style take that up turn around go through here, yes Alan I know you need to get through the line. So what we're about to perform is called the Subway Skip. Oh, why's it called that? Well, you skip the subway. Ahhhh! So first thing we do open the exit of the subway even though we don't do most of the level. We still need to exit from the subway here in a little bit and will grab another charge with us to help us on that exit Where we are going now is actually backwards through the intended route. You may have seen Alan's peculiar ladder climbing technique, so we are gonna take Alan back here and find another ladder first. We're here at the street level, just going to walk down to the rooftops As you do? Yes. All right. And next we're going to make just a itty bitty safety save in this safe room up here before we find the ladder. Tea Tree what's the good news the the good news was two thousand dollars from spooky one saying can't let that dance incentive go unfinished to talk dance and so we shall alan's just gonna approach this ladder from the rear and climb backwards into a building. Just like a funny little guy that he is. Do a little bit more dodging as we fall, take a peek and just fall down into the void, into darkness. And you may be able to make up some shapes down here. What we're looking at is actually the hotel, The Ocean View Motel actually the hotel, uh, the Ocean View Motel. Hotel? Sorry. Uh, that we'll encounter later. The developers actually store this way under the map and then have you teleport around but we have a little bag of tricks where we could just fall into a hole in dodge forward 36 times and make it to the hotel. We're about to land on a hardwood floor, I promise you'll see in just a moment. Ahhhhhh There it is. Take a little nosedive off the edge here And there's The hallway of the hotel Just take A little, oh now we're just floating In the sky There's a lot happening here We'll try to keep up Oh, now we're just floating in the sky. There's a lot happening here. We'll try to keep up. So where we are actually is the interior of the hotel which is not here yet because it's not... It's just a vacant building and hasn't turned into the ocean view yet but we've fallen we end on a little ledge here and this is a little delicate place where you can soft lock but if we hug it a little tightly and dash forward we can make our way down onto the street below um we did all of that just to get outside of an invisible barrier there as we're outside of the play area uh you can tell that most easily by these cars having no collision to them. He's a ghost! Maybe, I don't know. I don't know, he's written something very strange here. The next part we need to get a little bit precise. We hug up to this car here, line up with the curb and oh! We're falling through the floor. Uh-oh Three...four...five Uh-oh. 3, 4, 5, 6 7... 8 Dodges forward and now this is the most anxiety inducing part of every Alan Wake 80% run, which is the 40 second free fall into the pit where we don't know if it worked or for soft locked until the very end. I've always spilled a little bit of that time with some donations. $10 from non-existent pumpkin for doctors without borders, I found myself in an unfamiliar place. A convention center full of people and games played quickly. I was mesmerized by the tech and skips employed by these players. I knew that only path forward was to donate to Doctors Without Borders. I'm Alan Wake. Alright, we're either going to land inside of a tunnel or on top of it. We got it first try so normally the subway level in a glitchless run it takes about eight minutes and that was about three minutes of setup which still leaves us a net time safe of five minutes and this is a speeder on every second count and it looks so darn cool i love that but i hate repeating it over and over when alan embarrasses me so we've skipped the entirety of the subway. We bypassed our first showdown with The Dark Presence, which as we all know is the demonic entity who dwells within the dark place and nightmare dimension where figuring becomes reality. We all know this So we're just gonna emerge from a tunnel and see our buddy Bobby taking a nap over here just get a little rest next to his own heart don't worry about that i'm just gonna say a little hello and that'll be the end of chapter two. I'm starting to think this might be a horror story see you nightingale next time we're gonna make a quick exit chapter, at the end of every loop follows the same structure. First we escape from the talk show studio and second we find our way to our murder site. And using the murder site alan is able to descend deeper into the dark place recover some of his lost memories find his way back to his apartment in dark new york city but first we need to escape from this in dark New York City. We're on the subway! But first, we need to escape from this but because we never opened this door, we can't walk through it we just need to get a precise position here flip the switch on and off and we're out and here now alan is making his way downtown. He has walking fast faces are passing. He is homebound to Parliament Tower to the sort of nightmare reflection of the apartment he shared in The Real new york with his beautiful wife alice that's true uh tea tree i'll let you uh tell us what you got until the end of this chapter absolutely justine and francisco are telling us what they've got a 25 donation saying swap peanut small peanut they ain't no peanut they're a grown speed runner gotta go fast buddy thank you justine and francisco twenty dollars in from abu kamu swabbing peeps delighted to see you on stage for this masterpiece of a game have fun showing off this wonderful run, don't let the RNG get to ya, and have a blessed and fun GDQ. Shout out to the Alouette community as a whole and all the fantastic runners at this show. Thank you so much, Kevin. Alice! Alice! Keep going. The Neighbor of the Beast $66.65 from Slidante! Show me the Champion of Light and pet the mayor while you're at it! We are almost to 50% on that incentive as well so please keep it up! Yeah I gotta find out more about this mayor. Yeah why are we paying him? I don't wanna ask questions right now. $50 from Zudmud! I brought you the donation which showed me to dance. Glad to see how my two featured in a GDQ here's to the dance and having them there. Thank you so much, thanks for all those donors That was the first draft of initiation here now we are going to take a little interlude we're gonna actually visit new protagonist Saga Anderson for a couple of minutes. Here, we are going to see her game mechanic briefly the case board inside of her mind place, her version of the Mind Palace technique where she uses clues and interviews to collect clues and put them on a face board much like this to solve a mystery. What mystery? Don't worry about it. Astrid will figure that out. Yeah, Astrid will figure it out. Hey wait a minute why are we interviewing Alan Wake? Weren't we just Alan Wake? I don't care about that. Who's that across the table? Max Payne! No, that is not Max Payne. That is FBI Special Agent Alex Casey, the real man that Alan Wake has been spying on using his magic powers for the entirety of his literary career. Where is Sheriff Breaker? Where IS he?! Well, this all sounds complicated. Uh...Tea Tree, I'll let you take it until we get back to Ally. Another Neighbor of the Beast donation from Trade Door! The donation train watched us show you the choo-choo champion of light ah they can't all be winners folks but every donation every donation is a winner she drew a weapon fifty dollars from dark temple lord alan wake me up inside of the songs and dances we are doing ev Evanescence is not among them. I apologize. The Flatmate of the Beast $665 from AlexandDad! So excited for the Horror Block and now we might even get to dance let's go be close but not that close relative of the beast 6. cents from mayor setter simply saying the man please pet me please please pick a male seven dollars and seventy cents from reverse gaming i just wake up in time for alan keep your flashlight focused in the borders thank you for all your efforts and greetings from germany donation goes to host choice which which is of course to Petpat Mayor. Thank you so much everyone! Alright, so we just needed to kill some time there until we could interact with the Mothbucket and switch realities until we take control of allen again uh he's gonna start another draft of initiation i was back we sing what the heck do you think that means we sing What the heck do you think that means? We sing. That's right, we have arrived at the much-publicized musical set piece of alan wake 2. um so if you if you know the words sing along we're gonna let Tea Tree just talk and not sing. Only the audience gets to sing. All right. Mr. Dore, can I please? Sam Link doing your little dance on the little cutie pie. We've seen it. Come on, the gamers want to see the music. That's the thing I said. It's like a reference or something. Alright, here we go! Hey! It's like a reference or something. Alright, here we go! Who is ready for the musical? Thank you. While we get our dance on, let's thank some more generous donors who made this all possible fifty dollars from tayton clarence saying here to our favorite tortured writer casually jogging away from imminent danger. So proud of you, we love you and floating thumb. Thanks to Tate & Clarence. Thanks Tate & Clarence. Love y'all. $25 from Nietzsche. How can one say no to a good dance? No! As always, great event. Big thanks to all the runners and volunteers I am watching while at work. Good morning from switzerland professor quantum with 25 doctors without borders in it they looked at the donation in front of their eyes. Excited for the Alan Lake 2 run tonight? Shout out to the wonderful staff and crew that keep GDQ running so smoothly. And $100 from Scott! This is for my friend Pat, who's the biggest Alan Wake fan I know. $50 coming into MSF from Oney Dovin. Alan Wake is a courageous writer and he never loses subjects. An anonymous Neighbor of the Beast donation, $6.65 saying show me the champion of light and I'll show you a $6.65 donation train. Tommy Ray with $50. Hi, Swap Peanut and Sweet Peaks. Me, Mr. Ripples, and the rest of the movie club want to wish you good luck glitching, dancing, and all around misbehaving hope it's a smooth run through the dark place and nothing too dangerous happens movie reference thank you colin thank everybody fifty dollars from erica a week-long convention games pretty quick are the players trying to get through each game faster to find the answers they're looking for or is it something deeper? A charity, a good cause The truth In all we can find In Night Springs $25 from Q simply saying, Pride Lab! Thanks so much, Q. All right, and that is Act One of Herald of Darkness. And unfortunately, because this is a 80% run, we will not be hearing the entire song. I apologize. But we are going to pick up our angel lamp and you know what that means an environmental puzzle also lamp emotes and chat! Yeah. I'm starting to think that this Alan is a rather eclectic sort. A very interesting rider indeed. All right, let's see those lips! There we go. Alan's going to climb down this ladder and by touching it down his little trickies on the platform below we'll advance to the next part of the song but we'll uh go ahead and get right back up here and teleport it back up onto the catwalk find that malaria on the other side we are back in the ballroom but as you see the screens screens that were here before have disappeared. And what this allows us to do is go somewhere we're not supposed to be! So we're gonna jump right here from the beginning of Act 2 of the song. I'm going to need some help team to screen it, if you can... No, um, like, hold it up. Yeah. So I'm gonna have to walk through total darkness here for a few seconds? I've done it before. We can make this work. for a few seconds. I've done it before, we can make it. Hopefully don't get lost. This is good. He needs this. Is it good television? I think it's the great television oh that's perfect is this perfect that's perfect yeah there we go thank you thank you i've practiced this all week all right we made it we made it you made it you're good uh no bring it back. Bring it back. Alright and we are rounding Birdleg cabin here one If you played Alan Wake 1 you know what that is We're just gonna climb up the stairs here and there's our funny little man on the television. And so now we've gone from the beginning of Act 2, and we have now finished Act 3. Applause That's three. And that's the musical! Woohoo! Did you have a good time? All right, start of another loop, Alan wakes up here in the green room but wait, hang on. Hey sweet peeps, Do you like jazz? I don't! I'm gonna leave now. Oh. You're leaving? Okay. My commentator's been on Tea Tree. Can you help me out? Uh... Okay. Don't call me a letter! uh okay something's going on back there um the city of San Francisco. The storm hit the town of San Francisco on Friday, August 1st and I'm going to go. is is is so Thank you. oh Oh boy. I don't like to... Alright, so we're gonna as any other psycho walk out of the talk show studio There's Artie mopping the carpet like he does, and that's the chapter! Hey, uh... I have to go to the bathroom real quick What did I miss? That's weird. Whatever. Welcome back. Thank you. Alright! Hi Leonel, thanks for a guest disappear during an interview. Thankfully, the generous $20,000 donation from our amazing fans makes up for the production time and cost wasted in not being able to do this part of the interview. Anyways, carry on! So we're just gonna talk to a handsome man once again like you do every time you escape a talk show studio. He's got fellas to come see him at his house, which is down here at the Ocean View Hotel. You mean Motel right? No I said Ocean View Hotel. Oh! You know... Three-Quart Street? Ahhhh. New York City? Yeah. Another controller reference. That's a controller reference! That's a control reference! Clap for Control. A good video game. It's a very good video game. Alan got kind of spit back out onto the street due to the dreamlike and liminal nature of The Dark Place, one can't simply enter into the Ocean View Hotel. Alan has to use his angel lamp to navigate back alleys on rooftops to make its way into the hotel where he is going to meet again a very handsome stranger in I had this all timed out room 665 in Vance's East I'm very winded. Yeah, thank you all so much for donating for that dance. Thank you to all of our volunteers and to GDQ's staff who was amazing in letting us put all that together. Wow! Thank you, staff! I just climbed a little ladder, walked on top of the fence as he does from time to time do a little lamp action and we've got it is a metaphor uh tea tree you got 10 seconds five dollars from harry mason cheryl i think i'm lost wonderful room hello I think I'm lost. Wonderful run. We got some orbs here for the orb fans. There we go. That's a trick we like to call the tainted tile he's struck. Not that one! Not the part where Alan gets thrown into the ground, like a weirdo. Fringe? Okay thanks for that one. Here we go! Uh, Tea Tree keep on going until we get to the hotel you had. Five dollars damage from the Federal Bureau of Control. An altered world event has been reported at SGDQ. A suited man wielding a lamp was seen climbing ladders, sideways walking through walls and plunging into the depths of the earth. We'll continue to monitor. Thank you very much. My hero zero with $5 saying, Alan wake me up before you go-go. Two. So true. So true. $66.50 from Motos, the old gods of Asgard are here to rock and rock I think we did i'm very glad we did 100 msf from master o jack hey sweet peeps great job on the couch time to pet that mayor just a quick update on that incentive we are almost thirty five hundred dollars out of the 5 000 if you enjoyed the dance that we put on for you, consider donating a few dollars. It's for a great cause. Thank you so much. All right, here we are. Keypad is $25.50. That is the price of a cocktail at the hotel bar let's hear it for hotel bar prices i prefer cranberry juice. Only $16? Yeah, only $16. Alright, we're going to merge here. You might recognize this as being the inside of the hallway. We were on the outside of about 20 minutes ago. But now we're in the real hotel, we're gonna make our way to room 665, the neighborhood of The Beast. And as you do when you need a hand from strangers you turn on a film projector in his empty suite and just interact with the film of yourself to have the conversation that's already recorded. I'm not quite clear on what all this means. It might be a metaphor. Let's assume it's a metaphor, Sam Lank you scamp! So in that cutscene he was speaking to Thomas Zane! Oh the poet from R Wake One? No! The Finnish auteur filmmaker from Alan Wake One. Of course. Don't worry about it. I'm gonna do a little quick menuing. Peebs, tell us about Echoes! Echoes are indie fiction of the game. Echoes are killer ideas Alan is having to write these drafts of initiation and get further into the story. At the end of each of these, a plot element will appear and you'll be able to see it on the bottom left of this screen. This particular one is very important because it is tied to unlocking that elevator over there. If an elevator does not unlock the front door of the hotel also does not unlock meaning after we do our next major out-of-bounds skit and it has unlocked, we get softlocked and we are stuck in the hotel. That's right you have to watch the entirety of an echo scene to unlock what it contains at the end uh you can't open a menu you can't walk away too far it'll cancel you gotta watch the whole thing over again. Sam, I know you guys put a lot of time into these but I would love if we could skip them once in awhile. Call me. So Alan being the guy that he is He knows he needs to get somewhere so what's he gonna look for? A ladder. He's going to look for a ladder ladder that's right so he's gonna be a little cringe and not bust through that door but we're gonna climb through this ladder backwards as he does just inside of this building so we go from the rooftop, we're just going to fall down this little wee hole and we're gonna end up on the ground level. Here's a look at this geometry that the developers never wanted us to see. Many of them probably never saw themselves, but I think it's beautiful. Thanks for all your hard work even if we can't see it. All right, we're going to stand next to this window and dive deeper into the void. Take a quick peek at the subway that we skipped. There's the subway. Hi, Subway! Alright, we're gonna see some more geometry approaching us from below. We're going to line up with this rectangle. As you may recall, we were on the rooftop. We jumped off into a hole to street level then we dove into the void and what do you think this is? This bit of geometry deep under the earth well i know what it is but we're vibrating with excitement if you guess it's the sixth floor of the hotel, You got it. We are at room 666 The neighbor of the neighbors. Neighbor of the neighbor of the B-Sides right? Where we have to watch one more echo scene. Tea Tree. i'll let you speak over it i can do that for you 250 from socratic bear so glad to catch this run fills my heart with joy seeing my favorite game up on the stream show me the champion of life and i'll show you the herald of donations which you certainly were thank you so much 25 from ryokuma how can I not donate after an incredible dance performance like that? $25 from Irvi! Oh dear, another Alan Wake incentive donation. If we don't get to see the dance We'll be lost in a never-ending light... night! So come on chat We met that one But we still have a little ways to go To pet the mayor Just about $1400 left on that one and you've got, you don't have a half an hour this run is very fast you've got about 20 minutes if we're being clear so get on over to gamesonquick.com donate you know what to do use the add incentive button near the bottom when you make your donation i tell you he's one of my favorite elected officials we love that mayor we'd love to go see him uh and here we go we unlocked the plot element from that but first we're gonna play a little game of tag with the devil. That's right these are what constitute Alan's boss fights! He just he runs away from the dark presence at the end of each of his little sections. Whereas in the real world, in Washington State, the other protagonist Saga, she uses weapons. She faces her problems head on while alan he runs away from his now that's a metaphor for i have seen it it's a metaphor i'm starting to think it's all a metaphor. Interesting. Interesting. Alright, we made it! The devil did not get us this time! So we're gonna just pop on out here, go through this door. And where do you reckon we're going to end up? That's right. For the first time, We're going to get the entrance hall of the hotel. This is the first time we've unlocked a scene, this is part of Alan's other main game mechanic his plot board where he combines scenes with thought elements to change his environment by changing the story so we just go to the final scene and we've unlocked the climax put those two together we can go straight to the murder site and finish out this draft of initiation just walk on forward don't worry about that don't worry about that don't worry about her do not worry it's very trans i play the full game i encourage you but that is the end of chapter five we're gonna give one go here at another glitch this is going to be a zip so if Alan runs towards and melees that door at the same time he smashes through it, he'll just bust backwards like that. We're gonna give one more try what we're hoping to do is end up in the lobby and just make our way out the front door no oh well we gave her a shot we'll just keep on walking and since that is the end of the second murder site the plot of each draft administration alan is once again heading back to Parliament Tower. So this is plenty of time for donations. Plenty of donations for your time, like a flatmate-of-the-beast $6.65 donation from Staten herself Backcouch and I are Alan awake for this run Swell, Peeves & Astrid y'all are the lights of my life Also for the record no Alans were eaten by me in the production of this run and bonus update for you we are petting the mayor thank you so much. But that's not all, coming up very shortly we have an amazing Doom 64 run from the fantastic Zello, and we just opened up an incentive. A Glitch Warp Showcase! A glitchy extra level after the run. We're looking for $7500500 there. So if you are loving this run, If you are looking forward to more GDQ get your donations in and put them towards that Glitch Warp Showcase I love Doom 64. I really want to see that. Same. We have more time for donations. I hear that! You're ready and with $25 to MSFf otty is my favorite side character in any remedy game it is always a good time when you get to hear ati sing now let's pet that mayor and so we shall another next door neighbor of the beast from ariel shading with 6.65 that sopping wet man sure can dance alan i'm your number one fan. Less than three. Oh no that's a rosemary bowl. Nice try. Five dollars for midnight coffees? Happy dance though! $5 from Midnight Coffee's happy dance though no more tricks and no more misbehavior thanks coffee alright and that is chapter six the end of the second draft of initiation ellen's back in his resume Thank you. teacher give us one more before we start this next one. Ten dollars for Ray Vu, one of the coolest things I've seen thanks for doing that dance number swap peanut and couch let's go GDQ! Yay, GDQ! Thank you. Alright we gotta once again escape from the talk show studio There is a little what in here? Somebody leave a faucet running? Must have. Huh. Well, the good news is we don't need a third code for the door. We beat the door into submission. It's not even going to try a new trick on us, but there are some shadows in here. Don't make eye contact. Well somebody put a wet floor down that's it you little jokester we love you all right that is a wrap on We love you. Come here, hi Ahti. Hi Ahti, bye Ahti. Bye Ahti. Alright that is a wrap on Ahti the janitor. I'm starting to think that janitor might know more. He just might! I can see it now that he's gone, I love Tati. I miss him already. You should have said that while he was still here and could hear you i know hey remember those chairs that sloth peanut moved around earlier yep they come back i promise it's simply so i don't collide with them as I walk around this corner." That was it, and we did it! We did it, yeah! So Alan picked up two photos normally those are picked up closer to the end of their run but we're already here in his studio so we just went ahead and pick them up I'll just grab a lot faster way out. He's a bastard that way. Saves the trip. Even if I didn't know what to do with him yet. Alright, we're going to wrap up this chapter while we walk in through a door T-Tree send us out. Five dollars from Kifa Otana for Ukraine. Also, this is the best remedy game since the original Alan White. And that was chapter 7. Applause And that was Chapter 7. Alright, we are now in Chapter 8. This is the last one we will see in its entirety and we will see the bulk of it because we don't have a ton of glitches to showcase on this one i'll explain when we get to it but of course we got to go get But of course we gotta go get some news from our handsome stranger We don't need to take his phone call here, we know where he lives we're just gonna go straight to him and talk to him in his face Down here Ocean View Hotel, 3-4 and talk to him in his face. Down here, Ocean View Hotel, 3 Court Street, New York City. The good news about playing this on any person is when you play glitchless or casually, when you come back to the hotel at this point, there's lobbies just swarming with enemies which I like to call lobby boys. Chock-a-block. Chock a block with lobby boys. They're not here this time. We'll just take the elevator up and because this is the first time we'll just take the elevator up and because this is the first time I use the elevator of the doors upstairs are still open we can just walk out and so once again with a handsome man we turn on this film projector and watch the film which may or may not happen. Alan looks pretty teed off I don't know why I'm not gonna stick around and find out. got places to be uh the man on the film told us we need to go downtown to poets cinema where they are screening his film, Nightless Night. And Alan just says that, yeah. Thanks, Alan. Thank you, Alan. Yes, Nightless Night by Thomas Zane was created in tandem with Return so that they could both try to escape the dark place. Or maybe that's what it is going going on well it's called return because they returned i'm gonna keep making my way over to the spotlights over there in the cinema tea tree that's quite a departure i get it a very generous and possibly slightly underhanded $1400 from Mayor Seder. Mayor Seder! With the donation that I take as a bit of a campaign slogan, Vote Center. Woof. You got it buddy. It's like his campaign says. Mayor Sutter won't roll over on the issues. That is true. All right, Blinkage and Misset this is the one bullet we fire in the run there it goes to clear a darkness or barrier oh yeah there go some orbs for our fans there we go thank you so much our art friends. There we go! Thank you so much! Just gonna dodge on the haters there and we merge here at Poets Cinema, screening Nightless A Thomas Zane film. Gonna make our way in here. So now that we're here I'll explain why this chapter is a little different than the other two cycles We were able to use out of bounds glitches to fall deep below and make our way directly to murder sites unfortunately that's more difficult here the murder site is actually up there above us and so until we figure out some new glitches to propel us upwards, we're going to go through this pretty similar to the Glitchless route but that does give us an opportunity to take a peek at Alan's game mechanics. Hopefully, that didn't push me too far... Okay great! If you walk too far in the room we have to watch the Ectosino. But I'm doing a little bit of looting here while we have time. Stocking up on some medicine because some of these boys in this chapter get a little handsy. We're also looking for a flare which will help us out of an encounter later, but it's all right we can get by without it. So until Casey finishes his monologue and unlocks a plot element right there then we can go on through here and we'll choose the scene and the plot element to change the story. There we go, and there's our next echo! Alright teacher while this is playing out I'll let you play as well. Catgirl Caro with $66.66, two Doctors Without Borders. I've watched every GDQ since 2014 and I've never seen anything like that dance sequence. So epic! Well Peanut even managed to time sitting in their chair at the same time as Ellen I'll pull back the curtain a little bit that was absolutely the plan but Swab is just that good $100 from Noah but swab is just that good 100 from noah each time i've seen an alan wake two speed run it's like allen is getting tired in the writer's room and is using speed runners to progress down the spiral quicker let Let's get him outside so he can touch some grass This man has not touched grass in his life. Mental health and enrichment is very important everyone please. Alright, so we unlock the plug element from that echo scene here allows us into the theater hall go ahead and change that to another scene. And this will get us to our next echo. Keep on talking, T-Tree. Six dollars and sixty five cents from Mr Scratch! I'm in your house, Alan! No! No! Get out of here. Wait a minute. Matt's paint? No! Matt's paint? No! Matt's paint? No! That's pink? No! That's pink? No! That's pink?! No! No. Do you want to no I'll just mention because of that last donation, SGDQ 2014 was my first as well. I've been watching for 10 years and it's quite a trip to be up here 10 years later after starting I'm gonna take a peek at a funny little movie. Now wait, this is wacky. That's weird... What's going on here? Hey hang on! I know I know. Gus Max Payne Nooooooo It's Sam Lee got some ex-pain. No! It's family. What's the difference? I don't know. Alright, well here comes that handsome man with his lamp. This is the only look at Tom Zane we will get in this run. It'll be very brief, well we'll see him up here in a moment but we're going to run away from his friends use our angel lamp on his and just take a quick exit without getting grabbed by the buddies. Just imagine Alan Wake without a beard. That's a perfect way of describing it. Thank you. So here we are going to make our way to the final plot element we need to finish up this murder site and thus, know finish off the level so a tea tree while we're heading back over there what say broccoli sprout donated $25 What's saying anything? Broccoli Sprout donated $25 to Doctors.org to say, Alan wake me up when September ends. And $200 from Chem Shiki saying up next... Doom! DOOOOOOM! $50 from Bjorn Means Bear. Show me the Champion of Light, I show you The Herald of Darkness. Thank you so much for performing that dance, it certainly made my day. Alan Wake 2 is my game of the year 2023 and the We Sing episode in the game kickstarted my way out of a four month long depressive episode. That's awesome. Thank you very much for everything you do and thank you to Remedy for creating such amazing games. Before we continue I just want to make some greetings from Jeremy, we've got this wet cat man in his eyes. Hello, my name is Alouane. I'm lost in the dark. Help me! I'm so sad. Help me, I'm a wet Alan Wake, and as Oracle 70 says once more the oceans are like thank you for that $50 donation, Oracle70. Alright there's our last plot element We're gonna do one last ladder glitch here This will help us go out of bounds and get to the ground level. This will save about a minute if it works for its try, and it did! There we go! And that's a wrap for the ladder skip. Let's hear it for Ladder Glitch. When it works first try, we call that big gaming and that is Big Gaming. Alright, this shadow man's gonna let us right back in. Thank you, Kind Spirit. Oh! Watch out! Ah, no. That can't hurt us. This guy over here he can hurt us. We just take a little wipe... He's gonna throw something at us and it's going to miss, and it missed! Okay. So we're back in here take one last look at Tom Zane Change the plot to The Grandmaster and seal it up. Somebody touched me, don't worry. Oh! Ah rude. Got ground once more, Don't worry about it we just need to make eye contact with the Grandmaster so he runs away. I do the same thing. And this is why Swap Peanut picked up health, that's why we hope for health just in case because if Alan is injured he walks very very, very slow. As you do when you are injured. So here we are in the last part of the film maze. This is the best look that we're going to get In a short area of the looping dreamlike nature of The Dark Place. No door there, so we're gonna go through this door and we're back at the beginning. Alright let's try again. It's going through that same door... it says projection booth we're trying to get to the projection booth Still no door there Let's try this and never mind. There is a door here now, we're going to go through that one. We are back to the beginning. Back to the beginning! What was that? Who was that? I don't know. Let's see, no door over there. No door here? Oh no, there's the door. Okay, there's the door. Let's check it out. Ah, this is just a television. It's a sad man on the TV. All right, and then we have... Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! uh-huh it's just the television it's a saturday on the tv there's the projection surely no we're back to the beginning again okay wait is that that sounds like sam lake you know what we gotta do get him let's stab him! Yay! Ah, he got away. That's okay. We'll get him next time. Alright... Keep going through this go maze hope we get to the projection booth cross our fingers close our fingers this is gonna take us there now we got one more echo scene to watch. This echo scene is gonna unlock the door To hopefully Rejection Booth. Tea Tree, give us a few more thoughts of yours $50 to Drs Zup, words from Akimbo! Woohoo I love some Alan Wake too good luck and show me the champion of life $10 to MSF from Charles. Chillfolks are proud of you, absolutely enormous gaming. Thank you Charles $5 from President Scratch to MSF. President Scratch, Tanniseth. President Scratch was here. Love all the wonderful work you've been doing. Keep it up. Love you, Pookies. I'm just walking on these film cancels25 donation to distract from vulgarities, this run is a monster. Just like the story sorry Okay, I get it. Oh sorry, sorry, sorry. Alright this man's not done talking yet, give me one more. Are you now fictional too? Whose story are you living? Let's find out. This door is unlocked. That's not the projection booth booth let's just go right back oh this is this is a different place but you know what it kind of looks like a projection booth all right we're here! This is the projection booth and the murder site. Why is there a moose skull mask? Why are there two men? Do not worry about it play the full game and you'll get answers. And that is chapter eight. All right we're just gonna... I don't know. That co-wreck does not get along with me. We're going to make our way out of the projection booth. We've seen a murder site so we need to make her way back to our apartment but first uh we're gonna stand here and enjoy this 16 minute finished short film in its entirety i am actually getting a very mean gesture from Helix saying we don't have time for the 16-minute short thing. Okay, okay. We'll skip the short film. Okay, okay. Even though we're on domestic, we'll skip the short film. Even though we're under mess there, we'll skip the short film. I mean it was originally supposed to be a full length. It was! We use the plot board open our exit and we'll make our way out. So as we walk back to Parliament Tower Plaza, this is going to be the end of the run. I just want to give some shouts out to the Allen Lake speed running community. We're small, but we're friendly We'd love to see more We don't have a ton of active runners at this game But if you've enjoyed what you saw, come stop on by. Join us! Join us! And of course to TaintedTally who was the first one to showcase this in a marathon setting with a glitchless Run as well as being the admin for the Allen Week SRC boards. Thank you, Tali. Thank you some of our other runners and other comrades at Tali Earth who paved the way before I came and took some of your records. Sorry about that. So we're going to come to the thrilling conclusion of this category in just a moment alan's going to take a phone call and then we're going to reach our climax which is touching a shoebox so time will be called when alan touches the shoebox and that'll be the end of Alan percent. And that is time. oh applause What were your conclusions, Astrid? So I've been putting the pieces together. Okay. I've been really analyzing everything that I've been given, all of the story and I've come to just one conclusion. Sam Lake, please call us. please call us please call us Do we want to go right into pet the mayor? I think that would be a perfect thing to do. Well, I'll do some setup here because Pet the Mayor is done from Saga side we have A pre-made save here, we'll just go into that and do the remaining setup so to get to pet mayor center there are six campaign sides hit around the map uh three in bright falls and three here in watery here's the sixth one we take a look at that mayor setter is not afraid of the rough questions but look we can meet Mayor Sutter. So let's do that right now. Let's go see Mayor Sutter. And we did want to take a moment to explain what Allen percent is, why we don't have a saga percent. You take that. Sure yeah,. Alan% is a bit easier. We can just use chapter select to go right into the beginning of Alan's tale but with Saga%, we really only have two options. We could either play 15 minutes as Alan in the middle of that or use chapter select again to bypass Alan's middle section. And what chapter select 6 gives you is a pre-made save, so it would require a whole new route around the items in that pre-made save. We haven't put a ton of work in there, but if there's demand, we would love to show Saga off. She's a much better character than Alan Wake. I think we'll all agree on that. She is... agree she is great so here we are meet mayor setter here setutter for mayor and there he is There's the man There's Mayor Sutter Yeah! Yay! Woo! Thanks to the recently added photo mode for Alan Wake 2, we can commemorate this moment forever. Thank you so much and thank you all so much for donating for that. Just a couple more shout outs before i go i want to say thanks to my parents uh my niece and nephew you are children you should be asleep a long time ago. I want to shout out my friend James who introduced me to Alan Wake 12-14 years ago and my friend Mark who introduced me to speed running which led me to appearing on GDQ ten years later. So thanks everybody, that's it for us walking out. Alright hello everyone. I am Zillow. Zillow, however you want to say it never matters. Happy to be here for SGDQ 2024 with Doom 64 one of my favorite games. So you might have seen the Doom 1 run I did at AGDQ, and I talked about how that was my first sitting on my dad's lap playing it for years old don't know why you do that but 64 was the first game i owned as a kid this is my personal favorite in the series so i'm really excited to show this off uh i have two wonderful commentators if you want to introduce yourselves howdydy, I'm Peaches. I used to run this game on the console on the N64 about like 10 years ago or something like that and came out of retirement to learn the PC tricks and help with commentary I'm Brian Otto. As per usual, when I'm on the couch, I haven't actually played this game before but I love FPS runs so I'm really honored to be here. Thanks for having me, Zello. Thank you very much. We're going to go ahead and get started with our first round of games I'm really honored to be here. Thanks so much for having me, Zello. Thank you very much. So we're going to go ahead and get started here. I know we're a little low on time, so we're going to be doing the main game. This is going to be Watch Me Die Difficulty. This is the equivalent of Ultraviolence in PC Doom, so it's going to be pretty hard, and speed is the equivalent of ultra violence in PC Doom. So it's going to be pretty hard and speed is the any percent moniker, so we're gonna get started in 3...2...1... DOOM! Okay there's going to be a lot going on right at the start. One callout I want to make is that the opening area is one of the most dangerous because these shotgun guys as soon they get line-of-sight, they're gonna try to shoot. The only way to avoid damage is either by breaking line of sight or interrupting them with a shot yourself. Now, this blue key is hidden here in this hallway with a whole bunch of these shotgunner guys and they can roll up to 45 damage per hit so there's a lot of rng right in the opening part of this run uh also rmg is these pinkies here and uh if they trap you in a corner they can do a little bit of damage. But otherwise once you move out of the way then you can kind of like break their melee attack. Couple them trying to block his way here and really nice quick first level well played yeah that's ironically one of the scariest so yeah that went out of the way all right right at the start here there's another callout uh we're going to be doing a key bump and a key bump is something where when you're moving around the game does a couple checks in different orders. Basically first, you move and then the game checks if you are able to pick up something, and after that it checks if you're supposed to actually be in that spot or not. So by running at that pedestal, Zulu was able to grab a key on top of something that he wasn't supposed to reach on top of that though additionally he also pressed a button which started off a macro and a macro is the the way that the game kind of does like more complex things that happen in sequence. As a result though, you can't actually have two macros going at the same time so he pressed a button that started kinda the puzzle in that room, though the way they were supposed to get that blue key and while the key was teleporting around he was able to go through a hallway that has like squishers that come from the ceiling but the squishers couldn't actually squish until the key finished teleporting. So by pressing that button, you know way back in that first room it was able to save a lot of time by running quickly through that hallway Okay so Berserk Pack here is going to like top us off on health and there's gonna be all these hallways are just like stuff to the brim with enemies so in watch me die or actually hold that thought for a second because i'm gonna explain this yellow key here so normally um you could bump this key as well by grabbing it before solving these puzzles but we're going to solve it naturally and get the key without bumping it, because in doing so We are also gonna open up this room in the back that has 20 rockets in it And the extra time that it takes us to get those rockets is worth it Because we're gonna be doing a lot of dps with that later on uh gonna top off unhealthier and man we're like already almost done with level two this is going so much faster than i realized i was like just playing the game on my own, just trying to remember how a play is and I can't even keep up with it. Main engineering we're gonna get the super shotgun here For the most part in this game, whenever you kill enemies there's a couple different reasons for it I guess and different priority One of them would be that you want to kill enemies if they are in your way or if they're sort of like um you know like a high threat or something but there's also other enemies that you want to kill because uh they're linked to a trigger and we're going to see that here in this room. There are certain enemies that we can kill and certain enemies that we can leave alive, We need to kill a couple ones that spawn here in order to get the yellow key but Zillelo is standing in a really specific spot. This is going to block one of the enemies from spawning in and it's almost sort of like I guess like a reverse telefrag where by standing where its's trying to spawn in, you just completely prevent it from ever spawning. It doesn't come as a kill, it's just sort of like precluding it from even existing. So in doing so, it just made that room a little bit faster to clear out there's still some cacodemons alive here but Zelo killed exactly the ones that were necessary to spawn that yellow key. So having done that we're gonna go back back here with the L key and get this rocket launcher here which is gonna be an extremely useful weapon. On a per-rocket basis, the DPS is like kind of give or take about the same as a super shotgun, but there's also splash damage and it fires faster As well. So the DPS of the rocket launcher is like significantly Preferable to the super shotgun so we're gonna go out of our way to get as many rockets as possible including going into some secret kind of like cubbies over on the side grabbing the yellow key here and then there's one more secret that's not uh you know it's like you just press this panel here and it reveals the super armor a lot of survivability nice level okay yes warning at the beginning. When I pick up a soul sphere there will be some flashing lights in a hallway for about 10 seconds so just be aware of that. It'll come up right after we cross this door Yeah usually whenever you like pick up something really valuable that's not secret You'll get like punish my enemy spawning Instead they punish you by having flashing lights for whatever reason Thanks Once we get to the end of hallway then we're clear so right about here we're good now yep getting on flashing lights uh and maybe this good segue um the flashing lights there were controlled by a line def it It's like, I guess, like a segment on the floor that when you cross over it controls something that happens and line deaths can be tied to enemy spawning they can be tied to items. That's also how teleporters happen to work They're just like a square...like a 2x2 square of line defs that when you walk on them it'll teleport you somewhere else Is the line def effectively like-just a trigger sure yeah here in other and other games yep yeah uh and nice level again geez so all those all those hell knights in there were like they're pretty dangerous um they they want to like stop you and smack you for like a ton of damage i think goes up like 88 uh damage which is pretty substantial when there's multiple multiple of them right there one of the changes in 64 specifically is that there's a 15 frame tick delay when you fulfill the exit condition by either stepping into a portal or hitting a switch You can still take damage and you can still die during that. So I have to be very careful to not die whenever I try and leave somewhere. Yeah, and having that happen means that Zulu would lose all the rockets that he's been accumulating and he would lose the backpack which raises his ammo cap um even though that sometimes pretty hard to reach and watch me die uh since he's firing so many shots and you know trying to get as many uh many rockets and and cells and you know, trying to get as many rockets and cells and ammunition as he can. So this whole here tech center, very, very complex for how early in the stage it is. There's a lot of different hallways, a lot of winding paths, a lot of uh different hallways a lot of winding paths a lot of back tracking as well and also a lot of enemies that are in the way and that's just kind of like how um doom 64 i guess managed to sort of like have interesting levels. That was a max damage hit! Yeah that was rough. But yeah Dune 64 has a lot of really tight kind of labyrinthian levels and there's a few kind of enemy archetypes that are missing from this for memory constraints. And so, there's not really that much enemy variety, so in the higher difficulties they kind of just like spam Hell Knights and Barons. This game loves Barons. Yeah, uh, and they really like to block you in hallways um excuse me So, uh um excuse me uh so uh what are they both doing in there geez yes everything in this game is really random enemy movement is random and your damage is random your own accuracy with bullet-based weapons is random, any damage is random your own accuracy with bullet based weapons is random. Probably the way Doom guy wears his underwear is random I don't know I would have never guessed that this game was inherently so random it's just not something that comes to mind when I think about Doom. Yeah there's so there's a ton of randomness but it's all kind of like low stakes right? So it's like the whole run is about kind of like mitigating the different like randomness that happens and that was an example of like mitigating the different randomness that happens. And that was an example of, even though Zelda stepped into the teleporter that started at the end of the level he still managed to get hit afterwards. Thankfully it wasn't too critical. You die? Yes, you can. You will death exit and that is not good for the ride. It'll force you to start the next level of Pistol Starter. Sorry for speaking that into existence. There are other doom games where that is actually useful but this is not one of them but since my health is pretty low compared to i want like 110 111 looks great that's not great for this level so we're going to take a bit of a detour here. Yes. Um...I need to get this hidden megasphere which will refill me back up to 200 Oh well thankfully I saved just now. Yeah you don't get any air control once you kind of like leave a ledge and so if there's an enemy that you can like bonk into you'll just lose all your speed. I can't believe that still made it! Uh yeah so not only is Zillu topped off on health now but there's also a whole bunch of spare rockets down here which doesn't hurt you know. So it's kind of like I guess like a safety strat it's like a small detour but it's a big, big stock up. And then you are basically always running diagonally in this game, right? Right, yes. So that's referred to as SR40 I guess that's meaning something about the angle of the vector or something like that. Anyways, it's more like a 20% increase in velocity over just running straight forwards. There are some other ways you can stack, like strafe lock or something like that but it's actually not in this game. But classic game you go a little bit faster than that. But here we're stuck at SR40 So here this is like a sequence break. Being able to jump over this gap in the bridge without raising all of the stuff. Is this enabled by SR40? That's right. You're not even going to make that without at least having the Diaglo running. And this is really one of the most dangerous levels in the early game, probably the single-most dangerous. This room here is terrifying! We call this the american gladiator room because you have to run across these oh wow that was really good that was so good there are so many enemies there and they're a whole bunch of lost souls that are kind of like waiting in the dark there and if you give them a second, they will start swarming you and block those jumps. Yeah and if you have to climb out of the pit You'll probably trigger a line def that triggers a whole bunch of specters that you have to fight and if you try and make it easy by killing the barons with your very limited rockets you'll just spawn a pain elemental at the end and that's no good yeah so that was first time that is like amazing really really good okay there's a line to have skip here um so by aiming at a really specific part of the wall and it's very precise, very, very, very precise. There you go! Great demonstration so that lost souls were trying to spawn but by running so quickly over... Very nice! I know this game on rocket jumps! That's pretty cool. Yeah, so by shooting the rocket as well Zilla got a little bit of extra momentum which allowed him to cross a gap that was even bigger than you can normally make with just the SR-40. Wow. Yeah, so by running really, really quickly through the hallway Zello was able to skip the lost souls that were trying to spawn. So really big time save just by getting them out of there right uh and if i make it please please was that line def skip just like kind of like i don't know walking with like a tightrope in between two triggers effectively? Yeah pretty much. So the movement in this game is not smooth you can think of it more as warping from location to location every frame. So you're on one side of the line def, one frame and then you get so much speed when the game updates your position that you're on the other side of the line def. That's so cool. Yeah. And so in that case it was beneficial. There are some times where it's not beneficial. So either by opening a door or something like that or spawning an item that you need, it's possible to skip a line death that's detrimental. In addition, something that was really clever about this game is that there's a lot of architectural tricks that they use to get around engine limitations. And if you skip one of those line depths, You can break the map unintentionally. So we're going to try and skip a floor trap right here by being in just the right position. And there we go! Nice swap. Yeah, so what's supposed to happen is that the floor is supposed to drop underneath you and some enemies pop out. It's not like a huge time save but it's free time, so why not? Okay, so we talked about key bumps earlier and it just so happens that Key Bumps don't even necessarily have to be done like facing forwards which is kind of interesting because on the map your character's a triangle and you might think that like the point on the triangle is where you're most likely to pick something up. But you're square so what you can do is you can actually just turn around backwards And pick up stuff backwards. And that's useful here because Zelda's visual cue happens to be the door behind him. So we got this key right here, so I'm going to line up here and grab this. Very nice. Yeah, I moved it backwards. I grabbed the key with my butt so you hear it here, Doomguy's got a good booty and that is why I call that Booty Grab. He has very grippy butt cheeks and allows you to pick that up in reverse. And it turns out you don't even really use that red kit all this level, so it's just going to stay clenched in there forever. All I really did was just reveal the different button that lets you progress. A button? A button, yeah. Button. So in this room, Zellu jumped across these gaps because there's a bunch of imps in the way if you were to try to run around the perimeter. But, in addition, those imps spawn prevented the Hell Knights that would otherwise be on that perimeter. So it saves up bunch of time because the Hell Knights need to die in order to basically fulfill the trigger that lets you leave this level. Is that scary running across these platforms? Yes, cause if you fall into pit Okay, you kinda make it look super good okay he just kind of did it so i was like was that easy i don't know do you all mind if i butt in for just a quick update here i'm just wanted to let everyone know we're about 3 200 Yes, go for it. glitch warp showcase unlocked so y'all get those donuts in so that we can get those get that weirdness shown because nothing says an m64 game like some weird glitches yes please do and thanks everyone who's been donating so far. This level here is even simpler, which I guess Savvy Doom players might recognize it as an homage to Dead Simple. And it's sort of like a concentric, multi-layered level. Pretty much an arena. Like every wave that spawns, Zillow has to kill some certain number of them. Not every single enemy here is linked to the trigger to start the next wave, so Zell's going to be strategically leaving some enemies alive not only because he doesn't have to shoot them but by them existing there they might spawn prevent some of the enemies in the next wave so this is extremely dangerous because a bunch of panoramals all spawn and they will keep shooting out lost souls. And this is going to get very hairy if I don't finish soon after this invincibility wears off. Yeah, so the Pain Elementals don't have to die to finish the level. So it's kind of... It takes so much time and or resources to kill one of the Pain Elementals that it's sort-of like too tempting. You know you gotta leave them alive even though they shoot all lost souls Can I ask a combat related question? Sure Have both of or either of you all played like the modern Doom games? Yes. Would you say there are like what are, what are any parallels between because those were only ones that I've played Are there any parallels between like combat in this game and combat in like, the modern dooms at all? Or like- Kind of! Yeah, I mean, there is in a sense that for example, you know, Lost Souls kind of frivolous to use a rocket on the single one. The chain gun is better against them but there's not like set... Yeah so here there's going to be a whole bunch of piggies that spawn. And in the easy mode, Be Gentle, there is only one single pinky that spawns in this next room as opposed to all of these. And it just so happens to be in Be Gentle I think it's pretty easy to accidentally spawn prevent that one single pinky which softlocks this rune. So we were explaining before about spawn prevention maybe even like a reverse telefrag but you're not really killing them like they don't actually even contribute to the kill tally at the end of the at the end of the level but um that's the one example that i can think of where you could accidentally sort of, um, like, uh, like break a trigger by spawn preventing the one enemy that's associated with it. Now, I have had that happen on Watcher Step on this difficulty so I'm hoping that doesn't happen. Yeah. Do you all have a moment for a few donations? Sure, please. Alright, I've got a $666 donation from Mott who says rip and tear until it is done! Huh, I don't know what came over me goodness i've got a 25 donation from omax who says so stoked to see the man himself zello unleashing zel on Earth and another GDQ. Keep up the awesome work. Beth, a randomness coming into play right there. This is a very scary button to push. Nice roll. Also was that lightning gun like the plasma? Yes, I look awesome. I would so cool it looks cool but it's it's pretty nerf compared to yeah, but it's still going to be used in the room gotcha pretty good uh favorable um that the specters that were in this room actually spawn prevented i think there was two out of three minkecubus that tried to spawn there. So, yeah utilizing other enemies for spawn prevention. There he is! Alright so we still have to get out of this area. There are a ton of mancubi like... Oh my god! Let's get outta here. There we go. Nice one. Thankfully there is a berserk pack right at the beginning of this level. Yeah. That was merciful. Okay, this starting area here is like a huge... I think you have to kill everything here, Is that right? Yeah. So really, really kind of extensive death trigger here. We got the BFG in the last level and the BFG is almost identical to other dooms. I think the only difference is that charge is very slightly slower but the kind of like tracer style gameplay is the same. So when you shoot the BFG there's like a ball that flies out and then a bunch of tracers fly out in the direction that doom guy was looking when he originally shot it and that's where most of the damage comes from. So what you want to do then is fire the BFG at something that you want to kill, and get as close to it as possible so as many of those tracers come in contact with it. So that's going to really come into play multiple times throughout this run. The BFG is going to be sort of like the highest burst damage that we're going to have to clear out some of these areas that have a ton of enemies or enemies that have a ton of health. Is there any randomness with the BFG? Yes. The damage from the tracers their accuracy of them and yeah. Everything in this game is so random there is something i want to call it here is that uh this is a level where um the limitation is kind of what's the word? Like being circumvented by an illusion here. So what you're noticing is that like we're going on a bridge that's over where we just were and normally a limitation of the Doom engine is you can't have like floor over floor architecture but what's happening is around different corners and like in stairwells and stuff there's invisible triggers that will like instantly and like silently raise and lower the floor. That's cool. To give you the illusion of having floor over floor architecture even though you're just walking on the same floor that you were just on. Wow. Okay this is a risky strat right here but I need to save ammo so we're gonna go into this secret cubbyhole right here and this is actually going to leash some Barons in the final hallway towards the wall hopefully I can sneak right past Just like this! Oh, nice clean That was super clean Do you all mind if I cut in with a quick donation? Yes please. Sure I've got a $19.97 dollar donation $19.97 donation. That's $19.97 for those of you who know your numbers. From Phantom T-Mac who's right here in the room on the back couch, says greetings from the back couch. Donating 1997 for the year one of my favorite and earliest games came out. Doom 64 has been a regular revisit for me ever since I was 3 or 4 years old, and I'm so excited to get to see it absolutely destroyed here live and in person at SGDQ! Let's give that Glitch Warp Showcase incentive met, and you are absolutely right. We gotta get those donations in to get that incentive met, y'all. Thank you. Yeah, I want to quickly say this game was made in 1997 quite a few years after the original Doom and the development was actually headed by Midway for the original release supervised by id Software. And they did a fantastic job and also big shout out to Nightdive Studios who did this 2020 port, it's a really good part of the game with a lot of good quality-of-life features And it even has an extra new campaign that you might have seen back in SCDQ 2020 I really, really highly recommend getting this game after you've donated some good money to Dr. Shoporders. And so forgive me, is this like a port of a port or was Doom 64 its own thing? It's it's own thing. Even though I think there were It was its own thing, yeah. Even though I think there were some misconceptions back in the day since N64 games are just kind of stapled 64 on the end of it right? But no entirely unique and really great. Yeah everything was built up from the ground up like new graphics tile sets sounds it's a complete game of its own And very worthy of the doing name so in this room we have to kill all the barons uh in order to reveal his button here, and that's going to let us go up and get the yellow key. This is one of the second out of three levels that have a side path that takes you to a secret level and those levels, that's where you're going to get one of the Demon Keys which will not only make the end level much faster but also upgrade the Unmaker which is what we just picked up at that altar right there. And the unupgraded Unmaker is I think very slightly higher than the Plasma Rifle in terms of DPS, but due to the way that enemy health breakpoints work, it's still going to be better to use the plasma rifle. So the Unmaker doesn't really see very much use in this run. Yeah, if you see me pull it out, it's definitely a mistake in this run. It's if you see me pull it out, it's definitely a mistake in this run. It's very good in the max categories though. Yeah. So this is like a stretch of three... The next four levels, three of those are extremely dangerous. Like anybody who's played this game casually knows the dart room coming up. We're not going to get the safety invincibility. We're going to just be doing some dancing and it's going to look very, very wild. Yeah. luck on this room. Would this be a good time for you donations or do you need to focus? Uh, this is a good time for donations or do you need to focus uh this is a good time now all right you got it i've got a 25 donation from tim who says dune guy would save the animals Kerblam. Kerblam! He did try and save Daisy in Doom 1, like... we'll respect this. I've got a $10 donation from InnerLion who says, not sure exactly what I was expecting from this Doom 64 run, but lore about Doomguy's booty was definitely not on the list. The more you know... That card is it's still there. You never pull out and then I've also got $100 donation from Virgo Red Wolf who says can't ever get enough doom, and that is absolutely true. We're still trying to reach that incentive for the Glitch Warp Showcase so get those donations in and remember it's all going to Doctors Without Borders which is an incredibly worthwhile cause. We gotta help support them. So get those donations in and let's see some glitchy stuff. This area is so dangerous to be doing on 37 held it's really impressive the way we'll be doing this yeah with no armor too yeah so i gotta sit easily kill me the heat map up my eyes right now and where i'm looking is red hot over the health over the help number yeah oh 13. over the health number. Yeah, 13 It was funny because they actually knocked me away from the invincibility so I couldn't even get that much So I know health is not in a good situation so hopefully we can get to this very very important secret i well that's why we saved yeah this guy likes to get in the way what a jerk please get out of the way. This very, very important secret down here. So this does three things. This leashes a lot of the enemies away from the exit. This gives me a little bit of energy and this gives me a mega sphere which is very, very useful despite taking a long time to get because I need a lot of health for the map. You said leashes like are they enemies still aggroed on you when your all the way over there? Yes. So enemy movement is generally random, but they do try and move towards you if they can. Okay. So they kind of follow you around. One of the things I feel like I've really quickly grown a lot of respect for, and one thing I've really observed is Zelo's movement is so intentional intentional. You know, he's not just kind of like randomly moving back and forth and trying to make enemies miss. I feel like everything he does it's super calculated Sure, we'll go with that. It's really crisp and if you ever try to speedrun this game the analogy that I always make is it seems like Doomguy has his iPod in with the old headphones plugged in, and there's doorknobs everywhere. It honestly feels like every single corner you will get stuck on something and just stop dead in your tracks. And Zelda makes it look super crisp and clean. Okay, so this is actually an intentional save and load. This actually de-aggress the lost souls that spawn above there, because we need to get there for the exit. And that actually stops them from spawning more lost souls later so it's a little less wild which is very important. But this begins the hell gauntlet for this level where i need to get past a bunch of stuff very quickly or i'm going to get locked and die this level looks awesome oh this is super cool get passed Awesome. This is super cool. Get past this hallway hopefully. That's pretty good! We're going to have a very loud BFG sound effect in just a bit right here. Oh, that was pretty sick! There we go! Wow! Nice one! It's pretty good health and armor Yeah Any kind of Mega Armor I can take out is really good Because Normal Armor reduces damage by one third Mega Armor Including what you get from the Megasphere, reduces by a half so getting some extra protection is really nice here. Extremely useless trivia that blue door coming into here, those bars. If you hit use multiple times it'll open up a little bit faster It's like for some reason the only door that does that There are actually a few other ones, but not relevant in this run. Okay, okay. Do you all mind if I cut in with a quick donation? Yes, please go ahead. So I've got a $6.66 donation from Anonymous. Let's get that $666 DonoTrain going, we need to get this Glitch Warp showcase unlocked so if we can get that $666 hype train going, we can get that unlocked in no time so get those donations in can i just say like you know we've been going for what 25 minutes now it is constant oh yeah no downtime i mean i'm maybe i'm just used to running modern games which usually have a bit more heel cut scenes whatever i mean he's just been going there's very little i can't believe it! Yeah, the pace of this is visceral. The ending event level is also extra notorious because in Watch Me Die Only an extra rocket turret spawns in the start room so you can't try and hide you'll just get blown to smithereens yeah it's kind of petty right like if all this stuff that's coming to kill you they just have one more little turret in there. It's really annoying Also, yeah, can we please hit this glitch warp showcase? Like i've got i want to I have got to see more of this Yeah, that's awesome like under an hour is not going to be enough doom 64 for me right now Yeah It's short but but is absolutely worth it so this is a lot of running around in this area a lot of backtracking hopefully a nightmare imp will open the door for me nope so we're gonna have to hit the switch manually here There's two of them in the room and neither of y'all did? You're fired Yeah thankfully there are a lot of resources in this level. We should be able to get topped off here Kind of like Merciful They give you this soul sphere and mega armor like right next to each other yeah on my tail while i'm eating the health potion. Wow, yeah. He's still on my tail! Like, I should say Lost Souls are incredibly aggressive in 64 compared to BC Doom. Yep, most enemies are pretty similar, maybe small differences in their size or whatever, but Lost Souls they're really fast and really aggressive And the checks that they use to determine whether or not they're going to attack happen way more often I do not like any of this you got also don't like it there's no uh no hit scanners in here oh oh i thought that we'd go back here here. Oh, I thought you had that! I thought we'd go back to here. This is kind of far back. Okay, that's fine. But yeah, that's pretty much running Doom in a nutshell, it's just there's so much randomness and there's so much improv, and you'll never have a run be the same no matter what. Yeah. Especially on this difficulty like I consider this the hardest category that's not the lost levels watch me die speed it is brutal i love that you took the hardest category and you're like yeah i'm going to submit this one this is what i'm gonna do! Wow, we're... I actually want to give a quick shout out to the modding community for Doom 64 because somebody decided to make an ultra nightmare mod and make it even harder! Oh wow Do you all have time for an update on the hype train? Yes please. Alright we've got some people buying their $6.66 tickets for the hype train. We've got Cameron Soram who says getting my ticket on the southbound train to that glitch warp showcase Yeah, that's a way to have it. I like it too. I've got a donation from Bugbeard buying the $6.66 ticket to the pipe train saying Duke Guy saving the animals is canon. We also have Nova Rooster 2655 donating for the hype train, 666 donation train for Doom. Let's hit that let's showcase incentive all aboard cho Choo choo! There's one really cool trick shot right here if we do the BFD, and we can let the tracers destroy all these enemies in the room for lucky Oh nice! Nice one, yeah. And if you're not in the middle right here you lower into a pit and you die because you can't go off and many console players where you can't save the game mid-game have died to that trap yeah you're guaranteed stuck down there guarantee diets right at the end this really long level i my heart weeps every time i watch like a blind playthrough and they end up like falling there. It's terrible. So the save loading or quicksave is that exclusive to this? Yeah, you couldn't do that in N64 You could only see it between levels What about other classic themesoms? Other classic dooms, they normally run on a demo system for competitive speedrunning. So it has to be single segment. Wow! Pretty cool! Yeah there's no compatible demo system in this game. There is a demo system but there's no way demo system in this. Like, there is a demo system, but there's no way to actually record demos. We just go by RTA. So, this level is really dangerous, so I'm actually going to open up a couple of secret areas for later, which has some very useful equipment that we can get. So we're going to get this Megasphere so it can pop off. We're going to save the invulnerability for a little bit later because we've got a very long arena coming up here. Yeah, there's a lot of enemies that spawn in here and similar to some other ones from the past you don't actually have to kill every single enemy here so So Zulu's got, you know... He memorized the ones that actually need to die in order to spawn the next wave and he is going to try to keep as many of these alive possible so they might spawn prevent some later on. And that's what you meant when you sometimes accidentally soft block, right? Yep. So one got blocked over here so the other should be right over here...one of these two. I can't tell which one because they move in such a weird spot okay this is the one then so we're gonna block block one manky bye uh we're going to kill a few of these enemies here and we're going to go ahead and get that invulnerability because the last wave is very scary it has two cyber demons on watch me die difficulty yeah and cyber demon rockets are pretty much like your rockets uh they do an enormous amount of damage, and I think if you get hit by both of them, it's pretty likely that you will just get one shot at this point, right? 150-160 for your health and armor? Yeah yeah so invulnerability is like a very worthwhile uh detour to to use against these guys there we go the double double nice um very nice yeah uh it's it's relatively reliable to kill them in two shots but you have to get like right up in their face all right this is the longest level on a run right here. Lot of backtracking involved. Yeah, super long level Lotta kinda just general straightforward combat at the beginning I think if there are donations this is a pretty good time for some. Fantastic! I've got a $25 donation from Drakkona that says Doom! Doom! Doom. Doom. Doom. There we go, still not enough doom so let's get back Glitch Warp Showcase Thank you Dracona and just as a reminder for everyone donating towards the incentives is absolutely no additional cost to you. If you're making any kind of donation don't forget to click on the incentives down at the bottom. Add your money to that incentive so that you at the bottom. Add your money to that donation, or add your money to that incentive so you can help us unlock this glitch warp showcase because it's going to be wild I promise! I also have a $25 donation from iCanHearPudding, who says Shout out to Aubrey Hodges for one of the top horror industrial soundtracks. Big shout outs to the Midway staff. Like Aubrey Hodges did these sound effects for the PlayStation version of the game and also this amazing more ambient soundtrack. So we're actually gonna have a little bit of an auto-scroller. We are gonna wait right here, so normally pain elementals would come down if you aggro them and then when the pain elemental leaves another one takes its place but if we just kind of wait right here we can start killing this one now no more will spawn excuse me and then we could we also block a hell knight at the same time so there's a nice little bit of multitasking here while we're have some downtime that mean we have some time for a few more donations yeah we can do like a couple more all right crowd! We got another $50 donation from Zeebee who says Doom! Doom! Doom! Doom! Doom! We also have a $10 donation from John Quilty who says, Good luck Zello! Give Doom the boost! Yeah. John knows about my antics with Ernest Evans and the boost. Well you got to see The Unmakered! You weren't supposed to but you did. That's about as much as you'll see out of that. So we're coming into the back library so we are actually two thirds of the way through the level and I'm going to pick up a few extra supplies around here Megasphere to cap off, there's a nice cell pack tucked away under here. Cells are very scarce in this point of the game so we want to top off where we can So there is actually one interesting thing about this map. We're actually going to hit a lost soul limit, so pain animals cannot spawn lost souls if there are 18 or more already on the map which is great because we didn't really talk about the changes depending on medals yet but in 64 they spawn two lost holes instead of one and if you try and block them with your body like you can in PC Doom, they explode in your face for rocket damage and usually just kill you. Yeah they're so dangerous on this version. So, hitting that limit is pretty beneficial on some parts. Unfortunately, that's not going to be the case for the exit room, so you have to be very careful. Are there any other strats of the game where you're like manipulating enemy counts to prevent spawns or does that usually end up in soft blocks or it depends on the category here and there which one do you all i'm so sorry to cut in i just have to give you this big update we are now officially halfway there to the glitch warp showcase we've got people buying their six6.66 tickets on the hype train to hell. Let's take this hype train to hell all the way to that Glitch Warp showcase, come on y'all get those donos in Chad I know you can do it. We're also like really close to 300k by the way. I mean we were knocking on the door. That was scary at the end. Three Pan Elementals all in the same room they all need to die or I explode. Okay this is The Spiral. I think it's one of the coolest levels. It looks awesome! Yeah, it just like packed packed with action tons of enemies flying in and Zillow's gonna try to run past as many as possible while picking up as many rockets as possible generally you can kind of top off on a hundred here to get like as many boxes as you can and there is armor that's somewhat accessible if if that platform lowers but not worth hanging out for. I guess it goes through the wall? Yes! Save us a ball like, for a second let's go. So there is a little weird property with the super shotgun, because the spread on the vertical is actually bit random. We hit a switch from way below where we're supposed to which is nice. That's like the only instance of this in this category. How long is that strap-in known? Pretty much since, like, the beginning, since he just started running. That immediately struck me as something that would be found accidentally super easily and it was just always there. Yeah yeah Do you all mind if I cut in real quick? Sure We've got another update, we're 60% of the way there,'s four thousand five hundred dollars out of the seven thousand five hundred dollars we've only got ten to fifteen minutes left to unlock that glitch work showcase buy your tickets for that hype train someone spot six has bought 10 tickets for that hype train. Someone's bought six, uh, has bought ten tickets for the hype train as $66.60 donation from anonymous saying 10 tickets for the hell train please so get on that terrain y'all so this was a little interesting because there actually was like a planned secret as at some point if you look at the map data, there were a bunch of tagged walls but that never ended up happening. But it's kind of neat to think about the developers' hidden stuff because there are some weird instances where the game feels a little unfinished, like some secrets that are very much secrets and they're not tagged as secrets. Yeah, in addition, Dilude hopped on one of the railways here and ended up jumping around one of the bars that's supposed to be keeping you out. A little bit of a sequence break there. So, armor is not in a good spot but that's okay we'll get a soul sphere here We can just grab this one on the way out and leave Bye bye all night for a scared i think he wanted to high five but i had to leave him hanging this guy though he wants the high fiver nice stoop and we have to be careful not to softlock down the well with a line def skip. This is one of those bad line def skips that you don't want! Yeah, just dropping down isn't what causes level to end it's like right before you drop down there's a line right in that opening. So if you just run really quickly it'll just like stand there forever. I have lost an embarrassing number of runs both on original console and on this version doing that I just want to give on this version doing that. I just want to give a quick update here, we've got a $666 donation from Jesse Lockhart! Wow. Glitch and tear! Glitch and tear glitch and tear loving this doom 64 let's get that glitch showcase incentive matt chat let's go this lighting that i'm seeing here, was this something like Noom for Doom 64? Like it just looks so different from other classic Dooms to me. Yeah, the colored lighting is a very Doom 64 specific thing and It's fantastic. I can't think of another FPS in this era that really uses colored lighting the way like Doom does, its...the palettes just get changed depending on what kind you're in. It gives it it this really good graphical style. It really does a lot for variety and like honestly modernizing the way it looks, really impressive. Yeah, yeah at age really well. Okay so this is going to be a little weird we're actually just gonna weaken these Barons instead of killing them outright. So we have to come back later and we want a bunch of weaker Barons that we can tear through with the BFG because if a bunch of fresh Barons get to us later they'll probably just turn us apart where's the other baron what i don't know where the other one went it somehow got spawn prevented i'm very confused now maybe uh or is he gonna show up at the worst possible time so we're going to grab this whole screw here thankfully this involved keeps us pretty safe as long as i don't get too blocked or fall off. So one last key to grab and then we gotta go back to the starting room, And then back to the hallway and hopefully we'll be able to play Pitfalls Lotto and win. Like, we already had Wiley Casino during earlier in the marathon, so let's see if we can win the lottery here. Yeah, all those barons from before all the ones that he weakened are just kind of like clumped up in those hallways and hopefully they're not going to get in his way and if so like one or two shots will kill them off this jump is also really hard you're not supposed to make that okay there we go yes nice there you go nice clean exit quick update for you all we're over five thousand dollars oh we are at over $5,000 of that 7500 were trying to raise with thanks to donations like this $66.60 donation from CathodeRayDude who says I put the decimal point in the wrong place and I can't fix it but this is still for Doom Well I do want to say that we have four levels left so you don't know much time if you want to see that and I know sure but it isn't worth it but we're gonna do a little bit of, uh... What did you call it? Peach's ring around the Rosie right here? Yeah. So normally there's like a secret panel off to the side that lets you raise these protective barriers to not get shot by the darts um but it's so sick yeah that was awesome yeah zellu uh implemented this this trick where he just kind of like spin in circles and nothing can hit you. So it's so great. And it's nice too, because even between the arrows, not only do you have to, you don't have to activate the switch, but if you activate the switch, it actually takes longer for the script to finish so you save time that way too. It's really nice. The tricks that look super cool and also save time are like...so rare in speedrunning I feel like sometimes those were the best ones yeah all right good the hell knights are out of the hollow what are you doing there kekka really wanted to play oh yeah i guess something that we really didn't really talk too much about was like infighting. Infighting really doesn't have too much of a impact in this run Infighting you mean like AI versus AI? Yeah, and enemies of different species so to speak can deal damage to each other but honestly most of the time whenever there's an enemy that we have to kill we're just going to run straight to it and kill it. So infighting doesn't even really have too much of a part in this run. I was just thinking about that when I saw the kek fly out there in that hallway. I was thinkingk you know fly out there in that hallway i was thinking you know like could the whole skybox oh yeah it's cool very geocities i love this guy this is so geo cities I love the skybox. This is so GeoCities core. Look at that green skybox! That's so cool. Yeah, the architecture in this game is so great. Alright we've got a lot of stuff to kill right here. So all six Anarchotrons need to die, all six Spectres need to die, and then all four Barons need to die. But this is thankfully one of the more chilled levels in the run. We just need to exit with a lot out because the next level is extremely dangerous Yeah it's so funny looking at this trigger compared to like Be Gentle I was doing a lot of be gentle running just to like prepare and learn the movement and stuff and uh there's like two specters in one baron or whatever right it's like it's such a huge difference in enemy cone we've got a few updates on that hype train still going i've got a 66.60 donation from jahalio who says doom doom doom doom 10 tickets for the hype train let's go there's about a thousand out of this point close all right close. All right, nice big silver refill right here. This is like one of the few secrets that's really worth it. It's like 280 cells that'll keep us for endgame. And just from my own knowledge, when y you all talk about doing a jump... Sorry this is kind of a callback. There's no actual jump input in this game right? You're talking more like going from crossing over a gap. Yeah, or that you just throw yourself off the edge. Right. Yeah, hope you make it. So in this room there's like a whole bunch of pinkies that get kind of airl, I guess, airlifted in. You can literally just see them dropping from the sky. And then later on there's barons that spawn and so Zillow is going to try to manipulate them to block as many burns as possible. Seems like a pretty clean room. Yeah. Now we have the most important line def skip coming up in the entire run so getting the yellow key early is critical because if we do this key the normal way, the castle locks and we have to kill a bunch of Kakademas again. So this is the most important line dev skip for this category. So we're going clear out all these enemies first, you can see the key right there. We're gonna line up in the corner opposite I'm gonna look at a specific spot that should be okay no, I'm actually caught on the wall. There's the door knob. Yep, there we go perfect first try nice yep yeah what normally happens is it'll teleport away and kind of you know bounce back and forth between those different hallway ends uh And after the third one, then you have the castle locks and you have to kill a whole bunch of stuff to get through. So by grabbing it early, it's kind of interesting like the yellow key is going to like respawn there later. They all have collision and you can collect them but You're not really supposed to So it's a puzzle? Yeah so what happens is that there's these different switches that are blocked off the first time that you see them. And you can see here, it was only visible for like a second. There's like a placard to the left of that gate. And it essentially tells you the combination that you need to hit those buttons in order in order to reveal the switch. And so there is, for three buttons there are six different combinations And so there's like, you know for three buttons, there was six different combinations. Three of them are correct and will open a gate three of them are wrong and you'll get locked in that room until you kill a bunch of stuff that spawns but... No scope bunch of stuff that spawns um but no scope nice got a huge update for all you were less than 900 no oh we are just so uh just over eight hundred dollars away from getting that glitch warp showcase you can do it we're so close big thanks to 666 dollar and 64 cent donation for doom 64 of course. From Jasper who says I want to see that Glitch Warp showcase! Let's go! Yeah you have literally about two and a half minutes to do. We are knocking on the door oh my gosh we can do it i could absolutely do it it is so close okay so we do need to trigger part of the yellow key script to make the stairs to the exit show up so we're going to deal with this helmet we're gonna stare them down stare that baron down and now we can just play leave your last barriers right here so this is generally considered the most difficult level in the game in the main campaign no escape has three cyber demons and we don't have an invincibility this time to cheese them out okay so we're gonna we're gonna apply some good old PC doom strats. We're going to try and bait rockets from them and do a little bit of dancing And hopefully these imps are not going to get too far in the way This is bad That shows you what can happen yeah i was at what 150 130 and i died that was a max damage gnarly yeah brutal rocket there's three of them, by the way. Yeah. So let's clear out a couple of them just so I can get some movement here. So we're going to try and do a little bit of dancing wait for him to aggro then we're gonna get one in all right that's nice so the other two are extra scary because they're locked in a cage together. If they come out at the same time, this gets really dicey. Yeah, when there's just one you can kind of manage it because when he shoots one rocket he's always going to fire kind of a salvo three in order like that oh the limp blocked me but when there's two of them it still becomes a lot harder to kind of manage their salvo. I don't too. Nice! Why am i doing this? These imps! These imps! There we go, good enough! So that brings us to the very last level coming up. This is one giant arena fight. You want to talk about how these enemies actually come in? Because it's pretty funny. Yeah, sure. So like way off in the distance there's this warehouse full of enemies and when you walk in here they kind of like wake up and start walking towards their teleport line def and they start warming in. And they do it very politely They're so polite that if there's an enemy That's standing in one of these gates The next enemy won't teleport So what Zella is going to try and do Is sort of lure them out And destroy them as quickly as possible So that there's room for the next one to teleport in. There are SO many lost souls! You can see these little squares next to these gates? That's where you would normally enter a demon key and uh if you find the demon king you press and you use one of these boxes um off in the distance what's going to happen is the ceiling one third of the ceiling will just kind of smush about one-third of the enemies. It's like a really fun behind the scenes way to have this cool intense final level. So normally it's like oh i'm closing the demon gate and it's you know all cool badass but you're really just squishing a third of the enemies i do not like my health Are we worried about health right now? Now we are. I'm worried about health right now. It's going to be bad if a loss will interrupt one of my rockets, so we're going to hopefully not have an accident here. There's just a few enemies left thankfully. In order to spawn the last boss, we have to kill everything that starts in the level but the lost souls actually don't call it. That cheer means we hit that incentive for the glitch warp showcase, so we're going to get to see all those fun glitches. So congratulations, Chad. You did it. Yeah, with like seconds left yes because we just killed the mother demon bye-bye mother demon but since it's a doom run everything needs to die so i'm gonna die too cause he you've already watched my watch me die for the last like 55 minutes so this is coming up on time time oh chat really got that mitt at the yeah that was a buzzer beater that was awesome buzzer beater. That was awesome! Buzzer-beater incentive. So I see a 4915 Anything sub 50 is pretty good for a marathon That was such a fun run It's almost 2am it's past 2am it's almost 3 am this very wired this very chill doom six is very chill comfy doom 64 right this hockey battler said yeah anyways since you all met it we're gonna do the glitch warp showcase after we get past the ending right here where we just remain in hell forever oh yahoo help forever. Oh. Yahoo! Woohoo! Comfy, doomeruns! We're trapped in hell forever. So this is going to be a little bit of surprise for most people. We're going to go load up this save file that plays one of the secret levels, this is The Lair. So this level has something very interesting out of bounds. And we're going to get out of bounds using some very interesting methods here, so we're gonna get on through this platform and back walk here. We need to get to a part of the map that doesn't have collision, so we're just going to carefully balance here. Where are they at? This looks wild with the FOV right now as well oh yeah i actually played a non-standard fov so it looks a little weird sometimes so i'm just gonna let these lost souls die here make sure they're nice and dead, because we do... This is pretty much a pixel perfect setup here. One more. Okay so we need to just go forward very slightly Chain gun to line up against this, hopefully that's right. Nope we'll reset that real quick. Surprise chainsaw. Yep, surprise. That might work. If my mouse will stop moving on its own. Might be a little... I love the ominous thunder here too. There we go. Nice. Okay, so we're behind the castle here. You gotta appreciate the brick texture and the nice pretty mountains right here. And I really do appreciate this but I might want something different So if I just say the magic words, hocus pocus John Romero loves the Bruiser Brothers, hey look, I made a change! So the scripts in this level in particular... There's an out of bounds trigger as well that is tied to these scripts. And you might notice on the screen right here I don't have a next level location despite this normally going to Dark Citadel. Well, this would normally send me to the ending in the console version of the game because it's the id for the script ties to a map that doesn't exist which is the same as the end of the game in the 2020 remaster of the game i think it does something a little bit funnier. We broke hell so hard, it kicks us back to the main menu. But that is Doom 64. I'm happy to be y'all's slayer today. Did you all have any final shout-outs before we finish up? Shout-outs to any of my friends and family who are staying up watching shout outs to um uh john bianca rami uh shout out to the the p court any of my viewers who are watching and um yeah thanks for having me on shout out to the viewers um and chavista gdq yeah i want to give shots to you zello i mean it was you know i kind of was kind of a last minute inclusion for me to be here and this was awesome you know i kind of was kind of a last minute inclusion for me to be here and this was awesome you know i decided to have such an appreciation for what you do and this one's really cool and thank you everybody for getting that donation meant literally at the final moment that was super super cool, that was awesome so thank you Dylan. I want to give quick shout outs real quick my little soapbox because the marathon actually started at the end of Pride Month and I was born at the end of Pride Month, and I was born at the end of Pride Month. And somebody who also celebrates Pride Month with me who made these lovely plushies a cacodemon and a pananamal I have to give a big shout out to my loving wife, Harukaze on the back couch for everything she does for me. I love this. This is so cool. So big shadows to her Pride never goes away and trans rights are human rights so y'all enjoy the rest of the marathon, we love you all and we'll see y'all later. Good job, Zello! All right, hello everybody. Welcome, I'm Sharkay87 And this is gonna be Outlast 2. I'm excited to show this game up. I got to show off Outlast 1 a couple years ago, and now we're coming back with the sequel. We've got plenty to explain if you both want to introduce yourselves before we get started here? Yeah, I'm SirKyle95. I'm Nerd. I did the pop figure run earlier and I'm a washed up at last figure runner. All right. So I'm assuming can I get time permission on the on the bid war i'm assuming it's french one double check i'm pretty i'm pretty sure it is. Yeah, I think it was French. Thank you so much for checking in. Yes, French did win with a final amount of $122.50. Thank you for that. Okay, great. All right, well we'll go ahead and just jump into the run then. We start on actually the second subchapter of the game. We skip the intro essentially. So time is going to start after this loading screen is done so go ahead and get that started right here So 3...2... 1...go! Alright 3, 2, 1, go. All right so we got a lot to explain with this category it's pretty heavily modded category. We have a lot of different subcategories and things for this game. Essentially, no checkpoint killing means that... Well, checkpoint killing, first of all, is in vanilla Any%, if you skip a single checkpoint in the game, you die. So it makes skipping things a lot more difficult obviously so part of the mod is that we disable that and instead of killing you it just saves the game normally and you can progress. We'll get into more of the category specific things in a second, so at the beginning of this chapter The Crash we're going to drop down here and we're gonna attempt to skip climbing down the majority of this cliff by doing a crawl right there. Very nice, alright, we're not dead. So this game does have fall damage if you fall too far you will die We can do certain things like that to negate the fall damage we also toggle FPS quite a bit in this game, so you see right here we'll toggle about 8FPS and cancel a lot of the Heartland animations and things like that. But, the idea is that we're going to be jumping around between high and low FPS here and there because this game has a lot of very specific clips that only work on specific FPS values. So, we talked about checkpoint killing a little bit and the other part is the cutscene skip mods. That's a bit newer and all of these here we go, redo this real quick part of the newer. And all of these... part of the mod is no stamina as well, you have to hit a button for that. It doesn't always register right away so we're gonna do that there. So we're going to do that as well there, so we got that and part of the reason for that is with this particular category, we spend a lot of time out-of-bounds and usually in vanilla, we would reload checkpoints to get stamina back but because there are no checkpoints just out of bounds all over the place it would result in us kind of walking everywhere. So most people who do no checkpoint killing do no stamina. Right here we're going to do something called a crouch crawl clip which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like you just crouch and crawl alternate um go right through the wall i'm going to run past this dude right here remember really scared from out of bounds uh so this is the first major skip in the game, This is a lenskip and we are going to be bypassing a pretty major part of the level here A lot of this stuff is solid generally when you go out of bounds so we can kind of just walk uh through the mountains here there's a lot of mountain climbing in this run yes um and actually we're coming up to uh in a little bit here the first big cutscene skip so like i was saying that's a bit of a newer feature in this run um all of the mod stuff is done actually pretty much all through a just editing a config file. It's all Unreal Engine console commands and things like that, so big shoutouts to the Outlast speedrunning community and the modding community for helping us get some of these cool categories, some other fun ways to play the game. So normally we're supposed to walk through about a five minute cutscene here, auto-scroller but by going out of bounds you can skip that. Generally when you skip any checkpoints in the game, it will stop loading things in which includes cutscenes, which in this case is very good for us because we can just run right past. And so basically one more thing about checkpoint killing I wanted to mention is that Basically there's minor and major checkpoints So as soon as you skip a checkpoint all of the minor ones disappear, they won't load in And then next time you hit a major checkpoint you just die. You fall over on the ground almost like you had a heart attack so right here you would normally die but instead, on the bottom left you can see it says saving uh so that's the the mod in action there uh let's just do a lot a lot of really really big skips here um one small time save here normally get blasted back by this enemy here but you can hide in the corner on the side and avoid that. And Nerd if you want to talk about Ethan here a little bit we're actually going to skip Ethan because he is a pretty cool character. We're actually going to skip Ethan, but he is a pretty cool character. We're not going to see him because of the cutscene skip mod here, so once I fall into this cutscene... we're gonna reload. That's supposed to be this really long chase and then you do a clip right after it but don't have to do that with the cutscene skip Yeah so normally I'd have to wait around here for a really long time in the basement. It's not quite a cutscene in the sense that you control your character but you have to wait around for a few minutes there. So we're gonna progress right here and uh do another little shortcut here um there's actually a lot of tricks in regular any percent that lead over to this you think with uh you know not being able to skip into the checkpoints that uh any person would be glitchless but there's actually a lot of tricks so you can kind of wiggle through the fence just like that and now we're gonna head over to this this field over here. There's kind of a funny thing, so if you ever run 100% in this game there is recording You pull up the camera and record certain events There is one gear that you can actually only get If you don't reload the checkpoint here if you reload the checkpoint you're just locked by the king 100 it kind of sucks uh so we'll see that here i'm gonna give her a crouch crawl clip through this fence and we'll see one of the main villains marta kind of just walking here. You're not supposed to be able to get this close to her She's supposed to watch you through the fence there but there she is. And here we are going to do a trick called a beast hop if you want to talk about that a little bit, Kyle? Yeah, so normally you're supposed to grab onto this crate and slide it but if you maneuver in the right way you can grab the crate while standing right next to it like you just did. And if you can force your- any piece of your hitbox through a wall it basically just disables the collision unless you walk right through which is what he did Yeah and we're gonna see that a lot later uh you know with a lot of speed runs we kind of joke about uh you know walls are kind of a suggestion but that is that is kind of the case in this game sometimes with the collision being a lot more complex than the original Outlast. You can do a lot of stuff like that. Oh, Nerd, you wanna talk about a trick we just did there? We're gonna do another one later so make sure to point that out but yeah so we did a legend of course you can lean in this game like the original at last and when normally when you go on a ledge there's an animation where you're like shimmy on it but if you run while looking behind you, you don't do that animation. That's what makes the character move a lot faster and all you have to be is just look behind you. Yeah we'll see at least one more of those later. The vanilla 80% run has a lot more of those especially going around sort of curved paths which makes it a lot more difficult there. We've got one more jump to make here before we get to our next checkpoint. It's kind of a long section where we don't get any safety checkpoints here. So basically, like I said said there is lethal fall damage in this game but there are certain ways to cancel it so like right here nice okay we didn't die very nice so if you hit that slide, the animation there takes precedent over the lethal fall damage. We're going to do another slide here. Like I said, we have some low FPS strats here. So if we drop the FPS while sliding like that, we're able to clip into that wall just like that. This will skip a decent chunk of the level right here. We're going to jump back and bounce just like that. Yeah, that's not the game lagging. That's an intentional FPS drop. Yeah. So coming up here we have elevator skip. There's actually two tricks called elevator skip. No distinction there. I don't think we have any difference in the naming there. But they both skip elevators, so you know, there ya go. Here's our first example of these kind of jump clips where we're gonna try to force a little bit of our character get clipped into the wall. These particular kinds of clips are a little bit random, so if it doesn't work there is a method to manipulate this So you have a value called your offset position, which affects how close you can get the walls and certain animations like that one will affect it. So with these kind of clips if you do it exactly like that so it seems silly It seems kind of like placebo There's no way that actually works But yeah If a lot of those clips don't work You can get a certain animation Like that And it usually makes it A lot easier Here we're dropping the FPS a little bit to delay the load of the level, there's certain collision that loads in and blocks you so we want to delay that a little bit to make that more consistent so it doesn't load in too fast. And here we have Marta, this is actually another any% skip right here as well So Marta shows up and I bet a lot of casual players struggle with this part. You're supposed to get the cart all the way here and jump over and try to avoid her, but if we set this up correctly, we can crouch and clip a little bit straight through the fence and we can skip that section so not having to push the cart there yeah let's go Shark Eye. Alright so we're gonna skip another cutscene here So this would be a great time to read a couple donations if you got some. Absolutely, I've got a $100 donation from CupofChai who says SGDQ is my favorite time of year and I'm so sad I won't be able to watch much of it live this week but I wanted to make sure I chipped in to support MSF, an organization I respect so much. Even more now for their work in Gaza The conflict has been on my mind daily over the past nine months and MSF has been one of the few bright lights during this time. Thank you to all the medical professionals on the ground, love to all the runners and the crew for this amazing week, Trans Rights! And even though it's now July the runners and the crew for this amazing week trans rights and even though it's now july every month is pride month all right you got time for uh one or two more here absolutely uh following along that one i've got a 10 donation from smush which seems to go together with this one says on the topic of trans rights which are human rights and should be treated as such. Americans, have you registered to vote? Make sure at Vote.gov every voice counts. All right thank you so right here we're going to be picking up a bandage so this is actually a little bit of a backup strap. We added in a different version of a skip here, sort of in the practice room. So if we decide to go for this other version I will need that bandage but we're gonna worry about that when we get there so uh you move through corn here i usually could slow down quite a bit um at lower fps you move quite a bit faster here so we're just doing this to uh to dodge the enemies here and then we're going to reload to despawn them, and this trick is called mill skip here. So like we said, walls are a bit of a suggestion. There's many different ways to get clipped onto walls in this game, a lot of these clips are very unique. In this case we're going to crouch with the specific facing angle and that'll let us clip into this fence. And now, this trick is called dumb skip affectionately because it is just very finicky. It's one of those things where if it doesn't work immediately it kind of gives you a hard time. It's just that...it's like any of these clips we're jumping, it's gonna be a bit random but we're going to try to jump and side hop and it's just that easy. There we go! It's that easy every time, every time it works except when it doesn't. All right so do you guys want to explain this level coming up? Because this is the hardest trick in the run right here. It's actually two tricks back-to-back. Yeah, I can take it. So he was going to do two of those jump flips like what you just did and The last check when he gets is right in this room so if he misses up either them, right back here. And this particular one the one he just did is one of the most inconsistent ones in the run. You can sit there for minutes sometimes and not be able to make it through that wall. Though it looks like it's going to work this time. and not being able to make it through that wall. Although it looks like it's going to work this time. Almost, okay. Yeah so the first one is random, it just yeah you just have to do it until you get it pretty much. The second one is just really precise and like we mentioned because we skipped a checkpoint we don't get the checkpoint here and that means if you want like we mentioned, because we skipped a checkpoint you don't get the checkpoints here. And that means if you want to retry this you have to do both. It still saves a good chunk of time We just got to get out kind of precise setup here and we'll get it every time. That's it! Let's go, okay. So fun fact about this, you're supposed to use this to climb into the vent. You don't actually have to do that as long as you pull it close enough It lets your leg grab this, which is a little bit silly And right here I'm doing something called the lag boost So if... Actually Kyle, can you explain my boost real quick? Oh yeah. So if the game FPS is lower than the FPS cap and you try to crawl You'll just lag like that and scoot across the ground instead of doing the normal crawl animation which is really slow. So to do that he sets the FPS cap to 1000, which is way beyond what a computer can do And then slides across the ground like that. Alright, so this is Bridge Skip. We're gonna try to grab a stump to cancel our fall here. Okay, we didn't quite get it. This is also called stump jump. Yeah, so you're supposed to watch a cutscene and fall all the way down here but there's a few ways to do this without that And we are going for the slightly flashier version here there we go so if you interact with those stumps, you can hide normally. Obviously we don't need to do that because we can kind of just blast past all the enemies in the game here. But if you interact with that it cancels the fall damage. Kind of like jumping into the sliding animation The animation of entering this stump completely cancels the fall You can do a slide and land on a tree instead I believe its a little bit... I believe it's a little bit slower. It definitely doesn't look as cool as that one there. So after we crawl through this tree here, we're going to do another crouch-crawl clip through a rock this time. We're going to do another crouch crawl clip through a rock this time. We're going to try to skip a good chunk here. We actually just made it to the second chapter out of six. I don't think we mentioned that so far. The first two chapters are by far the longest and have some of the harder tricks in the run. So we clip into this rock, and we're going to make our way out-of-bounds here. Most of the stuff that looks solid is solid and you can run on it so we're just going to make our way around take a big shortcut here and uh while we make our way to the next school level here we could probably get one or two donations in real quick. Awesome, that's fantastic news! I've got a $100 donation from Marcus who doesn't have a comment but i just wanted to point out marcus and everyone else putting their donations in we're trying to get an incentive going for made of scare which is running after outlast 2 here uh to get the good ending in that game because currently it's set for the bad ending so if you want to make it a little bit harder for Asuka 424, you'll wanna make it a little bit more interesting get your donations and make sure to click on the incentive and put your money towards the incentive. It doesn't cost anything extra if you're donating anyway. You might as well put it towards the incentive. Damn. All right. so you might notice some of these sections where we're going down longer hallways and turning kind of slow there. So that actually...we're not just taking bad lines there. In this game when you get to full sprint speed if you turn too quickly with the camera You lose that speed and then you slow down pretty significantly so it's usually better to take those really slow wide turns like that. Alright, so we just skipped the cutscene. Our hands are injured now and we're going to do a trick called bandage skip So naturally the first thing we're going to do is grab a bandage here. But what we are going to do is skip putting it on, so you cannot climb ledges when your in this state but fortunately if we can flip through these two walls and get to a checkpoint And if we reload the checkpoint that's past this part of the game Then it'll actually apply the advantages to us without having to have put them on Which is also good because we don't have our camera here and uh we're gonna skip picking that up as well and the game will give it back to us um wow okay so that skip was a little random too. That was pretty lucky there. Very nice. Very good bandit skip there. So we'll just reload here and this is just a lot faster Well first of all it's a shortcut but it also skips the animation Of putting on the bandages which is pretty long as well So that restores our ability to climb up ledges Which is really good because we do need that in order to beat the game We still don't have our camera here, which is what that text right there says if you try and use it, you get that pop up there To skip another good chunk of the level we're going to do a trick called triple fence clip Which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Just different methods of getting our character slightly clipped in the wall just enough to go through. This one is quite literally rub against the wall until you go through. There's really not much of a setup to it, but this house on the right of us is normally where you would get the camera and that would teleport you to another one of these school sections. I don't think we really mentioned those, but in the game there's flashes of light cause everyone to have hallucinations and our character hallucinates this elementary school. That's what all of that is about there. So we're going to go through the third fence here and after we do that, we need to drop down pretty far here so we're going to do a side hop to hopefully cancel most of the fall damage we will still get bleed damage but won't die like that nice so uh we didn't really mention either uh so far but with bleed damage you move pretty slow. Usually we want to heal up with a bandage or reload from the checkpoint because that will also restore you back to full health which is what we're going to do here. All right so we're getting pretty close to the end of the second chapter here um we just got to grab a item that'll help us load in uh the next cutscene which will then take us to the next area which is this rope right here uh we're gonna see the main enemy of this chapter which i don't think we've actually seen so far. Nick and Larry have been trying to slide under this arrow so it doesn't slow us down. And we're gonna run over here. One quick note, We are playing on story mode that's the difficulty It doesn't affect The run too much but it does Make some things a little bit faster We do have a category for insane difficulty as well but this is just a little bit quicker and it needs to be a little bit less damage or things like that on here we're going to do another trick the school roof skip so we're gonna try to do another one of these jump clips the fence just like that and then we're gonna try to jump and land out of bounds here jump land here and so that bandage we grabbed during a bandage skip we're actually going to use right here because this part is dependent on following a character through the dark using audio cues. And with bleed damage, this takes forever. So I'm gonna take, uh... I'm going to focus a little bit here because if you lose track over here it takes way longer than usual so we're gonna follow her and use the microphone function make this a bit easier. And then as soon as Blake starts talking you're gonna start sprinting as well. I'm just gonna focus a little bit here to make sure i uh i get this Help me to become more humble every day, and thus live in your love. Quickly! And so the light is extinguished. Savior, listen to my prayer. I pray you, Lord, watch over me. Come here, Blake. Nice. Okay, we got it. All right. So right there, she does move around a lot. You kind of have to listen to how it pans and things like that uh...to be able to follow it. I actually haven't done that part in French. It is the same but yeah just different audio there. Alright so we made it to chapter 3 this is the lake So any of you that have played this game would remember the rafting section I am so sorry if there's any raft endures, we're not really going to see the raft in this category. We're going to be skipping it pretty much entirely. We need to get to the next big major checkpoint which is where you actually get back on the raft after you fall out. So, uh, to clip out of bounds initially we're gonna get on this wall and crouch and we should go through just like that. We do need to be not super careful here, but if you stay in the water too long there's a water monster that will kill you. Not usually a big deal, we just have to cross the river one more time uh here but i would say if we could squeeze in maybe a donation or two real quick while I'm running over uh the river here absolutely I've got a $50 donation from Aynah who says every year I love to watch GDQ had to donate during the great game like outlast 2. Thank you for everything you do. On a completely different tonal note, I've got a $10 donation from the shark hat on Shark Hat's head that says Nom nom nom nom nom nom the shark hat on Shark has had that says it sounds about right I also have a $5 donation from Sidemystery that says, Walls really are a suggestion in this game huh? Thank you Sim. Shout out to Sidemystery, very outlasts especially Outlast 2 Speedrunner. Alright so we're coming up pretty close to the end of this out-of-bounds section So this does skip most of the raft um the cutscene skid mod is also going to so the rap isn't really a cut scene but when we added the cutscenes get mock category especially for the any% version because there is an any% and glitchless version of this mod And for any%, we just decided to take out the raft as well Because it cuts out most of the uh but the mod cuts out most of the downtime on the run as well so unfortunately, we will not get to raft here. You'll see it for about a split second when we pick it up right there and there it goes Alright, and this part's pretty straightforward. We're getting chased by some enemies but uh we just take a straight line to the next uh cutscene trigger here which is gonna warp us to the next section of the of the level right there level. Right there. Alright, so now we're gonna be at another school section in a swimming pool and there's a monster there. So you can actually exit this pool from any side, it's just a little bit faster to go straight left here. Everything's fine. Everything's totally fine. Definitely not being chased. Don't worry about it It's fine. It's okay there are no water monsters here. Alright so this uh, this subchapter here is called Framing Blood, but you see why in a...well actually you won't see why because we're gonna do a little bit of glitch here to skip a good chunk of the level. Fair warning, the next level has a little bit of blood- literal raining blood. We're gonna have the night vision up most of the time so you won't really see it, but just wanted to throw out a super quick content warning for that. Just a little bit of blood there. So this is Raining Blood Skip, just because that's the name of the level here. When we open this door, you're supposed to get launched back down the hallway and loop all the way around. But if you stand right about here and hold the button down and do it just right, we can actually skip right through the door. Now this part's supposed to have sprinklers going down so the floor is technically wet here but doesn't load in there so you can do those super long slides like that which you normally can't do in other parts of the game. Alright, so we're coming up to Chapter 4 here. Now this might be the biggest skip in this category So this level has a ton of sub chapters of all these different levels you're supposed to go to and fortunately for us the very last sub chapter is loaded so we're going to try to go straight there right from the beginning uh this clip is also a little inconsistent it's one of those it works first try or gives you a lot of trouble kind of things. Again, I mentioned the offset position. It affects how close to get the walls and the more jumps, the more animations the more time you're playing the game, it changes and it can make some of these things a little bit more inconsistent um it works first try every time there we go all right so more low fps action just to make sure uh the collision in that house doesn't load in a little bit too quickly there um i think we could squeeze in one more donation here as I'm running through these mountains here absolutely I've got a $10 donation from the ad incentive button. Hey! Down here! Click me and help us get The Good Ending in Maid of Scare. Wow Button you have so much good information for us! Thank you for that donation! Also I want to point out we do also have an incentive open up now To upgrade the 100% difficulty...err..100% completion rather for the Virtual Boy Wario Land which is coming up later today. So that incentive is also open so pick and choose what you want to put your money towards. Alright, thank you. And there we go. So that's how we got to the end of level there. Just doing some jumps to get stuck in some collisions so we can flip back and bounce here. And for the end here, we do need to get in that elevator that's behind us but we have to kind of loop around to avoid enemies here. We do need to reload a checkpoint as well, so you kind of fix the way that the level is loaded. It kind of breaks when you go straight to the end here. Fortunately for us there is one coming up right about uh here once we get down the stairs so we're gonna reload from that to uh to fix that and then we're going to do another big trick actually though so this is the other elevator skip. Same name. This trick actually... I was just going to say Elevator Skip 2 Nah, that's too many words Elevator Skip 2 Electric Goubilu that's better so uh this actually works in any percent i believe this is the biggest skip and vanilla any percent it saves over a minute so we're gonna move into this corner of the elevator right away and flip out, And then the level's going to unload once the elevator goes far enough down so we're gonna stand in this spot right about here and you'll see we're gonna to start falling very fast. You can see the elevator shaft here, and we're gonna fall straight into a cutscene which is gonna push us forwards and into another checkpoint all the way at the bottom just like that. And uh uh, that puts us in Chapter 5! Alright so we're coming into the mines I want to preface a trick we're going to do. There's a character we call Dave. That's not the characters actual name it's just one of these heretic characters but there is a trick where we are going to dodge and hopefully it doesn't give us too much trouble. I was actually able with the help of an Outlast speedrunner and modder Misha so shoutouts to Misha helping me get this mod set up swapping the character models. The characters are usually naked and I figured that would not be great to show off so I was able to get it swapped with a different character, with clothes. So that's great. We'll be seeing a slightly different game today here. But just wanted to say again shoutouts to Misha for helping me get that figured out. And shout outs again to the Outlast Modding community as a whole, again. We're gonna enter powerpoint mode here for a brief second so I apologize for that we're gonna go to five fps to uh dodge this enemy right here there we go all right so we're coming up on uh on the day of dodge here so normally the game wants you to after getting getting this checkpoint, backtrack and hide from the enemies. And once they disappear come back to the spot but if we do a precise jump slide We can actually get past days here. There we go, nice! There we go, okay and then reloading the checkpoint despawns the enemies uh we're gonna do another beast hop here so again that's doing a side hop or back hop while trying to grab something and it displaces you just like that and we're going to crawl under. Now this is a fun one, We said walls were kinda suggestions This wall here actually Is not solid so no special Tricks or anything you just crawl straight out of bounds Like that And now we are going to do a pretty tight jump we just crawl straight out of bounds like that. And now, we're gonna do a pretty tight jump here to land on top of this mine shaft. There we go! Nice! Okay? That's the hard part of the trick done. Very good. All right. So now we're going to crawl here this little corner and kind of just wiggle back and forth until we clip back in bounds. Something like that. There we go. Alright, so this is normally a pretty long section of the level that we would have to do with some other cutscenes. We've already skipped a checkpoint so the cut scenes aren't going to load in, and we can actually just go straight to the end of the level. We're gonna do a bit of platforming We were talking about this earlier in practice, Kyle So there's some... is it stalagmites that we are jumping on? They're different! I did not know this till I ran the scan actually. Yeah, stalagmites grow up from the ground, I believe and stalagtite come down from the ceiling. I could be wrong about that but I think that's the way it goes. There we go. We jump on some stalagmites there. Okay! So now that we're done with that, we're going to do a little bit of running here. I just want to explain a little bit more about how the checkpoint killing mod and everything works because we didn't get to really dig into that at the beginning of the run. So basically, the game has a list of checkpoints that are all in order, and when you go to a checkpoint it looks to see if you have the checkpoint right before that in the list. For example, if you have Checkpoint 2, You go out of bounds and skip them, and you go straight to checkpoint 5. It'll say oh you don't have checkpoint 4 so it just kills you. So what we do is we have a console command that sets your checkpoint to a value called none when you have none checkpoint and you get another checkpoint, it just gives it to you. It kind of bypasses that check there so you don't need to actually get them all in order. So that's really nice. We used to have to use a third-party mod that would actually run in the background, and instead we were able to find this version and it's a lot easier. The only thing that sucks about it is if you uh if you forget you have to do it manually so uh that has happened to me in practice before you do a really long section out of bounds uh and then you just die and you gotta do it all over again so fortunately we have managed to avoid that which is great. So right now, we're in the last chapter of the game. We're trying to meet up with Lin. I don't think we explained any of the plot stuff so far have we? Not very much no. The plot doesn't really make that much sense if you just watch the speedrun. Well, basically there's two reporters, Blake and Lin playing as Blake A good chunk of the game is trying to meet back up with Lynn, and that's basically what we're going to do right here. Alright so while we do that if you got anything else to read this would be a great time as well? Absolutely! as well absolutely um so i've got a 25 donation from disc golfer123 who says these walls are suggestions at best to shark they are hardly a test, and though this game was a fright seeing its feet ran as tight, I must say that I am quite impressed. Love the limerick! Please send me more poems, it brings me such joy to read your poems. Thank you Dysk! Dysk is a great member of my chat. Really really great. Thank you so much this way You got time for a couple more here Awesome, I've got a $60 donation from anani moose who says let's get that good ending for me to scare. Happy belated pride, trans rights free Palestine and save the animals Alright really quick note here just like a small little routing thing. So Marta shows up we haven't seen her in awhile she's trying to kill us so the fastest way to do this is to go this way I believe the first exit you go through here, it'll fall down like that so we want to cause that one on purpose so we can go out the other way and then we're just going to run up here uh skip over the cutscene um if you have anything else you can go ahead again for sure we've got a hundred and ten dollar donation from can't do any of These Runs, who says But I really enjoy watching them! Great event. Great games. Great cause. Keep up the amazing work. I also have a $50 donation from Iggy who says, I'm glad for the existence of this event. It's heartwarming to see such an inclusive community and I love hearing the runs explained. Maybe you got one more? Absolutely, I've got a $100 donation from Unlimited Warrior who didn't say anything but I just wanted to throw that out there because that's a nice chunky dono. So, we love those chunky donos! Alright great! One thing I wanted to mention about this area This level especially with the cutscene skip mod is so much better. They really throw a lot of the cutscenes right at the end of the game here So being able to jump past those is really nice for the pacing. Now unfortunately, even with the checkpoint killing mod we can't really skip any huge chunks of this part of the level because every single checkpoint kind of relies on the other in this area. And you cannot trigger the final-the warp to the final area without, you know, the cutscene before that and the cutscene before that needs you know it just keeps going like that um but we're getting pretty close to the uh to the end of the run here i would say we got about two or three minutes left. Yeah, it's been pretty solid so far. The inner demon skip was the main thing I was worried about but that went pretty well. So we're on good pace here. Oh one quick thing I want to mention here too is you are walking with Linh here If you go out of bounds and you load the level, Lin will also disappear and you get your normal movement back. But again, unfortunately you do also need Lin to trigger these cutscenes so it's a whole we've glitched onto this level a lot, it doesn't seem like we're gonna make a huge break here. So this cutscene skip is a little bit different This is the last checkpoint in the game. You can see he's kind of just chilling there, the cutscene breaks which is kind of funny. So the way that one works is I talked about none checkpoint earlier so if you set your checkpoint value to none it also kind of breaks things too, things don't load in quite correctly. So since this is the last checkpoint in the game we can't load a checkpoint after just to skip that cutscene there for less like monologue. So we just load in with our checkpoint value being none, and then things don't load quite correctly. So yeah, we're actually coming up on the end of the run in like 30 seconds here. Once we see Jessica and we grab her hand, that's time. Kind of a funny thing that happens with another checkpoint here as well is again, like I i said things don't load properly so she's kind of just going to clip through this door here don't question it it's fine all right there she is Alright. There she is. Boop! And... Time! Alright, that is Outlast 2. Thank you so much for having me. Really excited to have gotten to show this runoff. Just a couple shout-outs the whole Outlast2 community in general. Antti, we had some mystery earlier. Gabba, Fnath, Andy... Anybody that's ran this game or this category it's been a lot of fun. Highly recommend checking out auntie's vanilla any percent run as well he's definitely the goat of his game so definitely go check them out as well yeah again just thank you for having me when he's showing off this game uh you guys got anything else all right well thanks for watching First off, I'm so confused because it's not silly block yet and I'm up here. so we're just gonna run with that. But yeah! So did you think Resident Evil 3 didn't have enough RNG? And even moreso, you don't have to care about it because you have to watch somebody else deal with it. If you said yes, I'm Oscar424 and this is made of scare. We're going to start right away cause the longer I let the game think the more likely that the game think, the more likely the game is going to troll me. You like that! I don't! So when I get through this cutscene, as soon as I start time, my wonderful couch can introduce themselves but Time is going to be starting pretty quickly And we are most likely going to do the bad ending which I'm cool with But time is going to be doing the bad ending, which I'm cool with. But time is going to start in 3...2...1...go! Like I said we're just gonna going to rapid-fire this. Yeah pretty much we are doing Walking Sim the horror game so while I get to Scare Hotel if my wonderful couch commentary can introduce themselves. Yep, hey I'm Aka the Blue and here to provide a little color commentary I am Mouseshy or Mouse I am here with my rat, Sir Cheddar Rattington III. 351 in the morning and I love to color commentary comments! I'm a simple single brain cell person and puns like that. All right, so yeah also give them our applause. I believe this is the first GDQ for both of you? Yeah. Is that you? Yeah. First time on stage. Yay! It's fun, we only bite on Tuesdays or Wednesdays Hmm anyway, don't pretend it's Tuesday So we are gonna be getting through how to get into native air to scare hotel This is a very audio-based game and it's a very stealth horror based stealth horror game. The problem is the speedrun we just say, that's nice. Stealth exists and we're not going to pay attention to it as much as possible. However, that means the RNG in this run... It's a thing. But also, that's a good dog. That's Calliope. Puppy! We'll actually see her twice. The second time... please don't hate me she comes back the third time i swear don't be scared she'll be back no buffies were harmed in the making of this run probably for sure probably definitely for sure um but yeah this kind of gives the i like to consider this run in three different segments. The first one, just kind of getting used to the area enjoying the ambiance the awesome song which may or may not be a mythological creature. Ignore that fact, I'm just enjoying it The second part of the run is I get to see some enemies that I don't get to kill and I get a small little gold ball that kind of stuns them but doesn't kill them. And that's when the run pretty much goes off the rails then we just YOLO it And the third part is my pretty little shiny gold ball comes away And the enemies don't Then that's fun. We'll be fine. I swear You won't be fine. I'm sure it'll be fine, and we're doing the bad ending is that correct? We are likely- yes, doing the bad ending. Just to update you, we are doing the bad ending. I want to thank everyone who did donate towards Kali's death. just to update you, we are doing the bad ending. I want to thank everyone who did donate towards getting the good ending but we're going to get to see a bad ending and you know what? Sometimes the bad end is fun. Honestly, I'm kind of okay with that this is the third time no we're not going to help him um, this is the third time I've had this on the GDQ stage and this is the first time I actually get to show off the Bat ending. Which we have a very special name for it but... Oh yeah, the Girlboss ending. Yep! We are doing the girl boss ending. And the reason that I have to close out pretty much right at the beginning is with the item I just picked up, these cylinder. So ending is determined by the items you pick up throughout the game There's four sheets of music and there's four cylinders uh the cylinders are a bad ending the sheet music is a good ending and the game starts with just like kind of force feeding you a sheet music. That's the only one we pick up, that's all I care about because the brand doesn't start until I actually pick it up. But anyway, you know, it's a a hotel you have like workers and some people some people maybe they've had bad day because because it is the bad ending. I know that Bob from Finance wasn't too happy that he didn't get help, but I wonder what's going to happen to him? Okay so he's having a really bad day so we're just gonna you know yeah he'll be fine juice what's up? we have basically Juice! What's up? Juice. We got some juice. Yeah, we have basically the equivalent of a life potion and that is going to bail me out because right now we have taken 50% health damage, which is just a requirement. It's fine. It kind of teaches you the... Well, you can take damage and you can die in this game. That ringing is Elizabeth, our wonderful girlfriend who we are not really putting on read but um we're just not answering her calls because we're bad. I mean we we're doing exactly what she's asking of us. We are getting her these beautiful cylindrical objects which she's going to do good things with. Yeah. And what's kind of fun is, at this point I kind of look at this and wonder like there's a word in my head that rhymes with bump and ends with scare, I can't really think of it. Lump? Jump scare, that's right. Oh there we go. You have two defenses, aka the little gold ball and then just holding your breath. That's not really beneficial usually but it is what it is. And that gate... there we go. Excuse you? There we go. As a warning when I pitched this game, that's never happened before at Button Ready. I'm not kidding. Every time I play this game, yeah, the only consistent thing in this game is at some point I say that's never happened before. It did happen in practice, Cam confirmed. Yeah it was uh... having two deaths in this was very, very unheard of on my part but we are gonna grab a little more health potion goodness and we're going to introduce the mechanic of flip the switch, push the button push another arbitrary button and open door. Door We're going to be heading up to the outdoor garden area and at this point we are getting close to the second phase where we have started defending ourselves. But, we will also be stopping and doing a safety save. We'll come back to safety saves a little bit Yeah, there aren't any but You will also be doing the bad ending puzzle That you don't get to do a good ending that alert. That's just an enemy That's alerted to our presence Get used to that she'll be hearing it a lot much too much that's alerted to my presence. Get used to that, because you'll be hearing it a lot, much to my chagrin. Well, stealth is slower. Stealth is slower? It's safer? Safety. Puppy, hi puppy. It's Kaliopagin. She's a good girl and pushing buttons on PS5 is a pain in the booty. Anyway, so that's my girlfriend's mother and that is a person that's Bob and that's also Isaac who's a bad guy but while this cutscene is playing, Hosts do you have anything to talk about? Absolutely. Speaking of the Buppies I have a $10 donation from I Want To Pet The Corgi that says, shout out to Oscar's pups. Good luck with the run! Yee! Yeah for those here they've seen my two wild children Galahahad and Frayna aka my co-hosts on Hotfix which shout out to GDQHotFix and all the Shoutcasters and everyone that takes part in those. Definitely check it out, it's some great speedrun content outside of the marathon setting so and if you have runs that are under an hour hit me up because I've got to play a few on ExpressLane hashtag plugs because I've got to play as Bjorn Express Lane. Hashtag plug. But I'm sure Isaac doesn't hear us or anything. Oh, I think maybe he... You got your tent and shot recently right? Maybe? I mean if this was CinemaS since they'd say he survives this that looks fine it's fine yeah nothing bad has ever happened to someone with metal. I mean, Wolverine has it in his bones so... If it's safe for Wolverine, it's probably safe for us. That's how I live my life. I love that! Alright... Not even a scratch. You're still at full health. It actually did not harm you. True! Maybe I am Wolverine? like actually did not harm you true maybe i am wolverine maybe you are wolverine we learn something new every day today i learned wolverine is bad at this game i mean i think he would be right. Imagine you were playing a game and any time you get jump scared or anything claws shoot out of your arms and destroy your hands and destroy your controller right? It seems real difficult like as a genre for wolverine so this next part um there are two ways to do this there's the fast strat in the i don't want to embarrass myself strats we're gonna do the item bear one bears themselves threat be if you're going for PB that first button I push creates a distraction you just don't push that button one thing i love about holding your breath in this game is that your character has to put both their hands over their mouth right like they can't just hold their breath nope no no we don't we don't need the visual aesthetic it works it was visually yeah I know I do love it. It's just yeah... A little bit of fridge life Kinda silly But yea so for the distraction there is two enemies in this area and since we can't really do anything other than kite them all over the place we just just for safety's sake we hit the button and move on with our daily lives and uh enter the bane of my existence this vandal oh that was pretty fast. No, that was great. Nailed it. So like I said before, hitting things on the PS5 controller isn't easy. And because I like doing things not the easy way, I'm playing this on a PS5. Also shout out to this and that handle knocking me down. What was the other? I don't know. What was it? It was a game that just happened, and it was on PS5 as well. We're holding down the fork for the two PS5 games this week. But any rate, at this point we're going to start seeing enemies and eventually get our phonic modulator. We're going into a cutscene so I'll do a quick summation of why this game is minutes away from going off the rails. So, from the moment the game starts, enemies have a spawn region which is about this and then they have a roaming region which is about this and then they have a roaming region which is about this and then they have a chase me when they hear me region which is about this and i don't know where they're going to spawn within that region and i don't know where they're going to spawn within that region and I don't know where they are gonna roam within the roaming region. So, I have a route And the game says that's cute And you pretty much pretty much improvise where based on what the enemies are oh yeah that's Janice from HR. There was probably some HIPAA stuff going on. Yeah, so I'm sure it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. It's totally fine. Bye Calliope. Bye Calliope. Here's a Calliope. Calliope, bye Calliope. Here's a Calliope. Calliope is good girl. She kind of bails us out later on. Good dog, best friend. Agreed. So yeah we are in the gardens and this is when you'll start to see primarily our main enemy sources. Now at this point I know there are three enemies in my immediate future, but i don't know where in their rough areas they're going to be standing. He's okay...I'm still gonna take the safe way and not just try oh he's a little bit closer than I thought okay cool bye please face away please face away that's fine if he's facing towards me it's a little bit harder to juke that one uh this next guy can booty block me. Okay, that's fine. Worst case scenario I take a hit there and on easy you could take six hits before you die. I'm sorry I didn't give you a treat, Calliope. She's mad at me. How could you do this? I'm a horrible person and Chet knows that I love my dogs, pay no attention to the sounds you're about to hear and don't look- yeah, don't pay attention to the sounds you're about here and don't look yeah don't pay attention that she's fine I swear we're not we're also not gonna looks left um oh let's look at. Yeah, that's a great moon! That's a beautiful moon. Let's not collide and paint a trap or anything. No! What traps? So at this point we are doing a bad ending puzzle which is again exclusive to the Bad Ending. Come on! And there's a compass that We're not looking yet, actually spoilers we're gonna look at it It's right there, that's a compass. And you just have to go where the compass points and its east west east north surprisingly I've run this more than once. So... Yes! It's saying- Oh it's just four directions It's easy to remember but remember Single brain cell Smooth Brain person right here And it's not Thursday yet, so brain is confused. We're going to get a second cylinder and carry on with our daily lives. Into like a nightly life? What's that? It's, it's a nightly life right now we're here in the easy... Yeah, it's nice moonlit road Pleasant normal things happen to this though do we want to talk about like what's happening in this game at all why what's going on here why is there creepy music actually yeah sure if you know what like the general rough plot go for it otherwise I can try to explain the plot and have a panic attack at the same time Alright let's multitask. I'll try and explain what I remember of the plot, then you can have a panic attack. Go for it! We are here at this hotel because our girlfriend whose name I definitely remember elizabeth yeah that's the name i remember shiny orb anyways she wanted to get our help figuring out what's going on here and what's going on here is that her family has maybe Done some sketchy supernatural things to attract people to their hotel and now are being sketchy and supernatural. Do you want to talk about the orb? Yeah, I just got hit by it dude! That's... untowardly. So this oracle I have one guy chasing me that guy's gonna be fine. Okay, Isaac don't... That's two hits. Okay, Isaac don't... That's two hits! Oh there is two guys right there. Cool! Alright let's go! Welcome to it officially going off the rails. We're gonna take a slowly roundabout way, but um... So the enemies are blind, they find me by sound and I have this wonderful thing called a phonic modulator that i'm going to trigger like that and they have an instant headache. That's great for like 20-30 seconds, and then they're like okay okay no this is fine. Yeah. And they're gonna stand back up again. So yeah these enemies can just be wandering wherever... Ooh! They're coming back! Oh goody. And they're gonna hear that noise hi bye don't come by don't come back again, I swear. Thanks. So yeah that's my only... That and holding my breath is my only defense against the enemies and that's why this goes a little bit off the rails. This is fine. And the charges are limited, so The two things I'm going to be paying attention to in my inventory Are the health potions that I have and The amount of charges health potions are the more important thing just because I Need them to last a little bit longer than the charges because I eventually lose the ability to defend myself So for how to do i eventually lose the ability to defend myself so four health two chariots yeah uh and this is when the run decides to um well hey we're at... Okay. So at this point I'm kind of just casually walking along. I let go of my breath and then hope he's not right there buddy come on okay we're just gonna YOLO it. It's faster to just YOLO it but now I know I have an enemy following me and this is fine. Sometimes he comes in his room with me... He came into this room with- He didn't come! Oh, he did not. Bye! Ooh that's three. Alright let's go! But I know he is back there so I'm hoping... hoping nope he's following me all right this is where the game likes us off like Mmmmmmmm. This is where the game likes to softlock me. Bless! Alright, whoo! So let me tell you about the two times I've run this Virginia Q already. This puzzle... It's a simple puzzle, it's a bar puzzle! And this is when the game just goes... yeah you know um we're just gonna put enemies exactly where you are not expecting them. And I've gotten Body Block almost softlocked each time. So thankfully the- Um... each time so thankfully um hi friend we're gonna anger this guy hope he goes a long way around it's probably not the wrong way around hopefully there's nobody random in this hallway. Okay, we're fine. This is fun. This is so fun. This is the easy part of the hotel. I don't know what y'all are scared about. Okay, buddy. Hello. Don't hit me! I think that's fine. We're good. So now we are at the difficult part. Oh is it crest time? It's Crest Time! Anywho, we are on the second floor which is The next 10 minutes or so, I am regretting life choices in the form of picking this game up. Because everything is just going to be wildly, uh... Wildly random. Him being here is unfortunate That means I can't take the fast route, so... I'm just gonna have to grab that. Probably get- Oh! Didn't get hit. Nice. Now this is what's going to be interesting because if he follows me which he is and i hear him behind me i'm gonna end up kind of... Hello? So, yeah. What we're probably going to end up doing is doing a quick safety save i can't pull that handle which means he's right out there so there's two ways i could do this. I can sit tight and just... Just sit tight and wait for him to disappear, which... The fact that he is going that way is a little concerning. Actually... Oh, friendo! Friend- oh no you turned. You stay over there! Sometimes he'll come into this room and it's like, oh, well here we are. So yeah, that actually worked out in my favor which means something else has been a while before I believe wrong and that's fine. But the other option I have is just to restart the game, which is kind of funny to talk about. Where are you? There's an enemy somewhere in here. In addition to doing a speed run, I'm speed running a literal game crash. Yeah, you're going to hit me. That's fine. Oh nice! Did you not see it look there? No, I didn't but the problem is this guy is going to investigate The noise in the hallway which means I'm going to investigate the noise in the hallway, which means I'm gonna have to go the very long way around. Oh! Let's see if I can sleep past... So he doesn't- At a minimum, doesn't start chasing me in the start chasing me the whole time. But yeah so this game is console glitchless and um...is wildly unstable so At some point I'm pretty sure it's a memory leak concern At some point this game is going to crash If everything goes according to plan, I'm able to get to the final boss, beat the final boss. Also jump scare button says hi. And then restart the game let's actually see if he came and followed me this is gonna be the spice spicy oh hi friend okay we're fine we're gonna go oh hi friend hi you're gonna hit me you You're not going to hit me. Oh hi! Okay bye! Welcome to Miniscare buddy. Yeah, anywho so the game is going to crash at some point. If I get to the final boss without anything going completely off the rails you won't see the game crash. That's a Crestpiece game. I need to key in on the Crestpiece. If I do die well we're just gonna find out when the game crashes also there's a puzzle that you drop down in i'm just going to hold back on my d-pad i love that the screen happens anyway right that's my favorite part! Yeah there is a whole RNG puzzle I can kill you right there Let me just wing it Um...I haven't saved in while and i don't trust this game so we're just gonna save and carry on with our daily lives and head to the library and the library has our final press piece that we need. And two enemies... Okay, someone's already mad. Let's go! I don't know where you are, buddy. Where are... I hear you. That's nice and sinister because I think he hears me. Oh, he hears me! He's right behind me! Okay friend. Oh, here's Pete! He's right behind me. Hi! Okay friend... okay. That was rude. At least introduce yourself before you beat me up. Come on now. Just common courtesy, please. Grab that heal. That's a second hit. That's fine. Okay! Alright. Panic button! Let's go! Oh. Oh, alright. Panic button! Let's go! Because I don't think it hit the button. Yeah. There we go. It's actually faster to go the other way, but with those two both on the ground... We'll just come up here. They're still gonna alert which it's fine. You got time for a quick dono? Absolutely. I've got a $25 donation from the dumb owl who says praise the orb! Good luck on the run. you hi bowl my buddy my guy oh why do you sneak up on me like that? That's rude. I'm gonna use the safety button again. Ball, protect me please! Save me from this game! So yeah, you can do this uh library with actually not using a single charge you know what this so...no. Also say hi to room 112! I don't have to go in there this time which is awesome. Oh yeah. That is...we're gonna take another save just cause we're heading up to our first of two boss fights, and that is the Abraham boss fight. Brother-in-law right? Uh brother in law or uncle So at this point we have our four color coordinated crest pieces and we are going to put them in the color coordinated slivers that match well, the crest piece itself. Also, anybody ever want a donation train? It looked like that. Just FYI. Anywho, there's some enemies following me so I'm going gonna let them chase me and then Point and laugh at them because I can stand in this elevator with the door open at all times And they're not going to come in. This is a one-person elevator But we are out of the... well, torture section so that's arguably the hardest part of the game because everything will go wrong hey yeah I think it was fine until the library section and you had to blow two or library section and you had to blow two orb. Yeah. It's one of those that charges pretty much down the rabbit's key, but actually I'm not going to. He is going to, so we're gonna let him have that key for right now. At this point, we are going to try to outsmart the Kool-Aid man. I haven't been successful lately but we'll finish up. Nope! That didn't work. Sometimes you can sneak right past them. Hi! Hey friend. You were stomping. Bye bye. you're stompy. Bye-bye. Yeah, you can wedge yourself in a very specific spot and just go right past them but it's such a tight window and if you don't get it right away, it kind of locks itself out. So I just do an okay stompy. But yeah so that's Abraham he is our next friendo of sorts. And the boss, and this is also where The Run can just go off the rails. I have to damage him without being able to damage him, but he doesn't like sound so I'm gonna damage myself in the process like oh geez Oh you got hit buddy! Hi friend Didn't swing. Okay Just really wants to give you a hug. He does. Alright, so that's Abraham. He behaved for the first shot. Now he's all stompy-stompy because he's mad. But basically I'm trying to set up a charge uh that's gonna damage him oh nope that didn't hit because he was following me. It works! That- okay... Oh wow. That, okay... Chat I promised you something Something that I say in every single run And ya know what? Actually would you two like to say it? Has that ever happened before? That's never happened before. That's never happened before! Never happened before. Chatface said the line. We did the thing line we did the thing so that um i fully expected him not to get hit by that second shot um that charge sound to get hit by that second shot. That charge sound, that's what damages him. You have to hit him twice and that puts him down. You get the Raven key. I've never seen him get that delayed of a damage shot from it so okay pop off cool mind if I sneak in here real quick? Go for it. I'm gonna teach people how well I can play piano Oh great. Got a $100 donation from that train you pointed out The anonymous train I'm happy to have a scary excuse to donate to msf who provide life-saving care to trans palestinians trans rights free palestine save the animals and good luck os Aska. Thanks! And just a quick reminder, make sure when you're making those donations to put in for the incentives because we still have that incentive to upgrade to 100% in Virtual Boy Wargill virtual boy water land definitely get your donations and for those yeah that head just so you thought that was your girlfriend Elizabeth So you thought that was your girlfriend Elizabeth and um... No. That was Isaac though. Hi, Isaac. Yeah, that's the next person we have to deal with, but this is also phase three. So everyone chat salute the ball. No more orb. Goodbye orb. Goodbye orb. I miss you dearly. Yeah it was... I heard that friendos but yes the orb is gone the enemies are not and We have entered phase three Isaac's gonna try to jump scare us, it's fine. Hi. Isaac. I kid you not, in my splits for this game I call that fight the binding of Isaac because I am a simple smooth brain person. Alright, this is going to be the final cylinder and I've got one two three four alright so we have bad ending active and we don't have to go hunting for anything else. Now... there is an enemy that wills... Oh I hate it when they... Oh, he heard me. There's enough? Come on buddy! I need you to move like five steps I have a friend that is not a friend! That's following me, go- okay. There's one enemy in here that's gonna probably troll me... That's fine. Yeah it's fine. There is one enemy here that actually is okay. Meatbags, please! This is a good run so...okay that guy is fine. That's the last enemy in this area. Um okay you stay right there friendo- nope don't look at me. Don't you dare look at me friendo. Just made us scare scare things also for those initial these players feel free to have the song deja vu stuck in your head because yes it is perfectly timed jump-scare sounds they're not following me into this it's elizabeth yeah sent us out to get uh four pieces she needed to create a counter song to hey ace sirens song which is what the this family has become corrupt by um so the countersong essentially breaks the curse on the family and elizabeth takes control of the siren song and saves the day so it's, Elizabeth saves the ending for the good ending, for the bad ending she slowly becomes corrupted by the siren song herself so when she becomes corrupted by the siren song herself. So when she, as you're talking to her through those phone calls that we have been completely ignoring You start to hear her becoming a little more warped and twisted. And then she's suddenly asking for cylinders. And those cylinders are what lets her fully control the site. I told you Kawaii Pei was gonna save the day! She's fine, I swear. Also the record scratch... God this is so funny actually. Whatever dev at Whales Interactive said we need a record scratch in this game... I want to shake your hand actually. That makes me so happy that's in there. Like uncontrollably, unconventionally happy. Anywho we're gonna get lost in a very simple straightforward path and... Okay you're a little bit earlier in this than normal it's fine it's fun it's fun everything is funny yeah that's fine. Everything is fine. Yeah, it's fine. So at this point we're now coming really close to the game crash. I haven't died yet, so I'm thinking I can get through the game or get through the game, or get through the Isaac fight and just restart the game once we finish the Isaac fight. We're gonna... Do we feel like gambling today i'm feeling lucky i feel lucky chat friendo's in the crowd should we gamble all right let's gamble. I love it! Yeah we should be fine put like four sets of quotation marks and five asterisks around that actually okay health is. Health is fine. This is the only forced save in the game because that allows Isaac to show up. And friends, as we enjoy this wonderful piano music, if you've ever played Red Light Green Light I've got news for you. You know how to play this match. You know how to play this boss fight. So... So as soon as you see that quick flash and he stops playing, he's just going to start roaming around. I don't know exactly where he is. I've got plenty of health so i'm actually just gonna go this is fine because i actually don't really have to worry about keep excuse you. Oh, hi Well that's right I can hit the switch while he is Isaac I hit the switch while he's... Isaac, go back to playing. While you're doing this I imagine a few quick donations oh go for it uh i think that your on hands run is inspiring chat because i have a 50 donation from no comment who says anonymous. I love this. Also, I was wondering why I couldn't hit the switch? It's because I didn't activate it before. yeah we're fine all right we're just going i also have a five dollar donation from abendito who says thank you for all the work that you do and also just a quick reminder for everyone making those donations, don't forget to select your incentive at add incentive button right down at the bottom doesn't cost anything extra. Let's get those incentives Matt we've got one to upgrade 100% for virtual boy Wario Land. Alright, don't crash, don't crash, don't crash... Tug of war warrior 1-1-2, come to me! I'm waiting for you by the Grand Harmonium." We avoided the game crash! And I beat the game crash by basically kind of officially crashing the game. It's fine, it's fine, everything's fine. That's all you need to do. Yeah, by doing that, it completely resets the memory leak. So we are safe from anything else happening. With the ending of the game, there's not much left. I'll tell you the hilarity of the fact that it crashes where it does. So if you do the bad ending, the crash is going to happen pretty much right as you put in your final input and before you can look at your IGT. If you're doing the good ending, it's just before he put in the final input. It's that close. So if anyone out there loves to glitch hunt and wants to like make a big difference, if you could find maybe 10-40 seconds of time save in this game You can make it so that deathless runs don't have to reset. And that would just mean that like, uh, runs on like PvPace would be this ticking time bomb against the Memory Leak and I think that would be beautiful. And the nice thing is as it goes by IGT, even though there was kind of a hilarious thing related to IGT where I need this young boy to get out of my way, thank you um IGT is what we go by so having to restart the game is no big deal but here's the funny part about IGT and time is actually coming up pretty soon. The IGT continues through the final cutscene after we've put in the final input, so if you don't know that, you're just arbitrarily adding six minutes to your time. Ask me how I know, here's the hint. I found out the hard way. Free PB, extremely free PB. Next time I stream it was like so friends we're just gonna stream this and i'm going to get a six minute pb do not ask questions i'll explain later anywho that's elizabeth we've ignored her this whole time uh time is going to be very shortly from now. I've had to flee the attic. I have been hiding from them ever since. But we must hurry. That... Is......time. Then we cannot waste any time. Thank you. No. So there's a reason we look here because the IGT continues on, I need to check something very quickly so YouTube gives give some shout outs because i might have a slight panic attack just now oh I might need to go to speedrun.com to look at something Go for it okay um i want to give a couple shoutouts. I want to shoutout my best friend Remi I love Sarah All of my good friends Everyone on my Discord The Turtles and everyone else from Sk8Knight And everyone out there who is looking after and taking care of their friends What you do is so important, but look after yourselves too. I would like to shout out my partner who's hopefully sleeping at home and also my friends from my tabletop RPG group, they're lovely and they've been great friends for the past decade so yeah. Time! Quickly. Yeah, so... So again, thank you for coming on the couch. I had so much fun on here with you. So on the good- On the bad side... Well, bad ending's a bad sign. It's seven seconds shy of world record which is not the thing is i only have the world of record in the good ending oh wow but what i did just get is a three minute pd so so i'll take that but yeah at this point you get to see Elizabeth do a very haunting version of the song. And it's actually done in like a minor key like you were saying compared to the good ending but yeah so I will take that for sure anywho this is made of scare. This console glitchless If you're a fan of glitches and going out of bounds the PC version has all those, so check that out. Otherwise, this is a fun... It's actually really easy horror game to get into if you're not into horror games. This is my first horror speedrun and I love it but that being said thank you to both Mouse and Aiko for stopping by again. Welcome to the GDQ Funmas. Thank you to everybody that is awake at way too early o'clock in the morning. Y'all are awesome. Chat, Y'all are awesome, chat. You're all awesome, too. Thank you! I'm Oscar424. You can find me at twitch.tv slash oscar424 You can find me every other Tuesday on Express Lane on GDQ Hotfix. And I go back to my people on Thursday at like 5ish in the morning, cause I am playing a game that's totally similar to made of scare called leaf blower man this game blows and there's a donation incentive for that one to put ads back in the game because that's the kind of person i am otherwise thank you for all for having me thank you for having this run i've had an absolute blast and finally i did this on the gdq platform and it didn't go completely off the rails. Yes! Otherwise, take care everybody. Hydrate and you're all super cute. Bye. Asuka. and you're all super cute. Bye! Oscar, what an incredible run. Congrats on the PB that is huge Thank you all so much for letting me spend this time with you unfortunately my time on the mic is up but there's still so much incredible content coming up we've got castlevania legends we've got haunted castle we've got starvania Legends. We've got Haunted Castle. We've got Star Trek DS9 Crossroads of Time. That's the best Star Trek. So don't close that tab. Sit tight, wait for some more incredible games coming to you live at summergames.com applause I can't believe I'm saying this, I know we've got LROC coming up next, but folks... Good morning GDQ! My name is TempestMask1000 Some of you know me as Steve and welcome to what will be my first ever GDQ run. This is such a great honor, and then some, to present to you a game that has never been shown here at any of the events before. This is Castlevania from 1997, the same year as Symphony of the Night Folks please keep this in mind for a little bit of something later that's being gone down the run. Before we get started i'd love to make a quick shout out to the castlevania community in fact we have like 10 runners within this leaderboard so if i could just quickly read those people that have helped make this game faster we have sarzak sashka gaming nes kamikaze ill um il dizog bobby the one and only. Rayquaza 911. Agent Wyvern, very good friend of mine. Uchi, and the current world record holder, the one and only Jupiter Climb. With that in mind folks, we are going to be running any percent standard mode which is a simple mode that as usual with any classic venia game i will have to collect orbs to upgrade my whip. And if I die, we gotta get starting back from the rope whip and then some. It's pretty simple as that. Light mode it's just a permanent level 3 web. Commentators could you please introduce yourselves? I'm Cypherin part of the Castlevania community through SuperCastleVania4 Happy to be here supporting Steve and can't wait to see this run get knocked out. I'm an LLZCards fan 23. I have run Castlevania 1, 2, and 5 years ago. I ran Castlevania for MS DOS here at SGDQ and I know that Tempest Mask is going to knock it out of the park today. I'm looking forward to this run and you my fledgling. As you can tell, I'm Leon Recon 2 and currently being trained to actually run this very game hoping that here within the next few months i'll have my first uh listing on the leaderboards being number 11 to run this game heck yeah all right uh before we start i want to make a quick couple of tributes. The first is my controller right here. This is a Sandland keychain for my mentor, my inspiration Akira Toriyama who we lost early this March and second to a shout out to the overall Castlevania community, to Furious Paul who we lost in early April. Paul was a runner of castlevania for for an sgdq or eight i believe it was either agdq or sgdq in 2015. paul well i didn't get to know you all too well the community loved you and so I'm doing this one for you man. Alright folks, I can't believe that I get to say this but could you please count me down from five together five four three two one all right let's go! So if you are familiar with the Castlevania classic style all you need to get down is this is pretty similar to the usual gameplay of stuff and things. We've got a Belmont Strut going on, so walking speed is not as fast as you normally would make it. But we do have some nice damage boosts going throughout this game, and then some. Jumping is a bit different though. So this is Sonya Belmont and she is actually the first and currently only Belmont with a rather female protagonist within Castlevania game to have Belmont's within her last name. I'm not sure why Konami never followed up on this in any further protagonists like her, but regardless. Unfortunately, this game is non-canon. This was supposed to be the origin story of a Belmont clan's main member, like the initial member before Leon Belmont happened. And so Koji Igarashi deemed this non-canon to then be able to work on his story because he also felt like something that happens within this game's true ending doesn't quite work out so well but yeah back to the general gameplay logistics uh i'm gonna have my commentators talk a little bit about that if you could please okay so see that meter that says b right down there everybody thinks that's the boss meter in this game You know that meter that says B right down there? Everybody thinks that's the boss meter in this game. In most Castlevania games, you would probably assume that. But nope! That meter actually represents a blazing mode. What does Blazing Mode do, you ask? Well it makes Sonya here not only temporarily invincible but she also moves much faster and when she makes contact with the enemies they take damage alas the only thing about that is you only get one per life stock so sometime during this run we may see some intentional deaths so that way he can recoup That blazing meter Of course there is one drawback of it anytime you lose a life you lose all your heart So you gotta use the management wisely that any time you lose a life, you lose all of your hearts. You gotta use the management wisely. And in this game, The end-of-a-level will not tick down those hearts So there's actually an advantage to keeping those Especially considering our subweapons that our sub-weapons are not necessarily sub-weapons but soul weapons. Syfran could you talk a little bit about those please? So yeah with the soul weapons as you come up to each of these bosses. In typical Castlevania games, you know, if you get dropped an orb... Orb! Orb! You get dropped an orb and that's pretty much it at the end of the level, but as you beat these bosses you're going to get additional power-ups. These soul weapons that'll let you do additional moves or speed up your movement, things like that. Impact that blazing meter that was talked about. Disclaimer, it is actually called burning mode but we the couch have decided that blazing sounds a little bit cooler. It's just a little bit cooler. We're trying to get through this as fast as possible. We're blazing through it. Come on now. Another thing too is you probably noticed he just picked up a chicken leg Not a whole chicken in this one wall chickens are not a thing instead Instead we have delicious KFC. Candle meat is another alternative that I like to use for them and this actually was something present within the first Game Boy game, that being Castlevania The Adventure featuring Christopher Belmont. That one had hearts though for HP recovery so funny how that game did it before Bloodstained rather. Hey folks! I'm gonna pull something from X-Men if you will. OOOOOOOH! So we have my friend Metroid Master in the back couch. And as a shoutout to him and Elrock who did X-Men Arcade Co-op We're going to do a Colossus Roar for every time that I pull out burning mode as Sonya. So keeping that in mind, I would like the chat to please play along as well. Also, I apologize if that might have scared some of you or caught you off guard. That was not my intent. Or hurt one of your ears. That too. Alright, so we are coming up to the first boss of the game and that will be the creature's bat, or as I like to call man-bat. This is going to be a pretty simple fight where I want him to try and fly as close to me as possible. It can be determined by positioning, it can be determined by RNG, it depends on which he goes for first. It could also depend on what you've done in Gotham. That is also true. Swear to me! I'm here for justice! This bet is definitely not the Caped Crusader. Totally, totally not Batman or as I like to call him, uh... Batman from Teemu. Here we go. Um okay that was a little bit unoptimal but that's okay. A little quirk with this game is you can pass through enemies and not take damage from them if they are in the middle of their i-frames. However, I will say that you are seeing me at level 3 lip Okay this is actually a little bit dicey Let's see here... okay good I have to play that just a little bit safe. Yeah! Ornnn! Alright, so far so good. That's the first out of five levels down. I will say there are actually six in total. However unfortunately I have not been given permission to indulge you in it today, So you all have to find that for yourselves. to indulge you in it today. So, you will all have to find that for yourselves. In fact, I think this is as great a time as ever to talk about the platform that I'm playing this game on. So, because this is a non-canon game, it's easy to see why Konami overall just skipped out on putting this on any of the Anniversary Collections. But in last year's case we did get the first modern port ever which is on the Game Boy app for Nintendo Switch. As such, anybody that has a basic Nintendo Switch online subscription can play this for the low, low price of free. Which beats paying $200 for a physical copy. And I feel like a lot more developers should do this with hidden gems Capcom recently did it with their Game Boy Classic Mega Man games Thank you you for that, by the way! I love those titles so much! Can we give a round of applause for that? Alright...so this is level two. I like to call it the dance hall because we're in a bit of a waltz right here. We're gonna come across a few armored knight enemies coming up and the first two that we see here, well they like to charge at you after three going back and forth patterns. And so I just need to destroy them to destroy some spikes that'll be covering my way. And...that's basically it. Spikes deal how much damage, Elezi? FOOOOORM! And that is the worst kind of damage you can get in this game by the way at least to my knowledge if there is anybody that has discovered a wave taking five points of damage please feel free to let me know. We're gonna just start using our... I had a bit of a runner's moment there, excuse me folks! And yeah we are starting to use our first soul weapon of the game which is the Wind Element and Loz I've got a Daily Double for you so how much would you like to wager? I'm not Soft Tempest let's make it a true daily double So what do you normally use the power of wind for? Well, the power of wind is what the stopwatch would normally do, is that it would stop time and it costs your five hearts. And that's good for double your value. Alright. Alright folks, second verse we're gonna take it from the top in 3 2 1 Alright so like I said We are generally faster in this mode. Burning Mode is very very useful for just trying to get through those long hallways but combine that with the stopwatch and we can especially take care of some enemies I'm trying to be careful by the way with rope climbing because as it were with Classic games back in the day you have to be holding on to the rope in order to go downward Otherwise if you fall, it'll count as a death pit and that's never fun i do want to assure you if we do take an accidental death i have ways of getting through this no problem i've been playing this game as a speedrun for at least nearly as long as I have been a speedrunner which by the way middle of 2020 it's been quite a long ride since and I picked it up ever since graduating. So quick shout out to my college, Ramapo College. You all rock. And actually had my very first in-person speed run marathon there with the help of some friends from the Gamers Club. If you'd like to check out Revner Speedfest, feel free and I would love to do it again as well. That said being here at an in-person GDQ means so much to me. And it would also mean so much to me as well if, J.D., you could give me some donations. And it means so much to a lot of the viewers at home. Tempest, you're doing an amazing job. We have $50 from Omega. home tempest you're doing an amazing job we have 50 from omega and tinkdora hey let's go that's right tempus this looks like a really interesting gun grave game. Greetings from the back couch. Donation goes to Runner's Choice, which I believe would be that upgrades 100% for Virtual Boy in Wario Land, right? That's correct. We gotta get that happening folks. Let's absolutely make that happen so folks remember to add that incentive when you make that donation and did you know that $50 also supports MSF in getting clean drinking water for 736 people for one week? Big impact. Okay, so we took an unfortunate death to that pit. I have to say it folks, That's never happened before. Well that trick is also kind of tricky to do because in this game how knockback works is whichever way you're facing is where you get knocked back, correct? Or is it the opposite? Oh no, it's the opposite of what you're facing. A little callback to Castlevania Legends where the orb spawns the enemy? The end adventure actually, previous. Alright we got ourselves the death dragon or at least the zombie dragon a bit of staple in the enemy a very well designed one at that this fellow is pretty simple though rng will determine whether the fireball shoots in any of the three head position uh had angles rather I should say. And it'll also bring the ceiling down The ceiling tiles do the least amount of damage so those are preferable to take uh, damage checks from and all that jazz. Okay, so I'm going to quickly switch out of that weapon. So we did... Oh! Okay, so that was an accidental misfire. One to the counter, if I will. Metaphorically speaking. That's okay though because we took that death I guess I can just get away with getting another one going. Leon this game is pretty gracious about its GameOvers isn't it? Oh very, very. Let's just say my first ever playthrough I accidentally did a whip only run because I didn't realize that, you know, Hidden Up A uses your special items. It's just how it goes sometimes folks but let me assure you we're still here to have a good time. And all things considered, I may be deficient of hearts to try and use the stopwatch, but hey, no worries, we'll just build it back up shortly or however quickly is feasible I guess. So I will try to take a little less of damage boosting for that and we'll just be on our merry way. So those are tower guardians, I used to call those Lizardmen just because I guess that's how they looked and never really had a good read on the official name of the new enemies. Like this one! Which is apparently called the flying wolf my uh friend actually says it looks a lot more like ridley from metroid kind of does look like Riddle Island. A little bit. So effectively, you're saying we've entered a dragon's lair? Yes, where is Kirk the Daring when you need him? Um, also, speaking of which, uh, idea for what those enemies actually are i think they are the cousins of the battle terms that's almost cruel. I mean, that's fair and all but like why would Ratchet Zitz and Pimple have to go descend from those things?, that's why they're the cousins. Cousins? Yeah, they never got their own game. They were just like hey man we got jobs as enemies so you know. Intentional death folks We're fine. Ayyyy! hey sink it in the hole right there okay so let's just rebuild a little bit because let's see that room right there was where I supposed to use burning mode. So yeah, that was intentional I promise you that much Unfortunately we are going to have to make our way to the closest power up orb because the rope whip deals the least amount of damage within the game, which is like I guess one hit's worth. So the Morningstar Whip would be two hits' worth and then there's the Fireball which that was a bit more unique to the Game Boy games. So if you're familiar with how that all plays out, the Fireball is good for long-range stuff. However, it only deals as much damage as the rope whip itself. Now the game is not behaving but third verse here we go! Oh my God I think which one of you went way too hard on that one? Probably me. There's no such thing as too hard. That's fair JD, I approve of that message. In fact, I would also approve if you could give me some more donations Absolutely, we've got $20 from hypebeast. Let's go it says good, good luck Tempest with this run into shape. Let's fight for trans-Palestinian rights. Let's go. Alright so I'm just going to need a little bit of quiet time to pull off a nice little potential trick for you all This is a bit of a treat from Streisr86's TAS run Okay, that's fine Let's see if it works. Okay no I'm gonna try that again just a couple more times. It's looking a little dicey on damage, but that's okay as long as I can manipulate those ghosts we'll be mostly okay. So I feel now would also be a good time to mention, as you've probably noticed, there's a lot of dead ends in this game that purposely waste your time. Like, there's practically nothing at the top of them that make you have to backtrack all the way and as you can tell, these enemies do hard respawns Okay, so we're gonna have to take the That's unfortunate, but well Part of that is searching for some additional i think uh sub items or so like on a different branching paths is that right it could because admittedly that still that's the whole idea behind the collectible items as you might have seen in that menu. I'm just going to say what I was trying to do right there we're gonna just well it is the same room so I guess I could go for one more time if I really wanted to. But that trick right there is me attempting to do a bit of a camera scroll So let's see if I can get it one more time I'm just gonna need a little bit of serious time please yeah there we go and folks pay attention to the screen right now because you're going to see stuff spawn down. That gear looks a little bit stuck. It's supposed to move. The idea is that if i manipulate the camera just right it'll stay there and I will never have to worry about missing that cycle whatsoever but you know what they say sometimes swag is simply time neutral. And that was the case here. So...oops, okay. I'm gonna try that again because we can go back down a room and just do a little bit of this to get on this gear and not have to wait for that again nice yeah absolutely it's fun fact about game boy games they tend to go a little slow just the room just a little just a little bit. Just a little bit. Don't mix it up, though. The Game Boy was literally one of my first ever handhelds. Oh, the Game Boy is still goaded. I have so much nostalgia for this one. It's funny because one of the first games I ever remember playing was Super Mario Land. Oh yeah. Funny how they put that second though after six golden coins on the app. Speaking of six golden coins on the app speaking of six long coins uh what about that warrior land that's true how are we doing with that incentive by the way we are over500 to that incentive. We've got to make it to that $7,500 goal so we've got some distance to cover and actually I just got a donation that goes to the incentive if i could go and shout it out please go we've got 25 from ellie jelly that says hey yeah i played this game as a kid but didn't remember that it existed until an hour ago that wasn't in the donation right continue please didn't know that, didn't remember that it existed until an hour ago when I saw Tempest playing in the practice room. Grats to Tempest for getting this neglected classic into the marathon. Thank you so much, Ellie. Yeah. Also, hi from the back couch and 10 AOS runners choice folks can thank you for all the back couch being present here today. It means so much to me. All of so many familiar faces throughout the area. Seriously, this means so much. It is one thing to have to wake up early in the morning for some Castlevania but let tell you, this means so much to me. And I know there are so many people watching too in a lot of... I'm sure a lot of communities as well, whether it be live or not. Again, I have been speedrunning for at least four years and I would like to give some very early gratitude to just a lot of the speedrunning events that I've taken part of starting in 2020 gave me the idea that there were a lot of online marathons and eventually it gave me the first confidence to take my steps into that. So I would say shout out to the first marathon I ever got to do from the Source Runs community called, I believe it was Source Runs Marathons. It's funny how that can happen in yet wonderful community in itself. Alright, so we have Medusa... She's wielding a sword! Y-yeah? Yeah, I don't know. It seems a bit dangerous. I think we usually tell our children not to play with sharp objects. And by the way, Sonya is responsible for bringing all Medusa heads into Castlevania games. You saw that one floating away. Sonia! Curse you, Sonia! Curse you, Sonia! Shout out to my friend Eshma who was the first one to come up with this. Alright, fourth verse! Ahhhh! Alright. So... We have a bit of an interesting thing- fun fact with this level. I know we have Grand Poo World 3 on the schedule, which i believe is being run by MrMightymouse. Uh, this song was actually ported into Grand Poo World 2. I can't believe sorry, I can't remember if it was either Composer or Dan the VP Or whichever of the folks that had worked on that soundtrack But when I recognized this being used in a Reznor fight eventually It was like oh that's nice coincidence indeed. So fun fact for you all! And yeah we are going to take our first what would have been intentional death in this room right here and this will also be the second time that i'm going to attempt the uh forced screen scroll which by the way again shout out to Streiser86, fellow Castlevania community runner and the very person that effectively helped us eventually put the 100% standard mode category on the leaderboard, because for the longest time it was just any percent. Oh, that wasn't a... Sorry, I was talking, but I completely forgot what I was going to do. Okay, here we go. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Okay, no. Unfortunately one of the biggest things about knockback is that it will take you off this thing so let's try this one more time. And this is not as important to get, like I feel like the first time I really just wanted to do, but okay, that's good enough. But let's see if the intended effect that I wanted comes out of this one because I don't believe so. There's a specific height that I want. Okay, fifth verse folks. Whoa! Whoa! Okay, fifth first folks. Okay so the Knights will still fall down on the platform except for one that's about to go exit stage left right there. So yeah, that's always the fun part. If I got that just right though all of them would have done that. And now we've got our boss. Folks it is everyone's favorite dump here. Here's Alucard! Not from Helsing. Oh not from Helsing at all, yeah no. But shout out to that one too who apparently got to become an operator in a certain war zone which the whole point behind this fight too is extreme it's pretty funny and generic it's like... He literally comes up to you and says... Orb. Orb! I'll take. Orb! I'll take the blame on that one. No, you're fine. Keep going. Basically Alucard just looks at you and says I don't think your ready. No, I'm totally ready. Okay then fight me Exactly because as we all know every anti-hero has to face off with the hero in a test of might Seriously though The fact of the matter is I think they put him in the game because Symphony of the Night had just come out and Casey Nagoya, the development team at this game which mind you did not work on the castlevania 2 belmont's revenge or the adventure for that matter shame really uh they they didn't know that's fine because we were only at the beginning of the level and again That would have been a level where I would've eventually wanted to take A death abuse to regain my burning mode However, that I believe we can call butterfingers so just a little bit of time lost nothing really to it which uh i'm pretty sure there is definitely an intentional death in this level as well yes they're no absolutely and i mean leon it's in the hallway of no return oh yeah of course yeah my favorite oh gosh yeah we'll talk about that in a moment i will say this much we do have one more nice little trick that i'll try to show off when we get to the minotaur mini-boss fight. I can't guarantee it'll work, though It does require a bit of particular timing with these final Soul Weapon which...I guess we could finish explaining those. So fire deals normal damage to all enemies on the screen for five hearts. Next verse folks! Three, two, one AHHHHH Okay folks. Three, two, one! Ahhhh! Okay. Moving on. Uh... Right. So fire deals damage to all enemies on the screen for five hearts. It's just normal damage, though it's not particularly useful. The hidden final soul weapon is magic which erases all enemies on the screen. A better version of fire. And then the water or ice element depending which localization game you play that's 20 hearts but it does a full heal Now here is the thing folks I speedrun Mighty No 9 and as I would know with that game and it's full heal you can pop this full heal even if your at full health so try not to do that pretty please. It's never fun. Alright, here we go. So one, two boom. Okay, no I didn't quite get it. That's okay. So unpopular opinion, I really think this guy looks like a knockoff Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain. I would agree with that because Konami did... I mean after all, Konami DID do the turtles games. Yeah they did! so i forgot to mention that casey nagoya here they never really developed a castlevania game so this was kind of their first attempt and unlike how it was with the 64 team that would go on to do Circle of the Moon later on, they never really got a second chance. Admittedly, they also had worked on the Symphony of the Night's Saturn port, so I guess that's something, but me that's something. Yeah, Kojigarashi... I don't necessarily say I would blame him for wanting to go his own way However, I also agree that Sonya Belmont still has quite a bit of potential She actually was supposed to be in a Dreamcast game that sadly got cancelled called Castlevania Resurrection which you can play the open beta 4, which I believe was supposed to be for a show. Either in E3 or something like that. We are going to take our final death abuse in the last checkpoint of the game so as we make our way to dracula himself can i pass it on over to the host to Dracula himself. Can I pass it on over for the host? Actually, this is really pertinent. We have a $25 donation from Sushi Elemental that says Dr. Acula to the boss room calling Dr. Acula to the boss room, calling Dr. Acula please come to the boss room. Shout out to JSR Alright we can definitely get Can we get as many donations as possible possibly can onto this. I would be very happy about that, actually. Yes, let's absolutely get those donations coming in and don't forget to put that toward that Virtual Boy Wario Land upgrade to 100%. We are eking up closer to that $7,500. We've got $10 from Killer Chair supporting MSF saying Tempest my boy! Chair, man thank you so much. Shout out to my friends at BSG they are some wonderful people let me truly say shoutout to folks like Rekelt and all them, Killer Chair and just all other friendos, Yatagami. And I could name so much more but unfortunately I cannot. Yeah, so much. Killer Chair continues to say good to see you running for GDQ. You're killing it. And you are! Let's hear it for Tempest everybody! Yeah! Folks, I need one final shout please. And hopefully that'll be the last time too because if we die We're gonna go all the way back to that checkpoint Yes we are. That is what he was referring to by the hallway of doom. That's correct. Okay, uh, Jeannie, we need just maybe a couple more donations pretty please. Absolutely have a ten dollar donation for magius that says hey tempest how many times must dracula die before he finally understands the answer to what a man isn't just a miserable pile of secrets but someone who is always willing to help others as well. Sorry it's after 6am here so couldn't think of anything to make you all laugh so I'll just say it from the heart It's been a long time coming but you've earned this one man Now go out there and wipe the floor with Dracula and show everyone how much skill you really got. Thank you, Mageus. Hey man, those were just shower thoughts. Nothing bad about that. Mage is a longtime friend of mine and speedrunner of all sorts of licensed games. Dude really knows his Macross and then some. Alright, folks, we are moved... We already just go... easeled our way through Dracula Phase 1 so we are going to go into phase two, enjoy a little bit of a redo of Vampire Killer. Time will be on the final hit. So let's see how this goes. This could be a little dangerous though so let's try and be as careful as possible good dodge yes time yes Very nice. Congratulations. Let's heckin' go. Y'all have no idea how nervous i was going into this seriously the honor of showing this game for the first time for the event is just crazy and then some, but like I'm so happy all the same. Like seriously folks feel free to speed run hidden gems you never know what you'll find out of them. I always have this little eye for games like this, and let me tell you the amount of memories you can make with them is astounding. Um... alright so uh... is astounding. Alright, so I'm going to let my commentators get their shoutouts out of the way first and then I am gonna bring it on home. Alright, I guess I'll start. I'd like to thank everybody back at home those who are watching you know who you are it's your man in the name I also would like to thank everyone in the Soaring Sloth community because if it wasn't for them, I would have never met Tempest. And I would like to thank Tempest himself for showing me the ropes on how to do all this stuff and honestly it's life changing so I'd like to thank everybody. And shout outs to my community studio Loz and of course to the Knott's Berry Farm. Shout out to Michelle nuts voice of Jesse ever since the Battle Frontier series. That is how I met Tempest Mask, and it's been a privilege to watch you run this game today, and congratulations on getting a PB. Well done. And one other thing, um, shout outs to my mom and also I'm wearing my twins jersey um, to honor my dad who passed away a year ago and he was a big Minnesota sports fan. Love you LZ. Thank you so much. Cypherin? Yeah, again, great job. Awesome tribute to Furious Paul again just for those of us who had a chance to interact with him. For you to get a PB in a run dedicated to him I think that's awesome and it's a fantastic job to you. Thank you for letting me be part of your couch and just witness it. You're such a very good friend of mine, seriously. I appreciate y'all so much. Folks, I just want to say this much. As a four year speed runner, I will say I take this as nothing but a beloved hobby of mine which we can do so much good with. I want to say that I am someone who is on the autistic spectrum and no matter how many challenges I've been through in my life, I'm grateful to at least be as close to neurotypical as anyone can ever be because it has allowed me to make so many very many good memories with so many people that i have the privilege of calling friends through the speed running community i really can't stress enough that there would be so many events I wish I could shout out right now. I'll name a few, Calathon, Midwest Speed Fest, Fast Pace Events, Speed Docs, BSG, UKSG, fast-paced events speed docs uh bsg um uksg all sorts of groups out there if if i was involved with you then just know i'm thinking of you right now. And let me tell you, anyone can speedrun. It's not a matter of the fastest time. It's not a matter of what game you're doing. It's not a matter of if you're doing it for an event. It's a matter of having fun. Anyone can learn to speedrun, and I highly implore you to do the same because you never know what you'll get out of it. DDQ, thank you so much for having me. And with that I will say, I hope we'll meet again one of these days So until then, I'm gonna learn Mega Man X7. Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Congratulations on that, PB Tempest Max. That was Castlevania Legends, any percents we saw all the orbs, all the and all of the amazing gameplay. We had $20 from Unreal G Gecko that said, what a wonderful night to have a speed run. Cheers to Tempest Max. Yes! to have a speed run cheers to tempest max yes that's right folks we're gonna continue to be cozy here but don't forget to stand up stretch grab a drink of water there's lots of amazing speed running that'll be coming up soon and all throughout this morning during this hosting shift my my name is JD Puppy and we've got a lot of games that are coming up. Rapid Fire, Back to Back, coming up next we have Haunted Castle, a 1cc attempt by Lrock617. Followed by Star Trek DS9 Crossroads of Time, any% run by Satresh. Follow that with Terminator Skyrim Any% run by Satdresh. Followed that with Terminator Skynet by TBCR running any%. And continuing on with the mouse click hell with Killing Time good ending by tbcr as well and then my host shift will conclude with star wars the force unleashed any% by Lifelike, all of these folks are less than one hour long so you won't want to blink or else you'll miss it and if you're enjoying all the speed runs at SGDQ, check out Games Done Quick on Twitch with weekly speedrunning shows and specials on GDQ Hotfix. Each season here on Games Done Quick there are different shows, specials and showcases featuring different speedrunners and their communities. So if you're free on Tuesdays which today's a Tuesday check out As Seen On TV with your favorite series being speed run at 7 PM Eastern and Express Lane showing showcasing shorter speed runs under an hour at 10 PM Eastern just like the ones that are being showcased this morning so there's lots of speed running gaming to enjoy all year long all throughout this week we have been long. All throughout this week, we have been supporting Doctors Without Borders Medecins Sans Frontieres which is an independent international organization that provides emergency medical care to the people who need it most. MSF cares for people affected by conflict disease outbreaks disasters and social exclusion in more than 70 countries. MSF offers medical humanitarian assistance solely based on need regardless of race ethnicity religion or politics msf teams include medical logistical and administrative staff most of them hired locally their actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles. Warm our hands up a bit, shall we? Hi everybody. I'm ROK617. First thing I'd like to do is introduce my All-Star Squad. Sound off. Sure. All Star first. My name is Bobby and I play a lot of Castlevania games except for this one so I'm perfect for the couch here. I am Ellipsis, I'm a future haunted castle runner hold me to it I'm Sifrin friend of Elrock and super Castlevania Forerunner. All of these things I can state to be true. We are going to be playing Haunted Castle, very not well-known arcade Castlevania title. It has two working titles, one of which is Simon's bathroom quest. The other is Simon's painful trip to the bathroom. Credit to Joss the Funk Doc for the second one. So this game it is an abnormally cruel Castlevania game even by Castlevania standards. So what we're going to do first is pop in our credit and go right to the lore. This is a retelling of CV1 except in this timeline they went straight ghouls and ghosts on it and Simon on his wedding day gets his bride swipes. So we won't have a countdown, I'll just say go to start time. And...go! Now you're probably swiped but more importantly take a look at that walk animation We need to find the bathroom first Mmmmm my stomach, oh it hurts first hurts so bad so the first thing we'll be doing is we're gonna be doing a lot of being you and we're going to the right we're killing enemies for collecting hearts. Hearts are very useful We gonna miss a couple damage boosts here for safety Gonna go ahead and take care of this guy Move here And since it's an arcade game they decided to give us a yellow devil section within 15 seconds so that's cool right? So the quick thing to talk about with hearts hearts much like in every Castlevania game allow you to use sub weapons. We don't have any yet, but they'll be arriving soon. Hearts also in this game serve a second purpose. There are no healing items in this game so no wall meat. Press F for that. At the end of any given stage, for each hit point that we've lost to damage our heart count will then refill it based on just subtraction from what our total is. You gonna do a little bit of platforming here so we got time for quick donation absolutely we have ten dollars from alara saying hey l rock break a leg and help our dear hero find the legendary treasure that is a bathroom. Thank you so much! Okay, so we got our first sub weapon this is the bomb called so because it's actually a bomb. Bomb functions similarly to how holy water functions in Castlevania 1 We only get one use out of it though and that's on our first boss which is very much reduced at home. This here is a safe spot and unfortunately we have to kill bats to get Medusa the spawn otherwise I just stay here and be comfy so we're gonna go ahead and take them out as they come, Medusa spawns... ah a bat got through, that's fine though. And five hits later she is out of the picture. And the lore here is we find Medusa but she has no public bathroom. Oh my stomach! Okay so to start off stage two, we've got a new enemy to deal with. These skeletons launch ghouls after you kill them which is very much a beginner's trap so we're gonna do is we're just gonna hit and we're going to crouch this guy also relevant of this top floor is that we will be getting our first melee upgrade. We're gonna pick up this boomerang, boomerangs not a useful sub weapon but we pick up sub weapons early because each sub weapon pickup provides five hearts. Five hearts is a lot, we want to make sure he gets as many as we can. So you're going to hike down the stairs really fast. So where do those stairs go to? Good question! So here's another new enemy for the bounce off the back of this amphibian that damage boost is actually the best route to go because if you even if you kill him dodging the boulder that comes after him is really difficult boulder sound effect real quick so good i love the audio design of this game and the music is tremendous. Shout out to Crunchylex for the term Captain Crunch's oops all bangers And I'm actually going to take quick quiet time here over the waters Of Transprop And I'm actually going to take quick quiet time here over the waters of TransPride. This part's really hard, bear with me. Okay, choke point one down. Very nice. Choke Point two. Stopwatch. That's game over if you miss it. So Stopwatch is by far the most important sub weapon in the game, its been featured in other Castlevania games but this completely busted because we can use it on boss fights like this guy stop time permanent stun lock and he's out of the picture yeah one thing that you want to make uh sure while you're using that stopwatch is to be in the air and make that forward jump momentum be carried with you. When you attack on the ground, it's like classic Castlevania, you will be hindered by movement so you want wanna be as fast as possible make sure your doing everything up in that air. Correct. We're gonna do some platforming here some jumping and scootin'. So we got time for one donation? Absolutely! We have $ dollars from ellipsis that says honored to share a couch with one of my closest speed friends el rock here's 50 with 50 more to come if you land the quick kill on stage four. So speaking of bosses, here we have Boney. This requires a bit of manipulation. It's like no daddy don't So there you get to see the actual absurdity that is stopwatch it just completely stopped boning his tracks and 10 hits later he's just out of the picture. It makes certain boss fights completely trivial and it's really, really powerful Into the bloody castle Is there a bathroom here? Does anyone know if there's a bathroom in here? There might be a bathroom in here. Also, this stage is the way that everybody knows it's a Castlevania game This is actually a very good mix of bloody tears. I'm a big fan. Yeah. So here we have a very common enemy in this game, the flea men. These guys are pretty awful though they do wear some spicy red shoes. Big fan of those shoes that That damage boost is necessary. So here comes a nice stopwatch glitch. We're going to go ahead and quick jump, activate stopwatch, warp to our room where we'll be fighting some mid-bosses. But because we activated stopwatch, it glitches them out completely and we just get to warp right back. Very useful. So we got another stopwatch used to despawn some enemies. From here we're going to just completely ground level it and not have to worry about anything that might be impending in our way but hey let's check out this portrait does that tear hurt you? Good question. Speaking of questions, how about some donations? Sure thing! We have $25 from Foxy That says congratulations LROC On speed squat walking. This incredibly challenging game in SGDQ with such a talented runner behind the controls, I'm sure Simon will find Dracula's water closet in no time! Much support from the best Little Mermaid Runner currently in the city of Pittsburgh. Now we have our final melee upgrade. We have a claymore, so we're basically Zangetsu now. We get to kill the stained glass dude with a stopwatch and eight hits. 25 years ahead of its time. Well, we got a new challenger, but unfortunately the arcade is closed. So stage four is honestly one of the more chill stages in the run. and also has my favorite track dinner worship is just god mode I love the drums in this tracks so much this is basically just gonna be a big heart collect-a-thon we're going to be killing most these mummies that's what I jump though because it doesn't drop any hearts, so why bother? Gonna take this elevator down... The big thing to talk about with this is the boss but for a bit I'm just gonna be doing some combat How bout we get some donations in? Absolutely! They keep coming in for you LROC. We have $25 from Poppy that says let's go Haunted Castle! I've been super looking forward to this run and I know LROC is going to knock it out of the park thank you so much poppy and folks don't forget to put that towards the virtual boy wario land 100 incentive we're just under 10% of the way there. We want to get to that $7,500 goal. Let's go! Let's go! Got time for one more? Excellent. We have $50 from Racima that says, great meeting you this event and excited to see this run even if it means waking up at 4 AM. True that. Can't wait to learn the deep Castlevania bathroom lore. So I'll take this time out to... Oh, thank you, Richard. Appreciate it. Sometimes that guy throws a bone at me and I don't want that. Kill this guy for some five hearts. So let's talk about the boss. The boss in this stage is by far the most aggravating in the game, he's an RNG nightmare so one of two things are effectively going to happen we're either going to get a quick kill, which is really nice It's also random Or what's gonna happen is he's just gonna stay back and do nothing And we have to manipulate him on the screen so he can kill him i'm mentioning this now because there's actually a lot of tech that goes into this fight that can only last like eight seconds sometimes so just getting out of way ahead. Up the elevator, thank you bat go away never see you again. Okay so let's go ahead and ride the elevator up I'm gonna go ahead in quiet time here because I do need to focus on where the fists will spawn In case we get the quick kill. So let's go. Alright, so no quick kill. That's unfortunate but the fists spawn too late. It doesn't work from there So here's the Manip strat. I'm gonna go ahead and stand like right here. Okay now he's really not playing fair Yeah we have to take that hit sadly Again this boss is the embodiment of Yeah, we have to take that hit sadly. Yeah and this boss is the embodiment of your journey for the bathroom. Okay... Okay. Yeah, that boss is awful. Really bad hurt boxes every everything's a mess so here we have probably the fastest elevator i've ever seen and try to do this damageless quick bit of quiet really good music too i love basement melodies ah so close that last window is really tight. It's only two damage, it's not the end of the world, it just looks better when it's damage-less So we stopwatch right at the top of the elevator. If we don't, we have to fight a knight and there's a bird on every single perch okay so we got a damage boost there because i want to make sure i could get this five heart here five is more than one. So we got some more stopwatch abuse, so I'm gonna do that real quick there to make sure I don't have to deal with it. This guy's gonna pop out and shoot a fireball at me but I'm gonna stop watch the hidden stage Ooh, that was a slow climb okay so i i didn't catch the climb this is fine though so we kill him i'm gonna have stopped time i don't know if i've despawned enough enemies. Yeah, okay, okay. Alright, alright. Let me assess this. Alright, so normally I take the damage boost from this mummy but because of what happened I'm gonna not take that. It's only one one damage but doesn't kill our momentum but I'd rather be safe okay so now we have our final sub weapon which is the cross cross doesn't have quite as much impact as Stopwatch overall, but it is very useful for our last two bosses. Speaking of which here's Frank Get under his kneecap, spam some cross and there goes frank very nice thank you the war on this so frankenstein actually does have a bathroom but it's out of order all the way at the top of the clock tower so our last stage is a two minute bridge and I'm absolutely not kidding about that we're going to spend the first two thirds or so just killing bats by murdering these bats, we're going to be able to just go ahead and get some additional hearts. We don't really need a ton of the hearts but it's a safe strat to go ahead and be able to lock this. We also have The Bridge catching up with us so before that can happen, how about some donations? Absolutely. And I'm loving seeing that Chad and donors are helping to get this along. Speaking of stopwatch, I see the incentive ticking a little bit closer to that $7500 including this $10 donation from Odiabur saying donating because this is the best walk cycle animation I've ever seen not wrong go runners as fast as your strangely moving legs can carry you i hope you find the bathroom thank you one more absolutely we have a $10 donation from anonymous supporting MSF that says gotta see that Wario 100%. sense. Wow! So we're coming up on what's going to be our last bet that we're gonna take care of it's a slow spawn so this bridge is getting scary. Oh my god! So this a good indication of how collision detection works in this game because we're just going to damage Moose at the end of the bridge but we also got time for a song Believe it or not, I'm walking on air. I never thought I could be so free. Believe it or not, I'm just me. One quick don't know if you got one. Thank you. Absolutely, we have $10 from Crimson Decoded no comment but thank you so much for supporting Doctors without borders thank you so much crimson so here we have dracula uh quick warning this is a very fast dracula fight and probably the easiest in the franchise history so be ready on time it's a two-phase fight so once he dies in the first phase don't need to do anything yet i'll call for it so we're gonna walk right past here we're going to turn around we're going to spin cross hoping for one cycle not quite but maybe 1 and 1 half? Sweet. All right, cool. Drake's gonna go over there. Be ready on time because phase two is the face of Nicolas Cage! Oh no! Oh no! Heads up. Yeah! nicholas cage oh no oh no yeah that was clean we fleshed the entire castle. Because we found The bathroom you see Yes Okay so for anyone looking to play this game It is available on PS4 and Switch Through the arcade archives line Thank you all so much for being here, and a quick shout-out. I know it's been popular this week, but Furious Paul or Fallen Brother, we miss you. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you, GDQ. Thank you, Doctors Without Borders. Keep contributing and stay tuned for Deep Space Nine. GGL Rock. Thank you so much for that hugely entertaining run of Haunted Castle. And the real bathroom was the friends we made along the way. Isn't it, folks? All right. Well, we have lots of amazing speedrunning to come along supporting Doctors Without Borders. We have a $25 donation from Fate the Fall saying, I hope everyone is having a great SGDQ! I hope so too! Audience how are you feeling? Excellent! How are you feeling? Excellent Good morning GDQ I want to say thank you first of all for having me this is the very first game uh well very first star trek game that has been showcased at a gdq and it is the best star trek game that has has been made for any of the early consoles and I would say the Genesis version is pretty amazing too but it is really really hard as a speedrun so this one is really hard as a speed run. So, this one is really hard as well but it's a little bit more natural so we're gonna go ahead and showcase it off with me. We have Dytoriak that's on the couch And we also have Syverin who you just saw in the last one. So, yeah... We're gonna go ahead and get this started. One of the good things about this game is it's uh pretty much a like an action adventure game and a platformer and a schmuck you'll see some stuff also so let's go ahead and get going three two one start go oh wait not yet it went to the attract mode so we gotta... it does that on you every once in a while? Yep yep. Alright let's go. So we just got a mash through some text and Odo calls us and says we need to meet him so we're going to go ahead and go meet Odo and it's a lot of running. As you can see, Cisco has a lot of endurance and he just folks it everywhere. Yeah, look at that run. Look at that stride. And then as we run through you get to see some of the cast like we saw Kira, here's Odo here, of course. We saw I think Dr. Bashir as well as we were running through there? Yeah We saw Bashir Oh go ahead Seth Yeah, I was gonna say Odo tells us that there's some anti-lepton particles you found and so now we got to go talk to jadzia and she gives us a tricorder that we gotta use in the pylons and she tells us just give it to O'Brien and Sisko says no Brian's busy and I'll do it that's exactly what a captain does right handles everything on their command post all right so we're going to pick up that where there was an engineer that was uh just laying on the job yeah knocked out just sleeping on the job yeah knocked out just sleeping on the job you know we're uh finding these mines that these bajorans are putting down for some reason they're trying to destroy the pylon or just destroyed Deep Space Nine. And so Cisco again taking on the task solo is like I got a cover. I'm not going to call you know, my security team. Like, I can take care of everything so gathering up all these grenades and going around and disposing them in these like...I don't know, these little space urinals it looks like almost. Yeah! Like we're putting some urinal cakes in. Urinal cakes that's it. And so with the tricorder that Jadzia Dax gave to us, we can then identify where some of these hidden grenades are and toss them into the chutes here. But Sath being as good as he is with this game knows by heart where each of the hidden grenades are and so it's just going straight to him, and as you can see as we pick up a grenade a timer is counting down in the upper right corner. If you do not dispose of those grenades within the allotted time it's an instant game over and you have to start over. One thing that's nice though between the sniper It's an instant game over, and you have to start over. One thing that is nice though between the SNES version And the Genesis version Is this offers some checkpoints where the Genesis one not so much Yeah, the Genesis version is very low on checkpoints yep so uh we have time for at least one donation yeah absolutely we had 25 from poppy donation? Yeah, yeah. Absolutely! We have $25 from Poppy that says Star Trek with Zav after Haunted Castle? What a great start to the morning! Also Lower Decks is the best Star Trek. Oh indeed, ooh I love it! Very nice. Let's give them another one. Sure we have $70 from Annoy-Aber supporting MSF saying donating 10 times the number of slowpans past the station in the Deep Space Nine intro because hey, Deep Space Nine. So another thing quick cause cause. As Saff climbs down slowly from each of these ledges there is fall damage in this game but based on the distance and height if you are too let's say the distance is too great, Sisko can die like in midair. Yeah it'll just kill you right away, it won't even show you falling on the ground, It's just like no you're dead. Yep, you're dead. Dead it. But one thing as you can see Cisco has these Prince of Persia type jumps and grabs to these ledgesges here it's just it's really impressive to see like the oh that's a tight one that's really good in addition to his incredible endurance he has plenty of fingertip strength. Blow up that wall... And we got one more that we gotta grab all right so we're gonna go down. Take it nice and easy. Ooh! Nice turnaround there. And that should complete this section. Yeah, stage done! Oop! All right. So reporting back into Odo with what we just dealt with here, we're now, I think running to... Is it the shuttle deck at this point, sir? No, we're going to our office right now. We've got a page from Kira. There's a Cardassian named Goldurgy that's showing up and not to be confused with Goldikot they added him and it's actually the uh if you look at the credits it's one of the senior developers they decided to insert themselves which is nice nice. Yeah that's very cool. Gold Ducat is like the main villain of the actual TV show so yeah not to get too mixed up we just passed by our son Jake chilling in the deck there. Yeah we gotta go talk to Quark to get some rumors that happened from...some Bajorans escaped that were throwing those mines. They actually escaped, so we're coming to go ahead and find them. Now we are about to give Kira permission to go after them So now is our weird schmup stage, which I pretty much refer to as Papa Smurf's colonoscopy? I don't know... Murph's colonoscopy. If any of you have a different name for it, get your donations in and let us know. With that go ahead host if you have any... Absolutely! We have a $500 donation from Julie cat that says come here you gotta see this sad trash this! Satrash! Thank you so much, JulieCat. Oh my gosh. You're a legend. Yes that was a huge donation and everybody I want to remind you please go ahead put those donations toward our 100% Virtual Boy Wario Land incentive. We're almost $2,000 of the way to the $7500 goal. I know we could do it. We're getting so close. Alright and then we get out of the wormhole and this is basically an auto-scroller for about 30 seconds, and then we have a boss fight So if you have any other donations feel free to go ahead and read it So earlier I called out for a $5 donation train and we got some, which is fantastic! We have a $5 donation from ChazML, no comment but thank you so much. A $5 donation from Jojo07 saying GDQ is one of my favorite times of year I love everything that you all do and I'm having a blast watching these runs. A $5 donation from Kevin Lund that said, I picked a good week to have surgery and lay on the couch all week! Can't wait to spend the week watching all of the amazing runners at Gdq best hopes for good recovery kevin thank you so much for joining us and a five dollar in 55 cent dollar uh 50 slice donation from captain saying, heard someone mention Babylon 5 as the best sci-fi show. For sure. Though true browncoats know that would be Firefly's smiling face. $5.55 said train for babylon five no confession nobody said anything about stargate oh yeah i mean the donations still are coming in so i mean maybe that's a signal there so yeah confession i've never seen any of those but i had star trek deep space nine that's all i need yeah that is true. Alright so that was an autoscroller the boss fight in that is kind of cheesy he reads your inputs and your momentum it makes it a little tricky. So you kind of got to lead them in certain areas and the asteroids affects where it moves He must have been using the force because it looked like a y-wing we're gonna talk to O'Brien and ask him to check some communication logs. Finally put it in work. Just stop into our best friend, Odo, because we always seem to talk to him all the time in this and Golgurji is just sitting here on the promenade and we're going to talk to him again And he's really mad! He says that those Bajorans could have damaged his ship and we owe him money in repairs so I don't know why but well, we missed the jump. So supposed to jump there so we wouldn't have to worry about that walking animation but hey you're trying to save the frames you know yeah all the frame all the frames all right so now we're going down uh to beijor because Kayo Paka got kidnapped. So we're going to go find her and this is definitely what you want to have outside of your temple that you're having a whole bunch people come into a pilgrimage or is these fire breathing scatuets yep just absolutely mandatory have flamethrowers and wall Yep, there's absolutely nothing to worry about. Flamethrowers on walls of people's houses. They're just testing their faith. If you're devout, you'll make it through. So this is a basically maze we have to light these lanterns up in order to continue on. If you put in the wrong ones, In certain areas You can actually soft lock The game. The next room if I don't grab this one Will actually soft-warp. It's kind of an oversight but it happens. So question Seth for this like how do you know which ones to turn on here? You can turn a whole bunch of them on and it's pretty much trial and error. Unless you do that one room for some reason. But yeah, it'll tell you that that doesn't work and to try again And it will reset the lights but there's nothing in the casual play that would be tell you which ones to light up no not at all all right and so we rescued Kayapaka And now we decide to go deeper into the mines that they have And find out where the actual origin of the anti-lepton radiation is coming from. At this stage is considered one of the harder stages of the game. I know talking with Seth he says that this version is a little bit more well I guess there's variations between it and the Genesis version yeah, uh, the Genesis version is a lot longer, no checkpoints and the fans do a lot more damage to you. But this one is still very, very tricky. You have a lot of damage reduction that you gotta look out for in order to go fast. You're gonna take a lot of hits trying to go faster through this no matter what. And so you kind of want to I didn't want to get hit there You kind of want to pick and choose where you want to take damage at. Sometimes it might be a different area depending upon where you're at in the run and how much health you might have. And then you gotta watch out for some of these falls still too, right? Yeah. If I drop down too far from that ladder we'll take fall damage and... We don't want to have from that ladder will take fall damage. We don't want to have like really that much, like all of this is calculated for how much damage we're gonna take through here and We should have enough to tank two hits from some rocks at the end of this stage That we are gonna need, at the very end of the stage. There's actually like three other little sub-stages to this before we get to the end, but we don't get a health refill until two more stages so...... two more stages so it's now a good time to sneak in with some donations yes all right so we have a $30 donation from Nick saying Voyager is the best Star Trek and Nova Class is the best Starship class. Also I found these gold-plated Latininum bars while I was cleaning out the Buster Collectors. I was going to buy a new hyperspanner but this will be for a better cause. Thank you so much for your $30 donation, thanks. This room is very evil For casual players We've collected these grenades that we have to plant on this generator here, about four of them. And once we plant the last one, we need to book it as quickly as we can because then now the room is filling up with water. It's electrified water here. Electrified water, and these jumps again sort of being along lines of Prince of Persia type jumps if you're familiar. Some of them don't like to stick so... Yeah, we did get the ones that are The most troublesome so I'm very happy about that but We're still not out of the clear yet. Anything can happen you could accidentally fall off of these sometimes it doesn't have any hit detection That's really good, that was a great climb sir Thank you. Alright so we're gonna actually do death abuse here this is the one spot where we do a death abuse to get a health refill and we got the quick continue nice there's for some reason on that stage only it can make you wait that whole continuous screen for it to spawn through and it won't let you do any inputs until it fully shows up. So we're just going deeper and deeper into the mine Yeah, if we have any more donations, go ahead and give us two of them. I love how the donation train also has the Star Trek takes. We have a $5 donation from Klingon Knifebites that says, my controversial Star Trek take is I like Sisko better before The Beard. And we have $5 from Mint saying, you're all all wrong the best hard sci-fi series was red dwarf that's a good one i never seen that either. I'm sorry! It's like, get this man off this couch! All that matters is the DS9 right now. Yeah exactly. nine yeah yeah exactly good for a couple more or not oh yeah go ahead all right we have a ten dollar donation from lunar bladed k saying five dollar donation train times two. Yes, please! Good job on the runs. Great job keeping stream steady to the tech team and the GDQs are awesome as always. Thank you so much for your donation supporting msf all right i think we can do even one more yeah all right continuing on the train another five dollars from mr aardvark saying, $5 donation train! Woo! Woo! Let's go! Yep, so I think we're getting fairly close to the end of this whole cave segment here. Yeah, take it a little easy right there because if you get hit by acid twice in a row like that while you're still getting hit by it, you actually take a lot of damage. You really don't want to do that so we're gonna go ahead, we just stutter stepped and saved all that health so... Yeah we have just the right amount of health to hopefully survive some potential falling rocks as we're fighting the boss, you can say, of this area. Yes, this is definitely a boss. We're fighting a replicator, everybody that's making those velitrium grenades. So we just blew it up... Oh! We got hit by rock. That's what we didn't want but we had enough health for it so and then just stand here and get smacked oh okay you dodged at that time yeah and we pick up some replicator parts and head back. Awesome. Going through that stage, it's funny to see how many of those Bajorans look like they just turn around and see Sisko there and get shot before they can do anything, and then that one just swung at Sisko as he fell out of the sky? Yeah, some of them are aware of the evil plot. They're just there doing their job and then Siskel comes bow zap So O'Brien tells us that he did find some communication logs between the Cardassian ship and the Bajoran ship that we went and apprehended through the wormhole. The plot thickens. Yes! Now we're going to get a page from Bashir and we are going to take control of Bashir for a second so we are going to jump here that way we don't have to walk and again saving those frames now our bashir so we have to try to use our tricorder it's broken so now we got to go back to o'brien and get a fix so o'brian fixer stuff easy peasy. Alright, and this is kind of like the whole adventure game thing where you gotta go around and talk to people about a progressive plot in a specific order, and they all move in different areas after you talk to them. You know, I just wanted to give that whole open-world feel before the open-world games that we know today came out you know very true like we're really in deep space nine right now i also have to ask everybody do you love this soundtrack it is freaking amazing i don't know if you are listening to how much of a banger this is. This one's bassline. Yeah, this is really good. Alright, we're gonna talk to Garrick really quick. One of the best characters in this TV series And, I'm gonna do this because it's really funny that they hint at it in the show. Before I read these results we're going to talk to Jadzia. Hi Julian! Hello Jadzia. Are you busy later? Sorry. I am. I'm studying some replicator fragments from baserun this year had a huge crush on jazia dax here i love how they had to throw in that in there it's great it's like yes bashir just just stop and we've now regained control of Cisco. And, we just come- We figured out the plot so uh... The plots a little convoluted but basically there's a Cardassian that Gol Gurji is dealing with that has a whole bunch of plastic surgery to look like a Bajoran. And he is the leader of a Bajoran restorationist cult that wants to bring Bajor back under the rule of the uh Cardassians. So... I think there's a plot in the actual TV show where there's, you know, some surgical manipulations of somebody that disguised himself. If anybody wants to donate in and tell us what the episode is feel free to do so. I'm sorry Odo I didn't mean to punch you in the face to do so. I love the call out for the donation trivia there. Do I have time to sneak in a couple of donations? Yes. I love how this is not only a talk about Star Trek, but also about the best classes of starship. We have $10 from Keanazzo that says the Sovereign class is the best class of starship also sg1 was awesome we also have ten dollars from dinos that says 10 for stargate sg-1 and Stargate Atlantis. My first sci fi series, and still very much loved indeed. I agree. Alright... So... I agree. Alright, so we're actually in the past now that whole section that we were just in was a whole convoluted thing for us to learn that we need to go back in the past to learn about the phaser frequency changes and how they work with the board, because we're going to translate that into changing our transponder frequencies so that way we can go ahead and teleport into the Cardassian ship, because they keep changing their shields and we can't get access to them. Now we're at Wolf 359 The worst, very worst day of Sisko's life and the prophets decided to go ahead and place him there yeah one of the cool things about this uh levels as you see there's various Borg members Saf just shot one and so he has right now two phasers the one that he shot with no longer will work on the remaining Borg in here. In order to reactivate it to work, He has to then recalibrate the frequency at certain computer consoles He was able to shoot another one there because he had, used the other phaser that he had in his inventory. Yeah we I've routed this out where we basically uh...I don't need to change that much. I only killed the required amount of board that you need to. So we're going to go ahead and change our frequency there. There is a replicator there that I can use to get food, but we don't need it right now. Yeah, we're looking good on health right now. And we're going gonna need it because we're going to try something I'm not entirely sure if its gonna work It is very inconsistent but it might work and if so then it's gonna be awesome. Yeah this skip coming up that Sath is about to do will save minutes If we can pull it off And its risky too cause the Siskel will take a lot of damage while attempting it after we grab a few items along the way here but uh it's uh it's really neat to see triple down get up there. Don't forget to grab the lightsaber here. Yeah, definitely we're going to get some more health and change our phaser again. Alright yeah now right after this section is the upcoming skip Oh no Alright alright Now we're just gonna go Okay So that That gas Has like three all right now we're just gonna go okay so that gas has like three particular you could say like visual patterns Saf knows which one to make an attempt to leap at it so that then you will receive damage but sort of fall in the middle of the gas and be able to just sort of walk off to the left of it. But now we're taking sort of the intended route to then uh come in from the opposite side where it also requires that we have to turn off some power uh to get access to where that steam is because that's blocking our way. You're not supposed to get in there, it's a sequence break to get through there that way but there's about three frames that you can get in but it's all dependent upon where you jump and how far you jump so it's kind of a pain in the butt we're trying to make it more and more consistent, it's getting there because it's a local cycle so it's actually not the hardest thing to reset if you need to, but it also does a lot of damage. Once you get in, you have to do it again to get out. So you get in and you get out And if you don't have enough health for that then you gotta go. So we're gonna shut down... Local cycle meaning that those patterns that are coming up We could sort of leave the view of the gas and come back immediately and it just sort of resets itself as opposed to a global timer like as cisco's running throughout this whole level, that gas is constantly moving. That's not the case. Whatever you see happening at that point in time, You leave it, It stops and then you come back and it starts to resume itself. Yeah, we're going to go ahead and get some health here also. It's not a big deal for getting health, but we're going to need a lot of house for the last part of this stage also I think we have time for at least two donations. You got it! We have some more donations coming in with the Deep Space Nine love. $9 from anonymous saying, donating one dollar for each deep space. But we also have a contest of seven dollars from CC saying here's a dollar for each season of the greatest Star Trek The Next Generation. Thank you. Thank you everybody, seriously. It's really a big deal right now as well because with everything that msf has been going through this past year they really really need your donations so thank you everybody who has donated and please keep those donations coming in. Yes, please. So we're now at a point where we are trying to get Jake and everybody off of this station here. And we have got to repair the transporter, it's under fire at the moment and Sath is just using the damage here to repair the transporter. Yeah, you take a lot of damage on that fire so i do it in a way to where that's basically limits as much damages you're going to get from it but there's the wolf 359 everybody back in the present. Yeah, and since we learned about the phaser technology which we should have already known since we're a Starfleet captain We are now Odo And we have our shapeshifting abilities. So were going to go ahead and go in these vents uh...in the Cardassian ship And Were gonna make our way through To the first key card room and we're going to go ahead and allow Cisco to come in. So playing the Genesis version, uh, uh, and being this initially I had no idea about these vents. I spent a lot of time on this like what am I supposed to do? Yeah it was just sort of difficult to get through until eventually realizing oh you can travel through the vents i didn't do that at any other point earlier in the game but here we are yeah we're jumping right there because it's actually a lot faster than just walking. As you can see he is very slow. The jumping saves about 2 seconds from just walking down that hallway okay so now we're cisco again we got to get rid of these turrets, and they are... a pain in the butt. But they're all local cycle as well kinda like this team skip so I cycle as well, kind of like the Steam Skips. So I can go ahead and get past them... Yeah, he'll- As you see, he steps away And the turret goes back to its starting position. And we have a lot of these computers that we gotta go through. This one there's three of them and this unlocks our first key card so we can go through the rest of the ship. So if you have a donation, go right ahead and Oh boy do I! I have $10 from Gramps that says, everyone knows the Aussie classic Farscape is the best sci-fi TV series. But more importantly, Gramps and Zane 300k hype! That's right folks we have raised over $300K for Doctors Without Borders! Let's go! With the donations that are coming in we are almost $3,000 of the way to virtual boy wario land 100 i feel it in my bones we can make a chat do not forget to put those towards that incentive incentive Cisco showing off his uh speed here where Odo wouldn't have made it through that's why we're jumping as a mouse. And yeah, on the wall there's these little valves or I don't know what... Lockers? Yeah. With Cisco Speed he's just rolling by them but otherwise they they can't impede your progress if uh you're not moving fast enough all right so we gotta go through a few doors here and then we'll be in one of the final segments of the run I believe. And taking that awesome soundtrack again. Look, look, just dash and bite! Yeah the Genesis 1 all of those are solid objects and you have to kill each one of them in order to pass through it and its very hard all right there's a cardassian and we're gonna move so we don't get hit we have to take this we gotta kill those. Those are little flying turds. Yeah they do about a quarter or like a quarter to third of your health so and they are mean. As Saff deactivates these terminals you'll say there's other terminals above like these vertical pylons or whatever you want to call them and the time increases to deactivate them. So then, as you have these turrets aiming at you you're sort of sitting duck for a lot longer period of time so that's why Sath is going to take some time here to destroy the turrets and continue to deactivate each terminal yeah we have full health so we can take a couple hits, but it can turn real quick when you're on here. Especially up at the top if you fall you take all that fall damage and then plus getting the tank hits from any of these turrets. So he's basically doing this to like deactivate the tractor so that they can leave the Death Star, right? Yeah. Yep, that's exactly right. See, this one is a lot longer so we're seeing some damage but yeah we got a good amount of health here yeah that's about how much it takes if you don't take them out but we still have to take it out because it'll get you on this side too so let's And if you have a donation, feel free to read it. Great! Sounds good. We have a $5 donation from Dan and Jordan saying time to ride the rails on a $5 donation train. I don't know about Star Trek, but my favorite X-file is Logan." Okay! Yeah, I guess that, yeah. Differently? Go ahead and donate it in. I'll go ahead and read it. Thank you, thank you. Do I have time for one more? Yeah. $25 from Jeremy Bearamy that says, Best Trek episode, Darman. Best Starship class, Akira. Best speedrunning marathon, SGDQ of course! Alright and now this is the last part of the stage. We got into the bridge and Goal gurji decided that he was going to go ahead and put the self-destruct on so now we're using the code breaker to turn off the self-destruct and that's the main timer that you see the 36 seconds right there uh that counts down and if not then you die so we beat that. Now this is basically just cutscene percent, so we're almost done with this We just have to kind of mash some text here, we have a inescapable cutscene and this is where the Cardassians, this is where Gol Dukat comes in and decides that they're going to go take care of their problem and get rid of Golgurji. And get ready on time, but Sath will call it when it gets close. Alright, so now we have actual Gold Ducat the villain of the TV show. And... time! GG Yeah, it's a really great game, the music for it is awesome. I hope some more people pick it up because it's definitely one of those games that not a lot of people I talk to about it have ever seen or heard of. And for a Star Trek game, it's amazing! I really hope more people pick it up as well. But again everybody please, please help MSF out as much as possible right now. They truly, truly need it from the bottom of my heart I know everybody here as well feels the same way. So, really. Please. And I'm going to go ahead and we we're gonna pass it over to Zytoriak do you have any shoutouts that you'd like to give? um I'm good I can't think of anything else off the top of my head I'm good. I can't think of anything else on top my head. And then, uh, Sareth? Uh just thank you again for allowing me on your couch, Sareth. Shout-outs to both you as well as Lucha, right? Yeah. Lucha Jim, both put in a lot of hard work for this game. I know at least coming from Sega perspective I first played this on Sega Channel, I know how difficult the game it is and to see the work that you both put into it is remarkable. It's great so again thank you for having me. And i want to shout out Lucha Jim as well, thank you Lucha for everything We talked about it for years, about routing this and going through it and we finally did it and its been, it was such a blast going through it. So thank you Lucha. I also wanna thank Meg. Thank you Meg for all the support as well. And then, everything from this weekend TMK, Wolf Mom, Sin Lhasa thank you JC, thank you as well and Cyferin, Cyclorik thank you for being on my couch as well Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight thank you as well You're all freaking amazing Julie Kent yes thank you all so we'll go ahead and give it back for the next run so I hope you all enjoy and please please donate they need it please, please donate. They need it. GG Satras thank you so much for that show off of Star Trek DS9 crossroads of time any percent I saw lots of star trek and other miscellaneous love inside the donation comments. Thank you so much for playing along and sharing your passion. I want to read off a couple of donations really quick before we take this slight stretch break. $15 from Sir EJ saying, Hey Seth I'm so happy that you made it into GDQ. Congrats! Thank you for that and Jopas Mano donates $25 to MSF saying this Castlevania mod looks wild. Great run, Seth. This is definitely my new favorite Star Wars game. Oh everyone. game oh everyone hello TBC are here and it's a very special time because this is the first event I've done two runs for but not only that they're back to back. So picture this as like a double feature. There are two runs that involve the mouse, a lot. This one particularly strafing and killing time well you're in for a surprise for that but let's get to the killing uh the terminator i've done this run before, SQDQ 2020. I was a bit angry during that one, you may have noticed. But it's been a few years and we're back to do it. And oh boy, there has been some recent developments and by recent I mean within the last week. So let's just get going. So this is a FPS title. It is a stand-alone sequel or expansion to Terminator Future Shock which was Todd Howard's first game. This is his second game and you know what? That's really all I have to say for that but let's get going! Alright so name doesn't matter because we're not going to see it. And we are gonna start in... well I didn't mean to do that hold on A bit antsy at the moment. You got this, CBCR! We're going to officially start the run in 3...2... 1...go! Alright, Plot, you've maybe watched the Terminator you can probably guess what the plot is for that apocalypse John Connor John Conner is in this game he's like in his 50s um there are cut scenes for this game we're not going to be watching them because uh that takes time so i went out of the building i had a feeling that was gonna happen and that was going to happen, and I was supposed to say it but you know what? It's like sleep deprived and it is 6 AM so take that as you will. Let's try that again and speaking of 6am we have a 100 donation from amerlin saying 6 am tbc our run is the best time your runs always rule man you got the cbcr and thank you for your donation emeraldine all right let's actually save and then try this again okay now i got the good one uh in practice i didn't have that happen, but you know, that's in practice. So we are in a bunker and we're here to find a thing. It's a big thing and we're going to get to that in just a second. But I'm gonna first use these Molotov cocktails on these robots And then we are going to get to a nice little door clip Now you may have saw I was strafing through the hill. We can also do that through doors by doing pause buffering we can do other fun things with pause buffering but that's in the next level. And that's a recent development. But let's get through this level. So we're going to do some pause buffering through some windows We're also going to do some strafing across this hallway and then get stuck on the polygons but you know that's fine and dandy. We're almost done with the first level we're gonna get back to a Jeep that was at the beginning of the level, but I'm just going to slide up this hill real quick hopefully not get radiation damage by the way there are flickering lights in this game uh particularly whenever I get radiation damage and in the sub-level a bit later on I just a heads up if that kind of is a bit averse for you anyway we're gonna start the first driving level and recent development the first driving level and recent development I can go backwards. No, that's not intended So let's go again so we found out if you pause buffer going up a hill you can die no that's not what happens you can actually continue to build up speed and if you turn, you can actually get up a hill faster And this means I don't have to drive down this long valley way Let's try that again I'm surprised I'm this nervous, I did world record in this game earlier in the practice room with 11 minutes 10 I believe? But I did record that The same can't be said for killing time which i also did world record but you know anything can happen tonight it is a marathon setting of course It is a marathon setting. Alright, so we're heading to a particular box van and maybe we'll collide with it. I don't know. Sky's the limit at this point. But I'm going to do some pause buffering to kind of build up some speed so we can get through this driving section faster, almost done with level if you could believe it. All right, so there we go. Oh, there's the box stand! Oh, I missed it... But we made it! Now there are two more driving levels One is for flying and one is also driving And're going to use similar strats for those levels as well. With the flying level, we'll actually go out of the map. Let's get into Cyberdyne for the time being. We have to find some things about the big nuke that we found in the first level and there's also a submarine that we got to find out about but there's robots blocking the whole thing. There's radiation right there. We can't go through there, there's radiation, we'll die. Well you know there's another way you can get into the building. Every building hopefully has that, it's roof access. So let's get into there now here we go into the building and i have to be very careful with this straight because this one you can actually dive really easily on come on turn back okay okay we fell out of the map. Now, that's fine. We fell to our death but that's also still fine because we have loading. I don't know why I keep looking at the thing in front above me. I don't know. 6 a.m teams you've got this cbcr so now we're also going to do a fun thing that's still in bethesda games for some reason which is you can save your game and load it and you can negate all falling velocity and falling damage. Which is good because it helps us get into the bunker a bit quicker Sometimes we don't land in front of the door and we have to carefully save and load to kind of hover over to it. So I'm gonna use these grenades to kill the Terminator and it didn't go as fast As they wanted it too, but you know that's just how it goes sometimes And I'm actually going to savor here because for some reason sometimes when you try to strafe against this door here you can just go sliding down the wall even if you're basically perpendicular with the wall i still don't understand why it does that and i probably never will. Alright, so we got both terminators in one go, that's pretty good And... I'm gonna say after I hit this I'm going to save and reload. And if you want to shoot off a donation while I'm trying to click through the store, you can. I think we've got some love for you TBCR. You're absolutely killing it. We have $50 from Late Pippo supporting MSF saying, Hey TB while I'm very sad I had to skip GDQ and our movie night I'll take advantage of the Belgian time zone And be wide awake for your two runs. I hope this twisted pair of games won't represent a tortured crossing in your marathon career. Thank you for being a highlight of every GDQ. See you next time! I had a feeling an Neil Breen reference was going to be made during my round. Yeah, exactly. Thank you so much, Leigh Pitbull, for your generous support of doctors without borders all right so we died from the terminator and for some reason i decided to save the game in front of it but we'll see where that goes i should be able to get through it yeah we got through it for some reason sometimes jumping and going across the terminator you won't take damage like only sometimes the hitbox will actually affect you. Again, I don't really understand that and to be honest, I don't really need to because at least it works. Alright, so we're done with this level. There is a little bit of a wait. You have a little more time for donation because we have to wait for this thing to fly over here and then stop on the dime. Yes, of course! We have a $15 donation from Kari that says, That Jeep segment gave out pure big rigs energy. And congrats on world record earlier! I guess it's one of those rare good marathon moments compared to all the that's never happened before we've heard again and again lol. I really want to see that Wario Land incentive met as well, keep the support going less than three thank you so much Kari that's right we're almost halfway through to that $7,500 goal so let's make it happen. Donate towards that incentive. Okay, so now we're at the submarine that was mentioned in terminals and the last level of La Cruces, and this is the level that has flashing lights not yet though because the sub isn't sinking so what we are going to do is actually sink the sub and to do that we need to hit this little panel here for some some reason, the door is right here and if you're not aware that the objective is behind you, your just going to run towards your death because there's two terminators right there. I'm gonna see if I can glitch out the voice... No I didn't. Okay that's fine and now we're stuck in a door And now this hub is going to sink in, we are stuck in the door whatever is going to happen Oh the next level that what's going to happen Anyway Oh, the next level. That's what is going to happen. Anyway... The sub is sinking! Oh no! We're gonna get out of here. We are going to hop in a torpedo tube. There's some blinking lights as mentioned and we're just going to try to strafe through the blinking light so I don't have to see them anymore carefully the same anymore and we're gonna carefully is it carefully okay there we go i'll get into the torpedo tube and i was hoping sometimes you can move the mouse right before the cut scene happens and you can have the main character basically go either flying into the ground or flying into the air i think it's funnier when they fly into the ground. Alright, so now we're in the sewer. This used to be one of the worst levels in the game and also used to crash very consistently but looks like there are some updates to dosbox because i did notice uh when i was trying to download das box and practice this on my power book that i used for practicing for killing time there was a few updates for that, at least for the Mac version. So now we're in the second half of the level this is where if i ever reset in a regular run this is the half that this will normally happen on got these hunters that's the name of them i don't know what the name of these are but they're very annoying so i'll just call them the annoying things check out all right so i'm going to carefully Checked out. Alright, so I'm going to carefully try to maneuver around these and some nice behavior right here...so the sewer is filling up with water right? And we're gonna throw a grenade and then we're going to save and load and what do you think's going to happen with the water that's right it's just going to completely disappear nice okay there we go since we saved we have a little bit of a safety right here because oh hi Terminator can you get out of my way please Oh okay I see I understand I'll come back later. All right, so we're going to hit no and then we're going to hit load. There we go. We're going to try this again. Okay, good. Okay. good okay that's a little bit better we've still got two more of the annoying things so we can potentially deal with there's the one there's the other let's get out of its way oh come on i'm trying to clip through this without resorting to the pause buffering but it looks like we had to resort today and this i'm going to save right here because this door likes to consistently crash at home okay we didn't crash good hooray hooray all right so we're done with this level we're just going to strafe out of bounds so we can get over to the Jeep a little bit faster and we get to proceed with the last jeep level of the game. Alright, so we're not going to be doing the funny speed up thing just yet I actually have to play the level a little bit proper for just a bit if i try to do the jeep thing now i'm gonna go craning into whatever that is in the crater. Alright, so I'm just going to get these out of the way and open this garage door. Hopefully don't hit that. That's fine. and now I'm going to quickly let off the keyboard so I can do that. All right, and then we're just gonna hit A and D so we can get up a little bit quicker. I don't know why I shot a missile there. Didn't hurt me, so that's fine. Alright, now we're just going to line up and do a little bit of pause buffering here. I think that's enough. I don't want to do it too much because I can actually go way past the objective. So we're looking for two turrets off in the distance. The nuke is being carried on like a vehicle thing. It also turns on a dime which I found very impressive. But we're not gonna see it because we're all the way up here. Oh there's our destination! I'm just going to careen into this valley here. Well done. Well done. Well done! Alright, now the only flying level in this specific game...now if you play Future Shock there's a lot of flying levels and also sometimes those flying levels will actually bug out and you can actually softlock the game really easily. Luckily that won't happen in this particular instance but we're trying to avoid the dam section in a little bit farther ahead i may have to actually just do it because it might be a little bit faster we're gonna try this one more time oh no we got it okay good let's go and as soon as I can actually see things above me you can read off another donation because I don't know if I've messed up or not oh no i have clearly messed up okay let's try that again you can still uh read off a donation if you want. No worries, CBCR, You're absolutely killing it! We have a $25 donation from RNO 33200 supporting MSF saying I need clothes, your boots and your donations. Good luck on your run CBCR. Thank you so much for your donation And we also have a $50 donation from Irons Now I have zero context here so i apologize if i butcher this it goes I don't know if I did it right, but that was the angle I was going for. But thank you so much, Irons. Okay, so I actually have to provide context for this. So Irons, and I'm not joking when I say this, sent me a thing in the mail that I received at the hotel today, right? Playing off my love for the band genesis i love genesis by the way um they edited a single to have droning noise and them hooting an owl along with reactions to my sub noise on my Twitch. It is very bizarre, if you would like- If your at the event and you'd like to listen to it don't ask me today, ask me maybe tomorrow I wanna know how close I was! Fairly close... where am I? That's very odd. I know we passed the dam where okay we're in nightmare mode now okay we are definitely in nightmare mode okay i may have to i may have to actually take an intentional death oh no this is actual i did not actually plan for this i'm gonna be honest with you perfectly honest it kind of I'm going to be honest with you, perfectly honest. It's kind of very appropriate that the second attempt at this game leads to this. I don't have a save on this level do I? Does anyone recall if I actually saved at the beginning of the level because i'm blanking out i did oh thank you oh that is really loud by the way. And it only happens on vehicle levels, that's the thing you have to keep in mind. It ONLY happens on vehicle levels. And you quick save in Quick Load too much the game just crashes isn't that fun? Okay, hold on. I'm gonna do that one more time I don't know why I don't know why but it it seems like I'm just going way too far. You know what? I'm gonna do the level intended. I'm pretty sure I'm at a decent time. Yeah, well within decent time. And you've got lots of love coming in both in Twitch chat as well as in the donations. You got this TBCR! Alright, since I have to do the damn section because we're taking too long on this you can probably fire off...you know what? Five whole donations. Five whole donations. Well I'd love to start off with a $100 donation from Dave saying pleasant surprise to see GDQ on after work. Keep up the good work. Yes that's right thank you so much for that generous donation Dave for Doctors Without Borders and we again are inching closer towards that halfway point for the upgrade to 100% for Virtual Boy Wario Land by Swordsman Kirby, going from any percent to a hundred percent Remember, you have to put those donations towards that incentive with that add incentive button. Do not let that pass by because we want to see that incentive met. We have another donation of $ from glados that says i love skynet thank you so much for the support of your fellow robotic friends. Gladys, thank you, thank you for supporting MSF. OK so if we did that strat correctly we're supposed to end up right here. We were going to fly under the water and whatnot, sneak past all of the robots and what not but you know...we didn't We can pretend that we did but we didn't. But we are on the last level I will say that. That is actually true and it's rather straightforward. So we're gonna fall and hopefully not die. Okay, we didn't die. We're going to reload, fall damage negated okay there we go i'm gonna go into this door uh we're gonna run into this and then not take any damage from the explosion because why not damage is optional damage IS optional in Bethesda games! Alright, so here we go Now I'm gonna try to jump onto this ledge and then I need to save before I uh... go for the final hover because I haven't actually mentioned this. Strafe movement is actually tied to specific degrees on the mouse. Also, time! Chi chi! Alright other than one slip up on the flying level that wasn't that bad at all. Like the sewer level I was actually expecting to have a little bit of trouble but yeah The flying part...that needs some work. But you know... You still did great in TVCR. Any specific shoutouts related to the Terminator Skynet? I know that we have you coming right up next with Killing Time but anything you'd like to share well as always Albert hammock was the one that kind of introduced the game to me so yeah hi Albert. I know you're watching this hi and Really the people that are actually in the audience that I've been hanging out with this week... Hi there! But yeah, as mentioned mentioned it's a double feature so if let's say Windows or DOS games may not be your fancy how about a Macintosh game? Maybe we have one of those, what do you think? I think we may and I mean I think we may also have some Windows lovers and some Mac lovers out there as the Dooners so I'd love to hear which one has more love in the donation comments. Let's see what happens. I can't wait for the random Amiga comment. Listen, I love the Amiga. The Amiga is a neat machine. Excellent! Well great job TBCR! Thank you so much! Yep and I'll see ya in a bit! Wow. Who knew that Jeeps could move just like that? Ah, TVCR thank you so much for that wonderful any% run of the Terminator Skynet. I'd love to go and share a $50 donation from Major DB saying, what a great run by TBCR. thank you for all what you do at gdq for someone who grew up on many of these games it warms my heart to watch and donate. I love you all." Major DB, thank you so much for your donation supporting Doctors Without Borders! We're going to go ahead and give TBCR a little bit of a stretch break while we swap and get ready for killing time we will be right back with more speed running action in just a little bit so All of these donations have been going towards Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières. They are an independent international organization that provides emergency medical care to the people who need it most. MSF cares for people affected by Hello everybody, my name is LifeLight and I'm here to run Star Wars The Force Unleashed in 80%. It's a little bit of a special moment for me as this was the first game that I ever speed ran, so it's nice actually getting up here on the GDQ stage. Got a couple friends on the couch behind me if you'd like to introduce yourselves i'm rip chip i run a couple other star wars games and i'm dangerous i'm uh most well known for my participation in the Alan Wake 2 flash mob last night. He was a very good Bob. Alright, so let's go ahead and get this run started. Gonna start a new file, gonna play on the easiest difficulty just because there are few places in the run where I'm going to have to deliberately take damage and hopefully be able to ignore it And And if I play on higher difficulties, that doesn't really work so... Yeah, for bears ready? I think we can start in three two one go! Good luck. So we get the famous Star Wars opening crawl This is one of the pre-rendered cutscenes in the game, and all of the pre-rendered cutscenes are skippable. Except that they're covering up loading screens so I'm stuck watching it for at least a little bit until the games done loading. Skippable until their own skip or wait to set it backwards also just want to say whoever said the Clone Wars was the best Star Wars your opinion is incredibly valid. There's a conflicting opinion in our donations if I can read it. True. It's $25 from Queen Luigi saying, woke up from a dead sleep to say Andor is the best Star Wars. You cannot convince me i am wrong well that's pretty compelling there may read another? Sure. We have $5 from Sporadic Erratic saying, Best Star Wars is the new animated series Star Wars Visions. I was really blown away by how beautiful some of the episodes are. Thank you so much, SC for that wonderful donation to Doctors Without Borders. I don't remember how long this crawl was. I know there's a reason it's called a crawl. Let's continue getting those Star Wars opinions in we're seeing that Star Wars love as lifelike gets into this awesome any% run. This is any% crawl. It usually doesn't take this long to skip, but... I'm trying though though. You can see the little glory symbol in the bottom right. At least this gives everyone who's watching a little bit of clue on what the story is. Yeah, I mean, not a lot of people know about this franchise so it's good for them to kind of see what it looks like. And it takes time to read it too. That's true. Especially because it's angled as well you know i mean it's the same plot i guess as any star wars game i mean start or john star wars is trying to stop the bad guys and yeah and then he Star Warses everywhere. I'm actually really surprised it's taking this long to skip. Yeah, it usually doesn't make it past the text scroll. I will say we have a common opinion here from Arthur, $50 supporting MSF saying Clone Wars is indeed the best Star Wars so indeed it is it is now continuing on with the clone wars love and we're over five thousand dollars for that wario land 100 incentive let's go let's go am i basic for just saying empire strikes back no that's a great opinion well i feel like it's the basic the basic opinion like oh yeah of course you say empires everyone says that situation well it's just a good movie it is a good movie Well, the good news is we couldn't see more of this cutscene. There we go! Okay so here we're into the tutorial level of the game where we are playing as Darth Vader. His normal movement is this really slow menacing walk but we want to go faster so I'm going to spam jump which... Nevermind mind sorry. I always just found it kind of funny seeing Darth Vader hopping around like he's He was just so happy. And there he goes, unleashing the force right there Roll the credits. It has been unleashed. Unleashed it all over that door. I guess this would probably be a good time to talk about the myriad of different physics engines they have incorporated into this title. Right, so one of the advertising points in this game when it was about to come out is that if it runs at least three different physics engines kind of all at once there's one for biological materials like these plants that'll sway around back and forth, like they bend and go back to normal. But also wood will splinter. There's another one that handles metal so the metal will bend then stay in the position it was bent to. And a third one for glass that lets it shatter. Here's one for wood splintering That is It's truly unleashing the force We've seen the force unleash like three times already Uh oh. A little block there. So, fun fact, Wookiees do not know how to ride elevators. Oh! Oh! Oh! Just got a little tummy ache. That was my best impression, I can't do any better than that, I'm sorry. I think you did pretty good honestly. Well thank you, pretty good, honestly. Oh thank you. I tried my best. So another thing that I should probably mention is this is the PC version of this game which is the same as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is also out on PlayStation 2 and Wii with its other version, And that version was recently ported to the Switch so'd imagine most people are probably more familiar with that version. There's also a version on the DS and another version on the PSP and yet another version on iOS and N-Gage, if anybody remembers the N-Gage. What is this? Skyrim? Alright we got the first real fight coming up. This is the first boss fight. There is a strat to try and keep him stomached for the entire fight which I'll try to do here. If he gets an opportunity to attack, he puts a bubble up around himself and is completely invincible as long as it's there. And that usually loses about 7-8 seconds each time it happens. Yeah so you'll see the combo he's doing here is actually a three hit combo but he's basically canceling the third hit with I think it's block in order to basically chain that attack over and over again. Because the third hit is very slow and will make it so he can possibly recover and do the thing he did. That was an incredible game. It is a little bit harder than it looks. Especially with the lag between each hit you're seeing So, at the end of every boss fight has a quick time event because this game came out in 2008. that was the era of qte's Get him! That is... I'm not gonna lie, that's actually super cool. Quite the Hadouken. So this is putting us into the second tutorial which is just called the Grip Tutorial but this is the first point at which I have access to the Mission Select menu and this is important for the Any% run, so for a while in the Any% run we would just when we reached that tutorial pick the first level here and go to it and I would skip the tutorial, save about 20 seconds. That was pretty nice until we found out that if we select that this menu behind it with all of levels that are locked, its still active right after I click accept here. So if i spam down on the d-pad thats going to select a different level after I tell it to load the level and then its going to load the level that i have selected instead of the one that im on, thats gonna skip pretty much the entire game you can just barely hear the menuing going on and as the screen goes to black yeah that was a good one we just skipped a little bit over half of the game with that one i'll have to repeat it once but that will get us to the end. As you say, you skipped more than you did in the practice room, I remember. It varies a lot from machine to machine. It just kind of depends on how fast it loads. So realistically he's only going to be playing the first and last levels First just to open up mission select then last one to roll credits Truly harnessing the power of The Dark Side Also means that he is gonna Truly harnessing the power of the dark side. Also means he's going to be going into the final level grossly underpowered, so if you like SL1 runs from Dark Souls, here you go. It also means we're going to see a bunch of cutscenes and not know what the heck is actually going on. That's true! That's what the initial crawl was all for though right? Oh, he didn't read the crawl! That's true but the initial crawl didn't mention anything about a blind guy sitting behind us. It also didn't mention the menu glitch. I feel like they should have included that there. If you know what is going on, feel free to make a donation comment telling us what's going on wrong answers all right he's about to do it again just doing this glitch again and then we'll have to be watching the cutscene this is is probably a good opportunity for donations. Absolutely. I bumped the wrong button, it's okay, just watch this one again. You got time, go for it. Okay. We had $10 from FlimBob84 saying the best Star Wars obviously is the Christmas special but Clone Wars is a good close second I guess We also have $10 Clone Wars is a good close second, I guess. We also have $10 from DrZomGPhD saying I've got fond memories playing TFU on multiple platforms but the PC and 360 versions were canon at the time love to see it get destroyed good luck to the runner and by the way the best star wars is rogue one followed by Clone Wars. I see you. For anybody out there that is a fan of following actors and voice acting That is Sam Witwer that you are seeing That is the mainwer that you are seeing, that is the main character. The man himself. You voice acted the character? Did motion capture and facial capture? Pretty much all of the other major characters in the game. We stand Sam Witwer. Yes. Time for more donations? You can probably get a couple more. All right, $25 from raza supporting msf saying any love for star wars rogue one best of luck lifelike and shout outs to my boy rip chip on the couch mr psycho. Psycho Ripper himself. Thank you so much for your support, Razza! We also have $250 dollars An anonymous donor saying, so glad I caught the Force Unleashed run. GLHF Thank you so much and that got you entered in for those grand prizes with a 250 donation all in one fell swoop great job we've got five dollars from Daist saying heir to the empire is the best star wars that's actually a very good take i've never even heard of that one that was like the original Thrawn trilogy of books, right? Oh wow yeah that's going way back We also have $5 from Mint saying Best Star Wars was the Ewoks cartoon from the 80s. I'm loving these, this is great. We got $10 from Koda saying, I wholeheartedly agree with the person loving Andor. It is the best Star Wars and we are correct. I just heard like dope in the background. So guys what's your least favorite Star Wars movie who would everybody hate me if I said the clone bringing the ire of chats and the donors, I see. I will say Phantom Menace is a close second but I still don't like Clone Wars. We're talking about Clone Wars The Enemy of the Series, not Attack of the Clones Episode 2 right? Because if it's episode two absolutely that movie is the worst hands down. Yeah I will admit I haven't watched The Clone Wars because I haven't had access to it in many years so um...I'm gonna say yes episode two attack of the clones is the worst one out of all of the movies yeah or perhaps you could consider this five dollar donation from anonymous that says the best Star Wars is Knights of the Old Republic 2 with the cut content modded back in. That is a good one. That's a great take actually. We got a wrong answer inside the donation, if we'd like to go over that. Oh please! $50 from RoboChuck says The plot of this game is obviously that Kyle Cart-Cattern was trading marriage aid this game is obviously that kyle cart pattern was training mara jade and he fell to the dark side it's just fact that's the plot okay we're finally back into the game. The targeting in this game is a little finicky sometimes It's depending on where my character is facing So I don't... These guys are being relentless. This is why we do easy difficulty for this run. You got the one blanked. I was going to go ahead and do a little restart. Probably a good call. Not that one. Would a pun help power you up? That depends, but go ahead. Here we go! It's $10 from Ella saying What do you call a Sith Lord going up and down? Oh no... An Elevator going up and down. Oh, no. An elevator. I love it. Keep it coming. That worked a lot better the second time. There we go, good job! So where exactly are we right now? Right now we're inside The Death Star and there's a little voice line telling me to find a hiding place whenever the laser is firing. Directly next to the laser is a good hiding place. I mean if i walk into it, I'll die instantly but... Makes sense that laser can destroy entire planets i don't think i don't think our protagonist could survive that i don't care how strong he is uh you're forgetting plot armor. That's true. This level is another example of Star Wars' famous lack of railings. He's coming into these side rooms to grab points and experience to get some upgrades, because he's going to grab a couple of moves going into the last segment because there are two fights that we can't skip. Yeah, it's kind of convenient that these items are just laying around so that we can level up just enough to make this a little bit faster. We're skipping most of the game, so no matter what it's gonna be fast but having just a little bit extra stuff is nice. What did the run used to be before Menu Glitch? Was like an hour and 40 or something like that and now it's a little under an hour the lender now yeah now it's like 15 minutes because you can just skip everything yeah should also be mentioned he used the health drain order there just to help tank damage and absorb more health on taking care of enemies while he was lifting that door up. So, the health drain aura kills some of those enemies which is good for getting me more experience with leveling up, and it helps keep me alive since those guys have flamethrowers and I would probably die if I didn't have it. Maybe I hit at the wrong angle that would actually knock him into the turret range and uh kill them instantly so that's that's fun i'm doing really good on experience right now so that's good grab one more thing here. Got everything you need at this point. I hit a checkpoint and I'm going to change my costume because this is actually the fastest way to reload a checkpoint. Because we only have to go into one menu The normal way to reload a checkpoint I have to go to Mission Select scroll all the way down to this level. Then select reload last checkpoint. It's just faster to change costume. You know usually when a person says oh I've Just got to change my wardrobe really quick you Know it's like we are never getting to This dinner. my wardrobe really quick, you know it's like oh we are never getting to this dinner So here at the level up I'm going to unlock dash and blast which I just used there to hit this cutscene trigger so the big reason that I reload that checkpoint is because the laser fires on a cycle and reloading the checkpoint goes back to the beginning of that cycle, which means that I'm perfectly set up to get across this room with that level up. And then I'm going to do the costume change one more time during the checkpoint again and let's find something nice. Yes! There we go. I just need to do that jump again across this next room, and this is the most agile of C-3PO's ever done. Yeah it's gonna be so weird seeing him having actual fluid like movement. Something very unsettling about watching C-3PO run through the Death Star with a lightsaber in hand. He's like, yeah I got your protocol right here. Do you know where am I? I had to do a little bit of kind of specific force management in there so my force meter is that blue bar in the top left and i like overused it when I came into this room just because I know it'll refill during this cutscene you must find a way onto that central platform the emperor's observation good time to sneak in a quick donation You can probably get one $50 from Madsen saying As a huge fan, let me just say that The correct answer to the best Star Wars Is The Wr wrath of Khan worth it right oh geez sure all right life like getting bullied a little bit here So he's trying to destroy these two push them in, yeah I have to move that thing so that these elevators open up. It's interesting because I feel like AT-STs are in so many Star Wars games, but I've never seen them be that aggressive with their blasters. They were very aggressive right there. So the fashion blast, I'm just going to hit this other cutscene trigger and hitting that is going to place me directly onto this upper platform when it ends. And so coming up right here is not exactly a boss fight, more of a mini-boss with the shadow guard and these other four guys. And these guys do not play nice. They get in the way and this fight can go a couple different ways, hopefully it goes well. Yeah another health drain order to help out with the fight but uh... The health drain is going to do most of the work for this fight like you can see two of these guys are already done and there's third one. These light spikes on everything are just so funny to me! There you go. I'll tell that went really well, actually. He's attacking... oh! How did you get over there? So I'm going to do this throw just because it knocks him onto the ground And then that stab because it does the most damage of any attack and down because it does the most damage when you attack. And down. And then a quick turn event to finish him. See, 3PO is savage. This is the new Park Hall. So with that level up and grabbing one more little upgrade thing, we're going to do the last bit of leveling up Get Saber Slam there, and two points into Sabermastery. So Saberslam is an attack that can pretty reliably at least stun the next boss, and Saber Mastery increases the amount of damage that my lightsaber does. Yeah again we're very under leveled so just about anything we can do to make the rest of the game you know faster and more doable is better we're essentially finishing this game with the bare minimum that we can get away with. Good to see you getting some donations? Sure! Alright, we have $ dollars from alyssa saying dangerous is having some dangerous opinions on the star wars trilogy i'll see myself out alissa thank you so much for that groan-worthy pun. We also have $5 from Matt saying the best Star Wars is Dark Forces. That is an incredibly good answer it is a good answer yeah all right I'm not biased on that at all oh you mean the guy who speedruns dark forces likes Dark Forces. Can you believe that? I... It's unreal. We also have $5 from a zombie saying the best Star Wars movie is episode three but the Chinese release with their English Best Star Wars movie is episode three, but the Chinese release with their English dub. Specifically the line, The geography of my situation Is superior to yours. Alrighty, so now we're fighting Darth Vader. But weren't we playing as Darth Vader in the beginning? Well you know... My how the turns have tabled? Yeah. Something like that. Got it. I noticed one of the annoying things about this fight. He's not playing nice right now. Yeah, when I did that stab on him on the ground before it didn't do any damage at all because that can just happen sometimes in this fight. You gotta love seeing fact that he's having random iframes. Yeah, so now it's going to phase 2 I'm gonna try and skip phase 3 So i can do enough damage in Phase 2 It starts the Quick Time event just immediately. This is us stunlocking him right here and just hoping that he doesn't regain his poise? Oh, darn. There it is. It's a tricky strat to pull off so it's understandable why that... What on earth? I see the main time-save is just not having to watch that little scene where it goes into phase three luckily phase 3 is a lot like phase 1 and it should be over now get ready on time not quite yet soon aren't we always just ready for time at any point? Or at least still a C3po this yeah this fight's not canon for anyone out there oh it's absolutely cannon for me oh yeah so there's... you can decide which ending to get from here. There's two different fights you can do You can go fight the Emperor for a good ending or you can fight Vader for a bad ending. Fighting the Emperor in a good fight is something like a minute and a half, and then fighting Vader an average fight's like a minute, so it's obviously faster to fight Vader, like an average fight's like a minute so it's obviously faster to fight Vader so we fight Vader. Only downside with Vader is there's a little bit more chance for things to go a little bit more random but either way it's still better to take that chance and save some time so i'm using an older strap for this fight just because I find it funny to fling him across the room like that. Alright, so now we're on the final QuickTime event So time's coming up pretty soon Just have to hit B then B then X and when I hit X will be time. and time GGs Nicely done. That was the 80% run for Star Wars The Force Unleashed. A lot shorter than it used to be. Yeah, that opening cutscene crawl eating up so much time. It usually goes faster. And uh...that is about it for me. just want to give a couple of shoutouts, one to StreetbackGuy he made the load remover for this game on PC which is really nice for doing runs. Just other runners in general. A glitch hunter named Findlestick found a lot of the tricks that we used. Not quite the menu glitch that was accidentally found by a runner called Pestilus and then made consistent by another glitch hunter called HotshotLayer. Do you guys have anything to add no just keep supporting gq keep donating dmsf and thank you all very much for watching yeah well thank you for having me GG lifelike thank you so much for stepping in with that Star Wars The Force Unleashed any percent run. We are getting the finishing touches on the Killing Time good ending run by TBCR coming back for that second part of the double feature, we're just going to go ahead and take a quick break so don't go away We are going to be welcoming TVCR back in just a couple of minutes we saw lots of star wars love out there Just really quick before... Hello again, 640 by 480 at 72 hertz here with killing time for the Apple Macintosh. That's right, there is an actual Macintosh here it's my PowerBook G4 we had the uh... PowerBoo- not the PowerBook The Mac Mini G4 My personal Mac Mini G4 It was having some issues but we got it working on the PowerBook. I'm sorry it took a bit. But this is an FPS... Well, it's a collect-a-thon disguised as an FPS. You'll see what I mean. It was originally released for 3DO. It was later released for the 3do it was later released for the windows and for the macintosh and this is running on osx there's there's a patch for that anyway i need to make a clarification for what good ending means. Now fun fact you don't actually have the CD for the game in the Mac to play the game all you need is the data file and the executable. So we're not actually going to be seeing any of the cutscenes nor the ending, but I will tell you this it's basically we need to kill the boss that's how good ending is determined. but we won't see them for about half an hour anyway uh we're a little bit behind because of things so let's get right into run you're in for our treat so anyway we are going to start this run in 3 2 1 GO! Alright now you may notice that my camera is pointed down at my hand. So this game... Well, this run is primarily mouse-based. Oh boy. And I'm going to be continually moving the mouse more or less for the next half hour. I like to nickname this game Killing My Hands in New Time because yeah, this run is absolutely brutal. And during practice this week I managed to world record four different times. Unfortunately none of them were recorded. Maybe we'll get it tonight! Maybe me saying that's kind of ruining the potential for that, but you know what? There is still the potential for it, so just have good hopes in your spirits and whatnot and maybe we'll get it. but i need to actually explain the plot of the game don't i so you are a former archaeological student uh you're on an island off the coast of ma, Maternicus Island. And there's this socialite named Tess Conway she was having a party She is very fascinated with Egyptian water clocks and one day There were seven water clocks on the island and everyone vanished. And poor Tess, she's in pieces literally. So you have to find her across the island along with the keys to the various sections of the island. And then you can defeat The Big Bad, I wonder who The Big Bad is? Oh well I'll keep ya guessing But anyway we're gonna be strafing here, I'm using the W and... no yeah, The W A N D keys to lock in movement. We have a fun jump coming up hopefully Hopefully i was going to get it first try but nope Enjoy the screaming in the meantime. Almost got it! Oh come on! See the problem is you got to move before you jump and it's actually really easy. Okay, that's good enough. First try! Alright. So you may saw there were hornets there at us doing that jump is actually to avoid getting caught with the hornets because they can actually drain your health rather quick They're not the most annoying enemy in the game, if you could believe that. Their special friend The Beetle is the worst enemy in this game and you'll see why. We won't see them for about 15 20 minutes but in the meantime we need to get the first of the vessels now the vessels do have power-ups to them one in particular gives me 200 health i'm going gonna try not to use that, it is basically an In Case of Emergency break glass power up Now we got to not turn the sound off and then jump back to other side here and We're gonna have to backtrack through a mansion that you may of saw little bit earlier, and as soon I can get past this level transition here you can read off a donation cause yeah there's a lot of backtracking in this game but with the mouse movement, it doesn't take too long. Alright, you're good for a donation Awesome! We've got $25 from Cetra Blue saying gotta get that virtual boy Wario Land to 100% just recently played it over Christmas break and it's legitimately one of the best Wario Land games, can't wait to see Swordsman Kirby blast through it folks we are just over 500 away from beating that incentive chat viewers i know that we can do it let's get that incentive let's go all right so we're back at the manor uh so i had to pick up an rcp earlier you may have saw me do that and that lets us into here so we got the first vessel just because it was around the area anyway and now we have to hit four fun switches while dealing with the mates here now the ones dressed in white one are going to run up to me and start trying to clobber me. But the ones in black, they won't attack me unless I am directly shooting in their line of sight. So we're going to try to avoid that as much as we can. Hopefully, we'll get into an instance where they'll start infighting with these cockroaches here. These are very annoying and they throw... I don't know what it is but they throw it at me and it kind of deals a decent bit of damage and they can quickly drain my health down if they all decide to gang up on me at the same time right so we're hitting in the second one I am going to make a safety safe here now i should talk about the the health hiccups oh you're gonna love it they're orbs there are two, there's three main types. There is the blue one which gives me health a random amount. The red one which drains my health. Isn't that fun? And a yellow one which we're actually going to try to get at the moment. I'm making a safety save here. Probably the worst idea but we'll see if that is correct or not. Okay got the health. I have to hit these switches dead on by the way fun fact and oh yeah the values that it gives are in takes away or random except for the yellow one day is always always going to be 50 health. There is an urn a little bit later on that I can pick up that will give me 200 health but that's about halfway through the run. I am at 3 health. Let us save Alright so the run. I am at three health, let us save. Alright so... Okay, I seem to have jumped off the area. Oh thank you! Okay lets try that again. Oh, thank you. Okay, let's try that again. Okay, now I'm going to go get another key and if you want to read off a donation while I do this. Yeah, absolutely. We've got $25 from Taxodium that says, hey teams greeting from the audience. Good luck on the run and kill that hand. I mean time world record maybe maybe so you may have also noticed something with the health at the bottom i still don't understand how it works but sometimes when you exit an area with a certain amount of health, and you go into another area and leave that area with different health but you arrive back in the area this may sound confusing, but you revert back to the health you were at. So if I say, oh, three health leaving an area I'm going to be at three health going back into the area whether I want to or not so no pressure no pressure at all alright so i'm gonna have to get rid of these maids unfortunately they're in the way but that leads us to the wine cellar and we'll get through a neat little jump right here we're going to hit this to make it a little bit easier and got it! So now were gonna go into the maze. And the maze is quite simple, it's two one and one then 1 2 3 4 up here and do two and this lets us get to the onk which is basically this game's equivalency of the bfg there are only two that we're actually going to pick up during the whole run uh we're going to use one of them in the pit, and the other is near the end of the run. Now there's this cave system that's a little bit easy to get lost in. Trust me I got lost during practice but we got through it relatively unscathed and now we're going to get into the sewer. Now, uh...I'm gonna be hopping up and down a lot which may constitute as flashing. I have no idea but it may cause headaches for some people so just a bit of a heads up. Also this is going to get very rambunctious with the audio there's gonna be a lot of sounds going on and if you have auditory processing issues like I do oh you're in for fun so let's even get through this without causing either of those to a significant degree. Oh come on! They got mixed up for just a bit Trust me, we only have one more specific section with us left to do. We're gonna out of sequence rate for a little bit. First we gotta get outta here to go even lower into the sewer all right now good i'm gonna get my flamethrower out and I need to try to minimize the use of the flamethrower out. Now, I need to try to minimize the use of the flamethrower in the run because I actually used the flamethrower to quick kill the final boss. Oop, got some health loss, that's fine. It's 57. It's not the worst thing ever. All right, now we're going to head over to this little alcove island thing, whatever it is called. I don't know the proper term for it. And we are going to do the sequence break now The first time I ever ran this game in a marathon I spent 20 minutes unironically trying to get this because I was new to the game obviously and I was also playing on an iMac G5 that was like 20 feet above me. But let's see if we can get this. Now what I'm trying to do is I'm crossing a trigger that lowers it down and by getting it like that we save about 20 minutes so pretty good all right so now we're going to head downstairs. We've got to deal with the bones. Don't rattle the bones though. Oh, come on. Good. Trying to squeeze through them. Sometimes the hitboxes are a little bit smaller than the model or the sprite that they're on, which means we can just swoosh right in. Alright, there we go. Good! Alright so we're through with that now were going to head back through the sewer. And before you actually get into the core sewer part, if you want to read off a quick donation... I think that would be great. So, we have got $25 from BigSys25 that said had to donate to the Virtual Boy Wario Land run. Everyone is doing an amazing job, keep up the amazing work! Everyone we are so close to that 100% run but we only have until the end of this run to go and meet it We have to squeeze this in. I know we can do it chat. I know we can do it! Alright, and we actually have enough time for another donation because they had to backtrack through the cave system. Backtracking happens for sure. So we've got $50 from Annoyabber that says, I have no idea what's happening on screen. And I love it. This game is killing time fast and this runner is doing things that should not be allowed on normal timelines. Thankfully, it's GDQ and normal timelines aren't something we need to adhere to. We gotta go fast! Fast! Fast! Much love. Thank you so much for that $50 donation. That eats us so closer. Less than $250 away from Hondo! Oh yeah, I forgot to mention with the the mouse movement in this game just like Skynet it's actually it's Theoretically untapped and what do I mean by theoretically on cap? It's basically limited by how fast and far you can move the mouse. So technically if you had like a TAS of this game, you could probably finish in five minutes with lud ludicrous speed and speaking of mouse move we have a five dollar donation from o circle saying haven't seen mouse movement like this since terminator and strife best of luck with Janky Mess less than three. So we're out of the sewer now We do need to go over here in the kitchen Now we used to do this first before we did the wine cellar, but then I realized it was kind of silly because you basically elbow the thumb. So we actually do the second now. And now we get to go to my favorite section, which is the pit! This is the pit! Anyway...the pit! So we're just going to get over here now the reason I picked up the Ankh earlier was actually for this particular section I'm gonna use a flamethrower right here and I'm gonna make a safety safe because at some point I'm fearing the game might crash but that's fine if it does because we can quickly get back into it if it does. That's why I'm making sure to save often Alright this did happen during practice that is the main reason I'm pointing that out Head over here we've crossed the pit, we have escaped the pit now we're gonna head into the library but we gotta get into the library and we got to fight the clowns before we can do that. The clowns on the 3DO version I think are more disturbing cause they like zoom in and their hands get all big and whatnot. Alright, now I'm going to try to use the Molotov Cocktail and I should also point out you may see the game stutter like that for a bit. I need to stress this game is running off of mechanical hard drive. It could have put it on a RAM disc but I didn't have enough time to get that set up for the thing But that's fine as long as we can finish run that's the most important thing. Alright so I'm gonna try to hit that switch, I'll deal with the clown now just want to get that switch open. Now, I did want to share something related to cocktails, the Molotov cocktails The sprites actually can jump into the walls and you can damage enemies within the other side of the wall and normally we would actually throw a bunch of cocktails here and kill all the enemies but i want to play a little bit risky today. It looks like it paid off! Nice! So now we're going to head into the library and hit a bunch of switches, and hopefully that didn't softlock us. Okay, it didn't. Good. Alright, so now we're in the library, and there's two specific areas we want to go to. The first one is over here. We're going to pick up a key and then we're going to go pick up a vessel. And then after that we get to go to the hedge maze which is a rather quick section, definitely a good area for donation reading but let's uh let's deal with this section first okay okay so we're gonna carefully straight through I have to be a little bit careful on my shotgun ammo because I'm gonna have to inevitably rely on the Tommy gun ammo. I want to try to avoid the brutes here, because well, their hitbox is actually huge, probably as huge as a football field, and it makes getting by them rather troublesome okay so now we're going to try to make any rollover and ghosting on this? That's actually fascinating. I think that's just a Mac thing, to be honest. Maybe, but something that we don't need to try to anymore. We made that 100% upgrade for Virtual Boy Wario Land! Heck yeah, I was actually hoping that got met. Yeah, I'm super excited excited you are doing awesome tbcr all right so we got the vessel and the key so now we can leave. We will come back here later during the finale of the game, we will come back over here uh just not now. So we're going to escape the pit and the library by taking this pathway here we will come back through this a little bit later do it this way right here a little bit of a shortcut but we're gonna head to the hedge maze we're gonna going to look at all of the plants and flowers. Alright, so this has a fairly simple layout. We're going to go left two, middle two, never right and then the last three middle two, never right. And then the last three are going to be all left. That's how we know that we're going the right way. So now, we are gonna go left and then we gotta slalom through these bushes here. Okay good. Okay good. Now we gotta swallow him to his fees. Come on! Good, thank you. Readjusting... Middle... Oh come on! Re-adjusting. Middle. Oh, come on! Thank you. There's the last key that we have to pick up. We do not have to pick up any more keys for the rest of the run. we just gotta finish this part right i can't help you account myself at the moment all right well here we go so now we're gonna break delusion oh no it's a hub map i can't believe it that's fine so yeah this is a collect-a-thon with a hub based system if you haven't figured that out yet. I think it's really neat for a game like that even the 3DO version was like that as well I want to buy the 3DO version at some point. I find the 3DO version very fascinating, and also it has ducks and ducks are pretty cool. Ducks are good ducks! So we're heading back over here uh towards the direction of the lighthouse that were earlier we have one more vessel that we have to pick up over here and then we're never gonna come to this side of the island ever again for the rest of the run. We get to go to the fun part of the island. You'll see what I mean, it's absolutely grueling and in some instances it can be incredibly infuriating, but I don't know. I seem to be attracted to games like this if you haven't noticed. All right, so let's get through here. Just going to slide through carefully. Good. There we go. skip through here just gonna slide carefully good I have gotten lost in this cave fact last week during practice I actually got lost in it careful oh no Alright, oop! Careful. Oh, gotta go a little bit further. There we go. I forget this is when you have to go two segments in instead of just the one Okay there we go. So now, we're going to grab a vessel behind a secret passageway. Ooh! A mystery thicket. Secret Passage! Alright and we are just gonna The mystery thicket. Great passage! Alright, and we're just going to go for it. I'm not even going to bother fighting these enemies. And I ain't going to bother fighting that ghost. We're just going to go for it. And while we're making our daring escape, I'm going to try to stunlock some of the demon dogs here and you can go ahead with another... maybe two or three donations. Yeah, we got a $20 donation from Asima says, let's see what my video game Mad Libs says. It says this game is about an Egyptologist that takes place in a mansion filled with zombies, chefs and clowns. You must fight cockroaches skulls and Anubis. To win you must destroy the water clock in this game designed for the 3DO. Nah, that's too random to be real! Got time for one more? Yeah, I did want to mention regarding the Anubis hits. I believe they have absolutely no stun lock to them which means They're probably one of the hardest enemies in the game to squeeze by. But you can do another donation right now. Yeah, we got $10 from Beanie Feeney supporting Doctors Without Borders that just says Killing more like killing bugs thank you so much for your donation beanie feeny all right so we're taking a little bit of the detour here to pick up one vessel. Just the one. There it is! And we are going to get some more ammo and a little bit more health. There was a 50 health right there but it also has a bunch of hornets near and no i ain't going that all right oh speaking of hornets hi okay so we avoided the hornet okay maybe we didn't okay so we avoided the hornets okay maybe a little close for comfort okay we made it past for real this time we avoided the hornets okay maybe we actually didn't okay so there's a lot of bugs in this section uh we hopefully are not going to have too much of a bad time with them i hope i'm not dooming myself by saying that, but we'll see how that is in about five minutes Alright so we're heading into the mausoleum here and we are going to go into the crypt. There is that urn powerup, I just went by it then but were not gonna worry about that just yet. Gonna go down this passageway and pick up the urn that is in the tomb Coffin, thats the word! It's 7 am, I'm tired. Sorry. Alright so we picked up the health and I am getting clobbered by ghosts I don't know how that is possible but you know sky is the limit at this point So we so we're gonna head through here and we're gonna head back up the stairs and then we get to go to the bug room isn't that fun more bugs more bugs and oh boy is there gonna be so much noise going on i'm not joking i almost got a headache during practice during this room i I'm so sorry. You'll see what I mean in just a bit. The silence then broken up by the dogs barking. I was going to say, can I break the silence with a just really quick announcement? Yes. So it's just as a reminder we did get that hundo percent for Wario Land but we have another open incentive for Little Samson to upgrade to the normal difficulty. We're over $1,000 out of that 3,000 goal and Chad I know that we can do it! Let's absolutely smash these incentives open! Or close, you close incentives, you close them. Yeah! Yeah! So normally in this section I would actually fight these tadpole enemies but ingenuity struck during practice and i realize you can just take the molotovs here and since this is a two-and-a-half D game and there's infinite height for enemies, you can just do this. Why did I not think of that sooner? Alright, so we're gonna save and carefully hop across And then carefully try to do that Which we didn't fail on that thank goodness With that yellow health And now we get to do my least favorite part of this entire run. You will very clearly see why I do not like this coming up section. Just going to outright say that, I just don't like this particular section because it's very claustrophobic and there's the bugs. Oh, thank you. Speaking of the bugs, I got caught up by one. Also, the beetles can fly and latch onto you and if you try to run away from them they can just latch onto you while you're moving and still deduct your health. Isn't that just fun? You know, there are some people like from my high school that do that so I totally can relate. Now luckily it looks like we're not getting the worst luck. We're getting a little bit of bad luck but not the worst luck. It could actually be far worse. Far, far worse. So I i'm gonna take that blessing as much as I can okay I say that and then I look at my health and it's at 10. Okay, so we're going to use the safety okay so we're gonna go... We need to go to River of Life. Good. Now we're at the 200. Was trying not to use that but we had to. Didn't have a choice. I don't think we're going to get a blue power-up, or blue health thing anytime soon. Nope! Now we can cut back across a little bit faster by going here that avoids having to run around that little lake and we're going to come on carefully strafe across and then hopefully we can get back into here. Now since we're past that section, if you want to read some donations until we get back to the manor because we are nearing the finale now. Yeah it's wild how fast you've been going through this. Good job, TBCR! And we have lots of love and support like this $10 donation from an anonymous donor supporting MSF that says, TBCR is doing things to this game that transcend the normal laws of time and space And gosh dang it, I love it! We don't need time or space. We just need FAST! Good job, CBCR and thank you so much for that donation. Alright, I'm making a safety save here because if it was anything like my runs on the iMac G5 that I originally did this on, uh...the game would like to crash a lot at that section. Maybe it's just cause I was running it on a G5. I don't know. So true! Anyway, we're gonna do that again and I'm going to take the flamethrower I know I said I was trying not to use a lot but I need the health so Oh, not that door. This door! Come on! I bet it's gonna give me a red orb watch. Oh no blue orb! Okay So we're going to try and quickly Oh no, a blue orb! Okay. So we're gonna try to quickly strafe around in the circle so we can hit this and then strafe back around and then go too far apparently. No, we didn't go too far. It's right here. So there's the final vessel. Now what are we going to do with the vessels, Tebes? Well that's a very good question but before we do that we're going to actually pick up some ammo because again, we're nearing the finale to the game. So I mentioned some water clocks earlier, right? Well, after I put all these vessels into this little thing... What we're gonna do is start a playthrough of Marathon Dorenda. Oh, I'm kidding! We are going to destroy the water clocks in a specific order now there are seven of them we have to do six specifically before we can get the seventh one the seventh one will not be destroyed in any way shape or form if we do not get the other six first we start with this area that we've never gone to at all during the run so far as the first two oh come on. Okay. And we're going to try to avoid the skulls as much as we can and we're also going to try to avoid Duncan which is the mummy that you've been seeing he likes to attack with a hitscan attack that deals between I believe five to forty damage and yes I did lose a run to Duncan once. Okay come on down the stairs, thank you. Now we're going to carefully move our way up here. I'm not looking at the projector screen in front of me because I do know how to jinx my time. But, it looks like we're doing pretty good. Once we get out of this tower specifically and are heading back down the stairs to leave this area, If you want to read a donation off while we're heading for the next one, because we've got to go to The Kitchen, so that'll be just a little bit of time. Yeah, so we've got $25 from Akira Katsuyama that says, it's a beautiful Tuesday and nothing like killing time watching a runner kill time with a wild logic defying run. Thank you so much for that donation, Akira! Thank you so, so much! We also have a $5 donation from Lil... Lily's Dark Materials that says thanks for the background noise while i'm in the office i'm sure everyone in the office is also entranced by this amazing run of killing time byBCR. You are doing awesome! I want to point out, and no one react to this just so I don't know how the time is at the moment, so the current world record that's actually recorded is 30 minutes 12. Hopefully, if I played my cards right we might get that. I don't know. I'm not looking at the time above. Don't spoil it for me That will actually hamper if it is the case But we're done with at least half of the things at the moment i say that because of all the runs i did today the lowest time was i think a 26-ish run most of them were 27 but it did get a 26 so that's why i'm a little bit worried okay so now we're gonna head out here we're gonna go back into the pit no we're not we're gonna go this way so now we're gonna carefully i said carefully okay good make our way through here i don't even know what to call this i think it's like the barracks maybe i don't even know what to call this. I think it's like the barracks, maybe? I don't know. The Barracks! And we're gonna skip that one. We'll get that on the way back but we're going go back to the one where the key was at in this area and it has at least two of them in there duncan i swear come on whoa did you do that duncan i can't believe you got one of your own teammates right there. That's the, what is it, team deathmatch? That's harsh yeah. Yeah that was very harsh. I can't believe Duncan would do that. Oh, there's one red skull. Okay so we're going to get the other ankh. We're not gonna use it just yet. We're gonna use in the tower that the ankh was located in but we're not gonna use use it just yet next floor all right now i think this is the easier of the two trying to remember oh come on come on skull okay bye duncan good Come on, come on Skull. Okay bye Duncan. Good? Okay this is the easier one So yeah the Anubis heads don't have a stun lock so you basically just shoot them and then hope you can get by them because they can attack even after while your shooting careful okay I can make it through there now I just saw my health I'm going to make a safety save Now this next floor should hopefully give me A little bit of health Just a little bit And the game's going to freeze for a second Yep Just a little bit. And the game is going to freeze for a second. Yep, there we go! Got a little bit of health. Nice. Carefully get the shotgun here... There was no blue health there good uh oh that's fine yeah that's fine you got this maybe we'll get lucky and we'll get more healthier i don't know nope that's just how it works okay good oh that was close okay careful careful careful careful okay good now we're gonna leave the library yeah back to the entrance i'm going to make a safety save just because we're at 13 health. This is really, like my heart's literally pounding right now. Me too. Oh come on. Okay good. Hopefully that brute doesn't get us okay good heading into here going upstairs come on fighting with the polygons good good oh careful oh okay good that was close head down to the right here this one is really easy to get though I do have to avoid these two here hopefully this gives us a little bit help come on nope okay I guess we're into the fun zone all right here we go oh duncan don't you dare do that this is not the time to be doing that all right so we be doing that all right so we are going to be doing the final fight at 10 health i just want to make sure everyone is aware of that because uh believe the first floor of the tower is going to set the health for the final fight. Luckily, we can potentially get a Health Pickup. Come on game what are you doing? get a health pickup. Come on, game. What are you doing? That's fine. We can still get back to where we need to go. Okay, good. And now we're going to head up the stairs and back into the attic. I'm going to get the flamethrower out. I have just enough health that we can pull this off, and I'm going to make a safety save right before we enter this room because, again, the good ending is defeating the final boss and we got lucky with that. Okay, get ready for time when it starts to fade out that's when we gotta do it Alright? Come on Come on. Also that's test by the way. Time! What was it? Ohhhh! It oh just close still an amazing run tbcr audience let's hear it you had a lot of love and I wanted to edge it with some stuff here, but you're like... That was amazing. Team ECR. What would you like to share i might need the lay down after that i know oh man i'm right there with you okay i gotta get ready for the cruiser grande tournament later anyway uh yeah that's killing Grande tournament later. Anyway, yeah, that's Killing Time and as far as I'm aware the first Macintosh run has been at the event. I think there was an Apple II run at a prior event but yeah, pretty neat that we were able to get the thing figured out so I could present this very quirky little game for you. But on that note my name is TBCR. Hope you have a good morning, evening, afternoon, world keeps spinning wherever we are and to the people who actually showed up to watch the run in person, thank you! I hope that was a fun experience. If you want... oh! If you are still here later in the week and you wanna actually try the game for yourself please let me know because I have the Power book with me so just let me know anyway for the people watching at home hope you have a good evening yeah and i'll see you next time Woo! Great job, TBCR. Thank you so much for that killing time good ending run. I so glad that we were able to get that going we had a 20 donation from crunch prank crunch frank saying hey otbcr no silly donation this time just glhf oh and all of work is watching and judging you right now, by the way. Oh excellent! Thank you so much GBCR We are going to continue on soon with Virtual Boy Wario Land now 100%. Thank you to all the generous donors to meet that $7,500 incentive. We do have another incentive that we want to meet. Little Samson Normal Difficulty $3,000 needed to meet just over $1,000 already in the bank. Twitch chat I know that you can do it i believe in you for now i'll give you a little bit of time head over to games done quick forward slash dot com forward slash donate maybe get some water stretch break all that good stuff we'll be back with the virtual boy run in just a little bit All right. Hey, everyone. I just want to thank everyone for their donations for this 100% upgrade incentive. I'm Sergeant Kirby and joined by Allegra on the couch. So yeah, yeah, we'll get started. Countdown 3...2...1...Go! Alright so Virtual Boy Warrior Land, it's a relatively short game. But as you can see there are some 3D effects going on already. And one of the most important mechanics is this belly flop mechanic that allows you to roll around corners and just bounce off of enemies but regular warrior's kind of slow so we we're going to switch over to Bull Wario. As you can see, big dash attack. In fact he didn't even clear this big gap with it. Yeah the game kind of sends you free to go into the background which is pretty much the main gimmick of this game. Which definitely inspired some later games down the line. Yeah so my first thought as a Kirby enthusiast was that this reminded me a lot of Triple Deluxe. But unfortunately we didn't really get to see for example like a 3DS virtual console re-release of this. But yeah so the 400% basically there's 10 regular stages uh there's a treasure in each of them and in addition to that you also need to find the key that will unlock the next elevator elevator. Yeah, and just a quick note on how we're even capturing this is thanks to a very great mod by FurTech that lets us get video output from one of the eyes on the Virtual Boy and we can just get through VGA so really cool that this exists then we can actually play this on console yeah so yeah this is being run on original hardware but uh the the mod gets us like 90% of the way there, but you might notice these sort of abrupt screen transitions. Normally the game is hiding it with fade like fade outs and feed-ins by adjusting the brightness of the virtual boy unfortunately uh the mod doesn't capture that so if it looks a little bit jarring uh that's why all right If it looks a little bit jarring, that's why. Alright so right now I'm using Sea Dragon It doesn't have much movement options It's basically just for blowing fire So we're going to do a little bit of detour switch back to bull, and even though this next stage you don't really get too much opportunity to use bull, as you're about to see one um it is useful for the treasure which is at the very last room so this is the obligatory uh water level oops okay that chainsaw shark thing Oops, okay. That chainsaw shark thing got a little bit closer than I wanted to Yeah you might notice that Sgt. Kirby's gonna be hugging the ceiling and swimming. It's the preferred movement for most people that are running in the game, so it makes swimming a lot more consistent and you can just kinda bypass a lot of enemies. Yeah so not too much to explain for right now so we can definitely squeeze in some time for donations Absolutely! We've got 25 some time for donations? Absolutely. We've got $25 from Maybe Your Pie that says, as someone who actually loved their virtual boy and did it portably on road trips as a kid. Let's pretend it was comfortable. Gotta donate during a Virtual Boy run! Virtual Boy Defenders Unite! Thank you, GDQ for everything. And thank YOU Maybe Your Pie For your donation Alright so this last room Coming up here is basically the whole reason why we get bull so it's now out of water and you can squeeze in some dash attacks but the most important part is that this can only be broken by bulls ground pound so having sea dragon you have to find bolt some way and normally the old route was to come here and hit this question mark block but the backtrack that we did in the previous stage is just a little bit faster than the backtracking in other stages. So after three regular stages, there's going to be a boss. And Legomay, you can explain how this setup works. Yeah, so before the boss, you have this guard That you had to hit in the head twice You want to keep the guard towards the center because it always has to reset in the center. So One save time by not having it be far off. And so this is the first boss dinosaur fish I'm sure that's what it's called. Yeah, this is going to be a pretty interesting demonstration of the 3D. Even though we're just on kind of a 2D screen here but... Whoa! Whoa! But yeah... Whoa! screen here but whoa whoa whoa but yeah uh whoa so the source and curvy is going to be kind of towards the middle and once the boss hits the water, he's going to do a full jump and just bop the boss in the head. Rinse-and-repeat and fairly straightforward. Time for a couple donations. Yeah, definitely! So we've got $10 from Inverse Skies that says, never seen a virtual Game Boy before? Super excited to see this run of Wario Land! Well, you are seeing it expertly played by Swordsman Kirby here. I'm actually curious, we had a Virtual Boy Defender inside the donations here. Are there any other virtual voice stands what is your favorite virtual boy game i want to see it inside the comments here let's also see it in chat jack rose is a really good virtual boy game as well do I have time for another donation yeah We've got $250 from Neat! No comment, but thank you so much for your generous donations to Doctors Without Borders earning your seat for drawing the grand prizes for the marathon and we are officially over 50% of the way to that normal difficulty Little Samson run up with a $3,000 goal. Thank you so much, chat! I believe in you! Let's keep it going! Alright, so stage 5 is where the game starts to get broken open. This is actually a very new route. Even though this game doesn't have much activity this route was only discovered within the past month and to get this eagle hat right here as opposed to later in the stage An eagle hat kind of looks like bull for now but in about two seconds you'll see why it's so broken. So in addition to having a dash attack, you can also dash in midair and you can also jump out of it in midair. So that allows you to just basically fly over a whole bunch of stuff. So the reason why I say this is a new route, is that it actually loses... It's like a difference between so-called in game time versus real time. So real time is actual real passage of time. In game time is what the game keeps track of. Because this is not exactly the most accessible game to play for play on original hardware. The most fair way that we've had for comparing runs done on console and not on console is through in-game time. So one of the things that doesn't keep track of... Whoops! Meant to bop off that enemy. One of the things it doesn't keep track of is screen transitions, so in some games you have these strats where you purposely go through more screen transitions even if it ends up being slower in real time to save that ingame time. So that strat I think loses 3 seconds realtime but saves 3 seconds inggame time. So at this stage, Eagle Hat is really helpful for just crossing the gaps here and skipping all these really strong currents yeah so eagle hat and sea dragon hat actually combine into king dragon to King Dragon. Yeah, sadly this one is not considered the strongest but it's not really the best for going fast. Yeah, so we're actually gonna purposely take damage It's like the strongest hat So the game doesn't want you to accidentally lose it by touching a different hat But we actually want the eagle hat just to go fast. Yeah and you'll see that Sergeant Kirby hit his switch and he's going to need another one a little bit later after getting this key here and just get the treasure that's up the waterfall. Yeah, that key grab sound is like unusually loud compared to everything else in the game. Yeah. Okay so not too much else to explain here i'm just gonna go here and uh hit another switch get the treasure and then just leave so you can definitely squeeze in some more donations yeah squeeze it in i definitely want to do we got $10 from G client 88 that said I got a job in April which means i can donate toward more incentives remember borders are merely a suggestion. That's right! With that donation we're just over $1,000 that needs to be made for the 3000 goal of the upgrade to normal difficulty for Little Samson. How wild would it be if we're able to get that incentive net during this run? Chat, you are absolutely killing it! I'm loving it got time for another uh yeah we got ten dollars from good guy three saying all hail the Virtual Boy! Thank you for your donation, good guy. So stage 7 is a little bit scary there's a lot of enemies so I'm just gonna... Actually no this is already wrong. Okay hold up let's just try to get through this slowly Wasn't supposed to take damage there but that's okay. So I guess I'll have to wait for this tornado here. But normally if I had Eagle I'd be like going really close to these piranhas to try to fly over the stage as quickly as possible. But I guess I'll just take it the slow way because I do want Eagle for the rest of this Yeah, at the end of the room here Sergeant Curry sees you can waiting for one of the tornadoes that he was supposed to ride. And uh... try and open up the door a little bit early by just kind of wading through it like getting through the animation with Sandhill being depleted. Yeah so normally you have to wait for the sand hill to either squeeze in before it or do that. But, that strat of just like running after the tornado was discovered by my friend Jay who's not a runner on this team they were just playing casually and just told me about this great strat and i've been doing it ever since got time for some virtual boy love all right we have five dollars from oro saying virtual boy defender here teleroboxer is a must play game we also also have $6 from Ghost Kumo saying, I've played exactly two Virtual Boy games and can confirm that Jack Bros is an underrated game. And this is also somehow the first shin megami sensei game over ever in english eat your heart out persona fans good luck to sk also double fire and hi allegro thank you so much for your donations thanks ghost kimo thanks oro yeah thanks guys all right let's try not to take damage here i i was actually not so scared of the first room i was actually scared of this room so i'm gonna take it super slow here and just fly over everything yeah you can fall into those one tile gaps there and it's uh not a good time it's a really foolish way of like losing time but i i made an even sillier mistake earlier. That's okay, we're still moving along. So coming up is the second boss and at the beginning there's also another one of these guard enemies but it gets supposed to be a little bit more complicated. Now he's shooting missiles And I'm actually purposely crouching down not just showing my butt to the guard intentionally. For no reason. It's because the guard actually aims for Wario's head so it skips a little bit of an animation if you're crouching down like that. Yeah, so we are going into the next boss which is a sandfish and It's about as simple as the last boss. Basically just gonna bait the boss to face one direction then just bop head on in opposite direction. Yeah, probably another great opportunity for some more Virtual Boy love from Twitch chat. There indeed is a lot of Virtual Boy love, both in the chat and in the donation comments. We have $50 from Maz Dangerous saying I have such fond memories of Wario Land on the Virtual Boy My posture has never recovered, and I still remember the crippling migraines just like they were yesterday! This 100% incentive is making me relive that childhood trauma. Maz, thank you so much for that donation! We also have $10 from Nintendope! My older brothers saved up and bought a virtual boy when they first came out he said they would take turns playing getting sick and playing again he said they were like the celebrities of the neighborhood with the new virtual boy oh man memories thank you so much nintendo for your generous ten dollar donation we've got time for another donation we have one hundred dollars from escapade saying absolutely loving these runs in support of an amazing cause best of luck to all the runners and trans rights with that we are $1,000 away from our upgrade to normal difficulty Little Samson Run. Now less than a thousand dollars away because people are putting that add incentive button when you're making the donations. Let's make it happen! Alright, really random level here. You're hoping these enemies drop watermelons to progress through the stage so basically in the background there are these uh things that you need to hit with the watermelon so for this one we have to hit this big switch that uncovers this one and it is random whether the enemies will drop it so kind of unfortunate for any percent you actually don't need to worry too much because you just need these two watermelons right here. Here's the key. Yeah this stage kind of gives me PTSD from my MIA of Mario Sunshine, in a way. But... yeah. For 100% you need two extra watermelons here to unlock the treasure. So hitting them into these cups right here Yeah and the cycle in the background doesn't start until it's in view oh no yeah so that can happen oh oh they're not one they're not willing to play nice oh no come on really yeah i don't know how this is probably the worst that i've ever seen oh no is that a is that it has this happened probably sorry okay it's okay we take those two i good time to squeeze in a donation while you're uh yeah yeah we got fifty dollars from the one curly that says shout out to hardware modders making it possible to capture games like this for us all to enjoy absolutely the communities that are out there put so much hard work so we could see this amazing gaming here at summer games done quick supporting doctors without borders Let's go! Alright, so this stage has a pretty interesting gimmick where it is cycle based where at the bottom right there's a timer give uh swordsman curvy like 20 minutes which plenty of time like way too generous but uh every 30 seconds uh cuckoo clocks are gonna go off and there's a key hidden in one of them so uh it's a little bit tight, having to get to the clock and get the key as well. It is just barely possible to make the 1930 cycle for any percent, but 100% no chance. So yeah. Okay I have enough time for this we do have a little bit of leeway so here i'm actually purposely waiting until 1929 so that these clocks don't open up they start dropping enemies i really don't want them to be in the way so we do have a little bit of leeway, but now after this point there's about like two seconds so I don't want to make any large mistakes at this point on So I'm trying to catch You're trying to get the treasure and in my case switch back to eagle hat all within this like 19 flat cycle alright so now switching back to Eagle. An earlier route would get eagle later like after you get the key So if you can squeeze it in here that does save time there. Alright, so plenty of time, 19-02 I'm just gonna wait underneath this cloth for it to open So now, just exiting the stage so we can squeeze in a few more donations Definitely! We have a $5 donation from Sophie that says a big thank you to Doctors Without Borders all the runners, the GDQ team and my fellow donators. You bring me so much joy and hope each year. Keep up the good work." Aw, thank you so much, Sophie, for that donation, those kind words. And we are officially under $900 to get to that normal difficulty Little Samson run. We are so close. I can feel it. I can taste it. let's make it happen chat so yeah this is probably one of the scariest levels there's pits everywhere yeah uh everywhere. Yeah, so Source and Scrimmage is going to try and hopefully get over this enemy but it can be pretty easy to get hit later in the stage. This is where the treasure's going to be hidden. That's the guy that blocks physical, right? Wait, what? Never mind. That's a Mega SunSen joke. I think Ghost Gimbal would have enjoyed that one. This is the scary room right here. I've been taking a lot of damage in it recently. It's that little black thing. I've been taking a lot of damage in it recently that one enemy has been giving me so much trouble recently. So the whole point of all this is to try to catch this fan cycle, so a little bit of a wall jump there Wall jumping is not as useful as you might think in this game. Like that's like the one place where you kind of have to do it quote unquote Yeah, that was a really clean stage That was really good Nicely done really clean stage though that's really good nicely done i was basically like while the previous run was going on i was practicing nothing but that room for like half an hour so i'm glad that I didn't take damage there. Alright, another guard except instead of missiles or lasers? That's actually a little bit easier. You actually have more time to line up, well as I say that I have like the worst lineup possible. You actually have more time to line up right next to the guard as it jumps. Okay, so this next boss is actually quite difficult and I'm sure I'm gonna mess it up. It's a really finicky trick. But this boss is called Tankin' Operator So this Kirby's going is gonna start in the background once it starts firing off the tank he's going to try and bounce off them and hopefully not get too much recoil here. Try to bop off the operator from the tank. Nice. Yep, there. Nice. Aw. Third hit. You can one-cycle that in the background okay still pretty good got one of them at least nice so each time you get that quick hit and prevent it from jumping from four hit and prevent it from jumping from foreground to background. It saves about 4 seconds, so you can save about 8 seconds in this fight. But I'm just glad that got it once just to show what it looks like But yeah, we can squeeze in Darnay's shirt here Yeah, we got $10 from Ilya Rika Saying I remember playing Wario Land on the Virtual Boy as a kid. My eyes hated me for it, but I always loved this game. Thank you so much for that donation, Illion. We are just over $750 for that little Samson Normal difficulty upgrade. I'm so excited! So, last stage this one's actually maybe one of the least hidden treasures or most depending on how you think about it. I would think that the last stage it'd be hidden pretty deep in, but nope. It was at the very start. So we're actually going to do a huge sequence break here with the Eagle Hat. Let me just make sure I don't damage myself here... So grabbing that key with the Eagle Hat skips an entire trip around the entire stage, so having the Eagle Hat is super crucial for that And we're just going to go through the rest of this stage and maybe one thing I should mention is that the physics between the background and foreground are a little bit different so here, I'm really making sure that i'm jumping before i break the block for some reason in the background you just get more recoil bouncing off of stuff all right so let's see here. Just gonna just fly over all of it? Yeah, some of these rooms can be pretty scary with all the spikes coming at you okay this room is gonna look pretty incomprehensible in 2d but now i'm in the background so this is that first room where I did that big jump to get the key but now i'm in the background and that's basically it all right so coming up is the final boss so let me just double check that I've collected all the treasures let's see here so on this screen okay i got them and now we're on the final boss. So, we got one more guard to deal with here and it's going to be shooting rockets. Yeah, these rockets fly all over the place so I'm just going to cheese the first one, and then purposely damage myself with the second one? Okay good. I don't need the hats anymore so I'm okay doing a final boss with small Wario. Yeah, normally this boss is quite hard to handle, but Swordsman Kirby has a pretty interesting way of handling this fight. So, the very first there's going to be a total of five hits and the first hit uh...the game just gives it to you from the start so uh...normally in this fight you have to be bouncing from the start so Normally it's fight yet to be bouncing between the foreground background with these big trampoline But after the first hit here Certainly is going to go off to the left here and when this boss completely goes off screen Walk slowly straight into the middle and uh just immediately jump in and you just land hits all right two more heads yep the time's gonna be coming up after the last one. Alright, get ready on time. And time! GG!!! gg all right so yeah that's a warrior land virtual boy warrior 100 just want to give a quick shout out to the wario community except especially soap agent who helped me prepare was Uh de-rusting for this run. But yeah, anyways, thanks everyone for watching. Thank you so much, Swordsman Kirby for that amazing 100% run of Warriorborn 100% run of Wario Boy. I'm sorry, Wario Boy Virtual Boy Warioland 100% by Swordsman Kirby you saw it here at Summer Games Done Quick. I do want to read out a $100 donation from Hexus Rex that says, I'm hoping to go to med school next year with the intent of volunteering for MSF. Good luck and have fun! Save frames! Volunteering is what it's all about. With your donation, you help MSF save lives for more than 50 years their medical teams have been reaching those caught in crisis from armed conflict to devastating earthquakes with rapid response care. Donors make it possible for them to provide... Alright, alright! Hello ladies and gentlemen and extinct birds of all ages I am Uncle Slam This is a game about dodos and behind me i have a friend who i assume wants to say hi. Hi! I'm Asuka424 and uh i'm the coser of puns so i pray nothing unfeasant happens to you. And what are your qualifications for being here, Asuka? We both roll a game with toilet paper. Very true. Look it up. Anyway, so all levels in the Game plus I'm basically just going to be beating all 60 levels in the game and we'll just get into it here. So time will start as soon as I get control of the dodo in the first level there will also be a timer in the upper right corner so watch out for that too. In 3... 2... 1... Let's jam! Good luck! Thank you, thank you. So you'll notice very quickly here that this game is kind of a mashup of Qbert and Frogger. So you'll see at the beginning of each level that the eggs that are, you know, initially safely housed in the cabin or whatever you want to call that uh hobble off on their own because reasons And it's up to the mother Dodo To go retrieve them and bring them back to safety. And as soon as we collect an egg, it will hatch and turn into a baby Dodo And that will actually extend our hitbox by one whole cell, so all the while I need to make sure both the mother Dodo AND all of the babies do not get hit by any enemies, obstacles etc because if that happens then I need to restart the whole level over because there's no health it's just one hit you're done So yeah these boulders for example it doesn't matter if I get past it all of the Baby Dodos need to as well. Should also probably get into what makes this a New Game Plus category. So all these coins you see that I'm collecting, they don't really matter to the one during the run, but they're used to unlock skins. So each of those have different skins like these firemen for example and you unlock those skins with the currency you collect in the game. And what skin you have actually does determine what speed you go at. And there are two in particular that have the fastest speed so there's the gold dodo I'm using right now, and there's one called the cosmic dodo. And i just prefer using Goldodo because that's my favorite kind of split. As you should. You've also got those bandana ones, yeah there are a lot, you'll see them in the load-in screens quite a bit. Yeah, the whole a lot. You'll see them in the loading screens quite a bit. The whole family of dodos and those loading screens look like they're about ready to brawl and I am 100% here for it. Either that or they're experiencing a flashback of sorts. Like, I can't tell. Anyway going into this next level we're gonna see the first two different power-ups that you can get in this game and that is the melon slice As soon as we get the melon slice We will get a very absurd amount of speed here so since i eat it here bam goes slightly more than double our initial speed so as you might imagine that's very helpful for the speedrun. I like how as soon as you say that it's like these spikes are going to say actually no You have to hold on for a quick second Yeah unfortunately cycles are still a thing but It is what it is. We still get the melon and the melon is cool! It won't be long before we see the second power-up But that'll come a bit later. That's a fun one! So one thing I should point out is there are cycles we can kind of manipulate in this game so I'm going to restart at the start of this next level and that's because the first time you load a level in it'll you know take a little bit for things to get rolling if you reset after everything's already loaded everything will be on a slightly earlier part of their cycle so there will be a boulder on the right side of this map here that if I don't reset, i can't quite squeeze past it and i would need to wait about like three seconds. Yeah there is right there! And uh...I could barely squeeze past it but the babies couldn't so resetting there actually just takes less time than waiting for the boulder so there'll be a few levels where we do that later hello we do that later. And I really love it, like for those of you watching this watch the celebratory comments at the end of each level there's some pretty good puns in there If I have clean off movement here i might have screwed up but nope okay i was hoping to beat this spike cycle but still performance yeah only loses like half a second if you miss it, so it's not a big deal. So Worlds 2 here introduces the monkey enemy and the monkey is kind of RNG, kind of not um, so if your far enough away it, they'll just hop around randomly with no real rhyme or reason but as soon as you get within their aggro range, they will try to close the gap between themselves and the Mother Dodo as quickly as possible. But luckily they're pretty slow overall, so it's not a huge deal. Here we can actually get kind of screwed by really bad RNG. That was not terrible... Perfect! Nice. Baby, baby, baby. Then coming into level 13 here this is where we see the second powerup so the second powerup is this invincibility for you. As soon as we eat it, We get this wonderfully sparkly design It basically works like the stars in Mario Where as long as they're active you are completely invincible All of the babies are too importantly So any obstacles will just bash right through completely invincible, all the babies are too importantly. So any obstacles we'll just bash right through. Any enemies will also destroy. I do want to point out there you might have noticed when i defeated that first monkey that the game did slow down a little and that's kind of to insinuate, oh you gotta kill, good job! And highlight it. But uh, that does slow the game down a bit so I'm gonna try to avoid hitting enemies with it as much as I reasonably can. I do also want to point out that uh that doesn't actually affect the timer when you're going for ils so whether or not you go through them it doesn't really matter if you're going for il records i like how this game is channeling like its inner fps like celebrate the kill which is the slow-mo replay I like how this game is channeling, it's in our FPS, celebrate the kill with just a slow-mo replay. It's like we're dodos! It's like, I didn't realize you cared about kills. So uh, I do want to point out that being the Dodo expert that I am, I have some fun facts prepared for this run. If you all want to write this down, this will be on the test later. Did you know that the scientific name for the dodo is Raffus cuculatus? I wouldn't even know how to spell that! And that's why I had to write it down, to make sure I didn't butcher the pronunciation. I'd be someone who would put in a search engine and say could you say this for me really quickly? Yeah, I don't even know how to get Dodo from that. Like it doesn't even share any of the same letters. What's... Look, I come from a chemistry background so don't even ask how some of the uh periodic table like if the elemental symbols match the words aside from well latin yeah i love that it makes sense and then uh makes sense. And then, uh... So level 19 here I'm gonna do a little bit of a- oh actually no! Sorry that's a level early! This level is kind of interesting though cause it's I believe the first instance we see the melon and the invincibility for it once. And if you kill an enemy while you're going quick, it can really mess with... Oh my gosh, I barely made that spike cycle. Nice! All right so this is level 19. So here I'm gonna do a little bit of manipulation up in the upper left here so I'm going to go back and forth just a little bit. And that's to get the monkeys to go in that direction because there is a fruit that spawns here if they overlap, uh, the monkey takes precedence over the fruit and going through without invincibility is an absolute death sentence. Well done! Thank you, thank you. Level 20 here is probably one of the most precise in terms of the movement you need because i need to make sure i don't stop at all uh until i get past the spikes at the bottom on my way to the left side so we'll see if I can do that here. So far so good... Oh man! So the boulder hit me me the same frame I collected the fruit and uh, yeah obstacles do take precedence over that so... That's alright. We'll get on a slightly slower cycle here but at the very least it's a little safer. Yeah going on cycles I was talking about before if you do die in the level you're not meant to reset and then you have to adjust your movement just a little bit but we've got backup strats so it's not a huge deal. So world three introduces the worst enemy in gaming, these lizards. So about 80% of the time they cooperate, uh, the other 20% of the time they can do one of three things One, they can just stop randomly for a few seconds which completely offsets their cycle. They can turn around randomly, which will completely mess up their cycles or when they start moving at the start of level, they can move in the exact opposite direction they're supposed to. Random enemy movement? I would never know about that yep and i have never once lost a run to them at all no sir nope you don't talk about those and i'm not going to congratulate them on cooperating until we're out of this world because I know what will happen if I do are they only in this world? no, we will see them a little bit later, World 6 actually which- oh yep there's a pause. Yep the lizards are acting awful lizard like today. Did it happen real quick with a non-Dota related fun fact? 100%. Uh, fun fact! We just got the Upgrade to Normal difficulty incentive met for Little Samson Thank you so much to everyone who donated. That is $3,000 to Doctors Without Borders for that incentive. Thank you all so much. That's going to be an absolute treat. Let's go. Good job guys. Oh one door So the turn in this game is a little weird There's like a five frame window Where you have to release the button you're holding And then The direction you want to move in It's kind of jank, it's not the worst thing ever, but it's something you really have to get used to. But yeah, these entry levels are pretty self-explanatory, so Steph, now is a fantastic time for some Dodo Nations. Oh absolutely! I would love to read you some Dodo Nations. We had $150 come in from NewTZ who says so this is what peak performance looks like. Jokes aside, super proud of you, man. Best of luck and I hope you fly through this run or don't fly out. Nevermind. Thanks, never mind. Thanks, Dutsy. Appreciate you. We also have $100 that came in from Dylan Dreya that says we've got nine people on vacation for the U.S. holiday and we have gdq on the living room tv like it's the olympics thank you all for this amazing show and for being so welcoming and accepting of everyone well thank you so much for that generous donation delandria wait Thank you so much for that generous donation, D'Alendria. We also had $500 come in from Gannon11 to help us meet that Little Samson incentive that just said Let's go Ryan Ford and Little Samson. Good luck! Have fun! Thank you so much for that generous donation And for helping us meet that incentive Oh it's gonna be so fun See looks like those lava spurts they don't activate until you step on them? That is correct. So we do have a little bit of time to get past them when we need to. We can do two more donations probably. Awesome! We have $25 from Anonymous who says, Thank you for putting on such a wonderful event for a great cause every year well thank you so much anonymous and we also had another anonymous donation come in for 250 dollars with no comment but we very much appreciate your generous donation and remember you do not need to add a comment, you do not need to tell us who you are. You can always donate anonymously every single dollar counts and goes directly towards a great cause. those in the new jokes so keep those puns coming i'm so glad to have you as a cool commentator i'm so glad we mind melted before oh yes yeah hey by the way would you guys all like your second Dota fact of the day? Yes. All right so back when the Dota was still alive and roaming this earth uh They were only native to the island of Meridius which is just off the coast of Madagascar Oh that is cool yeah although much like this world Marias was home to a volcano. So one can only wonder how they went extinct. Speaking of volcanoes... At this level we need to reset because there's a bunch of volcanic rock that will chase us down the mountain. You'll see it in a second here and if I don't reset then it will catch us basically immediately. And you'll see how they go extinct. Alright, and... Made it home! Let's go! Dodo-tastic. Alright so World 4 introduces these crab enemies They're actually pretty easy to deal with because they will only move when the dodo moves, and they will always try to move in the opposite direction. So if the dodo moves down, they'll try to move off. If the dodo moves left, they'll try to move right, etc., etc. So you can pretty easily just go to one end of the map and then keep all the crabs away from you. Would you say this is like the prequel to another crab's treasure? I'm not going to deny it! Yeah, so this world because those crab enemies does have some of the most precise routing but it's not super technical you just have to memorize where you're going. So this is one of the easier levels in my- or easiest worlds in my personal opinion. And uh level 34 that actually introduces a pretty neat mechanic that we only see in two levels I'll explain that more when we get there, but yeah. This level's pretty cool because it's way more open. I personally prefer the more open levels than the ones that are like okay this is very clearly how you're meant to go down them Because it kind of reminds me of more of Frogman very clearly how you're meant to go down them. Because it kind of reminds me more of Frogger than anything else, which is, of course what this game's going for. So 34 introduces these buttons that will shift the elevation of certain platforms. So, you know it's a very basic mechanic but it really works in a game like this. Yeah so after I collect this egg just gonna hit the button and boop! Now we can get the other one in the upper left my head cannon is that that's just going to make a blooping noise from here on out i can do that it's only two levels okay it's only two levels okay i'm done for now yeah it's only using two levels but the other level can softlock because of it so i can only imagine why they decided to only use two levels for it. But two levels, you realize oh this is a problem. Yeah so the next level is basically an auto-scroller So as long as I don't make any birdbrained moves It would also be a good time for some donations Dodotastic! We have $50 from Phyton that says, I do don't know what I'm watching but I'll dodonate anyway. Thank you so much for those wonderful dodo puns, please keep them coming and continue to donate to Do Doctors Without Borders We also have a new incentive open now that Now that we've met the Little Samson incentive For the bonus twist level in Quake 2 Enhanced If we can make it to $15000 by that run later today Uh, we will unlock that additional level so get those donations in remember to put them towards the incentive if you want to see that later today for quake 2. we also had 25 come in from D Shen Long, who says here's some eggs for your dodo donations. Well thank you so much for that generous generous donation. Matt also sent in $75 saying good morning everyone! Hello, good morning everyone SGDQ is my favorite time of year good luck to all the runners thank you so much matt and me too sgdq is also my favorite time of the year then one more alright we had $500 with no comment coming from A17Tabris thank you so so much for that $500 donation. Incredibly generous. And again, no comment is needed. Thank you again. Anonymous, you're pulling weight. Thank you. Right? This level has a lot of these cycles. We don't actually need to hit any buttons from these, so I'm not going to boop every single time they move. But yeah there is a little trick we can do in this level where instead of grabbing that egg from the right side we're closer if we go to the left the cycles will line up just a little bit better and we can save about uh i think it's like 20 frames oh wow so nice having level 40 here so this is the level i was talking about before So there's a glitch in this game where if an egg lands somewhere it doesn't expect to, then it becomes completely uncollectible for the rest of the level So I'm actually going to reset here because i saw the trajectory of that one so if you look in the bottom right there's one that'll land on one of those moving platforms I have to wait for that to land before I hit the button otherwise when I get there uh, I'll land on it and it just won't budge. And because I don't have all the babies, I can't go back home and it's a giant nuisance. So as long as I wait for it shouldn't be an issue. And of course that's like 30 seconds into the level so That's a pretty hefty time loss if that happens There you go Alright, so coming into World 5 here with this being a very historically accurate game our next location is going to be Antarctica No the other place that the Dodos lived Makes sense. And since we're in Antarctica of course we are going to see yetis because apparently when the Yeti is not making shirts for this event they spend their free time terrorizing innocent dodos. Yeah, these next few levels are pretty chill. So we've got time for like two donations probably. Winging it! We have $100 that came in from DJekt, that says so happy to have GDQ back much love to everyone putting on the show again. Thank you so much, Dject. Phoenix Captain also sent in $5 and says this run is absolutely excellent! Thank you so much for the continuing dodo puns this morning puns for a great cause puns for Doctors Without Borders sorry Do doctors without borders and on top of puns we also have more facts so are you all ready for the next one absolutely so the closest live-in relative to the dodo is believed to be the nico bar pigeon oh that was well relative to the dodo is believed to be the nicobar pigeon oh that was one of the ones i looked up too yep they are native to if i'm not mistaken the solomon islands palau and certain parts of india so they have went up on the dodos because and certain parts of India. They went up on the Doros because they decided, hey maybe we shouldn't live right next to a volcano. We actually don't want to go extinct. Chat you better be writing this down remember there is a test yes i won't forget so as we uh get closer and closer... Oh no! Oh my gosh. Just barely made that Yeti. So, as we're about to enter level 48 here, We are actually going to see the real life predator of the Dodo. So, uh, Spef, do you have any idea what that could possibly be? Like, give me your best guess. Oh! Is it... Is it... Hmm. Is it a dinosaur? Because it's an extinct bird, and dinosaurs are also extinct? It's not a dinosaur. You're not too far off. I'll give you one more guess. All right. All right. Is it avalanches based on this level? Mmm, avalanches. Another good guess. Still incorrect. Asuka, do you have any idea what it could possibly be um bad rng that's a killer for this game not in real life fair i give up all right well i will say when we get there which is gonna be in a few seconds here so all good guesses all around, but uh... The true predator of Dododo is, of course, the bowler hat yeti as we all learned in school clearly yeah that was that was on my bingo card you know bowl hat yeti is basically just a yeti but instead of ramming us they throw snowballs because i guess that's more efficient it's odd job of yetis and i love it i just don't understand why they're so angry my best guess is that the bowler hats they're wearing are the same ones from Meet The Robinsons. Oh god! That would kind of explain it, but unfortunately I don't think they got the rights to any Disney properties so much like the Dodo itself itself I'm not sure Disney would let that fly. That'd be awful foul of them if they did. A little bit. This level has a neat little trick where the Yeti you see on the left there i can manipulate it from a completely different part of the level if i don't die i'm actually gonna reset that from the map because that could screw up cycles that That one Yeti took personal offense! He knew what came coming. Yeah, so right down here in the bottom left here if I go all the way to the top with this melon the yeti will actually go aggressive on me even though i'm nowhere near him and that should open up a path for me to get this egg nice and safely and and get back home. Oh nice! Thank you thank you! All right so we're in the homestretch here. This is world six and it's basically a conglomeration of all the previous levels we've seen. So, we'll see at least one of every single enemy we've seen thus far. We got the lizards, we have the crabs... We also have these bounce pads that will take us and all our babies to a different part of the map. So they're pretty useful for getting around quick. That's how the dodos got to feel like they were flying once! Yeah, oh wait till we hit level 53, they'll do that all the time uh this level though uh so it has kind of a neat dynamic where it's like there's a shorter safer path and a longer faster path i say faster because there are melons, but before we take either, he definitely wants to clear out those monkeys, cause on the return trip they are a menace if you don't get rid of them immediately Like there can be only one left but because your trail is so long at this point they will almost always hit one of your babies So if you pick up two of those water balance at the same time does it like further increase your speed or is it just the same increases the duration it doesn't actually like double your speech for that would be insane oh my gosh that's a massive missed opportunity right there. So here we're just flying around as much as we possibly can. How fun was it to route that specific level? Less than it should have been, because it's very clear where you're meant to go and the path you're meant to take. This one on the other hand... If you reset here there is an island south of us with two lizards. But I swear these are the only two lizards that actually cooperate consistently if you reset. So it puts them on a slightly better cycle here. Otherwise we'd have to wait, I think like four or five seconds for them to light up nicely. Gotcha. And then there is like a very quick two frame trick I could've done there that could get us past lizards just a little bit more quickly but i'm not entirely sure it saves any time because you still have to wait on cycles of blizzards afterwards but yeah last few levels uh again this is another auto scroller so uh speth this is your last time for some donations so let's hear them excellent we have a hundred dollars that came in from the sound defense for Doctors Without Borders that says this dodo looks like she's had a bit too much coffee. Yeah but you know if it makes us go fast, it makes us go fast! We also had Jonathan who sent in $25 and says, first donation of this GDQ! I always look forward to GDQ and love what you do for MSF. Here's a $25 donation for the bonus Quake 2 level. Well, thank you so much and we are well on our way to that bonus twist level for Quake 2 later today, so thank you already so much for your generous donations. We also had Incredible Mr H donate for that Quake 2 run, $25 and says Well thank you so much for donating towards that incentive Yeah Thank you, thank you That was a really tight window on that last one It is as tight as it looks but since we come up on the end here uh i just real quick want to thank jdq for allowing me to run this game uh i'm very surprised that i actually got accepted but hey we're here uh i also want to point out that uh as of right now i am the only person who has uh run this game so if any of you are interested in this at all i am more than happy to teach you because uh this game deserves way more runners than it has and slam is a good egg 100 i do my best all righty so level 58 here. Bunch of spike cycles. It's a lot safer than it looks. Again all you have to do is make sure that you just keep on moving Yeah there will be like the entire right island is completely littered with them and I just am just going to go around them. Like it's like there's no tomorrow. Right? Two more levels. This next one is actually really fun to route because there are so many different paths you can take. I'm not going to take the most optimal, it's like a second faster but it is much more dangerous and much more dependent on lizard RNG. We're just gonna go down here get this egg And do a bunch of hopping around Oh around. Alright, so we're headed into the last level now and if you've ever played a Mario Maker level that was basically just nothing but enemy spam, this is the Dodo Peak equivalent to that. So anytime we go to the bottom part of the map here, we definitely need invincibility otherwise it's a death wish. You'll see that very quickly here. So we got monkeys, we've got crabs, the whole kit and caboodle. Time will be when I return home with all the babies by the way So get ready on that. And one last melon for the road. And time! GG! Thank you, thank pretty Dodo-tastic if I do say so myself That was a 24 Holy mackerel Yeah that is really good for Marathon run, for is really good for a marathon run. For reference my record is a 2350 so a minute of that is insane Thank you Asuka for being my co-commentator. Thanks for having me I hope y'all enjoyed the runall learned something today. Asuka, what was your favorite lesson? That we looked up the same thing about the closest words. Sweet. I've Close these goals, yeah. Yeah. Words. Alright sweet! I've been Uncle Slam, stay tuned for Ninja Guiding coming up after this and until we meet again take it easy peace out. Bye bye! Peace out. Bye-bye. Hello Summer Games Done Quick 2024 2024 we are so excited to be here look at all these beautiful drawings and signatures look at all those pictures we got a fun little collage going isn't that amazing hello everybody everybody, I am ADef. I'm excited to be bringing something a little special. We started doing something once or twice an event That is a little special interview where we spotlight a runner that we think has, you know, had a really fascinating story in the way they came to speedrunning and the way that they have flourished within speedrunning and on the GDQ stage. So we're joined by a very legendary gamer today, this is Ryan Ford. Ryan how are you? Hey I'm not bad, how are you? Yeah some applause for Ryan! How are you? Hey, I'm not bad. How are you? Yeah! Some applause for Ryan. Heck yeah. Ryan, I'm doing really good and it's the morning but the early-morning GDQ in the late night GDQ kind of share this brain cell for me of like that's the vibe time that's the vibe time if i'm ever awake before 10 a.m that's the vibe time baby uh ryan will be running Little Samson. What's going on, GDQ and fellow gamers of the world? I'm The Retro Runner. I speedrun retro video games. I'm gonna take a sec to introduce my completely overpowered couch we got Aquus who's an old school not only a ninja guide but a GDQ vet in general We've got Slackinator, the first runner to ever truly complete this game Damageless. And we've got the voice of Retro himself Lozcardsfan So yeah, we're gonna play a really easy game today. I think it's known for being really easy. It's so easy in fact. We're going to throw a little sauce on it. We're going to play low percent style. What is low percent? In a sentence, low percent is sword only but we're also forbidden from picking up any power-ups that activate instantly like the fire shield, like the stop timer can't get the timer stopped at time. We can't even get health which makes this an excellent choice for a marathon A couple of things before we get the run started I'll explain quickly. There's something called sword cancelling and that is normally in this game while jumping you can only get two slashes off maybe one on the way up or down. You have to wait for that animation to finish. That is of course unless you press down and B which cancels that animation and then as fast as you can mash out down and B uh...that's as many slashes as you can get in. And we actually flip the controller like this and mash with one hand down a beat, and I have this little thing. It's cutting board that I've glued and taped things just for stability. That actually only helps a little bit. The other thing I'll quickly explain is something called the global timer, which is a timer that you can't see that starts from as soon as your power of the console on to the last hit of the final boss. It counts from frame 0-255, 0-255 so and so forth This is how the game decides a lot what its going to do, particularly referencing enemies that we call Hammer Bros because they toss projectiles at us in an arc trajectory. And particularly in this category, uh, because we can't use sub weapons like spin slash. They have a lot of power to not only wreck the run but straight up kill us so we might die. Be'll be honest, you might die. Without further ado, we're going to reset the console. That's going to affect a really low global timer and at least the first maybe two Hammer Bros will be passive. After that, I have no idea what the Hammer Bros are going to do. We're just going to roll with it. So though we may die, let's get this low percent, yeah're setting spaghetti three two one go all right good One, go! Alright good. Those first three enemies are called the Three Stooges and they don't always let you pass so easily So not only are we gonna try to for the most part avoid most most sub weapons we're gonna avoid those what is that that's ninpo that's the ammo drop of this game and what the game does when you carry access nympho to the end of an act is it first counts down Your excess nympho then accounts down the in-game timer And then it lets you proceed to the next act that actually cost some time to bring extra ninpo, we try to take none or there's some unavoidable ninpo so we don't have the super overpowered spin slash no business here but we have this... We call that sword rhythm It might not look that complicated but it's actually pretty tough, you can do that frame perfectly, you can get real sweaty about it if you want. Um... I'll quickly explain something called quick climbing uh we use jump speed is faster than his ladder climb speed, like a lot faster and we can't jump up ladders but we could insert these little things we call quick climbs and throughout the entirety of a run it's not nothing it's like eight or nine seconds maybe even more Yeah that's a rapid left and right movement on the pad takes a lot practice but I'd like to introduce you guys to another feature of this game where the sword will just miss enemies when you're scrolling the screen occasionally. And, this is going to be an issue on the upcoming section as well because there's a lot of pits and other sections of the game. So when the sword misses, we will identify it and we will announce cheese on that occasion. Why is that, Aquis? Because it's called... The Cottage Cheese Sword. Absolutely. You can shot cheese with us if you want. It'll be fun. That's the best we could do here. The runners run a lot faster than we do, so we just let them go. They got things to do like maybe football games or something. In any percent this screen is pretty trivial because you have fire shield and you're invincible in lower percent we have to do this. All right. That's a pretty tight jump and slash. Here we go. If you miss it, you die. And more runners. Okay, so this first squirrely Hammer Bro, no idea who's going to do that. That is the Hammer Brothers and we did have our first cheese on that Hammer Brothers. Cheese! Alright, be nice, be nice, be nice. They're all in these ledges here and they could be throwing, they could not. Okay. That Jets player is late for the kickoff. Some more sword rhythm here? Yeah, you can kind of just buffer these slashes with their rhythm. We got the brofist from Bomberhead, who is canonically from The Bronx New York represent! Let's go This stage too in Amherst is kind of easy Let's go. This stage too in 8% is kind of easy because you get this stop timer, which freezes all the enemies, which we cannot get. What were going to do was try to employ this cat here. Meow! Cat boost. Spacing of these enemies, kinda random just pay attention Alright not bad. Nice nice there we go smooth and the point items you can collect without penalty. I should have made this clear, You can collect points, You can even collect sub-weapons You can even use them You just can't hit enemies or bosses with sub weapons That's the bottom line really, which is kind of not the norm for most low percent categories. Alright coming up. I really like this strat. Shoutouts to fellow ninja Bumbledon for coming up with this. Let's see if we can get it. We buffer a slash here to minip this bird, bird who's gonna just kind of freely carry us off the cliff. Bumble time! There you go. Alright, now it's time to meet everybody's favorite knockoff of a gun smoke enemy here. He's got these knives that he likes to stake to the ground, he'll shoot these bullets on random cycles and we're looking to try to get as many as three hits per cycle. That's a good fight, good job. It's really hard to get the three hits in. I don't think we got any there but it was a good fight. Alright this first hammer bro uh rng prayers he has all the power in the world to dunk us if you want please please be nice. Oh! There it is, there it is. Ah, the good old marathon. Perfect. The perfect dark. Alright, cool, we got our first death out of the way. Everything's free from now on. I like this cheeky little boost I like using the cats We're gonna slash this guy and another cat boost. Cat boost! Good boost! I'm going to attempt to climb this first long ladder of the game, quick-climb style. Bullet boost? Okay. Bullet boost. I'm a little struggling, but we got some time saving here. It's so difficult to do with the wall climbs. Trust me. Donations for it's so difficult to do with the wall climbs trust me donations please yes absolutely and we've got so many coming in for this run jashi turbs sent in 52 sorry and said, good luck today to TRR. I tuned in to see you finally running YY World but I suppose I'll have to settle for Ninja Gaiden. Have fun and thank you GDQ for an amazing event. Skinsy sent in $10 and says shout out to the Retro Runner and Slack on the couch. Show them what the world record holder can do, sir. Cheers. the world record holder can do sir cheers we also had 25 come in from chuckles much love from all of the retro shredders we're so proud of you and all of the work you do to showcase this truly A-plus game. And Arnott33200 sent in $25 saying, Good luck on the run on the run retro i hope you don't get too much cheese too late too late nameless x silent also sent in $25 and says, Good to see you back at GDQ. Just a nice casual run! Good luck. Got time for one more? Yeah, you can fit one more in. Alright! Tim's Variety Gaming also sent in $25, thank you so much everyone for the $25 donations to Doctors Without Borders and said such a timeless and impossible classic the ryu versus ryu debate was always intense back in the day all right we don't have spin slash for this boss but maybe let's see ah he got away from us bits there's a real one here he's gotta wait for him to get into target. Still pretty good. I shouldn't die. Good bounce back. I like that though, the manual spin slash. It's cool. You can kill him before he even leaps off the column all right so five one here gonna start with a little bit of a stutter that's going to lower that hammer brother so tr i can do that damage boost very nicely done. Get the double kill here, and let's see if this Hammer Road is going to be nice. Oh, he's going to be nasty, but gets through it anyways. All right, and there's the Ringling Brothers. The circus has come to town. We don't want to get hit by those rings because they do 3 HP of damage and as we mentioned health management is very important. There are a couple of potions that can refill your health here both in 5-1 and 5-2 but TRR can't grab them because it's low percent. And if he were to grab them, he would be invalidating the run, and that would not be good in front of hundreds of thousands of people who are watching this run i don't even know what uh you um let's see if you do see spin slash in this run and And, uh... here it is. It'll be used passivously. There it went. We even replaced it with this Baby Star to make sure that we don't accidentally spin slash any enemies. I like the reverb on the button clicks look nice and ASMR-y. Go for some lemon drop action? Okay, Let's try again. Very nice! And a bird boost! Alright the screen after this screen is actually... it's the worst screen in 1%. We have two Hammer Bros and we have a bunch of these Rocket Ninjas. And they all have to cooperate oh of course they're not oh of course yeah this is the screen's a nightmare yep okay at least that one worked. There we go, there we go. You can still do this boost? What's this boost? Panther. SP boost. That's a classic. Go right into the ladder via the top of the screen with the one health remaining top of the screen. With the one health remaining here, should be good. Yep, home for you. Okay. There we go. There we go, we go yep you got through pretty tough all right we've got this mouth fight we're looking for a three cycle what as an indian runner this will not be a three cycle. I already knew that. Good stuff though. Takeaway is if you get to that boss, you just stand in front of his face and Takeaway is if you get to that boss, you just stand in front of his face and he can mash B. He looks big and bad. You'll out DPS him every time. This screen is exactly the same as any% pretty much we're just going to try and avoid most of the Nenpo, there's an unavoidable one right there because the kicker is literally right on top of it. And we just grab it, its really not that much of a time loss at all. So, we haven't had a lot of cheese in this run but I don't want to jinx it because we're going into the final stretch of the game. Too late! I already jinxed it. we're going into the final stretch of the game too late i already fixed it so my hammer brother is up there he's timid and another one right here in the ledge. Not timid, blocks off with the dog getting a hit in Moving on Some well-timed slashes into a pretty tight jump right here. Got it! Nice. You can collapse, okay. I'm going to attempt to quick climb this second long ladder of the game. Much stronger climb. There we go, that's looking good. This screen isn't free either, please be nice. Oh! This green also needs to cooperate. We have this gremlin here and this hammer bro he likes to throw and he did interception yeah we have the castlevania flea man terrorizing you as well okay Oh, boy. Okay, come on, Flea Man. Let's do this. You and me. There we go. There you go. Got bumped around a bit there and remember, you can't get health. Yeah, so I'm going to have to be creative but I might even have to do like ye olde death health refill, but I'm going to try not to. We'll try to skip some stuff. Actually, there's no way. I'm bad at math. So the stage does have multiple checkpoints. I think it's... we'll see. Nice. Oh! cheese! Cheese right there, yup. Please. Hammer brother active. Wow. Yeah and I gotta take the This is a secret in health policy. That's right. Here's the tech the point most people don't know about that all right so let's see if we can get this this is called the beer full of belly boost shout outs to beautiful belly okay and we're gonna match the clown nose and the rest of the run is the same as any percent let's get some good final balls let's go let's go let's go let's go we have time for one quick donation not now please i'm sorry Almost got the plate kill. That's a good kill. Excellent kill still. And even more mashing coming up here. Let's close it out. Nice. Let's close it out. Nice The shrimp above are randomly falling down I died to the demon oh that's really bad we might be in danger of uh going over estimate now but we'll try uh we might be able to clutch it out, I'll... you know The game notoriously is cruel Likes to send you back To the beginning of the level when you die on those bosses. But interestingly though, once he gets back, he will only have to fight the demon. Isn't that correct? Yeah, and you also don't get a health refill so i have to be you know i have to be cognizant of that ah not going the demon with like one house because they'll probably just die immediately this is fine because we get to witness where Retrorunner and his element uh, you know playing more Ninja Gaiden I'm happy Yeah! Hmm Yeah And the stage yeah, all right so I'm gonna attempt to quick climb this second long ladder of the game We could probably do the donation now. Yeah, you can do as many as you like to. Well absolutely we have a ton coming in but primarily we have a $75 donation that came in from Tina's Brutal. That says, I always love watching you run this game. So proud to see you at GDQ again. The cats and I miss and love you. See you when you get home. Yeah, I miss my cats. I miss my wife. Alright thecheeseball81 also sends in their support with $50 to Doctors Without Borders And says good luck Retroner! Make this run even and nice. Make it even, make it nice... Yellsbreak also sent in $25 and said, hey TRR, who knew that four years before Rob Lowe appeared as the bad guy in Wayne's World he played a demon in Ninja Gaiden. Best of luck on the low percent run I get it. Dennis says hi and tell lost cards fan sour please yes sour please yes marble madness let's go aerial racing axe jacks also sent in $25 and said, you should put that Doom guitar into the Retro Runner's hands if you want to see it get shredded. Congrats on the run TRR! Watch your health oh yeah yeah i don't it's too late that's fine that's fine watch this please Okay. Okay. That's it, that's it. do i keep going or you have a 20 minute estimate so yeah keep going i haven't been going i have a 15-minute actually that's what you would always say Slack Keep going! So this screen is exactly the same as any percent that's still a funny joke, right? Yes it still is. Still good? So funny? Yeah I love the support you got there through the donations. Do we have some more to read? Oh, we absolutely do! ChromeNose sent in $251 with no comment but clearly sending their support for that generous donation. So thank you so much for that. Hype Dream also sent in $5 and said, eat that cottage cheese, do that monster mash. Well, thank you so much for that donation as well pico de gallo sent in 25 and said arnold sized hugs for you and mr hayabusa keep shredding bdg yeah this is all the crew coming in on the donation i'd love to hear it yeah and the crews got your back and also so does this lovely audience out here so keep on going this is going good and the damage boost yeah three for three on that tough six two screen you love to see it Zeltz also sent in $50 with just a simple but effective GDQ hype Q. Hi! QQI! Hi! We also had a couple of donations without comments, but clearly showing their support coming in, starting with $250 from Anonymous with no comment uh thank you so much for that generous donation to doctors without borders and the mic drop also sent in a hundred dollars with no comment also clearly showing their support. So thank you so much for those donations. Anonymous also sent in another $25, so generous Anonymous. That just says many thanks to the staff and all the runners. Yeah let's give it up for this runner right now. Thanks folks. We're going get through this, I promise. Uh we're not going to take any boosts this time. Everything's gonna be fine. Oh please, please... This is the treacherous section Oh my goodness Come on you got this shrimp please oh my god these patterns no um i'd say just try keep going again. Do it again. Let me take a game over because if I die again, it will be bad. At least get some blocks back. These shrimp patterns have been awful by the way he has not been getting that much luck on those projectiles i'll have to cut a lot of boosts out like I've never been in this position before yeah i gotta say it is unique because yeah i guess you could say that's never happened before um it is like uh in the spirit of low percent because you don't get the health refill at the beginning of the boss fight. Let's get some more donations, shall we? Oh absolutely and we have plenty MrPopo sent in $25 and this is a quick reminder for that Quake 2 incentive that's open. I don't remember the twist level from Quake 2 Enhanced so we gotta make that donation incentive so i can see it! And that's a great reminder you can send in all of your support for the run right now and also help us meet that incentive later today thank you so much for the 25 donation keyboard cowboy sent in 25 dollars and Jess says, First Nights of the Retro Shredders. Thank you so much for that $25 donation! And Overlord3456 sent in $25 as well saying a ninja can have a little health as a treat. This hammer brother is zoning you out so good. Alright, we're gonna cut out as many boosts as I can. Take some more health to this demon. Come on, you got this buddy! Yeah let's close it out. it up everyone come on we need to leave some spirit here and twitch shadow muscle calling out to you to also send all of the best vibes and good spirit to this run. Let's go. Cheese. Cheese! I'm lactose intolerant. Oh yeah? Wow! Was that a cheese as well? No, I wish I could tell you what it was. Just birds being birds. Yep, birds being jerks. Oh my goodness. I was trying to save some more health by not oh i see what is happening Yeah, it's a pain to run this game because of that by the way. It's not clear to everyone even in any percent worse than low percent. It happened happened it can happen so much more frequently because you're not just spinning through everything all right come on we should be good now yeah a lot of health. Come on. Okay... Jeez! Alright, we're good here. Come on. Are you serious? Oh man... Um are you serious oh man um you hate to see it cards you really do you really hate to see it Again From the top Alright so 6-1. It's just the same as it would be in any particular spot. I'm going to call. That's not funny anymore. You're right. It's not. I'll level with you. You're right. Alright, so this is like worst case scenario. Are you having fun everybody? Let's go! This is the Ninja Gaiden experience for most people who play the game because of the Game Over sending you all the way back. Doesn't do that in the other levels all right how about some more donations i suppose and we've still got more and still all the support coming in. Also, a reminder that this isn't just Ninja Gaiden! This is Ninja Gaiden The hardest possible way you can play it! So this is going so green Whoa! $15 came in from QueerGeologist that just said I can't do math either. Oh, thanks. And $5 came in from NES Encyclopedia that says, Big fan. Keep on living retro. Much love from Canada. I'm trying to live. $25 also came in for Doctors Without Borders from JayGuard79 saying TRR Slack Cardsfan altogether? On purpose? Good luck and keep shredding. Keep on shredding you can also with the support with a hundred dollars from benja with no comment but thank you so much for the generous donation. Nice. Alright, here. I'm taking zero chance. Yes! Good idea. Hidden refill. Come on. Cheese! I think there was another one hidden in there too. That's it! There you go! Yeah, alright! We did it. Alright time coming up in 3-2-1 and time! Oh folks... Oh, folks. The stress, the sweat, you're seeing it live. This is so real. Well I hope you had fun that's low percent. it's definitely a challenge category and obviously it could have gotten better than that, but I hope you had a good time Let me just give a quick shout out to some people first and foremost. My wife, team for giving me all the love and support in the world for every stupid little thing that I do And also my community whom without I literally wouldn't be able to be here uh my awesome couch for for supporting me and encouraging me and practicing commentating this run with me. Shoutouts to Arkis for bringing so many eyes to this game and sharing his community with me over and over just being like one heck of a guy and all the other ninjas out there the other low percent ninjas out there Knuckle Buster Edo uh Razul great great community and uh that's all the time i have for today uh ninja vanish uh i'll see you on the flip keep on shredding games Yeah, let's give it up one more time in the crowd and in chat for the retro runner for that Ninja Gaiden run. Just goes to show you what you can do with a little bit of persistence and lot of skill, thank you so much for that incredible, incredible run Alright we are going to be taking a very quick break so take some time to hydrate do whatever you need to do walk around get those steps in we will see you back in a bit. Thank you. All right, everyone. Believe it or not we still have donations coming in. Thank you so much to everyone for all these incredible donations throughout the run, all of the support that we got throughout it. I am going to tackle this one that came in from Tater. Tater sent in $25 and said shout out to our wonderful host, Spef. Thank you. To keep her on her toes I've included the following tongue twister. Speff's deft words spur nerd herd to hurl earnings. Hey earnings. Hey, alright, welcome in everybody so I'm Ryan Ford gonna be running Little Samson on 90% normals shout outs to everyone that uh they're donated to get this category going making it pretty tough but hey give it up to all y'all in the crowd and everybody in chat that may be watching currently. So, we've got the commentators on couch right here. Want to introduce yourselves, boys? Yeah, I'm String Bean String and I'm SteveTVOnline. Hey! Thank you guys for holding it down as well. Absolutely. No yeah, absolutely. Hey no problem, no problem So yea um Okay gotta make sure I'm playing on normal so Let me give a quick countdown who wants to do it go for it okay three two one go all right let's get it yo i love that i could i can hear the crowd in the back yeah definitely yeah i guess before just talking about the run a little... Yeah so I'm back from AGDQ. You might have caught me in the morning running Gimmick during that event in January. Got another obscure NES game for y'all. And yeah, if any of y'all want to hold it down for comms, definitely go ahead. I'll try not to interrupt too much, but... Yeah, sure. uh we've got a whole bunch of spin jumps that we do in the beginning of the game because we're playing as little samson himself we'll see if i die now it's totally fine just take a half damage it'll be okay yeah or don't take damage you know uh so you want to time the down shot to those enemies before you uh okay and another thing that uh ryan's doing throughout this stage is counting out how many enemies he's killing because there are health drops that you can get every 8, 16 and 24 enemies. And that'll come crucial in the fourth stage later for this one. Just catch tornado stage later for this one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just catch Tornado right through and then fly as the dragon here. His special is to being able to hover Yep. And get over longer gaps. We might use it a little bit more later on as well. Yeah, she's mostly safety net. Yeah. Oh I messed up actually. So the first four levels here you just switch between the main characters and then subsequently you can switch in the menu to play as each one individually but it's kind of like a tutorial to get the mechanics down yep we've got gand golem. Yep, so... Yo I actually don't know if there's a community that posts somewhere here but like I see a bunch of runners singing a song making up lyrics to this song or saying you're only going to hear it once because you can clearly see that Gamla Golem is pretty slow when running. So ideally, you don't want to use them through the run unless like, I dunno, maybe punching a boss or something. So one thing we didn't explain it for normal, our characters have a little bit less health and there's actually four extra levels compared to easy. So we complete the original eight levels from easy and then do an additional four. And yeah, so the mouse is the OP player for the game very fast and does a lot of damage with dropping these little bombs can climb on ceilings? and uh Hey, you just generally want to be the mouse to be fast There's a 24th kill right there to get a health expansion yeah and then grab the other one that's kind of there for free um can i grab that heart for safety in case i get hit by these guys, because if you full jump and you hit the ceiling you'll descend faster so you might like fall right into those frogs as they're growing. And when you have two health you'll die in one hit to them so the jumping is kind of tight there it's got our first mini boss here hey good rng yeah but i checked this one oh my gosh Oh, I got like a double press for some reason. That was weird. Um, I might die? Maybe? Oh! Well, it happened. Interesting. Yeah... No one saw this coming. That was weird. I'm trying to do single throws and he threw like two bells at once. One time. Interesting. So what i could also is just stunlock her by mashing if i get the good RNG so im gonna just do that instead of timing it. This is rough, but it's okay. There we go. Oh, on normal she also takes 24 hits to defeat instead of 16 on easy. So, try to add that little tidbit in there. Alright so from basically the rest of the run we're going to be using the mouse for this and uh you basically just want to keep running in the levels yeah this is a just a fever dream of damage boosts. This level is a little scary, actually. Ryan said earlier that password may be in order if he dies but that's not going to happen. It never happens. I forgot to open the Google Dock in case... We'll see about it. Scary spike jump? Okay, I'm going to play it safe. The spikes do 4 damage and I have only Spike jump? Okay, I'm gonna play it safe. The spikes do 4 damage and I have only 3 health currently Gonna grab this for safety to get up right here Cause I do ideally wanna try If I want to be completely safe I'd ideally want to try... If I wanna be completely safe, I'd ideally want to have four? At least four health. Whoops! Sometimes you're gonna see Ryan throw bombs behind him, that's just to get rid of some of the projectiles. Big Bash? Yeah so right there you also saw Ryan jump into the second one up top that gets in a little bit of community frames. Yep. I choked a little but that's fine. Unity frames? Yep. I choked a little but that's okay. That was good. Yeah, doing quick kills by taking hits and using the iframes By mashing single bombs into the bosses. The bombs do 1 damage, but the explosions do a chunk over time. You can mash faster than your bomb damage if you're on point. It is pretty nice! If you have good mashing. So this level is pretty scary. I actually couldn't see where the spot was on the setup, that's actually pretty easy. Yeah mainly you don't want to just bounce on the ceiling and take poor damage and die here yeah and the spikes on those side on those sides you can uh the hitboxes are kind of like larger than they look so definitely gotta be careful all right that was pretty solid bubble yeah it took a bit safe but it uh what's not bad so right here ryan's gonna wait until they form to jump into the middle to uh set down all the bombs that was so that was good that was good that was decent yeah pretty fast yeah yeah i'm happy with that that uh that quick kill it was like one extra volley of bombs I needed so it was pretty good. Lava does 8 damage, 8 whole damage. Yep, so that's an instant death if I get hit by the lava at all. With the mouse, for sure. I'm like dead automatically. Alright and uh... might try to like do some my reduction here a little oh okay here's the backup I guess I was gonna damage boosts and run through those spikes but the enemy I was supposed a damage boost and run through those spikes, but the enemy I was supposed to take a hit from actually despawned because there were so many sprites on screen. Oh, you got good RNG there too. There could be two enemies that spawned there, but he only had one so that was actually lucky yeah there's a lot of switching to different characters just for tanking damage the later stages. Exactly, because yeah definitely don't want to lose this guy if possible and there's like spikes everywhere here so also gotta be careful like either managing iframes and not falling into spikes sometimes when you get lagged here it likes to eat your inputs I played that rune extremely safe, because I died too many times from just not getting a jump. And there I kind of manipulated so I waited for that big skull to shoot to the left because it despawned another big skull that was supposed to be in the middle where I did that really slow laggy jump. Oh, that's not good. But it looks like I... Um, I'd ideally like to be at a minimum of 3 health for the Wicked Hill but I'll just do some safe cheese in the moment cheese yeah so this guy um he's supposed to shoot a beam to uh when you're beside him but if you're barely next to him and like keep inching over to the left it'll like make him not shoot it at you. So um, he'll also let his guard down as he's like walking over like to close the gap between you so kind of let the bombs explode and just kind of inch through the left a lot it's a little bit of cheat it's probably one of my favorite bosses to watch too it's so fun mouse and cheese go together exactly yeah, dangerous yet again. Very. We'll probably try to damage boost through...oh! Whoa! Okay so safety I guess? Oh that's not good. Because I had the i-frames I couldn't pause when the hover ran out so I didn't get to pick up the health. Hmm, I'm gonna have to actually back-up this fight. What do I even do? This situation has never come up for me so i'm curious okay i gotta probably just match this guy down with a different character so gonna use the golem and do multiple cycles i guess thanks if it works yeah yeah because those are gonna do the same quick kill as the uh green guy the green guy that i fought earlier but um i ideally want to keep that potion. It's probably faster, honestly, if I can save the potion until a later boss. Yeah, so ideally I just need to not die to the dragon because I still have one hit from death. If y'all want a cover for this fight... Were you expecting a mass-murced dragon fight in this game? If you fall it's a bit of doom too. I was so scared, I almost missed. I'm gonna just play this safe because I... Yes there we go. Good backup! Yes, there we go. Good backup! Oh my gosh... I was definitely on edge the whole time beating it at 1 health so I was like Let's not tempt fate over here Petereter because i could that could have lost minutes if i did die so maybe i guess since i have the potion for the, like it wouldn't lose minutes but it would uh... be rough. I'd guaranteed to lose like 15 seconds though at least after Didn't happen Yup yup Phew! Yep, yep. So this is the... On easy, this would be the second last level but since there's normal then there's quite a few to play. So one thing he does with the skulls is if you go up to their height they'll come after you so if you move a little bit forward and then go backwards it's easier to kill him that way. Thanks for covering, Vet. I'm going to take a hit here since the hearts heal you for four so just did a damage boost because why not i took one extra hit that i had planned but uh should be okay um again be picking up another heart for safety on normal. This room's really scary. Yeah yeah for real and yeah sometimes grabbing these walls can be awkward because uh if you're grabbing a sideways wall you have to press A while you're beside it sideways wall you have to press a while you're beside it to actually touch it i'm trying to reduce lag here okay you definitely generate more leg by like missing your bumps on the enemies so gotta be careful uh hardest quick build in my opinion for the uh phase ones of the bosses oh i got all right but i think i can actually work around as well no there it is okay so i didn't get to one cycle but whoa I'm gonna be careful here because there we go. So yeah, you're hoping for those ghosts to not even spawn down below they can spawn in different ones, and the best RNG is obviously for them to not spawn at all. Yeah. Because yeah, they can sponge your bombs before they explode so that you'll not get much damage out on the death skull over there so uh that guy that's all he does nine damage on contact so he'll like instant kill me uh like most of my characters in like one hit from even for pull up so anytime i got hit was by the smaller ghosts generally, so I wanted to... What's it called? They only do like one damage so I tried to abuse eye frames. You'll notice that sometimes he's doing like larger jumps to get over enemies compared to like some of the smaller ones to get underneath some of the dragons that he did just a little bit ago there let me play this safe yeah you're getting the lead yeah it took a like one extra hit that i'd uh liked there so and another extra hit compared to what i would have liked. So it was good that I probably backed that up a little. So right here he's actually going to be... This is why he was saving the potion for this area right here. Yeah, so can you explain to RNG if you want about this? So for the RNG in here you don't to be-you don't want him to go all the way up to the top, you'd like them to just sort of centered but he... Okay one second. Did ya get it? Yeah there. Did you get it? There we go. Nice quick kill. Yeah, if you feel that quick kill loses like 15 seconds because he'll go to the top of the screen and you can't reach him and they'll shoot a bunch of balls that will come on the side of the screen That kinda looks like, if you've ever seen Yellow Devil how it moves in Mega Man Kinda like that Are these starting new levels? Starting the new level now? Exactly. So thanks to everyone that donated, so getting to do the extra stages here The game would have ended on that previous level on easy so um yeah this is purely like normal content more ceiling content pretty much you seem like that mosh pit of enemies down there but uh trying to mess with that oh that's a little bit better rng yeah i got kind of average luck but i mis-executed so it could have been a quick kill for sure but i i jumped too high when they dropped the other two bombs so so once again he's just gonna get into the hitbox right there and get hit on purpose. Good enough, good enough. Decent quick kill. Alright here we go... I might have to switch characters Yeah this is a really scary level Oh no that's fine AAAAAAAA We're fine. The laggiest jump ever! And yeah, the end of this level is pretty easy since you just want to run on the ceiling. Oh my goodness... Yeah if I die with the mouse indeed levels you permanently lose them until after you beat the final boss so uh unless if you have the potion to revive them once but yeah i just love that kill the boss is so funny to me you know mini boss rush pretty much and um yeah it's like the phase two of all those bosses from the previous levels that i thought so previous levels that i thought so there you go yeah i'm too scared to fall in the pit honestly yeah oh that ramming attack also is an instant kill so uh you definitely don't want to get hit by that but um if he does that ramming attack, because your bombs are exploding If you misspace your drops sometimes you'll get hit by more of them So sometimes... You can save a cycle occasionally Oh my gosh I got the get out of my wave oh no okay yeah i don't know why that's like inconsistent with my for my when i'm moving why he spawns on the top instead of the bottom. Had me on edge there because I didn't want to smoke from that guy. Can I hop in for a quick moment? Absolutely. Yeah, I just wanted to let everyone know that we have a new incentive open. It is a glitch exhibition for Chibi Robo later today. You do not want to miss that. Get your donations in. We need $10, dollars by the end of that lockout bingo race in order to meet that incentive uh also a quick donation just to uh give you some hype uh fifty dollars came from escapade that just says let's go ryan less than three hey thanks yeah so it's the final boss named taikid so the boss i was talking about, like the yellow devil looking attack that you didn't get to see. This is his actual true form so they play only on normal... Oh my god! He got it. There he goes. that you play only on normal. Oh my god! Oh no! Okay, okay He survived with one health, oh my gosh So um... there is one more level to play it's like an escape sequence where the waterfall castle is collapsing so time will be when i escape this castle and if i don't, it should be like half a minute or a bit less. Bonking ceilings is like the worst sometimes. So basically I'm free at this point, right? Yeah just letting everyone chunk damage instead of the mouse for the most part yeah since i got uh extra two health oh the wall this is here time That was a great run. That was really good. Good job, Ryan. Oh my gosh. I heard some homies in the crowd. They're all back there. I heard some homies in the crowd. Yo, I appreciated everybody. Honestly, I couldn't explain the lore too well for this game. Like honestly Google searched it so... The dragon is a girl and a lot of people think that she's a guy but she was a human princess that was turned into a dragon through magic. I think the run could have used more spin jumps from old Samson. Everything spins in this game. It's pretty cute, I think, honestly. But yeah, I have no idea what my end time was for that run. Oh wait, actually never mind, I can look to my left. Okay, 17's not bad. My PB... I got a PB on Friday at 16-16 so it's not bad. I took a ton of safety strats here because it was definitely faster than dying yeah so so played an extra safe okay i'm pretty happy with that run my goal is just to try and have like a deathless run if anything so um but yeah definitely having yellow on the couch helping super done yeah this was such a fun run to learn and watch yeah hey so, if you do want to try to pick up the run... Well, if you watch someone's PB, honestly it's decently straightforward but I did make a video tutorial for easy straightforward but I did make a video tutorial for easy and normal for both out of bounds and no out-of-bounds categories so just for any percent not all stages though. You can find that on my YouTube. And yeah, all my socials are Ryan underscore Ford 522 It's like Twitch, Twitter and YouTube so Yeah, if you want to shoot a follow there by all means um i got I play so many different games so it's pretty random content on like everything honestly. It's like a gotcha game i'm like what i'm gonna be doing it's true and um this time we gotta make sure to properly thank like everybody that um because i was like pushing for uh like a donation drive to actually make it out to this run. The community from my stream and also friends that I know outside of speedrunning And even outside the like the specials melee community uh helping out to get to help get me here and like and how and the and like housing costs and all that. But yeah, thank you all very much this time I remember to probably shout y'all out on like the AGDQ room. Yeah, and yeah, here's to the future. Hopefully we can showcase for y'all again another time but yeah I'll throw it back to y'all because I know that everybody's got to catch up on schedule so bye i think alec sent um I think Owlix sums up the last couple of runs best with their $25 donation they sent in saying, shout out to Ryan and The Retro Runner for a fun back-to-back NES showcase. You all are making my workday so much better. I fully agree thank you so much for that very kind donation. We're going to be taking a quick break, and we'll be right back with more SGDQ 2024. Stay tuned. so ¶¶ Everybody get up, everybody get down, let's strut Everybody get up, let's strut, let's strut Everybody get up, everybody get down, let's trust. Everybody get up! Everybody get down! Oh hello everybody at GDQ It's your boy Starwynn Hi, how you guys doing doing uh it's kind of nice to be back this is my fourth appearance at a gdq but because i coveted everything i had two appearances online this is my first appearance on a stage not you know being a runner and not on the count lies since like 2016. so really good to be back so grid do x5 80%. Got my couch here. You guys can introduce yourself. Go ahead. Ultra-Uberness. I run X4 top time on that one. I know X5 a little bit but it's A terrible game Oh thank you You may remember me from Mega Man 9 No I'm Starluz I mean Gagas Bluz. Alright so we're gonna jump into this. It's going to be a good time I promise I'll count it down So we get to play as everyone's favorite Maverick hunting boy, Zero. Get that shirt. Get that shirt. Go grab it. Alright, but come back. Alright, we'll start in three two one go let's go so this is megaman X5. Everyone hates this game. Yes, apparently. Especially X4 runners. Especially X4 runners? Yeah! There's robots and maybe some cowboys. I don't know. Cowboys? Intro stage is pretty basic just mashing through stuff and there are a lot of text boxes that's one of the main reasons we're doing this Intro stage is pretty basic, just mashing through stuff. And there's a lot of text boxes. I think that's one of the main reasons why people dislike this game. Hey! There he is! There's Guy. He's going to go. This game was very mission-based, that's why she always keeps talking all the time, so... Yeah. Oh my gosh! It's a shooting man. There's shooting and robots? Who's that over there? That thing's green. is it green is it uh sniper joe so i was in megaman nine sniper joe that was shooty josh oh shooty show you're right you're right oh smoter i'm awake enough to remember yeah fun fact they did a volunteer shift and they were like hey you run i'm like oh yeah oh man i can't see you. It'd be shocking if it attacked us. So that was a gap jump, that's very common in the Mega Man games, it's very easy to do in this game though compared to like any Super NES Mega Manaman who's that guy oh that is bloomin he has uh his armor broke fun fact if you pick zero you don't get the fourth armor but if you pick X, you don't get Zero's Buster which I Zero's Buster is useless. That's a big head. He's like... Why? Oh no. There we go. What is this fast-ditch with floating heads? Why? Oh, no. I need him to open mouth. There we go. Open mouth. Feed him. He's hungry. Open the mouth, please. Watch out for the green ball. This is unlikely me with no mouth open. Is that you and robot form there? Yeah, it's Yeah. Don't tell me it's your... I guess I should explain the category, so any percent that this game has a really... Just play it! Okay, there's an introduction version. There's a cannon you fire and it fails. There's a shell you fire that fails. Well I'm going to get off the stage and the next runners can come up. But thankfully there's a manipulation that we're going to do. I had a plan to do something funny but I'm not able to play on the japanese version right now so we're real more doing english versions and we're gonna have to do a thing so who's that that's a lady so uh oh bye can you come here guys we're done that's the run's over i don't know. Oh, come back, Starwin. You got this win. Come on, everybody. Give him applause so he can come back. Star win. Star win. Star win. Star win. Is it over? Is everyone else over? Yeah, that was it. percent I mean for 70 G's that was part of the manipulation sorry the hug manipulation not the ride didn't i just do this stage? oh there it is was it Is it autoplaying now? Oh, there it is. Was that... It was a little early. I was going to say, is that early? You have to do it again? Yeah so we're gonna sit here a little bit more. Hey! Donations! This is a good time. You wanna explain what you're doing? No explanation, only donations. CannonSwim sent in $75 saying more Megaaman more donations two of the best mega man games in the franchise also for everlasting peace we leave no one behind yeah take that X4, Renan. Hey, we won't take that. We did Everlasting Peace. We've done both. Everlasting Peace? Apparently. Yeah, look at X5. That's why X gave up after like 6 he was like yeah I'm gonna pass this now that's it okay whatever by that shit I mean That's it. Okay. Whatever... By that I mean, I did something magic. Magic? I greeted the crowd That's part of it Part of it. I feel like a matchup. Part of it. So there's... The reason this category was never in GDQ is because really low chance for it to even be successful, but this manipulation was found out forever ago. There's a bunch of different methods. My method involves hugging my friends and then pressing start. The power of friendship? Power French! We're gonna fire in your laser, we're gonna fire the laser Fire the laser Is it going to work? gonna fire the ladies is it going to work if it doesn't work i'm a fraud oh god please work how many how many percentage do you need? That's where Megma Jaguar is. Parkers! I don't even know who that is. That's... I don't think know who that is oh that's her i don't think there's a problem sickness and then sigma this like very similar names gear green head oh Oh! And lady... Lady? She's like, That's exactly what she said. Ah, Zero you gotta go! You gotta go fast!! Alright so let's just jump this to the Sigma stages. Nice! So this is kind of like low percent but not really because we're gonna do something funny later and not be in a low-percent kind of area. Don't you get it canceled what's the council capsule cancel yeah capsule oh no okay english i don't know what that is. Also, uh... Every song in this game has a vibe I don't understand why people are like Can you cut the laser? I mean if you want me to Oh my god! Zero, he's chasing me. Okay, that's... I see how it is. Uh-oh. Yeah, there's big... There's like purple zero viruses flying around. If I touch them, good things will happen but we won't see that until the next stage. I don't advise petting laser... Laser! Oh, that one almost got you. Okay. You guys ready? Let's go! We did it. SCOOOOOOL! We did it. Hey, what does that say in the background? This guy looks familiar. That is a W. It's stupid ball uh Yeah, this guy looks familiar. As a representative of the Smart Volcano... Be on the opposite end. I see you! That's good RNG. Are you hitting his foot? An eye spawned on his foot and he was like, I see you. And i'm like I see you too Oh we're stomping? Shoot the ball! What? Move it. Where? Underwear. Also, if you touch that green line under construction. Also, if you touch that green line you explode. Like quite literally. Spot low, you won't. Don't put that green line. He's not going gonna give it to you i'm playing safe i hate when he spawns his eye in the back this is a good jam though obnoxious, mashy. Hey, we can read a donation since he's going to give you a jerk and be giving this pattern again. Absolutely. Chris sent in $250 for Doctors Without Borders and said, I love Mega Man X5. It's my favorite game in the series besides X1 because this one is all about Zero. The best Mega Man protagonist. Nice. Oh my god, he's a skull. Oh, it's Dr. Wily. Is that what Dr. Wily means? And Dr. Wily actually also sent us in 25 dollars and said where is that blasted mega man it's over there here in the back Oh, I killed the boss! W. That's a big W right there. Yeah. That is a big W! Got him. Do I get to pick the stage? it's like you did terrible get off the stage can you do that i could be wanting to pick uh the squid or the dinosaur what do you want cowboy the cowboy too bad the cowboy yeehaw no there's no cow say yeah yeah there's no cowboy yet so anybody else would be like oh serious time this is this is scary stage i'm like nah no meme it up let's go i don't want to dismiss the runner's abilities right now okay that's fair i miss this boogins i have to pick up these little virus boys they're very important oh did i mention there Did I mention that I usually just speedrun horror games and I'm playing Mega Man right now? This is pretty scary. Are you going to die? Okay, we're good. When you collect like five of these viruses You just get invincibility All your health You become the virus It originally was a zero virus, wasn't it? You become the virus. You become the virus. It originally was a zero virus, wasn't it? I mean, yeah. It's originally from him. I thought we agreed not to talk about it. At least you didn't have to bonk i bonked that's five dollars i'm listening look at your death tropes five plus x troll cheryl cheryl Cheryl! X! Sigma! Is he going to do it again? This is my favorite boss in Mega Man history. I think it's Slurpees as well. Oh, what is this wall is a wall it is wall wow he looks familiar wild wall wild wall d He looks familiar. Wild Wall. Wild Waldie. Where is that one of the characters from that 1 game? X1? Yeah, X1. Eliminator Boat Challenge? Eliminator Boat Challenge! one yeah x1 eliminator boat challenge he's uh being safety. Oh yeah, he turned red! He's mad. Alright that's called STCing You've probably seen it before I hit two buttons really fast. There he's dead! That was fast. You have to be like... He got past wall. Good job. You did the stage, good job. You're terrible get off! Rank zero. Alright, so we actually get to switch to Uber's favorite character X. Yep. Because apparently 0-100% is not a good thing for him. I thought he was Saber 9! Hey you told me he was the new guy. Oh you knew Saber and Dick Damage all the time. Bleh! bird and get damaged all the time. Where's the arm? Hey, it's hat! He came back! That's what happens when you pet the spike. I did promise you about it that's better that's brother hat too yeah to a sequel yeah so that's five equals this equal to nine yes yes Yes. Uh, probably could do a donation! Do a Doney. A Dony. One Doney coming right up. Justin sent in $10 saying Super excited for this block of my fave series Jump and Shoot Man with Jump and Slash Man. Nope. That's for true. It is for true. Dr Light was like man you're bad at this game You lied to me! You said there were no capsules You got a capsule, this ain't Lopercent It's not longer Lopercent it's now Cheaterpercent Invalid It's no longer low percent, it's now cheater percent. Invalid. It's invalid percent! Change that up there and put invalid percent. It's x dashes across the screen percent what do you mean like literally this was gonna become oh another big w that's a bit oh there's no w it means hey it's that guy i guess we're gonna fight him yeah this is crazy brother bristol no too bad we're gonna bully him oh no oh no how are you doing this i don't know he's hitting the whole screen oh no oh no so uh this is a great jam i i could be charging my buster but this song is too much of a jam so we're gonna jam to it. This is why Zero should have got the Buster instead. We're all here to celebrate the size of this w you know the science Oh, no. out oh you're gonna charge oh no i'm sorry oh no oh yeah i like how he's level three by the way yeah there's levels in this game for bosses it's so stupid that's why X-Force appeared? The second they introduced levels, everyone was just like get this out! I get it You did three levels of zero, that's why it's level 3 right? I got it. That's excellent zero died again i also know what no one's gonna say dot dot dot dot my friend no my love i'll come for you play the good character i will defeat you no look at me instead big scene all right now we're going to sigma stages already let's go on the bald man stage that was fast like i said now now the game is a cheater percent because we're going to be using the ultimate armor i thought it was just dash at this point no it's t post percent yeah that's third percent so ultimate armor i hit rt So Ultimate Armor. I hit R2 and am invincible, I dash really fast and do a lot of damage. A LOT OF DAMAGE. The Flying T-pose? The T-Pose! I like the fourth ultimate armor version than this one. I like the fourth one, I like X4's! I'm an explorer! You can hand us your headset. Yeah, I know right my bad We have our backup behind Cowboys here is the shark people do the commentary cowboys as a texan i knew that i need a yeehaw from the crowd please Yeehaaaaaaah Thank you Also getting absolutely destroyed What? I thought it was ultimate Oh yeah, that's a fun fact ultimate armor guys what's so ultimate about it that is mega minute no shield spikes even though the arm is also those fights yeah X-Force there you go alright now you guys get to see all the fun Mavericks this one is uh is this Bat? no this isn't Bat this is Delta McQuillan or no it's Is this bat? No, this isn't bat. This is... This is Duff McQuillan or...? No it's Burn Dino. Oh, Dino. Burn into the ground? Also he's level 96 that's a big hellfire. It's all so stupid that they're just like, why 96? Why not 100? What was going to change if you just put it to 100? Absolutely nothing. They have have an excellent all their stats the life fargo goes slightly longer down the screen look at that tackle man he looks like a pokemon he's a charred lizard i'm flightless charizard he's like oh don't you i'm hitting one button please don't. His type of firefighting. Please clap. Now you guys need to clap every time we win this is all... How much do they expect? Please clap. Just stay here. He said this line. It worked. Oh, this is Batman. This is Batman. They listened. You guys are really original. I know, right? No, his name is Batman. What makes you think this is a nightmare this is megaman this is just bad this is bad yeah oh yeah there's we can't have the man or the yeah yeah that person his power is something bad does this faucet mean? no I mean... No. It's back. He's about to do an attack that I haven't seen in years! That's just how good I'm doing! He had his arms up when he was gonna do his freezer move do you mind if i hop in here with a quick date oh yeah i forget yeah don't dony one dhoni uh One from Kiros comes in for $10 that says, good morning GDQ! From one Robo game to another, let's get that cheapy Robo glitch exhibition in and we have under nine thousand dollars to go to get that glitzx glitch exhibition for chibi robos so keep getting those donations in and remember to put them towards that incentive. This is real alligator right here. No, this is his glow! He moves his glow around the stage Is that a question? No it's a fact. Okay. See look he is blowing. Is he? Oh! He should have lasered. He has a butt laser. He does. I had a butt laser this morning. Oh boo! i had a butt laser this morning stop dodging them oh my god he got like three times yeah that was the best exhibition right really i i get everyone gets mad at poop jokes i know where the line is drawn now. The green line. Don't touch it, remember? What? From me?, that one! Oh, this is Squid. No, my old pal Squid. Friend of Octopoo, this is Squidly. I forgot. We went over this oh we did yeah this guy's dumb i'm the song just get better? Just kidding, body! I'm telling you any of these bosses could spawn a spike and ruin my life. Oh wait... That's the next boss.'t have a spike don't pat that spike thank you guys are those smart balls? I will consult the Smart Ball community and get back to you. Yes! There's one right there wait i got a question is this ice lift no this is nice this is ice bringing it back wow i didn't know so this is probably the hardest boss in the refights as you can probably tell if i are taking r2 straight into spikes and die and right here it gets really annoying because he's gonna start shooting ice blocks at me but we're just going to kind of stay inside him and damage boosts shark use the iframes shark is not happy with this selfie. He didn't have my headset. Sorry, we really didn't make it. I just realized he says normal in the corner and there's nothing normally right now is this fair it's cross off bear it's drillman. He just dumped right to his face. Yeah, it's a drillman there. Where'd he go? Where did he go? Oh no! Where is that? Oh I didn't turn around. I'm turn around. I'm a scrub! It's raw ice. Oh. Hussar. No you do this to me! What's the next one? Crystal Slug? It's Icy Pinguin Girl. That's Icy Pinguin Girl. No bueno. Oh man. It's Gemini Roseman. That's literally what he is, just a copy of Gemini Man from Turkey. I was going to say Plant Man, yeah. Oh, there's another one of them! Oh, there's two of em! Oh no! I saw the spike ball. I'm telling you anybody can come on this stage right now and do what I'm doing. No! You had your run! They have it. Yeah don't need to either what do i do x4 but this is how that happened i can't like a game? What's going on? Oh, what's that epic move? Alright this is the last Maverick. This is horse Why has he got things in his finger points horse it's just fine dude it's bootleg storm eagle it is dollar it's dollar tree stormy now he's diving like stormy but what does this guy think he is yep i'm back okay all right Come back. Okay. Alright, there's the Mavericks. There's the refights. The first fights but technically refights. Fight with such bullshit as you're paid! All right. Where is the cowboy? There's cowboys eventually. eventually yeah cowboys are coming oh my god the ball just wait for it his balls not every pole is a smartball it Oh, it's not. Intelligent fear. What's that triangle? Watch out for the truck. Yeah, watch out for the truck. Oh my god! Holding triangles. They're spinning. Spinning. Speedwaters. Oh, he's going to go for it? No no i ain't doing that no i died like 800 times i lied there you go maybe i still was trying to be very safe. You did it. You were? YOU DID IT! Yep, you did it. I feel like the crowd's like... He did something? Oh no. Okay. He did it. i feel like the crowd's like he did something oh oh okay brilliant it's bison why is he that way fun fact uh his everybody was level 96 right and sigma was just like i'll be level three level three he also did three stages this is delegating isn't there three sickness can you stop with it It's the lore. It's the lore! As a ball expert... As a BALL EXPERT! Please be careful. They took the lure out of the japanese version his name is rock man he's not made of rocks. Not yet. Everyone's favorite boss big sick and now he's like i'll have a health bar now oh his fist the cook said yeah i'm not doing a very good job of destroying them how did you get 83 levels how'd he get 83 level levels uh rare candies so he cheated he did his stats are worse Cause that's the worst thing. This is the Nintendo PlayStation. Technically, yes. Oh yeah! Time's coming up. I apologize. And...time! Yeah! He's like, Oh yeah, flashing white lights warning. Sorry. He's still happy he's like this feels good I'm the brigade man Of course we have to have the wonderful cutscene of Zero dying for the 40th, I guess. He'll come back. Oh, I'm dead! Oh no! He wasn't even there! He just walked in, he was like, what's going on? Now he's half there. Do you hear me? I haven't killed you. Now phone my laser. Oh no! Blast him. Ugh. Laser. Oh no! Blasted. Zero's like, I'll do the thing one more time then I'll die for real. It's revenge for lasering his colony. The colony? You lasered my colony! I laser you! And then X is not talking about that. Yeah, the blue light will save us. I will save you X, I am the blue light i will save you x i am the blue light i am the blue stinger all right so that was like five. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Tried to make it funny and entertaining. Do you have any shoutouts? Yes. Can I talk? No. You're fired. Take your shark and leave. No. Thanks, everyone, for watching. Thanks to everyone at home. Shouts to the Clock Tower team, the stream team that we're on. Got some other homies in the crowd that are part of that team, Juho and Death Tropes out there. Gonna see Juho later do a muscle march. Thank you to my couch And everybody else at home watching i love you guys appreciate it i'll go ahead and do this i'm going to dedicate this run to my granddad uh who's currently battling cancer right now uh hope he's doing well uh but uh i appreciate everybody uh you guys are all wonderful people and keep doing what you're doing getting to speed running everybody it's a great thing to do and uh i'll see you guys next time, I guess the next run. So bye friends. Goodbye. Can we get another round of applause for Starwin and that incredible run of Mega Man X5? Hello everyone, my name is Corbomay and I'm here to tell you about all the amazing prizes that we have available from right now until the end of Sunset Riders. We're going to start off with this Monster Hunter Blazing Felcian Enamel Pin Set sent in to us by e watson who always sends us in such amazing pins i will start by saying that no real rathalos were harmed in the making of these pins though they are themed after the uh two of the rathalos pieces of equipment so when you're uh hunting Hi, I'm Colonel Fatsuo. We're going to be playing Mega Man 4 for you all today. With me I have three commentators. Hi, I'm Papat.1 Hi, I am DarkTerex and I'm MadMega. Awesome! We're gonna go real soon here just in 3...2...1... Go! Woo! Alright so the first Two, one, go. Woo! All right so the first boss in this beat-around is Pharaoh Man. The alternative is you could do Bright Man first but Pharaoh Man is a little bit faster for reasons that we'll explain in time. This is mostly going to be a run about using fairly aggressive strats, not really holding too much back. But I'm going to start by using one of the safest strats in the game just to make sure that I get the balloon The balloon is pretty important there's gonna be several stages coming up that we're going to want to have before Oh look at that! We get to show off the cool thing with it, where Rush comes and catches you if you take damage He just warps to your position. Good boy, Rosh. Yeah. Good boy in this context for sure. So now we have a balloon that's going to take us to the checkpoint of this level. And so we skip a couple screens that would've been prior to it. Yeah, and then ends up being basically a wash versus not taking it. Okay... Kill these guys to reduce lag Oh yeah, not this time. There's an advanced strat to save like a half second there by sliding across the spikes but it hadn't been going well in practice, so I cut it. We're gonna... The rest of the screen is a lot of managing the lag trying to get the balloons off screen at the right times. Killing these... Alright, mummy Rose. We're not even necessarily firing three shots at once or charging at all times. We're minimizing some of that to reduce lag as well because the game lags when you are charged, so... So fair So, fair man. We want him to get to the center and then not move. Oh no come on. Come back! There he is is okay that's good enough that's even better yeah just don't do anything else of course all right nope very bad What a jerk! He came back a little bit. So here we're going to try and line up the pixel. You're trying to get a frame, not frame figure but a pixel perfect positioning so that you just get teleported up into the center right away And on a couple of stages where you can get a bit more verticality, uh, you can skip half of that cutscene as well. Mm-hmm. Alright. So we got Pharaoh, uh... which is an excellent weapon, but we also got the balloon which uh was going we're gonna show off how good the balloon is pretty soon here I always love this sequence here where you're turning lights on and off based upon whether your shooting the fireworks fireworks shooting enemies or the the brighter like light bulbs yeah And then all these grasshoppers have two different jump heights that they can do, a short and long. We're hoping for long most of the time. Nice mash. Yeah kill that guy I just don't want to be taking damage because there's a lot of damage coming up. That's bad... Okay, alright we're good. Everything is fine, no problem problem like it never even happened okay here we go I didn't make it. Oh, I didn't make it even. That sucks. You still got to show what, like what the strat is. Yeah yeah yeah The idea is that you skip all of the grasshoppers there and its much faster but its ok Just gonna... I'm just gonna be nice and cautious here. This is the alternative that we skipped, or were trying to skip. Mostly been lucky here. Yeah, pretty good grasshopper jumps. Not too bad there. Alright, and then the moving platforms on this last screen feel a lot more dangerous than they actually are if you're just holding right the whole time. You just kind of clip up walking against the edge it generally picks you up as your walking across if you do not jump before you reach the edge then you do fall off but as long as you jump before it stops moving and you're totally fine yeah all right so we're gonna use the charge shot properties of Pharaoh To make this boss a little faster than Buster would have been So you can see that when the pharaoh charges above Feth's head, he can do damage to Bright and then fire the charge shot immediately after. Yeah, you might have also noticed that I was doing the shots in a very specific pattern. That's just to make sure that I avoid all of the flash stopper usages, which happen at 16.8 and 4 HP for Brightman. We just hit $3,000... almost $4,000 towards that Chibi- robo glitch exhibition incentive awesome all right ring man stage we're gonna see uh the other good uh the other way in which red is sorry balloon is good. You can use it to climb very quickly in these vertical sections Yeah the beginning of this stage isn't very vertical so I're trying to reduce what flooding we can. Yeah, I'm going to try and sneak through this gap here. Oh no! That's fine. OK. You'll notice that you can put balloon inside of a wall and it leaves right away. You have about 8 frames to jump off that if its positioned correctly, so you use that in many places throughout the run. We're going to be skipping all these mini-osses, we don't want to fight them. Do you have time? Yeah putting the balloon into the wall saves some time on lag as well just despawns a lot quicker. Ooh, alright. Well we fought one mini boss for the fans i mean that one you have to fight anyway yeah technically i guess yes technically find it all right health is like mildly shaky but we should be fine. That's not enough no frame perfect mistake i'm still fine. Yeah, so because I don't have enough health, I'm gonna have to turn around and wait for this kind of fire instead of just sliding through. Easy... Yeah many things have different damage values based on contact versus their attacks. That's especially present in the bosses. Contact damage is super high. All the Roblox masters except for Pharaoh Contact damage in this game is super high. All the Roblox masters except for Pharaoh do 8 damage on contact I just wanted to point out here that there's a bunch of faces In the center of the screen. Yeah, check out that line of faces across the sort of middle... Tag yourself? Yep. I'm face number four. I like number two, face one. I'm this face right here. Alright, now we're gonna dust man another very difficult stage. There aren't too many like straight up easy stages in this game but uh definitely in the first four stages you're kind of running the gauntlet of some of the hardest stuff the game can throw you I'll draw you. Face is on the conveyor belts there by the way. And we're in the patented room of lag, this screen is very laggy We are trying to make sure that we hit every enemy pretty close to when they spawn in, and we hope that they don't give any drops. That was too early. Totally fine. Big thing is hitting them before they split If they split they'll leave something behind and that will cause lots of lag Now we got the crusher. And for this ring, we're just trying to hit a very particular cycle of the... You can speed up a little bit I gotta wait. okay yeah that's fair okay Yeah. This whole screen is a face? If you notice, there's a whole bunch of faces down in the bottom right here. They'll continue for the rest of this stage. They're all over.'re all over man somebody can't unsee there's a pretty good one on the bottom right here yeah shout out to roberto he's crazy he's crazy he's also on fire so you know... Maybe things didn't work out well for him. Decently good luck there. The big thing to avoid is getting more like vacuums than you have health to absorb. Yeah, when he does his uh his suck pattern you can force him out of it by running into and taking damage but again it's eight health per time that you stop that so uh you quickly run out of HP here. Mega has a maximum of 28 HP so you can only do that three times at full health before you're out. Very limited D boosts there. here at the beginning of school we're gonna see i think the only zip that's in this game well they're the only practical zip yeah the practicals yeah every single time nobody's ever missed it. Alright, this one was a very fun stage there is a lot of balloon usage just climb up things really quickly and get extra slide time and get around enemies. Hello! And they're And then for the end of the stage we're going to be utilizing the flash stopper. We'll see how powerful it is just to get through every enemy. The enemies that would normally be immune from the back, they have no immunity when you have a flash stopper active yeah the flash stopper is normally meant to last like five seconds or something like that but the timer doesn't run down when you're sliding. So because we are sliding a lot We functionally have the entire screen to do whatever we want This weapon is one of the most busted weapons in the series. Incredibly powerful. And then Skull Man reacts to what you do. If you don't do anything when you enter this fight You just have a stare down so that he Death Of The Universe But we're going to force him over here. Nice quick shield. He was too quick. Oh, and I'm paying the price. You have to be... For the short pattern there you have to be... For the short pattern there, you have to be extremely precise or else you might end up getting a second shield. There's a face in the left corner. I'm talking sure I buy that one. Okay. Next up is Diveman stage. Uh... Diveman's the water stage. Yeah, who knew? You can't do anything about it without a dive man's the water stage yeah it's new you can't you can't normally jump out of your slide to cancel it uh you can jump straight onto this slide right underwater you cannot do that as well as under a couple of other like random conditions if you're behind a foreground tile or uh if you're intersecting a ladder i think both uh a ladder and the water counts so they're going down tiles no they don't they're different things interesting but they have the same effect on slides. And he almost smashed that down while he was talking. So there's a mini boss of a whale that's supposed to spawn there. We'll smoke grape apart. Uh... whale that's supposed to spawn there. What's more great about it? Uh, look at that like a C+. OK. Got the Mega Man 6 master here so he's going to rate my slight cancels that was pretty good unfortunately i didn't do the thing it was for but like never punished All right, one more of these whales. Nice. Wow! That's a crazy good double mash set up for the whales So down that hole there is the other utility weapon, The Wire. And it unfortunately has no use. My favorite screen. Every single slot is a different timing code. I just mash. I hold down down the mask you can't honestly like the biggest challenge in megaman 4 like that's how you know you're good at mega man 4 is if he can beat mashing with time sliding. We're fine. Skitsy show off the dust back up. That's nice! That is the other half of the skip that you can do. It is possible only on Pharaoh or Dive, for humans anyways. If your a TAS you can just take a balloon up to the middle there on any stage. Alright, down at Drillman. Drillman's pretty straightforward. We probably have some time for some donations here. Yeah. Awesome! I have a $25 donation from GuyNextDoor717 Hey, there guy next door, 717. Hey there! It's GND. Best of luck on the Mega Man 4 run. Love to see more and more Mega Man runs Mega Man games shown off at GDQ. Much love to everyone in the Mega Man community as they have always been so, so helpful to help guide me and my Mega Man speedruns. Much love to Colonel Fatso and everyone on the couch, MadMega, Peapodt, and Little Sorry I couldn't make it this time to SDQ, rooting you on from home. Your loving neighborhood GND. Let's go! Pew pew pew! Thanks GND. Do we have time for one more? We have a $250 donation from Meek Rhino Is this Mega Man or Chibi-Robo? These sprites are so cute I can hardly tell. Putting this toward that Chibi-Robo glitch exhibition So we can all see more of whatever that is And we are so, so close to $4500 towards that Glitch exhibition We only need 10k! We can do this folks! Let's go! Yeah, so that stage was this, folks. Let's go! Yeah so that stage was thank you by the way but that stage was mostly dominated by flash stopper. The final screen is actually a nice test of your like-slide abilities. If you're movement is good, you won't have to reapply the Flash Stopper. So here we have real Diveman. Don't you dare. There he goes! Whenever he does that, you can just jump five times and space out when he comes back up. Oh no! Jumps are good. Oh no. Missile, drunk missile. Oh no! Alright. Jumps are good. Nooo! Oh nooooo! Yeah so a lot of the bosses in this game even sort of manipulates to be slightly more in your favor. If you're standing close to them, they more often do the thing that you want them to do which is not be jerks but there's still a chance that they could be a jerk yeah dive man drill man sure is the natural state of omega-man four boss i just wanted to point out there wasn't really any faces in that stage so yeah this is a notable fact about the state All right. We made it. I don't need to use the password that I prepared for Miss Minnie there. So this is another kind of flash stopper stage. It's probably time for one donation before we talk again. Awesome! We have a $10 donation from The Flux flux you must recover all that energy immediately w mega man there's a lot of duck faces in the wall here. Yeah, it kind of tends to move around these waterfalls so you can get sucked down by the downward water, even if you get your jump. Here we're going to flash the mini-bosses and that actually prevents them from stopping you from moving so you can just keep going skipping them. If you let them complete their beam in, then they will stop you so it's actually kind of time sensitive One more Alright uh one more right and then the last screen just solid movements get through a little bit too happy fish how was that canceled oh That was pretty good, I would say that was like an A or an A- Good pause You paused early there because it'll start uh it'll start introducing toadman instantly whereas if i didn't open the menu or yeah, if I didn't open the menu then it would wait until I hit the floor before introducing the boss. Yeah, coming out of the menu has like an effect of whenever you would normally land on the ground, you have kind of a sticky feet animation where you get stuck and doing that in midair with the bosses where they have to land on the ground starts that early for them to spawn in quicker. This castle is like made of faces. All faces here, yes. Two eyes on the green with a dorm out. And then also the eyes themselves if you turn them upside down that's a face. The side thing there like there's a little sign in the ball yeah yeah equal sign on the ball that's a face if you turn it sideways all right shout out to the bent top of the tree there it's a little windy we hit that 5 000 halfway point on the glitch exhibition inside Oh, I don't know. Sorry. No. OK. So these are the Cossack stages they're uh oops oh geez all right i'm a little bit low on health that's mildly worrisome I'm gonna freeze them. Knocking these guys down so I can pass them. Uh, we're going to kill this one. No health... Alright, well we use balloon to get up the rest of this Most of the stage is ice physics it doesn't really matter too much if you're just going through as quickly as you can but if you do end up stopping somewhere it can be a little bit troublesome in a couple spots i don't like this no real way to get that guy i i don't even know how many shots it takes it might have been like just four rings or whatever but anyways we'll just be good The whole base of this stage, or the spider here is a face. It's really long face and yeah, long mouth. No thoughts on that head. Especially after the hole of this. Ooh, we probably got time for one donation. Perfect! We have a $100 donation from Makasuro. Shout out to Fatso from all of us in the Tribes 3 Rivals comp community! We love to see you moving fast, whether that be speedrunning Mega Man or running cap routes within Tribes 3. Thanks Maka. Yeah, Tribes 3 capture the flag, FPS played in teams. Ooh this is kind of interesting. Check it out i can't say i can't see anymore without also possibly dying yeah Just a lot of balloon usage in this stage. Yeah, this is the last heavy balloon usage stage. You get to skip by a couple of these enemies without taking damage. Not taking damage is a good thing, uh... I recommend you don't do that. It's not good for your health. That's kind of a little face there. Another big face with like a very wide open mouth. If you look up above, they're kind of screaming. They are all screaming because they know about Square Machine. Hey! How about a three right away? They're all screaming because they know about Square Machine. Hey, how bout a three right away? Yeah so Square Machine can pass by 3 times 2 times or 1 time The best luck is to get the one pass but it's also the lowest percent chance to happen it's a 1-8 taking damage on purpose there just to control when it happens uh because otherwise oh how about that let's go let's do three and a two is the most common isn't it uh yeah Yeah. Alright, so... Everything went to plan. It's also the Nintendo Switch machine because it comes in three pieces, which we've established every 3-piece box can be turned into a Nintendo Switch. That's new shape. The new fundamental shape, right? We'll have to speak to the geometry community or whatever. So this is Kossak number three now. Yep, this is the autoscroller of the game. Probably have time for some donations in here as we go through. Awesome! I have a $25 donation from Cynthia Steiner, had to donate during a Mega Man game. Just joined the Discord. Looking forward to finally learning this speedrun after playing casually for 30 years. Inspiring people out here with this run! We have a $10 donation from Johnny Von Tungdil. If this TB Rove Glitch exhibition isn't met, I'll be stuck feeling the teriyaki blues. Let's get this goal met and spread the happiness. Time for one more? Yep, yep. We have Cream of Leech donating $10 Here's $10 for my favorite blue bomber. $25 from Ellen. Can we get a train going for the Chibi Robo Glitch Exhibition? Ch glitch exhibition chugga chugga tv all right so the second auto scroller has some a little bit more interesting things going on mostly just because we want to have those uh moving platforms off screen as much as possible there's a certain rhythm to thing yes Yes, there is a certain rhythm to things inspired by a tutorial that our good friend Prizzy made. Alright... It's not here yet. It's the next set. All right, all you do is buh-buh-buh. Buh-buh... Buh. It's a perfect tutorial. Much love to Pervy. It makes sense to me, every time. We had the audience do it. Yes, yes. Pre-learners. It's intuitive. What are you doing? Because this run isn't that bad, we'll do the winlock. Just hold left in that cutscene. This is a very interesting fight because you utilize both parts of pharaoh and then get a double hit here on the second roach yeah okay excellent nice center kills thanks Okay. Excellent. Nice center kill. It's in the good zone. Yeah, I don't think we mentioned that In Mega Man 4 you want to Kill bosses towards the center Based on how the lag works. Versus like 5 and 6 you want to kill them at the corners. Yeah that's because the game won't proceed until all of the explosion bubbles are offscreen. So even though it's laggier to kill in the middle is still faster overall. Okay...shoutouts to this route that that doesn't actually make any sense. You're mostly going sideways, not down. So here we are going to store a charge up and pause switch the balloon. That charge is stored and will come back as soon as I go back to Buster. The only way to lose that charge is to fire a Buster-esque...Buster like weapon. So as long we just use Balloon and Drill here you will still have that charge shot available. Even if you summon Rush but don't shoot a rush buster it still works. We're going to use it to save, like, a few frames of lag here by letting the charge kill the slinky instead of the second part of the bomb explosion. Alright... All right. Probably one donation while we fight Cossack. Awesome! We have Elegant Fube donating to MSF with $50. It's time for the Lemon Block. Pew pew! Good luck, Colonel! Thanks for the luck. Alright so Dr. Cossack will move horizontally and vertically Vertically you can't really control the movement. But if you're sliding, he will not move horizontally. So I'm just kind of leaving him here for now because he's in a good spot. We're going to start moving over soon. That was actually very good. It's going to get covered up, but there was a face there on the bottom, right? Yeah. Two long eyes. I mean, I see four faces right there. That is a lot of faces. I don't know what you're talking about. All right. and then faces on the map. Alright, so there's Dr Wily he is gonna do the eyebrow thing of course you don't be Dr Wiley and not do the eyebrow thing. And here we've got the Wiley Castle We're about to go into the first Wiley stage Uh... Oh! There's a face right there at the doorway I never saw that before Oh yeah, that is a good one Like there's the main door which is obviously a face but then there is the side door which has just two slit eyes and then a face? Yeah. All right we got time for one donation probably. Thank you. all right we got time for one donation probably thank you we have a donation from anonymous with 25 love the great cause and the great speed runs love from nor. Smiley face. All right, my favorite screen. Yep, the screen's very good. Nice. Excellent. You kill those two like with a, you kill one of them with an early shot and then that gives you enough time to charge up for the big guy. Also uh let's go Mets, let's go Mets, stages all Mets all the time shout out to Mr Cab Mr. Cab. Oh, better to go too low than too high there. Yeah, sure. If you pause against these spikes and then don't hold right out of the menu, uh, You die. That's happened to me exactly one time And I will not let it happen again Never again. So we don't have balloon anymore, we're all out of ammo, so rush jet will have to suffice for vertical movement. Alright, nice. Good to have full wealth here. We have the metal daddy or metropolitan daddy. here mr. shot so this is my big man free roots showing taking a hit on every cycle No, it's easy. I wasn't worried at all. Definitely weren't showing signs of worry at that exact moment I don't see if there's any other faces we can find here. Let's hop right in, there is a guy with like a big nose. Oh yeah okay, that's face-esque. It's good face. Yeah it's almost like a sniper Joe. You knew I micro slide there but I missed it. By not pressing A I mean that's generally how it works Those single blocks are like sideways faces. Alright, we're gonna use Jet again here... Little jump over the spine... More sideways faces... A little jump over the spine. More sideways faces... This whole room is a face, it's got two eyes in one with a single block. Big ol' nose. Alright we've probably got time for one donation. Awesome! I have a donation from Mohawk Mosher towards MSF. $25 long time viewer, first time donator. Absolutely love watching these amazing runners absolutely break these games in the speediest ways. Thank you to everyone who makes SGDQ what it is, putting this donation towards the Chibi-Robo incentive and to have FemShep the true chef in Mass Effect 2. Thank you so much for that donation! That corner jump was for you, Adeph. Yeah, speaking of chefs... And this jump? I'm sorry, Chilny, I'm sorry Chilny. If you're there in the audience. There's a face right there and two eyes and mouth as the second one is your transition Oh yeah, i see that in this fight we uh cause the fight to start immediately by firing the ring yeah this is probably the... Yeah, probably. Yep. So you can get rid of the hurt box of taco trash by firing the drill into it. It's a little faster to not use the drill, but it trivializes it. Yeah, makes it a lot safer to get by. You can just stand in his hitbox and be completely safe. One of the fun quirks about this game is that in the castle bosses, if you die you don't go back to the castle boss checkpoint. There is no castle boss checkpoint. You go back to the mid-checkpoint, which is very far away. Very unforgiving? Yeah. So we're just gonna stay safe here. I have 15. I need at least 4 more ammo, so I'm going to take 2 here That'll give me 3 spares. Oh! I took 3. Alright right i got all the ammo in the world that's all we need easy every time right it's actually very tight to get past that guy. So we took that ammo because for going into the boss free fights, I need a lot of ring and basically all the ammo that we have left is gonna be spent more or less on this stage. This is a slightly updated ReFight route versus the last time you might have seen it. The idea is that you save a little bit of movement with this route but it oh my god are you kidding me we're gonna take We're going to take health on the next boss. You can manipulate Toad to be in any position you want, so... Yeah he's a hard boss. I can't imagine dying to him. Now I don't think anyone has ever died to Toad before. No I certainly have never done it to Toad man. I didn't do it's ever died to Toadman. No, I certainly have never done Toadman. I didn't do it right but I just... adjusted. We're good. So here I'm going to like go through take a charge shot and then go to the wall, shoot again. Yeah do some of the... like shoot from far away to get the charge shot to happen a little bit quicker relative to his iframes. Yeah. That's because we don't have a whole lot of dust ammo, so you save a pair of dust shots by doing that strat and that's basically what allows this alternative free fight route to make sense. Yeah, with the old routing you would collect some extra dust ammo and you would start on Pharaoh instead. So, uh...you have to kind of figure out a way to manage your lower dust ammo Yeah because his actual weakness is flash stun Yeah, because it's actually even uses Flash Stalker so you don't actually use that cause it only takes half health and takes a long time to actually take down. Alright! Yeah. Alright, so yeah the goal of the refight is kind of different from the goal in the Robot Master stages Like you don't want to be in the center, You want to be on the left side. So it kind of changes things somewhat And also having access to different weapons so for example i'm going to hit and do five hits here and then switch the rain flush Okay. Jumpy boy! One more? Nice! For the fans. And then Drill Man you can hit right away with the Rain Flush. Deals 1 damage, which is nice because Dive Missile deals 3 damage to him so you have to deal the 1 extra somewhere. Oh! I can't kill him. Would've been helpful the first time around. There it goes! Nooo! I'm actually going to take this health. Out of an abundance of caution here. There we go! So there's this boss which is like made of faces Fun homer in 4k of faces. Yeah, there's like fun homing or count them up There's the screen face next to the purple fire in the back sideways Get him down to 1 HP, then swap the drill to skip the health refill animation and get the double hit on the next cycle here saves quite a bit of time. Huge timesave with just a quick weapon switch. Do you want to use Rain Flush here? If you use Rain Flush, then you do kill Wily. Yeah, 90%. You've been a fester You end softlock and don't reach the credits. It's stuck there forever. Just live in an empty vault. This is a final stage. All it consists of is a short hallway and then a fight with Wily Capsule. The only concern is ammo, there are only two weapons that hit Wiley Capsule, and one of them I don't have any ammo in really so it's gonna be fun time Alright. Again, switch early. We're hoping for double spawn uh time is on the death of the boss by the way no chance there i'm looking for double hits, but... Oh jeez! I didn't even get a single hit there! That sucks! Alright. Let's get a double to finish this. Nope. Time, time. One last face there on the computer. Actually like six or seven different faces on this computer. Yeah, it was the big main one there. There's two dots on the side it's kind of a sideways face like a fish right yeah they kind of have a goofy face there in the top uh like you're in the middle right there anyone submit any screenshots of Game Faces to your Game Faces on Blue Sky. Alright, thank you very much to Pappat and Terixxon MadMega for commentary. Thanks for watching everybody Thanks to Mega Man community, thanks to the tribes community See you guys around what an absolutely mesmerizing run thank you so much Fatso and the couch for this stellar showcase. Can we have another round of applause for that amazing run? We are going to take a quick break, but don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with A Binger Ride you don't want to miss. well hello there friends that aren't caught in the break it's just you and me I am so excited to catch up on some donations here we have a thousand dollar don't howdy sgdq I'm Jake Rock how they are I am Space Coast Gaming. When we get together to play co-op games We like to call ourselves Space Rock And so we assemble once again here at GDQ We're so excited to show off this game, Sunset Riders a faithful port from the arcade game which is in the arcade here if you are at GDQ make sure you check it out It's a gem for sure. Before we get going though, I'd like to introduce our coach or let them introduce themselves. S Chicago, friend of Jake and Space Coast for quite awhile now and long time watcher of this game. Yeah, and I'm Johnny Goh, also a friend to Jake in Space. Sometimes we do other co-ops. We love co-op. So again, we're glad to show it off here. We're going to be doing normal mode. It does level up the difficulty a little bit on co-op from the standard single player normal mode So you'll start to see that with the speed of the bullets and everything else. Time's gonna start when I select my character. We're going to do that in 3...2...1...Let's Rock! in three two one let's rock all right everybody's favorite boss right here guys and if you know the catchphrases please by all means say them as we go Show the catchphrases, please. By all means say them as we go. That's a fun start but nonetheless, look at that. That's a good start. Yeah, that's two in a row man. These outlaws are batting 100 right now Alright this could be a little dicey to set up this first glitch that we want to try. We're going to see if we get it or not. No, you may not. Okay he ran with it unfortunately the explosions in this game do a lot of weird things. We were trying to set up a glitch that would have changed all the color sprites of these bulls to blue, which we call Blue Bulls, very inventive name there. But unfortunately we missed that so... Here's another trick from downtown! All right got him. All right so Alright, got him. So the gist of this game is really to stay on the right side as long as we're past the halfway point of this screen here. Stage's gonna keep on rolling rolling that's what we wanna do um you can all you know for the most part just kind of roll through here but there's a few places we gotta to watch out enemy bullets are gonna catch up to us very important here we've got some leapfrog action that's right it's good stuff you do see him collecting those sheriff badges the silver one gives them a second gun, the gold one gives them auto fire which are pretty helpful later. Gotta love a little bit of leapfrog in the middle of a bounty collect here. Alright, here's Greedwell again if you know the catchphrases feel free to shout them out. So this boss're just setting up trying to shoot down these barrels and then be in good position just to hit him with the bullets until he's dead. I'm so disciplined here. Here's the catchphrase bury with my money or donate it to gdq that's right. Yes! This took place before GDQ, so if Greedwill would have been in the era of GDQ he would've said, donate my money to Doctors Without Borders, which would have been a great voice clip. All right, Hawkeye Hank, we get to start out on horseback on this stage and I think we've got some time for a couple of horse jokes maybe to start out this level. Little Button, do you have a few for us? Oh yeah! We do do let's go which side of the horse has the most hair what's that well the outside the, yeah that does make sense. Okay alright I like it. What else we got? Let's do one more. What kind of bread does a horse eat? What kind of bread Does a horse eat? I got nothing, what have we got? Thoroughbred! Thoroughbred! I like that one. Yes, we get some hype for these jokes? Let's go. Alright, we got some more of those later maybe let's do a couple donations in here while we do this train section here. Absolutely! We have a donation from Nathan for $25. I love Chibi Robo, I just want to be small and help people. We're so close to that 6,000 mark for the Chibi Robo Glitch Exhibition. Can we get past that by the end of this awesome section here? I think we can! Absolutely! Let's do it. So this is an autoscroller, if you haven't picked up on it there's nothing we can do in this stage to make it go faster. We can take intentional deaths, we can kill enemies at a different pace or something like that to try and manipulate the global timer... We've tried it. It doesn't work, so we're just going to let the train roll through here. Let's get some horse jumping in here. Oh yeah, there we go! So sick when they're synced. Ain't neither level is just horsing around. No horsing around with this boss though, this is Hawkeye Hank big time RNG on this guy as long as he's hiding behind the boxes up there he's invulnerable to us we can't hit him she has to stand up so we're hoping that hank uh stands up a lot here early and often draw pilgrims lot here early and often. Draw, pilgrim! They're also going to be jumping and shooting quite a bit just so they can get higher DPS. If Jake dies when he jumps you gotta make fun of him. Yeah that's true. There ya go. I'll take a death for ya. I'll take another one. I think that was a good way to go there. Okay! That wasn't terrible all right you got me i heard it let's go yes i love it keep it up all right we are keeping track of damage here too. So we've prepared a little something, we have a bonus stage coming up and we're going toed into it right now hello there sgtq it's really good to see you let's have fun on this run. We're gonna have a fun time right now. Let's have fun on this run. so oh all right yeah let's go. Oh my goodness that was absolutely fantastic Can we have another round of applause and some hype in the chat? Oh my goodness wait were we supposed to be shooting people this whole time missed them all you know what there's another bonus game later yeah but let's try again we'll try again. We got it next time. Next time, all right. All right, but first we've got to go to Dark Horse. Dark Horse is a fun level that can be stressful. So I'm full here so you might do shots yep yeah okay we have to remind ourselves sometimes of what we're doing here. Again, taking off with lots of sliding getting ahead of the halfway mark to get the kind of screen how to scroll it by itself We are going to let space pick up the silver there. I've had a few close calls here, but we're getting through it. So the thing with uh space hitting that guy is um i think we're gonna walk there's some yeah we're going to do some fire and flames here. There we go. I just took a header into that barrel, it's really unfortunate space why don't you fill up here? I'm gonna slide forward here, it's a little bit of meme for us to have trouble with this run because of me jumping. That's kind of a meme at this point so uh but billy does most of the damage on this boss anyway so that's why we split up that at the end there like that i'm gonna go right up top and clear out some of these window guys is there time for a couple donations here yeah i think we can get a few in here. We have code alpha for $200. How could you not donate after hearing that rootin' tootin' campfire song? Campfire! We're going to set up in the corner here and just... Goodbye, Dark Horse. Oh we might be in big trouble coming up here. I don't like the long face Jake. Yeah no, I think you got some long faces after that fight. That's right. A little Dark Horse joke for you there. So coming up is the Smith Bros, this is just a boss battle and unfortunately we don't have our full power ups There's a quick kill in my NIP that we can do if we're both fully powered up but because I squashed that for us We are just going to low percent it here and see what happens. happens we gotta dodge some bombs and we gotta dodge some uh some fire throwing going on here from these guys all right and there's a swinging chandelier to to cap it off yeah just to make things worse all right so first we got to take these guys out on the chandelier we're going to get up there and try to do as much damage as we can without getting blasted that guy running around is longer than he normally does and they kill the guy okay waiting for waiting for my entry Oh yeah, okay. Waiting for my entrance again there Pause of shame That was a... The bombs are really rough. We're gonna take this guy out here and... Once the first one dies, they kind of enrage and do slightly different things. And the fire ones enraged stay a little bit longer. Okay, all right. There we go. Thank you. Thank you partner. All right. This game's got a lot of charm. One of the things I love about this game is the little cut scenes that you get and we're going to get one here. If you guys need to like stand up or, you know, like stretch out a little bit, dance you can you can just follow the movements we got up here i love doing this during runs you know just kind of you know yeah just just stretch it out a little bit. I'm in love with this dance here! here. Alright, so we just learned that the big bad is Sir Richard Rose and he's got three henchmen that we've gotta take out to follow him around. So the first up is El Greco, this is all on a train so we're gonna just keep on uh keep this train rolling here. And again we're not going to be able to fill up fully on power-ups here so the the idea is going to be for space to get full he's gonna have two that he can collect okay we should be good here. Just a little hop there. These big wood logs. Oh nice sliding! Nice sliding! There we go! Alright, sliding. Woo! There we go! So there's a manip on El Greco Hopefully get him to jump on the edge of the logs by us here and you can get a quick kill oh yes there we go All right. Very good. Oh, yeah. I'm glad one of these bosses decided to cooperate. Let's go. All right, so next up we've got Wigwam. Chief Wigwam and uh... Oh, we got another shot! We got a shot at it. Let's go. Let's get some donations in while we try to take these enemies out here. Oh man. Oh, jeez. Nope. Okay. Yeah. All right, donation time. For sure. They are loving you in the donations. We have a $ 20 donation from samus most fun stream for me so far i know nothing about this game but space coast gaming and jake bro Brock have truly been a delight. Thanks, partner! Thank you, partner. And folks, make sure when you're scrolling down putting those donations just scroll all the way to the bottom and put it towards that Glitch Exhibition TV Robo Incentive. We are almost at $6400 out of that 10 thousand And we would love, love, love to be able to hit it. It's going to be so cool. We did 100% better. 100% better in Laksa. Listen. Oh, you hear that? You hear that little ding? That was a time loss right there. That's why we don't shoot guys at the bonus stage. That's alright. That cost us a handful of frames. We're gonna be okay I think. So let's go for wigwam here all right up oh my a vertical platforming section here, and that guy... At least he stopped me there. That guy was unfortunate. Okay. Here we're still... Yeah okay this is looking okay. Because I came in with um... I'm not sure if you can see it but the camera's on the right side of the screen. It's like a little bit of a blurb. So yeah. I don't know what to do about it. I think it's just going to be fine. I'll try to get some more light. here, we're still... Okay this is looking okay. Because I came in with um uh at least a gold star here. There's no there's only one gold star that you can collect into the stage. But I'm going to let him get that one and I am gonna get this one up right here. So you do get a little bit of eye frames when you pick up your special power. That's why you see Jake just run straight through those boulders there. I'm going to out of this one. Alright. Both are fully powered up and we are ready to go. Let's go. Okay, This is another big RNG boss. This guy... If you've played this game You know how tough This guy can be. Either it goes good Or just doesn't. And so that's what They want to see Is him slashing on the ground Like that. More of that The or they can just... One of us taking a death in that one is exactly what we want, very happy with that. We won't shoot him any more than we already have. Alright, we're about to come up to another auto scroller here, guys. Yeah! So we can let you take it away there and give us some more donations. Oh for sure! We have tons of jokes make sure that you're donating your jokes can they get a five dollar train here with some horse jokes I'm ready to read them! Dashnear is starting it off with a five dollar donation What do you call the horse living next door? Your neighbors! your neighbors. Oh, yeah! We have a $25 towards MSF from Canthea. On the first day of school school a group of students meets their new teacher. It's a horse! They find it so funny that they laugh and laugh and no matter how much the horse yells he can't get them to pay attention. So one day, the horse brings in a tiny little pony who shouts PAY ATTENTION! And the kids quiet down. The moral of the story is that if your students don't pay attention, sometimes you have to yell and yell until you get a little hoarse. It's been awhile to figure out where that one was going. Good job on that one. I'm glad it came around. Time for another donation? Sure, let's do one more. $25 from Smaman says you in heaping trouble if you don't get that chibi robo glitch expedition incentive unlocked. Let's go folks we can get it we're almost at 6 500 now let's go so there's a short platforming technically i guess section after the uh auto scroller here and they wait to kill these guys with the bombs. You're okay. If they kill them on the right side of the screen the bombs will go off and kill them there as well. We almost kept that scrolling all the way through, I knew that bullet was going to be tight when I saw it. I'll take Paco. I'm on tree duty so these guys in the tree that are throwing some bombs we're gonna... oh! We're gonna get blown up by that? That's fine. We're going to get that guy. Sometimes though... There you go to get that guy sometimes though all right there we go they don't even spawn just have a boss that's my favorite line in the game it's just ridiculous look at look at this paco logo come on he can't help him he's doing his best all right uh we'll just like that we're on the last stage of the game. Sir Turd Rose! So this guy is... he brought a hard level and He's by far the worst boss in the game. You'll see why bullets are going to be flying pretty soon, so first I gotta power up. You need a few power ups there. We're gonna, yeah. We're going to do that. Yeah? We were debating who knighted Sir Richard Rosen and why he got that title, so I don't know. And why you're out for him. Need to get a little bit more into the Sunset Rider's lore here and figure out why that is. I'll walk through here. Alright, I like what we're doing here. We're going to slow it right down for this bomb guy and just make it through the section nice and comfy like. And uh, let's go here So they're gonna time some dashes here to despawn some beads which makes that little climb section just a bit easier all right look at there pink river of death flowing out in front of us here and we are on to Sir Richard Rose. There's a pixel perfect glitch here I guess or set up that I need to do on this boss, so I'm going to try to focus in on that. And I think I got it! Oh my gosh, I got a shot right at the top. I couldn't duck down. Oh, I had it, and then they took it away from me now they gotta do this fight casually no now you're gonna see some pain and suffering uh that's unfortunate. So what Jake was trying to do there is if he hits the right pixel, they can hit Richard Rose and the barrier blocking him at the same time which speeds up the second half of this fight a lot because it's not to move this is we need to get him flashing here you got to get him going and of course he's off screen, we can't hit him. This is why Sir Richard Rose got knighted apparently. He's got skills this guy. Alright so we've got one more round We have one more phase on death here On the second phase is when time Is going to get called but We've got some flashing and Some bullets put into him first here so all right there we go good jumps he goes up you like to keep them on the ground oh and time is going to come up right now. Alright. Good job you guys. Good job man. Well thanks for coming along on this ride with us here of this game. Fantastic game again. Go check it out in the arcade Go play it You know we love to see other people doing co-op runs and that's fantastic Shoutout to the Brazilian speedrunning community That is a big fan of this game uh there's discord if you want to learn more about it so you can check that out and just thanks for having us back gdq all right take care guys all right see you that was absolutely amazing. I'm still rolling from all of those horse jokes! I have tons that I kind of want to catch up on here, but first we need to take a quick break. Don't go anywhere! Stretch your legs do a little neck roll. We'll be right back. music right back folks i hope you enjoyed that absolutely amazing exhibition hello welcome back to Summer Games on Brick 2024. I am so stoked for this run! This has been a decade in the making and i'm so excited My name is Shovelclaws, I'm'm gonna be kind of your showrunner for this uh, I am joined by two absolute goats of the game, uh, first Yeah, I'm SingleScoop I was like in the SDA forums with them to change their profile profile picture to different Neopets every day. Shout out for that person, I've been running this game for a long time, excited for it to finally be on a main stage GDQ event. That's about it, Haxxy? I'm Haxxy! After enough GDQs in the practice room you'll get used to hearing Let's Go Bingo just shouted from across the room and that's that time i got sucked in you might be sucked in as well yeah i love it i'm so here for this. Um, I am so excited for this run. We're gonna go ahead and try to get started just so we can out of the way. We're going to talk some about what actually is but um, I'm ready to get started. So we're gonna go ahead and start counting down in five, four, three, two, one... Go! Hell yeah! one go hell yeah all right so we're gonna talk some about what bingo is first you see at the top of your screen there is this list of 25 goals. These 25 goals are completely randomized a little bit and we have to get a majority of these goals in this game mode This game mode is lockout bingo, which means if you can tell from the name once a competitor marks their goal the other cannot get it so we have to kind of play around what our opponents are doing and the first person to 13 wins. Do you want to talk some about this game? Yeah, so for those unfamiliar with this game, you play as this cleaner household robot and he just picks up the trash and his job is to make the family happy but when doing so he finds you know like money and then some like dirty family secrets and you just kind of explore around and it's a very open game, you can go in kind of any direction. It's pretty similar to Pikmin 1 in like... has a day-night cycle and actually you'll have a battery too, those are your main two resources, you'll have a battery to those of your main two resources. You will be doing certain things in the day, and other things at night. Yeah there's a lot of really dynamic gameplay throughout this game It is really, really interesting as a bingo because it has some things that I don't think I've seen too much Granted, I only watch a few bingos but I'm a huge fan of bingos so I try to watch a lot. For those familiar with speedrun there should be a few of us here it's definitely more of like a routing person's game rather than like a grinding person's game yeah just because there are so many different avenues you can take, and that's what makes bingo even more interesting. Yeah, it's very fluid since all of the goals are randomized, you have to kind of adapt on the fly, especially in lockout where you can have your plan ruined because oops! Your opponent's going for it. It's really fun and dynamic I also realize now we never introduced our competitors On our right we have Jacksler, Jacksler is a go of speedrunning just in general he's so good at everything. Yeah right like I don't get... I don't understand how he is so good. But um... Both of them right off the bat just moving they're using they're going straight for this living room frog ring. This makes so much sense on the board. There's like a three-frog ring and six-frog ring bingo checkbox. Yeah, we'll talk about the goal some in just a moment. I'm just gonna like cheat right here so you can clip through any wall in the game There are very few things that you can't click sorry. And interestingly enough this game is designed without a jump button so you're just like you can go...you can run anywhere around and you can climb but your very limited in your y-axis mobility and that stays true to the speed run despite having a mechanic like going through any single wall yeah thinking of the second frog ring i was wondering how this how this route would start and they're just both doing the same thing. Yeah, this is actually great because it lets you ease into gameplay some. This isn't what this card was designed for honestly. You go to the foyer next week when it's with Chibi Room, I think. I imagine I know what he's about to do. Yeah, so something with this Chibi Room... There's Chibi Rooms all throughout the house and they have money in them they're very reliable source of money but they have a unique property of being inside the chibi room you on the main mechanic that I just explained with the day and night timer and the battery, you have those mechanics. Oh, we didn't do it. You didn't do it? Are you sure? Okay. Okay. I guess not. That's interesting. We'll talk about that when we come back Oh, that explains it So there is the all doors living room sticker If you do what he's doing now It wouldn't contribute towards that So he's going to go out of bounds in the chibi room, and each chibi room is located somewhere within each individual room, and when you're in there you can clip out of bounds and just reach a loading zone. This one's pretty close to the foyer that kobe is in now um yep okay look at this stuff look at this it's scary if you actually don't if you get lost there because it's like oh my god what are you going to do? so as you see he is actually cheating he is going to be reported to the IRS his battery is frozen his day and night timer is frozen so effectively his day and night timer is frozen. So... It's effectively a time stop, you don't have to worry about any resource management but you can progress story in few important ways the day-nightcle is really important to progressing character stories, which there's a lot of in Bingo and specific. You might be thinking like, oh wow, like Jax, that's like a huge advantage over what Kobe has And it's actually beneficial in a lot of instances to progress the day-night timer because certain things happen that day and certain things happen at night. Yeah, but no matter what, Jack Slurr is's gonna have to wait on that day-night cycle after he leaves this mode. This mode by the way is called Chibi Room Mode, named after the chibirrooms. Completely freezes everything, it's pretty powerful in Bingo specifically this never gets used in any person Right right because we just want time to go down Yeah time goes down Day advance I love how many stairs they're climbing. This is a riveting gameplay. This is like something we should count, I know people like counting. Oh my god, Jack's late! Always get them 10 coins first, oh my god. Let's go. Okay, Kobe going got the 10-point first. Oh my god. Let's go. Okay, Kobe going to the bedroom. Dex going to Jenny's room. Okay, splitting off a little bit. We should talk some about the rooms in the house. Yeah. So so first we have the living room that you kind of spawn in, you connect to everything basically. You have the kitchen and backyard which are both connected to the living room, pretty simple. And then you have the foyer which is a really large room with an upstairs part. That upstairs part is where a lot of the game takes place because of a few different things we have on the board. We have a few special squares on the board, and you'll probably see these two rooms quite a bit in this bingo card specifically, because this is the bedroom of the parents and Jenny's room on Jacksler screen. Kobe is in the parents bedroom. So, while they're kind of walking around doing what they are doing I do want to introduce Kobasko. Kobasko runs a ton of games herself. Sport Hero. Shout out to Sport Hero, actually no ummm...no. But Kobe is I think recently as of recent had a positive win rate on Jaxler. I don't know if that went back up but I was told that has changed. We can just say it anyways. Kobe has a 100% win rate. What? Kobe's insane. Opening the people, wait, is that a goal? That is not a goal. No, okay. Which I guess we can talk some about the goals um so jack sort of stopped with snorkel yeah but he has intentionally not checked it out now he marked it off oh i think uh it's checked off for tech whoever is listening the bingo card is not being updated on the live layout we'll get that fixed don't worry about it i just know uh that jacksler has checked off one goal, the snorkels. The snorkels in specific are just an item in Ginny's room. All you have to do is pick it up. Easy! Otherwise... Do we want to talk some about how this card is kind of designed? I think you might have some insight on this. Yeah so in Chibi-Robo! You have a lot of short term goals, midterm long terms. We try and get a good bounce of that if you look at center square we got a very special goal for you you'll probably see in like 45 minutes or so who knows can i say can we get a let's go marriage because it's getting out of here. Yeah, I'm glad that is a loss. Thank you. All right. So yeah we have divorce as the center square. Probably the standout goal here. Yes. And then what else do we have? Apart from that late game you have a few good ones actually You got Squirt Honey Necectar and Sunshine also requires divorce as does Obtained Radar We have a couple very long term ones. Free Funky Fields, the quest line that usually you have a bunch of goals in but this time we only have one so that's going to be a commitment that you have to weave through your other routing. Yeah I will also say that Kobe has marked three frog rings, which is an interesting indicator because both players know exactly where they are right now. A huge, HUGE thing in Lockout Bingo is the information game because if you can kind of undercut what your opponent is doing they waste all that time. They have been inefficient and get nothing out of it. So being able to hide what you're doing kind of obfuscate your position leads to a huge advantage. Not only does it kind of keep them guessing but you can like well like I said kind of destroy their plans and if you do that then they're especially in this game because many of the checkboxes take a good commitment to reach. that tied in with the day-night timer. If you interrupt someone's plans it's kind of like Puyo Puyo. Yeah, it is kinda like Puyo Puyo actually. I was gonna think about it more. I'm not even a Puyo Puyo, actually. I'm gonna think about it more. I might even do a Puyo Puyo player but shut up. So yeah, I think... Like when... When I think of Chibi-Robo, the word I think of is setup. Setup is everything in this game. When I think of chibi-robo, I think divorce. Divorce. So, setup is a huge thing in this game because things take a long time to progress. You have to sit through a day-night cycle, you have to sit through cutscenes... Thankfully, cutscenes aren't as bad in this bingo, because we're using something called text skip which allows you to actually skip through the text. This was a mod created by Koby, the unplugged feature created by Derpy? Is that correct, Taxi? Was it Derpy that made them not unplugged? I don't know. That's a good question to try and hide some. Oh no, I'm gonna to say Dirty. Yeah, um... Wait for a second. So we should probably talk about spiders real fast because there, Coby's gonna be kind of fast. Because there are a few important goals in relation to this. The two currencies in this game... Well I guess three happy points Moolah and Scrap. And scrap is obtained by killing those Spy Doors, and it's used to obtain Utilibots which add different areas you can go to in each room or shortcuts in this case uh eventually gonna be able to oh wow got a nice spawn they're semi-random their, they can either drop 10, 50 or 100 and we love getting bad RNG. Okay, no it's not bad. She's nodding. That's a good sign. Yeah No, it's not bad. She's nodding. That's a good sign. Um... The most important is a foyer warp so you know how earlier you saw them both climb these stairs? There's a way to be able to skip that if you get enough, but it looks like she's not going to take that now. And I guess on Jacks side, Jack is in the bedroom talking to a dead frog but he's not dead yet um in exploring the rest of the bedroom in the bedroom uh he can get what is it take his stuff looks like he's gonna yeah he's gonna do some climbing, I assume he's going pick another item, kind of similar to what we did with the snorkels To update those who don't have current status of the bingo it is one to one yeah it's still one-to-one we're getting the bingo card fix enough that's one two in jackson yes we are we are working on getting that finger shout out to the tech team also bingo is a really hard thing to get working so the fact there like this is even happening it's kind of wild to me because I've seen it firsthand that's for its stuff but um thank you Fizz. Thank you Fizz. I will real fast say, Jacksler just picked up a pretty important item on this card the Ticket Stub. The Ticket Stub is a two-parter because you can get the ticket stub in the parents bedroom and that's also a gift that you can give to Mort. So Jacksly comes up another point, it is now to one and so they're both kind of just hanging out in the bedroom I mean there's what all can you do? There's divorce. You're probably gonna progress the divorce while you're here, especially since Kobe is in night. Jackson is still on day 1 I think. He's got to open up for people so he can do this in the next night. Yes. But Kobe can do that now. Like I said, set up! Yeah it's a lot of setup. And then we will get probably also free Funky Phil at some point soon. Funky Phil is my favorite NPC in the entire game, I love him so i'm really excited that's on the card. More Jenny! Tell us your favorite Cheepy Robo characters. Oh yeah, if you've played this game, you have a favorite. And actually tell me why because like I don't know, If you like Pico or something Like tell me about it We don't like Pico By we I mean these guys. So I will say, I think as of now while Kobe is talking to the frogs some, Is there a reason that Kobe is talking to the frogs right now? There's a very wide hitbox. You have to talk to that frog at some point Because basically for the goals, you are going to have to do that for the Funky Phil quest line and also to go further into a bedroom to talk to mom, to work on divorce. Cool. That's usually how it works. Usually. Just mom to work on divorce cool that's usually how it works usually just a little mini update we are about sixteen dollars away from getting that glitch exhibition oh my god I think that you had a great idea. I think folks should start a $5 donut ring and let us know what their favorite Chibi Robbo character is i'd love it we'd love to hear some um post fan art there's a few i love looking at all the fan in the Discord server. Oh, and we just got that incentive! We have... It is set! The Glitch Exhibition TV Robo is happening! Thank you all so much! Heck yeah! Let's celebrate because we have some hype in the room! Let's go. That's so exciting. I haven't seen a lot of those glitches because I just watched Bingo, so I know what's relevant to this. So, I'm actually really looking forward to that. That said, Jaxxler has picked up a new little outfit for Chibi-Robo kind of looks weird. picked up a new little outfit for Chibi-Robo. It kind of looks weird. He's in the ghost suit now, which allows you to kill spiders really fast. Kobe as well. Kobe is getting the ghost suit too. They're both dead now. Can I get a rest in peace? Where was this Hilton hotel built on? And then Jaxler also signed Sarge's shoes, he's this little egg guy that gives you a lot of Mulan. That wasn't known for the longest time. You just shine his shoes with a toothbrush and he gives you $1,000. So I believe Kobe and Jaxler are now on the same night but Jaxler is about half a cycle or so behind additionally I do want to point out that Kobe has warped To the chibi house Through Um The Trauma suit Which allows you to Um Basically How'd you put it? How'd you put it? I don't know um you were like i think the mass traveler award kind of yeah each um outfit in the game has its own unique yeah they have a pose yeah yeah There's a pose and an action for each outfit, and they all have unique properties. In this case the trauma suit will bring you back to the chibi house in the living room which is good for cutting down on movement. They recently started using the spooky ghost to take out the spiders because it's an easy way to do that. Yeah. Scrap branding is going to be pretty important, specifically from the all-doors living room objective angle. The all-doors living room requires a few Utilibots which are basically just like extra movement yeah, you saw them use the ladder at the very start for a little bit. Saving the ants! Save the animals! Kobe! Kobe is a pacifist. Oh my god, look at him go! I love that ant. And that's going to be another gold marked from the... On the bingo! Yeah, on the card. Save the Ant in the bottom left corner. Yes it is now two two two um but uh do we have some room for some donations. Yeah, I think so. We have a $10 donation from Groggy Froggy. Oh, that coveted divorce square. Good luck to all the runners. have a great GDQ everyone! We have one from Killing Pepsi $25 donating in support of the goaded jacksler manifesting another common w let's go big guy. I think we can give one more. Kobe is currently just opening some chibi doors in the backyard, and it looks like Jaxxler's just hanging out in the foyer getting some scrap. Awesome! I actually want to point out the bonus twist level quick-to-enhanced incentive is open. We are at $4,500 out of that 15,000. If we hit that, we'll add an additional secret level to the Quake 2 enhanced run. So when you're donating, make sure you're scrolling down and clicking that. Awesome. So Jackster looks to be going back upstairs it's interesting to me he didn't buy the foyer warp. Do you want to talk maybe about how important that is real fast? Yeah, like you see him climbing all these stairs again he wouldn't have to do that. We're getting our steps in I got my pokey walk on deck, same with Koby actually. Yeah. Koby...I don't think they're gonna have enough time to get this last door. You see in the top left that timer like on the last tick? So you can say nooooooo! the top left that timer like on the last tick she has said no. It's like... Okay. It's fine. She got most of them though. I think she'd like to go back up there one more time for the all-doors backyard. Yeah, allor's backyard is like kind of a mid to late game goal but it's nice to get it out of the way if you're already going to be there um what what do you think they should be doing right now given that Kobe is at 3 with Backyard Frog Ring, three frog rings and save the ant. And then Jaxxler's at 2 with Snorkels and ticket stuff at this point in terms of frog rings if kobe wants to commit living room doors you could definitely go for that one there is also drain vlogging on this card which at some point if you want to trigger the force in the kitchen versus the bedroom she could just run down there grab the frog ring go up talk to mom and then get a good cutscene going And there it is! We're getting things... Tech has been on it. Let's go. Oh, okay. So yeah, Jacksler has the Um, so... Uh, yeah. Jacksler has the snorkel and tickest up And then Kobe's gonna mark Let's go! Awesome. We're so back Never worried about it Never at all We're so bad. We're so bad. Never worry about it, never at all. No, never. Everything's good. All right. So now you can actually see the proper board state. It's 3-2 but the players have been setting up a lot for specifically divorce. If that doesn't get on like a GDQ out of context Twitter, I'm gonna be really upset. But divorce is going to be a pretty central goal and whoever gets that ball earns my respect. What a player! So there's, like we said the three goals that we need a divorce for, obtain radar squirt honey on sunshine and divorce of course. So that will allow some quick goals and during divorce you get to set up a lot, right? Like with other goals I would say. Yeah one important thing about divorce is that mom is in the bedroom during daytime rather than nighttime. So free Funky Phil, that whole frog quest typically you do it at night time because or typically during daytime because she's not there so that flips. That's a minor thing to consider here. Yeah. Um... Do we wanna talk some about the characters in this game real fast? Cause a lot of them show up on this board and I think it's really cool that we have so much representation on this board from the characters themselves. This game is like, really interesting. I think it's like it uses the video game medium to its best of its abilities in terms of, like a storytelling aspect because it's like you're like basically a fly on the wall in this family's house. It's really cool. All these characters have a different incentive and like I can't think of the word sorry but you just follow their stories and kind of like check in with them and contribute to them somewhat. Yeah. And there's a bunch of different characters, so there is the dad who you might know someone like this who he's not showing up to his job. He stopped showing up to his job and all he does is sit in the house and watch TV and play with toys And the mom is fed up that he's just not contributing to the household and because like you're supposed to be the the breadwinner the bread winner and she's just seeing all these like toys all these toil all these toys in the taxes piling up and uh so like they're kind of in financial ruin and he also bought chibi robo which was another really bad financial choice yeah you're like the most expensive thing starts on some on here like he buys it for Jenny's birthday you know it's like oh she really wanted one And that's why they get a divorce eventually is because the mom finds out that he has bought another toy yeah, and We find the receipt. There was actually what Kobe is doing on the screen right now And, we found the receipts We show mom and she goes on strike. She gives us some happy points, like oh thanks. Ten happy points. I never thought of that. Yeah, actually women actually when the... So this is daytime right now And if this was at night time Like a different cutscene plays She's like stop, stop, stop Up the stairs A different cutscene plays and it manually ends the night. At the day... During the day, it doesn't manually end but when that happens, it like zooms into Telly and he's like i guess we made that family a little bit happier today oh my god this is lore i didn't know okay uh anyways lore I didn't know. Okay. Anyways, I don't have to follow that up. We do have a couple of donations that might be able to follow that up. I think Kobe is doing a kind of important thing here. But after that, I think we should be okay. This drain movement is really cool. It kinda turns the game into a 2D platformer but it's like a Sonic 2D and 3D glitch where you can still clip through the front wall. So Kobe is going to clip through that wall in the front and then glide on over to out-of-bounds get this money and then do it again to get another goal the drain frog ring. That drain frog ring is a goal in of itself so that's going to be another point for kobe also progresses towards the three frog rings and that movement is so cool it was some of my favorite in the entire game uh now i think kobe is just leaving and Jaxler's in the chibi house so we can definitely get maybe a quick 30-45 seconds of Darnosh? Yes. Awesome! We have a donation from Watson and it's $100 a donation from Watson. Watson! And $100 to MSF I'm so happy to see Chibi Robo finally get on the GDQ stage. Chibi Robo is the game that got me to want to make games and has had such a positive impact on me. Shout out to Single Scoop and the whole Chibi-Roboo community and remember to spread the happiness. Oh my god, Watson. Thank you. Love ya. I think Kobe is going to get the spoon here after recharging, but I think we can maybe get one more. We don't know. know awesome we have a donation from casper for five dollars choo-choo five dollar train in the name of the tech team. Alright, thank you so much for your generosity. Agreed, thank you tech team. This is my first time on the couch up here and I was feeling very nervous so I can't imagine during a bit of a run it's like... The alarm goes off. Somethings wrong. Somethings broken but yeah they got it fixed real fast all right um so kobe has picked up the spoon what is the spoon good for on this board why would you do that on this board there are three spoon objectives. You got one which she might go for, I don't know if she has a flower seed, that would just be plant the flower seed. You also obtain a pirate ship, go in the backyard as usually have just a pirate ship buried there buried treasure makes everyone has one yeah and there's also mr prompt which i don't want to talk about because i just want you to see that mr promise is something we'll only talk about when he comes up. But, yeah. She's planting a flower seed. She is. Planting ahead a little bit. Very good. Planting head? Planting ahead. Oh my god, I'm the world's unfunniest person. Why couldn't I think of that? Another goal for Kobe and it is 5-2 but I mean Jaxler has been setting up a little bit for some of the later goals. He's been getting a lot of scrap, but like we said it's required for a few things on here. Additionally I mean he's been getting a lot of money as well so I think he might be taking the angle of something like all chips... Looking for a suitor....where he's going to kind of pivot into a money perspective. Yeah yeah i could see that especially yeah he's gonna be focusing on generally i knew he was doing all doors living and here'd he set up for that and with that money, you can do all chips. And was it anything else? Uh, I'm not sure. Oh, hi Pico! Oh no. Joke's care. Um, Oh, no. I'm a joke-scarer. I will also say Kobe's been picking up a lot of trash. Trash is two goals on this board. Five empty cans and seven cookie boxes. I don't know where those generally 5 empty cans and 7 cookie boxes. I don't know where those generally are in the game, I know there's a few in kitchen... Where else are those? You have couple under Jenny's bed, you have a couple in the kitchen and then you also have one in the basement. One in the basement so we're going to have to see the basement somewhere. Yeah. Awesome. That's the only reason I guess unless for other reasons that shouldn't happen. That Kobe will be going... Or anyone will be going into the basement. We already saw Pete go. It's fine. Yeah, hope it's the last time you ever see Pete go. Well, I mean, there is a goal on here that i'm like thinking about and like if you get i guess unlucky in this case you could theoretically get it pretty easily 700 happy points. Pico in this game is kind of the bane of speedrunners existence because it's like a 50-50 gamble, how far into any percent do you do pico again? Oh my god, how long was I... At one point it was an hour 40. so i don't know yeah no really late into the 80 run to either keep the run or kill it instantly. But Pico is a gamble you give them money and then you either get back money, double I think or you get happy points equal to what you put in. I think divided by 10 or something. So... We're both doing the same cutscene. Although we saw how Jax had to walk up the stairs and Kobe literally just took the warp. Wait, this is going to be so cool? This is going to be a divorce night. It literally is... Things I'd only say during the chibi robo lockout bingo this game's awesome yeah um I think we got like a minute and a half to cut scenes yeah these cut scenes are pretty long I don't know how they just always do this at the same exact time there's so many other things but it just all converges right here like at this one point even though everything is different so yeah uh if we have some more interventions feel to yeah absolutely i have a 50 donation to msf from fortune chibi robo is one of my favorite games glad to see the chibo love lesson three we have a 15 donation y'all are going to be excited for this from vain Let's go bingo! Let's go bingo! Seeing Jackson Covey get this in after a decade is super inspiring and I'm so stoked for this. Once again, let's go bingo! Let's go bingo. Alright. So Kobe's about to go give the father of the family a love note or i guess an unloved no question mark yeah got the heart uh the broken heart on it how'd it go what she say bad news so he's about to get the news that mom is going to go on strike and wants a divorce. She's so mean in this cutscene for no reason. I think I'll read this love letter out loud. Dear dysfunctional family, Tao tracks mud all over the house. Jenny thinks she's a frog and the man of the house isn't man enough to find another job. Well, I've had enough. Yeah, I'm sorry but you've pushed me to the edge. The only option I got left is divorce. Nooooooo! no and that is going to be kobe winning this bingo game i'm kidding Let's go. Kobe has marked off divorce, unfortunately the Jacks is like 10 seconds behind. Really? That's so close! It's so sad but... The thing with this game is that it has a few acts to it There are so many moving parts in this game and one of the few, when you're playing this game casually you don't really know what counts as beating the game or progressing through the game because it's so abstract and uh, the divorce sequence like opens up more possibilities and ooh, Jack's going to the basement That's such a cool clip You just fall right for the basement. That's such a cool clip! You just fall right into the basement loading zone and now you're down here. Easy. And then now he has to do this clip which is like... Don't fall. He has to hit This is such a weird camera angle. Get it put through and land on the swing... He's got it! Nice, let's go! Yeah I mean, Kobe is now in post-divorce. I guess both of them are in post divorce. What do you think their game plan... A lot of quotes on this, Rob. What do you think some of their game plan might be i mean i see kobe going to pick up the squirter which is going to help with um for the honey nectar on sunshine goal what else do you think? I think Kobe's definitely rushing that because I mean, you have to at this point. Divorce is done. Sunshine's right there. And don't she have Honey? She just picked up the square. Yeah, she needs honey. Jackson meanwhile in basement going for the empty cans? In this card only reason you ever go to basement is just for empty cans. So we know he's doing that. Yeah, so I mean this is kind of an interesting predicament I would say the momentum is pretty in favor of Kobe, but if Jacksler can get a few snipes real fast and have this setup that he's been doing over the course of the run really pay off. I think very easily, it's pretty easy to get back into a game of bingo because all you need is one mistake and then your plan is kind of in turmoil. So, we'll see how Jacksler pulls it off. I'm pretty confident I think he can but he of needs to to play pretty predictively i'd say based on what kobe's doing um so we'll see how that plays out going for five mp can seems very safe i would say. Yeah it's something like he should do I guess like its something to do and the Xerdi contributed to it. Something of note is that like Coby's kicking on all the cutscenes here and that pauses the indian timer meanwhile jacks i assume his night's gonna end sooner than kobe's in the follow-up one like once he divorces the obtainment radar is one thing he can do. He'll be ahead to that? I think yeah, he should be able to get that which... Well we will see how much moolah he has. Here's my favorite character oh yeah shout out to morty he's really scary ah yeah thank you um, yeah I love Mort he is great. I think... Depending on what Jaxxer does we might have another moment for some donation. Yeah, I think we can get one. Yeah, we can do one. Awesome. Speaking of divorce... Mattressina donates $10 saying here at Chibi Robo we support divorce um So Jaxler's time is going to run out, which means he has... Does he have the money for Radar? I don't think that's enough. No, radar is 1730 It's 1730 so it's so much a lot more money than he'll need to do but ultimately the kind of interesting thing about this card is that we have three all doors goals. All doors give you a ton of money just by doing them so if you're able to route them in while you're in areas, you can really easily rack up money uh, in order to buy things like the radar something I forgot to mention earlier Kobe got the 15 timer. Instead of the 5 minute time you can get a 5, 10 or 15 minute timer. So Kobe's not looking to do same time stuff very soon. Although in this Jani's room specifically you can manually change it from day to night if they so choose. So they could use that while they're here. Yeah. So I mean Kobe is really cool. Yeah, so... I mean, Kobe is really close on six frog rings, I think. I think that is six, actually. Good news! It is six. Ultimately, she's set up for what is it? Probably Um... She still has Spoon I don't know if Jackdaw has it yet so if she ever wants to go backyard and try to commit the finishing of Aldor's Backyard... There is a good amount of things you can do in the backyards. I assume she's going to be there. Jacksler also just got the 15 minute timer on night, so he's gonna be stuck in the nighttime. Yeah, so Jacksler is like half cycle ahead I believe at this point because of the cutscenes and the less timer. Yeah, that's about it sorry. The timer is just like simple day-night longer shorter easy. So if you buy that your kind of committing to staying in this night for a while and depending on what night it is, what you've set up, you can get a lot done. He's also been getting pretty good scrap luck so it looks like he's kinda playing the long game as opposed to um taking some of these shorter goals like i don't think i've seen him pick up like maybe one frog ring yeah i mean there's no there's nothing to do with frog games anymore at this point. Unless other have unhappy points. But yeah it looks like he was still trying to get scrap for the living room you told about. And now, is there a kitchen? There is! There's all doors Jenny's room, living room and backyard. Oh, in Spook Sophie? So at night time... Spook Sophie has already been gotten by Mike Obey. She also just got a pain-rater 30 seconds ago. She is outrunning us. What the hell? So, Kobe is going to turn in a bunch of frog rings to Jenny. Jenny really likes frogs if you can tell she thinks she's one of them. She speaks Ribbadees? Yeah. She was cursed. She was cursed by a frog wizard. Oh yeah, that's what that is. So she's going to turn those in and that's going to get her a lot That's what that is. Yeah. Oh! Um, so she's gonna turn those in and that's gonna get her a lot of happy points. 300 total happy points. Yeah. Which puts her pretty well on track for 700 Happy Points. Since we have a moment here as well, um, Happy Points are a really big thing in GP Robo and I mean, we're all happy it says GDQ right? Of course! So, after the run what we're wanting to do is total up the amount of happy points our runners have and let's get a donation train at the end of the run showing some love for ChibiRobo and our two players equal to the amount of happy points divided by 10. I think that would be great. Divided by 100, my fault. would be great. Divide it by 100. My fault. 100's not any more for me. Probably. So, um... Oh, I'd love to see that. Um... Otherwise, Jaster getting spooned, Toby just going around the living room some. I think we maybe have a good 45 donate uh 45 or 45 donations 45 minutes are seconds for donations of course i have a hundred dollar donation from dakar thank you so much for putting that towards the incentive we need more jacks or kovasco showing off tv robo. We have a $20 donation from XCOG. Let's go bingo! Let's go bingo, everybody. I am so excited for this run and I am so excited for this run and I'm so proud to call Jaxxler a friend. Let's get some more chibi-robo with that glitch exhibition. JackSlayer just marked off five empty cans, so Kobe has been picking some of those up So ultimately that's a bit of a time waster for her Jax are picking and then go up. Oh my god. What is this scrapbook? That was like 310 what the hell I hate like so at the event event and seeing people's non-verbal cues about what RNG they get. I remember Jackson going at me, you get such good look on PV stuff And he just has this most modest nod about getting the most insane look ever. He's like, I kind of deserve that. Yeah no go um... Now he's going for the spoon now he's going for Mr. Prongs. Yes! Okay this is... We'll see when he shows up. Mr. Prongs is a special NPC in this game and I'm really excited for you all to meet him. We'll see if we can find where he is. What is it? He spawns in three set locations throughout the living room. It's randomized between those three, I think, right? Yeah, it is. Randomized between those three I think right? It is yeah. Randomized between the 3 and changes with each cycle. Okay interesting. So we'll see when Jaxxer picks him up, but I'm really excited. I believe Kobasko has also Did Koby obtain the pirate ship? I don't think you can if that is there, right? A very interesting nonverbal conversation just happened between... They both paused and looked down and gave a confused, huh? And Jax did it first. I know Kobe was looking at the bingo board like, what's Jax doing right now? It's like a, huh? Like we said, information game. Kobe's totally confused about what JackSler is doing because he hasn't marked something in quite a while. Mainly because he has been setting up a lot for what he's been lot yeah they've both done good chibi robos cleaning the house wow mom needs to like marry gb robert what the hell um i don't know Telly. Don't tell Telly! So, Kobe is going to get the frog suit here and JackSlayer's gonna mark off seven cookie boxes I didn't even realize you had all of them. Yeah. Apparently, this is Jacksler's comeback. This is where it starts. We'll say it's nine to four in Kobe's favor, but she's going to spend a bit of time on her next few goals. She also just got the best suit in the game. Look at that, the three sixes. Oh my god! Ribbit ribbit you know? So Jaxler has been playing for setup pretty heavily and we'll see how Kobe uses this frog suit. I don't know what you need this for on this card, do either of you know? Frog suit is for a free funky fill. Oh okay. You gotta go back up to the bedroom. Right! Yeah, you got all that. I remember the cutscene. The whole chain. So what is it that Dinah does to you again? She thinks you're a frog because you're wearing a frog suit and non-frogs typically don't do that. Except for Jenny, so she bites you, you gotta return her teeth, it's the whole ordeal. Only after that point, for some reason, you get to talk to Funky Phil. He's caught up in some stuff. You'll be free. That's why I called him Funky Phil. He's caught up in some stuff. You'll be free. That's why I called Free Funky Phil. We'll free him. That magically makes his thing interactable. Additionally, Jaxxler is going to be digging up the pirate ship which is really important because I think Kobe went there and tried but couldn't. really is maybe i don't know how did you see i think it was i don't think he can dig in when dad his dad is out there oh Oh. Oh, Brent. Um this is Mr. Prawns everyone. Everyone say hi Mr. Prawns. He gets bigger when you hit him with a spoon and that gives you happy points. I learned this last time. And a sticker. And a sticker. You just want sound, you want spoon, give them to me. I wish Kobe would rotate the camera because he yeah chibi robo everyone where you get divorced and meet mr prongs goodbye mr promise um to meet Mr. Pongs. Goodbye, Mr. Pongs. So Kalee will get the Mr. Pong sticker and that puts her three away from winning this game. So she's at ten and Jsler is at five because of uh okay it looks like she isn't oh my god i can't believe i forgot that it had smack. And there's a breathing. Don't worry about that. It's always funny watching Viggo, because he's like... Yeah. For what it's worth, Jathler and Kobe can't hear us at all And don't know what each other are doing. So when you see something like that you know something has gone wrong. So verbal tells her everything I think. Which makes in-game... Like, in person bingo so much more fun. I agree. But... What do you think they would work on next? I imagine Kobe's going to go... Looks like she's thinking about it, but might go to Free Funky Field. That's what I was assuming. She's thinking now. She hasn't paused, she has it paused I think. Going to leave the foyer. Okay never mind. That's actually what I was thinking earlier because like she doesn't know that she has a good advantage in the backyard but like he had a lot of opportunities in the backyard and um speaking of backyard jacksler is coming from the backyard with the frog suit now he's he might be doing though he might be doing free funky fill hmm that's interesting oh living room 50 coin oh yeah living room plant 50 coins so he's going to move around this utility you can move him around by pushing and pulling them, um...and you're going to get a special coin that- how'd you guys put it? I forgot It was like, it felt like they'd forgotten that they added it So the area looks so cool Like, it's like oh I wanna get up there and then you get up there and it's just a 50-kilometer They just forgot that there was stuff over there, I guess? Because it's this whole platforming section look at that! And then it's just like okay, let me just put a ladder and go there and leave oh throwing away throwing away trash look the good cheaper but she is oh yeah this is happy points look at all those boxes i mean i guess you might as well get something out of picking up all the trash he did. I didn't know this was in my game, in my casual playthrough until I looked up a guide I won't lie. Good to know where that is. I guess I could have figured that one out. good to know where that is this one i'll look back here i guess i could have figured that one out probably but i also didn't know that so yeah 30 coins actually looks like he's going to the foyer with the Frog suit. Probably going to try to attempt to get that Funky Phil quest line going, while Kobe's playing a little bit for the short term getting the Living room 50 plant. Yeah, this literally is Jax's comeback I think. It was a hopeful it was like a maybe? No, I think it is. I feel like Kobe has been spending a lot of time on things that Jaxxer is not only on the way to do, but ultimately don't play into the long term as much. Which, getting into the late game now a little bit kind of concerning. Not necessarily putting... Kind of finagle around. It's weird. Do we think we have maybe another minute 30 for Donos? Because Jax is about to enter theing kobe's just going to walk right after the 50 point coin i agree oh absolutely we do we have bobby berm $11.11 You've pushed me to the edge The only option I have is to donate! Dang it to donate! Dang it. Shout out to my goat, Jaxler, running this amazing game and the Legends Shovel on the couch. Let's go bingo! Let's go bingo! We have another, we have a $5 donation from KingJO444. Hey, Jacksler and Kobasko the Back Couch aka The Bingo Enjoyers! Say hi! And good luck. Oh and also let's start a Let's Go Bingo $5 donation trade. Heck yeah. Love it. Probably one or two more. Perfect! We have a $25 donation to MSF from Lunatic J. Let's go divorce! Let's go, Dean! Let's go, Dean! Let's go, Dean! Let's go, Dean! Something Coby is doing right now is literally the most cursed movement in the game. I like it for that reason. She also doesn't have enough, uh-uh too much time so she needs to get this quickly. Oh my god! Yeah, she's really on her timer. I guess that's why she's doing it. Like, I guess I'll do this in the last attempts I have. Yeah, so you want to explain what this is? How this works? So, like, you have to walk against a wall to jump up it. Oh! That's so close! You have to wait until the bar finishes and this ladder is just out of practice. I literally didn't see her get that on practice for like half an hour. It was a little bit. And then we went to bed, so I'm surprised she pulled it off. Yeah, she's the GOAT! That's a pretty good advantage in the Altora's living room. Yeah, because that's one of the longer rooms. Jax was already setting up for it. So if she can snap him on that, then it's good for her. The drawer glitch! I love that. So normally you can draw out a set amount and the most proud I am of like naming a trick is calling that Infinite Drawer Glitch as parody of Infinite Sword Glitch from Ocarina Of Time. Normally you can only just pull that drawer out set it at a distance and now you can just like pull the drawers anywhere you want in any direction horizontally anyways and normally you're just very limited in that sort of like mobility but getting with that in that sort of mobility. Getting infinite vertical is pretty useful, even if it's just a little bit. Yeah you get like a tiny bit of vertical access and now she'll just going for the other living room doors in the last ever timer right now i do want to say everyone say hello to Funky Phil. He is great. He's waving back. We're going to free him, and Jacksler is going to get that point. Kobe's going to run out of time, go to night and um gonna impress some on the living room doors. Um all doors living room is a pretty lengthy one so getting some of it out of the way while you don't have enough time to really do anything else because of the 50 plank coin. Good idea. Really smart decision from her instead of going somewhere, getting your time cut off. Oops! My bad. God I love Funky Phil he's so cool. And Jackson is going to clip into this wall. What does this do again? Clip under the wall and there's an invisible chibi door over here. Right, I don't think there's money, there's no outdoors bedrooms there. He could go for the bedroom shortcut from here, I believe, right? Or would you have me get that? I guess he just wants this money. That's fair. Um... I will say Kobe is buying some chips. All chips is a goal on this board as well. There are a lot of items in this chibi house shop that cost varying levels of money and all chips. Do either of you know how much total money you need for all the chips? I need 1110 for Cheeky Blaster, 1120 for Rain Ship, 860 for charge ship. I believe $940 for battery. So overall however much all that adds up to at this point they both have charge ship or at least Jaxxer does so it's just going to be a rush to get that. I would never do math today, don't ask me to. No, I'd never do math. Never for anybody. Speaking of money we have lots of love from the community Is it okay if I read some donations? Yeah, you can get probably a few. Okay! We have a $50 donation from Danion who had to donate for the best robo bean on GDQ. We have another $20 donation from Nostani. Oh yeah, Nostani! So happy to see you all running Chibi-Robo on stage. Know how much it means, much love. We have a $25 donation from Jake Chibirobo helps big. Just like these donations, keep them coming and way to go Jackson Caboz! Jacks and Cabas. We can probably get a few more, I think they're just going to be in Cheeky House for a minute. Yeah, Jack's shopping. Okay, perfect, we have this really cute donation from Flying Giraffe for $25. So excited for the Chibi Robo Run! My sibling and I loved this game as children and are hyped to see it being run at gdq good luck to the runners and we already got it but let's get that glitch expert exhibition thank you all so much for reaching out again. Yes, thank you so much for that! I'm so excited for what that's going to look like. Go ahead. I was just gonna ask real fast, What do we think they're they're gonna get up to um they're both on the same night but jackson's like halfway further through it is that gonna serve an advantage at all maybe oh. You see him raising the ladder here just because more doors are in here and he just got the utility that he needed to get all the living room doors you need like one and to get all the living room doors. You need, like, one. And so maybe he'll just be spending the rest of his night here. Not a terrible idea. What about Kobe? What do you think? On Kobe's end, she to more yesterday or last cycle so she's going to give him a gift right now she got the tickets if she had tickets yeah she's gonna give them a gift get that mark down and she might start shipping away at all doors Jenny's room. I know she got one door earlier. Yeah, she's been getting a few, I think. Oh! Actually, I think what she might be doing, I just saw it, is honey nectar on some Actually, I think what she might be doing is Honey Nectar on Sunshine because they should be awake. And last cycle got honey in her squirter so that's going to allow her. Ginny, are you okay? She's watching TV. She's watching those Adult Swim commercials. Oh, okay. She should be in bed but fair enough. Sunshine is really mad because he really likes nectar and so Kobe is going to... Boom. Asking us if it's okay to mark the goal there. And boom! That's that goal done. Is it a terrible idea? Because that puts Kobe on game point. Is it a terrible idea to just gun for like Althor's change room or something like that? I think it might be faster to go for 700 happy points at this point. Talk the Mort, give him the ticket stub If you got Ticket Stub that would just be the final goal But right now it looks like she's chipping away at Happy Points Yeah, right now she is doing this Very difficult block puzzle It actually looks kind of it has it is kind of hard because the blocks don't like what's like the physics of the game and like how uh strict the requirement of like the location as it was kind of... She messed it up. Two of them literally look the same, I like wouldn't be surprised if it looks different on different monitors Notably notably Jaxler's on his way to Jenny's room too so she might be able to for example get Mort a gift out or Jaxler might be able to snipe get Mort a gift or Jaxler might be able to snipe Mort's gift right from under her. Oh my. That'd be tragic. That would be kind of cool. I won't lie, that'd be a really cool sign. We'll see. He's going straight there. We have a quick $5 donation from anonymous, let's go bingo! Kobe is leaving the foyer. Or, leaving to foyer. So Trappist-Roo is going to get more of a gift I'm honestly really happy that one got marked off I don't want to see my boy be sad. Love you more! I love his theme too. The music in this game is insane. It's really good, yeah. The sound design especially too. And it looks like Kobe's off to bedroom. Is there a good source of happy points in bedroom right now, or is it for bedroom shortcut? I assume bedroom shortcut. You just have to climb up and shoot, and that's it. Yeah, that's the last bedroom check we have i think so ultimately we might be coming up on the game for kobe uh a lot of these like really fast goals were kind of difficult for Jaxer to ever do because Kobe is just executionally so good. Oh my gosh, and so she really done for a lot of time oh we haven't explained foot drops do you want to yeah so normally when you fall you get put in a falling state and it hurts when you land. That's part of the limitation of being a TV robot is that you have to be really careful about your movement but if you're doing basically any animation at all, it can take priority over the falling state animation. And conveniently, the best way to do that is actually just picking up your plug right before you fell off and it's fun yeah it it's a funky little oh mission cancer she didn't have oh she didn't have the pick-a-stuff. It was Jack's that had the pick-a-stuff up there. Okay. But she is doing this and then getting the bedroom shortcut. The bedroom shortcut which should secure the win. Yeah. She's like fist pumping so that she knows but what if Jax just does it right now in her mind? In five seconds Kobe's Wii could explode right here and now, so... Yeah. We've been saying this. It's gonna happen sometime. I mean, I don't know. Our Wiis don't- I don't think Wiis are prone to exploding, they're just prone to not reading discs properly. Yeah, Red Ring of Death. Jaster is going to go to Ginny's doors, uh, Ginny's room doors I think which makes a lot of sense and Kobe's coming up on the 13th goal so get ready on time um, whenever she marks this. All you have to do is snipe this little sticker, but honestly a very good showing of this game and the time! yeah They're saying something. Actually, can we get a standing ovation for this this has been 10 years in the making we deserve this thank you thank you all so much for watching this. Let's go, bingo! Let's go, bingo! Let's go, bingo! Let's go bingo! So, real fast we have that incentive to get to... I'm gonna do me and Haxxy. Yeah it got met! It got met! We're going to do our quick shoutouts because we are not going to be on commentary for the incentive, but then we're going to cut it into a break screen to get it set up. Real fast I want to give a huge thank you all to letting me be on this run. I don't really play Chibi-Robo, I played it casually when this got in at least a little bit and that's been my only experience. This is literally just me liking Bingo a ton! I love this format and I want to give you an option to go play bingos! This format is just such an amazing way get together with some of your friends, and just play a video game. And it's such a fun time, there are so many great bingo tournaments and stuff like that I mean, like, so many games have such amazing bingos and they really are some of the best ways to play speedruns. I'm a huge, huge fan and I am so happy that we won, got a bingo in this marathon And that I'm on the couch for it and I could hype it up as much as I did. So thank you so much for letting me be on here. Axie what do you have? I committed to commentary like 16 hours ago I didn't have anything ready. I'm just going to say, let's go bingo! Well thank you so much for joining us. Your knowledge is uncomparable when it comes to bingo. So we're going to go ahead and get set up for that incentive right? I'm so excited! I'm ready to watch this from the couch hopefully We'll see you in after the break thank you all so much again oh my goodness that was so fun to watch. Don't go anywhere folks we have a really awesome glitch exhibition for you but I wanted to mention really quick we do have a character choice Blazing Chrome Bidwar here. We have Mavra and Doyle. Doyle's in second. I think that it would be really awesome to see Doyle for this war, in this big war. Can we get some donations? Make sure you select each character which one you want when you are donating. Speaking of donations we have a really awesome donation punctuating an amazing bingo. Excuse my pronunciation, Cooper Mordeaux donated $1,000 with dollars. Ooh! With our favorite phrase, let's go divorce! We have a $25 donation from anonymous hopping on that hype. Love to see Chibi, Robo and Katamari in the same block. Two games where you were just a little guy, a little friend. Sega Star donated $10. Great job, Kobe and Jaxler! I'm happy to call both of you friends. Wish I was was there let's go bingo I am a woman of my word. didn't get to read. We have $25 from Tuna the Titan. Y'all want bingo rhymes? Well, I don't have the best lingo but i think if i look out my window i can find one in Santo Domingo? We have a little bit of hype here from Sherbet the Tiger donating $10. Had to donate during Chibi Robo. It's been my favorite game since it came out. I'm so excited for this interesting category. Here's $10 for Doctors Without Borders and for the Glitch Exhibition Incentive. Thank you so much for making this exhibition that we're preparing for possible! Thank you. This one made me giggle. All right, miss donated $25 to MSF voluntarily putting myself into the retirement home so I can enjoy bingo for the rest of my days let's go bingo Send Dark Fates Donated $15 Woo that's you! Let's go bingo! Okay, Case gave a generous $55 to MSF. I have a handful of extra tickets for this chibi robo glitz exhibition train excited to see a speed run of my favorite games on my birthday Let's go! Happy Birthday, Case. I hope you really enjoyed that bingo moment and you helped make this exhibition coming up possible Quick little reminder that we have a bonus twist level incentive for Quake to enhance. We are at $6,000 out of that $15,000 already met. Folks make sure you're scrolling down and clicking that incentive if you want to see an extra secret level to the Quake 2 enhanced run. so Folks, I just want to remind us part of why we're all here raising money for Doctors Without Borders. Doctors Without Borders is an independent international organization that provides emergency medical care to the people who need it most. MSF cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, disasters and social exclusion in more than 70 countries. MSF offers medical humanitarian assistance solely based on need regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or politics. MSF teams include medical logistical and administrative staff. Most of them hired locally their actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence impartiality and neutrality. To learn more please visit doctorswithoutborders.org I don't know about you but Chibi-Robo is all about making people happy And it sounds like its the perfect game for MSF. And it looks like we're ready for the glitch exhibition! Take it away folks. Alright, SGDQ what is up? Thank you all so much for meeting this This was a very kind of last minute thing that we threw together so We're very quick and also how quickly all met that, that was just mind blowing to me Thank you all so much! Let's go bingo! Let's go bingo! Alright, so to give you an idea of what we're going to be showing you, we are just going to be showing you a whole bunch of nonsense. So as you probably heard throughout the course of commentary 2 to 3 major tricks but there's a whole bunch of nonsense that happens as a result of those tricks. So we're going to kind of take you on a tour of what some of the things are here. And so I'm gonna start out with this HotRite right here. So this is just, We're gonna do some nonsense with drawer glitch. So I don't know if it got covered. Did you cover? Awesome, sweet. We don't really see this all that often because when we actually use Drawer Glitch Intimator... By the way, this Hot Rod is a drawer because when we actually use drawer glitch in Spiridon... By the way, this hot rod is a drawer. Little known fact. There you go! That angle's a little funky. Whenever you're doing drawer glitch and you take the drawer off of its rails, it gets very, very funky. Flashing lights warning. Yeah, flashing lights warning. So first of all... Now I've stopped doing the drawer glitch. If I go ahead and push it from this side It's going to phase in and out of reality Push it from this side. It's going to phase in and out of reality very, very quickly. It keeps wanting to teleport back to its original position. Yeah but then you keep overriding it because you're hooked onto it. And that's what happens when you push it, but when you pull it... It goes all the way back. Goodbye forever! It's gone now. The funny thing is that it still a physical hitbox, you can make it a mobile platform so it's kind of funny. I'm going to do a quick soft reset because I'm going to do one more. I forgot that if I put the hot rod out over thin air, it's not going to allow me to do this next bit. This is a very, very silly one. But we're going to be doing a Jorglich kind of in the opposite direction so this is gonna... You- I'm trying to think directions here for a second. Wrong direction. I need to hold forward. There we go. Oh, so we're doing a pulling drawer glitch right there and so what we're doing is just pulling this right in front of the chibi door and if I go in and we stop floating it again it's over yeah so this is a moonwalk soft lock so if something is stuck in the way of chibi robo trying to get into the spot and i don't know why because usually Chibi can clip through things like this. But if you put something like a hot rod there you're just stuck. So I can't pause or do anything like that Backyard time? You're going go in the back here next, we're going to swap over to Kobe's screen for a second So take it away Kobe Yeah we have both up I'm in the backyard I'm gonna clip out of bounds real quick as we do As we've been doing The whole time I'm sure everybody noticed so where I've bounced is actually a decent amount of like collision back here but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to get underneath this I'm not going to clip without getting up there we go underneath this. I'm going to have to do a clip without getting up, there we go. So don't mind the green line that's Chidiabo That's him trying to jump up this ledge but he can't so were just gonna keep walking out of bounds and behind the backyard, oh I have another question dude. Yeah you have to walk over here. So this is actually way harder than it looks and the best part is this is all for something completely irrelevant. There's like...whenever you're clipping through a set of two walls that are very close together, you have not a lot of runway so it makes the inputs really tight. This one's's pretty hard i want to start getting to the next one yeah so to give you an idea of what to expect for whatever reason this game just has a bunch of random nonsense lying about out of bounds and so there's like all sorts of like just wild truly just wild stuff um i mean i can see him from here. Yeah you can see him from here! If I can't get it- I'll try keeping over there I just wanted to show everyone so Jack can do the next thing That's Kid Eggplant He's A posing out there You say hi to Kid Eggplants everybody Hi Kid Eggplants! um there you say hi to kid eggplants everybody so go ahead and go to the next one i'll try to get closer if i can but this is a really finicky clip all right so this one is going to come with a noise. Of course, of course! You see it? So go ahead and get ready but I'll just explain. We're in like an un- half loaded living room because this is what you can see through the window of the backyard But we're just gonna keep walking underneath the ground and uh we're just gonna say hello to our friend kid eggplants here he is and uh telly television's here too in the ground. I don't know why they're not interactable They just kinda vibing. Imagine Telly here is just kind of like you know when you have it like a cat and then it just sits by your ankle? Oh yeah, yeah. That's the vibe it's giving me right now. Anyways don't mind my screen go ahead and do your thing. Yeah okay so I'm going to show you this is a two part thing. Wait wait warning for your viewers! I'm going to show you... This is a two-part thing. Wait, wait! Warning for your sound! Yeah, very loud sound warning. Anyway, so in the Any% speedrun for the Wii version of the game, which only came out in Japan—long story. We do something called leg early that allows us to do a really big major set of Story Flag sequence breaks. So this is another use of the drawer glitch in order to get that off the rails, and then eventually this will just snap on top of you. No other drawer works like this by the way. I think, well... They snap in different ways. In different ways, right? Sound warning right now! Normally you do this in the speedrun to grab this and it lets you skip a whole bunch of quest items. But, you notice that I said on the Wii version? So if you do this glitch and you pick up the leg while... I believe its while mom is in the room. Yeah. You haven't hit a certain flag. Here comes the volume warning so the spiders are not going to load in and... Crash! The game has crashed! Alright we got that... That's one of the only two crashes in the game and like that wee crash sound I was literally scared I never heard that before Do you want to go to, I can go to the living room out of bounds if you want me to? I'm there already. Yeah let's finish up with that. And did you turn yours off? No I could not swap it. Okay so I got it. I mean I can do, did you turn yours off? I had, I could not. Okay so I got it. Yeah, I mean I can do fireplace. Yeah okay we're good. So you might have seen us do this sometimes in the bingo where we went out of bounds behind the TV here and you guys probably explained it. There's like a hundred moolahs just here- no? No. Okay well I did it but they didn't explain it. Fun fact! The reason why we did this is because just randomly, the devs they accidentally left 100 moolah. This is here and it respawns every time you enter the room so it's a really good source of money but what we're actually here for is that. So, we're gonna keep going till my camera fixes itself and there we go so we're way out of bounds and this like, this is a floating little circle thing here well I wonder what it's all about. Oh, we've plugged into an invisible outlet! We're just charging off of nothing. He's just there. And another trippy thing about out of bounds, if I noticed like once you get far enough out-of-bounds, you start seeing reflections. So you can see Chibi Robo reflected and you can see the reflection of the bare bones living room over there. Yeah so the way that they... because computationally doing reflections in a video game is like a lot So well, the way that they did it which I think is genius is they just made copies of everything they wanted reflected or thought would be visible and just made a copy of it, flipped it upside down over the axis. So like if you do it in the bedroom as well, there's just trees everywhere and it's really bizarre. We're gonna go ahead and softlock our game again! Yeah so to close this off here we are going to visit what I call to call the hell dimension. The heck dimension? The heck dimension. The gamer dimension. Alright, so all we're gonna do is just wall clip right in world's shortest loading screen for some reason you're going to see chibi robo mirrored again and this place has some really bizarre properties it's an unused fireplace area like it was probably intended in the game originally that you were going to be able to go into fireplaces yeah but uh we're here now the game is completely soft locked um i'm lowering my battery here so so cheaper to go take the death. But you can't die in here. So it may say we're dead. We're not. The timer never goes down either. So we're just stuck. We can use that at least. And I think you could use like suits made- no. You can't even use suits in there right? Well right now I have Z does nothing because there's no programmed z actions Yeah you torched it but and no matter how far i walk nothing ever happens chibi just runs driver and i think we're that's pretty much it yeah i think that's like probably something who knows? This game is messed up. If you can't already tell. But yeah, like we said this is only scratching the tip of the iceberg with some of the nuts stuff that you can do. So we're gonna just go ahead and wrap up here, I'm just gonna uh Scoop is going to wrap up with some shoutouts but I just want say everyone thank you, thank you Thank you so much You are all the best Both of us super duper appreciate it. Thank you! Go for it Scoop. Okay now you got me teared up for that um So this game has literally been submitted to GDQ for more years than there are any percent runners on the leaderboard. Thank you, GDQ, for letting us show this off and thanks Jaxx and Koby for playing for us all. I'm glad that I was able to commentate for this event. And thank you to my co-commentators as well, ShovelClaws and Haxxy. And thank you to the original group of runners which PHD, Black Chaos, Sonic Phazian X knows. Okiyama for unknowingly discovering clipping. Bosby for early SDA miscellaneous routing and cutscene tricks. CW15 for findings here. And thank you Hxley for your involvement in the game thanks runners that popped in here and then i never really met dice around adamal lori apocalypse little gamers and a big thank you to the japanese runners bornin slash kisa tikka gane san and guest simochi san o tagai ni chokusetsu atte hanashimesen deshita kedo kimitachi no doryoku wa doryoku to jounetsu watashi ga sugoku kan do We have never interacted before, but your hard work and passion have truly inspired me. This is one of the most vital games in my life. I literally would not be the same person if it weren't for this game, It has affected me on a fundamental level. This game contributed directly to developing my current thought processes and general outlook in life both through casual play and speed running despite the small community I've made good friends that have impacted me on a similar level. I was recently speaking to a friend on the concept of being engrossed in something motivation and passion can be such a sparse, rare feeling In my opinion it is one of the most crucial things in life, but it's so hard to hold on to. I've been playing this game often off-on and off for 11 years and any news never fails to capture my interest For the first time in a while, I've actually had that same obsession with a different game, The Big Catch, which literally cites this game as inspiration. You should always just see that game on Steam and play the prologue. It is legit up there with Celeste, Hallne, etc. I don't want to see that game go the same route as Chibi-Ro did in terms of not getting the recognition it deserves. Anyway, motivation is such a life-changing thing even for something like a video game that's something that the general public still hasn't really accepted as the value had in passion for video games all because of distraction and wasted waste of time or whatever. I get that it's important to focus on a career in a sustainable future but it's not like you can't have both so if someone listening who has internalized this sort of opinion despite having this passion. Please do not feel ashamed for yourself or like you have wasted time engaging in those activities. That's not an excuse to completely disregard responsibilities but let yourself have that passion it can truly change your life for the better that's all i have to say thanks again for watching thanks for letting me rant um thank you anyone who has touched this game, thank you to the people who made this game, thank you GDQ, thank you Doctors Without Borders who are doing such important work especially right now. Thank you everyone who's supporting them and please continue to do so. It goes a long way. That's all I have. I need like water. Thank you everybody! Thank you so much Oh wait wait wait If you enjoyed the showcase and bingo please donate uh nine dollars and 25 cents which was the total happy points of jack slurs and kobe's after bingo all right thank you okay 9.25 thank you Let's go Bengal!