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!
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
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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
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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.
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.
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.
Bobby, what you got?
We have a $50 donation from OxoCarb saying,
Woo me from your friends at 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Place them in the Sphinx
There's one down here
so again i'm going to do like a curve jump here to land on this ledge You make it look so easy.
I mean, I've had a lot of practice to be fair.
Been running this game for
i don't know since 2017 2018 maybe 2018. I love them. If anything, I should be making it look easier.
I feel like I'm making it look hard!
I wanna say since like 2016.
Yeah, so I ran this game quite a long time ago, SGDQ 2018.
This version of the game
It's so nice to have such a gorgeous looking remaster
Like I'm so chuffed that we have this. Lara looks great.
Uh oh.
We're okay.
See what I mean by how quick they are? Yeah.
I'm gonna do some jump twists here
because the distance that she jumps
is a little bit shorter, I think when she does the jump twist.
So it stops us from bonking then.
And then we're going to make our way to the second ankh.
Oh, I hear flapping.
You hear the flapping?
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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.
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
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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
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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. Donation goes to the difficulty upgrade for another awesome indie, Lone Fungus.
And folks we are making progress on that
We only have $329 remaining
Again whenever you donate just hit that little
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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.
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.
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?
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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.
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. 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. 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!
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! 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
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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
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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!
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Including one from our previous runner
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congrats lively on getting into sgdq your bomberman streams are some of my favorites
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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yeah commercial jingle to the tune of the Spider-Man theme song?
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Bomberman 64 brings back so many great memories of my middle school years.
Thank you for everything you do for MSF and PCF
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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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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watch something after our show tonight,
you can hang around and watch some of that.
And we have our next speedrunning event!
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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.
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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...
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.
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
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and we do have GDQ going to PAX
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and you can use exclamation packs in
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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
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.
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... Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait I'm okay. 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.
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
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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!
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.
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The more you know...
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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?
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So I've got a $6.66 donation from Anonymous.
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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
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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
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Like Aubrey Hodges did these sound effects for the PlayStation version of the game
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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
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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
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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%
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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
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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.
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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!
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
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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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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?
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
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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.
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!
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!
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!